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==Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1110==
==Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1110==
The Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1110 is a hybrid receiver card (analog and DVB-T). It sometimes ships in a HVR-1100 box. The HVR-1110 however is of triangular shape while the HVR-1100 board is of rectangular shape. The analog tuner is based on the PHILIPS SAA7134 chipset, while the digital tuner is based on the TDA10046 chipset.
The Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1110 is a hybrid receiver card (analog and DVB-T). It sometimes ships in a HVR-1100 box. The HVR-1110 however is of triangular shape while the HVR-1100 board is of rectangular shape. The analog tuner is based on the [[Philips SAA7134]] chipset, while the digital tuner is based on the TDA10046 chipset.


In the following sections I will explain how I set the card up in order to work under Fedora Core 6.0
In the following sections I will explain how I set the card up in order to work under Fedora Core 6.0
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===Installing the HVR-1110 to Work Under Fedora Core 6===
===Installing the HVR-1110 to Work Under Fedora Core 6===
The Howto applies to a x86_64 architecture running Fedora Core 6 and kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.
The Howto applies to a x86_64 architecture running Fedora Core 6 and kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.
====Installing the [[SAA7134]] Driver====
====Installing the [[Philips SAA7134|SAA7134]] Driver====
The analog tuner of the HVR-1110 runs out of the box. The kernel moduls are already included in the 2.6.20 kernel. No driver installation is required. Look out for something like
The analog tuner of the HVR-1110 runs out of the box. The kernel moduls are already included in the 2.6.20 kernel. No driver installation is required. Look out for something like
kernel: saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
kernel: saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded

Revision as of 02:50, 17 April 2007

Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1110

The Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1110 is a hybrid receiver card (analog and DVB-T). It sometimes ships in a HVR-1100 box. The HVR-1110 however is of triangular shape while the HVR-1100 board is of rectangular shape. The analog tuner is based on the Philips SAA7134 chipset, while the digital tuner is based on the TDA10046 chipset.

In the following sections I will explain how I set the card up in order to work under Fedora Core 6.0

Installing the HVR-1110 to Work Under Fedora Core 6

The Howto applies to a x86_64 architecture running Fedora Core 6 and kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.

Installing the SAA7134 Driver

The analog tuner of the HVR-1110 runs out of the box. The kernel moduls are already included in the 2.6.20 kernel. No driver installation is required. Look out for something like

 kernel: saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded

in the /var/log/messages to make sure the driver is loaded.

Installing the SAA7134-dvb Modules

In order for the DVB-T to work an additional module, SAA7134-dvb, and the firmware has to be installed. First of all, check whether the module is already installed. Scan through

dmesg

and look out for something like

DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 1 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...

If you find that, than the SAA7134-dvb kernel module is already installed. Please not that in this case the HVR-1110 is the second DVB card registered in the system. You see that since frontend is 1 and not 0. If kernel module is not installed, load it into the kernel like this

modprobe saa7134-dvb.

This should automatically create a folder in /dev:

/dev/dvb/adapterN

where N is an integer. The first dvb card will be numbered starting at N=0, each following card will increase N by one. Issue an

dmesg

command to check whether the kernel module has been loaded. Output should be

DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
DVB: registering frontend 1 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...

Installing the Firmware

Additionally to the kernel module the firmware has to be installed. In order to do that use get_dvb_firmware, which is a perl script. I downloaded it from the internet (http://parker1.co.uk/myth/get_dvb_firmware) since it was not included in my Linux package. Download the firmware by issuing the command (this assumes that get_dvb_firmware resides in /usr/bin)

/usr/bin/get_dvb_firmware tda10046

This downloads and extracts the file dvb-fe-tda10046.fw automatically. All that needs to be done now is to copy that file into

/lib/firmware

Making the Modules Load into the Kernel at Startup

In order that the saa7134-svb module gets loaded at startup add following line

install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe  --ignore-install saa7134 && { /sbin/modprobe saa7134-alsa; } && { /sbin/modprobe saa7134-dvb;}

to the modprobe.conf in

/etc/modprobe.conf

Now check whether everything is working as it should. Restart the PC and check the /var/log/messages. Look out for something like:

kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
kernel: DVB: registering frontend 1 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...

telling you the dvb modules got loaded. Please note that in this case the system has two DVB cards. The second one (frontend 1) is the HVR 1110.

kernel: tda1004x: found firmware revision 20 -- ok

tells you that firmware has also been loaded.

Next Step

The next step is to create a channels.conf. To this end follow the link First steps with a DVB device