2014-11-29, 00:38
Just wondering if anyone with more experience than I have can help me with tuner card driver issues in Linux.
Currently running XBMC/Kodi on a dedicated PC running Ubuntu. I have a dual tuner DVBSky S952 DVB-S2 card which I use for French and German TV on 13/19.2°E via TVHeadend.
In Linux the DVBSky cards require you to download their own drivers including their version of media_build, as described on LinuxTV.
With these settings I've had everything working fine for a while now, but I now also have a USB DVB-T2 digital terrestrial stick that I want to add to the system (a PCTV 290e which I've used with Openelec on a mini PC before, all working nicely). The problem is that even though this USB tuner is supported in the Linux kernel, the media_build drivers from DVBSky don't work and I can't see the USB stick in TVHeadend (plus dmesg shows em2800xx errors). If I download and compile the regular media_build drivers for Linux, the PCTV 290e will work but I then lose my DVBsky satellite card.
Is there any way I can just get the specific drivers for the USB stick without overwriting the whole of the media_build install and losing my satellite card access?
My other thought was to eventually get a DVBSky T982 dual tuner PCIe DVB-T2 card but I've heard that they're not particularly sensitive tuner-wise. That'd be OK if I lived in a strong signal area but our DVB-T/T2 signal is around 46dBuV which is usable but on the weak side (ideal is 50dBuV+) according to the installer who did our aerial. Anyone got any experience with this card?
Thanks for your time!
Currently running XBMC/Kodi on a dedicated PC running Ubuntu. I have a dual tuner DVBSky S952 DVB-S2 card which I use for French and German TV on 13/19.2°E via TVHeadend.
In Linux the DVBSky cards require you to download their own drivers including their version of media_build, as described on LinuxTV.
With these settings I've had everything working fine for a while now, but I now also have a USB DVB-T2 digital terrestrial stick that I want to add to the system (a PCTV 290e which I've used with Openelec on a mini PC before, all working nicely). The problem is that even though this USB tuner is supported in the Linux kernel, the media_build drivers from DVBSky don't work and I can't see the USB stick in TVHeadend (plus dmesg shows em2800xx errors). If I download and compile the regular media_build drivers for Linux, the PCTV 290e will work but I then lose my DVBsky satellite card.
Is there any way I can just get the specific drivers for the USB stick without overwriting the whole of the media_build install and losing my satellite card access?
My other thought was to eventually get a DVBSky T982 dual tuner PCIe DVB-T2 card but I've heard that they're not particularly sensitive tuner-wise. That'd be OK if I lived in a strong signal area but our DVB-T/T2 signal is around 46dBuV which is usable but on the weak side (ideal is 50dBuV+) according to the installer who did our aerial. Anyone got any experience with this card?
Thanks for your time!