RTL serial number programming facility.


sm6fhz
 

Thank you David for sharing.
I was not aware of this option. I have not been using my RTL dongles for some time and had not followed the development of the functions for them.
It was very easy once you found it and was aware of it.
73 es Happy Easter / Ingolf, SM6FHZ


David J Taylor
 

On 15/04/2022 16:47, Gisle Vanem wrote:
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 04:09 PM, David J Taylor wrote:

It had escaped my notice that the SDR Console has the ability to set the
serial number for RTL dongles.

One can do the same with |rtl_eeprom.exe -s XXX|.
Thanks, that's helpful!

I liked that Simon reads and displays the existing values first.

David
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David J Taylor
 

On 15/04/2022 16:22, sm6fhz wrote:
Hi David.
Could you please show us the way to do this.
Screenshots, maybe.
Any special precautions one have to obey to do it in a safe way?
73 / Ingolf, SM6FHZ
Ingolf,

Some way into this discussion:

https://sdr-radio.groups.io/g/main/topic/error_using_two_identical/33088547

I found this set of instructions, with screenshots in the dialogue:

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1. Select first dongle radio and Start it.
2. On Home ribbon, click Radio Configuration.
3. Click EEPROM tab.
4. Click Load - if values don't come up right away and you get
"EEPROM not found" error, try it again a few times, or Stop/Start
radio and try again.
5. Once values populate, edit Serial # and click Save.
6. Repeat steps for other dongles with the exact same serial
numbers so they're different.
7. Open separate instances of SDR Console v3 (start menu >
SDR-Radio.com v3 Tools > Select Identity.
8. Set up new radio definitions in each identity.

You should now be able to run different multiple RTL-SDR USB dongles
at the same time by opening separate instances/identities of
SDR Console v3.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The only thing which surprised me was that you had to have the dongle actually
running before the Radio Configuration button was visible. I had thought that
it would be an "offline" adjustment, but I can see that ensuring the device is
properly connected makes sense.

I've done several, but I'm only using one in anger for a Raspberry Pi 137 MHz
automated APT receiver, and it's working just the same with the updated dongle.

Precautions: don't unplug the dongle while it's updating!

73,
David GM8ARV
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Max
 

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 04:22 PM, sm6fhz wrote:
Could you please show us the way to do this.
Screenshots, maybe.
Ingolf, it's shown here how to do it, as I mentioned yesterday over in the main Forum!:

https://www.sdr-radio.com/rtl-dongles

73

Max


Gisle Vanem
 
Edited

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 04:09 PM, David J Taylor wrote:

It had escaped my notice that the SDR Console has the ability to set the serial number for RTL dongles.

One can do the same with rtl_eeprom.exe -s XXX.


sm6fhz
 

Hi David.
Could you please show us the way to do this.
Screenshots, maybe.
Any special precautions one have to obey to do it in a safe way?
73 / Ingolf, SM6FHZ


David J Taylor
 

It had escaped my notice that the SDR Console has the ability to set the serial
number for RTL dongles. Just tried it, and it works nicely.

Many thanks for that, Simon!

73,
David GM8ARV
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