Tvheadend

Does anyone know if this tuner has been made to work on Linux?

Looks like it's for sale for £9.99 in the UK at the moment. A bargain for DVB-T2/C if it does work.

I tried one a couple of weeks ago (was tempted by a £20 price-tag at the time)
On stock Debian 8 and the latest Raspbian Jessie, it was not recognised.
I cannot remember with 100% certainty if I tried it on Debian backports Kernel 4.7.0, however I think I did, and believe it was still not recognised.

Didn't fancy hacking round the kernel modules, so gave up on it :(
Shame - would have been a bargin indeed ...

I bought one anyway to have a play with, though I probably don't have the time at the moment to hack about with different kernel modules.

I guess it's been on the market for long enough that if it's not supported by now it probably won't be, but I live in hope!

I tried to get it work on raspbian jessie
running kernel compiled from the raspberry's GitHub rpi-4.8.y branch.

Here is what I can see in the dmesg:

[ 3.541136] usb 1-1.5: new high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[ 3.667891] usb 1-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=02d5
[ 3.667906] usb 1-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 3.667915] usb 1-1.5: Product: Xbox USB Tuner
[ 3.667923] usb 1-1.5: Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp.
[ 3.667931] usb 1-1.5: SerialNumber: 004457220415
[ 3.866968] systemd-udevd¹⁴³: starting version 215
[ 4.260932] gpiomem-bcm2835 3f200000.gpiomem: Initialised: Registers at 0x3f200000
[ 4.665616] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 4.870880] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[ 5.008225] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: May 27 2016 00:13:38 version 7.45.41.26 (r640327) FWID 01-df77e4a7
[ 5.033153] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_reg_notifier: not a ISO3166 code (0x30 0x30)
[ 5.113260] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_reg_notifier: not a ISO3166 code (0x30 0x30)
[ 5.248731] systemd-journald¹³²: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[ 5.692571] dvb-usb: found a 'Microsoft Xbox Tuner' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[ 5.696524] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[ 5.763585] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
[ 6.277113] dvb-usb: found a 'Microsoft Xbox Tuner' in warm state.
[ 6.277383] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[ 6.277503] DVB: registering new adapter (Microsoft Xbox Tuner)
[ 6.538445] mn88472 3-0018: Panasonic MN88472 successfully identified
[ 6.538494] usb 1-1.5: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Panasonic MN88472)...
[ 6.555486] tda18250b_i2c 3-0060: chip_id=c7:4a:21
[ 6.555499] tda18250b_i2c 3-0060: NXP TDA18250BHN/M successfully identified
[ 6.596931] Registered IR keymap rc-dib0700-rc5
[ 6.597630] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/rc/rc0/input0
[ 6.597659] rc rc0: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/rc/rc0
[ 6.598318] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs.
[ 6.598330] dvb-usb: Microsoft Xbox Tuner successfully initialized and connected.
[ 6.598579] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700
[ 7.245905] IPv6: ADDRCONF: wlan0: link is not ready
[ 7.245955] brcmfmac: power management disabled
[ 7.799202] uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: no DMA platform data
[ 8.180288] IPv6: ADDRCONF: wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 8.278386] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap. Priority:-1 extents:4 across:184316k SSFS
[ 9.050330] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[ 9.050606] IPv6: ADDRCONF: eth0: link is not ready
[ 9.369857] mn88472 3-0018: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-mn88472-02.fw'
[ 9.459190] tmbslTDA18250A_Open(0x%08X)
[ 9.459201] === TDA18250B open, result[0x0].
[ 9.459206] tmbslTDA18250A_SetPowerState(0x%08X)
[ 9.459211] iTDA18250A_SetLLPowerState(0x%08X)
[ 9.459215] iTDA18250A_CheckHwState(0x%08X)
[ 9.459639] <0x60[0x6] 0x000001
[ 9.459888] >0x60[0x6] 0x000000
[ 9.460319] <0x60[0x25] 0x0000db
[ 9.460566] >0x60[0x25] 0x0000db
[ 9.460571] === TDA18250B SetPowerState, result[0x0].
[ 9.460575] tmbslTDA18250A_HwInit(0x%08X)
