Just back to the OP. You had this unit working in your original setup. What have you changed in your current setup that might be preventing the new tuner working now. Have you changed the kernel or the Debian version. If so is it possible to revert to the original setup. It’s definitely pointing to a kernel issue.
R M
Kernel wise nothing changed, I had it shut down while there was no dongle plugged into it. I know what it might be though, I don't think I mentioned in the original post and should have done, this is a VM with USB passed through. Do you reckon VMware might be interfering?
Jonas Lang
R M
Hm that's interesting that it says don't install the B40 version, sadly no difference when I removed it, dmesg didn't like it not being there but still no joy with scanning.
Jonas Lang
R M wrote:
> Kernel wise nothing changed, I had it shut down while there was no dongle plugged into it. I know what it might be though, I don't think I mentioned in the original post and should have done, this is a VM with USB passed through. Do you reckon VMware might be interfering?
Was it originally set up as a VM.
R M
Yes it was. It's also been moved onto different hardware in the past without issue.
Jonas Lang
Does the tuner appear in your Guest OS.
R M
Yes, so the Debian box is the guest system, appears fine and VMware recognises it as a PCTV stick as well.
Jonas Lang
You’re definitely sure your original tuner was dead. Is there a chance your current tuner is a bad one. I’m just trying to rule out the obvious before you go digging any further. I don’t use VM but it appears your setup is ok. As a matter of interest is there a particular reason for using VM.
R M
Yeah it was toast. I tried plugging it into different machines and they couldn't even detect it. No idea what happened but it was toast. I have a couple of other systems running as VMs already so spinning up another one made more sense than buying new hardware!
Jonas Lang
It’s puzzling alright. I have a dedicated Ubuntu HTPC running with a Hauppauge HVR4000 hybrid PCI card which only runs either in DVBS or DVBT. Wasn’t easy to set up originally but it’s worked through many OS and kernel upgrades with a bit of work.
I’ve never had the need to try a VM but I imagine having your tuner work on a previously similar setup only to find the same replacement doesn’t is certainly puzzling. Might be worth starting from scratch and see what progress you make. As I don’t use a VM I can’t even do a like for like Test for you.
Saen Acro
There is nothing new, someone to remove or destroy support for some devices in newer kernels.
I have 2 usb tuners, with stop to work after kernel 4.13 but work in Windows.
Maby case is same, try Open/LibreELEC with have kernel with patches for lot of tuners.
