[Hackrf-dev] Why Hackrf only one time run and stop

[Alexandru Csete]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Dominic Spill <dominicgs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 February 2017 at 14:38, Alexandru Csete <oz9aec at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The gqrx website uses PPAs to provide packages that are newer than the
>> ones that come with Ubuntu. The hackrf library has not been upgraded
>> to this latest release and is therefore incompatible with your device
>> if it has firmware 2017.02.1.
>>
>> Not sure how handle this upgrade properly... Would have been nice if
>> libhackrf could handle both old and new firmwares :-(
>
> Libhackrf can handle both old and new firmware.  I've tested this
> hackrf_transfer with every combination of 2015.07.2 and 2017.02.1 libhackrf
> and firmware.
>
> The only requirement for upgrading firmware with newer versions of libhackrf
> is to use newer features.

Ah ok, that's cool. I must have misread it. I am going to upgrade
hackrf in our PPA and it should then work fine.

Alex