[ 9.500517] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500527] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500532] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500537] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500542] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500547] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500552] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500557] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500562] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500566] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500571] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500576] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500581] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500586] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500591] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500595] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500600] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500605] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500610] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500615] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500620] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500625] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500629] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500634] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500639] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500644] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500649] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500653] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500658] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500663] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500668] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500673] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500678] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500682] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500687] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500692] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500697] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500702] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500707] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500711] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500716] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500721] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500726] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500731] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500736] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500741] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500745] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500750] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500755] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500760] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500765] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500770] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500774] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500779] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500784] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500789] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500794] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500799] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500803] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500808] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500813] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500818] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500823] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500827] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500832] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500838] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500842] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500847] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500852] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500857] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500862] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500867] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500872] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500876] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500881] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500886] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500891] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500896] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500900] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500905] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500910] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500915] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500920] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500925] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500929] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500934] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500939] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500944] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500949] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500954] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500958] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500964] <0x60[0x0] 0x000000
[ 9.500968] <0x60[0x0] 0x0000c7
[ 9.500977] iTDA18250A_SetLLPowerState(0x%08X)
[ 9.500981] iTDA18250A_CheckHwState(0x%08X)
[ 9.501426] <0x60[0x6] 0x000000
[ 9.501678] >0x60[0x6] 0x000000
[ 9.502092] <0x60[0x25] 0x0000db
[ 9.502343] >0x60[0x25] 0x0000db
