PixelView PlayTV USB SBTVD
An ISDB-T USB device from PixelView.
It is supported under Linux.
Overview/Features
Components Used
Identification
lsusb - vendor/product id:
ID 1554:5010 Prolink Microsystems Corp.
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Making it Work (generic for all dib0700)
Firmware
August 21, 2008 - New firmware file fixing the last cause for i2c errors and disconnects and providing a new, more modular i2c request formatting.
You will need the dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw firmware file in /lib/firmware or the relevant place for your distribution.
You may need to change the name of the file to dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw or create a link until the driver code reflects that change.
For archival purposes: dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw firmware file
August 29,2008 - Issues with Firmware 1.20. Some issues have been found with the latest version of the firmware. Users may wish to continue to use 1.10 unless they have patched their v4l-dvb code with dib0700_new_i2c_api.patch.
November 15,2008 - Issues with Firmware 1.20.
- The above mentioned dib0700_new_12c_api.patch is not available discretely but is now rolled into the mercurial drivers
dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw firmware fileis now stable for reception, but remote control functionality is broken; any key press is repeated until the next key is pressed. The only way to get remote control functionality presently is to roll back to 1.10 firmware and suffer the occasional disconnect.- The mercurial drivers have been changed so they now load 1.20 firmware. To revert to 1.10 firmware you need to rename your firmware file to dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw or provide a link of that name.
- To avoid spurious remote control signals with 1.20 firmware, you need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/options or from Ubuntu onwards /etc/modprobe.d/options.confand add:
options dvb_usb disable-rc-polling=1
November 28,2008 - i2c errors. Changes were made to the remote control drivers on November 16,2008 to correct the repeat key problem. The card is generally stable for dual tuner reception and remote control function with Firmware 1.20.
November 10,2009 - mt2060 I2C write failed. Possible regression of a driver bug raised against Ubuntu running 2.6.27-14 and 2.6.31-2.17 causing mt2060 I2C errors in MythTV useage with firmware 1.20. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/397696 Recommend check the kernel extensions listed here for Low Noise Activation and rc_polling are loaded with correct config file name for your distribution, EIT listings information is turned off until a suitable delay (500ms-1000ms)is added to a single card (not both) and the card has correctly been added to the database as two tuners (no additional NULL entries) in the mythtv recordcard table.
Drivers
It requires the dib0700 driver. Just use Mercurial by following the How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers instructions.
Forcing the activation of LNAs (Low Noise Amplifier)
You may have to force LNA to get this card working:
In /etc/modprobe.d/options add:
options dvb_usb_dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
Disabling the remote control sensor
You may want to disable the remote control sensor if you are using another one and want to avoid error messages in the logs:
In /etc/modprobe.d/options add:
options dvb_usb disable_rc_polling=1
All relevant kernel modules options
In /etc/modprobe.d/options add:
options [module name] [option name]=[setting]
Get the parameters list using
modinfo [name of kernel module]
The debug values are bit fields, with each bit representing a different category. Add values to turn on multiple debugging categories.
dib3000mc
- debug
- Turn on debugging
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (off)
- buggy_sfn_workaround
- Enable work-around for buggy SFNs
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (disabled)
mt2060
- debug
- Turn on debugging
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (off)
dvb_usb_dib0700
- force_lna_activation
- Force the activation of LNAs (Low Noise Amplifier), if applicable for the device
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (automatic/off)
- dvb_usb_dib0700_ir_proto
- Set IR protocol
- Values: integer 0=NEC, 1=RC5, 2=RC6
- Default: 1
- debug
- Set debugging level
- Values: integer (bitmap) 1=info, 2=fw, 4=fwdata, 8=data
- Default: 0 (none)
dvb_usb
- debug
- Set debugging level
- Values: integer (bitmap) 1=info, 2=xfer, 4=pll, 8=ts, 16=err, 32=rc, 64=fw, 128=mem, 256=uxfer
- Default: 0 (none)
- disable_rc_polling
- Disable remote control polling
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (enabled)
- force_pid_filter_usage
- Force all DVB USB devices to use a PID filter, if any
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (disabled)
dvb_core
- dvb_net_debug
- Enable debug messages
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (disabled)
- frontend_debug
- Turn on frontend core debugging
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (off)
- dvb_shutdown_timeout
- Wait n seconds after close() before suspending hardware
- Values: integer
- Default: 0
- dvb_force_auto_inversion
- Set whether INVERSION_AUTO is forced on
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (off)
- dvb_override_tune_delay
- Wait n milliseconds for lock after a tuning attempt
- Values: integer
- Default: 0
- dvb_powerdown_on_sleep
- Turn LNB power off on sleep
- Values: integer
- Default: 1 (enabled)
- cam_debug
- Enable verbose debug messages
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (off)
- debug
- Turn on debugging
- Values: integer
- Default: 0
- dvbdev_debug
- Turn on device debugging
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (off)
dibx000_common
- debug
- Turn on debugging
- Values: integer
- Default: 0 (off)
Remote control support
Using evdev
As long as the evdev module is loaded, a remote that is recogniced as hid device will be treated as a usb keyboard and this means that you can avoid using lirc.
