SoapyPlutoSDR included in Pothos?

[androbi-com]

Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but should SoapyPlutoSDR be included with the Pothos distribution? This page made me think so, but my device is not detected. And, no "pluto" related file in lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8. I installed the latest release PothosSDR-2021.02.28-vc16-x64. SDR Console works on the same machine. Any hints for getting this to work?

[zuckschwerdt]

It's there but as component: https://github.com/pothosware/PothosSDR/blob/master/SetupNSIS.cmake#L153
You need to enable "PlutoSDR SoapySDR binding (experimental)" (in the "experimental" group) while installing.

[androbi-com]

Thanx a lot! Maybe a short note about the experimental status could be added to (https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyPlutoSDR/wiki)?

[guruofquality]

Just for reference this is the reason:

• Driver discovery method sometimes is incompatible with SoapyRTLSDR #24
• usb.c device discovery does not play nice with other libusb devices analogdevicesinc/libiio#586

I had to make it optional because it can mess with other libusb devices, and it was an ongoing support issue that kept coming up.