Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner

noggin · 2014-10-21T15:38:04+00:00

Hi all This looks like it could be very good value if Open Source drivers appear for it : http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/accessories/digital-tv-tuner#fb...

B W

I had to reinstall my raspberry again and ended up getting bits and pieces from all over the topic. For anyone trying to install this on a rpi, here's my install on a fresh raspbian:


Device: RaspberryPi 2
OS: 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y sudo reboot sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers sudo reboot sudo apt-get install libdigest-sha-perl make gcc git patch patchutils libproc-processtable-perl sudo reboot git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/trsqr/media_tree.git -b xboxone ./media cd media_build git reset --hard 9ccb87d make dir DIR=../media make distclean make sudo make install

At this point I was missing the .fw file. I'm not sure why, thought the media_build would have provided this? Anyhow, I grabbed it somewhere else:

cd /lib/firmware/ sudo wget http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/MN88472/02/latest/dvb-demod-mn88472-02.fw

Finally, install tvheadend itself. Not relevant to the topic, but you probably want this :-)


# install tvheadend
sudo apt-get install dirmngr
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/mpmc/deb raspbianstretch release-4.2" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tvheadend -y

sudo reboot

Erik Högström

Hi,

Where have you been all my life? :)

I will se if the last attempt I tried did the trick otherwise I will try your suggestion...

Regarding TvHeadend I'm already up and running... that was the reason why I got myself a USB DVB tuner...

--- Update ----

My last attempt was not successful. Now there's not even any dvb usb output at all in the dmesg.... Do I need to start all over with a fresh install or what?

CvH

Btw you can use the normal media_build as well, the driver was merged some times ago.

> git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git
> cd media_build/
> ./build
>
> sudo reboot

B W

C vH wrote:
> Btw you can use the normal media_build as well, the driver was merged some times ago.
>
> > git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git
> > cd media_build/
> > ./build
> >

> > sudo reboot

Good to know! Are there any improvements worth recompiling for?

CvH

Besides the overall newer driver stack nothing worth to mention for the Xbox Stick.

Phil Hawker

In light of some of the posts above I've been experimenting with a minimal Media Build for this tuner on a Raspberry Pi 2B. After some serious pruning via "make menuconfig" I've reduced the "make" time from >4 hours / 593 modules down to 7 minutes / 32 modules (on a non-overclocked original Pi 2B), which could be worthwhile as the RPi people are about to bump the default kernel to 4.14, most likely to requiring the whole Media Build process to be repeated after the next major apt-get upgrade from their PPA. Note that this will produce a kernel media stack with ONLY support for this tuner (and perhaps some near-relatives), so if you need more extensive support, for example for DVB-S tuners, remote controls, CEC etc. then you will either need to select further options at the "make menuconfig" step or use the default full build process from CvH's post above. Note that trying to remove ALL Remote Control support failed to produce a workable .config file for some reason, so the attached file is the least I could get to work.

I've attached the saved .config file from my menuconfig and provide detailed instructions below, assuming a build under Raspian Stretch Lite on a Pi2B using the default "pi" user. The starting point is a clean, up-to-date Raspbian Stretch Lite Micro-SD card (16GB in my case, although 2GB or more should work)

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install git git-man libdigest-sha-perl liberror-perl libncurses5-dev libproc-processtable-perl libtinfo-dev patchutils raspberrypi-kernel-headers sudo reboot git clone --depth=1 git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git cd media_build/linux make download make untar cd .. make distclean

Now create / copy the attached file "PiXboxMBConfig.txt" as "PiXboxMBconfig" into /home/pi/media_build/v4l/

Run "sudo make menuconfig", first <Load> PiXBoxMBconfig, make any changes if you want to add further support, then <Save> as ".config" (note the leading period!) and then <Exit>.

sudo make menuconfig make -j5 sudo make install cd /lib/firmware sudo wget http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/MN88472/02/latest/dvb-demod-mn88472-02.fw sudo reboot

And all should be working, with dmesg output after plugging in the tuner to a USB port looking something like:

[ 256.297050] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg [ 256.428185] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=02d5 [ 256.428202] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 256.428214] usb 1-1.2: Product: Xbox USB Tuner [ 256.428224] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp. [ 256.428235] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 004610010415 [ 256.485777] media: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 256.489024] media: Linux media interface: v0.10 [ 256.499082] WARNING: You are using an experimental version of the media stack. As the driver is backported to an older kernel, it doesn't offer enough quality for its usage in production. Use it with care. Latest git patches (needed if you report a bug to linux-media@vger.kernel.org): d83a8243aaefe62ace433e4384a4f077bed86acb media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: don't copy back the result for certain errors [ 256.515090] WARNING: You are using an experimental version of the media stack. As the driver is backported to an older kernel, it doesn't offer enough quality for its usage in production. Use it with care. Latest git patches (needed if you report a bug to linux-media@vger.kernel.org): d83a8243aaefe62ace433e4384a4f077bed86acb media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: don't copy back the result for certain errors [ 256.565052] dvb-usb: found a 'Microsoft Xbox One Digital TV Tuner' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [ 256.569453] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw' [ 256.678032] dib0700: firmware started successfully. [ 257.197240] dvb-usb: found a 'Microsoft Xbox One Digital TV Tuner' in warm state. [ 257.197634] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 257.197836] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (Microsoft Xbox One Digital TV Tuner) [ 257.197867] usb 1-1.2: media controller created [ 257.200214] dvbdev: dvb_create_media_entity: media entity 'dvb-demux' registered. [ 257.470630] mn88472 3-0018: Panasonic MN88472 successfully identified [ 257.485709] tda18250 3-0060: NXP TDA18250BHN/M successfully identified [ 257.489261] usb 1-1.2: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Panasonic MN88472)... [ 257.489323] dvbdev: dvb_create_media_entity: media entity 'Panasonic MN88472' registered. [ 257.492239] dvb-usb: Microsoft Xbox One Digital TV Tuner successfully initialized and connected. [ 257.492784] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700

Note that the MN88472 firmware (which you still need to manually retrieve, as in the wget above) doesn't get downloaded to the stick until an application attempts to use it.

