Use the radio

What do you want to do with the board? Each card is one short page. The long pages with every measurement are under Reference.

• Choose where your code runs

  Your PC, the board, the kernel or the FPGA: four questions decide it.

• Talk to the board from Python

  Install pyadi-iio in a venv, then tune and receive in six lines.

• Capture IQ to a file

  A self-describing SigMF recording, with a check for lost samples.

• Watch a band in SDR++

  Stock SDR++ playing an FM station, on any OS.

• Install the patched SDR++

  The build that knows RX2, the FPGA decimator and the Fast TCP transport.

• Stream 20 MS/s to SDR++

  The patched SDR++ and zc-stream: a live 20 MHz-wide view.

• Listen to DAB+ radio

  Pick a block, wait for SYNC LOCKED, click a station.

• Track aircraft (ADS-B)

  One command, a 1090 MHz antenna, a live table of aircraft.

• Receive on both channels

  RX1 and RX2 sample-aligned, in one recording.

• Transmit a waveform on repeat

  A cyclic buffer: the board replays it at full rate, with the safe ordering.

• Send a burst on a trigger

  A prepared buffer, played once per UDP datagram or GPIO edge.

• Watch a sweep live

  chirp-view: TX1 sweeps, RX1 receives it, live, through the 20 dB loop.

• Measure ten modulations

  Transmit them, capture them on a HackRF One, redraw the gallery.

• Use MATLAB

  One command checks MATLAB; three rules keep levels and settings right.

• Automate a measurement

  A server on the board and a Python client: set, capture, fetch.

• Sweep both loopbacks

  A complete script: 14 frequencies, both channels, a CSV, in 15 seconds.

• Beamform across two boards

  Two boards on one GPSDO as a four-antenna array: calibrate, find a direction.

• Check the radio is healthy

  The self-test, with no cable and nothing transmitted.

• Watch the board from Claude Code

  A pane with its links, temperatures, radio settings and CI. Reads only.

• Let Claude use the radio

  Connect the MCP server and ask Claude to tune, scan and capture.

Reference

The full pages, with every measurement and caveat: your own project · capturing IQ · the automation server · the Claude Code pane · the MCP server · SDR++ · ADS-B · other SDR tools · MATLAB · both receive channels · cyclic buffers and triggers · chirp-view · modulation gallery · measured performance · throughput and modulation · faster streaming.