Tvheadend

h1. TBS6981

This is used by [[Adam]] for his TVH server. It is a PCIe card providing dual DVB-S2 tuners. Unlike some other cards [[TeVii-S480]] it's a native PCIe interface and not a PCIe to USB bridge.

h2. Driver Support

TBS provide official (out of tree) kernel drivers which can be downloaded from "here":www.tbsdtv.com/download/#tbs6981. However the one issue I find is that the build system defaults to including ALL TBS's drivers, which is a LOT. And so it can take more than an hour to compile everything.

To simplify the process I created a config file to only compile those modules that are required, I've attached it to this article.

h3. Building/Installing driver

1. Download from "here":http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/#tbs6981

2. mkdir tbs; cd tbs; unzip DOWNLOAD.zip

3. tar xf linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2

4. find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

5. chmod 755 linux-tbs-drivers/v4l/scripts/*

6. find linux-tbs-drivers -name “*.sh” -exec chmod 755 {} \;

7. cd linux-tbs-drivers/

8. ./v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh

9. Copy attached config to ./v4l/.config

10. make

11. mkdir tbs

12. find -name “*.ko” -exec cp {} tbs/ \;

13. tar jcf tbs-modules.tar.bz2 tbs

14. tar -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -xf tbs-modules.tar.bz2

15. depmod -a

Note: you can combine steps 11-14, it's just I build on diff machine to install.

Once installed you will need to reboot due to the way the driver is integrated.