Configuring Ubuntu 16.04

Trying to re-configure my server.

It was running an older version of Ubuntu. I tried upgrading through the versions to the latest LTS, but TVH never got working.

So trying it as a fresh install.

Copied DVB-USB device firmware to /lib/firmware/. Can see the devices (I have 2x) are registered in dmesg

Install TVH following install wiki guide. Using 4.2.2 (stable-4.2)

When installed, using the web interface... add a Network for both devices (called "DVB-C Network"). Then manually add in a DVB-C mux that I know to be local, but fails:
mpegts: 666.75MHz in DVB-C Network - scan no data, failed

Can anyone help?

Using same firmware files as when it was previously working (4.0.4 through 4.0.25). Tried some help on the IRC channel as well.

Replies (14)

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by saen acro over 7 years ago

What say FEMON during scan?
Is other scanning tools find services?

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by Dan Burt over 7 years ago

I wasnt sure what "FEMON" was, but found it is an executable binary. I ran it this eve, as root. Here is the output, repeated over and over:

status | signal 0% | snr 0% | ber 0 | unc 1 |
Problem retrieving frontend information: Operation not supported

I have also retried the w_scan tool, and it loops through a set of frequencies, which I have skipped to the last couple entries, followed by the error message:

842000: sr6900 (time: 07:51.203) sr6875 (time: 07:52.707)
850000: sr6900 (time: 07:54.215) sr6875 (time: 07:55.719)
858000: sr6900 (time: 07:57.223) sr6875 (time: 07:58.731)

ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder

Nothing seems to be working. I am wondering if Virgin (the cable provider here in the UK) has terminated the TV services on my line? would it be possible to at least prove this or not?

thanks

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by saen acro over 7 years ago

test with this parameters

UK.Virgin_Media.zip (929 Bytes) UK.Virgin_Media.zip

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by Dan Burt over 7 years ago

How do I test with these?

I have entered the following muxes, all returning FAIL status:
666.750
675.000
666.000

i cant recall, but there were definitely some services scanned from at least one of these muxes!

when I first set up TVH, I only entered my local region's frequency (666.750 / 6952). this then populated most of the other muxes and services. but this has not worked this time..

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by saen acro over 7 years ago

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RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by Dan Burt over 7 years ago

what is this list? channels.conf file for dvbv5-scan config file?

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by saen acro over 7 years ago

Virgin frequency table

freq / qam / SR

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by Dan Burt over 7 years ago

I have put all these frequencies into a text file, then run it against dvbv5-scan. it returns an error, so there is no output.

i also created the same text file, but only with the 666.750Mhz frequency in last night. not sure how many times it was run, but i do have an output that is usable:

@
[666.75MHz#101]
SERVICE_ID = 101
VIDEO_PID = 101
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#102]
SERVICE_ID = 102
VIDEO_PID = 201
AUDIO_PID = 211
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#103]
SERVICE_ID = 103
VIDEO_PID = 301
AUDIO_PID = 311
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#104]
SERVICE_ID = 104
VIDEO_PID = 401
AUDIO_PID = 411
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#105]
SERVICE_ID = 105
VIDEO_PID = 501
AUDIO_PID = 511
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#106]
SERVICE_ID = 106
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#109]
SERVICE_ID = 109
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#110]
SERVICE_ID = 110
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#111]
SERVICE_ID = 111
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#112]
SERVICE_ID = 112
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#113]
SERVICE_ID = 113
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#114]
SERVICE_ID = 114
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#115]
SERVICE_ID = 115
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#116]
SERVICE_ID = 116
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#117]
SERVICE_ID = 117
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#118]
SERVICE_ID = 118
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#119]
SERVICE_ID = 119
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#120]
SERVICE_ID = 120
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#121]
SERVICE_ID = 121
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#122]
SERVICE_ID = 122
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#123]
SERVICE_ID = 123
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#10009]
SERVICE_ID = 10009
PID_05 = 1009
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#10010]
SERVICE_ID = 10010
PID_05 = 1010
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A

[666.75MHz#10011]
SERVICE_ID = 10011
PID_05 = 1011
FREQUENCY = 666750000
MODULATION = QAM/256
INVERSION = AUTO
SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000
INNER_FEC = NONE
DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A
@

however, trying to re-run it again today, and we are back to the errors.

i have also now tried the stable, stable-4.2 and unstable TVH builds. same problems / errors.

