LifeView FlyDVB-T Duo
LifeView presents the FlyDVB-T Duo!
User experiences
- The card runs fine with Fedora Core 6 and DVB-T. The analog receiving I did not try yet.
- With kubuntu 7.10, it works fine too, even watching analog TV. Tested with German cable TV.
- A problem I had, was to recognize, that I had to load '/sbin/modprobe saa7134_dvb' additional to '/sbin/modprobe saa7134', which was running fine. Afterwards the script http://www.fedoralinux.de/comment/reply/660/1605 helped a lot. Got the device major number with '/sbin/lsmod | grep saa'. Thanks!
- Working under Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. My experiences are listed in the mini-howto.
Mini-howto
Basically, everything 'works' out of the box, but actually getting access to things can be trickier.
FM Radio
Tuners like gradio, gnomeradio and radio work fine. Because the card doesn't have an audio out, it acts as a sound card. If you use alsa, use something like this to get output:
arecord -D hw:1,0 -r 32000 -c 2 -f S16_LE | aplay -
or:
arecord -D hw:1,0 -r 32000 -c 2 -f S16_LE | sox -q -c 2 -r 32000 -w -t wav - -t alsa default
What this does is record from the 2nd sound card (hw:1,0), and pipe the output into aplay (or sox) which'll play it on the default sound card. Note you'll need to set up the input to record from. Do this in GNOME mixer or via alsamixer
Remote Control
This is actually pretty straight forward. The kernel sees the remote as an input device and assigns it a location in /dev/input. Interestingly it also recognises it as a keyboard, and you can use it to type numbers 0-9 and enter. It also recognises SOME buttons as keyboard media buttons, e.g. the play/pause buttons, volup/voldown, mute, etc. This is pretty nifty, and if it's what you need, just go into the GNOME Keyboard Shortcuts app and assign keyboard shortcuts.
If you need more control, you can use LIRC. If you're compiling, you'll need support for devinput. Set it to the right event in the config file.
For the remote file (lircd.conf) I made my own (I couldn't find one in t'internet). Here it is:
# Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.8.3pre1(devinput) on Sat Oct 4 19:37:18 2008
#
# contributed by Barney Gale (Stormx)
#
# brand: LifeView
# devices being controlled by this remote: FlyDVB-T Duo (PCI)
#
begin remote
name flydvb-t_duo
bits 16
flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
eps 30
aeps 100
header 9000 4500
one 563 1687
zero 563 562
ptrail 563
repeat 9000 4500
pre_data_bits 16
pre_data 0x8001
gap 207854
toggle_bit_mask 0x8001001C
frequency 37916
duty_cycle 33
begin codes
1 0x0002
2 0x0003
3 0x0004
4 0x0005
5 0x0006
6 0x0007
7 0x0008
8 0x0009
9 0x000A
0 0x000B
enter 0x001C
mute 0x0071
voldown 0x0072
volup 0x0073
power 0x0074
timeshiftpause 0x0077
stop 0x0080
recall 0x0081
rewind 0x009E
forward 0x009F
playpause 0x00A4
recordpause 0x00A7
sap 0x0170
empty 0x0173
fullscreen 0x0174
pip 0x0175
tvradio 0x0181
source 0x0182
chanup 0x0192
chandown 0x0193
end 0x0197
back 0x019C
end codes
end remote
Then follow one of the hundreds of guides for setting up lircrc!
Note that running irw seems to block the input device, so if you want it to stop acting like a keyboard, just set "irw &" to run on startup!
