MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0

A DVB-T USB 2.0 device from MSI (see Vendor site for a picture)

NOTE

• This stick is not the same as the MSI DigiVox mini II or MSI DigiVox mini II V2.0 (Vendor site).
• In Germany this device might also be named MSI K-Vox, sometimes identified as keyboard input device

Status

Seems to be operational, including remote control.

Components Used:

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

Driver

Several versions of the firmware can be found here.

Install

On Ubuntu

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

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).

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

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 file (usually /etc/modprobe.conf) and somewhere add the line:

options dvb_usb_af9015   remote=2

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
rmmod usbhid; modprobe usbhid

Congratulations, your remote control should work now.

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

External Links

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