SDRplay - SDRconnect Tips and Tricks for use with the Raspberry Pi

In this video we will show how to use a PATH to simplify launching the SDRconnect from the Terminal. We also show how to use SSH (Secure shell) to remotely login to start and stop the server, and monitor connections. Finally we show how to add a menu item to launch the server without using Terminal at all.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 First example
A hard copy document covering the same material is also available for download here: www.sdrplay.com/docs/RemotePiServerFinal.pdf
There have been some changes with the introduction of SDRconnect Preview 4 (Sept 2024). This simplifies things somewhat, especially for Raspberry Pi users as shown in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bF6aYaGih66XapY
This is one of many video guides from SDRplay - makers of the RSP family of SDR radios. See the full list of SDRplay videos and applications documents on: www.sdrplay.com/apps-catalogue/
The RSP family of SDRs from SDRplay cover 1kHz to 2 GHz with no gaps and give up to 10MHz spectrum visibility.
SDRplay is a UK company. The RSP SDR receivers are made in the UK and can be purchased for worldwide delivery directly from www.sdrplay.com/ (click on purchase and select your country to view shipping costs) or you can buy from any of our worldwide resellers listed here: www.sdrplay.com/distributors/ Many of the resellers offer local free shipping and/or local language technical support.
The SDRplay KZbin Channel is: kzbin.info

[@G0USL]

There was me scribbling like a maniac and there's a document set up!! Brilliant. Thanks for the video very helpful.

[@kirkdecker6228]

Thank you for this!!

[@jeffwells1810]

Thank you for the video and documentation. Great help.

[@Kw1161]

Thanks for the information Have a great day!

[@stevesweb]

Thanks for the video.

[@ErwinSerle]

Can we already save the last setup so it starts with the same VRX's for instance we just have setup ?

[@ManuelPinner]

You can also Use CNC viewer to Access the Pi,

[@LjuboDomanovicLjubo44]

what about fft compression to reduce bandwidth like spyserver or openwebrx?

[@SDRplayRSP]

Our Compact and IQlite mode offer tremendous internet bandwidth savings

[@ricklux2163]

I apologize if this is the wrong place to be asking this question but I am very interested in using your SDRplay receiver with a Raspberry pi to create a marine scanner that can stream audio from the ships I see out my window. I specifically want to have software running on a headless pi that streams the output of the marine scanner to an internet radio on my home network. Do you know if your SDR connect software supports the raspberry pi 5 and if it can be configured as a scanner?

[@SDRplayRSP]

Scanning has not yet been implemented in SDRconnect.

[@Trev1916]

@@SDRplayRSP Will it ever ? I mean it's an essential feature of any SDR, should be the highest priority of features to be added really. There's absolutely no point in switching to SDRconnect until there's a scanner implemented.

[@lisayork2155]

What about the server starts auto when the pi is turned on and stops running when the pi is turned off . My pi4 is only for my SDRconnect server . I have it plug into a wifi plug . app on my phone turns the pi on and off

[@SDRplayRSP]

You can write into the startup script to run the server when the Pi is started. I’m not a big fan of just pulling the plug.

[@BerndFelsche]

Never use -9 for killing a process. It prevents the process from cleaning up before exit. It may prevent a restart of the application if system resources haven't been released cleanly. It is grnerally "safer" to just pull the plug if applications won't die. Not a shutdown/restart but a power cycle. kill without a signal specification is usually sufficient. A -1 signal is a "hangup" which would normally sent to processes when you logout. It is generally safe.

[@jamesdecalais2619]

sudo killall SDRconnect