failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103

Hi Everyone,

I wonder if you anyone has seen the error "failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103". I have had this working in the past on an older version of Raspberry Pi (can't remember the version). I recently decided to start looking at this again as we get poor Digital TV Signal where we are. Our only option is Freesat.

I remember in the past that I had to connect the DVB-S Tuner, then connect power, then connect USB. Just in case I have miss remembered this I have tried to connect in different order such as USB, Power, the boot the Raspberry Pi and so on. I do not remember getting any errors like this when I had this etup in the past however this time around it seams to be a bit more complicated. I would like to get this working to experiment with using TVHeadend with PLEX. I already have a HDHomeRun which gets me the basic channels locally but unfortunately for the rest I need to sue a Satellite dish.

2023-10-21 17:02:59.264 mpegts: 10714.25H in Freesat - tuning on Montage Technology M88DS3103 #0 : DVB-S #0
2023-10-21 17:02:59.297 diseqc: failed to disable tone
2023-10-21 17:02:59.297 mpegts: 10744H in Freesat - tuning on Montage Technology M88DS3103 #0 : DVB-S #0
2023-10-21 17:02:59.298 diseqc: failed to disable tone

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2023-10-21 17:21:13.787 [   INFO]:mpegts: 10714.25H in Freesat - tuning on Montage Technology M88DS3103 #0 : DVB-S #0
2023-10-21 17:21:13.841 [  ERROR]:diseqc: failed to disable tone

Nothing before and nothing after.

Any help or advise anyone can offer would be appreciated.

Regards,
Tom

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Replies (2)

RE: failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103 - Added by Erick Alonso about 1 year ago

Hi!

I have the same problem on a new Pi5
I managed to get it to work a year or so ago on a Pi4, but for the life of me I cant remember how!! I know we have to save the firwmare onto /lib/firmware which I have done for the pi5, but still no go.

I will try to copy the firmware from pi4 to pi5 tonight as on the pi5 I used a version from the internet - maybe that's causing problems

let me know if you got it to work and how

Regards,

RE: failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103 - Added by Erick Alonso about 1 year ago

Tom Park wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I wonder if you anyone has seen the error "failed to disable tone with Montage Technology M88DS3103". I have had this working in the past on an older version of Raspberry Pi (can't remember the version). I recently decided to start looking at this again as we get poor Digital TV Signal where we are. Our only option is Freesat.

I remember in the past that I had to connect the DVB-S Tuner, then connect power, then connect USB. Just in case I have miss remembered this I have tried to connect in different order such as USB, Power, the boot the Raspberry Pi and so on. I do not remember getting any errors like this when I had this etup in the past however this time around it seams to be a bit more complicated. I would like to get this working to experiment with using TVHeadend with PLEX. I already have a HDHomeRun which gets me the basic channels locally but unfortunately for the rest I need to sue a Satellite dish.

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Nothing before and nothing after.

Any help or advise anyone can offer would be appreciated.

Regards,
Tom

Tom, I've managed to get it to work without issues,

had to update the same version of firmware I had on the pi4. luckily i didnt wipe the SSD before grabbing the file.

let me know if you need it or if you are still stuck.

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