Manual Installation of SDR#
Manual Installation of the RTL-SDR drivers with SDR# for the RTL-SDR
NOTE PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: You only need to do a manual driver installation if the automatic installation described in the quick start guide has failed! This page is purely instructions for a manual install which 99.9% of the time is not necessary!
1) Download the RTL-SDR Drivers, and extract the rtlsdr.dll file from the x86 folder into the SDR# folder:
http://github.com/rtlsdrblog/rtl-sdr-blog/releases/latest/download/Release.zip
2) Download zadig from their website and place it into the SDR# folder:
https://zadig.akeo.ie
all the software to run these dongles is crap, it must be coded by an idiot, the instructions, if you get any are as clear as mud, why does does SDR software have be such a ham affair,
I get “no device selected” errors even after 3 full wipe and install attempts. An article claims this is due to a failed driver install, and under RTS-SDR controller the “device” field is empty instead of showing “Generic RTL282U”. My question is: where do I find this missing driver? I don’t see it listed anywhere in the install instructions, and ZDAG says it installed successfully.
I really like this program, but its been a week now and it just won’t work on my new PC…
Help?
I have the same issue
have you run the install-rtlsdr batch file ?
If you please , what operating system do you use and the software hdsdr or radio console or sdrharp or other
routing the discriminator tap baseband into the dsd plus and or pdw is so much easier.
also , it seems like on win 11 theres always too many glitches where the sound card and audio inside these softwares are just not working right .
Funny, decades pass by, but people still have to dance with tambourine to install something very simple.
I install it every few years, and each time it’s a piece of woodoo.
Indeed, this is a nightmare to work with and I have worked pretty complicated situations. I can’t also believe they do not have a version for WIn XP or Vista, it is a relatively simple program.
I have been working with computers since 1981. I have written software and designed hardware. This software is simply impossible to operate. It will not install (I know what I am doing and have persevered for ten full days.)
just use sdr++, the interface makes way more sense and it runs wayyy better.
It’s also not a confusing mess of gui elements.
I got my version to run well under Windows-10, but on my Windows-7 machine, it starts, but the GUI won’t appear. I also tried SDR++ and even though it basically runs, there’s something wrong and SDR# works a lot better, so I don’t know what’s going on.