v2.26.7: fix health check SDR detection on macOS (#188)

timeout (GNU coreutils) is not available on macOS, causing rtl_test to
silently fail and report no SDR device found. Now tries timeout, then
gtimeout (Homebrew coreutils), then falls back to background process
with manual kill.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to iNTERCEPT will be documented in this file.
 
+## [2.26.7] - 2026-03-14
+
+### Fixed
+- **Health check SDR detection on macOS** — `timeout` (GNU coreutils) is not available on macOS, causing `rtl_test` to silently fail and report "No RTL-SDR device found" even when one is connected. Now tries `timeout`, then `gtimeout` (Homebrew coreutils), then falls back to a background process with manual kill. (#188)
+
+---
+
 ## [2.26.6] - 2026-03-14
 
 ### Fixed

config.py

@@ -7,10 +7,17 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 # Application version
-VERSION = "2.26.6"
+VERSION = "2.26.7"
 
 # Changelog - latest release notes (shown on welcome screen)
 CHANGELOG = [
+    {
+        "version": "2.26.7",
+        "date": "March 2026",
+        "highlights": [
+            "Fix health check SDR detection on macOS (timeout command not available)",
+        ]
+    },
     {
         "version": "2.26.6",
         "date": "March 2026",

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "intercept"
-version = "2.26.6"
+version = "2.26.7"
 description = "Signal Intelligence Platform - Pager/433MHz/ADS-B/Satellite/WiFi/Bluetooth"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"

setup.sh

@@ -1924,7 +1924,18 @@ do_health_check() {
   info "SDR device detection..."
   if cmd_exists rtl_test; then
     local rtl_output
-    rtl_output=$(timeout 3 rtl_test -d 0 2>&1 || true)
+    if cmd_exists timeout; then
+      rtl_output=$(timeout 3 rtl_test -d 0 2>&1 || true)
+    elif cmd_exists gtimeout; then
+      rtl_output=$(gtimeout 3 rtl_test -d 0 2>&1 || true)
+    else
+      # No timeout command (common on macOS) — run with background kill
+      rtl_test -d 0 > /tmp/.rtl_test_out 2>&1 & local rtl_pid=$!
+      sleep 2
+      kill "$rtl_pid" 2>/dev/null; wait "$rtl_pid" 2>/dev/null
+      rtl_output=$(cat /tmp/.rtl_test_out 2>/dev/null || true)
+      rm -f /tmp/.rtl_test_out
+    fi
     if echo "$rtl_output" | grep -q "Found\|Using device"; then
       ok "RTL-SDR device detected"
       ((pass++)) || true