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...

Felix Mann

I'm currently not at home, but there is a file called .version in the media_build folder (or one of its subfolders) that contains the kernel version that the modules compile against. You should update it with the version of the kernel on your Pi. But because the contents of the archive were built on x86 I'm not sure whether this will work for you. Please report back if changing the kernel version fixed the build for you. I originally intended to use this on a Pi 2 but gave up and moved to a NUC instead (I have dual tuner anyway).

Regards,

Felix

EDIT: the file to edit is: ./v4l/.version

Alexander E

After changing the version the build worked without any errors. Sadly Tvheadend still doesn't find the tuner. Probably because this is the x86 version as you said. Anyway thanks for your help.

Anthony Thomas

Is it present in /dev/dvb ?
Any dmesg errors or obvious pointers? Firmware required?
Also, how long did it take to compile on the Raspberry Pi? Which model are you using?
Ideally I want to try it on a Raspberry Pi but might use an old Atom/Ion system I have going spare.

Alexander E

Anthony Thomas wrote:

> Is it present in /dev/dvb ?

There seems to be no /dev/dvb

ls /dev/ autofs gpiochip1 loop7 pts ram8 tty11 tty25 tty39 tty52 tty9 vcs5 block gpiochip2 loop-control ram0 ram9 tty12 tty26 tty4 tty53 ttyAMA0 vcs6 btrfs-control gpiomem mapper ram1 random tty13 tty27 tty40 tty54 ttyprintk vcsa bus hwrng mem ram10 raw tty14 tty28 tty41 tty55 uhid vcsa1 cachefiles initctl memory_bandwidth ram11 rfkill tty15 tty29 tty42 tty56 uinput vcsa2 char input mmcblk0 ram12 serial1 tty16 tty3 tty43 tty57 urandom vcsa3 console kmsg mmcblk0p1 ram13 shm tty17 tty30 tty44 tty58 vc-cma vcsa4 cpu_dma_latency log mmcblk0p2 ram14 snd tty18 tty31 tty45 tty59 vchiq vcsa5 cuse loop0 mqueue ram15 stderr tty19 tty32 tty46 tty6 vcio vcsa6 disk loop1 net ram2 stdin tty2 tty33 tty47 tty60 vc-mem vcsm fb0 loop2 network_latency ram3 stdout tty20 tty34 tty48 tty61 vcs vhci fd loop3 network_throughput ram4 tty tty21 tty35 tty49 tty62 vcs1 watchdog full loop4 null ram5 tty0 tty22 tty36 tty5 tty63 vcs2 watchdog0 fuse loop5 ppp ram6 tty1 tty23 tty37 tty50 tty7 vcs3 xconsole gpiochip0 loop6 ptmx ram7 tty10 tty24 tty38 tty51 tty8 vcs4 zero

> Any dmesg errors or obvious pointers? Firmware required?

Seems to be the same as before.


