From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: UPDATE: comms/dump1090
To: Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de>
Cc: Fred <openbsd@crowsons.com>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 02:36:19 +0100

On 2026/06/01 23:13, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> thanks for testing. That's about the same I have:
> addr 04: 0bda:2838 Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR
> 
> You either have to run dump1090 as root, or fiddle with owner/group membership of your user, to
> adapt /dev/usb* and the related /dev/ugen* to allow it to find the device.

>     eevee:fred ~: dump1090
>     No supported RTLSDR devices found.

I suggest patching the error message to mention permissions, maybe:

No supported RTLSDR devices found or no permissions on device nodes.

a quick pkg/MESSAGE or pkg/README mentioning this might not be a bad
idea.