Third-Party Software Compatible With HackRF
Software That Has Direct Support For HackRF
GQRX
GNU Radio
GNU Radio Mode-S/ADS-B
QSpectrumAnalyzer
SDR#
Windows OS only
Only nightly builds currently support HackRF One
SDR Console
Spectrum Analyzer GUI for hackrf_sweep for Windows
Universal Radio Hacker (Windows/Linux)
Web-based APRS tracker
Software That Can Use Data From HackRF
Baudline
Can view/process HackRF data, e.g. hackrf_transfer
Inspectrum
Capture analysis tool with advanced features
Matlab
fid = open('samples.bin', 'r'); len = 1000; % 1000 samples y = fread(fid, 2*len, 'int8'); y = y(1:2:end) + 1j*y(2:2:end); fclose(fid)
Troubleshooting Recommendations
Many of these tools require libhackrf and at times HackRF Tools. It may help you to have updated libhackrf and HackRF Tools when troubleshooting these applications.
It is also strongly suggested, and usually required, that your HackRF Tools and HackRF firmware match.