High-precision RF Explorer scans using free Python script (demo with Wireless Workbench)

** 2025 UPDATE: Simply install Python and run "pip install rfexplorer-detailed-scan", followed by your desired "rfexplorerDetailedScan ..." command. No need to download and build! **

Get the script here: https://github.com/mkupferman/rfexplo...
Shure Wireless Workbench available from: https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/...
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This is a free solution to generating high-resolution scans with an RF Explorer, for use with coordination software like Shure Wireless Workbench.

The RF Explorer is limited to 112 steps in a frequency sweep. When coordinating a larger frequency range, the resolution bandwidth (RBW) becomes larger and imprecise.

The script shown here creates scan datafiles with a lower RBW by breaking the sweep into smaller chunks and "stitching" them together for a final dataset. It connects to the RF Explorer over its USB interface and produces CSV files which are suitable for importing into Shure Wireless Workbench.

It can run on any computer with Python (3.5 or later) with an RF Explorer connected via USB. You will also need a UNIX-like environment (e.g. macOS, Linux, Git Bash for Windows) to use the included build script and follow the example.
1. Download or clone the Python script from the Github site.
2. Build it by running "build.sh"
3. Activate the Python virtual environment ("source venv/bin/activate" or "source venv/Scripts/activate" on Windows)
4. Look at the syntax help with "rfexplorerDetailedScan --help"
5. Run it with any options you would like and a destination CSV file name. For example: "rfexplorerDetailedScan -s 470 -e 534 output.csv" will run a scan from 470MHz-534MHz with 10 iterations (averaged) and a resolution bandwidth of about 18 KHz.
6. output.csv can then be imported in Wireless Workbench for coordination.