Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-5525

A combined DVB-T/DVB-T2 or DVB-C or DVB-S/DVB-S2 PCIe card from Hauppauge.

Overview/Features

• PCI-e x1 low profile card (includes standard profile backplate)
• Single Tuner for DVB-S/DVB-S2
• Single Tuner for DVB-T/DVB-T2/DVB-C
• IR Receiver
• Remote Controller

Technical Details

• Name: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-5525
• Bridge: Conexant PCIe A/V Decoder CX23888
• DVB-T2/C demodulator: Si2168-B40
• DVB-T2/C tuner: Si2157-A30
• DVB-S2 demodulator and tuner: Montage M88RS6000
• PCI ID 0070:f038

Driver and firmware

• Following firmware files are needed: dvb-demod-m88rs6000.fw and dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw. All can be found from OpenELEC firmware tree [1].
• Place the firmware files under /lib/firmware

Making it Work

The driver is included in Linux kernels since 4.1. For older kernels you can use the media_build:

Compile

git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git
cd media_build
./build

Installation

sudo make install

Download the firmwares mentioned in the previous chapter and place them in /lib/firmware, reboot (or reload appropriate modules) and it should work.

dmesg output:

[   12.075076] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[   12.393825] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   14.471461] cx23885 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
[   14.471581] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:f038, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR5525 [card=52,autodetected]
[   14.803585] tveeprom 3-0050: Hauppauge model 150329, rev C3I6, serial# 4035814105
[   14.803589] tveeprom 3-0050: MAC address is 00:0d:fe:8d:a2:d9
[   14.803592] tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is SiLabs Si2157 (idx 186, type 4)
[   14.803594] tveeprom 3-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0xf4)
[   14.803596] tveeprom 3-0050: audio processor is CX23888 (idx 40)
[   14.803598] tveeprom 3-0050: decoder processor is CX23888 (idx 34)
[   14.803600] tveeprom 3-0050: has radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
[   14.803601] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=150329
[   14.803604] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   14.803606] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   14.807030] i2c i2c-3: Added multiplexed i2c bus 6
[   14.872564] a8293 3-000b: Allegro A8293 SEC successfully attached
[   15.014407] m88rs6000t 6-0021: chip_id=64
[   15.086092] m88rs6000t 6-0021: Montage M88RS6000 internal tuner successfully identified
[   15.086105] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   15.086110] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Montage Technology M88RS6000)...
[   15.086452] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   15.086455] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   15.123685] i2c i2c-3: Added multiplexed i2c bus 7
[   15.123690] si2168 3-0064: Silicon Labs Si2168 successfully attached
[   15.174568] si2157 4-0060: Silicon Labs Si2147/2148/2157/2158 successfully attached
[   15.174580] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   15.174584] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Silicon Labs Si2168)...
[   15.174937] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xd0
[   15.174944] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:03:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 17, latency: 0, mmio: 0xf9e00000

After accessing the tuner, for example in kaffeine:

[  558.122216] m88ds3103 3-0069: found a 'Montage Technology M88DS3103' in cold state
[  558.135696] m88ds3103 3-0069: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-m88rs6000.fw'
[  559.031833] m88ds3103 3-0069: found a 'Montage Technology M88DS3103' in warm state
[  559.031838] m88ds3103 3-0069: firmware version: 4.1
[  559.190046] si2168 3-0064: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2168-B40'
[  559.197471] si2168 3-0064: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw'
[  559.802566] si2168 3-0064: firmware version: 4.0.11
[  559.807715] si2157 4-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
[  559.829809] si2157 4-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5

External Links

Hauppauge product page