AVerMedia DVB-T 777

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The AVerMedia DVB-T 777 is a DVB Video capture card.

Vendors Website: http://www.avermedia.com/cgi-bin/products_digitvtuner_dvbt777.asp

Support Status: Supported by Myth: Uses saa7134 driver

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Description

This Digital TV capture card uses on-board hardware to receive and store a digital MPEG2 stream transmitted over-the-air.

It also features analog audio/video inputs.

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Loading drivers

The latest kernel (2.6.19 at the time of this writing) includes support for this card. Only the analog hardware is found automatically (saa7134 module). In order to activate DVB receiver one must load manually: 

modprobe mt352
modprobe saa7134-dvb
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IR Drivers and lirc

This card does not use the Avermedia lirc setup or any of the Avermedia lirc files available as at Feb 4 2008. The remote is the Avermedia RM-FP, which is available at lirc, but is mapped for other Avermedia cards. The IR partially works without lirc and you will see numbers echoed to screen even if lircd is not running.


it would be nice if someone could post some great lirc button mappings for all of the myth tv apps. TO COME ... but read below to set up the device correctly ... also setup using the mythbuntu control panel to enable to lirc infrared remote or nothing will work.

On newer Kernels (the Linux Kernel version 2.6.24 for example) this remote is mapped (by mythbuntu for example) to a static device name /dev/input/by-path. For example, on my current system it is :
/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:09.0--event-ir
which is a symbolic link to an input event device which can change each time you boot the computer. In my case at this point in time, the static 'by-path' device name links to /dev/input/event6 however that would change ... so don't use it !!! Make sure you use the static name.

On my system I choose to symbolic link the static name /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:09.0--event-ir to a simpler device name '/dev/lirc0'. Because of this, my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file looks like so (although you can change the REMOTE_DEVICE to by the static path listed above - however relevant to your system): <p> REMOTE="Custom"
REMOTE_MODULES=""
REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="/etc/lirc/lircd.conf"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS="" (... the rest of the file is snipped from here on ...)

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