August DVB-T210

derp derp · 2014-02-11T22:48:40+00:00

Hi. Was wondering if this was compatible with tvheadend as there's not much information from users about this device. Does anyone have one? Is it working wel...

Stefan Brüns

Hi Crazycat,

thanks for the work you have done, do you have any plans/timeline for upstreaming the T230c code changes and firmwares?

Kind regards, Stefan

Bobby Lockwood

Has anyone managed to get the August T210 v2 working on the Wetek Play? I under the problem with the Wetek is that it has a very old kernel with does have the T210 drivers.

Crazy Cat

Submited to patchwork http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/bundle/CrazyCat/t230c/

So just wait :)

Stefan Brüns wrote:

> thanks for the work you have done, do you have any plans/timeline for upstreaming the T230c code changes and firmwares?

Henrik Harmsen

Thanks Crazycat!
Just wanted to mention that I tried your media_build on ubuntu 16.10 and I had to patch a number of drivers because the .release function returned int but my build expected the function to return void.

For example r848_release returned int but I had to change it to void before it compiled.

Mitsus Dev

Crazy Cat wrote:
> Submited to patchwork http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/bundle/CrazyCat/t230c/ > So just wait :)
>
> Stefan Brüns wrote:

> > thanks for the work you have done, do you have any plans/timeline for upstreaming the T230c code changes and firmwares?

Dear CrazyCat,
I'm trying to install my new MyGiga T230c on raspberry Pi2.

These my steps for now:

git clone https://bitbucket.org/CrazyCat/media_build cd media_build ./build --main-git sudo make install

About your patches...when i must install them?..after build command (./build --main-git) and first to launch install command?

I have also this error during build:

CC [M]  /home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l/altera-jtag.o
  CC [M]  /home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l/altera-comp.o
make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l/frame_vector.c', needed by '/home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l/frame_vector.o'.  Stop.
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  CC [M]  /home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l/altera.o
Makefile:1401: recipe for target '_module_/home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l' failed
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/linux-fa00f31867d8f7b7bb2ad2eb6c35f32fa468ca1e'
Makefile:51: recipe for target 'default' failed
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/DVB/media_build/v4l'
Makefile:26: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
build failed at ./build line 512, <IN> line 3.

Can you help me to solve it?

Best Regards
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Dmytro Iatskyi

Hi guys!

I'm a newbie both to Linux and TVH. I've got MyGica T230C stick and I'm desperate already.

I'm trying to make it work on Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2 with Raspbian Jessie Lite onboard, but no luck.

I've tried different ways and distro's I've found in the net. The firmwares for demod and tuner

dvb-demod-si2168-d60-01.fw

dvb-tuner-si2141-a10-01.fw

are present in lib/firmware, but it still is recognized as Geniatech EyeTV Stick with idVendor=0572, idProduct=c689.

Any ideas?

Adam Bowen

Not sure about that version of the stick on Raspbian Jessie. Jan Kowalski got it working on LibreELEC, but the kernel and linuxtv software (media_build) used in that distro are usually builds that include all the latest patches for better "TV" hardware support. You could always try the instructions here:

https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Geniatech_T230C

but it may be worth switching to LibreELEC if you only intend using the RPI as a tvheadend+Kodi box.

Good luck!

Graham H

I don't know much about jessie lite but it doesn't sound like a good starting point for a media server. Why not the full Raspbian?

Dmytro Iatskyi

Thank you!

I made it work on LibreELEC too, it works almost out of the box. It was able to stream the whole MX. But I don't need GUI and KODI. It takes resources. I need naked and the simpliest OS for IP streamer.

I also installed dvb-apps hoping it will help. Unfortunately, no effect.

Graham H

Well perhaps you should start with a distro that works and gradually strip out the packages you don't need. You could start with Raspbian and take out the bits that are not in the Lite version until it stops working! Or start with OSMC which is more like a real Debian and doesn't have X, browsers, office suites or any of that baggage.

mpmc

Graham H wrote:

> Well perhaps you should start with a distro that works and gradually strip out the packages you don't need. You could start with Raspbian and take out the bits that are not in the Lite version until it stops working! Or start with OSMC which is more like a real Debian and doesn't have X, browsers, office suites or any of that baggage.