CvH

> git clone --depth=1 git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git
> git clone --depth=1 git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git
> cd media_build/linux

> make tar DIR=/home/pi/media_tree

you can remove the dl of the media_tree (that takes for ever to download at an rpi)

> git clone --depth=1 git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git
> cd media_build/linux

> make download

does exactly the same with just an 8mb download :)

Phil Hawker

That's even better! - I was just, rather slavishly, following the instructions at https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers

I'll edit my post to reflect this

Thanks :)

Anthony Thomas

That's a fantastic bit of work.

I'm running a number of tuners on a low power Intel Atom system, which meant compilation also took ages.

Has there been any improvements over time to improve the drivers for the sensitivity of these tuners?

Because I still suffer from some breakups and pixelisation.

CvH

> I'll edit my post to reflect this
you need still
> make untar

Phil Hawker

C vH wrote:
> > I'll edit my post to reflect this
> you need still

> > make untar

Updated...

Thanks (again...)(/)

Phil Hawker

Anthony Thomas wrote:
> That's a fantastic bit of work.

> I'm running a number of tuners on a low power Intel Atom system, which meant compilation also took ages.

Note that I've reduced the setting for Max Devices from 8 down to 2 in the menuconfig - easy to increase again if you need to.

> Has there been any improvements over time to improve the drivers for the sensitivity of these tuners?

> Because I still suffer from some breakups and pixelisation.

That's interesting! I was getting similar problems from another of these tuners attached to a Slice (Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 based media player) running Tvheadend under LibreELEC which vanished when I upgraded to the most recent LE release. The Release Notes pointed to this post: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/4235-dvb-issue-since-le-switched-to-kernel-4-9-x/?postID=75965#post75965 which suggests a more generic problem with USB tuners on recent Linux kernels. It doesn't look like the fix is straightforward, but also may be nothing to do with the Xbox stick drivers. The Xbox tuner I have attached to my x86 (also Atom) system is only serving low bitrate Radio streams and behaves faultlessly, perhaps due to the low traffic level.

CvH

> I was getting similar problems from another of these tuners attached to a Slice running Tvheadend under LibreELEC

LE 8.2.3 fixed that particular problem - idk if this helps at the Xbox Stick

Anthony Thomas

That works great, makes life much easier to setup some Xbox tuners on another system.

Any idea which modules to enable in the .config file for an Astrometa DVB-C/T2 tuner based...
Realtek RTL2832P
Panasonic MN88473

Rafael Micro R828D

Works out of the box normally, but obviously the minimal config disables it.

Edit - actually ignore that, I added mn88473 to the file and maybe that worked.
Either way, the tuner is now showing.

Phil Hawker

C vH wrote:
> > I was getting similar problems from another of these tuners attached to a Slice running Tvheadend under LibreELEC
>

> LE 8.2.3 fixed that particular problem - idk if this helps at the Xbox Stick

It made a big difference in my case - using the Xbox stick on 8.2.2 I was getting some pixellation and recordings onto the Slice Hard Disk, especially HD recordings, would always get multiple TVH Transport Errors. After 8.2.3 upgrade it plays and records with no errors at all. After reading the thread linked above I'm not sure there is a definitive, universal solution to the problem but the workaround in LE 8.2.3 seems effective, at least as a stopgap until a more permanent cure is in place.

B W

How would we apply this patch on raspbian? I see it's already present in the 4.14 kernel on git, but afaik not in the master branch, so I can't grab it with rpi-update.

CvH

recompile your kernel :)

Ryan Blackburn

Hi guys, I've been following this thread off and on for the past 6 months and finally installed the tuner in my original rpi model 'b'. A big thanks to all the guides on here, it took ages to compile but it got there in the end. Also installed minisatip and my tvheadend server found the Xbox tuner straight away. My only problem is that when I scan cable (vm) channels it doesn't find anything. Are there any particular settings I need to enter.

Anthony Thomas

Ryan Blackburn wrote:

> Hi guys, I've been following this thread off and on for the past 6 months and finally installed the tuner in my original rpi model 'b'. A big thanks to all the guides on here, it took ages to compile but it got there in the end. Also installed minisatip and my tvheadend server found the Xbox tuner straight away. My only problem is that when I scan cable (vm) channels it doesn't find anything. Are there any particular settings I need to enter.

Have you added an initial known working mux?

That is usually what is required then it will discover the rest of the muxes automatically.

You might need to do a search for some mux lists for other set-top-boxes and go from there. They usually differ per region, but if you find a working mux you should be good to go.

Also, if you get it working, let me know how well HD channels work in terms of occasional pixelisation.

Ryan Blackburn

I've scanned a known frequency, that i've got coming through on my stb, is that not enough?

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