Pirate Box + RTL-SDR

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Pirate Box + RTL-SDR
November 22, 2018 11:04PM
Hi, looking an offline mobile access point using Rpi accidentally found Pirate Box

My plan is to make a mobile RTL-SDR station to listen Shortwave on road and share listened audios with other people in the trip

Piratebox is 75% of the project, I have the hardware but I can't install rtl-sdr packages for ARM, I'm a linux person, but with 0 experience using ARCH Distros, so, I need an orientation to how to make a RTL-SDR package compatible with Piratebox (ARCH Arm), anybody?
Re: Pirate Box + RTL-SDR
November 23, 2018 10:16AM
Hi,
the build itself is easy, but the complete process to get a "ready to create package" is a bit tricky because PirateBox has a small root filesystem.

However, I created a package file for you rtl-sdr-20180429-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz.

You need to download it, upload it to your PirateBox.
I hope the dependencies just fit, so you can run to install:

sudo pacman -U <path-to-file>/rtl-sdr-20180429-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz

If that command complains about missing dependencies, you need to connect your Pi to the internet, do a overall package upgrade and then you are ready to go.

Matthias