Lime Suite is a collection of software supporting several hardware platforms including the LimeSDR, drivers for the LMS7002M transceiver RFIC, and other tools for developing with LMS7-based hardware. Installing the Lime Suite enables many SDR applications such as GQRX to work with supported hardware through the bundled SoapySDR support module.

The liblimesuite package contains the main library that other packages should develop against. The soapysdr-module-lms7 package contains the Soapy SDR module that supports Lime devices. The limesuite package provides the entire software suite, depending on the previous packages and also providing GUI tools.

For Windows users of liblimesuite with a LimeSDR (not mini!) device, this package uses libusb to communicate over USB instead of the standard CyUSB library which is not open source. If you have used your LimeSDR with another software package, you will have to switch USB drivers to one compatible with WinUSB/libusb by installing the WinUSB driver with Zadig (https://zadig.akeo.ie/) and selecting your Lime device.

For Linux users of liblimesuite, you will likely want to link the provided udev rule into your system installation in order for the hardware to have the correct permissions:

sudo ln -s $CONDA_PREFIX/lib/udev/rules.d/64-limesuite.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo udevadm control --reload
sudo udevadm trigger