Caleb Madrigal

Programming, Hacking, Math, and Art

  

HackRF Setup OSX 2016

These are some pretty raw notes I took while installing the software for using a HackRF on OSX. This is the software I installed:

  • Gnu Radio (which comes with Gnu Radio Companion)
  • Osmocom Gnu Radio Blocks
  • gqrx

Gnu Radio Installation

Installed gnuradio via Homebrew

brew update

brew tap robotastic/homebrew-hackrf
brew install gnuradio --with-qt

brew install hackrf
brew install --HEAD rtlsdr
brew link --overwrite rtlsdr

This got GNU Radio and GNU Radio Companion installed, but then I needed to install the Osmocom Gnu Radio Blocks so that Gnu Radio could communicate with the HackRF.

Installing Osmocom Gnu Radio Blocks

This didn't work:

brew install --HEAD gr-osmosdr

Build with directions here: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/GrOsmoSDR

Had to add this to /Users/caleb/Documents/gnu_radio/repos/gr-osmosdr/lib/redpitaya/redpitaya_sink_c.cc

#ifndef MSG_NOSIGNAL
    #define MSG_NOSIGNAL 0x0 //Don't request NOSIGNAL on systems where this is not implemented.
#endif

Find python library path:

sudo find /usr -iname libpython*.dylib
# Found python dylib at: /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/libpython2.7.dylib

Use this library path to build gr-osmosdr:

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/libpython2.7.dylib ../

Got warning: MACOSX_RPATH is not specified for the following targets: gnuradio-osmosdr

Install it:

make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

At some point, I tried this command to install a collection of Gnu Radio Companion Blocks. I don't remember the result:

brew install gr-baz --HEAD
Add config for osmocom blocks:

Create the ~/.gnuradio/config.conf config file for custom block support and add this into it

[grc]
local_blocks_path=/usr/local/share/gnuradio/grc/blocks

Install gqrx

Installed gqrx with installer from here: http://gqrx.dk/download

Other Resources

I found this guide helpful: https://github.com/robotastic/homebrew-hackrf

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