[ 9.502590] >0x60[0x43] 0x000040
[ 9.502847] >0x60[0x47] 0x000064
[ 9.503111] >0x60[0x20] 0x0000c7
[ 9.503371] >0x60[0x2d] 0x000004
[ 9.503616] >0x60[0x43] 0x000040
[ 9.503867] >0x60[0x2d] 0x000004
[ 9.504116] >0x60[0x2c] 0x000045
[ 9.504367] >0x60[0x2e] 0x000004
[ 9.504614] >0x60[0x2d] 0x000006
[ 9.504866] >0x60[0x2e] 0x000004
[ 9.505116] >0x60[0x39] 0x000000
[ 9.505367] >0x60[0x46] 0x000008
[ 9.505614] >0x60[0x25] 0x0000db
[ 9.505866] >0x60[0x4b] 0x000030
[ 9.506116] >0x60[0xe] 0x000040
[ 9.506371] >0x60[0x12] 0x000002
[ 9.506619] >0x60[0x19] 0x000008
[ 9.506868] >0x60[0xf] 0x000000
[ 9.507556] >0x60[0xd] 0x00000c
[ 9.508741] >0x60[0x13] 0x000060
[ 9.509006] >0x60[0x18] 0x0000f7
[ 9.509258] >0x60[0x19] 0x000008
[ 9.509507] >0x60[0x1a] 0x000000
[ 9.509760] >0x60[0xd] 0x00000c
[ 9.510016] >0x60[0x12] 0x000022
[ 9.510270] >0x60[0x31] 0x000000
[ 9.510521] >0x60[0x3b] 0x000055
[ 9.510772] >0x60[0x3f] 0x000085
[ 9.511026] >0x60[0x40] 0x000087
[ 9.511284] >0x60[0x30] 0x00000e
[ 9.511554] >0x60[0x1e] 0x000029
[ 9.511809] >0x60[0x21] 0x000000
[ 9.512059] >0x60[0xe] 0x000040
[ 9.512310] >0x60[0x12] 0x000022
[ 9.512557] >0x60[0x13] 0x000060
[ 9.512806] >0x60[0x18] 0x000077
[ 9.513056] >0x60[0x44] 0x0000c0
[ 9.513305] >0x60[0xd] 0x00001c
[ 9.513554] >0x60[0x10] 0x000047
[ 9.513811] >0x60[0x11] 0x000040
[ 9.514062] >0x60[0x2c] 0x000075
[ 9.514314] >0x60[0x2e] 0x000007
[ 9.514561] >0x60[0x46] 0x00000c
[ 9.514808] >0x60[0xd] 0x00005c
[ 9.515055] >0x60[0x12] 0x000026
[ 9.515302] >0x60[0x19] 0x000009
[ 9.515548] >0x60[0x11] 0x00004e
[ 9.515798] >0x60[0xf] 0x00000e
[ 9.516051] >0x60[0x18] 0x000037
[ 9.516298] >0x60[0x31] 0x000000
[ 9.516553] >0x60[0x25] 0x0000cb
[ 9.516800] >0x60[0x4d] 0x000069
[ 9.517217] >0x60[0x4e] 0x000078
[ 9.517771] >0x60[0x4f] 0x000000
[ 9.518026] >0x60[0x4f] 0x000080
[ 9.518281] >0x60[0x50] 0x000080
[ 9.518549] >0x60[0x4f] 0x00008d
[ 9.518845] >0x60[0x51] 0x00001b
[ 9.519094] >0x60[0x41] 0x0000c0
[ 9.519340] >0x60[0x30] 0x00000e
[ 9.519590] >0x60[0x21] 0x000000
[ 9.519858] >0x60[0xd] 0x00005d
[ 9.520122] >0x60[0xc] 0x0000c7
[ 9.520370] >0x60[0x59] 0x000005
[ 9.520616] >0x60[0x5b] 0x000004
[ 9.520866] >0x60[0x5b] 0x000007
[ 9.521119] >0x60[0x3c] 0x0000a7
[ 9.521367] >0x60[0xa] 0x000082
[ 9.521373] iTDA18250A_SetMSM(0x%08X)
[ 9.521671] >0x60[0x2a] 0x000070
[ 9.521676] >0x60[0x2b] 0x000001
[ 9.522106] <0x60[0x8] 0x000028
[ 9.547474] <0x60[0x8] 0x0000ba
[ 9.547486] iTDA18250A_SetMSM(0x%08X)
[ 9.547786] >0x60[0x2a] 0x000002
[ 9.547792] >0x60[0x2b] 0x000001
[ 9.548211] <0x60[0x8] 0x0000bb
[ 9.548217] iTDA18250A_SetLLPowerState(0x%08X)
[ 9.548221] iTDA18250A_CheckHwState(0x%08X)
[ 9.548654] <0x60[0x25] 0x0000cb
[ 9.548918] >0x60[0x25] 0x00008b
[ 9.549335] <0x60[0x6] 0x000000
[ 9.549592] >0x60[0x6] 0x000002
[ 9.549841] >0x60[0x10] 0x000047
[ 9.550090] >0x60[0xc] 0x000047
[ 9.550096] === TDA18250B HW init status, result[0x0].
[ 9.550101] tmbslTDA18250A_SetPowerState(0x%08X)
[ 9.550105] iTDA18250A_SetLLPowerState(0x%08X)
[ 9.550109] iTDA18250A_CheckHwState(0x%08X)
[ 9.550549] <0x60[0x6] 0x000002
[ 9.550798] >0x60[0x6] 0x000000
[ 9.551213] <0x60[0x25] 0x00008b
[ 9.551467] >0x60[0x25] 0x0000cb
[ 9.551472] === TDA18250B Set2ndPowerState, result[0x0].
[ 9.551477] tmbslTDA18250A_SetStandardMode(0x%08X)
[ 9.551481] iTDA18250A_CheckHwState(0x%08X)
[ 9.551752] >0x60[0x22] 0x000053
[ 9.552004] >0x60[0x20] 0x0000c6
[ 9.552252] >0x60[0x23] 0x000003
[ 9.552500] >0x60[0x24] 0x000088
[ 9.552749] >0x60[0x21] 0x000082
[ 9.552997] >0x60[0xd] 0x00005d
[ 9.553244] >0x60[0xe] 0x000040
[ 9.553492] >0x60[0xc] 0x000007
[ 9.553742] >0x60[0xf] 0x00000e
[ 9.553992] >0x60[0xd] 0x00005d
[ 9.554243] >0x60[0x14] 0x0000e7
[ 9.554492] >0x60[0x14] 0x000067
[ 9.554742] >0x60[0x1a] 0x000030
[ 9.554992] >0x60[0x1a] 0x000033
[ 9.555241] >0x60[0x19] 0x000019
[ 9.555500] >0x60[0x1e] 0x000029
[ 9.555748] >0x60[0x30] 0x00000c
[ 9.555996] >0x60[0x26] 0x000063
[ 9.556001] iTDA18250A_PowerSavingMode(0x%08X)
[ 9.556318] >0x60[0x2c] 0x000044
[ 9.556324] >0x60[0x2d] 0x000006
[ 9.556329] >0x60[0x2e] 0x000007
[ 9.556333] === TDA18250B init SetStandardMode status[0x0].
[ 9.570826] === TDA18250B open, result[0x101E3027].
[ 12.499029] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.21
[ 12.499163] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 12.499172] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 12.500414] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 12.500434] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 12.500477] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 12.511232] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3
[ 12.511243] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered
[ 12.511248] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Three-wire (H5) registered
[ 12.511396] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol BCM registered
[ 12.822206] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 12.822218] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 12.822238] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

