DVBSKY S952 v3

DVB-S/S2 PCIe Twin Tuner card from DVBSky

Features

• Dual/Twin Tuner input
• PCIe x1
• Low power
• Optional Power by PCI Express 6-Position Power Connector

Components Used

• Receiver (tuner and demodulator in one chip): Montage M88RS6000
• PCIe Bridge: SMI PCIe chip (kernel module: smipcie.ko)

Driver and firmware

• See DVBSky wiki page. ATTENTION: different firmware download needed, see below.
• Firmware: dvb-fe-rs6000.fw (Download: http://www.dvbsky.net/download/linux/dvbsky-firmware.tar.gz )

Identification

$ dmesg | grep -i dvb
[    8.547466] SMI PCIe driver detected: DVBSky S952 V3
[    8.618847] DVB: registering new adapter (SMI_DVB)
[    9.058402] m88rs6000_load_firmware: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-rs6000.fw)...
[   12.161997] DVBSky SMI PCIe driver 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Montage RS6000(DVBSky))...
[   12.168402] DVBSky PCIe MAC= 00:18:42:54:55:52
[   12.168579] DVB: registering new adapter (SMI_DVB)
[   12.360454] m88rs6000_load_firmware: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-rs6000.fw)...
[   15.003591] DVBSky SMI PCIe driver 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Montage RS6000(DVBSky))...
[   15.010014] DVBSky PCIe MAC= 00:18:32:54:55:53
[   15.039484] Registered IR keymap rc-dvbsky
[   15.039600] input: IR (DVBSky S952 V3) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:02:00.0/rc/rc0/input4
[   15.039756] rc0: IR (DVBSky S952 V3) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:02:00.0/rc/rc0
[   15.039802] DVBSky SMI PCIe driver 0000:02:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X

lspci | grep -i Video
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Spin Master Ltd. Device 3038 (rev 01)

Picture

http://www.dvbsky.net/images/product/S952V3.jpg Photo

Vendor's Product Homepage: http://www.dvbsky.net/Products_S952V3.html