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61 lines
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Groff
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.TH "rtl_test" 1 "0.5.0" RTL-SDR "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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rtl_test \- a benchmark tool for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Test tuning range and functional sample rates of your device
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on your system.
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Uses a re-purposed DVB-T receiver as a software defined
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radio. Written for and incorporated into the osmocom rtl-sdr project.
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.LP
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Much software is available for the RTL2832. Most of the user-level
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packages rely on the librtlsdr library which comes as part of the
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rtl-sdr codebase. This codebase contains both the library itself and
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also a number of command line tools such as rtl_test, rtl_sdr,
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rtl_tcp, and rtl_fm. These command line tools use the library to test
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for the existence of RTL2832 devices and to perform basic data
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transfer functions to and from the device.
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.LP
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Because most of the RTL2832 devices are connected using USB, the
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librtlsdr library depends on the libusb library to communicate with
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the device.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B rtl_test [OPTIONS]
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.SH OPTIONS
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.IP "-s samplerate (default: 2048000 Hz)"
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.IP "-d device_index (default: 0)"
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.IP "-t enable Elonics E4000 tuner benchmark]"
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.IP "-p enable PPM error measurement"
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.IP "-b output_block_size (default: 16 * 16384)"
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.IP "-S force sync output (default: async)"
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.IP "To check the possible tuning range (may heavily vary by some MHz depending on device and temperature), call"
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rtl_test -t
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.IP "To check the maximum samplerate possible on your machine, type (change the rate down until no sample loss occurs):"
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rtl_test -s 3.2e6
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.LP
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A samplerate of 2.4e6 is known to work even over tcp connections (see
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rtl_tcp above). A sample rate of 2.88e6 may work without lost samples
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but this may depend on your PC/Laptop's host interface.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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RTL-SDR wiki documentation:
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.B http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
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.LP
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Other rtl-sdr programs:
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.sp
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rtl_adsb(1), rtl_eeprom(1), rtl_fm(1), rtl_sdr(1), rtl_tcp(1)
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.SH AUTHOR
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This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms
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for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2013 A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
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.LP
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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.LP
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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