nimrtlsdr

A Nim wrapper for librtlsdr (a driver for Realtek RTL2832U based SDR's)

Description

nimtlsdr is a simple Nim interface to devices supported by the RTL-SDR project, which turns certain USB DVB-T dongles employing the Realtek RTL2832U chipset into a low-cost, general purpose software-defined radio receiver. It wraps all the functions in the librtlsdr library (including asynchronous read support).

Supported Platforms:

• Linux
• OS X
• Windows

Installation

Dependencies

• Nim compiler
• [librtlsdr] (http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr) - builds dated after 5/5/12
• [libusb] (https://www.libusb.org)
• [git] (https://git-scm.com)

Building nimrtlsdr

• Download and install git.

• Download and install the Nim tools.

• Download the pre-built rtl-sdr library and install.

• Install the nimrtlsdr package:

  Using nimble:

  $ nimble install git://github.com/jpoirier/nimrtlsdr

  $ git clone git@github.com:jpoirier/nimrtlsdr.git

  Go to the nimrtlsdr/examples folder and...

  ...if you installed using nimble:

  $ nim c rtlsdr_example.nim

  ...if you didn't install using nimble you need to provide the path to the nimrtlsdr library source:

  $ nim c --path:../src rtlsdr_example.nim

• Insert the DVB-T/DAB/FM dongle into a USB port and run the rtlsdr_example example program.

  $ ./rtlsdr_example

Credit

• pyrtlsdr for the great read-me description, which I copied.
• [osmoconSDR] (http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr) for the rtl-sdr library.
• [Antti Palosaari] (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/44461/focus=44461) for sharing!

-joe