Geniatech T230 and Linux 4.x

Hello all, could someone please confirm if the Geniatech T230 is now working on the latest OSMC for RPi2?

Edit: According to LinuxTV, the driver is included in Kernel version 3.19. Does this mean that OSMC supports it?

Thanks in advance

p.s. Thank you Sam for renaming the thread :grinning:

I am still confused about your issue. Generally the are two things that you need to have a TV dongle working:

  1. The driver
  2. The firmware

So to figure out which part is missing in your case post grab-logs -J

Hi @fzinken I’m looking to buy this DVB-T2 USB stick to use with TVheadend and was wondering if it’s working before buying it.
I had originally replied to this thread where someone reported an issue getting it to work but one of the moderators split it into this new thread.

There is never a 100% guarantee as e.g. vendors produce new revisions with the same name but different chipsets.
But at least I can confirm that the drivers listed on the LinuxTV Wiki are on OSMC:
osmc@osmc.hongkong:~$ locate si2168
/lib/modules/4.3.3-1-osmc/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.ko
/lib/modules/4.3.3-2-osmc/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.ko
/lib/modules/4.3.3-3-osmc/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.ko
osmc@osmc.hongkong:~$ locate si2157
/lib/modules/4.3.3-1-osmc/kernel/drivers/media/tuners/si2157.ko
/lib/modules/4.3.3-2-osmc/kernel/drivers/media/tuners/si2157.ko
/lib/modules/4.3.3-3-osmc/kernel/drivers/media/tuners/si2157.ko

What is not included is the firmware files which you would need to download and copy into the firmware folder.

Wonderful. Many thanks indeed for taking the time to respond.

Hello everyone,
I just buy this device but I don’t be able to configure it correctly, the stick is put in a Raspberry Pi 3 with OSMC I have seen this web:

https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Geniatech_T230C

I have assuming that the OSMC driver works and I only download the required firmware:

dvb-demod-si2168-d60-01.fw
dvb-tuner-si2141-a10-01.fw

Thanks in advance.

The T230 and T230c use different hardware.

Seems the T230c isn’t supported in mainstream kernel going by link you provided.

Maybe there patch Sam could add.

Thanks for your reply

I have T230C, the dmesg output is:

New USB device found, idVendor=0572, idProduct=c689
[ 2.773956] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.773963] usb 1-1.2: Product: EyeTV Stick
[ 2.773969] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Geniatech
[ 2.773975] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 160421

I’ve tried with the older firmwares that LinuxTV recommends but it still not working.
I will wait the next update of OSMC to try it again.