But it is not usable by the tvheadend yet. Maybe because of the TDA18250B open, result[0x101E3027].

Would be great to get this working ordered one today for £7.95 new from eBay

Also got one of these knocking around. Has anybody made progress on DVB-T support?

Ive just picked two of these up very very cheap as I use DVB-C/oscam here so not bothered about DVB-T/T2.

They are 7.40 on Amazon UK at the moment. These would be great to get working fully as I the RTL/Panasonic based cheap tuners from the internet never seemed to work very well.

Do you check the linuxtv wiki? There will be some information.

If there is no info it will be a good start to add all info as you can in the wiki.

Regards.

@ Josu Lazkano

No mention of it on there as yet.

Thanks

Dan Hans wrote:

Ive just picked two of these up very very cheap as I use DVB-C/oscam here so not bothered about DVB-T/T2.

They are 7.40 on Amazon UK at the moment. These would be great to get working fully as I the RTL/Panasonic based cheap tuners from the internet never seemed to work very well.

It would be awesome if someone develops a driver for linux.
As you say they are unbelievably cheap on eBay.
Quad tuner for <£40! Nice.

Olli Salonen wrote:

I made a git repo with Sky Anakin's changes. If someone wants to try out the driver, here's how:

[...]

And now reboot.

Unfortunately for me the make tar command fails with the following output:

rm -f /home/flix/media_build/linux/linux-media.tar.bz2
tar cf /home/flix/media_build/linux/linux-media.tar -C ../../media_tree sound/pci/bt87x.c include/linux/mmc/sdio_ids.h include/sound/aci.h include/uapi/linux/usb/video.h include/linux/via-core.h include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h include/linux/dma-buf.h include/linux/dma-fence.h include/linux/of_graph.h include/linux/kconfig.h include/linux/hdmi.h include/linux/compiler-gcc.h include/linux/dma/xilinx_dma.h include/trace/events/v4l2.h include/trace/events/vb2.h include/linux/pci_ids.h include/misc/altera.h include/uapi/linux/lirc.h include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h include/uapi/linux/meye.h include/uapi/linux/ivtv.h include/uapi/linux/ivtvfb.h include/uapi/linux/media.h include/uapi/linux/media-bus-format.h include/uapi/linux/v4l2-dv-timings.h include/uapi/linux/v4l2-controls.h include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h include/uapi/linux/xilinx-v4l2-controls.h include/uapi/linux/smiapp.h include/uapi/linux/v4l2-subdev.h include/uapi/linux/v4l2-common.h include/uapi/linux/v4l2-mediabus.h include/uapi/linux/cec.h include/uapi/linux/cec-funcs.h include/linux/fixp-arith.h firmware/av7110/bootcode.bin.ihex firmware/av7110/Boot.S firmware/cpia2/stv0672_vp4.bin.ihex firmware/ihex2fw.c firmware/vicam/firmware.H16 firmware/ttusb-budget/dspbootcode.bin.ihex
tar: include/linux/dma-fence.h: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: include/uapi/linux/cec.h: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: include/uapi/linux/cec-funcs.h: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Makefile:103: recipe for target 'tar' failed
make: *** [tar] Error 2

I checked, and in the current folder (~/media_build/linux) as well as the media_tree folder these files exist at the specified paths. I have kernel headers installed and I'm running 4.8.0-54-generic on Ubuntu 16.04.2 (amd64).

dpkg --get-selections | grep 4.8.0-54
linux-headers-4.8.0-54                install
linux-headers-4.8.0-54-generic            install
linux-image-4.8.0-54-generic            install
linux-image-extra-4.8.0-54-generic        install

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I tried it on a Raspberry Pi as well, same result unfortunately. This is a clean install and I've installed a more recent kernel, hoping this would automagically enable support for this tuner (which it didn't). Even on the older kernel I got the same message when compiling so I doubt it's actually related.

Felix Mann wrote:

[...]
Unfortunately for me the make tar command fails with the following output:
[...]

I have the same problem. Could you solve it somehow?

Alexander E wrote:

Felix Mann wrote:

[...]
Unfortunately for me the make tar command fails with the following output:
[...]

I have the same problem. Could you solve it somehow?

