The Soapy Airspy project provides a plugin module to use the Airspy device within the SoapySDR API and software that supports SoapySDR.

Pre-built installers for various systems are available through the Pothos SDR environment.

• https://github.com/pothosware/PothosCore/wiki/Downloads

• Install libairspy - https://github.com/airspy/host/wiki
• Install SoapySDR: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki

Or install airspy packages on Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install airspy libairspy-dev

The CMake build system will locate SoapySDR development files on your system. The plugin module will be built and installed into the SoapySDR modules directories.

git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyAirspy.git
cd SoapyAirspy
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

SoapySDRUtil --probe="driver=airspy"