Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q

A hybrid ATSC USB 2.0 device by Hauppauge.

The digital side of the device is supported under Linux since kernel 2.6.26. Analog support was merged into the mainline v4l-dvb tree on March 18, 2009.

Note: This device, the HVR-950Q, is significantly different from the older HVR-950 model, so please be sure to differentiate between the two. For information on the older model, see the WinTV-HVR-950 article.

Overview/Features

The device supports NTSC, 8-VSB and QAM.

Components Used

• Xceive XC5000 (tuner and analog demodulator)
• Auvitek AU8522 (A/V decoder analog demodulator [not used], and digital demodulator)
• Auvitek AU0828 (USB bridge)

Identification

Output of lsusb -v:

Making it Work

Firmware

In order to use the LinuxTV driver, you need to download and install the firmware for the xc5000.

Note: The firmware is now bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), so users of that distro/version and newer do not need the following steps.

 wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
 wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/extract.sh
 sh extract.sh
 cp dvb-fe-xc5000-1.1.fw /lib/firmware

Note: Though the usual directory location in which the firmware file is placed is /lib/firmware, this may differ in the case of some distros; consult your distro's documentation for the appropriate location.

The firmware will be added lazily (on-demand) when you first use the driver.

Drivers

The xc5000 driver needed for this WinTV-HVR-950Q is already part of the latest Linux kernel (part of v4l-dvb drivers).

Analog support was merged into the mainline v4l-dvb tree on March 18, 2009.

Sample Kernel Output

After you plug-in the device on a USB 2.0 port (it won't work with a USB 1.1) and use the driver for the first time (eg, by scanning channels), you may see something like this on dmesg:

usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
au0828: i2c bus registered
tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 72001, rev B3F0, serial# 5280879
tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-XX-XX-XX
tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Xceive XC5000 (idx 150, type 4)
tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88)
tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is AU8522 (idx 44)
tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is AU8522 (idx 42)
tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
hauppauge_eeprom: hauppauge eeprom: model=72001
xc5000 0-0061: creating new instance
xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61
xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously
DVB: registering new adapter (au0828)
DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Auvitek AU8522 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
Registered device AU0828 [Hauppauge HVR950Q]
usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=2040, idProduct=7200
usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=10
usb 1-3: Product: WinTV HVR-950
usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Hauppauge
usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 000000000

After an application open the device the first time, the module will load the firmware. You will see:

xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.1.fw)...
i2c-adapter i2c-2: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-xc5000-1.1.fw
xc5000: firmware read 12332 bytes.
xc5000: firmware upload

External Links

Hauppauge 950Q product page