Or use the awesome "raspbian-ua-netinstall" That's as bare bones as you can get (plus it's configurable).

Adam Bowen

Dmytro Iatskyi wrote:

> But I don't need GUI and KODI. It takes resources. I need naked and the simpliest OS for IP streamer.

In that case I'd stick with Raspbian (or either of Graham's or Mark's suggestions) and then grab the latest media_build and any required kernel patches and build them all yourself. I used to custom build them before support for the T210v2 was in the default Raspbian media_build. Lots of messing about, and you have to remember to rebuild stuff if a new kernel comes out, but it could be your only choice at this point in time.

Jukka Pirinen

Deri James wrote:

> It fails 70-80% of the time, but using the USB3 port it works every time. The USB2 failures are while it is plugged into a powered hub, whilst the USB3 socket is directly connected to the motherboard. I have a vague recollection that this has been noticed before in this thread. While failing on USB2 vlc spits out loads of ts demux errors.

> I find that it is much more stable if I use a USB3 socket rather than USB2.

Interesting, for me USB3.0 or actually xhci is having errors, but USB 2.0 ehci works just fine.

Mar 30 18:31:21 bogey kernel: [ 281.859368] dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -110

Mar 30 18:31:21 bogey kernel: [ 281.860379] dw2102: i2c transfer failed.

Same is with both Intel B85 chipset (Asus B85M-E) or Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller
So I need to disable XHCI in my bios settings to set ports to legacy mode, so all motherboard USB ports are then USB2.0 / ehci.

Then I can plug T220 to any of the motherboard USB port and it works fine.

I'm at Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 4.8.0-45-generic #48~16.04.1-Ubuntu

Here is syslog together with VDR startup, so the errors come when VDR started.


Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.823414] usb 3-9: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.952251] usb 3-9: New USB device found, idVendor=1f4d, idProduct=d220
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.952258] usb 3-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.952263] usb 3-9: Product: USB Device
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.952266] usb 3-9: Manufacturer: Geniatech
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.952269] usb 3-9: SerialNumber: 0001
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.953167] dw2102: su3000_identify_state
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.953167]
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.953174] dvb-usb: found a 'Geniatech T220 DVB-T/T2 USB2.0' in warm state.
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.953183] dw2102: su3000_power_ctrl: 1, initialized 0
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.953183]
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.953376] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.953446] DVB: registering new adapter (Geniatech T220 DVB-T/T2 USB2.0)
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  270.957554] dvb-usb: MAC address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  271.012428] tda18271 7-0060: creating new instance
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [  271.016754] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @@

