TechnoTrend TT-budget S2-3200
A DVB-S2 PCI card from TechnoTrend.
There are experimental multiproto drivers available for the device (see http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto/ or http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto_plus/). For S2API support try http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin.
Overview
This card is apparently also available/rebranded as the TechniSat SkyStar HD.
Components Used
- STMicroelectronics STB6100 (tuner)
- STMicroelectronics STB0899 (demodulator)
- NXP/Philips SAA7146 (PCI bridge)
It also supports an add-on CI slot.
Identification
Type
lspci -v
You should get lots of output, including a paragraph something like this:
04:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH S2-3200 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Drivers
v4l-dvb/S2API driver
Since kernel 2.6.28, DVB-S2 support has been implemented in the Linux kernel by means of a new API, version 5, also known as S2API.
hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin cd s2-liplianin make sudo make install sudo reboot
or alternatively
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb cd v4l-dvb make sudo make install sudo reboot
Scanning and tuning apps:
hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/scan-s2 hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/szap-s2
See also Kaffeine.
Multiproto driver
A driver using the obsolete multiproto API may be installed as follows.
Installing on Debian (2.6.18-6-686) etch with Multiproto diver (!!!DVB-S2 Don`t Work. Only DVB-S!!!). Install new Debian (2.6.18-6-686)
cd /usr/src apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686 apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18 apt-get install mercurial
hg clone http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto cd multiproto make make install reboot dmesg
External Links
- TechnoTrend product page
- A nice detailed explanation on how to use the TechnoTrend S2-3200 under Debian.
- TechnoTrend S2-3200 (or Technisat Skystar HD) - Multiproto drivers (march 2008) - dvb-utils - Ubuntu Linux
- TechnoTrend TT-budget S2-3200 and mythtv using the S2API
