MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0

Vendor	Device/Model	Supported	Pictures / URL	E
MSI	DIGIVOX mini II V3.0 (AF9015/MT2060 version) aka. K-Vox	✔ Yes, in kernel since 2.6.28	[1]
MSI	DIGIVOX mini II V3.0 (RTL2832 version) also. DigiVox mini deluxe	✔ Yes somewhat. see device page	[2]

Overview

MSI DigiVOX mini II rev.3

MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0 is a DVB-T USB 2.0 device from MSI (see Vendor site for a picture).

• This stick is not the same as the:
  • MSI DigiVox mini II (Vendor site)
  • MSI DigiVox mini II V2.0 (Vendor site)
  • MSI DIGIVOX mini III (Vendor site)
  • MSI DIGIVOX mini Deluxe (Vendor site, German)
• In Germany this device might also be named MSI K-Vox.
• This device might not be available worldwide.

Note: Be careful there are three different kind of chips which the vendor use under the same Name ('MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0') see: [vdr-portal.de] and [forum.ubuntuusers.de] (both german forums)

Install

On most modern distributions it will probably work out of the box. You may have to download the firmware but that also depends on your distribution. Just plug it in and see what dmesg on a console says.

On Ubuntu or Debian Lenny

On Ubuntu 10.04 (and most probably next versions), just go to System=>Administration=>Hardware drivers.

It should offer you an option " to download and install the firmware for DVB-T hardware. Activate it, and your tuner will be automatically recognized.

Using a script by Daniel Holm, it is very easy to install the driver on older ubuntu versions.

wget http://www.danielholm.se/sites/default/files/msi.digivox.mini_.II_.V.3-v3.run
chmod +x msi.digivox.mini_.II_.V.3-v3.run
./msi.digivox.mini_.II_.V.3-v3.run

Congratulations, your DVB-T stick is now operational (including remote control).

(Also tested and working on Debian Lenny. Thanks!)

On other Linux Distributions

Although not as convenient as above, it should only take a couple of minutes to install the driver manually.

Prerequisites

• You need to have make, gcc, etc. installed.
• You need the revision control system 'mercurial' installed.

Compile and Install the Driver

Download version 4.95.0 of the firmware and copy it to your firmware directory.

wget http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/dvb-usb-af9015.fw
sudo mv dvb-usb-af9015.fw /lib/firmware/

On some distributions, you might have to move the firmware to /lib/firmware/2.6.xx/ where 2.6.xx is the version of your linux kernel.

Now download, compile, and install drivers for AF9015 from Antti Palosaari:

hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/
cd af9015
make
sudo make install

Congratulations, your DVB-T receiver should work now.

Remote Control Setup

MSI DigiVOX mini II rev.3 with remote

If you want to use the IR remote control, you should tell the driver that you have a MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0. The driver can unfortunately not figure that out automatically since many devices have the very same 'lsusb -v'-fingerprint.

For this, you will need to pass the option 'remote=2' to the dvb_usb_af9015 module. Manually, this is done by the command (as root):

rmmod dvb_usb_af9015
modprobe dvb_usb_af9015 remote=2

To permanently store the option, you will need to edit modprobe's configuration files. If your linux distribution uses a directory /etc/modprobe.d/, you can set the configuration as follows:

echo "options dvb_usb_af9015   remote=2" >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-dvb_usb_af9015.conf

On other distributions, you may need to add that line to /etc/modprobe.conf.

Furthermore, the device MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0 seems to have a hardware bug that causes keystrokes on the remote control to be repeated indefinitely. To circumvent this problem, you need to prevent your machine from recognizing the usb-stick as a keyboard.

echo "options usbhid quirks=0x15a4:0x9016:0x4" >> /etc/modprobe.d/usbhid.conf
rmmod usbhid; modprobe usbhid

Congratulations, your remote control should work now.

Developer Info

Vendor	Device/Model	Supported	Pictures	URL	Interface	USB ID	Hardware	Tuner	Demodulator	USB Bridge	Firmware	Comment	E
MSI	DIGIVOX mini II V3.0 (AF9015/MT2060 version) aka. K-Vox	✔ Yes, in kernel since 2.6.28		[3]	USB1.1 USB2.0	15a4:9016	Afatech AF9015, Microtune MT2060	mt2060	af9015	af9015	dvb-usb-af9015.fw	Manufacturer changed device but kept name, ARGH!! See device page for details.
MSI	DIGIVOX mini II V3.0 (RTL2832 version) also. DigiVox mini deluxe	✔ Yes somewhat. see device page		[4]	USB1.1 USB2.0	1d19:1101	RealTek RTL2832U, FCI FC2580	fc2580		rtl2832	n/a	Manufacturer changed device but kept name, ARGH!! See device page for details.

Status

Works, including remote control.

Components Used:

• Afatech AF9015-N1
• The Tuner is a Microtune MT2061F

Driver

Several versions of the firmware can be found here.

People who own such a device

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

Name	Email
Niklas	officeman at freenet d0t de
Jons	linuxtv d0t org at metastasis d0t de
Jan	krupaj at mobilnews d0t cz
Patrick	linuxuser1 at gmx d0t net
tilt	tilde at tk hyph3n sls d0t de
bazillus	r at sliwi d0t org
Sylvio	smileyoschi at freenet d0t de (by the alternativ way)
Daniel Holm	d.holmen at gmail d0t com
Henrik	User:Hlangos (can be emailed via user page)
Peacem4k3r	dominique d0t bnghff at googlemail d0t com

External Links

• Daniel Holm's Ubuntu module install-script.
• MSI product page
• Af9015 product page
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