Re: PCTV Triplestick and Raspberry Pi B+

[Andy Furniss <adf.lists@gmail.com>]

Peter Fassberg wrote:
>
>> Peter Fassberg wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to get PCTV TripleStick 292e working in a
>>>>> Raspberry Pi B+ environment.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have no problem getting DVB-T to work, but I can't tune to
>>>>> any DVB-T2 channels. I have tried with three different
>>>>> kernels: 3.18.11, 3.18.16 and 4.0.6.  Same problem.  I also
>>>>> cloned the media_build under 4.0.6 to no avail.
>>>>>
>>>>> The same physical stick works perfectly with DVB-T2 in an
>>>>> Intel platform using kernel 3.16.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have any suggestions what I can do to get this running
>>>>> or is there a known problem with Raspberry/ARM?
>>>>
>>>> What are you trying to tune with?
>>>
>>> I'm using dvbv5-scan.
>>>
>>> I use the same program on the system that works.
>>>
>>> The output for a DVB-T mux: Lock   (0x1f) Signal= -42.00dBm C/N=
>>> 20.25dB
>>>
>>> And a DVB-T2: Carrier(0x03) Signal= -35.00dBm
>>>
>>> There is a difference between Raspberry/ARM and Intel that I
>>> don't understand.
>>
>> Hmm, not sure then - maybe try md5sum on the firmware that dmesg
>> shows loading on each then if different backup/copy over etc.
>>
>> I am just a user so don't know what's different between 3.16 and
>> later.
>>
>> One thing I noticed at one point when setting mine up was (after
>> unknowingly breaking a splitter) that with the degraded splitter I
>> could get working/not on some T2 muxed by flipping the lna on off
>> with the option available with dvbv5-*.
>
> Yes, I also tested that.  The firmware is identical and the LNA as
> well.
>
> It do work 100% of the times I scan on the Intel platform.

OK - strange, is the issue reproducable with the current version of w_scan?