LifeView LR506

This is a hybrid DVB-T USB Reciver from LifeView and is sold in Europe for about 25€ and has only the type-name "LR506". According to the press release (PDF) from the LifeView Website, the LR506 belongs to the "Q-Series".

Pictures

Some pictures of the LR506 and its inside:

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  Stick

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  Open, top

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  Open, bottom

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  CY7C68013A

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  8275AC1

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  TDA10046HT

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  Parts of the LR506

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  Front of the PCB

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  Back of the PCB

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  Monitoring the i2c Bus

(Some more pictures)

Hardware Components

• a Cypress FX2 Chip (CY7C68013A) ... used by the stick to connect to the USB bus
• a Philips TDA10046HT digital demodulator
• a Philips 8275AC1 tuner
• likely a Philips saa7131 A/V decoder & analog IF demodulator

USB ID

USB id: 10fd:0506 (cold - before firmware download)
USB id: 10fd:0500 (warm - after firmware download)

Firmware

Sofar there has only been little progress to get this Stick supported. At the time of writing it is possible to get the Stick into "warm-state" with a modified m920x.c-driver and a special firmware:

• patch against ddbf21fbe99c (this includes/modifies the patch from http://www.rasterburn.org/~aet/m920x/m920x-twalker-rl506.patch)
• Firmware

Work in Progress

Analysing the i2c bus showed that the devices have following addresses:

0x08 ... TDA10046
0x50 ... the i2c EEPROM (holding the USB-ID for the FX2)
0x60 ... 8275AC1