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The M9206 chip handles two demodulators and two tuners.
The M9206 chip handles two demodulators and two tuners.


The demodulators are located at i2c addresses 0x10 and 0x16.
The demodulators are located at 7-bit i2c addresses 0x08 and 0x0b.
The tuners are located at 7-bit i2c addresses 0x60 and 0x61.


With the latest driver from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~aapot/m920x
The tuners are located at i2c addresses 0xc0 and 0xc2.
both tuners are working fine.

Also, the device is probed twice, so it ends up as 4 adapters: /dev/dvb/adapter0 .. adapter3.


==== People who own such a device ====
==== People who own such a device ====

Revision as of 09:18, 10 May 2007

LifeView

LifeView

LifeView manufacture a variety of TV receivers for the consumer market and for OEMs (including the LR534 for Packard Bell).

LifeView TV Walker Twin | DVB-T USB Receiver

USB id: 10fd:0514 (cold - before firmware download)
USB id: 10fd:0513 (warm - after firmware download)

Status: Supported

Contains 2 tuners and 2 demodulators, and 1 remote control.

Works in kaffeine; dvbstream does not work (or wrong settings)

Images

  • Coming soon

LifeView LR534 mini-PCIe card

Status: Supported using the driver for LifeView TV Walker Twin below

USB id: 10fd:0513

Contains 1 tuner TDA8275 and 1 demodulator TDA10046. No remote control.

Images

LifeView LR535 mini-PCIe card

Status: Unknown - seeking information and pictures

USB id: 10fd:0535

Images

Lr535 a.jpg
Lr535 b.jpg

Gericom TV Tuner USB 2.0 (digital and analogue)

Status: Possibly usable, see nick-linuxtv at nick-andrew.net

USB id: 10fd:1505

Has an m9207.

Images

http://www.bttv-gallery.de/high/pict0003.jpg_gericom_lr505_10fd_1505_box_top_a.jpg

Technical Details

Used ICs

  • ULi M9206
  • TDA 10046A (2 of them in the TV Walker Twin)
  • TDA 8275a (2 of them in the TV Walker Twin)

Driver

Status

Supported and mostly working. Things which work include:

  • Device is recognised and two tuners and two demodulators are attached
  • Can play video streams using Kaffeine
  • Remote control initialisation and codes have been determined

Things which may not work include:

  • "scan" only finds some transponders (for Nick Andrew, at least)
  • Have not successfully used dvbstream yet

Technical Details

The M9206 chip handles two demodulators and two tuners.

The demodulators are located at 7-bit i2c addresses 0x08 and 0x0b. The tuners are located at 7-bit i2c addresses 0x60 and 0x61.

With the latest driver from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~aapot/m920x both tuners are working fine.

People who own such a device

Feel free to add yourself here, testers will always be needed!

Name Email
Nick Andrew nick-linuxtv at nick-andrew dot net (owns two LifeView TV Walker Twins)
Ketrox ketrox at no-limitz dot org (owns a mini-PCIe)
manhunt mike4004 at gmail dot com (owns a Gericom m9207-based analogue/digital receiver)
vguardiola victor d0t guardiola at gmail dot com (owns a LifeView 535)
pelrun pelrun at gmail dot com (owns one LifeView TV Walker Twin)