Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner
Added by Stephen Neal about 10 years ago
Hi all
This looks like it could be very good value if Open Source drivers appear for it : http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/accessories/digital-tv-tuner#fbid=1ui_UaaGUzy GBP£25/EUR€30 for a DVB-T/T2/C USB tuner for use with the Microsoft Xbox One (but like the Sony Play TV presumably usable on any PC platform if Linux drivers appear)
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RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Ian P. over 7 years ago
Anthony Thomas wrote:
After a little while of testing a 4x XBox One tuner DVB-C setup I have noticed that there are definitely some signal issues with this tuner.
They don't perform anywhere near as well as an Astrometa MN88473 based tuner. Regular pixelisation.
I've tried adding a powered amplifier but I know if you're boosting a poor signal it often makes it worse, but I also don't think it's a poor signal in the first place (or certainly not too bad).
I also saw yesterday when TVH tried to do an epggrab on 3 tuners, whilst I was watching TV through another, the signal went through the floor with many errors. But strangely only on one mux - muxes either side were as before, very odd.
Maybe I need a better quality signal splitter, or to change how I route the cable to the tuners - currently using some screw on gender changers which I know aren't too great.
TVHeadend has a "Low Noise Amplifier" tick box in the tuner settings. I'm not sure if these sticks have a LNA or if the option is implemented in the driver, but maybe that might help if you haven't tried it yet?
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 7 years ago
Looks like I got a crash (leak?) with tvheadend using these tuners - I've opened an issue here
@olli Is this a bug with tvheadend or the tuners? I'm swapping them out for just the astrometa and an August T210v2, so I should be able to answer that myself eventually.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Anthony Thomas over 7 years ago
Mark Clarkstone wrote:
Anthony Thomas wrote:
After a little while of testing a 4x XBox One tuner DVB-C setup I have noticed that there are definitely some signal issues with this tuner.
They don't perform anywhere near as well as an Astrometa MN88473 based tuner. Regular pixelisation.
I've tried adding a powered amplifier but I know if you're boosting a poor signal it often makes it worse, but I also don't think it's a poor signal in the first place (or certainly not too bad).
I also saw yesterday when TVH tried to do an epggrab on 3 tuners, whilst I was watching TV through another, the signal went through the floor with many errors. But strangely only on one mux - muxes either side were as before, very odd.
Maybe I need a better quality signal splitter, or to change how I route the cable to the tuners - currently using some screw on gender changers which I know aren't too great.
I have the original Astrometa (MN88472) and experienced the same problem on DVB-T again with only one mux - the strongest one of all. Now here's the interesting thing, both xbox tuners are connected to the same powered splitter using quality cables (with another 4+ tuners, all fine). The one (xbox tuner, using a cable that was made) is fine, the other with a high quality (sealed) cable glitched like hell, I switched it out with a cheapo poundland cable, and guess what, it's fine!
Make of that what you will.. (yes, I checked the cables were all connected correctly many times).
Just added a different type of amplifier and changed the gender changers/couplers to cables and whilst the problem hasn't gone, it's definitely better. I guess I'm just on the edge of it being good enough.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Josu Lazkano over 7 years ago
Hello,
Could we create a wiki page in linuxtv to share this documentation?
It will be great for other people that not use tvheadend and want to use this device in Linux machines.
Kind regards.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by marco raap over 7 years ago
is it possible to install the driver on Rasbian on a Banana Pi?
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 7 years ago
marco raap wrote:
is it possible to install the driver on Rasbian on a Banana Pi?
It should be yes, I was able to build an armbian image on mine which is essentially Debian Jessie, and Raspbian is pretty much the same.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Josu Lazkano over 7 years ago
Hello,
Thanks Olli for your work, it works well with DVB-C.
I installed in a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Jessie Lite image and I am using with minisatip to feed tvheadend.
I can not find all channels, but I think that I must configure the muxes first.
Kind regards.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 7 years ago
Anthony Thomas wrote:
.. snip ..
Looks like I'd spoken too soon, the cc errors later returned, so I started to investigate a bit more & remembered some tuners don't like power saving, which on my BPiM1/Armbian is (by default) set to ondemand, I changed this to performance and so far (last 30-45 mins) it hasn't shown any CC errors. So you may want to give that a try!
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Anthony Thomas about 7 years ago
Is there module argument that can be used to disable power saving? Or have you just done it through TVH?
Since I'm not using TVH on that system I'd need to do it the kernel module way.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Anthony Thomas about 7 years ago
Mark Clarkstone wrote:
Anthony Thomas wrote:
.. snip ..
Looks like I'd spoken too soon, the cc errors later returned, so I started to investigate a bit more & remembered some tuners don't like power saving, which on my BPiM1/Armbian is (by default) set to ondemand, I changed this to performance and so far (last 30-45 mins) it hasn't shown any CC errors. So you may want to give that a try!
Mark, can you give this a try and see if it works for you? Because it seems to be for me on initial testing.
/etc/modprobe.d/dvb_xbox.conf (or whatever file you want in modprobe.d) options dvb_usb_dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Anthony Thomas about 7 years ago
Ian P. wrote:
TVHeadend has a "Low Noise Amplifier" tick box in the tuner settings. I'm not sure if these sticks have a LNA or if the option is implemented in the driver, but maybe that might help if you haven't tried it yet?
I think you could have been spot on, added the LNA option to load with the module and it may be working.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Anthony Thomas about 7 years ago
A bit more testing and I don't think it has actually helped.
Another idea, do these tuners perform better after a reboot and gradually degrade over time?
