Technisat SkyStar USB HD

A DVB-S2 USB 2.0 Device from TechniSat.

Drivers are now included in kernel branch 2.6.39.

Overview/Features

This is a USB 2.0 device capable of receiving DVB-S and DVB-S2 tranponders.
The device has a red power-LED that is on as long as the box is powered by the external power supply. A green LED indicates that the tuner has locked.

Components Used

STV6110x

Identification

USB VID: 14F7 USB PID: 0500

Making it Work

Firmware

The needed firmware file dvb-usb-SkyStar_USB_HD_FW_v17_63.HEX.fw can be fetched from [1]. After download, move/copy it to /lib/firmware/

Drivers

Drivers are included in Linux Mainline since 2.6.39. The device can be found here

Device Drivers -> Multimedia support -> DVB/ATSC adapters -> Support for various USB DVB devices -> Technisat DVB-S/S2 USB2.0 support

Sample Kernel Output

[   57.920057] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[   58.070871] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=14f7, idProduct=0500
[   58.070877] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   58.070882] usb 1-5: Product: TechniSat USB device
[   58.070886] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: TechniSat Digital
[   58.070889] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: XXXXXXXXXXXX
[   58.071273] technisat-usb2: set alternate setting
[   58.071365] technisat-usb2: firmware version: 17.63
[   58.071368] dvb-usb: found a 'Technisat SkyStar USB HD (DVB-S/S2)' in warm state.
[   58.071671] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[   58.072073] DVB: registering new adapter (Technisat SkyStar USB HD (DVB-S/S2))
[   58.073492] dvb-usb: MAC address: 00:08:c9:XX:XX:XX
[   58.211662] stv6110x_attach: Attaching STV6110x
[   58.214363] technisat-usb2: i2c-error: 60 = 7
[   58.289865] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Technisat SkyStar USB HD (DVB-S/S2))...
[   58.289930] Registered IR keymap rc-technisat-usb2
[   58.290053] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/rc/rc0/input3
[   58.290095] rc0: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/rc/rc0
[   58.290185] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (technisat-usb2) registered at minor = 0
[   58.290188] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 100 msecs.
[   58.290487] dvb-usb: Technisat SkyStar USB HD (DVB-S/S2) successfully initialized and connected.

Remote Control Support

The remote is supported by the device (as can be seen in the dmesg-output above).

External Links

• [2]