hackrf-pro

HackRF Pro — Great Scott Gadgets' successor to the HackRF One

Vendor: Great Scott Gadgets

Status: supported — the identifiers and setup recipe are believed correct.

Maintainer-verified 2026-08-26 on Pop!_OS 22.04: Attached and enumerated in both normal and DFU modes; identifiers, product strings and serials captured with scripts/identify-device.sh. No /dev node is created in either mode, which is expected for a libusb device. Nothing was received or transmitted, and no firmware was read or written.

What it is

A wideband half-duplex software defined radio from Great Scott Gadgets, the successor to the HackRF One, which has been the default wide-coverage transmit-capable SDR in this space for over a decade.

What you can do with it

The same broad receive and transmit work the HackRF One is used for across a very wide frequency range, half-duplex. Coverage and sample rates are deliberately not quoted here: this project has enumerated the device, not measured it, and D-027 keeps those two claims apart.

Setup

Install the hackrf host tools, join plugdev, then log out and back in. hackrf_info reports the board and its firmware and is the first check that permissions are right. Note the version skew across targets — Debian 13 and Parrot ship the 2024.02.1 tools while Kali ships 2026.01.3, and host tools are version-locked to device firmware.

Known problems

It shares its USB identifier with the HackRF One and is distinguished only by its product string, so any udev rule, and any software that selects a board by VID:PID, will see the two as the same device. If both are attached, expect tools that take the first match to pick arbitrarily. Beyond that, the family caveat: this transmits, and transmitting into an unterminated port or the wrong antenna risks the hardware regardless of what the software does.

How it identifies itself

USB id	What	Confirmed	Node
1d50:6089	HackRF Pro — the same identifier the HackRF One uses	yes	libusb

⚠ 1d50:6089 is not unique to this device (shared_across_products; also used by: hackrf-one). Confirmed by capture: the HackRF One carries the identical pair. The two are distinguishable only by ATTRS{product}. Any rule matching 1d50:6089 alone claims both.

Access and permissions

Group membership required: plugdev — added at install, applies at next login.

The generated udev rule provides a /dev/hackrf-pro symlink, mode 0660, group plugdev, matched on the product string HackRF Pro because the bare identifier is ambiguous.

Firmware modes

• dfu — tooling: dfu-util, hackrf In DFU the board is an NXP microcontroller and nothing more: it does not report itself as a HackRF, a Pro or anything else. Select it by the port you plugged it into, and do not have two LPC4330 devices in DFU at once.

Software that makes it useful

gqrx-sdr, hackrf, soapysdr-module-hackrf

Upstream: https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/