7-0060
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [ 271.251951] dw2102: Attached TDA18271HD/CXD2820R!
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [ 271.251951]
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [ 271.251961] usb 3-9: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Sony CXD2820R)...
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [ 271.252230] dw2102: su3000_power_ctrl: 0, initialized 1
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [ 271.252230]
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey kernel: [ 271.252235] dvb-usb: Geniatech T220 DVB-T/T2 USB2.0 successfully initialized and connected.
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-9"
Mar 30 18:31:10 bogey mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 7 was not an MTP device
Mar 30 18:31:14 bogey colord-sane: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] VDR version 2.2.0 started
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] found 28 locales in ./locale
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading plugin: /usr/local/src/vdr/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-dummydevice.so.2.2.0
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading plugin: /usr/local/src/vdr/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-live.so.2.2.0
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading plugin: /usr/local/src/vdr/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-vnsiserver.so.2.2.0
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading plugin: /usr/local/src/vdr/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-epgsearch.so.2.2.0
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading plugin: /usr/local/src/vdr/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-femon.so.2.2.0
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/setup.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] ERROR: unknown config parameter: PrimaryLimit = 0
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/sources.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/channels.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/timers.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/commands.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/reccmds.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/remote.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/keymacros.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] ERROR: unknown plugin 'extrecmenu'
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] ERROR: empty key macro
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] ERROR: unknown plugin 'osdteletext'
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] ERROR: empty key macro
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] loading /etc/vdr/folders.conf
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2384] video directory scanner thread started (pid=2382, tid=2384, prio=high)
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] registered source parameters for 'A - ATSC'
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] registered source parameters for 'C - DVB-C'
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] registered source parameters for 'S - DVB-S'
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] registered source parameters for 'T - DVB-T'
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] creating cDvbDevice
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2382] new device number 1
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2383] video directory scanner thread started (pid=2382, tid=2383, prio=high)
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2385] epg data reader thread started (pid=2382, tid=2385, prio=high)
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2385] reading EPG data from /var/cache/vdr/epg.data
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey kernel: [ 279.862168] dw2102: su3000_power_ctrl: 1, initialized 1
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey kernel: [ 279.862168]
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2385] epg data reader thread ended (pid=2382, tid=2385)
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2384] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=2382, tid=2384)
Mar 30 18:31:19 bogey vdr: [2383] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=2382, tid=2383)
Mar 30 18:31:21 bogey kernel: [ 281.859368] dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -110
Mar 30 18:31:21 bogey kernel: [ 281.860379] dw2102: i2c transfer failed.
Mar 30 18:31:21 bogey kernel: [ 281.868577] tda18271: performing RF tracking filter calibration
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2382] DVB API version is 0x050A (VDR was built with 0x050A)
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2382] frontend 0/0 provides DVB-T,DVB-T2,DVB-C with QPSK,QAM16,QAM32,QAM64,QAM128,QAM256 ("Sony CXD2820R")
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2387] frontend 0/0 tuner thread started (pid=2382, tid=2387, prio=high)
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2382] cTimeMs: using monotonic clock (resolution is 1 ns)
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2387] cTimeMs: using monotonic clock (resolution is 1 ns)
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2382] probing /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2382] creating cDvbDevice
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2382] new device number 2
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey kernel: [ 284.167664] tda18271: RF tracking filter calibration complete
Mar 30 18:31:23 bogey vdr: [2388] device 1 section handler thread started (pid=2382, tid=2388, prio=low)
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Dmytro Iatskyi

Ok, I tried raspbian-ua-netinstall, but during building from CrazyCat repo it returns constant error about lack of memory and kills git process and then stops, although I left the largest amount of memory for RAM. Strange thing, because building process was ok on Jessie Lite with the same amount of memory.

The next step I'd like to make:

I have working LibreELEC image and I want to disable KODI startup on system boot. How can I do this?

mpmc

Dmytro Iatskyi wrote:
> Ok, I tried raspbian-ua-netinstall, but during building from CrazyCat repo it returns constant error about lack of memory and kills git process and then stops, although I left the largest amount of memory for RAM. Strange thing, because building process was ok on Jessie Lite with the same amount of memory.
>
> The next step I'd like to make:
>

> I have working LibreELEC image and I want to disable KODI startup on system boot. How can I do this?

Jessie Lite has swap space, an install using raspbian-ua-netinstall won't, See "this" to temporarily (or permanently) add your own.

Dmytro Iatskyi

Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> Dmytro Iatskyi wrote:
> > Ok, I tried raspbian-ua-netinstall, but during building from CrazyCat repo it returns constant error about lack of memory and kills git process and then stops, although I left the largest amount of memory for RAM. Strange thing, because building process was ok on Jessie Lite with the same amount of memory.
> >
> > The next step I'd like to make:
> >
> > I have working LibreELEC image and I want to disable KODI startup on system boot. How can I do this?
>

> Jessie Lite has swap space, an install using raspbian-ua-netinstall won't, See "this" to temporarily (or permanently) add your own.

Yes, must be it. Thank you, Mark!

But, nevertheless, how to switch off the KODI in LibreELEC?

Anthony Thomas

You can potentially run either of these two as a boot script (autostart.sh) to kill Kodi

systemctl stop kodi

killall kodi.bin

Graham H

sudo apt-get remove kodi might do it.

Anthony Thomas

Graham H wrote:

> sudo apt-get remove kodi might do it.

Not on Libreelec. It doesn't use the aptitude package system.

Graham H

Ah! That's one more reason to prefer OSMC ;)

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