Geniatech HDStar v3 DVB-S2 Not Working?

the_bo · 31 January 2016 20:08

Hi

Using rpi2 with latest January update. Trying to get the following dvb-s2 tuner to work.

On linuxtv it shows device supported Geniattech HDStar linuxtv.

I downloaded the dvb-fe-ds3000.fw firmware and placed it into /lib/firmware.

Tvheadend picks up the tuner but when i go to scan muxes it fails everytime.

Heres dmesg log. There seems to be lot of these errors in it:

dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (36/0)
dw2102: i2c transfer failed

In the Tvheadend log the following errors occur

linuxdvb: Montage Technology DS3000 : DVB-S #0 - DTV_CLEAR failed [e=No such device]
mpegts: 11740V in fta3 - tuning on Montage Technology DS3000 : DVB-S #0

Thanks for any info

Sataur · 5 February 2016 09:30

[quote=“the_bo, post:1, topic:12758”]
On linuxtv it shows device supported Geniattech HDStar linuxtv.
[/quote]but on other project there is info that support is broken?

the_bo · 5 February 2016 14:01

Do you have a link where says its broken thanks. I think drivers are still up to date on openelec not sure. I copied over the firmware to lib/firmware on osmc. It seems its a hardware fault. I’ll keep testing.

V3 of this device seems to giving problems.

Thanks for info anyways.

Sataur · 6 February 2016 12:15

you can find that even some stores have this:

Although LinuxTV.org shows that this is a compatible tuner, the device does not have mainline kernel support. Although it is possible to apply a kernel patch in order to use TVheadend or VDR, we do not provide any support for this use case.

the_bo · 18 March 2017 21:34

Hi @sam_nazarko

LibrELEC has patched v3 of this device to get it working. https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread-2954.html

Be good if there was a way to get this patched for OSMC also.

I tried contacting some libreelec developers about where to find necessary patches or drivers to give you some info.

Maybe if you know someone working on librelec could ask for some info.

If your busy at the moment no worries. If you get some spare time.

Thanks

sam_nazarko · 18 March 2017 21:36

Thanks – I can apply a patch to OSMC if there is one available. Let me know if you receive a reply

Cheers

Sam

the_bo · 24 March 2017 12:25

Hi Sam

Here’s reply got from one of the guys on LibreELEC. If you can have a look when you have some spare time.

Thanks

I have no patch, but you can install
GitHub - crazycat69/linux_media: TBS linux open source drivers
with the manual from here
Home · tbsdtv/linux_media Wiki · GitHub

git clone GitHub - tbsdtv/media_build
git clone --depth=1 GitHub - tbsdtv/linux_media: TBS linux open source drivers -b latest ./media
----->
git clone https://bitbucket.org/CrazyCat/media_build.git
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/crazycat69linux_media.git -b latest ./media

then follow the wiki - should work Smile

sam_nazarko · 24 March 2017 13:07

We don’t use media_build.
I’d rather stick with the upstream kernel’s V4L2 modules, at least for Raspberry Pi where the kernel is quite modern.

The actual patch needed would be useful

the_bo · 24 March 2017 13:19

I’m total noob at this just passing on info.

I found this other page not sure if its a patch related or not.

I’ll see if can find any other info although as i’m noob at this what does a patch look like code wise lol

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/pdp7/cafd7e32fc3ec9e7a268

Geniatech HDStar support

Geniatech HDStar support
The Geniatech HDStar v3 is finally supported. It works on Linux v3.18.9+ so please hold the upgrades. Since we have not yet found a way to differentiate between v2 and v3, you are on your own purchasing the device.

The included kernel modules can be obtained separately on the ORx project page14 (see bottom of the page for details).

If there is sufficient interest, we may try to obtain them and sell them online as a PCB-only (no case) version for a bit less than what they are sold online, and guarantee support for it in future.

To identify the v3 device, you can look at the PCB. It should say SU3000 v3.0. Expected syslog output is this:

Mar 19 04:57:37 outernet kernel: [ 2569.840572] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg

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gistfile1.txt

root@lappy486:/mnt/tmp/lib/modules# find |grep dw2102
./3.18.7-v7+/kernel/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dw2102.ko
./3.18.9+/kernel/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dw2102.ko
./3.18.9-v7+/kernel/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dw2102.ko
./3.18.7+/kernel/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dw2102.ko
root@lappy486:/mnt/tmp/lib/modules# find |grep DS3000
root@lappy486:/mnt/tmp/lib/modules# find |grep ds3000
./3.18.7-v7+/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.ko
./3.18.9+/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.ko
./3.18.9-v7+/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.ko

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the_bo · 24 March 2017 13:28

Would this patch work?

the_bo · 25 May 2017 23:18

Hi @sam_nazarko

Just tested this device on libreelec works out of the box.

Here is the patch needed to get it to work.

Any chance you could squeese this in before may update. I can do some testing if needed.

