Tony is a Geek

 Thought I'd give it a go and ask it if it could write me some starter code. It did a surprisingly good job from a SIMPLE prompt as a starter and then I understood what it was doing and then took it a stage further, it did indeed get a couple of things incorrect, I hit a bug with the rtlsdr USB driver memory limit and then there was a deadlocking that occurred with the scan and logging, but once over that it seemed to do a pretty good job. All I need this article to do is share the following lines so I can copy & paste them on a different machine: RTL-SDR Frequency Scanner - Build & Test Guide Required External Libraries 1. SoapySDR Core SDR library that provides unified API for software-defined radios. 2. SoapyRTLSDR RTL-SDR driver module for SoapySDR. 3. librtlsdr RTL-SDR USB device driver library. Installation on Ubuntu 24/25 Step 1: Update System sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y Step 2: Install Dependencies sudo apt install -y \ build-essential \ cmake \ ...