[rtl-sdr] store frequency correction in eeprom?

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Benedikt Heinz zn000h at gmail.com
Sat Mar 16 20:27:39 UTC 2013


Some of you are probably using multiple dongles with alternating
applications as well.
Regarding the frequency correction, I put a sticker on each dongle and
wrote the ppm value on it.
However manually setting the value in each application is still annoying.
So I used rtl_eeprom to write the value into the product-ID with the
following format: "RTL%+dppm" resulting in sth. like this: RTL+87ppm
I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but this approach works
without changing librtlsdr.
Another option might be storing the value in a non-used eeprom
location and adding get/set functions to librtlsdr.
Is it possible to write arbitrary values to unused eeprom locations
without fucking up the realtek eeprom handling? Do you think this
would be a better way?

I'd like to hear your comments on this.
It would be awesome if we could find a solution that many existing
applications could incorporate.

(Of course the ppm value still changes with temperature, but having a
base value is still closer to the truth than 0ppm I'd say.
I measured the offset directly after grabbing samples for 20 minutes
at room-temperature and jitter is <1ppm.)

Best regards,

Hunz




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