Installing SDRSharp and 433mhz Plugin for V4 dongle

hi guys I'm going to do a really quick video here uh what I'm trying to do is capture uh 433 megahertz signals with a softwar defined radio device and the reason for doing this really is uh a lot of a lot of you guys that know me know that I've got Freelander 2 Andover I've done a lot of Cambo scanning I've took off off a lot of data one thing I can't get is the tire pressures and uh I know that the that little module inside the inside the wheel actually does give out tire pressures but the dashboard just says when one goes flat and it just it just highlights you know a little graphic on the on the on the dashboard say that you know particular wheels at low on pressure and I wanted to get the actual PSI so managed to do that it took me a little bit of time to to to do I've looked at the videos on online on on on YouTube and there's just some things that just aren't quite right and maybe maybe because things have moved on a little bit so so just going to do a really quick video of how to install the software I needed what what equipment I bought and then I'll do a separate video but I'm going to record them both at the same time just break them into two so it's not not too long long for people to look look at because people might have already already the software installed uh we're then going to look at the look at the extra parameters of using the software itself to capture the more difficult signals to get and not that my tire pressure monitoring system was difficult to capture cuz it legit put the a in the car drove down the down the road now we getting signals immediately but uh one particular temperature monitoring station that that I have was a little bit difficult and know I could see the signal coming in it wouldn't decode it uh it was very very very very intermittent you know every 30 minutes I'd get I'd capture a signal and I did update so just going to go through a little bit of that here so anyway without any further Ado let's have a look at what we need and what I've bought so first of all let's look at at the hardware so what I've done is I bought this this RTL SDR it's an official version just be aware there's lots of copies out of this and it's the version four it's the latest version as I record this now to be Fair perhaps the version three would be better for the novice because all the software supports version three and there's currently some some you know uh some some issues with with some of the Legacy software and of course you question that whether they the Legacy stuff will ever actually get updated for version 4 but version 4 is what what I bought I did some research nobody was saying don't buy buy V4 and you know at the end of the day I've I've got it working for what I need I need it to do let's have a quick look at the antenna I bought so I'm doing four 433 megaherz so I bought this I bought this little little antenna uh it's a 43 33 MHz uh 3 DBI gain rg174 cable I believe that that is that is four so should a little little still be magnetic bound uh antenna now I'm going to be honest I think if I was going to do that again I would have actually spent the extra10 I think it was and just bought it bought the antenna kit and got the official official antenna kit because just when you're Googling about on on on on on the internet you start to see other things that you can do with this software Define radi and you think oh would that be would that be good but I haven't got the antennas so it's probably going to cost me more in the long run and for that extra 10 I would probably just like like to have a me mess about so if you're going to buy one get the intenna one okay so let's have a look at the software that that we need okay so the first thing we going to need to do is download this software here on ay.com download and we're going for this revision here and if we download this it is version 4 compatible which is why we're doing it in this software because the this is this is going to download everything you need uh it's going to update the drivers as long as you install it properly uh so let's just go here and download this bit so once you've downloaded that and it's and and it appears in your downloads folder just have a look at this this quick start guide here uh and this tells you everything you need to know tells you to watch out for for the Clones that are about uh and it goes on to tell you what what you need to do to you know download the software the things that you need to make sure you've got installed I'm going to assume you've got all that installed uh make sure you do this bit make sure you do this bit this this bit goes away and gets those updated drivers for version 4 so make sure we absolutely do this bit uh okay and then you then you plug in your dongle make sure you do this bit because you are going to need to update your uh your uh your drivers using this uh zag zag dig or zadig whatever whatever that is uh it's don't worry too much about that you might get some some strange sort of messages and that but you know this this is this is really popular uh if you mess around with anything like this it's really popular to have to have to change drivers and and this is the program that everybody uses you know you might get some some some you know some sort of pop-up that make you Willie a little bit but just just crack on and do it once you've got that make sure you do this bit select the