Digital Input
TV Time doesn't pick anything up :( Both Kaffeine and Me-TV work fine. However, I'm only able to pick up a few channels, whereas over freeview boxes in the house pick up loads. Working to fix this
Update: It's only picking up Freeview band 1 broadcasts, I can't seem to figure out why :(
Kaffeine tuning output:
DvbCam::probe(): /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0: : No such file or directory Using DVB device 0:0 "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T to 706000000 Hz inv:2 bw:0 fecH:3 fecL:9 mod:1 tm:0 gi:0 hier:0 .. LOCKED. Transponders: 1/1 Reading SDT: pid=17 BBC NEWS: sid=4415 BBC Red Button: sid=4479 CBBC Channel: sid=4671 BBC ONE: sid=4163 BBC THREE: sid=4351 BBC TWO: sid=4227 Reading PAT: pid=0 Reading PMT: pid=4415 DVB SUB on BBC NEWS page_id: 1 anc_id: 1 lang: eng Reading PMT: pid=4479 Reading NIT: pid=16 Reading PMT: pid=4671 Reading PMT: pid=4163 DVB SUB on BBC ONE page_id: 1 anc_id: 1 lang: eng Reading PMT: pid=4351 DVB SUB on BBC THREE page_id: 1 anc_id: 1 lang: eng Reading PMT: pid=4227 DVB SUB on BBC TWO page_id: 1 anc_id: 1 lang: eng Reading NIT: pid=16 Frontend closed Using DVB device 0:0 "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T to 650166000 Hz inv:2 bw:0 fecH:2 fecL:1 mod:3 tm:0 gi:0 hier:0 .................................................. Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency Frontend closed dvbsi: Cant tune DVB Using DVB device 0:0 "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T to 626166000 Hz inv:2 bw:0 fecH:2 fecL:1 mod:3 tm:0 gi:0 hier:0 .................................................. Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency Frontend closed dvbsi: Cant tune DVB Using DVB device 0:0 "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T to 674166000 Hz inv:2 bw:0 fecH:3 fecL:3 mod:1 tm:0 gi:0 hier:0 .................................................. Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency Frontend closed dvbsi: Cant tune DVB Using DVB device 0:0 "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T to 658166000 Hz inv:2 bw:0 fecH:3 fecL:3 mod:1 tm:0 gi:0 hier:0 .................................................. Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency Frontend closed dvbsi: Cant tune DVB Using DVB device 0:0 "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T to 634166000 Hz inv:2 bw:0 fecH:3 fecL:3 mod:1 tm:0 gi:0 hier:0 .................................................. Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency Frontend closed dvbsi: Cant tune DVB Transponders: 6 dvbsi: The end :) Channels found: 0
Further details:
After a bit of hunting I found vista drivers! Yay! And I can confirm that vista picks up everything fine, so this is a software, not hardware problem. What I'm going to do now is delete existing channels and copy down data from the windows app, then transfer it into my channels list. I have a suspicion that the driver is fucked, and that it can't tune to a new frequency after tuning to the first one. Lame. Stay tuned!
Update: Just tried the above. Still can't lock onto the channel. me-tv log is:
Me TV-Message: 05/10/08 21:44:26 - Tuning to transponder at 647167000 ... Me TV-Message: 05/10/08 21:44:26 - Waiting for signal lock ... Me TV-Message: Exception message: 'Failed to lock to channel' Me TV-Message: 05/10/08 21:44:36 - Exception in static gboolean Application::on_timer(void*): Failed to lock to channel
Trying with dvbtune:
First, a frequency I know works! (mux 1):
$ dvbtune -f 706000000 Using DVB card "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 706000000 Hz polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC Bit error rate: 0 Signal strength: 38293 SNR: 65278 FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC
Second, a frequency which should work, but doesn't
$ dvbtune -f 650167000 Using DVB card "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 650167000 Hz polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: polling.... polling.... polling....
It just sits there polling. Occasionally I'll get a frontend event, but it'll only be FE_HAS_SIGNAL and ocassionally (in addition to that) FE_HAS_CARRIER. The command seems to continue forever... I left it for an hour. Contrast with the mux 1 frequency which completes in about 2 seconds.
Further investigation:
$ dvbstream -f 706000 -a 601 -v 600 -o | mplayer - $ dvbstream -f 647167 -a 421 -v 205 -o | mplayer -
The former works. The latter doesn't. I know for a fact that both should work fine. The former is BBC1 on Mux1. The latter is BBC Parliament on Mux B. The frequencies are correct, the audio and video PIDs are correct. But the latter fails:
Using DVB card "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T", freq=674167 tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 674167000 Hz, Bandwidth: 8 Getting frontend status Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency
I've verified the frequency and av stream IDs in the windows client. They're correct.
So really this is boiling down to a driver issue, as Mux 1 and Mux B are both 16QAM streams. Nothing really seperates them apart from frequency, afaik.
HELP!
Analogue Input
Works fine with TV Time, picks up 3 channels at okay quality (should be picking up 4 but the signal is low)
Misc
My dmesg output:
[ 46.667236] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:04:06.0, rev: 209, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xefeff000 [ 46.667240] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 5168:0306, board: LifeView FlyDVB-T DUO / MSI TV@nywhere Duo [card=55,autodetected] [ 46.667247] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 210000 [ 46.667290] input: saa7134 IR (LifeView FlyDVB-T D as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.0/0000:04:06.0/input/input6 [ 46.857495] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 68 51 06 03 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92 [ 46.857501] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff a6 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 46.857505] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 03 ff 01 03 08 ff 01 2d ff ff ff ff [ 46.857509] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 46.857513] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 1c 00 c0 ff 10 07 01 c2 96 01 16 30 15 ff ff [ 46.857517] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 46.857521] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 46.857525] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 46.961967] tuner 2-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0]) [ 47.009973] tda8290 2-004b: setting tuner address to 61 [ 47.121914] tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75 [ 47.169893] tda8290 2-004b: setting tuner address to 61 [ 47.273860] tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75 [ 47.276183] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2] [ 47.276195] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0 [ 47.276206] saa7133[0]: registered device radio0 [ 47.340575] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded [ 47.340592] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xefeff000 irq 16 registered as card -2 [ 47.409185] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]) [ 47.409188] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
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