TechnoTrend TT-connect S2-3600

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Top view of the S2-3600 PCB
Bottom view of the S2-3600 PCB

A DVB-S2 USB 2.0 Device from TechnoTrend. It is identical to the Pinnacle PCTV Sat HDTV Pro USB 452e.

Overview/Features

This is a USB 2.0 device capable of receiving DVB-S and DVB-S2 tranponders.
Upon connection to the USB port, the devices' LED is orange and turns green upon module load.
The USB receiver comes with a black RC5 remote control. IR events can be read from /dev/input/eventX
This card works in conjuction with Liplianin drivers (see further down the page) and Linux Kernel 2.6.38.8 or earlier

With 3.2 kernels the device will work out-of-the-box

Components used

Identification

Vendor ID: 0B48
Product ID: 3007

Making it work

Firmware

The device does not need any special firmware.
It is still possible to upload a new firmware to the device, although this is not implemented.

Drivers

Device driver support can be found in this S2API repository [1]

Sample kernel output

usb 1-2.3: new high speed USB device using ps3-ehci-driver and address 10
usb 1-2.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
dvb-usb: found a ‘Technotrend TT Connect S2-3600′ in warm state.
pctv452e_power_ctrl: 1
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend TT Connect S2-3600)
pctv452e: I2C error -121; AA 02 A0 01 14 -> 55 02 A0 00 00.
dvb-usb: MAC address: 00:d0:5c:64:75:3c
pctv452e_frontend_attach Enter
stb0899_attach: Attaching STB0899
pctv452e_frontend_attach Leave Ok
DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (STB0899 Multistandard)…
pctv452e_tuner_attach Enter
stb6100_attach: Attaching STB6100
pctv452e_tuner_attach Leave
input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input4
dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 500 msecs.
pctv452e_power_ctrl: 0
dvb-usb: Technotrend TT Connect S2-3600 successfully initialized and connected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver pctv452e
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb-usb-tt-connect-s2-3600-01.fw

Remote control support

The black TT remote is supported by the device.

External links

none