airspy_rx(1)

✨ airspy_rx 💖 — probe device and show configuration ✨

okay so bestie, the Airspy is a tiny and efficient software defined radio receiver 📻🦋 and this little app, airspy_rx, lets you probe the device and show its configuration. no cap, it's giving main character energy 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

airspy_rx

literally just type it and go 🧚

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

The Airspy is a tiny and efficient software defined radio receiver, and this app is how you poke at it and see what it's up to ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -r <filename> — receive data into a file 📁
• -w — receive data into a file with a WAV header and an automatic name 🎶
• [-s sn] — open the device with a specified 64-bit serial number 🔢

this is for SDR# compatibility and may not work with other software 🙈

• [-p packing] — set packing for samples. 1 = enabled (12 bits packed), 0 = disabled (default, 16 bits not packed) 📦
• [-f set_freq_hz] — set the frequency in Hz, between 24MHz and 1750MHz 📡
• [-a sample_rate] — set the sample rate (10 and 2.5 MSPS for older firmware versions) ⭐
• [-t sample_type] — set the sample type: 0 = FLOAT32_IQ, 1 = FLOAT32_REAL, 2 = INT16_IQ (default), 3 = INT16_REAL, 4 = U16_REAL 🌈
• [-b biast] — set Bias Tee: 1 = enabled, 0 = disabled (default) 🔥
• [-v gain] — set VGA gain, 0–15 (default 0) 💫
• [-m gain] — set Mixer gain, 0–15 (default 8) 🦋
• [-l gain] — set LNA gain, 0–14 (default 8) 🫶
• [-n num_samples] — number of samples to transfer (default is unlimited) ♾️
• -d — verbose mode 🗣️

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Airspy web page: http://airspy.com/

Other airspy programs, bestie, go check these out too 👀:

• airspy_info(1)
• airspy_si5351c(1)
• airspy_spiflash(1)
• airspy_gpio(1)
• airspy_gpiodir(1)
• airspy_lib_version(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 🌸

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org> 💖

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 🫶

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 💅

Bestie, that's the whole tea from the AIRSPY 2014.04.18 manual, airspy_rx(1) 🍓✨ periodt 💜