[linux-dvb] USB DVB-T Tuner with Alfa AF9015 + Philips TDA18211

[linux-dvb] USB DVB-T Tuner with Alfa AF9015 + Philips TDA18211

[David]

Hi All

I have been offered this low cost device.
Just to enquire if any work is has already been done or is underway, to 
support devices with this chipset and tuner combination.

Regards
David 


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Re: [linux-dvb] USB DVB-T Tuner with Alfa AF9015 + Philips TDA18211

[Michael Krufky]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM, David <dvb-t@iinet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have been offered this low cost device.
> Just to enquire if any work is has already been done or is underway, to
> support devices with this chipset and tuner combination.


David,

Antti Palosaari has been maintaining a AF901x driver repository -- I
know that his code is working, but I do not know the state of it, and
when (or if) he plans to merge it.

A few months ago, I added support for the tda18211 to the tda18271
driver, Antti has tested it and integrated it into his repository.

So, long story short, yes -- that hardware combination does work in
Antti Palosaari's external development repository hosted on
linuxtv.org

The tda18211 support is already in kernel 2.6.26, supported by the
tda18271 driver that I wrote.

Regards,

Mike

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Re: [linux-dvb] USB DVB-T Tuner with Alfa AF9015 + Philips TDA18211

[Antti Palosaari]

David wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have been offered this low cost device.
> Just to enquire if any work is has already been done or is underway, to 
> support devices with this chipset and tuner combination.

Could you try http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015 . Download firmware 
from 
http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/dvb-usb-af9015.fw
. It should work if your device has reference design USB-IDs, if not new 
USB-IDs should be added to the driver.

regards
Antti
-- 
http://palosaari.fi/

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Re: [linux-dvb] USB DVB-T Tuner with Alfa AF9015 + Philips TDA18211

[David]

> David wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have been offered this low cost device.
>> Just to enquire if any work is has already been done or is underway, to 
>> support devices with this chipset and tuner combination.
>
> Could you try http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015 . Download firmware 
> from 
> http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/dvb-usb-af9015.fw
> . It should work if your device has reference design USB-IDs, if not new 
> USB-IDs should be added to the driver.
>
> regards
> Antti
> -- 
> http://palosaari.fi/

Hi Antti

Thanks very much for your reply and apologies for the delay in my response 
as I only received a sample of this unit today.

I tested it in a box that already had your driver installed for use with a 
Leadtek Winfast Dongle Gold (which, incidentally works extremely well, thank 
you for your efforts.)

I ran a dmesg and the system sees it as:-
[ 23.514189] input: NEWMI USB2.0 DVB-T TV Stick as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb4/4-6/4-6:1.1/input/input1

The af9015 driver complains:
[ 34.055777] dvb_usb_af9015: disagrees about version of symbol 
dvb_usb_device_init

lsusb returns:
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 15a4:9016

Regards
David



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Re: [linux-dvb] USB DVB-T Tuner with Alfa AF9015 + Philips TDA18211

[David]

From: "David" <dvb-t@iinet.com.au>
To: "Antti Palosaari" <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] USB DVB-T Tuner with Alfa AF9015 + Philips TDA18211


>> David wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I have been offered this low cost device.
>>> Just to enquire if any work is has already been done or is underway, to
>>> support devices with this chipset and tuner combination.
>>
>> Could you try http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015 . Download firmware
>> from
>> http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/dvb-usb-af9015.fw
>> . It should work if your device has reference design USB-IDs, if not new
>> USB-IDs should be added to the driver.
>>
>> regards
>> Antti
>> -- 
>> http://palosaari.fi/
>
> Hi Antti
>
> Thanks very much for your reply and apologies for the delay in my response
> as I only received a sample of this unit today.
>
> I tested it in a box that already had your driver installed for use with a
> Leadtek Winfast Dongle Gold (which, incidentally works extremely well, 
> thank
> you for your efforts.)
>
> I ran a dmesg and the system sees it as:-
> [ 23.514189] input: NEWMI USB2.0 DVB-T TV Stick as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb4/4-6/4-6:1.1/input/input1
>
> The af9015 driver complains:
> [ 34.055777] dvb_usb_af9015: disagrees about version of symbol
> dvb_usb_device_init
>
> lsusb returns:
> Bus 004 Device 003: ID 15a4:9016
>
> Regards
> David

Hi Antii

As a follow up to this I had another look at it today.
I remembered I had also been testing a DVICO Dual Digital 4 r2 card in this 
box.
I decided to reload a disk image of a MythBuntu installation that originally 
had a Winfast Dongle Gold installed.
Happy to report that the device works perfectly, without requiring any 
changes to settings.

Regards
David

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