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[ColinB]

kernel is crashing..

Most probably paches from upstream required to make it work.

I am sorry but stick is not usable without extra patches.

 

Many thanks for Your time

 

Best regards Colin

[Flintstone67]

Came across this post, the user was able to get the dvb-c part working. But not sure how much it applies to enigma2.

 

http://forum.armbian...mn88472/?p=1652

[athoik]

Almost working here...
 

...

usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Astrometa DVB-T2' in warm state
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
DVB: registering new adapter (Astrometa DVB-T2)
i2c i2c-0: Added multiplexed i2c bus 1
rtl2832 0-0010: Realtek RTL2832 successfully attached
mn88473 0-0018: Panasonic MN88473 successfully identified
usb 1-2: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
usb 1-2: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 1 (Panasonic MN88473)...
r820t 1-003a: creating new instance
r820t 1-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
r820t 1-003a: attaching existing instance
r820t 1-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
Registered IR keymap rc-empty
input: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/rdb/10480300.usb/usb1/1-2/rc/rc0/input0
rc rc0: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/rdb/10480300.usb/usb1/1-2/rc/rc0
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: 'Astrometa DVB-T2' successfully initialized and connected
...

root@osminiplus:~# dvb-fe-tool -f 1 
Device Panasonic MN88473 (/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1) capabilities:
     CAN_2G_MODULATION
     CAN_FEC_1_2
     CAN_FEC_2_3
     CAN_FEC_3_4
     CAN_FEC_5_6
     CAN_FEC_7_8
     CAN_FEC_AUTO
     CAN_GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO
     CAN_HIERARCHY_AUTO
     CAN_INVERSION_AUTO
     CAN_MUTE_TS
     CAN_QAM_16
     CAN_QAM_32
     CAN_QAM_64
     CAN_QAM_128
     CAN_QAM_256
     CAN_QAM_AUTO
     CAN_QPSK
     CAN_TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO
DVB API Version 5.10, Current v5 delivery system: DVBT
Supported delivery systems:
    [DVBT]
     DVBT2
     DVBC/ANNEX_A

The osmini and the osminiplus has the latest kernel 4.6 where almost complete support included without extra patches!

Still one driver related with Astrometa (MN88472) is in staging, but in kernel 4.7 will be included as well.

So on the newer kernel 4.7 there will be 100% support of Astrometa devices.

PS. Renaming the frontend1 to frontend0 works, although better to patch Enigma2 to scan for other usb frontends.

Edited by athoik, 27 June 2016 - 17:20.

[Flintstone67]

That looks very promising.!

 

I'm sure there is a lot of interest to get those working now. Especially with the recent role-out of dvbt2 in Germany.

As they only cost about $16, its a cheap alternative for an additional Dvb-T2/dvb-C tuner.

 

Also that RTL2832 chipset allows you to use it as a Software Defined Radio. (listen to police/aircraft radio)

Been playing around with that on a Windows machine, and thats pretty cool.   https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR.

[athoik]

Using yesterdays update of meta-edision on osmini and osminiplus (4.6.3 kernel) I am able to use astrometa now with the rename frontend trick.
 

usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Astrometa DVB-T2' in warm state
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
DVB: registering new adapter (Astrometa DVB-T2)
i2c i2c-3: Added multiplexed i2c bus 4
rtl2832 3-0010: Realtek RTL2832 successfully attached
mn88473 3-0018: Panasonic MN88473 successfully identified
usb 1-2: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
usb 1-2: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 1 (Panasonic MN88473)...
r820t 4-003a: creating new instance
r820t 4-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
r820t 4-003a: attaching existing instance
r820t 4-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
Registered IR keymap rc-empty
input: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/rdb/10480300.usb/usb1/1-2/rc/rc0/input3
rc rc0: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/rdb/10480300.usb/usb1/1-2/rc/rc0
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: 'Astrometa DVB-T2' successfully initialized and connected
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu

