[beagleboard] Re: RTL-SDR dropping samples, RT throttling problem?

2014-12-04 Thread Adam Caldwell
I haven't had time to further troubleshoot this problem, sorry. The stick I'm using is some random stick I picked up cheap on amazon from china. rtl_test identifies as: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 0001 Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner lsusb identifies as:

[beagleboard] RTL-SDR dropping samples, RT throttling problem?

2014-11-19 Thread adam . caldwell
I'm attempting to use a RTL-SDR stick on my BBB, but too many samples are being dropped to be stable. When running the test program rtl_test, a typical output is like this: Sampling at 2048000 S/s. Reporting PPM error measurement every 10 seconds... Press ^C after a few minutes. Reading samples