TerraTec Cinergy Piranha

Support status

work-in-progress

Experimental driver is available at the repository (June 2008) [1].

Specifications

Manufacturer	Terratec
Product Name	Cinergy Piranha
Model Number	TER-TT301231
Package Type	Retail
Warranty	1 year
Dimensions	50 x 20 x 10 mm (Antenna 115 mm)
Inputs	Co axial w adapter
Tuner Type	Terrestrial digital TV reception (DVB-T, Freeview, TNT)
System Requirements	Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon XP / Centrino certified notebook or CPU 2 GHz or higher 512 MB RAM 1 available USB interface Audio hardware with DirectX support CD/DVD drive for software installation Graphics board with DirectX drivers or video overlay support Terrestrial digital TV reception (DVB-T, Freeview, TNT) Microsoft Windows® XP with SP 2 / Vista
Package Contents	TerraTec Cinergy Piranha Piranha Antenna Antenna adapter Software: TerraTec Home Cinema, DVD authoring software with burning function Registration Code for tvtv (1 year Premium Account) Installation/software CD-ROM Quick Setup Guide Service card, Registration card
Features	Digital TV (DTT) with your notebook or PC Crystal-clear digital radio (DAB) Cell phone TV of the future (T-DMB), even at your computer Removable mini telescopic antenna Electronic program guide (EPG), teletext and timeshifting Digital hard drive video recorder Simple USB connection

Diary

J'ai fait l'acquisition d'un dongle USB TerraTec Cinergy Piranha après avoir trouvé son nom sur DVB-T_USB_Devices dans la section des matériels supportés. Mal m'en pris. Il n'est pas supporté out-of-the-box...

Linux bureau 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu May 31 23:51:05 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

à l'insertion du dongle dans un port usb, dmesg ne rapporte que ceci :(

usb 2-3.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
usb 2-3.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

et lsusb ne rapporte pas grand chose d'utile non plus

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 187f:0010

et la compil des pilotes donne une erreur

jch@bureau:/home/v4l-dvb$ make
make -C /home/v4l-dvb/v4l
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /home/v4l-dvb/v4l »
creating symbolic links...
Kernel build directory is /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/build
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/build SUBDIRS=/home/v4l-dvb/v4l  modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-5-amd64'
  CC [M]  /home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.o
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:491: error: unknown field 'dev_attrs' specified in initializer
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:491: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: error: unknown field 'dev_release' specified in initializer
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: warning: missing braces around initializer
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: warning: (near initialization for 'video_class.subsys')
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[3]: *** [/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/v4l-dvb/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-5-amd64'
make[1]: *** [default] Erreur 2
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/v4l-dvb/v4l »
make: *** [all] Erreur 2

Hack pour le driver...

D'après http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/37175
"If you change both #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE lines from 13 to 19 you'll get it to compile (with a warning)..."

Une fois cela fait, le "make" tourne sans erreur de même que le "make install".

Reste à ce que le dongle apparaisse là ou il faut (/dev/dvb)... Ce qui n'est pas le cas spontanément :(

Installation of the experimental driver

The driver is currently under development, so the following information may not be totally accurate!
(Worked for Terratec Cinergy Piranha, USB id 187f:0010 / 187f:0100, as of 29th of June 2008)

See also How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers and Testing_your_DVB_device.

Firmware

First you need to get firmware either from the terratec, or from the CD that came with the product. Then move the firmware to /lib/firmware or /lib/firmware/`uname -r` as dvbt_stellar_usb.inp:

 wget ftp://ftp.terratec.de/Receiver/Cinergy_Piranha/Update/Cinergy_Piranha_Drv_Vista_XP_3.09.02.00.exe
 unzip -j Cinergy_Piranha_Drv_Vista_XP_3.09.02.00.exe \
          Cinergy\ Piranha/BDA\ Driver\ 3.09.02.00/Windos\ XP\ \(32Bit\)/SMS100x_Dvbt.inp
 sudo mv -i SMS100x_Dvbt.inp /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/dvbt_bda_stellar_usb.inp

Note that:

• There is firmware also for DVB-H (SMS100x_Dvbh.inp) and DAB (SMS100x_DabTdmb.inp)
• Firmawares under Windows XP and Vista directories are identical:

1c6e220399a8b1a5d9888952134436fd  SMS100x_DabTdmb.inp  (40096 bytes)
94a9f88c12c90700898cfeef4c86857f  SMS100x_Dvbh.inp     (40324 bytes)
4c156db5762f7fc40f567729d8bfea04  SMS100x_Dvbt.inp     (38144 bytes)

Compile the Driver

Source: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/siano

wget http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/siano/archive/tip.tar.gz
tar -vxf tip.tar.gz
cd siano...
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe sms1xxx

Note that:

• make install overrides your old modules!
• It may take quite some time for the driver to initialize itself, but finally the following message should appear in the dmesg output:

[125088.180784] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 19
[125088.348098] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[125088.507042] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsusb
[125088.507469] DVB: registering new adapter (Siano Stellar reference board)
[125088.507966] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Siano Mobile Digital SMS1xxx)...

Also the following devices should appear:

/dev/dvb/adapter0
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0