Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000
A hybrid DVB-S2 PCI card from Hauppauge.
It is supported under Linux since kernel 2.6.28.
Overview/Features
Quad-mode TV tuner featuring DVB-S2 HDTV, DVB-S, DVB-T, analogue PAL/SECAM cable TV, FM radio reception, plus S-Video, Composite and stereo audio inputs for A/V capture, all in one card!
DiSEqC 1.0 and 1.2 supported with Linux drivers.
Note: DVB-T and DVB-S/S2 cannot be used simultaneously due to a hardware limitation, but you can easily switch from one to the other.
Included: IR remote control, batteries, and remote control receiver. FM radio antenna. S-Video/Composite adapter (to allow a Composite RCA yellow phono to be connected to the S-Video input socket).
Sockets: FM, TV, SAT, S-VIDEO IN, LINE IN, IR.
No CI.
Components Used
- Conexant CX24116 (DVB-S2 demodulator and FEC decoder)
- Conexant CX24118A (digital satellite tuner RF IC)
- Conexant CX23882 (A/V decoder & PCI bridge)
- Conexant CX22702 (DVB-T demodulator)
- Philips FMD1216ME MK3 Hybrid Tuner
- Infineon TUA6034 'TAIFUN' (Analogue/Digital TV tuner)
- Philips TDA9887 (Analogue TV/FM demodulator)
- Philips TDA7040 (FM stereo decoder)
- Wolfson WM8775 (4 stereo input ADC)
- IDT QS3257 (Mux)
- Intersil ISL6421 (LNB voltage controller)
Identification
04:08.0 0400: 14f1:8800 (rev 05)
Subsystem: 0070:6902
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (5000ns min, 13750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
04:08.1 0480: 14f1:8811 (rev 05)
Subsystem: 0070:6902
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
04:08.2 0480: 14f1:8802 (rev 05)
Subsystem: 0070:6902
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (1500ns min, 22000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
04:08.4 0480: 14f1:8804 (rev 05)
Subsystem: 0070:6902
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (1500ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
Region 0: Memory at f7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Making it Work
Firmware
Please note firmware in ubuntu repo is working fine now. You can use sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
For a discussion of the different firmware versions, see http://allrussian.info/thread.php?threadid=98587.
CX24116 firmware version: 1.20.79.0, size: 32522 bytes, md5sum: 417cafd3b10e207e1dba9a03ad63e405 CX24116 firmware version: 1.22.82.0, size: 32501 bytes, md5sum: b728b5d635393a4081e87d30d87a7632 CX24116 firmware version: 1.23.86.1, size: 32674 bytes, md5sum: dd8dfdfca6b72462d9db8032f78631c8 CX24116 firmware version: 1.26.90.0, size: 32674 bytes, md5sum: b8c856ac15b768854a222e6864e7dc7f
Firmware v1.20.79.0
One could use the script provided from wget-fw.sh to fetch the firmware for us.
Broken Link above wget-fw.sh - UPDATE
Basically what it does is :
1) Fetch an archive :
wget ftp://167.206.143.11/outgoing/Oxford/88x_2_119_25023_WHQL.zip
2) Decompress what's needed :
unzip -jo 88x_2_119_25023_WHQL.zip Driver88/hcw88bda.sys
3) Extract the firmware (v1.20.79.0) and put it in the right place :
sudo dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.20.79.0.fw skip=81768 bs=1 count=32522 sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.20.79.0.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw
Ubuntu: Place file in /lib/firmware Debian: Place file in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
Firmware v1.22.82.0
For slightly newer firmware (v1.22.82.0) using drivers from Hauppauge
1) Download the driver archive :
wget http://www.hauppauge.de/software/mce/88x_2_122_26109_WHQL.zip
2) Decompress the .sys file :
unzip -jo 88x_2_122_26109_WHQL.zip Driver88/hcw88bda.sys
3) Extract the firmware and put it in the firmware directory :
sudo dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.22.82.0.fw skip=75504 bs=1 count=32501 sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.22.82.0.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw
Firmware v1.23.86.1
Firmware v1.23.86.1 is available with the TeVii S460 Linux driver at http://tevii.com/support.html. (But what's with the proprietary RAR archive format? Geez...)
wget http://tevii.com/Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar sudo apt-get install unrar-free unrar x Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar sudo cp tevii_linuxdriver_0815/fw/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw
Firmware v1.26.90.0
For slightly newer firmware (v1.26.90.0) using drivers from Hauppauge
1) Download the driver archive :
wget http://www.wintvcd.co.uk/drivers/88x_2_125_28070_WHQL.zip
2) Decompress the .sys file :
unzip -jo 88x_2_125_28070_WHQL.zip Driver88/hcw88bda.sys
3) Extract the firmware and put it in the firmware directory :
sudo dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.26.90.0.fw skip=105768 bs=1 count=32674 sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.26.90.0.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw
Ubuntu: Place file in /lib/firmware Debian: Place file in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
The "manual" for new firmware. I put the greater size for length.
