Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Re: UPDATE: comms/dump1090

Hi, 

updated diff with patched error message and MESSAGE attached.

Sebastian


On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 3:36 AM Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
On 2026/06/01 23:13, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> thanks for testing. That's about the same I have:
> addr 04: 0bda:2838 Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR
>
> You either have to run dump1090 as root, or fiddle with owner/group membership of your user, to
> adapt /dev/usb* and the related /dev/ugen* to allow it to find the device.

>     eevee:fred ~: dump1090
>     No supported RTLSDR devices found.

I suggest patching the error message to mention permissions, maybe:

No supported RTLSDR devices found or no permissions on device nodes.

a quick pkg/MESSAGE or pkg/README mentioning this might not be a bad
idea.



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