<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Henk,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You dont need any drivers for it on the Mac. The device is just recognized by the plugin once you run it. If you only have 1 radio connected then you dont need to worry about setting serial numbers or anything. Just plug it in and then setup a plugin instance. Even if the radio frequencies and such are not what you finally will need, just getting it to run at all will show that it can find the radio or not.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You should see some startup messages indicating if it was found and started up OK or not. On my machine I see something like:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:19 PM.5747 SDR1: Software Defined Radio (rtl_433) plugin v0.4 Ready (SDR1)</div><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:19 PM.6046 SDR1: rtl_433 version 20.11 (2020-11-13) inputs file rtl_tcp RTL-SDR SoapySDR with TLS (SDR1)</div><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:19 PM.6053 SDR1: Registered 153 out of 183 device decoding protocols [ 1-4 8 11-12 15-17 19-21 23 25-26 29-36 38-60 63 67-71 73-100 102-105 108-116 119 121 124-128 130-149 151-161 163-168 170-175 177-183 ] (SDR1)</div><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:19 PM.8973 SDR1: Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner (SDR1)</div><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:20 PM.0559 SDR1: Exact sample rate is: 250000.000414 Hz (SDR1)</div><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:20 PM.1842 SDR1: Sample rate set to 250000 S/s. (SDR1)</div><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:20 PM.2080 SDR1: Tuner gain set to Auto. (SDR1)</div><div class="">4/9/23 4:02:20 PM.2586 SDR1: Tuned to 433.920MHz. (SDR1)</div></div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 2, 2023, at 6:02 PM, Hendrik van Eeden <<a href="mailto:hvaneeden@comcast.net" class="">hvaneeden@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">As per your suggestion I purchased the RTL-SDR and am ready to install it. I ran into a problem since the wiki only talks about the rte-433 on a pi. Where do I download the drivers/software for this device. I went to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://rtl-sdr.com/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">RTL-SDR.com</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><</span><a href="http://rtl-sdr.com/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://rtl-sdr.com/</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">> site and they also only talk about the windows software. What to do now?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div>Thanks,<br class=""> James<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">James Sentman <a href="http://www.PlanetaryGear.org" class="">http://www.PlanetaryGear.org</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://MacHomeAutomation.com" class="">http://MacHomeAutomation.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div>
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