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If you install something via apt download and sudo dpkg -i you end up with another problem, you break apt as the librtlsdr0 we made and installed isn’t seen by it, and rtl_433 is installed without that dependency. Even if it did work you would have a hell of a time installing radio stuff with more dependencies one by one.

The way around that is a meta-package, a stub that tells apt that rtlsdr0 is installed.

To do this (if you installed rtl_433 via apt download etc, be sure you sudo apt remove it before doing the below):

    sudo apt install equivs

Create a dummy conf:

    equivs-control librtlsdr0.control

Edit it:

    sudo nano librtlsdr0.control

Use the following info, uncommenting pieces as needed:

    Section: libs

    Priority: optional

    Standards-Version: 3.9.2 (Not sure if needed)

    Package: librtlsdr0

    Version: 9.9 (hoping this will keep it far ahead of the repo version, if not I will change it in the actual package fork)

    Provides: librtlsdr0

Save it

    Ctrl – o

 Exit

    Ctrl – x

Build it:

    equivs-build librtlsdr0.control

Install it:

    sudo dpkg -i librtlsdr0_9.9_all.deb

Now you can sudo apt update and sudo apt install rtl_433 or anything else without getting a nonworking librtlsdr0 dependency

@wayne this link and image blocking makes it a real pain to share anything helpful.

Also how is 1mb too big of a picture??

Also as a workaround

Picture proof

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Edit: $#@&$# stupid blocks. Maybe the quote thing will work.

Honestly it doesn’t matter they are all mostly the same. In my blocked picture I’m using a nooelec nesdr nano 3 simply because it’s small, the tradeoff is that it’s antenna isn’t very good.

I would advise you to get something with TCXO of 1ppm or less. As an rtlsdr heats up the it can cause the crystal to drift. A TCXO prevents most of that and helps if you want to decode P25.

Also keep in mind an rtlsdr is receive only. I haven’t looked into or tested any other sdrs with the FLX1 as of yet (most of my gear is in transit), also I probably won’t use a tx sdr with it anyway. I mostly like radio stuff (TPMS, weather station signals, remotes, keeloq, Sec+ v1/v2) which I can tx with an MCU and radio transceiver and pyserial. Nothing beats a cheap sdr for analysis though.

Which reminds me I need to test pyserial on the FLX1.

Does not work:

Universal Radio Hacker

It appears FuriLabs have held a package related to Qt5, which results in it failing to get all dependencies and build

Dump1090 builds and installs well though, I was tracking some aircraft with it on the interactive map this afternoon.

VoLTE + most of my radio programs makes this thing awesome. Definitely my favorite phone (and I have had a lot including the Cosmo Communicator, and an original Fxtec Pro1). The only thing that could make it better is a hw keyboard addon. Then it would be a phone and a umpc. 

Hm interesting. Universal Radio Hacker depends on the following:

python3-psutil

python3-numpy

and python3-pyqt5

(also cython3)

The error I get is python3-pyqt5 Depends: libqt5gui5t64 (> = 5.15) but it is not installable Error: Unable to correct problems,  you have held broken packages.

Yet sudo apt-mark showhold doesn’t show anything held. Maybe the package isn’t available for aarch64… 

Trying to workaround it by installing via pip: sudo pip install pyqt5 hangs on Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml)