How To Install rtl-wmbus on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtl-wmbus on Fedora 36.
What is rtl-wmbus
rtl-wmbus is a software defined receiver for Wireless-M-Bus. It is written in plain C and uses RTL-SDR to interface with RTL2832-based hardware. Wireless-M-Bus is the wireless version of M-Bus (“Meter-Bus”, http remote reading of smart meters. The primary purpose of rtl-wmbus is experimenting with digital signal processing and software radio. rtl-wmbus can be used on resource constrained devices such as Raspberry Pi Zero or Raspberry PI B+ overclocked to 1GHz. Any Android based tablet will do the same too. rtl-wmbus provides - filtering - FSK demodulating - clock recovering - mode T1 and mode C1 packet decoding
We can use yum or dnf to install rtl-wmbus on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtl-wmbus.
Install rtl-wmbus on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rtl-wmbus using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rtl-wmbus
Install rtl-wmbus on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rtl-wmbus using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rtl-wmbus
How To Uninstall rtl-wmbus on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the rtl-wmbus package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rtl-wmbus
rtl-wmbus Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/rtl_wmbus
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/bd983e4169f8592104e2a6c2e8d310112ed63f
/usr/share/doc/rtl-wmbus
/usr/share/doc/rtl-wmbus/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/rtl-wmbus
/usr/share/licenses/rtl-wmbus/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtl-wmbus on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).