Sky Star 2 TV PCI

From MythTV

This is the DVB-S PCI card by Technisat.

Pro:

• Works perfectly under Linux & MythTV
• Very good picture quality
• Signal/Noise ratio is better than ALDI SAT receiver (SilverCrest)
• Very good price (45€ including Remote Control)
• Remote Control supported using lirc

Cons:

• No CI available
• Remote control has no record button
• Some remote keys (like power) does not work under Linux
• Some remote keys have the same codes as other keys

Contents 1 mythtv-setup 1.1 Input Connections 2 /var/log/messages || dmesg 3 kern.log 4 lspci

mythtv-setup

Input Connections

[ DVB : 0 ] (DVBInput) -> DVB-S

/var/log/messages || dmesg

b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver chip loaded successfully
flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter.
flexcop-pci: card revision 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device).
b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:14:4e:a7
Device driver i2c-1 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
b2c2-flexcop: found the stv0299 at i2c address: 0x68
DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete
PCI driver b2c2_flexcop_pci lacks driver specific resume support.

kern.log

Mar 11 17:38:51 bristol kernel: drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: FlexCopIIB(rev.195) chip found
Mar 11 17:38:51 bristol kernel: drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: the chip has 38 hardware filters
Mar 11 17:38:51 bristol kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (Technisat SkyStar2 driver).

lspci

02:00.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
        Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        I/O ports at a000 [size=32]