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...

Olli Salonen

I've got the driver ready and locking for DVB-T and DVB-T2 streams here at home, but do not have a DVB-C available. I'll clean it up a bit and post it on Github if someone wants to have a go.

Tux user, I didn't get any/your message on IRC?

Anthony Thomas

More than happy to try for DVB-C.

Josu Lazkano

Olli Salonen wrote:
> I've got the driver ready and locking for DVB-T and DVB-T2 streams here at home, but do not have a DVB-C available. I'll clean it up a bit and post it on Github if someone wants to have a go.
>

> Tux user, I didn't get any/your message on IRC?

Hi Olli,

I just buy one of this devices.

When it arrive, I could share a raspberry pi SSH root device connected to DVB-C if you want.

Kind regards.

mpmc

I've also now bought two of the tuners from Amazon & I'm more than happy to try them too!

Would love to know where I can get your driver from Olli!

Olli Salonen

Good evening gents,

The driver has now been pushed to Github. I'd be happy for all kinds of reports when it comes to the driver. It builds fine under kernel 4.12 using the latest media_build.

https://github.com/trsqr/media_tree/tree/xboxone

Something like this should work for the compilation:

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
make dir DIR=../media
make distclean

make

In any case, after you have successfully installed the driver, I'd like to ask you to enable debugging. Don't modprobe the dvb-usb-dib0700 first, but instead:

sudo modprobe tda18250
sudo sh -c 'echo "filetda18250 +pfml" > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control'

sudo modprobe dvb-usb-dib0700

The tda18250 uses the "new" kernel dynamic debugging, so you can enable it by modifying the dynamic debug control file. Note that that only works if you have debugfs compiled into your setup, but most modern Linux distros do have it.

Have fun!

Olli Salonen

So far so good. Here's a hint for Tvheadend users watching DVB-T2 broadcasts. For some reason in the mux configuration I had PLP ID -1 which resulted in a failed scan. However, when I changed that number to 0, the muxes were fine. The PLP is handled by the demodulator (and I did not touch the demod driver at all), so I think this same thing exists with the other driver as well...

mpmc

Olli Salonen wrote:

> So far so good. Here's a hint for Tvheadend users watching DVB-T2 broadcasts. For some reason in the mux configuration I had PLP ID -1 which resulted in a failed scan. However, when I changed that number to 0, the muxes were fine. The PLP is handled by the demodulator (and I did not touch the demod driver at all), so I think this same thing exists with the other driver as well...

Can your driver be used with more than one of the tuners? I have two on the way!

Olli Salonen

I don't see why not, but then again, I've got only one tuner. :)

I submitted the PLP fix for both MN88472 and MN88473 to the linux-media mailing list already (https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg116405.html). I'll wait for some test reports from you guys before doing the same for the TDA18250 and the Xbox tuner driver.

Anthony Thomas

Olli - just tried to build


/home/ion/xboxolli/media_build/v4l/cec-pin.c:20:31: fatal error: linux/sched/types.h: No such file or directory
 #include <linux/sched/types.h>
                               ^
compilation terminated.
scripts/Makefile.build:294: recipe for target '/home/ion/xboxolli/media_build/v4l/cec-pin.o' failed
make[3]: *** [/home/ion/xboxolli/media_build/v4l/cec-pin.o] Error 1
Makefile:1524: recipe for target '_module_/home/ion/xboxolli/media_build/v4l' failed
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/ion/xboxolli/media_build/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-26-generic'
Makefile:51: recipe for target 'default' failed
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ion/xboxolli/media_build/v4l'
Makefile:26: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Olli Salonen

Anthony,

Which kernel is that and did you git clone the latest media_build? CEC was just added and there might be some issues there...

Anthony Thomas

Olli Salonen wrote:
> Anthony,
>

> Which kernel is that and did you git clone the latest media_build? CEC was just added and there might be some issues there...

Kernel

Linux ION 4.10.0-26-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 27 09:30:12 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I used your instructions above which included git cloning the latest media build.

Olli Salonen

I think there's a chance that you don't have the kernel headers installed. Media_build cannot work without them...

I just tried on a box running Ubuntu with kernel 4.8.0-56 and it compiled just fine. Did only copy-paste the commands from the post above.

What does the following command tell you?
dpkg -l | grep linux-headers

Anthony Thomas

ion@ION:~/xboxolli/media_build$ dpkg -l | grep linux-headers ii linux-headers-4.10.0-19 4.10.0-19.21 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.10.0 ii linux-headers-4.10.0-19-generic 4.10.0-19.21 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.10.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-headers-4.10.0-24 4.10.0-24.28 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.10.0 ii linux-headers-4.10.0-24-generic 4.10.0-24.28 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.10.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-headers-4.10.0-26 4.10.0-26.30 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.10.0 ii linux-headers-4.10.0-26-generic 4.10.0-26.30 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.10.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-headers-4.12.2-041202 4.12.2-041202.201707150832 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.12.2 ii linux-headers-4.12.2-041202-generic 4.12.2-041202.201707150832 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.12.2 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-headers-generic 4.10.0.26.28 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers

I've just installed 4.12.2 so I'm going to give it a go on that.

Anthony Thomas

Anthony Thomas wrote:
> [...]
>

> I've just installed 4.12.2 so I'm going to give it a go on that.

Not finished building yet but is has made it past the CEC drivers, so hopefully it will be ok.

Anthony Thomas

Olli - fantastic work.

After some initial testing I have just streamed 4 separate HD channels across 4 tuners!

I have a separate system running minisatip with the 4 tuners attached. That then feeds a TVH server on the network.

https://tvheadend.org/attachments/download/5535/Screenshot%20from%202017-07-30%2019-39-04.png

https://tvheadend.org/attachments/download/5536/Screenshot%20from%202017-07-30%2019-39-38.png

Olli Salonen

Thank you Anthony for testing this! Really happy to see that a) DVB-C works and b) multiple tuners in the same system works.

Low Gravity

Hello,
running HTS Tvheadend 4.2.2-32 ~ LibreELEC Tvh-addon v8.1.111 on Linux LibreELEC 4.9.29 x86_64 and wanna know how to get the XBox TV Tuner up and running. May someone could post a little howto for noobs like me?:)

Olli Salonen

The only way to add drivers into LibreELEC (or OpenELEC) is to compile the whole LibreELEC again with a special patch that adds support for the tuner. I will create such a patch once I'm confident that the driver is working properly and I'm satisfied with it. Then I can compile an LE version with this patch included and place it somewhere for download.

So, please wait for a few days and watch this space. :)

Christian Cooperhill

Nvm, will try later tonight.

Andras Farago

Olli, same result here, drivers is working. System: Raspberry pi3, kernel version: 4.9.35-v7+. Two xbox tuners working simultaneously.
Three problems(?):
# Sometimes it shows 9dB for SNR (but I think it is the demodulator which measures the SNR),
# I have problem with two frequencies (121,5 and 128,5 MHz, both QAM256, symbol rate 6000) where the signal strength is good, but a lot of continuity and transport error, but the 114,5MHz and 135,5MHz mux is good.

# Not so good SNR values (for smooth playback HD channels 36dB SNR needed)

Is it possible to make the driver to get the signal strength and SNR datas from the tda18250?

!xbox_DVBC1.JPG!

To Anthony: Why do you use a Satip server and a tvheadend server? Just only a tvheadend server not enough? (Just asking, never used a satip server, yet.)

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