failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103

Tom Park

Hi Everyone,

I wonder if you anyone has seen the error "failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103". I have had this working in the past on an older version of Raspberry Pi (can't remember the version). I recently decided to start looking at this again as we get poor Digital TV Signal where we are. Our only option is Freesat.

I remember in the past that I had to connect the DVB-S Tuner, then connect power, then connect USB. Just in case I have miss remembered this I have tried to connect in different order such as USB, Power, the boot the Raspberry Pi and so on. I do not remember getting any errors like this when I had this etup in the past however this time around it seams to be a bit more complicated. I would like to get this working to experiment with using TVHeadend with PLEX. I already have a HDHomeRun which gets me the basic channels locally but unfortunately for the rest I need to sue a Satellite dish.

2023-10-21 17:02:59.264 mpegts: 10714.25H in Freesat - tuning on Montage Technology M88DS3103 #0 : DVB-S #0 2023-10-21 17:02:59.297 diseqc: failed to disable tone 2023-10-21 17:02:59.297 mpegts: 10744H in Freesat - tuning on Montage Technology M88DS3103 #0 : DVB-S #0 2023-10-21 17:02:59.298 diseqc: failed to disable tone

Extract from logs


2023-10-21 17:21:13.787 [   INFO]:mpegts: 10714.25H in Freesat - tuning on Montage Technology M88DS3103 #0 : DVB-S #0
2023-10-21 17:21:13.841 [  ERROR]:diseqc: failed to disable tone

Nothing before and nothing after.

Any help or advise anyone can offer would be appreciated.

Regards,
Tom

Erick Alonso

Hi!

I have the same problem on a new Pi5

I managed to get it to work a year or so ago on a Pi4, but for the life of me I cant remember how!! I know we have to save the firwmare onto /lib/firmware which I have done for the pi5, but still no go.

I will try to copy the firmware from pi4 to pi5 tonight as on the pi5 I used a version from the internet - maybe that's causing problems

let me know if you got it to work and how

Regards,

Erick Alonso

Tom Park wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I wonder if you anyone has seen the error "failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103". I have had this working in the past on an older version of Raspberry Pi (can't remember the version). I recently decided to start looking at this again as we get poor Digital TV Signal where we are. Our only option is Freesat.
>
> I remember in the past that I had to connect the DVB-S Tuner, then connect power, then connect USB. Just in case I have miss remembered this I have tried to connect in different order such as USB, Power, the boot the Raspberry Pi and so on. I do not remember getting any errors like this when I had this etup in the past however this time around it seams to be a bit more complicated. I would like to get this working to experiment with using TVHeadend with PLEX. I already have a HDHomeRun which gets me the basic channels locally but unfortunately for the rest I need to sue a Satellite dish.
>
> [...]
>
> Extract from logs
> [...]
> Nothing before and nothing after.
>
> Any help or advise anyone can offer would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,

> Tom

Tom, I've managed to get it to work without issues,

had to update the same version of firmware I had on the pi4. luckily i didnt wipe the SSD before grabbing the file.

let me know if you need it or if you are still stuck.

magix

Hi @Erick Alonso
I have the same problem! Can you help me out? What firmware are you using? Can I download it somewhere?

Thank you very much in advance.

Best,
magix

magix

I found the firmware on an old machine, and it is working now. I am not sure if the version of the firmware is important. My problem was, that I am using docker and added the firmware to the docker, but I had to add it to the host as well, and then I had to mount /usr/lib/firmware/.