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TechniSat SkyStar HD2

Added by Olav Aasgaard almost 13 years ago

I have the following running Tvheadend installation:
• Ubuntu server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
• Kernel version 2.6.32-33-generic-pae
• KNC1 TV-Station DVB-C Plus card

I have now for several days tried to add a ”TechniSat SkyStar HD2” card (DVB-S/S2) and make it work - without any success so far.

lspci –v gives me the following output:
02:02.0 Multimedia controller: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd Mantis DTV PCI Bridge Controller [Ver 1.0] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device 1ae4:0003
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 63750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at fc7ff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]

As you can see there is no driver loaded. Anyone out there who can help?
Thanks!


Replies (4)

RE: TechniSat SkyStar HD2 - Added by Olav Aasgaard almost 13 years ago

I have managed to install and load the mantis driver:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/stable-vdr
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install v4l-dvb-dkms
sudo reboot

lspci –v gives me now the following output:
02:02.0 Multimedia controller: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd Mantis DTV PCI Bridge Controller [Ver 1.0] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device 1ae4:0003
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24
Memory at fc7ff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: Mantis
Kernel modules: mantis

RE: TechniSat SkyStar HD2 - Added by Olav Aasgaard almost 13 years ago

Next challenge:
The TV-card (TechniSat SkyStar HD2) is visible in Tvheadend as "STB0899 Multistandard", but I'm not able to make it scan for muxes/channels.
Any ideas?

RE: TechniSat SkyStar HD2 - Added by Hein Rigolo almost 13 years ago

The matis driver is not using the s2-api (dvb api v5) but the old multiproto.

Have a look at the linuxtv.org wiki with more information about your card and how to install the latest version of the dvb drivers from linuxtv.org.
There you can also find information about how to test your card using the dvb-apps tools.

Hein

RE: TechniSat SkyStar HD2 - Added by Martin Mrvka almost 13 years ago

I had the SkyStar HD2 working under Lucid, but I guess I was using s2-liplianin drivers. you may try 

sudo apt-get install s2-liplianin-dkms
if you haven't got it working yet.

As Hein suggested, if you've installed "dvb-apps", you can use e.g.

sudo scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E
to verify the card is working outside tvheadend (stop tvheadend before).

Martin

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