However, many of the keys on your remote may generate keycodes which are not mapped to anything, by default.
In X you can use xev to find the keycodes and xmodmap to map them to useful symbols. Unfortunately, some keys may generate keycodes that X doesn't recognize at all and the device does not support keymaps, or this would be easy to fix.
Using LIRC
Usually remote controls in linux are managed by the lirc software collection.
To get lirc up and running you need to configure some things.
- Settings for the hardware
- Where does lirc get its input from? aka. the DEVICE. E.g. /dev/input/event3
- How to handle the input? aka. the DRIVER. E.g. devinput
- Settings for mapping driver output generated by your remote (a bunch of hex numbers) to key names (something like 0..9, Volume+, Next, Record)
- Settings for mapping key presses to actions (usually located in your .lircrc)
Mythubuntu case
On mythubuntu 10.10, you just have to add this line in /etc/udev/rules.d/65-persistent-hauppauge.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2040", ATTRS{idProduct}=="8400", SYMLINK+="lirc0"
Device/driver settings
Find the IR receiver's device by looking in the dmesg output for a line similar to:
input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input4
Additionally, the IR receiver will be listed if you execute the command:
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
For example:
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=2040 Product=9950 Version=0100 N: Name="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver" P: Phys=usb-0000:07:01.2-1/ir0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event4 B: EV=3 B: KEY=14afc336 284284d00000000 0 480058000 219040000801 9e96c000000000 90020000000ffd
In this example, the remote control gives output into /dev/input/event4.
The event number depends on your particular system and can vary.
Eventually this event number can even vary at every reboot.
You could create a new udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/65-persistent-hauppauge.rules.
KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{name}=="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver", SYMLINK+="input/dvb-ir"
This would make IR receivers handled by the usb_dvb framework always always be linked to /dev/input/dvb-ir.
But Linux systems running recent udev will automatically create non-varying names, a nicer and automatic way of providing a stable input event name:
$ ls -la /dev/input/by-path/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 2008-02-07 20:31 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 280 2008-02-07 20:31 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-0000:00:1a.1-usb-0:2:1.0-event-kbd -> ../event1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-0000:00:1a.1-usb-0:2:1.1-event-mouse -> ../event2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-0000:00:1a.1-usb-0:2:1.1-mouse -> ../mouse1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-4-1--event-ir -> ../event4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 platform-pcspkr-event-spkr -> ../event3
LIRC will use it without needing a special kernel module. use the dev/input (or devinput. Check this with the command "lircd --device=help".) driver and specify the input event device in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf # # Arguments which will be used when launching lircd LIRCD_ARGS="" #Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file #START_LIRCMD=false #Try to load appropriate kernel modules LOAD_MODULES=true # Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers. DRIVER="dev/input" # If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be # automatically used instead REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-path/pci-4-1--event-ir" MODULES="" # Default configuration files for your hardware if any LIRCD_CONF="/etc/lirc/lircd.conf" LIRCMD_CONF=""
If you have REMOTE and TRANSMITTER sections in your hardware.conf file, they should look like this:
#Chosen Remote Control REMOTE="Terratec Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity" REMOTE_MODULES="" REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput" REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-path/pci-1-5-event-ir" REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="/etc/lirc/lircd.conf" REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""
#Chosen IR Transmitter TRANSMITTER="None" TRANSMITTER_MODULES="" TRANSMITTER_DRIVER="" TRANSMITTER_DEVICE="" TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF="" TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""
Remote key setup
See device specific section below or try [1].
Sample .lircrc
A sample .lircrc can be found LircrcExample here.
Keys repeated twice
But there is still the problem of the key repeats for it, so that each keypress will be repeated twice. The patches, as mentioned above, may not work, but a workaround is possilbe. It is described in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4253678
Simply add config = echo " > /dev/null before the main config in .mythtv/lircrc or .lircrc
begin prog = mythtv button = Mute config = echo " > /dev/null config = | ... end
So each 2nd keypress will be suppressed. This works in some application but not others (e.g. vlc).
Alternatively there is a patch for the kernel driver that solves it, it can be found here.
Finally if that doesn't work and you have the silver remote (A415-HPG-WE-A ) then changing the lircd.conf line as follows can prevent the duplicate key presses. This has the side-effect of disabling key repeats for the remote entirely. Change toggle_bit_mask 0x80000000 to toggle_bit_mask 0x00000000
Note: do not try to comment out (using #) any line in this file, or lirc won't work anymore.
Do NOT do this:
#toggle_bit_mask 0x80000000 toggle_bit_mask 0x00000000
Replace the original line instead.