Many Thanks

https://bitbucket.org/updatelee/v4l-updatelee/commits/55c63982a513c93bdd42034f3353395c3cc4b4f8?at=master

Dmesg log on libreelec

11.902508] ts2020 4-0060: Montage Technology TS2022 successfully identified
[ 11.902570] usb 1-1.3: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Montage Technology M88DS3103)…
[ 12.518168] Registered IR keymap rc-su3000
[ 12.518478] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/rc/rc0/input2
[ 12.519677] rc rc0: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/rc/rc0
[ 12.519692] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs.
[ 12.519702] dw2102: su3000_power_ctrl: 0, initialized 1
[ 12.519707] dvb-usb: SU3000HD DVB-S USB2.0 successfully initialized and connected.
[ 12.519820] usbcore: registered new interface driver dw2102

m88ds3103 3-0068: found a ‘Montage Technology M88DS3103’ in cold state
[ 23.598008] m88ds3103 3-0068: downloading firmware from file ‘dvb-demod-m88ds3103.fw’
[ 24.640379] m88ds3103 3-0068: found a ‘Montage Technology M88DS3103’ in warm state
[ 24.640389] m88ds3103 3-0068: firmware version: 3.B
[ 24.656308] usb 1-1.3: DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 0 out of range (950000…2150000)

sam_nazarko · 25 May 2017 23:20

What kernel does this apply to?
If you submit a PR against OSMC we can get it included

Otherwise, provide me with as much info as you can and I will see what can be done.

Cheers

Sam

the_bo · 25 May 2017 23:27

Just checked libreelec kernel its

LibreELEC:~ # uname -r
4.9.13

I see your testing to update to this kernel.

sam_nazarko · 25 May 2017 23:35

If it can be applied to 4.4 that would be good.
We are moving to 4.9 but I won’t employ the media_build approach you originally linked to. It’s a maintenance nightmare and only makes sense on older kernels

We are happy to carry downstream patches for DVB however. When 4.9 is released, ping me and I’ll take a look at what changes are necessary to get this supported in OSMC

Cheers

Sam

the_bo · 11 June 2017 21:06

Hi Sam

With 4.9 released, if you get some spare time I know your busy with fixes, can you take a look at getting this device patched.

Hopefully the info in posts above help. If you need anything else let me know.

Thanks

frankiii · 3 January 2018 15:23

Hello everyone and happy new year.
In the end, was this card supported? I would be interested.
Thx

the_bo · 9 February 2018 13:49

Hi Sam

Any chance of providing me with a test build with this patch applied?

I will be able to test my current working tevii s660 to ensure it still works fine with this patch as it uses the same dw2102.c file also.

Be nice to have this v3 device working as i want to test it to see if it produces the same green artifacts that i’m getting with my current s660 device.

I’m not familiar with creating a PR on github but here are a few links to the patch.

Thanks again

or

sam_nazarko · 9 February 2018 14:20

We don’t use media_build on Pi

Sam

marklam · 24 March 2018 21:55

I’ve submitted a pull request that rolls up the relevant changes from that repository.

github.com/osmc/osmc

Support Geniatech HDStar v3

osmc:master ← marklam:GeniatechHDStar

opened 09:42PM - 24 Mar 18 UTC

marklam

+295 -0

To address this issue: https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/geniatech-hdstar-v3-dvb-s2-n…ot-working/12758 Pull in the changesets from https://bitbucket.org/updatelee/v4l-updatelee to make this adapter work. > > 55c63982a513c93bdd42034f3353395c3cc4b4f8 (Bill Murphy, CrazyCat) [PATCH] [media] dw2102: Combine SU3000 (and OEM) support. > Thanks crazycat. fixes Geniatech SU3000 v3.0 hardware, by providing a method to > detect Montage ds3000 or m88ds3103 demod. Then attaching the proper demod > module. SU3000 v3.0 hardware has ts2022/m88ds3103 chips on board and the > ds3000 module previously wasn't working with this hardware. We now attach the > proper m88ds3103 demod for rev3, and ds3000 for the older versions. > > Part of: > 646903c536513c83b1775218676dcad6065abe73 (Bill Murphy, DarkSky) [PATCH] [media] dw2102: Re-Apply commit 55c639 > > 1f91c1c49ef57425a66b481b70cf2d0e8ea0cc20 (Bill Murphy) [PATCH] m88ds3103 can tune SR with less then 1Msps, > so lets lower it to 100Ksps > > 42f41610f1603c2497343d561e71784b88d66ace (Chris Lee) [media] m88ds3103: set dvb-s ROLLOFF_35 > Was reporting wrong rolloff for dvb-s. dvb-s2 is OK. > > Also apply relevant line of: > 6d741bfed5ed06ed42a16d30f1ed7afdcaf7f092 (Sean Young) [PATCH] media: rc: rename RC_TYPE_* to RC_PROTO_* and RC_BIT_* to RC_PROTO_BIT_* > RC_TYPE is confusing and it's just the protocol. So rename it.

the_bo · 25 March 2018 03:22

Thanks very much for submitting the pull request hopefully the v3 will get implemented cheers.