RTL-SDR-MANY-MUCH-ALL-MORE-EVERYTHING-BEGINNING-END-ALPHA-OMEGA
History and the discovery of the RTL-SDR, which started out with a comfortable life as a RTL2832U, or RTL2838- the latter, though mentioned in many components, not truly existing, rather, being named a RTL2832U(might be the reverse...).
In attempts of demodulating DAB/DAB+/FM a fella named Eric Fry put the above into the mix which further brought us the RTL-SDR
More on the discovery and history of the RTL-SDR.
Apps for the RTL-SDR
Many applications and libraries which are using either librtlsdr directly or some part of the gnuradio source which is also considered as gr-osmosdr:
| Name | Type | Author | URL |
| gr-pocsag | GRC Flowgraph | Marcus Leech | https://www.cgran.org/browser/projects/gr-pocsag/trunk |
| multimode RX (try first!) | GRC Flowgraph | Marcus Leech | https://www.cgran.org/browser/projects/multimode/trunk |
| simple_fm_rvc | GRC Flowgraph | Marcus Leech | https://www.cgran.org/browser/projects/simple_fm_rcv/trunk |
| python-librtlsdr | Python Wrapper | David Basden | https://github.com/dbasden/python-librtlsdr |
| pyrtlsdr | Python Wrapper | Roger | https://github.com/roger-/pyrtlsdr |
| rtlsdr-waterfall | Python FFT GUI | Kyle Keen | https://github.com/keenerd/rtlsdr-waterfall |
| Wireless Temp. Sensor RX | Gnuradio App | Kevin Mehall | https://github.com/kevinmehall/rtlsdr-433m-sensor |
| QtRadio | SDR GUI | Andrea Montefusco et al. | http://napan.ca/ghpsdr3/index.php/RTL-SDR |
| gqrx | SDR GUI | Alexandru Csete | https://github.com/csete/gqrx |
| rtl_fm | SDR CLI | Kyle Keen | merged in librtlsdr master |
| SDR# | SDR GUI | Youssef Touil | http://sdrsharp.com/ and Windows Guide or Linux Guide |
| tetra_demod_fft | Trunking RX | osmocom team | osmosdr-tetra_demod_fft.py and the HOWTO |
| airprobe | GSM sniffer | osmocom team et al | http://git.gnumonks.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=airprobe.git |
| gr-smartnet (WIP) | Trunking RX | Nick Foster | http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/us3yo/rtlsdr_smartnet/ Notes from the author |
| gr-air-modes | ADS-B RX | Nick Foster | https://www.cgran.org/wiki/gr-air-modes call with --rtlsdr option |
| Linrad | SDR GUI | Leif Asbrink (SM5BSZ) | http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/hware/rtlsdr/rtlsdr.htm" DAGC changes were applied to librtlsdr master |
| gr-ais (fork) | AIS RX | Nick Foster, Antoine Sirinelli, Christian Gagneraud | https://github.com/chgans/gr-ais |
| GNSS-SDR | GPS RX (Realtime!) | Centre Tecnològic de elecomunicacions de Catalunya | Documentation and http://www.gnss-sdr.org/ |
| LTE-Cell-Scanner | LTE Scanner / Tracker | James Peroulas, Evrytania LLC | http://www.evrytania.com/lte-tools https://github.com/Evrytania/LTE-Cell-Scanner] |
| LTE-Cell-Scanner OpenCL accelerated (new) | LTE Scanner / Tracker | Jiao Xianjun | https://github.com/JiaoXianjun/LTE-Cell-Scanner |
| Simulink-RTL-SDR | MATLAB/Simulink wrapper | Michael Schwall, Sebastian Koslowski, Communication Engineering Lab (CEL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | http://www.cel.kit.edu/simulink_rtl_sdr.php |
| gr-scan | Scanner | techmeology | http://www.techmeology.co.uk/gr-scan/ |
| kalibrate-rtl | calibration tool | Joshua Lackey, Alexander Chemeris, Steve Markgraf | https://github.com/steve-m/kalibrate-rtl Windows build |
| pocsag-mrt | Multichannel Realtime ]Decoder | iZsh | https://github.com/iZsh/pocsag-mrt |
| adsb# | ADS-B RX | Youssef Touil, Ian Gilmour | http://sdrsharp.com/index.php/a-simple-and-cheap-ads-b-receiver-using-rtl-sdr |
| osmo-gmr-rtl | GMR1 RX | Dimitri Stolnikov | https://osmocom.org/projects/gmr/wiki/GettingStarted#RTLSDRdongles |
| rtl_adsb | ADS-B RX | Kyle Keen | comes with the library |
| dump1090 | ADS-B RX | Salvatore Sanfilippo | https://github.com/antirez/dump1090 |
| rtl_433 | Temperature Sensor Receiver | Benjamin Larsson | https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433 |
| randio | Random number generator | Michel Pelletier | https://github.com/michelp/randio |
| gr-wmbus | m-bus (EN 13757-4) RX | oWCTejLVlFyNztcBnOoh | https://github.com/oWCTejLVlFyNztcBnOoh/gr-wmbus |
| ec3k | EnergyCount 3000 RX | Tomaž Šolc | https://github.com/avian2/ec3k |
| RTLSDR-Scanner | Radio Scanner | EarToEarOak | https://github.com/EarToEarOak/RTLSDR-Scanner |
| simple_ra | Radio Astronomy App | Marcus Leech | https://cgran.org/wiki/simple_ra |
| rtlizer | Spectrum analyzer | Alexandru Csete | https://github.com/csete/rtlizer |
| FS20_decode | FS20 Decoder | Thomas Frisch | https://github.com/eT0M/rtl_sdr_FS20_decoder |
| OpenLTE | LTE Toolkit | Ben Wojtowicz | http://sourceforge.net/p/openlte/home/Home/ |
| rtltcpaccess | DAB compatibility layer | Steve Markgraf | https://github.com/steve-m/rtltcpaccess |
| SDR-J | "Analog" SDR & DAB | Jan van Katwijk | http://www.sdr-j.tk |
| RTLTcpSource | source for redhawk SDR framework | Michael Ihde | redhawk Docs page RTLTcpSource |
| gortlsdr | Golang wrapper | Joseph Poirier | https://github.com/jpoirier/gortlsdr |
| gr-rds (fork) | RDS + WBFM receiver | Dimitrios Symeonidis et al | https://github.com/bastibl/gr-rds |
| NRF24-BTLE-Decoder | Decoder for 2.4 GHz NRF24 & Bluetooh LE | Omri Iluz | Code Blog post |
| acarsdec | ACARS decoder | Thierry Leconte | http://sourceforge.net/projects/acarsdec/ |
| rtl-sdr-airband | air band reiceiver/ATIS | Wong Man Hang | https://github.com/microtony/RTLSDR-Airband |
More: https://osmocom.org/projects/rtl-sdr/wiki/Rtl-sdr
Now on a Wiki but originally on Reddit a RTL-SDR compatibility list v.2 [work in progress, please help!] - https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/s6ddo/rtlsdr_compatibility_list_v2_work_in_progress/
Tuner compatibility - https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/wiki/compatibility/