source and here uh if you if you're worried about your drivers let's just plug plug this in in in a minute for a minute can't have my mouse at the same time so forgive me for using the diff different Mouse here uh I would want to just show you that if I click on here and start typing device I get a device manager up here I just wanted to show you what a success ful install looks like after you've used that zag dig you should be getting this here an extra USB composite device and you should get this extra line here for these uh sorry controllers USB comp uh composite controller and you should get these bulking interface now there's a little bit of warning that sometimes they say different things here I supp it depends what what Hardware you using but you should have something that appears here if I unplug it and you go go unplug the the dondle it's disappeared plug it back in again and it comes back if you've got something happening like this and there's no exclamation marks here it that's probably working so that's wouldn't be your issue if you're having issues so we're going to we're going to scroll down here a bit make sure you press the play button and then it should should start working and if if if everything starts to look like you've got these uh these sort of things scrolling down the screen so let me go back to my install see if you've got something happening like this and I'm finding out with this silly Mouse if you've got something and you plug it in start your air spy you won't have this at this moment so I'm going to turn that off if you start if you put click on that it starts doing this sort of thing then it's working guys okay you can you you can set this frequency up here by by clicking up up and down here on the top and bottom get it somewhere around here 434 uh actually the the the official scanning thing is that so put it put it to 433 you should be getting something like this happening okay once you've got that stage it's it's the time to install the uh 433 megahertz plugin okay so the next stage is we need to go here to this uh GitHub page Marco 40 to and here we need to download his uh his project as a zip file don't be tempted to go in here and try and download individual files make sure we do this this bit so we're going to download the zip I've already done this so if we go if if we go there it'll download as normal we go to downloads we've got this we've got this plugin here uh and you see It'll come something like this probably this one I did yesterday uh if you right click on that I use seven zip extract here and then you'll end up with a with a with with with a proper fold folder full of files now what you're looking for here guys and this is the bit that's confusing don't worry about whether you plugg your dundle in early or late just just just just follow that install you if you've been a bit bit of a man like I am you know you know you get the new dongle out the packet and you whack it straight in the in the computer realize nothing's working then you look at the instructions you broken nothing just just follow that install guide it's still going to work okay guys but the plugin works like this you look in the install folder and I want you to use this don't use the framework ones use use this one here and you want these three files here you're going to copy these here and you're then you're going to go to your your download wherever you put it of your SDR sharp and I put mine in here SDR sharp and I want you to create a plugins folder sorry there will be a plugins folder you're going to create a folder it doesn't matter what you name it really but I've just named it DL uncore 433 and you just drop those three files in that folder and what that gives you guys is that when you go back and you run the program like this you're going to go up to the uh the bir Burger I think people call it uh plugins you'll end up with this plugins and then you can select this down here look guys nice and easy and it'll it'll it'll come up here okay now we're ready to go if I click here and play enable the plugin leave it on listed device we're going to go through this in in more detail in in a moment on on another video but just just as a very quick thing we're going to do that we're going to click Start this should come up and we start getting all we get start getting all sorts of messages so this is this is this is it decoding messages and then if it gets a good good signal one that it can decode think I'll get one in a moment then it will actually put up different message but we we're going to go through this there you go there you go it's just it's just got one of my very hard uh hard to read devices which we're going to talk about in the next video so that's enough for now hopefully that's enough to get you buy this lots of other videos on installing which why I've done it really really quickly I just wanted to cover off the bits where I struggled with uh and and and make sure you you definitely follow that in install guide to make sure sure you do it correctly and now we'll move on to the on onto the next video of how to get those really hardto read devices working as I've got going here

Channel: TheBionicbone

Views: 1,522

Keywords: SDR, RTL, 433mhz, dongle, plugin, plug, install, installing, software, defined radio, v4, tuning, frequency, marco402, bionicbone

Id: 80LIG7nyHFQ

Length: 11min 21sec (681 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 11 2023