Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter"

Thomas König

Hi all!

I hope someone can shed some light on this problem.

"lspci | grep Multimedia" gives this:

"00:10.0 Multimedia controller: Digital Devices GmbH Octopus CI DVB Adapter"

But somehow it doesn't show up in Tvheadend.

I've spent hours googling around trying to find a guide on how to set this up (as I am very inexperienced with both Tvheadend and linux) but I have not found something that can solve this.

mpmc

As a test run this..

sudo service stop tvheadend sudo /usr/bin/tvheadend -c /tmp/tvhtest --noacl

If they show up when running tvh as root it's a permissions issue, the user tvh is running as needs to be in the video group.

sudo usermod -aG video hts

replace hts with whatever user tvh is running as.

also check dmesg for errors.

Thomas König

No didn't do much.

Could it be that a driver is not installed?

According to Digital Devices site the Linux kernel starting with 4.17 should have the drivers built in.
I'm asking this as I'm not seeing a as "/dev/dvb" doesn't seem to exist.

mpmc

Thomas König wrote:
> No didn't do much.
>
> Could it be that a driver is not installed?
>
> According to Digital Devices site the Linux kernel starting with 4.17 should have the drivers built in.

> I'm asking this as I'm not seeing a as "/dev/dvb" doesn't seem to exist.

in dmesg, you should see the devices "register", if not you're missing the required driver.
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Thomas König

Not very good at Linux as I mentioned earlier, but...

I have these two lines in dmesg:

[ 0.103958] pci 0000:00:10.0: [dd01:0011] type 00 class 0x048000

[ 0.108251] pci 0000:00:10.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0xfea50000-0xfea5ffff 64bit]

I'm only assuming that those are the ones I should be looking for as the numbers 00:10.0 are the same as those listed with lspci

mpmc

Nah, you should see something like.

"registering adapter foo".

Thomas König

Yeh, this is my bad.

Thank you for your quick support though.

I didn't much enough attention when installing debian, I took the latest and just assumed it should use a rather new kernel but I was wrong (Debian stretch is on kernel 4.9)

The drivers are not included in that kernel, but I also stated wrong kernel which includes the drivers it should be 4.14 not 4.17 (just for clarification)

So to use a kernel with support out of the box I must install Ubuntu 18.4, wich on the other hand does not have any official repo for tvheadend.

Compromises compromises... :-)

mpmc

Thomas König wrote:
> Yeh, this is my bad.
>
> Thank you for your quick support though.
>
>
> I didn't much enough attention when installing debian, I took the latest and just assumed it should use a rather new kernel but I was wrong (Debian stretch is on kernel 4.9)
> The drivers are not included in that kernel, but I also stated wrong kernel which includes the drivers it should be 4.14 not 4.17 (just for clarification)
>
> So to use a kernel with support out of the box I must install Ubuntu 18.4, wich on the other hand does not have any official repo for tvheadend. >

> Compromises compromises... :-)

The third party ppa is just as good as the main repo :)
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