hackrf_info(1)

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💖 hackrf_info(1) — the "hey bestie what even is my radio doing" page 💖

okay so first things first: this is hackrf_info, it lives in the User Commands section (that's section 1, iykyk), and it is the vibe-check tool for your HackRF. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

hackrf_info — probe device and show configuration

like... it pokes your device and tells you what it's giving. that's the whole job. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so storytime, bestie. 📖✨ The HackRF project was started by Michael Ossmann and Jared Boone to build a software radio peripheral using Free Software and Free Hardware design. and the way they did it?? so intentional. 🫶 Care was taken to only use electronic components with published documentation (no NDAs! 😤) and to avoid software libraries without open source licenses. not a single secret-keeping datasheet in the building, periodt. 💀

Jawbreaker is the first complete HackRF platform — a wideband software radio transceiver with a USB interface. iconic first-born behaviour, honestly. 👑

This application lets the user probe the device and show configuration. that's it. that's the gig. probe 🫵 + show config 📋 = bestie duties fulfilled.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hackrf_info

no args. no drama. just run it. 🧚

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • none

literally none. zero. zilch. the options list is an empty group chat and honestly? refreshing. 🌈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Great Scott Gadgets HackRF web page:

Other hackrf programs (the whole friend group 👯):

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫡 thank you for your service, Maitland.

Copyright (c) 2013 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. ⚠️ (yes bestie, that's the scary all-caps part, it's legally required, we respect it 🙏)

and that's the whole page!! 💫 this little cutie is from the HACKRF source, version 2013.07.1, dated 2013.07.1 — and it answers to hackrf_info(1) if you ever need to summon it again. go probe something, you got this. 💅🎀🦋

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