root@osminiplus:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 15f4:0131 HanfTek
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@osminiplus:~# uname -a
Linux osminiplus 4.6.3 #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 09:54:33 EEST 2016 mips GNU/Linux
root@osminiplus:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  400831  24
r820t                  17516  2
mn88473                 5439  1
rtl2832                11335  1
dvb_usb_rtl28xxu       17377  2
dvb_usb_v2             14912  1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
r8723bs               880990  0
hci_uart               25623  0
brcmstb_osminiplus   4437026  28
sp988x                 17489  1 brcmstb_osminiplus
ftm4862               328904  1 brcmstb_osminiplus
fts260                 66050  1 brcmstb_osminiplus
root@osminiplus:~# cat /proc/bus/nim_sockets
NIM Socket 0:
        Type: DVB-T2
        Name: FTM-4862 (Availink AVL6862)
        Frontend_Device: 0
        I2C_Device: 2
        Has_Outputs: yes
        Mode 0: DVB-S
        Mode 1: DVB-T
        Mode 2: DVB-C
        Internally_Connectable: 0
NIM Socket 1:
        Type: DVB-T
        Name: dvbt2
        Frontend_Device: 1
        I2C_Device: 255
        Has_Outputs: no
        Internally_Connectable: 0
root@osminiplus:~# init 4
root@osminiplus:~# mv /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend2
root@osminiplus:~# mv /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
root@osminiplus:~# init 3
root@osminiplus:~# cat /proc/bus/nim_sockets
NIM Socket 0:
        Type: DVB-T2
        Name: FTM-4862 (Availink AVL6862)
        Frontend_Device: 0
        I2C_Device: 2
        Has_Outputs: yes
        Mode 0: DVB-S
        Mode 1: DVB-T
        Mode 2: DVB-C
        Internally_Connectable: 0
NIM Socket 1:
        Type: DVB-T2
        Name: dvbt2
        Frontend_Device: 1
        I2C_Device: 255
        Has_Outputs: no
        Mode 0: DVB-T
        Mode 1: DVB-C
        Internally_Connectable: 0

Scanning and tuning works using the mn88473

PS. Driver is still on staging and not enabled by default, it will go out of staging on 4.7 kernel.

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[zmelkoow]

Hello guys!

 

I see that you made quite a progress with this stick. But is it really working as DVB-C tuner under openPLI and how to get it working?

 

THX

 

Z

[algdu83]

we have find this

https://github.com/avlogic/avl6862

[ColinB]

Using yesterdays update of meta-edision on osmini and osminiplus (4.6.3 kernel) I am able to use astrometa now with the rename frontend trick.
 

usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Astrometa DVB-T2' in warm state
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
DVB: registering new adapter (Astrometa DVB-T2)
i2c i2c-3: Added multiplexed i2c bus 4
rtl2832 3-0010: Realtek RTL2832 successfully attached
mn88473 3-0018: Panasonic MN88473 successfully identified
usb 1-2: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
usb 1-2: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 1 (Panasonic MN88473)...
r820t 4-003a: creating new instance
r820t 4-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
r820t 4-003a: attaching existing instance
r820t 4-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
Registered IR keymap rc-empty
input: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/rdb/10480300.usb/usb1/1-2/rc/rc0/input3
rc rc0: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/rdb/10480300.usb/usb1/1-2/rc/rc0
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs
usb 1-2: dvb_usb_v2: 'Astrometa DVB-T2' successfully initialized and connected
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu

root@osminiplus:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 15f4:0131 HanfTek
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@osminiplus:~# uname -a
Linux osminiplus 4.6.3 #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 09:54:33 EEST 2016 mips GNU/Linux
root@osminiplus:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  400831  24
r820t                  17516  2
mn88473                 5439  1
rtl2832                11335  1
dvb_usb_rtl28xxu       17377  2
dvb_usb_v2             14912  1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
r8723bs               880990  0
hci_uart               25623  0
brcmstb_osminiplus   4437026  28
sp988x                 17489  1 brcmstb_osminiplus
ftm4862               328904  1 brcmstb_osminiplus
fts260                 66050  1 brcmstb_osminiplus
root@osminiplus:~# cat /proc/bus/nim_sockets
NIM Socket 0:
        Type: DVB-T2
        Name: FTM-4862 (Availink AVL6862)
        Frontend_Device: 0
        I2C_Device: 2
        Has_Outputs: yes
        Mode 0: DVB-S
        Mode 1: DVB-T
        Mode 2: DVB-C
        Internally_Connectable: 0
NIM Socket 1:
        Type: DVB-T
        Name: dvbt2
        Frontend_Device: 1
        I2C_Device: 255
        Has_Outputs: no
        Internally_Connectable: 0
root@osminiplus:~# init 4
root@osminiplus:~# mv /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend2
root@osminiplus:~# mv /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
root@osminiplus:~# init 3
root@osminiplus:~# cat /proc/bus/nim_sockets
NIM Socket 0:
        Type: DVB-T2
        Name: FTM-4862 (Availink AVL6862)
        Frontend_Device: 0
        I2C_Device: 2
        Has_Outputs: yes
        Mode 0: DVB-S
        Mode 1: DVB-T
        Mode 2: DVB-C
        Internally_Connectable: 0
NIM Socket 1:
        Type: DVB-T2
        Name: dvbt2
        Frontend_Device: 1
        I2C_Device: 255
        Has_Outputs: no
        Mode 0: DVB-T
        Mode 1: DVB-C
        Internally_Connectable: 0