Someone (walterav) on the ubuntuforums has sent me a tar file with all the patches applied that were needed. The tar can be downloaded here: https://readycloud.netgear.com/client/dllink.html#t=03rheztpfx5/media_build.tar but the link will expire on the 31st of October 2017. Note that it has only been tested on the 4.10-x kernel (I used 16.04 with HWE kernel). I'm working on a script/smaller archive to apply to the git repo. This script would also verify the kernel version etc.

Edit: you will have to edit the version file in the v4l folder to match the kernel you're compiling for!

walterav from ubuntuforums wrote:

this tuner should popup in tvheadend and work just out of the box, hotswap/unplug will crash the driver and multiple usb xbox tuners will not work since only the latest in numbering is usable by tvheadend. If you have 3 usb xbox tuners active and scan/mux on the last tuner it will end up with three times as much services as on a single tuner, like its leaking scan results from each other adapter into the last adapter

Felix Mann wrote:

Note that it has only been tested on the 4.10-x kernel (I used 16.04 with HWE kernel). I'm working on a script/smaller archive to apply to the git repo. This script would also verify the kernel version etc.

Thanks for that file.

I have built and updated the kernel of my Rasperry Pi 3 to 4.10.17-v7+. Unfortunately it's not working:

Installing kernel modules under /lib/modules/4.10.0-21-generic/kernel/drivers/media/:
/sbin/depmod -a 4.10.0-21-generic
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/4.10.0-21-generic: No such file or directory
depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
Makefile.media:1659: recipe for target 'media-install' failed

There is no 4.10.0-21 in /lib/modules

ls /lib/modules
4.10.17-v7+  4.4.50+  4.4.50-v7+

I'm currently not at home, but there is a file called .version in the media_build folder (or one of its subfolders) that contains the kernel version that the modules compile against. You should update it with the version of the kernel on your Pi. But because the contents of the archive were built on x86 I'm not sure whether this will work for you. Please report back if changing the kernel version fixed the build for you. I originally intended to use this on a Pi 2 but gave up and moved to a NUC instead (I have dual tuner anyway).

Regards,

Felix

EDIT: the file to edit is: ./v4l/.version

After changing the version the build worked without any errors. Sadly Tvheadend still doesn't find the tuner. Probably because this is the x86 version as you said. Anyway thanks for your help.

Is it present in /dev/dvb ?
Any dmesg errors or obvious pointers? Firmware required?
Also, how long did it take to compile on the Raspberry Pi? Which model are you using?
Ideally I want to try it on a Raspberry Pi but might use an old Atom/Ion system I have going spare.

Anthony Thomas wrote:

Is it present in /dev/dvb ?

There seems to be no /dev/dvb

ls /dev/

autofs           gpiochip1  loop7               pts    ram8     tty11  tty25  tty39  tty52  tty9       vcs5
block            gpiochip2  loop-control        ram0   ram9     tty12  tty26  tty4   tty53  ttyAMA0    vcs6
btrfs-control    gpiomem    mapper              ram1   random   tty13  tty27  tty40  tty54  ttyprintk  vcsa
bus              hwrng      mem                 ram10  raw      tty14  tty28  tty41  tty55  uhid       vcsa1
cachefiles       initctl    memory_bandwidth    ram11  rfkill   tty15  tty29  tty42  tty56  uinput     vcsa2
char             input      mmcblk0             ram12  serial1  tty16  tty3   tty43  tty57  urandom    vcsa3
console          kmsg       mmcblk0p1           ram13  shm      tty17  tty30  tty44  tty58  vc-cma     vcsa4
cpu_dma_latency  log        mmcblk0p2           ram14  snd      tty18  tty31  tty45  tty59  vchiq      vcsa5
cuse             loop0      mqueue              ram15  stderr   tty19  tty32  tty46  tty6   vcio       vcsa6
disk             loop1      net                 ram2   stdin    tty2   tty33  tty47  tty60  vc-mem     vcsm
fb0              loop2      network_latency     ram3   stdout   tty20  tty34  tty48  tty61  vcs        vhci
fd               loop3      network_throughput  ram4   tty      tty21  tty35  tty49  tty62  vcs1       watchdog
full             loop4      null                ram5   tty0     tty22  tty36  tty5   tty63  vcs2       watchdog0
fuse             loop5      ppp                 ram6   tty1     tty23  tty37  tty50  tty7   vcs3       xconsole
gpiochip0        loop6      ptmx                ram7   tty10    tty24  tty38  tty51  tty8   vcs4       zero

Any dmesg errors or obvious pointers? Firmware required?