dmesg

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.10.17-v7+ (pi@raspberrypi) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Raspbian 4.9.2-10) ) #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 22:47:20 CEST 2017
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fd034] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=10c5383d
[    0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt:Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 8 MiB at 0x3a800000
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 241664
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80c70000, node_mem_map b9faa000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 2124 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 241664 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 14 pages/cpu @b9f60000 s25664 r8192 d23488 u57344
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s25664 r8192 d23488 u57344 alloc=14*4096
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 239540
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: 8250.nr_uarts=0 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3dc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3f000000  dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=36931481-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 936272K/966656K available (7168K kernel code, 488K rwdata, 1912K rodata, 1024K init, 778K bss, 22192K reserved, 8192K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
    vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
    fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xbb800000 - 0xff800000   (1088 MB)
    lowmem  : 0x80000000 - 0xbb000000   ( 944 MB)
    modules : 0x7f000000 - 0x80000000   (  16 MB)
      .text : 0x80008000 - 0x80800000   (8160 kB)
      .init : 0x80b00000 - 0x80c00000   (1024 kB)
      .data : 0x80c00000 - 0x80c7a364   ( 489 kB)
       .bss : 0x80c7c000 - 0x80d3e8ac   ( 779 kB)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000]  Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 32.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[    0.000000] arm_arch_timer: Architected cp15 timer(s) running at 19.20MHz (phys).
[    0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x46d987e47, max_idle_ns: 440795202767 ns
[    0.000008] sched_clock: 56 bits at 19MHz, resolution 52ns, wraps every 4398046511078ns
[    0.000024] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 52ns
[    0.000347] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.001213] console [tty1] enabled
[    0.001259] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 38.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=192000)
[    0.001325] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.001708] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.001750] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.002751] Disabling cpuset control group subsystem
[    0.002938] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.003010] ftrace: allocating 22603 entries in 67 pages
[    0.054717] CPU0: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.054781] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.055226] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100034
[    0.056218] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.057040] CPU1: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.057046] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[    0.057805] CPU2: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.057812] CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 0, mpidr 80000002
[    0.058513] CPU3: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.058520] CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, socket 0, mpidr 80000003
[    0.058596] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[    0.058766] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (153.60 BogoMIPS).
[    0.058796] CPU: All CPU(s) started in HYP mode.
[    0.058822] CPU: Virtualization extensions available.
[    0.059644] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.072393] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 40 variant 3 rev 4
[    0.072732] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.072792] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.073365] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.074353] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.076576] DMA: preallocated 1024 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.085313] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[    0.085361] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[    0.085557] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[    0.087445] bcm2835-mbox 3f00b880.mailbox: mailbox enabled
[    0.087999] uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: could not find pctldev for node /soc/gpio@7e200000/uart0_pins, deferring probe
[    0.155341] bcm2835-dma 3f007000.dma: DMA legacy API manager at bb80f000, dmachans=0x1
[    0.157229] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.157415] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.157518] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.157637] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.164189] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2017-04-05 11:49
[    0.165623] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[    0.212600] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[    0.212709] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.212937] FS-Cache: Loaded
[    0.213207] CacheFiles: Loaded
[    0.225199] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.226144] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.226282] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.226493] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[    0.226610] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.226679] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.226908] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.227352] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.227384] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.227411] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.227439] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.228387] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a7 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[    0.230716] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=18 bucket_order=4
[    0.246312] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[    0.247243] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.247298] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.247326] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.249596] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
[    0.249757] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.249786] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.250060] io scheduler cfq registered
[    0.254555] gpio gpiochip1: GPIO chip parent is NULL
[    0.255390] gpio gpiochip2: GPIO chip parent is NULL
[    0.256082] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA memory fa910000
[    0.256130] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA channel 0 @ bb80f000
[    0.264813] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 82x26
[    0.273160] bcm2835-rng 3f104000.rng: hwrng registered
[    0.275452] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver
[    0.277723] vc-cma: vc_cma_base      = 0x00000000
[    0.279967] vc-cma: vc_cma_size      = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[    0.282111] vc-cma: vc_cma_initial   = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[    0.284370] vc-mem: phys_addr:0x00000000 mem_base=0x3dc00000 mem_size:0x3f000000(1008 MiB)
[    0.304019] brd: module loaded
[    0.315198] loop: module loaded
[    0.317207] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
[    0.319748] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[    0.321770] dwc_otg: version 3.00a 10-AUG-2012 (platform bus)
[    0.549847] Core Release: 2.80a
[    0.551786] Setting default values for core params
[    0.553799] Finished setting default values for core params
[    0.756204] Using Buffer DMA mode
[    0.758210] Periodic Transfer Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[    0.760369] Multiprocessor Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[    0.762545] OTG VER PARAM: 0, OTG VER FLAG: 0
[    0.764757] Dedicated Tx FIFOs mode
[    0.767250] WARN::dwc_otg_hcd_init:1058: FIQ DMA bounce buffers: virt = 0xba904000 dma = 0xfa904000 len=9024
[    0.771708] FIQ FSM acceleration enabled for :
Non-periodic Split Transactions
Periodic Split Transactions
High-Speed Isochronous Endpoints
