Thanks to everybody for their various and valid suggestions. After careful consideration I opted for rich T's suggestion to use rtl_eeprom to give unique serial numbers. Very simple solution and I now have two permanently unique SDR dongles working perfectly with the -d option to select serial number.
Thanks again, Ian On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 2:36:16 PM UTC, rich T wrote: > > Did you try "rtl_eeprom" to change the dongle's serial number. > > On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 6:40:42 PM UTC-5, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> Thanks Ruben, >> >> I will give a try and let you know how it goes. >> >> On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 9:43:24 PM UTC, Ruben Navarro Huedo wrote: >>> >>> have a look at this. >>> >>> https://www.rtl-sdr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2073 >>> >>> You need set a seral in each rtlsdr. >>> After you must use that serial with rtl_433 >>> >>> El lunes, 25 de febrero de 2019, 18:59:15 (UTC+1), [email protected] >>> escribió: >>>> >>>> I am using two identical SDR usb dongles to receive streams from two >>>> different frequencies, namely 433Mhz and 868Mhz. >>>> >>>> I have set up WeeWX to run two weather stations as per >>>> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/weewx-multi and all is running OK. >>>> >>>> The problem I have is to how to allocate one dongle to each of the two >>>> configurations. >>>> >>>> lsusb lists them as: - >>>> >>>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 >>>> DVB-T >>>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 >>>> DVB-T >>>> >>>> Thank you in advance for any guidance. >>>> >>>> Ian >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
