TwinhanDVT Alpha
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This is a cheap USB terrestrial (free to air) DVB card.
- Model Number: VP7045A
- Manufactures Website: [[1]]
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Specification
Refer to the manufactures website above.
- Tuner Frequencies: VHF 174 ~ 230 MHz, UHF 470 ~ 862 MHz
- Antenna Input: 75 Ohm F Connector (standard Australian PAL female socket)
- Fully DVB-T Compliant, Stream capture for PES & TS
- USB - Universal Serial Bus 2.0 Standard
Australia
This USB box is sold in Australia and works with the "Free To Air" Digital TV services.
The channel frequencies for all regions in Australia are listed on the Digital Broadcast Australia website.
Sources for the card:
- DDcomputer for AU$59
- MSY for AU$99
Parts and Accessories
You get the USB tuner box, a USB extention cable, a IR remote control, and a "free gift" antenna with magnetic base.
Kernel Driver
This card is supported in the Linux kernel 2.6.17+ by the dvb-usb driver. This device works out of the box on Ubuntu 6.10.
Output from: dmesg
[4309234.395000] usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 [4309234.509000] usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [4309234.509000] dvb-usb: found a 'Twinhan USB2.0 DVB-T receiver (TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [4309234.730000] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw' [4309234.939000] usb 4-3: USB disconnect, address 4 [4309234.939000] dvb-usb: generic DVB-USB module successfully deinitialized and disconnected. [4309236.645000] usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [4309236.760000] usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [4309236.760000] dvb-usb: found a 'Twinhan USB2.0 DVB-T receiver (TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II)' in warm state. [4309236.760000] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [4309236.911000] DVB: registering new adapter (Twinhan USB2.0 DVB-T receiver (TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II)). [4309236.947000] dvb-usb: MAC address: 08:ca:00:00:00:ff [4309236.951000] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Twinhan VP7045/46 USB DVB-T)... [4309236.951000] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input4 [4309236.951000] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 400 msecs. [4309237.102000] dvb-usb: Twinhan USB2.0 DVB-T receiver (TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II) successfully initialized and connected.
Output from: sudo lsusb -v
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 13d3:3206 IMC Networks
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x13d3 IMC Networks
idProduct 0x3206
bcdDevice 0.00
iManufacturer 1 TWINHAN
iProduct 2 VP-7045
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 32
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)
MaxPower 100mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 100
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 1
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 6
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
bNumConfigurations 1
Device Status: 0x0002
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup Enabled
Remote Control
It is bundled with an IR remote control. The USB Tuner box has an IR receiver and is acts as a HID device as well as a DVB device so the button presses appear as keyboard entries similar to the Twinhan_Ter_or_MiniTer_DVT_PCI cards.
