# LimeSdr SoapySDR 0.7 device not found

**URL:** <https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/limesdr-soapysdr-0-7-device-not-found/2690>\
**Category:** LimeSDR\
**Created:** [23 April 2018 18:10 UTC](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/limesdr-soapysdr-0-7-device-not-found/2690 "2018-04-23T18:10:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nawfal\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@Nawfal\_M](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/u/Nawfal_M)\
**Post date:** [23 April 2018 18:10 UTC](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/limesdr-soapysdr-0-7-device-not-found/2690/1 "2018-04-23T18:10:37Z")

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Hi,

I just received my LimeSdr, and so far I wasn’t able to use it as intended through GNURADIO.

I followed these steps to install the packages on a new Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt install python-pip  
sudo apt install python3-pip  
sudo pip install pybombs  
pybombs recipes add gr-recipes git+https://github.com/gnuradio/gr-recipes.git  
mkdir prefix/  
pybombs prefix init -a default prefix/default/ -R gnuradio-default  
pybombs install gr-osmosdr  
cd prefix/default  
source ./setup\_env.sh  
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers  
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install limesuite liblimesuite-dev limesuite-udev limesuite-images  
LimeUtil --find  
gnuradio-companion

LimeUtil --update

when I type  
“LimeUtil –find” On terminal  
I get : [LimeSDR-USB, media=USB 3.0, module=FX3, addr=1d50:6108, serial=0009070105C52E12]

but with:  
“SoapySDRUtil –info”

I get  
Lib Version: v0.7.0-g824d83e8  
API Version: v0.7.0  
ABI Version: v0.7  
Install root: /usr/local  
Search path: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.7  
No modules found!  
Available factories… No factories found!  
Available converters…

- CF32 -\> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
- CS16 -\> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
- CS32 -\> [CS32]
- CS8 -\> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
- CU16 -\> [CF32, CS16, CS8]
- CU8 -\> [CF32, CS16, CS8]
- F32 -\> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
- S16 -\> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
- S32 -\> [S32]
- S8 -\> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
- U16 -\> [F32, S16, S8]
- U8 -\> [F32, S16, S8]

So it seems that the SoapySDR\_0.7 is not recognizing my board

I’ve read somewhere that this might be an issue due to the incompatibility with the SoapySDR\_0.7 version?

Any Helps??

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**Author:** ![mzs](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/discourse.myriadrf.org/mzs/32/2678_2.png) [@mzs](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/u/mzs)\
**Post date:** [23 April 2018 18:44 UTC](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/limesdr-soapysdr-0-7-device-not-found/2690/2 "2018-04-23T18:44:30Z")

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what is returned by:  
SoapySDRUtil --find=“driver=lime”

EDIT: just reading what you did - You compiled and installed from source gnuradio companion (which knew nothing about the limesdr because there was no support installed) and then after that you installed the binaries for the limesdr. But at that stage the binaries for gnuradio had already been compiled with no support.

You could probably do something like the following:  
sudo apt-get remove limesuite liblimesuite-dev limesuite-udev limesuite-images  
pybombs install limesuite

Then pybombs would see that the dependencies were wrong and update everything that required to be updated.

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**Author:** ![Nawfal\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@Nawfal\_M](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/u/Nawfal_M)\
**Post date:** [23 April 2018 19:33 UTC](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/limesdr-soapysdr-0-7-device-not-found/2690/3 "2018-04-23T19:33:03Z")

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@mzs

Thanks for the reply  
SoapySDRUtil --find=“driver=lime”  
returns:

######################################################

## Soapy SDR – the SDR abstraction library

######################################################

No devices found!

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**Author:** ![Nawfal\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@Nawfal\_M](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/u/Nawfal_M)\
**Post date:** [26 April 2018 21:52 UTC](https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/limesdr-soapysdr-0-7-device-not-found/2690/4 "2018-04-26T21:52:48Z")

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I finally got it working properly…The error was that each time that I re-installed Ubuntu, I did not check the box to format the assigned partitions…so many previously installed libraries were recovered after installation…meaning that after limesuite and gnuradio installation the linking was not performed adequately with soapy