Seems to be the same as before.

dmesg

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.10.17-v7+ (pi@raspberrypi) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Raspbian 4.9.2-10) ) #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 22:47:20 CEST 2017
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fd034] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=10c5383d
[    0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt:Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 8 MiB at 0x3a800000
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 241664
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80c70000, node_mem_map b9faa000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 2124 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 241664 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 14 pages/cpu @b9f60000 s25664 r8192 d23488 u57344
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s25664 r8192 d23488 u57344 alloc=14*4096
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 239540
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: 8250.nr_uarts=0 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3dc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3f000000  dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=36931481-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 936272K/966656K available (7168K kernel code, 488K rwdata, 1912K rodata, 1024K init, 778K bss, 22192K reserved, 8192K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
    vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
    fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xbb800000 - 0xff800000   (1088 MB)
    lowmem  : 0x80000000 - 0xbb000000   ( 944 MB)
    modules : 0x7f000000 - 0x80000000   (  16 MB)
      .text : 0x80008000 - 0x80800000   (8160 kB)
      .init : 0x80b00000 - 0x80c00000   (1024 kB)
      .data : 0x80c00000 - 0x80c7a364   ( 489 kB)
       .bss : 0x80c7c000 - 0x80d3e8ac   ( 779 kB)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000]  Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 32.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[    0.000000] arm_arch_timer: Architected cp15 timer(s) running at 19.20MHz (phys).
[    0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x46d987e47, max_idle_ns: 440795202767 ns
[    0.000008] sched_clock: 56 bits at 19MHz, resolution 52ns, wraps every 4398046511078ns
[    0.000024] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 52ns
[    0.000347] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.001213] console [tty1] enabled
[    0.001259] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 38.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=192000)
[    0.001325] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.001708] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.001750] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.002751] Disabling cpuset control group subsystem
[    0.002938] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.003010] ftrace: allocating 22603 entries in 67 pages
[    0.054717] CPU0: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.054781] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.055226] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100034
[    0.056218] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.057040] CPU1: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.057046] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[    0.057805] CPU2: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.057812] CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 0, mpidr 80000002
[    0.058513] CPU3: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.058520] CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, socket 0, mpidr 80000003
[    0.058596] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[    0.058766] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (153.60 BogoMIPS).
[    0.058796] CPU: All CPU(s) started in HYP mode.
[    0.058822] CPU: Virtualization extensions available.
[    0.059644] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.072393] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 40 variant 3 rev 4
[    0.072732] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.072792] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.073365] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.074353] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.076576] DMA: preallocated 1024 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.085313] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[    0.085361] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[    0.085557] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[    0.087445] bcm2835-mbox 3f00b880.mailbox: mailbox enabled
[    0.087999] uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: could not find pctldev for node /soc/gpio@7e200000/uart0_pins, deferring probe
[    0.155341] bcm2835-dma 3f007000.dma: DMA legacy API manager at bb80f000, dmachans=0x1
[    0.157229] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.157415] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.157518] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.157637] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.164189] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2017-04-05 11:49
[    0.165623] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[    0.212600] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[    0.212709] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.212937] FS-Cache: Loaded
[    0.213207] CacheFiles: Loaded
[    0.225199] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.226144] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.226282] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.226493] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[    0.226610] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.226679] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.226908] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.227352] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.227384] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.227411] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.227439] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.228387] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a7 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[    0.230716] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=18 bucket_order=4
[    0.246312] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[    0.247243] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.247298] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.247326] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.249596] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
[    0.249757] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.249786] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.250060] io scheduler cfq registered
[    0.254555] gpio gpiochip1: GPIO chip parent is NULL
[    0.255390] gpio gpiochip2: GPIO chip parent is NULL
[    0.256082] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA memory fa910000
[    0.256130] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA channel 0 @ bb80f000
[    0.264813] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 82x26
[    0.273160] bcm2835-rng 3f104000.rng: hwrng registered
[    0.275452] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver
[    0.277723] vc-cma: vc_cma_base      = 0x00000000
[    0.279967] vc-cma: vc_cma_size      = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[    0.282111] vc-cma: vc_cma_initial   = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[    0.284370] vc-mem: phys_addr:0x00000000 mem_base=0x3dc00000 mem_size:0x3f000000(1008 MiB)
[    0.304019] brd: module loaded
[    0.315198] loop: module loaded
[    0.317207] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
[    0.319748] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[    0.321770] dwc_otg: version 3.00a 10-AUG-2012 (platform bus)
[    0.549847] Core Release: 2.80a
[    0.551786] Setting default values for core params
[    0.553799] Finished setting default values for core params
[    0.756204] Using Buffer DMA mode
[    0.758210] Periodic Transfer Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[    0.760369] Multiprocessor Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[    0.762545] OTG VER PARAM: 0, OTG VER FLAG: 0
[    0.764757] Dedicated Tx FIFOs mode
[    0.767250] WARN::dwc_otg_hcd_init:1058: FIQ DMA bounce buffers: virt = 0xba904000 dma = 0xfa904000 len=9024
[    0.771708] FIQ FSM acceleration enabled for :
Non-periodic Split Transactions
Periodic Split Transactions
High-Speed Isochronous Endpoints