Interrupt/Control Split Transaction hack enabled
[    0.783096] dwc_otg: Microframe scheduler enabled
[    0.783145] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:459: FIQ on core 1 at 0x8059fc78
[    0.785455] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:460: FIQ ASM at 0x8059ffe8 length 36
[    0.787781] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:486: MPHI regs_base at 0xbb87a000
[    0.790140] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: DWC OTG Controller
[    0.792459] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    0.794823] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: irq 62, io mem 0x00000000
[    0.797163] Init: Port Power? op_state=1
[    0.799417] Init: Power Port (0)
[    0.801796] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[    0.804108] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    0.806437] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[    0.808684] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.10.17-v7+ dwc_otg_hcd
[    0.810959] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 3f980000.usb
[    0.813989] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    0.816217] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    0.818891] dwc_otg: FIQ enabled
[    0.818895] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[    0.818899] dwc_otg: FIQ split-transaction FSM enabled
[    0.818911] Module dwc_common_port init
[    0.819144] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    0.821478] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    0.824628] bcm2835-wdt 3f100000.watchdog: Broadcom BCM2835 watchdog timer
[    0.827191] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=600000 max=1200000
[    0.829854] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    0.832172] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    0.834715] sdhost-bcm2835 3f202000.sdhost: could not get clk, deferring probe
[    0.837527] mmc-bcm2835 3f300000.mmc: could not get clk, deferring probe
[    0.840066] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    0.849802] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[    0.852457] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    0.855116] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    0.857608] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    0.860668] vchiq: vchiq_init_state: slot_zero = ba980000, is_master = 0
[    0.865183] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[    0.867748] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    0.870326] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    0.873146] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[    0.876336] registered taskstats version 1
[    0.879109] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
[    0.881604] [vc_sm_connected_init]: start
[    0.884518] [vc_sm_connected_init]: end - returning 0
[    0.892122] 3f201000.serial: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x3f201000 (irq = 87, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
[    0.898569] sdhost: log_buf @ ba907000 (fa907000)
[    0.975651] mmc0: sdhost-bcm2835 loaded - DMA enabled (>1)
[    0.978516] mmc-bcm2835 3f300000.mmc: mmc_debug:0 mmc_debug2:0
[    0.980947] mmc-bcm2835 3f300000.mmc: DMA channel allocated
[    1.035712] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501
[    1.098158] of_cfs_init
[    1.100524] of_cfs_init: OK
[    1.103243] Waiting for root device PARTUUID=36931481-02...
[    1.107831] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[    1.114295] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 0007
[    1.117336] mmcblk0: mmc0:0007 SL32G 29.0 GiB
[    1.121460]  mmcblk0: p1 p2
[    1.124676] random: fast init done
[    1.129410] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[    1.130334] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (2 bytes)
[    1.131882] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
[    1.133445] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
[    1.136259] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (7 bytes)
[    1.141022] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): write access will be enabled during recovery
[    1.227607] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
[    1.245662] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[    1.248018] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101
[    1.475907] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9514
[    1.478233] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    1.481329] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[    1.483681] hub 1-1:1.0: 5 ports detected
[    1.805650] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[    1.935892] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
[    1.938235] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    1.943173] smsc95xx v1.0.5
[    2.039414] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-3f980000.usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:5f:7b:84
[    2.335645] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    2.466236] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=02d5
[    2.468722] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    2.471158] usb 1-1.2: Product: Xbox USB Tuner
[    2.473635] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp.
[    2.476203] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 004391230915
[   24.139007] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): recovery complete
[   24.152828] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   24.157933] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
[   24.169452] devtmpfs: mounted
[   24.173773] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K
[   24.473873] systemd[1]: systemd 215 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ -SECCOMP -APPARMOR)
[   24.479720] systemd[1]: Detected architecture 'arm'.
[   24.604728] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   24.608837] Segment Routing with IPv6
[   24.611512] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ipv6'
[   24.615877] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <raspberrypi>.
[   24.618467] systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator.
[   24.621148] systemd[1]: Installed transient /etc/machine-id file.
[   24.981925] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit regenerate_ssh_host_keys.service, ignoring: Unit regenerate_ssh_host_keys.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
[   24.993235] systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[   24.998959] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[   25.004427] systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems (Pre).
[   25.280173] fuse init (API version 7.26)
[   25.607083] systemd-udevd[147]: starting version 215
[   25.897011] gpiomem-bcm2835 3f200000.gpiomem: Initialised: Registers at 0x3f200000
[   26.202699] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[   26.334211] brcmfmac: Firmware version = wl0: May 27 2016 00:13:38 version 7.45.41.26 (r640327) FWID 01-df77e4a7
[   26.397000] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[   26.826912] systemd-journald[143]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[   27.553222] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   27.553269] brcmfmac: power management disabled
[   28.104135] uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: no DMA platform data
[   28.216360] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap.  Priority:-1 extents:5 across:200700k SSFS
[   28.857887] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[   28.858187] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   29.287023] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   32.524478] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   32.524568] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   32.524574] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   32.524594] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   32.524608] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   32.524666] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   32.534857] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3
[   32.534868] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered
[   32.534873] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Three-wire (H5) registered
[   32.535033] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Broadcom registered
[   32.773569] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   32.773579] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   32.773597] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   92.565833] random: crng init done

