Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV / FireDTV (incl. CI)

Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV / FireDTV (incl. CI)

[David Lister]

Hi all,

just found out that these cards have finally some preliminary Linux
support. They seem quite versatile and even customizable -- a true gift
for dedicated hobbyists. :) PCI/PCIe/AGP or floppy drive mounting and
firewire /connection/ chaining look especially interesting. Even
FloppyDTV is apparently half internal, half external - sort of. Anybody
with hands-on access? Any updates? Share your experience! :o)

E-shop:
http://www.dvbshop.net/index.php/cat/c441_Digital-Everywhere.html

Linux driver:
http://www.firedtv.bbackx.com/

Manufacturer's links & Linux Forum:
http://www.digital-everywhere.com/en/alcms/index.php?sid=1207139884
http://forum.digital-everywhere.com/viewforum.php?f=34


-- 
Dave

Re: Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV / FireDTV (incl. CI)

[Lou Otway]

David Lister wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just found out that these cards have finally some preliminary Linux
> support. They seem quite versatile and even customizable -- a true gift
> for dedicated hobbyists. :) PCI/PCIe/AGP or floppy drive mounting and
> firewire /connection/ chaining look especially interesting. Even
> FloppyDTV is apparently half internal, half external - sort of. Anybody
> with hands-on access? Any updates? Share your experience! :o)

I have been evaluating the Floppy DTV DVB-S2, DVB-T and DVB-C variants.

So far I have managed to get fairly good results from the DVB-S2 and 
DVB-T adapters but I can't get the DVB-C device to tune under linux. I 
tested it with a windows PC to be sure it wasn't faulty and it worked fine.

I've had them all working (i.e. appearing as devices) while chained one 
to the next and when individually connected to a 1394 adapter card.

Now I need to spend some more time to see if they will give the 
performance I need, but so far so good.

If anyone has been able to tune the cable adapter under linux I'd like 
to hear more.

I had to make a small modification to the driver to enable some frontend 
settings required by my applications, but apart from that the latest v4l 
  drivers have been sufficient.

Cheers,

Lou

Re: Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV / FireDTV (incl. CI)

[Johannes T. K.]

>
> If anyone has been able to tune the cable adapter under linux I'd like to
> hear more.
>

I have a firedtv c/ci which I have had some success with in linux. I
have no problem tuning and watching/recoding programs as long as they
are not scrambled. If the channel is scrambled I need to tune it twice
before I can watch the channel. I made a post on this some time back,
but didn't get any replies. I have tried figuring out what the problem
is, but without any luck. So as a final desperate measure I've ordered
a new CA module to see if that helps.

/Johs

Re: Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV / FireDTV (incl. CI)

[Ari Yrjölä]

"Johannes T. K." <linuxmedia@tangkristensen.dk> writes:

>>
>> If anyone has been able to tune the cable adapter under linux I'd like to
>> hear more.
>>
>
> I have a firedtv c/ci which I have had some success with in linux. I
> have no problem tuning and watching/recoding programs as long as they
> are not scrambled.

Same here, the CI part is useless with firedtv driver. I have
self-compiled VDR v1.7.7 running with xine-plugin on Debian
testing/unstable 2.6.29 x86_64, and there's no CAM menu available in
VDR's setup screen. Tested with older SCM Conax and now CAS7 capable NP4
Conax CAM, no success. Both CAMs work fine with Sony Bravia V3000, and
SCM card was working fine in a Technotrend T1500+CI (DVB-T) with VDR v1.4.7.

Updating firmware of my FloppyDTV C/CI (which can only be done on a
Windows box, great) didn't help anything either, but it seems to have
made things even worse. Now there's occasional errors like

Jun 15 21:40:04 silver kernel: firedtv 00128726020026b2-0: FCP response timed out

which didn't show up before firmware update. Now VDR recordings from FTA
channels fail sometimes too, and kernel log gets filled with 

DVB (dvb_dmxdev_filter_start): could not alloc feed

Re: Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV / FireDTV (incl. CI)

[Henrik Kurelid]

Hi Lou,

I do not have a DVB-C variant, but if you enable the AVC logging in the driver (cat -1 > /sys/module/firedtv/parameters/debug) and give a pointer to
a log from where you try to do a tune or scan, I can take a look at the log for you to see what I can come up with.
Also, please provide information about what scan file you are using.

Regards,
Henrik


> David Lister wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> just found out that these cards have finally some preliminary Linux
>> support. They seem quite versatile and even customizable -- a true gift
>> for dedicated hobbyists. :) PCI/PCIe/AGP or floppy drive mounting and
>> firewire /connection/ chaining look especially interesting. Even
>> FloppyDTV is apparently half internal, half external - sort of. Anybody
>> with hands-on access? Any updates? Share your experience! :o)
>
> I have been evaluating the Floppy DTV DVB-S2, DVB-T and DVB-C variants.
>
> So far I have managed to get fairly good results from the DVB-S2 and
> DVB-T adapters but I can't get the DVB-C device to tune under linux. I
> tested it with a windows PC to be sure it wasn't faulty and it worked fine.
>
> I've had them all working (i.e. appearing as devices) while chained one
> to the next and when individually connected to a 1394 adapter card.
>
> Now I need to spend some more time to see if they will give the
> performance I need, but so far so good.
>
> If anyone has been able to tune the cable adapter under linux I'd like
> to hear more.
>
> I had to make a small modification to the driver to enable some frontend
> settings required by my applications, but apart from that the latest v4l
>   drivers have been sufficient.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lou
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