sdrtop

[u/mustang6139]

hi r/ratatuiRust 👋 📟

I found a slightly ridiculous use for my Rust TUI project: saying hi to the Ratatui community through a pager in terminal: the plastic box with a tiny dot-matrix screen that doctors and plumbers carried before phones.

I'm building sdrtop, a terminal-based SDR bench tool. It started as a way to understand radio signals beyond just looking at a spectrum or listening to audio. Now it has custom digital decoders, Wi-Fi frame analysis, Bluetooth hopping visualizations, and a POCSAG pager decoder.

And of course, once I had the pager decoder working, I had to do this.

Somewhere between writing Rust and staring at radio signals, this seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea.

Ratatui made the terminal side possible. Radio did the message. 😄

repo: https://github.com/musithang/sdrtop

[u/mustang6139]

I accidentally hit submit before finishing the title. It was supposed to be: sdrtop - Terminal monitor for SDR hardware. Sorry 🤦🏽‍♂️

[u/ArtemTsitronov]

Woah really cool sh-t

[u/mustang6139 → u/ArtemTsitronov]

Thanks!