Interrupt/Control Split Transaction hack enabled
[    0.783096] dwc_otg: Microframe scheduler enabled
[    0.783145] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:459: FIQ on core 1 at 0x8059fc78
[    0.785455] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:460: FIQ ASM at 0x8059ffe8 length 36
[    0.787781] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:486: MPHI regs_base at 0xbb87a000
[    0.790140] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: DWC OTG Controller
[    0.792459] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    0.794823] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: irq 62, io mem 0x00000000
[    0.797163] Init: Port Power? op_state=1
[    0.799417] Init: Power Port (0)
[    0.801796] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[    0.804108] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    0.806437] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[    0.808684] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.10.17-v7+ dwc_otg_hcd
[    0.810959] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 3f980000.usb
[    0.813989] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    0.816217] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    0.818891] dwc_otg: FIQ enabled
[    0.818895] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[    0.818899] dwc_otg: FIQ split-transaction FSM enabled
[    0.818911] Module dwc_common_port init
[    0.819144] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    0.821478] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    0.824628] bcm2835-wdt 3f100000.watchdog: Broadcom BCM2835 watchdog timer
[    0.827191] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=600000 max=1200000
[    0.829854] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    0.832172] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    0.834715] sdhost-bcm2835 3f202000.sdhost: could not get clk, deferring probe
[    0.837527] mmc-bcm2835 3f300000.mmc: could not get clk, deferring probe
[    0.840066] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    0.849802] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[    0.852457] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    0.855116] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    0.857608] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    0.860668] vchiq: vchiq_init_state: slot_zero = ba980000, is_master = 0
[    0.865183] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[    0.867748] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    0.870326] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    0.873146] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[    0.876336] registered taskstats version 1
[    0.879109] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
[    0.881604] [vc_sm_connected_init]: start
[    0.884518] [vc_sm_connected_init]: end - returning 0
[    0.892122] 3f201000.serial: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x3f201000 (irq = 87, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
[    0.898569] sdhost: log_buf @ ba907000 (fa907000)
[    0.975651] mmc0: sdhost-bcm2835 loaded - DMA enabled (>1)
[    0.978516] mmc-bcm2835 3f300000.mmc: mmc_debug:0 mmc_debug2:0
[    0.980947] mmc-bcm2835 3f300000.mmc: DMA channel allocated
[    1.035712] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501
[    1.098158] of_cfs_init
[    1.100524] of_cfs_init: OK
[    1.103243] Waiting for root device PARTUUID=36931481-02...
[    1.107831] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[    1.114295] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 0007
[    1.117336] mmcblk0: mmc0:0007 SL32G 29.0 GiB
[    1.121460]  mmcblk0: p1 p2
[    1.124676] random: fast init done
[    1.129410] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[    1.130334] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (2 bytes)
[    1.131882] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
[    1.133445] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
[    1.136259] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (7 bytes)
[    1.141022] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): write access will be enabled during recovery
[    1.227607] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
[    1.245662] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[    1.248018] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101
[    1.475907] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9514
[    1.478233] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    1.481329] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[    1.483681] hub 1-1:1.0: 5 ports detected
[    1.805650] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[    1.935892] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
[    1.938235] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    1.943173] smsc95xx v1.0.5
[    2.039414] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-3f980000.usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:5f:7b:84
[    2.335645] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    2.466236] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=02d5
[    2.468722] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    2.471158] usb 1-1.2: Product: Xbox USB Tuner
[    2.473635] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp.
[    2.476203] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 004391230915
[   24.139007] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): recovery complete
[   24.152828] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   24.157933] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
[   24.169452] devtmpfs: mounted
[   24.173773] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K
[   24.473873] systemd[1]: systemd 215 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ -SECCOMP -APPARMOR)
[   24.479720] systemd[1]: Detected architecture 'arm'.
[   24.604728] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   24.608837] Segment Routing with IPv6
[   24.611512] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ipv6'
[   24.615877] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <raspberrypi>.
[   24.618467] systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator.
[   24.621148] systemd[1]: Installed transient /etc/machine-id file.
[   24.981925] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit regenerate_ssh_host_keys.service, ignoring: Unit regenerate_ssh_host_keys.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
[   24.993235] systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[   24.998959] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[   25.004427] systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems (Pre).
[   25.280173] fuse init (API version 7.26)
[   25.607083] systemd-udevd[147]: starting version 215
[   25.897011] gpiomem-bcm2835 3f200000.gpiomem: Initialised: Registers at 0x3f200000
[   26.202699] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[   26.334211] brcmfmac: Firmware version = wl0: May 27 2016 00:13:38 version 7.45.41.26 (r640327) FWID 01-df77e4a7
[   26.397000] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[   26.826912] systemd-journald[143]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[   27.553222] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   27.553269] brcmfmac: power management disabled
[   28.104135] uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: no DMA platform data
[   28.216360] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap.  Priority:-1 extents:5 across:200700k SSFS
[   28.857887] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[   28.858187] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   29.287023] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   32.524478] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   32.524568] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   32.524574] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   32.524594] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   32.524608] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   32.524666] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   32.534857] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3
[   32.534868] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered
[   32.534873] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Three-wire (H5) registered
[   32.535033] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Broadcom registered
[   32.773569] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   32.773579] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   32.773597] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   92.565833] random: crng init done

