Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

2016-05-04 Thread Yuval Adam
On 05/04/2016 10:47 AM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > BTW, the R stands for Rafael, a division of IAI, which is owned by the > Israeli government. Are you sure this is the same rafael? http://www.rafaelmicro.com/ ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

2016-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 5/4/2016 10:00 AM, Yuval Adam wrote: All the RTL2832-based dongles are well supported on Linux via the dvb_usb_rtl28xxu driver. Due to extremely popular demand, pretty much all the dongles on eBay are R820T/RTL2832-based (former is the tuner chip, latter is the hardware decoder chip) BTW,

Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

2016-05-04 Thread Yuval Adam
On 05/04/2016 09:55 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Is there any way to know if these cheap ones support Linux and/or > Raspberry PI? As far as I could see none of them specifically mention > Linux and many state which Windows versions are supported - but again > with no mention of Linux. > All

Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

2016-05-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Is there any way to know if these cheap ones support Linux and/or Raspberry PI? As far as I could see none of them specifically mention Linux and many state which Windows versions are supported - but again with no mention of Linux. On Tue, 3 May 2016 18:39:41 +0300 Yuval Adam

Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

2016-05-04 Thread Yuval Adam
On 05/04/2016 01:09 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > All the boards on that list have frequency ranges that start at 24Mhz > or higher. I'd like one that goes from 0.5-30Mhz. > You're asking for a lot from a $10 dongle. Even the upper tier SDR boards (HackRF, BladeRF) don't go down to HF freqs, not