August DVB-T201

This is a low cost (UK £25) DVB-T stick with remote. August DVB-T201

Based on the AF9015/6 chip.

Current status (April 08) is that Antii Palosarii's driver works very well and seems to be stable. (Thanks Antii) The remote is not yet supported.

Installation is standard for experimental v4l drivers - ie do not enable V4L in kernel, download source, unpack, make etc.

Its not clear from the net whether firmware is required or whether an empty file can be placed in /lib/firmware/`uname -r` - in any case using this in that location works.

With myth release-0-21-fixes the only configuration needed is to ensure that 'wait for seq' is disabled. Subjectively fast tuning and no issue with the parallel recording possible with Myth 0.21

Main Features

• Low cost (for a DVB-T stick in the UK) - better performance/stability for me than a HVR900
• VHF:174-230MHz UHF:470-860MHz Bandwidth 6,7,8 MHz, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM

Main Disadvantages

• Remote not supported
• Stick has a blue 'tuned' led which is VERY bright
• Supplied aerial is a toothpick
• Stick runs quite warm

Caveats

This is on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) with kernel updated to 2.6.24.3 (In attempt to get stability from an HVR900!)