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Are there SDR boards or plug-in components made specifically for Raspberry Pi?
by parvenu74 8y ago
Are there SDR boards or plug-in components made specifically for Raspberry Pi?
- UncleEntity 8y agoI've often wondered why someone doesn't design a daughterboard with a SDR chip for the RPi as this would let them do away with the embedded cpu/FPGA. Plunk an rtl-sdr chip on a RPi board and Bob's your uncle...
- derefr 8y agoPerhaps the IO bandwidth between the RPi and its peripherals isn't high enough to enable it to manage an SDR. (I don't imagine you could connect a modern GPU, or a video capture device, to an RPi either.) Speaking of: are there any SBCs that have PCIe-based daughterboard support? Or Thunderbolt-3-based peripheral support?
- namibj 8y agoThose based on the Zynq-7000 line from Xilinx usually have ample IO, but start at about 100$, going up. You might need to do something in the FPGA part of them to use the IO though.
- yardie 8y agoThere are the RTL-SDR usb dongles. One I’m currently looking at is the dAISy board. Turns your Pi into a marine AIS receiver.
- Fnoord 8y agoYes, Domoticz [1] is specialised for that. "Domoticz is a very light weight home automation system that lets you monitor and configure miscellaneous devices, including lights, switches, various sensors/meters like temperature, rainfall, wind, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, electricity usage/production, gas consumption, water consumption and many more. Notifications/alerts can be sent to any mobile device. Best of all, Domoticz is open source and completely free! You only need to invest in hardware." See their HCL here [2] [1] https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Main_Page https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Main_Page [2] https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Hardware https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Hardware