NAME

rtl_biast - a tool for turning the RTL-SDR.com bias tee or any GPIO ON and OFF.

DESCRIPTION

Uses a re-purposed DVB-T receiver as a software defined radio to receive and send I/Q data via TCP network to another demodulation, decoding or logging apllication. Written for and incorporated into the osmocom rtl-sdr project.

Much software is available for the RTL2832. Most of the user-level packages rely on the librtlsdr library which comes as part of the rtl-sdr codebase. This codebase contains both the library itself and also a number of command line tools such as rtl_test, rtl_sdr, rtl_tcp, and rtl_fm. These command line tools use the library to test for the existence of RTL2832 devices and to perform basic data transfer functions to and from the device.

Because most of the RTL2832 devices are connected using USB, the librtlsdr library depends on the libusb library to communicate with the device.

USAGE

Run this program on a machine with an rtl-sdr supported device connected and it will provide I/Q data to other applications via TCP/IP.

SYNOPSIS

rtl_biast [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS

-d device_index (default: 0)

-b bias_on (default: 0)

-g GPIO select (default: 0)

SEE ALSO

gnuradio(1)

RTL-SDR wiki documentation: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr

Other rtl-sdr programs:

rtl_adsb(1), rtl_eeprom(1), rtl_fm(1), rtl_sdr(1), rtl_test(1)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2020 A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.