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Olli Salonen about 7 years ago
I don't think the LNA option does anything with these drivers. On or off, the behaviour will be the same.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Anthony Thomas about 7 years ago
Olli Salonen wrote:
I don't think the LNA option does anything with these drivers. On or off, the behaviour will be the same.
That answers that then!
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 7 years ago
Anthony Thomas wrote:
Is there module argument that can be used to disable power saving? Or have you just done it through TVH?
Since I'm not using TVH on that system I'd need to do it the kernel module way.
Sorry for not responding sooner.
- The LNA option in both tvheadend and the module, as Olli has already said, do absolutely nothing.
- The power saving mode I was talking about was for the system itself, the CPU governor. I set mine to performance & after a few days I'm not seeing any major CC errors, I still get a few but now it's only on initial tune.
I'm seriously annoyed at how much faster these are compared to my August T210v2 tuners :/
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Anthony Thomas about 7 years ago
Ah, I see. Are you using the tuners on a RPi (or ARM) system?
I'm on an x86/64 system, I'll see if I can force the CPU high in case that helps.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 7 years ago
Anthony Thomas wrote:
Ah, I see. Are you using the tuners on a RPi (or ARM) system?
Banana Pi M1, so ARM.
I'm on an x86/64 system, I'll see if I can force the CPU high in case that helps.
It pretty much solved all my errors.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by marco raap about 7 years ago
pi@bpi-iot-ros-ai:~/media_build $ make distclean make -C /home/pi/media_build/v4l distclean make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l' rm -f *~ *.o *.ko .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd *.mod.c av7110_firm.h fdump \ config-compat.h Module.symvers Module.markers modules.order \ *.unsigned .*.ko.unsigned.cmd make -C firmware clean make[2]: Entering directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l/firmware' rm -f ihex2fw rm -f vicam/firmware.fw ttusb-budget/dspbootcode.bin cpia2/stv0672_vp4.bin av7110/bootcode.bin make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l/firmware' rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d *.mod.gcno Makefile.media \ Kconfig Kconfig.kern .config .config.cmd .myconfig \ .kconfig.dep rm -rf .tmp_versions .tmp*.ver .tmp*.o .*.gcno rm -f scripts/lxdialog scripts/kconfig make -C firmware distclean make[2]: Entering directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l/firmware' rm -f ihex2fw rm -f vicam/firmware.fw ttusb-budget/dspbootcode.bin cpia2/stv0672_vp4.bin av7110/bootcode.bin for i in av7110/ cpia2/ ttusb-budget/ vicam/; do if [ -d $i ]; then rm -rf $i; fi; done make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l/firmware' make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l' pi@bpi-iot-ros-ai:~/media_build $ make make -C /home/pi/media_build/v4l make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l' No version yet, using 3.4.112-sun7i scripts/make_makefile.pl Updating/Creating .config make[2]: Entering directory '/home/pi/media_build/linux' Syncing with dir ../../media Applying patches for kernel 3.4.112-sun7i patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/api_version.patch 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED Makefile:138: recipe for target 'apply_patches' failed make[2]: *** [apply_patches] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/media_build/linux' Preparing to compile for kernel version 3.4.112 File not found: /lib/modules/3.4.112-sun7i/build/.config at ./scripts/make_kconfig.pl line 33, <IN> line 4. Updating/Creating .config make[2]: Entering directory '/home/pi/media_build/linux' Syncing with dir ../../media make[3]: Entering directory '/home/pi/media_build/linux' Unapplying patches make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/media_build/linux' Applying patches for kernel 3.4.112-sun7i patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/api_version.patch 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED Makefile:138: recipe for target 'apply_patches' failed make[2]: *** [apply_patches] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/media_build/linux' Preparing to compile for kernel version 3.4.112 File not found: /lib/modules/3.4.112-sun7i/build/.config at ./scripts/make_kconfig.pl line 33, <IN> line 4. make[1]: *** No rule to make target '.config', needed by '.myconfig'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/media_build/v4l' Makefile:26: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2
i trie to install the Drivers on a Banana Pi running raspbian lite
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Olli Salonen about 7 years ago
marco raap wrote:
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i trie to install the Drivers on a Banana Pi running raspbian lite
Are you running kernel 3.4? I don't think that will ever work.. You will need something quite recent for this driver.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by marco raap about 7 years ago
Yes,
what kernel do I need for this?
What can I do?
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Felix Mann about 7 years ago
marco raap wrote:
Yes,
what kernel do I need for this?
What can I do?
Option 1: Use a Raspberry Pi to recreate the situation others have had success with in this thread (because the Orange, Banana and other alternatives to the Raspberry usually don't run Kernel 4.x and most of the drivers you need aren't written for Kernel 3.x)
Option 2: Use a PC/Netbook/NUC to go the x86 way. Benefits of doing it this way include the ability to transcode multiple streams and higher available bandwidth over USB/Ethernet. The Pi can be fairly limiting in I/O bandwidth in certain cases.
In both cases, read posts by people claiming they have a working setup. And if you've read all the instructions and followed them to the letter and it still doesn't work I'm sure someone (maybe even me) will help you to troubleshoot.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by marco raap about 7 years ago
I found Ambian will try this first.
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by marco raap about 7 years ago
i do have problems I think to install the kernel-headers propertly
Anyone an Idea?
RE: Xbox One DVB-T/T2/C tuner - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 7 years ago
marco raap wrote:
I found Ambian will try this first.
I wasn't able to build it on my Banana Pi either, I had to compile an image with the git patches.. I can upload my img if you like.