> Also, how long did it take to compile on the Raspberry Pi? Which model are you using?

It just took a few minutes. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B?).

> Ideally I want to try it on a Raspberry Pi but might use an old Atom/Ion system I have going spare.

Anthony Thomas

Currently building on my atom/ion system....slowly.

In case I'm doing it wrong, is it just a case of extracting the media_build.tar, editing .version to my kernel version, make, sudo make install?

Anthony Thomas

I can confirm this is working!

System:
Asus EB1501
Intel Atom 330
2GB RAM
Ubuntu 17.04

Linux ION 4.10.0-24-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 14 08:14:34 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Not sure if required but I put the MN88472 firmware in /lib/firmware

http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/MN88472/02/latest/

Running minisatip to act as a satip server - feeding to TVH on another system. It presents DVB-C and DVB-T.

DVB-C is working well so far for me. Time to buy some more adapters.

Alexander E

Nice to hear that it's working for you on x86. So I have to find a way to build the media_build for arm. The MN88472 firmware didn't change anything.

mpmc

Just to say, I've spoken to crope/Antti Palosaari [the dev who wrote the Panasonic MN88472/3 driver on Linux for the Astrometa devices].

07:05:28 - crope: it basically needs TDA18250B tuner driver 07:05:45 - crope: usb-bridge and demod driver already exists 08:02:33 - crope: yeah, could be written "pretty" easily just taking usb sniffs. but it is still workload of week or two

I think he needs an xbox one to do any of that though, if anyone wants to help, contact him on freenode [He's in #linuxtv].

Felix Mann

Anthony Thomas wrote:

> Time to buy some more adapters.

From what I was told the driver is buggy and willnot work with multiple adapters of the same type (yet). Purchasing multiple adapters will probably result in only one of them working.

walterav from ubuntuforums wrote:
>this tuner should popup in tvheadend and work just out of the box, hotswap/unplug will crash the driver and multiple usb xbox tuners will not work since only the latest in numbering is usable by tvheadend. If you have 3 usb xbox tuners active and scan/mux on the last tuner it will end up with three times as much services as on a single tuner, like its leaking scan results from each other adapter into the last adapter

Anthony Thomas

Thanks for the info.

I've already ordered them, very cheap (~£6 each) so I'll check once they arrive.

I'm not using them directly with tvheadend so maybe it won't be an issue for me. I'm basically creating a satip server using minisatip, it'll just present (eventually) 4 DVB-C tuners to TVH on a separate system. Much like the 4 tuner DVB-S2 satip servers do. Time will tell, I'll feedback once I know.
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Anthony Thomas

Just a little update after 2 days of use.

Still going strong and very happy.

Seeing some occasional pixelation, but only on encrypted channels, so I think that's an oscam/ecm issue rather than tuner/driver/setup.

