diff --git a/net-wireless/rtl-sdr/Manifest b/net-wireless/rtl-sdr/Manifest
index cd7eb23d549d8..b1a13f93b5018 100644
--- a/net-wireless/rtl-sdr/Manifest
+++ b/net-wireless/rtl-sdr/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST rtl-sdr-0.5.3_p20170919.tar.xz 98972 BLAKE2B fb7d977bd05a2c717897ba58a2242698d1a90cf38a7a8340d7ec8c3aefeeff49bfe9612285253b27c6726ae584172e0b26c8f535bc4bec704958c1296e232f04 SHA512 b1b97c720882ccbe8be8e30af28b8d52c5a27507861bdb9e964e153cd8ece9de977abd271b68861c163a7cf239044f28c8d17ccda5ff5acf60f17d839d782a82
+DIST rtl-sdr-0.5.4.tar.xz 108708 BLAKE2B 12f5f5a913089ec57327621eddab9b74b07cccceeac9d00ab2cbd413bc29d8444633953319e2887ef5e07a766f38b4ea2f5d3cbf73efd63a1886e30e2bed6968 SHA512 6cf3c62e6a56694f90deed64e2761105fdbeb40de8001a378e687d60cc3718ad64065b5d896b3f4b27ff6a5383173b53df52816e24b31c726485364cfd9c1a43
diff --git a/net-wireless/rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr-0.5.4.ebuild b/net-wireless/rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr-0.5.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cb32ad203bb97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-wireless/rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr-0.5.4.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit cmake-utils multilib
+
+DESCRIPTION="turns your Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver"
+HOMEPAGE="http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	SRC_URI=""
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.osmocom.org/${PN}"
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	#git clone https://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr
+	#cd rtl-sdr
+	#git archive --format=tar --prefix=rtl-sdr-${PV}/ master | xz > ../rtl-sdr-${PV}.tar.xz
+	SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~zerochaos/distfiles/${P}.tar.xz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="virtual/libusb:1"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]]; then
+		git-r3_src_unpack
+	else
+		default
+	fi
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	#the udev rules are 666, we don't want that
+	mycmakeargs=(
+		-DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=OFF
+		-DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON
+		-DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/$(get_libdir)
+	)
+	cmake-utils_src_configure
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "Only users in the usb group can capture."
+	elog "Just run 'gpasswd -a <USER> usb', then have <USER> re-login."
+}