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by saen acro over 7 years ago

RTFM
https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Dvbv5-scan

example channel/frequency list format:

[CHANNEL]
    DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A
    FREQUENCY = 113000000
    SYMBOL_RATE = 6900000
    INNER_FEC = NONE
    MODULATION = QAM/64
    INVERSION = AUTO

You try to scan for specific service on specific frequency, non sense.
With notepad++ you can convert it very fast

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by Dan Burt over 7 years ago

I HAVE READ THE EFFING MANUAL. top to bottom.

the page you have linked me to shows an example of many channel entries put into a single file.

I have edited to match up against your list. as an example, with a single frequency, the file looks like:

[CHANNEL] DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A FREQUENCY = 666750000 SYMBOL_RATE = 6952000 INNER_FEC = NONE MODULATION = QAM/256 INVERSION = AUTO

this is the console output:

user@host:~$ sudo dvbv5-scan channels.conf ERROR command BANDWIDTH_HZ (5) not found during retrieve Cannot calc frequency shift. Either bandwidth/symbol-rate is unavailable (yet). Scanning frequency #1 666750000 Lock (0x1f) C/N= 33.75dB ERROR dvb_read_sections: no data read on section filter ERROR error while waiting for PAT table

But... I do have 1 output file, so it must have worked once! Though this hasn't helped me any further, and this is what I previously pasted.

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by saen acro over 7 years ago

Is Femon show in same time something
(femon -H must be runned in other terminal and sniffing same tuner on with you scan)

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by Dan Burt over 7 years ago

I turned on "Idle Scan" for the network. At the same time, in an SSH session, I ran "sudo femon -H". This was the output:

user@host:~$ sudo femon -H FE: Silicon Labs Si2168 (DVBC) Problem retrieving frontend information: Operation not supported status SCVYL | signal 0% | snr 0% | ber 0 | unc 1 | FE_HAS_LOCK

Additional note - today I installed OpenElec onto a spare Raspberry Pi, which can also install tvheadend. Doing this, plugging in my USB tuners, the channels scanned in. I had some other problems, but they may be related to the RPi platform. Underlying fact = incoming connectivity is fine, problem is the drivers / firmware on this Ubuntu (SERVER) 16.04 Xenial instance.

I cannot believe I am the only person running this version of the distro, or TVH on top of it, with these USB tuners as they are quite popular.

Should I simply copy the .fw files, and everything else works? This is what I am led to believe!

My old installation was Ubuntu 14.10 with a manually updated kernel to v3.19. Likelihood is I probably installed other components, such as "linuxtv.org" media_build stuff.

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by saen acro over 7 years ago

Linux modules are reverse engineered in most cases and firmware are dumped from windows drivers
https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware

RE: Configuring Ubuntu 16.04 - Added by Dan Burt over 7 years ago

Swapping around the USB tuners, minor progress... Also turned off "Initial scan" and "Idle scan" against the Network settings.

Now I add in the 666.750mHz frequency and it auto-populates a number of other muxes. It also identifies a number of services on a few of these.

However, scanning them, and mapping services into channels, every single one fails. I rebooted, and now following the next scan, all the muxes fail again.

I have been running a debug trace log file of the linuxdvb and mpegts modules / subsystems. There seems to be mixture of "poll timeout", "no input detected", "invalid service". I cant seem to find an obvious section with a starting or ending loop, so just dumped a section here:
[[https://pastebin.com/SP6VQcak]]

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