DVBSky S950

DVB-S/S2 PCIe card from DVBSKy

Features

• Advanced demodulator from Montage
• PCIe x1
• Low power
• Optional Power by PCI Express 6-Position Power Connector
• DiSEqC and Remote control

Components Used

• RF: Montage M88TS2020
• Demodulator: 2nd generation Montage M88DS3103
• PCIe Bridge: Conexant CX23885

Driver and firmware

• See DVBSky wiki page.
• Firmware: dvb-fe-ds3103.fw (Download: http://www.dvbsky.net/Support.html)

Identification

$ dmesg | grep -i dvb
[   11.720833] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 4254:0950, board: DVBSKY S950 [card=42,autodetected]
[   12.668799] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   12.668804] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   12.775647] m88ds3103_load_firmware: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-ds3103.fw)...
[   13.718938] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   13.718942] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Montage DS3103/TS2022)...
[   13.746416] DVBSKY PCIe MAC= ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[   13.768691] Registered IR keymap rc-dvbsky
[   13.768754] input: cx23885 IR (DVBSKY S950) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:02:00.0/rc/rc0/input15
[   13.772323] rc0: cx23885 IR (DVBSKY S950) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:02:00.0/rc/rc0

$ lspci | grep -i cx23885
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)

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