There´s a forum article describing how to extract the firmware: [1] --- see post #3. The download link to get the driver now seems to be [2]. Download it with:
wget http://www.wintvcd.co.uk/drivers/88x_2_126_28225_WHQL.zip
The driver can be extracted with:
sudo dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.26.90.0.fw bs=1 skip=105768 count=32290
For verification of hcw88bda.sys in this version of the driver:
md5sum -b hcw88bda.sys 3f685a2ca6d1dae35b10c06f3a538d82 *hcw88bda.sys
The firmware will be reported as
cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0
Mythbuntu 9.04 users
Attention Mythbuntu 9.04 users: This card should actually work with this version of Mythbuntu out of the box. However, the installed firmware seems to be buggy so it is necessary to install the Firmware v1.20.79.0 following the steps above.
Drivers
Ubuntu Hardy users should read the note about the sound driver (cx88_alsa) below.
Kernel / v4l-dvb driver
There is a complete driver for this card in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.28. It supports DVB-T, DVB-S/S2, analogue TV, A/V capture and FM radio. If you have the kernel 2.6.28 (or later) you do not need to install a driver yourself.
For developers, or those who need to use a kernel earlier than 2.6.28, a development version of the driver is available in the v4l-dvb repository of the LinuxTV project (the ususal route to merging improvements into the kernel).
hg clone http://hg.kewl.org/pub/v4l-dvb-20100517/ cd v4l-dvb-20100517 make make install reboot
Multiple frontends are supported: DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T appear as /dev/dvb/adapterN/frontend0 and /dev/dvb/adapterN/frontend1 respectively.
Due to a hardware limitation, the two frontends cannot be used simultaneously. However they can be used sequentially within the same application. The driver handles the mutual exclusion appropriately.
DVB-T and DVB-S are supported within API v3.2 (or the new API v5.0) and so it is compatible with current applications. DVB-S2 is accessed through API v5.0, also known as S2API, which was released in kernel 2.6.28.
Command-line scanning for channels can be done with scan-s2. Tuning DVB-S and DVB-S2 channels can be done with szap-s2 :
hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/scan-s2 hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/szap-s2
Kaffeine handles multiple frontends well without modification -- they appear in the DVB settings as "DVB Device 0:0" (=/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0, i.e. DVB-S/S2) and "DVB Device 0:1" (=/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1, i.e. DVB-T). Both devices can be configured and tuned in the application, and Kaffeine will switch to the correct one each time you change the channel. DiSEqC 1.2 is supported too. Kaffeine will display HDTV delivered over DVB-S2 or DVB-S, e.g. BBC HD, see Kaffeine.
See the section below on how to use this card with MythTV.
Sample kernel output
Linux video capture interface: v2.00 cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:6902, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000 DVB-S/S2/T/Hybrid [card=68,autodetected], frontend(s): 2 cx88[0]: TV tuner type 63, Radio tuner type -1 cx88/2: cx2388x MPEG-TS Driver Manager version 0.0.6 loaded cx2388x alsa driver version 0.0.6 loaded cx88[0]: i2c init: enabling analog demod on HVR1300/3000/4000 tuner tuner' 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (cx88[0]) tda9887 2-0043: creating new instance tda9887 2-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found tuner' 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0]) tuner' 2-0063: chip found @ 0xc6 (cx88[0]) tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 69009, rev B2D3, serial# 2807241 tveeprom 2-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-2A-D5-C9 tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is Philips FMD1216MEX (idx 133, type 78) tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0xf4) tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX882 (idx 33) tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX882 (idx 25) tveeprom 2-0050: has radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter cx88[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=69009 tuner-simple 2-0061: creating new instance tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 78 (Philips FMD1216MEX MK3 Hybrid Tuner) input: cx88 IR (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR400 as /class/input/input3 cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:04:08.0, rev: 5, irq: 21, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfa000000 wm8775' 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (cx88[0]) cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi1 cx88[0]/0: registered device radio2 cx88[0]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:04:08.2, rev: 5, irq: 21, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf8000000 cx8802_probe() allocating 2 frontend(s) cx88[0]/1: CX88x/0: ALSA support for cx2388x boards cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access: shared cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 0070:6902, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000 DVB-S/S2/T/Hybrid [card=68] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card tuner-simple 2-0061: attaching existing instance tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 63 (Philips FMD1216MEX MK3 Hybrid Tuner) DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]) DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Conexant CX24116/CX24118)... DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 1 (Conexant CX22702 DVB-T)... cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.20.79.0 cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload complete
Sound driver
Alsa driver: cx88_alsa.
