[mythtv-users] compro dvbt-300 no luck with no lock

[Aaron Harwood]

Hi Lew,

I have that card and also had some trouble with it, to start with.

It would not pick up any dvb, though it could get some analogue  
stations.

Then I tried manual tuning, i.e. entering all of the data for a given  
station, and it
did lock on to a signal and pick up some stations. I see you didn't  
have luck doing
that, as you say below.

Later I bought an indoor antenna with signal amplifier and after many  
hours
of positioning the antenna I managed to get a good signal and presto,  
the card
would pick up all the channels (even better than the roof mounted  
outdoor antenna,
which works okay for my stb but didn't work at all for the card)
and I can now simply scan for channels and it picks them up.

I think the issue may be that the dvb-t300 does not work well with  
weak signals.
Signal strength of 58% _should_ get something though.
When you say "creating relevant transports for AU" do you mean  
entering QAM,
bandwidth, FEC and so forth... I had to enter all of this _exactly_  
as it was required
in order to get a lock (that is until I got my indoor antenna setup,  
then everything
went smoothly).

--Aaron

On 03/07/2006, at 11:26 PM, Lewis wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
> I'm toying with a dvb-t300 that appears to be almost there...
>
> I tried 2.6.17, but couldn't get the dvb-t300 nor the 0.7 series  
> ivtv drivers, for the --normally working well-- hauppage  
> pvr-250mce, to work at all.
>
> Reverted to 2.6.16, no luck with the stock kernel drivers =>  
> installed v4l-dvb-a3a095225de1. & 0.6.3 ivtv => looking better.....  
> but unable to get mythtv to successfully use the new dvbt-300 card.
>
> I was unable to get anything out of the analogue or dvb of the  
> dvbt-300, despite all devices being created as you'd like them to.
>
> I suspect tuner type issues may be at hand...?
>
> Nothing from the analogue tuner which is listed in saa7134-cards.c  
> as a TD1316; on the card is also a TDA9886TS that loads with a  
> TDA9887 tuner.
>
> After creating the relevant transports for AU and scanning in  
> mythtv, no lock ony any channel, despite signal strength >>
> Import of channel info from zap did not assist still unable to get  
> lock on dvb.
>
> The correct tuner appears to be detected ... on card lists as a  
> TDA10046A & dmesg shows TDA10046H frontend.
>
> Are there any module parameters to play with here for the tuner  
> modules e.g. a PAL setting?
>
> I've had a dig around the relevant c files but can't see anything  
> obvious.
>
>
> Better still, can anyone tell me that they have a dvbt-300 behaving  
> and what it took?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lew
>
> A bit more detail below for anyone interested in picking through  
> the heap below in search of something to fit the picture together.
>
>
> relevant dmesg entries...
>
> saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
>
> saa7134[0]: found at 0000:02:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 201, latency: 32,  
> mmio: 0xf500a000
>
> saa7134[0]: subsystem: 185b:c900, board: Compro Videomate DVB-T300  
> [cardp,autodetected]
>
> saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 843f00
>
> input: saa7134 IR (Compro Videomate DV as /class/input/input2
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 00 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55  
> d2 b2 92
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
> ff ff ff
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 87 ff  
> ff ff ff
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
> ff ff ff
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 02 00 c2 86 10 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
> ff ff ff
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
> ff ff cb
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 34 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
> ff ff ff
>
> saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
> ff ff ff
>
> tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])
>
> tuner 2-0068: chip found @ 0xd0 (saa7134[0])
>
> tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])
>
> saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
>
> saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
>
> saa7134 OSS driver for DMA sound loaded
>
> saa7134[0]: registered device dsp1
>
> saa7134[0]: registered device mixer1
>
> DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0]).
>
> tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])
>
> tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1216 ME MK3 (idx 57, type 3
>
>
> tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])
>
> tuner 2-0061: type set to 67 (Philips TD1316 Hybrid Tuner)
>
> tuner 2-0068: chip found @ 0xd0 (saa7134[0])
>
>
> DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0]).
>
> DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
>
>
> tda9887 3-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>
> tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
>
> tda1004x: found firmware revision 23 -- ok
>
> tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])
>
> tda9887 3-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>
>
> I'm a bit concerned about the duplication with the tda9887,  
> wondering if the ivtv & std drivers play well together?
>
>
>
>
>
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