TBS6285
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TBS6285 PCI-E low profile DVB-T2 Quad TV Tuner Card, as the name suggests, is a DVB-T2 PCIe Card from TBS Technologies. It is an update to the TBS6284 card for DVB T2 reception countries, such as UK, Sweden. It supports watching or recording four different channels .This DVB T2 PC TV card is ready with windows BDA driver and Linux driver. It’s ideal for watching UK Freeview SD and HD channels on PC.
It has now been superceded by the TBS6205.
Overview/Features
- 1 x PCI Express Interface
- low profile
- Four DVB T/T2 Freeview SD& HD Channels Receiving
- DiSEqC 2.x Compliant
- Linux Support
- 'F' type female screw connectors and provides RF in and out signals for other TV tuners.
Components Used
- Silicon Labs Si2158 tuner
- Silicon Labs Si2168 demodulator
- NXP SAA7160 PCIe audio and video bridge (same as TBS6284)
Other Images
Package
Card
small bracket antenna IR reciever
IR remote
rear side
Package
Identification
# lspci -vvvnn
03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160 [1131:7160] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Device [6285:0001]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 45
Region 0: Memory at fdf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/32 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 00000000fee0300c Data: 4191
Capabilities: [50] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <256ns, L1 <1us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <4us, L1 <64us
ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 128 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [74] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [80] Vendor Specific Information: Len=50 <?>
Capabilities: [100 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0 Len=088 <?>
Kernel driver in use: SAA716x TBS
Making it Work
IRQ Issues
See TBS PCIe card setup#IRQ_Issues
Sample Kernel Output
# dmesg [ 5.889300] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port0 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 5.889313] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 5.889659] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 6.085293] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port1 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 6.085305] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 6.086188] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 6.273291] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port2 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 6.273302] DVB: registering adapter 2 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 6.273675] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 6.461291] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port3 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 6.461301] DVB: registering adapter 3 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 6.462190] SAA716x TBS 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 6.462584] SAA716x TBS 0000:03:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X [ 6.472213] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 6.661281] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port0 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 6.661290] DVB: registering adapter 4 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 6.661570] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 6.849279] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port1 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 6.849288] DVB: registering adapter 5 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 6.849586] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 7.037280] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port2 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 7.037288] DVB: registering adapter 6 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 7.037573] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 7.225282] TurboSight TBS6285 DVB-T2 card port3 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 7.225292] DVB: registering adapter 7 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x1 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 112.412577] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 112.412580] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 113.444129] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 113.444132] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized [ 114.640682] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 114.640685] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 115.720133] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 115.720138] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized [ 116.964580] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 116.964583] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 117.996150] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 117.996155] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized [ 119.308582] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 119.308584] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 120.388136] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 120.388141] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized [ 121.676561] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 121.676563] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 122.732133] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 122.732138] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized [ 126.888560] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 126.888561] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 127.920139] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 127.920143] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized [ 134.804615] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 134.804618] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 135.836128] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 135.836131] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized [ 145.220562] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 145.220563] tbs62x1fe - software version is 2.0.0.0 [ 146.252132] TurboSight TBS 62x1 Frontend: [ 146.252136] tbs62x1fe - Successfully Initialized
Remote Control Support
Working without problems
Kernel modules
# lsmod tbs6982fe 21981 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6680fe 17177 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6923fe 21981 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6985se 17489 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6928se 17489 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6982se 21981 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6991fe 17452 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6618fe 17177 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb saa716x_core 39763 29 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6922fe 21981 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6928fe 17452 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6991se 17489 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb tbs6290fe 50137 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb stv090x 42943 1 saa716x_tbs_dvb dvb_core 77733 6 saa716x_core,saa716x_tbs_dvb rc_core 18329 8 ir_nec_decoder,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_lirc_codec,saa716x_tbs_dvb i2c_algo_bit 12841 2 saa716x_tbs_dvb,radeon i2c_core 23876 21 i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,drm,stv090x,tbs6290fe,drm_kms_helper,tbs6991se,tbs6928fe,tbs6922fe,saa716x_core,tbs6618fe,tbs6991fe,tbs6982se,tbs6928se,tbs6985se,tbs6923fe,tbs6680fe,tbs6982fe,saa716x_tbs_dvb,radeon,tbs62x1fe