LifeView TV Walker Twin DVB-T (LR540)

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

• See http://support.packardbell.com/de/item/index.php?i=spec_tvtuner_lr534&ppn=PB54M00003

LifeView LR535 mini-PCIe card

Status: Unknown - seeking information and pictures

USB id: 10fd:0535

Images

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

• m920x experimental tree from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~aapot/m920x
• firmware dvb-usb-tvwalkert.fw from http://www.nick-andrew.net/LifeView/
• Go to http://linuxtv.org/repo/ and follow the instructions for building the modules and installing

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)