To make sure the sound card in the HVR-4000 does not grab card index 0 (instead of your motherboard or discrete sound card) add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (or wherever your distro sets alsa kernel module options):
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0 options cx88_alsa index=-2
Note: the Ubuntu Hardy kernel (2.6.24) has a separate Ubuntu version of the cx88_alsa module which causes problems if you compile your own drivers (modprobe cx88_alsa gives 'cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol' errors). Upgrade the kernel to one which uses a stock cx88_alsa module and then compile and install the HVR4000 driver. See http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu.
Usage with MythTV
MythTV v0.22 onwards supports multiple frontends and works fine.
DVB-T has no channel search under Broadcast with h264/HE-AAC. Scan resulting in:
Signal Strength: 99%, signal/noise: 49%
All channel scans end up with "Timed out, no signal"
Seems to be something broken in MythTV for this function.
Audio/Video capture
Scan for channels (UK):
mplayer -v tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:chanlist=europe-west:normid=4:alsa:adevice=hw.1:immediatemode=0 -tvscan autostart:period=2.0:threshold=20
Play channel (BBC1 WOOLWICH UK):
mplayer -v tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:chanlist=europe-west:normid=4:alsa:adevice=hw.1:immediatemode=0:freq=759.25
Capture channel (BBC1 WOOLWICH UK):
mencoder -fps 50 -ofps 50 -vf harddup,softskip,yadif=1 tv:// -tv channel=57:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:normid=4:input=0:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0:audiorate=32000:width=768:height=576 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:autoaspect:vbitrate=512 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:preset=96 -endpos 60 -o test.avi
Analogue TV and Teletext Receiver
Does anyone have any info about Linux support?
Another way is to use tvtime (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/) which is available in many distros.
S-Video input
Play the video
mplayer -rawaudio rate=48000 tv:// -tv norm=PAL-BG:input=2:alsa=1:adevice=hw.1:audiorate=48000:immediatemode=0:amode=1
This will play the video coming in input=2 (S-Video) (input=1 will be the Composite1 input), use alsa for the audio on device hw:1.
Record the video
mencoder -fps 50 -ofps 50 -vf harddup,softskip,yadif=1 tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:norm=PAL-BG:input=2:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0:audiorate=48000:width=768:height=576 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:autoaspect:vbitrate=512 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:preset=96 -endpos 60 -o test.avi
FM Radio Receiver
The Latest Drivers have radio support. See here for radio listening applications http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Radio_Listening_Applications.
Example test. First start playing the ALSA sound:
arecord -D hw:1,0 -f dat | aplay &
and then tune with fm-tools:
fm -T forever 99.3
or with radio (which can have preset radio stations):
radio -c /dev/radio0
Change to mono mode
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 -t mono
Go back to stereo mode
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 -t stereo
Remote Control Support
When you have installed the drivers check dmesg/logs and you'll find a line like:
input: CX88 IR (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000 as /class/input/inputX
You can run lirc for example like: lircd --driver=dev/input --device=/dev/input/eventX (replace X with what it finds in the dmesg)
Debian: edit /etc/lirc/hardware.conf DRIVER="dev/input" DEVICE="/dev/input/eventX"
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf (Works)
begin remote
name Hauppauge-HVR4000-Remote
bits 16
eps 30
aeps 100
one 0 0
zero 0 0
pre_data_bits 16
pre_data 0x8001
gap 133325
toggle_bit_mask 0x8001001C
begin codes
Power 0x0074
Go 0x0161
TV 0x0179
Video 0x0189
Music 0x0188
Pictures 0x016F
Guide 0x016D
Radio 0x0181
Up 0x0067
Down 0x006C
Left 0x0069
Right 0x006A
OK 0x001C
Back/Exit 0x00AE
Menu 0x008B
PrevCh 0x019C
Mute 0x0071
Vol+ 0x0073
Vol- 0x0072
Ch+ 0x0192
Ch- 0x0193
Rec 0x00A7
Stop 0x0080
Play 0x00CF
Pause 0x0077
Rewind 0x00A8
Forward 0x00D0
Replay 0x00A5
Skip 0x00A3
1 0x0002
2 0x0003
3 0x0004
4 0x0005
5 0x0006
6 0x0007
7 0x0008
8 0x0009
9 0x000A
0 0x000B
Text 0x0184
Sub/CC 0x0172
Red 0x018E
Green 0x018F
Yellow 0x0190
Blue 0x0191
end codes
end remote