pctv nanostick through WMWare

Per Åkesson

Dear all,

I am trying to run tvheadend on a guest Ubuntu 12.04 OS in

a virtual WMWare Player machine.

I have connected a PCTV nanostick t2 290e to my
host, Windows Home Server 2011, and enabled it to

pass-through to Ubunto.

In Ubuntu I do lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2013:024f Unknown (Pinnacle?)

which seems correct according to: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T2_USB_Devices

But in the tvheadend web admin gui I don't have any

devices in Configuration->TV Adapters dropdown.

Anyone know what is the problem?

Can I run tvheadend with this configuration?

thanks in advance

Per

ProfYaffle

I don't know about the config, but have you got the firmware installed? What's in /dev/dvb, what's showing in dmesg as the stick initialises?

Tvheadend works fine with this stick in a normal config.

Per Åkesson

Thanks for taking interest into my problem.

I don't have any specific firmware installed.

This is output from /dev/dvb:

per@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/dvb
adapter0

per@ubuntu:~$

These are the relevant lines from dmesg output:

[ 2.178855] pcnet32: eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A
[ 2.180119] pcnet32: 1 cards_found
[ 2.194458] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2013, idProduct=024f
[ 2.194464] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.194467] usb 1-1: Product: PCTV 290e
[ 2.194469] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: PCTV Systems
[ 2.194472] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 00000006NVH5
[ 2.224493] ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator}
[ 2.304349] usb 2-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd

[ 2.385212] scsi2 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=01032920h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=17

It seems OK to me, doesn't it?

Do you have any further trouble shooting I could try?

regards

Per

Per Åkesson

Additional info:

per@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/
total 0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 1 May 30 08:13 demux0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 2 May 30 08:13 dvr0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 May 30 08:13 frontend0

crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 May 30 08:13 net0

Per

ProfYaffle

I presume that this is the only DVB adapter you have? Just worth checking...

I haven't rebooted my server for ages, so I doubt I have anything in my logs that will help.

My 290e appears as a Sony CXD2820R, so that's the driver/firmware we're looking for.

On my system, lsusb does indeed identify it as "Unknown (Pinnacle?)", so your USB connection/passthrough is valid.

Can you do an lsmod | grep em28 to see whether the driver is loaded?

I seem to recall that I upgraded the kernel on my 12.04 system, so it's not impossible that you just don't have the support on the default kernel, something like that.

EDIT

Another thought - sudo service tvheadend restart - just in case it's a timing issue (tvheadend loading before the stick initialises properly).

Per Åkesson

Once again, thanks for helping me.

Yes that is my only tv tuner connected.

Output from lsmod:

per@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep em28
em28xx_rc 13169 0
rc_core 21295 1 em28xx_rc
em28xx_dvb 22528 0
dvb_core 99289 2 cxd2820r,em28xx_dvb
em28xx 85852 2 em28xx_rc,em28xx_dvb
v4l2_common 15794 1 em28xx
videodev 100265 2 em28xx,v4l2_common
videobuf_vmalloc 13337 1 em28xx
videobuf_core 25410 2 em28xx,videobuf_vmalloc

tveeprom 17010 1 em28xx

In theory Ubuntu 12.04 should support the nanostick since it is

Linux kernel 3.2, but that's in theory.

If you have patched Ubuntu in order to have it work, please let

me know how.

Per

Per Åkesson

Ahhhh,

sudo service tvheadend restart did the trick.

Now I have the Sony CXD2820R in the dropdown.

Thanks a bunch

will start scanning channels

probably will be back for further questions.

Thanks a lot

Per

ProfYaffle

Excellent - glad it's working.