Scanning and tuning works using the mn88473

PS. Driver is still on staging and not enabled by default, it will go out of staging on 4.7 kernel.

 

 

While having a test with OpenATV6.0 (et8000) in noticed this:

 

Welcome to openATV for et8000
openatv 6.0 et8000

et8000 login: root
root@et8000:~# uname -r
4.8.3
root@et8000:~#

 

Do you think its still worth persuing DVB-T2 QAM256 for UK tv  or as cheap Cable tuner ?

 

Unfortunately I don't have my Astrometa USB to try out at the moment.

 

Cheers Colin

[athoik]

You can always give a try.

I never tested dvb-c part, only dvb-t.

[albano74]

I have a dvt2 astromet usb and can not connect with dreambox 800se anyone to help me. I have tried all the ways and instructions in posts.

[ColinB]

You can always give a try.

I never tested dvb-c part, only dvb-t.

 

@athoik Update.

 

I can confirm that DVB-T2 & DVB-C  works good in the UK.on my et8000, with the frontend swap trick.with newer kernels (4.10.6) Open ATV6.0/6.1

 

Also I have found that after frontend swap via PC-Telnet, that just copy ( i use "Deambox Edit" plugin) /dev/dvb/adaptor1 to a local folder.

 

Full reboot returns adapters to normal, ie software update or pligin install.

 

So from remote (No PC needed) send/ftp modified /dev/dvb/adaptor1

 

Restrat E2

 

Tara Frontends swapped.

[athoik]

Save the following script as /usr/bin/enigma2_pre_start.sh and make executable.
 

#!/bin/sh

# check if adapter already renamed and exit

[ -c /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend9 ] && exit 0

# do the rename

mv /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend9
mv /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0

exit 0

It will automate this for you.

Edited by athoik, 6 July 2017 - 21:55.

[ColinB]

I tried it this morming but:

 

root@et8000:/usr/bin# enigma2_pre_start.sh
-sh: /usr/bin/enigma2_pre_start.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
root@et8000:/usr/bin#

 

cheers Colin

[betacentauri]

Use a unix capable editor and remove the ^M at each end of the line.

[ColinB]

Nice one.

 

Many thanks

[base7]

Hello guys.

Please tell me it working as DVB-C tuner under Openpli 4 (VU+ Uno)?

[orator89]

Hi, I have the Astrometa Dvb-T2, and I want to make it working on a Openpli 4 (Gstreamer 0.10.36), kernel version:

 

3.6.0

 

Where can I find drivers/firmware form my kernel ?

 

Actually on my decoder I use an old RTL2832U DVB-T device...

[ColinB]

You can find firmware here: http://palosaari.fi/...are/MN88473/01/

 

But I needed kernel 4.10 to get it to work (et8000 SatDreamGR image).

Edited by ColinB, 5 April 2018 - 19:37.

[orator89]

Thanks. Actually if I insert the Usb dongle my box doesn't recognize the interface.. No dvb-t/t2 adapter recognized (if I insert my old RTL2832U adapter everything is ok)..
The firmware you posted is for DVB-t2? Basically what I should do? Copy firmware? And for kernel .ko? and anything more?

Thanks again

[birdman]

I have the DVB-T2 side of this working in OpenVix.

You need to modify the code that looks for USB tuners to look for frontends beyond frontend0 (which is trivial).

 

(This is on an Xtrend et8000 with kernel 4.10.6)

Edited by birdman, 14 April 2018 - 10:13.