Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter"

Hi all!

I hope someone can shed some light on this problem.

"lspci | grep Multimedia" gives this:
"00:10.0 Multimedia controller: Digital Devices GmbH Octopus CI DVB Adapter"

But somehow it doesn't show up in Tvheadend.

I've spent hours googling around trying to find a guide on how to set this up (as I am very inexperienced with both Tvheadend and linux) but I have not found something that can solve this.

Replies (7)

RE: Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter" - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

As a test run this..

sudo service stop tvheadend
sudo /usr/bin/tvheadend -c /tmp/tvhtest --noacl

If they show up when running tvh as root it's a permissions issue, the user tvh is running as needs to be in the video group.

sudo usermod -aG video hts

replace hts with whatever user tvh is running as.

also check dmesg for errors.

RE: Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter" - Added by Thomas König over 6 years ago

No didn't do much.

Could it be that a driver is not installed?

According to Digital Devices site the Linux kernel starting with 4.17 should have the drivers built in.
I'm asking this as I'm not seeing a as "/dev/dvb" doesn't seem to exist.

RE: Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter" - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

Thomas König wrote:

No didn't do much.

Could it be that a driver is not installed?

According to Digital Devices site the Linux kernel starting with 4.17 should have the drivers built in.
I'm asking this as I'm not seeing a as "/dev/dvb" doesn't seem to exist.

in dmesg, you should see the devices "register", if not you're missing the required driver.

RE: Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter" - Added by Thomas König over 6 years ago

Not very good at Linux as I mentioned earlier, but...

I have these two lines in dmesg:

[ 0.103958] pci 0000:00:10.0: [dd01:0011] type 00 class 0x048000
[ 0.108251] pci 0000:00:10.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0xfea50000-0xfea5ffff 64bit]

I'm only assuming that those are the ones I should be looking for as the numbers 00:10.0 are the same as those listed with lspci

RE: Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter" - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

Nah, you should see something like.

"registering adapter foo".

RE: Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter" - Added by Thomas König over 6 years ago

Yeh, this is my bad.

Thank you for your quick support though.

I didn't much enough attention when installing debian, I took the latest and just assumed it should use a rather new kernel but I was wrong (Debian stretch is on kernel 4.9)
The drivers are not included in that kernel, but I also stated wrong kernel which includes the drivers it should be 4.14 not 4.17 (just for clarification)

So to use a kernel with support out of the box I must install Ubuntu 18.4, wich on the other hand does not have any official repo for tvheadend.

Compromises compromises... :-)

RE: Problem setting up on debian with a " Octopus CI DVB Adapter" - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

Thomas König wrote:

Yeh, this is my bad.

Thank you for your quick support though.

I didn't much enough attention when installing debian, I took the latest and just assumed it should use a rather new kernel but I was wrong (Debian stretch is on kernel 4.9)
The drivers are not included in that kernel, but I also stated wrong kernel which includes the drivers it should be 4.14 not 4.17 (just for clarification)

> So to use a kernel with support out of the box I must install Ubuntu 18.4, wich on the other hand does not have any official repo for tvheadend.

Compromises compromises... :-)

The third party ppa is just as good as the main repo

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