Request: Airspy HF+

[Buford T. Justice]

Would it be possible to get Airspy HF+ support for Fedora?  Many other distros have it:

https://pkgs.org/search/?q=airspyhf

THANKS!!!

[Buford T. Justice]

https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 1:53 AM Buford T. Justice <btjustice(a)gmx.com&gt; wrote:

>  Would it be possible to get Airspy HF+ support for Fedora?  Many
> other
>  distros have it:
>  
There's been some work towards it but I think it has a lot of dependencies
if I remember correctly.

Any help on the packaging side is appreciated :)

Thanks,
Richard

[Buford T. Justice]

I hope Fedora does.  openSUSE has a bunch so far:

https://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&q=airspy

[Mark E. Fuller]

This package has actually already been approved for Fedora in March of 
2021: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917510

The repository is at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/airspyhf-1.6.8-1

It looks like Emiliano (the packager, on CC) never actually imported and 
built the approved package.

Emiliano: do you need/want assistance in getting this actually built and 
in the repositories?

Devel List: If no response from Emiliano, what's the process here for 
taking over a package in this case (and also renaming the repo to drop 
the version from it)?

"Buford": I built it in COPR for now and you are welcome to grab it from 
there and test it: 
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fuller/test-builds/
Run the following command:
sudo dnf copr enable fuller/test-builds && sudo dnf install airspyhf

On 18/06/2022 11:29, Buford T. Justice wrote:
>  I hope Fedora does.  openSUSE has a bunch so far:
>  
>  https://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&q=airspy
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[Vitaly Zaitsev]

On 18/06/2022 12:57, Mark E. Fuller wrote:
>  Devel List: If no response from Emiliano, what's the process here
> for 
>  taking over a package in this case (and also renaming the repo to drop 
>  the version from it)? 
Also releng need change their scripts to check for $version/etc. 
presence. Such malformed repositories shouldn't be created.

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[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 01:28:10PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
>  On 18/06/2022 12:57, Mark E. Fuller wrote:
>  > Devel List: If no response from Emiliano, what's the process here for
>  > taking over a package in this case (and also renaming the repo to drop
>  > the version from it)?
>  
>  Also releng need change their scripts to check for $version/etc. presence.
>  Such malformed repositories shouldn't be created. 
Yeah, although it's difficult because we have backward and forward
compat packages also. 

Anyhow, filed: 

https://pagure.io/releng/issue/10847

to try and improve this. 

kevin

[Buford T. Justice]

Thanks!  I have been missing my Airspy HF+.  It is an awesome piece of hardware especially
for shortwave.  I wish Airspy would make theeir software SDR# cross-platform, but Gqrx and
SDR++ work for me in Linux.

[Buford T. Justice]

Any news about this?  I saw this, but it appears to not be working with Fedora 36:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917510#c10

Also, airspyone_host-1.0.9-13 needs to be updated to airspyone_host-1.0.10.

[Buford T. Justice]

@Mark E. Fuller
Something isn't right with your airspyhf software.  I installed it, but neither Gqrx
nor SDR++ sees the Airspy HF+ Discovery.  Also, I cannot do "airspyhf_info" to
see its status.  All I get is:

[BT@PC ~]$ airspyhf_info
AirSpy HF library version: 1.6.8
No devices attached.

I was messing with OpenMandriva the other day.  "sudo dnf install airspyone_host
airspyhf" works and installed both devices.  I really wish Fedora would do this.

[Mark E. Fuller]

Sorry it's not working.
I simply build the existing approved package that was otherwise abandoned.

Given what you installed with Mandriva, it looks like there's another 
package needed - airspyone_host, which is in the Fedora repositories.
(see e.g. https://pkgs.org/search/?q=airspyone_host)
Have you tried installing that package as well?

Please also keep in mind that Fedora is a volunteer-driven, community 
project.
We all have limited time to contribute and while I and many others are 
willing to assist with software like yours, it would be nicer to see a 
request for assistance with getting the software into the distribution 
over a lament that we do not have it.


Mark E. Fuller, Ph.D.
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On 10/07/2022 12:25, Buford T. Justice wrote:
> @Mark E. Fuller
> Something isn't right with your airspyhf software.  I installed it, but neither
Gqrx nor SDR++ sees the Airspy HF+ Discovery.  Also, I cannot do "airspyhf_info"
to see its status.  All I get is:
> 
> [BT@PC ~]$ airspyhf_info
> AirSpy HF library version: 1.6.8
> No devices attached.
> 
> I was messing with OpenMandriva the other day.  "sudo dnf install airspyone_host
airspyhf" works and installed both devices.  I really wish Fedora would do this.
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[Buford T. Justice]

Yes I have "airspyone_host" installed on Fedora.  It is working with my two
Airspy units (R2 and Mini) fine though SDR++ (also from Fedora) doesn't see them. 
Gqrx does see them.

The Airspy HF+ Discovery is my third unit.  It does not work with
"airspyone_host".  No HF+ works with that software.  "airspyhf" is
specifically for Airspy HF+ only.

[Buford T. Justice]

I went ahead and built it after battling for a month on exactly how to do it with Fedora
in this world of online instructions being mostly for Ubuntu:

https://groups.io/g/airspy/message/43783

AirSpy HF library version: 1.6.8