Zolid Hybrid TV Tuner

Overall view of the Zolid Hybrid TV Tuner card.

A Hybrid TV Tuner from Zolid. It might be sold in the Netherlands only.

The Hybrid TV Tuner is not supported by Linux.

Overview/Features

• Built-in IR transmitter
• PCI interface
• Hybrid tuner, it has DVB-T and Analog TV support

Components Used

• NXP TDA18271 (tuner)
• NXP TDA10048 (demodulator)
• NXP/Philips SAA7131 (A/V decoder and PCI Interface)

Other Images

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  Zolid Hybrid TV Tuner, front side of the box.

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  Zolid Hybrid TV Tuner, front, showing antenna input and IR transmitter

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  Zolid Hybrid TV Tuner, detailed overall view, the chip set-up and their names (edited to make them readable)

Identification

lspci -vvvnnxxx

 04:09.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
       Subsystem: Philips Semiconductors Device [1131:2004]
       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
       Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
       Latency: 32 (21000ns min, 8000ns max)
       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
       Region 0: Memory at fdcfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
       Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
       Kernel driver in use: saa7134
       Kernel modules: saa7134
 00: 31 11 33 71 06 00 90 02 d1 00 80 04 00 20 00 00
 10: 00 e0 cf fd 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 31 11 04 20
 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 01 54 20
 40: 01 00 02 06 00 20 00 1c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Making it Work

It is not supported by Linux. The subsystem has two matches, both reference boards: Philips TOUGH DVB-T reference design and Philips EUROPA V3 reference design, which neither work correctly. The reference designs expect different chips then the ones that are present on the board.

When loading the saa7134 module with the card parameter 156 (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1110r3 DVB-T/Hybrid) with firmware installed (see below), the card seems to work, it can find DVB channels but tuning to them fails with a "Filter timout" message.

Firmware

If you see the following message in your system log:

tda10048: firmware upload failed.

You have to install the demodulator's firmware in order to let it work.

The card needs firmware for the TDA10048, which is available Here. Just download the ZIP file and the extract.sh and execute Extract.sh. For more information, please see the readme.txt file.

Drivers

The card uses the built-in V4L saa7134 driver, the tda10048 demodulator driver (when using the Hauppauge set-up) and the tda18271 tuner driver (also when using the Hauppauge set-up).

Sample Kernel Output

dmesg

2009-05-31 20:42:51	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4169.257239] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound unloaded
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.629232] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.15 loaded
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.629291] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:04:09.0, rev: 209, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdcfe000
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.629297] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1131:2004, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.629548] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 4400100
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792034] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 31 11 04 20 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792044] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792051] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 03 01 01 03 08 ff 00 b2 ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792057] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792064] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 35 00 c0 96 10 03 32 21 05 ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792070] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792076] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792083] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792089] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792095] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792102] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792108] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792114] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792120] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792127] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792133] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792610] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.792631] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.800153] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
2009-05-31 20:42:59	sander-desktop	kernel	[ 4177.800183] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfdcfe000 irq 17 registered as card -2

Remote Control Support

The default card configuration doesn't detect the built-in IR transmitter.

External Links

See the [Zolid Zolid page] for more information about Zolid and product information. The (almost worthless and Dutch) manual can be found Here and the drivers and software pack for Windows is downloadable here.