Will report back once my extra tuners arrive.

noggin

Are these tuners working for DVB-T and DVB-T2, or just DVB-C?

Felix Mann

Stephen Neal wrote:

> Are these tuners working for DVB-T and DVB-T2, or just DVB-C?

I have only tested DVB-C but the DVB-T tuner is exposed in tvheadend. Can't vouch for it actually working, unfortunately.

Anthony Thomas

I should be able to try both DVB-T and T2.

noggin

Anthony Thomas wrote:

> I should be able to try both DVB-T and T2.

Great - would be useful to know. Low cost T2 tuners are always worth knowing about, particularly if the drivers support multiple tuners.

Anthony Thomas

I can confirm using the driver from the media_build posted previously...

DVB-C - working
DVB-T - working

DVB-T2 - working

I'm in the UK - Winter Hill transmitter.

As mentioned previously, I am using this through minisatip on an x86_64 system, which is feeding a separate TVHeadend server.

Using a cheap non amplified aerial on the ground floor of my house I'm watching BBC HD channels with no dropout or pixelation.

Once the extra adapters arrive I'll confirm if multiple tuners work across DVB-C/T/T2.

Anything else anyone needs to know?

noggin

Anthony Thomas wrote:
> I can confirm using the driver from the media_build posted previously...
>
> DVB-C - working
> DVB-T - working
> DVB-T2 - working
>
> I'm in the UK - Winter Hill transmitter.
>
> As mentioned previously, I am using this through minisatip on an x86_64 system, which is feeding a separate TVHeadend server.
>
> Using a cheap non amplified aerial on the ground floor of my house I'm watching BBC HD channels with no dropout or pixelation.
>
> Once the extra adapters arrive I'll confirm if multiple tuners work across DVB-C/T/T2.
>

> Anything else anyone needs to know?

Great - thanks for this. Next to find out if the drivers are happy running multiple tuners. 3 x DVB-T2 will cover you for all UK T2 muxes. That and 3 x PS3 Play TVs and you have all 9 UK muxes (5 DVB-T, 3 DVB-T2, 1 DVB-T Local) so no clashes at all :)

Anthony Thomas

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with multiple tuners.

I have 4 in total, but only currently have 2 plugged in to test.

Using minisatip it presents 2xDVB-C and 2xDVB-T as expected - and this is shown correctly in TVHeadend.

It's not even a case of only one of the tuners working, none of them seem to work when there's two plugged in.

dmesg is full of....


[  266.586865] IF -> 4950000
[  267.654871] IF -> 4950000
[  268.710752] IF -> 4950000
[  269.766756] IF -> 4950000
[  270.822892] IF -> 4950000
[  271.878774] IF -> 4950000
[  272.934779] IF -> 4950000
[  274.010785] IF -> 4950000
[  275.098792] IF -> 4950000
[  276.166793] IF -> 4950000
[  277.222810] IF -> 4950000
[  278.278836] IF -> 4950000
[  279.354861] IF -> 4950000
[  280.442761] IF -> 4950000
[  281.530787] IF -> 4950000
[  282.598811] IF -> 4950000
[  283.674834] IF -> 4950000

Hopefully the driver can improve in time.

Felix Mann

Anthony Thomas wrote:
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with multiple tuners.
>
> I have 4 in total, but only currently have 2 plugged in to test.
>
> Using minisatip it presents 2xDVB-C and 2xDVB-T as expected - and this is shown correctly in TVHeadend.
>
> It's not even a case of only one of the tuners working, none of them seem to work when there's two plugged in.
>
> dmesg is full of....
> [...]
>

> Hopefully the driver can improve in time.

I also get similar output but fortunately for me that is not an indicator of the driver malfunctioning. Thanks for posting back with your findings. While expected, it is unfortunate to hear that the driver will need some more work to get it to support multiple tuners.

Anthony Thomas

I hadn't checked previously, but you're right, even in with one tuner I get the IF -> 4950000 message, but only one so far, rather than every second or two.

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