Twinhan USB HID Remote

This is a cheap terrestrial (free to air) DVB card. It is very similar to the Twinhan VisionPlus DVB card.

Australia

This card 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$65 - Added by michaelf
• MSY for AU$75

Kernel Driver

This card is supported in the stock Linux kernel 2.6.8+ by the bttv driver. the 'dmesg' command shows the following:

 bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:04.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe6afe000
 bttv0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB [card=113], PCI subsystem ID is 1822:0001
 bttv0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,insmod option]
 bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f762ff [init]
 bttv0: using tuner=4
 bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0"

Twinhan Mini Ter on Ubuntu Breezy and modules required

Remote Control

The bundled remote control has a USB reciever that acts as a HID keyboard device and send keycodes. This has been a problem for some people because there was no easy way to change the keycodes that it sends. Apparently is it possible to use LIRC to intercept the incoming keycodes and handle them as any other lirc device. Here is an extract from the MythTV Users mailing list:

 To get this (or any) USB IR HID device to work with mythtv:
   1) Compiled lirc with devinput as the driver (under Other)
   2) Faffed about trying cat /dev/input/eventX until I found one that was
      the remote (or just "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" to determine it)
   3) Used irremote --device /dev/input/eventX to configure lircd.conf for
      the keypresses on the remote. It's quite (almost) able to figure it out
      itself.
 This also required some hand editing as some of the buttons were
 multiple key presses (eg, Ctrl+Alt+F6 for power) and not all the keys
 were unique in the file. I just dumped some output from irremote to a
 file and picked out unique ones for each key.

Link to the full email: [Re: TwinHan IR remote and receiver problem - SOLVED]

Thought I'd just add a bit here, I wrote that thread about the remote but it's not very helpfull.

The problem with the TwinHan remote is that certain keys on the remote (Power, Volume) send more that one key to the keyboard buffer. This confuses the lirc.conf configurator "irremote".

Example: Power sends Ctrl+Alt+F6.

irremote seems to have a fair chance of mapping ctrl, alt OR F6 to Power in the conf file. Now, if another key on the remote (say, Pause) sends something like Alt+F4 (Pause doesn't send that btw) you run the chance of Power and Pause being mapped to the Alt key. Which means that Power does Power and Pause and vice versa.

The only solution to this that I found was saving the output from irremote to a file after pressing the offending keys. Then, pick a unique keykode from each buttons presses (in our example, F4 and F6) and put those after your entries in lirc.conf.

Here is my lirc.conf:

begin remote

 name  TwinHanRemote
 bits           32
 eps            30
 aeps          100
 one             0     0
 zero            0     0
 gap          115899
 toggle_bit      0
     begin codes
         fullscreen               0x8001002C
         Power                    0x8001001D
         1                        0x80010002
         2                        0x80010003
         3                        0x80010004
         4                        0x80010005
         5                        0x80010006
         6                        0x80010007
         7                        0x80010008
         8                        0x80010009
         9                        0x8001000A
         0                        0x8001000B
         rec                      0x80010066
         favorite                 0x8001002F
         rewind                   0x80010017
         forward                  0x80010031
         ch+                      0x80010068
         ch-                      0x8001006D
         vol-                     0x8001006C
         vol+                     0x80010067
         recall                   0x8001002E
         play                     0x8001001C
         stop                     0x8001006B
         pause                    0x80010014
         mute                     0x80010032
         cancel                   0x80010001
         capture                  0x80010019
         preview                  0x80010025
         epg                      0x80010012
         recordlist               0x80010026
         tab                      0x8001000F
         teletext                 0x8001001E
     end codes

end remote