Also, how long did it take to compile on the Raspberry Pi? Which model are you using?

It just took a few minutes. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B?).

Ideally I want to try it on a Raspberry Pi but might use an old Atom/Ion system I have going spare.

Currently building on my atom/ion system....slowly.

In case I'm doing it wrong, is it just a case of extracting the media_build.tar, editing .version to my kernel version, make, sudo make install?

I can confirm this is working!

System:
Asus EB1501
Intel Atom 330
2GB RAM
Ubuntu 17.04
Linux ION 4.10.0-24-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 14 08:14:34 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Not sure if required but I put the MN88472 firmware in /lib/firmware
http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/MN88472/02/latest/

Running minisatip to act as a satip server - feeding to TVH on another system. It presents DVB-C and DVB-T.

DVB-C is working well so far for me. Time to buy some more adapters.

Nice to hear that it's working for you on x86. So I have to find a way to build the media_build for arm. The MN88472 firmware didn't change anything.

Just to say, I've spoken to crope/Antti Palosaari [the dev who wrote the Panasonic MN88472/3 driver on Linux for the Astrometa devices].

07:05:28 - crope: it basically needs TDA18250B tuner driver
07:05:45 - crope: usb-bridge and demod driver already exists
08:02:33 - crope: yeah, could be written "pretty" easily just taking usb sniffs. but it is still workload of week or two

I think he needs an xbox one to do any of that though, if anyone wants to help, contact him on freenode [He's in #linuxtv].

Anthony Thomas wrote:

Time to buy some more adapters.

From what I was told the driver is buggy and will not work with multiple adapters of the same type (yet). Purchasing multiple adapters will probably result in only one of them working.

walterav from ubuntuforums wrote:

this tuner should popup in tvheadend and work just out of the box, hotswap/unplug will crash the driver and multiple usb xbox tuners will not work since only the latest in numbering is usable by tvheadend. If you have 3 usb xbox tuners active and scan/mux on the last tuner it will end up with three times as much services as on a single tuner, like its leaking scan results from each other adapter into the last adapter

Thanks for the info.

I've already ordered them, very cheap (~£6 each) so I'll check once they arrive.

I'm not using them directly with tvheadend so maybe it won't be an issue for me. I'm basically creating a satip server using minisatip, it'll just present (eventually) 4 DVB-C tuners to TVH on a separate system. Much like the 4 tuner DVB-S2 satip servers do. Time will tell, I'll feedback once I know.

Just a little update after 2 days of use.

Still going strong and very happy.

Seeing some occasional pixelation, but only on encrypted channels, so I think that's an oscam/ecm issue rather than tuner/driver/setup.

Will report back once my extra tuners arrive.