Dvb-t2 Driver

[Melvina Kryder]

Havejust installed OMV6.0.7-1 on a HP54L microserver and was hoping to be able to use this box to record live TV with a TBS6220 dvb-t2 pci card installed. The microserver has two PCIE slots and in the other I have installed a usb3 card. Neither of the two cards are recognised by the OMV install so Im hoping someone can tell me how I go about installing drivers for these two cards, I downloaded the TBS linux drivers and tried to install via Putty but it seems I need GCC installed and the install failed. Im a linux newby so dont know what GCC is?

Thanks for the tips guys. After many hours of installing all sorts of stuff that are apparently requirements to build the drivers and make directories etc. I finally have files on the OMV but following the install of the drivers the card is still not recognised so I think its time to give up , this is way beyond my skill set.

Simply install the plugin (you have to be on a recent vercen from unRAID to see it in the CA App) and it will grab the appropriate version and also update itself to a newer version if you uprade unRAID itself.

How would I do this to a Windows VM? I saw it doesn't show in other PCI devices, would I pass it through - I am assuming its IOMMU 27 and I just have to tick the checkbox to make it show as an Other PCI device? Then install the driver in Windows.

I would really recommend to use a container since a VM only for one tuner (that splits into a maximum of 4 I think from the specification) is a little overkill and also TVHeadend should work pretty well.

I have a setup with 4x DigitalDevices DVB-C/T/T2 cards now running for almost 6 or 8 years (can't remember exactly) and about 3 years from that time period on unRAID with TVHeadend where I can stream up to 8 different channels simultaneous and haven't got any issue so far.

A big thanks to ich777 for building this plugin. I run SageTV in a docker and use a Hauppauge HD-PVR and HD HomeRuns to capture TV and they were immediately recognized and I was able to seamlessly add these TV tuners to my system.

Thanks @ich777 for the work on this!

I'm not getting my WinTV quad to show in binhex Plex docker. Does show in TV headend. I saw this was a issue a few pages back...did anyone sort this out? I've tried passing the /dev/dvb value both ways and it doesn't appear when adding in Plex.

Edit- On official docker for Plex is DOES appear, so I guess it's a docker issue. If there is some magic to make it appear in @binhex version that would be greatly appreciated! If not, I guess I need to switch my entire install over to that. Uuuugh...Please let me know how much beer and/or coffee this will take!

Edit- On official docker for Plex is DOES appear, so I guess it's a docker issue. If there is some magic to make it appear in binhex version that would be greatly appreciated! If not, I guess I need to switch my entire install over to that. Uuuugh...

@ich777 i guess he wants to use his DVB Card directly in Plex and not through TVHeadend and then proxied to Plex, i guess he just tested in TVHeadend and official Plex if his setup works (DVB Driver in Docker), or am i wrong @dja ?

No, sorry for the confusion. I do not have TVHeadend installed now, I only added that as a troubleshooting step to verify the DVB was showing in docker- then I removed it.

I read previously in the thread that the official Plex docker worked but @binhex Plex docker did not, I can confirm that. I tried the official Plex docker and it is working. I have moved Plex server from a Windows install before so I guess it wouldn't be terrible to do via Docker and a NVME cache drive.

Hardest thing is walking all my family/friends through adding a new server again...that's painful! lol Maybe there is a way to move the files/config without adding a new server name, but my Plex Docker'Fu isn't that good.

Thank you so much for this , I used to install your custom unraid builds with my card before , I haven't been using the DVB much but now installed my card in a new server , it's a PCI-E card but showing in the plugin as usb , my card is TeVii Satellite Card S482 DVB-S2 PCIe Dual Tunner , screenshot attached and the output of the two commands as well

Before this used to be recognised as a regular DVB and not USB, it's not working within unraid OS , TVHEADEND doesn't recognise it . but when I created a regular ubuntu vm and passed it through ( to test if the hardware is working ) it worked fine

Can you force an update from the container and post what the output is (go to the Docker page, turn on Advanced View, click on and copy all the text from the appearing popup, there will be the exact error displayed why the container won't start).

Hi,

I just got my new K3 pro, whi I would like to try as a replacement for old enigma box. I have 2 sat dishes - 1x 19.2 / 23.5 and 1x 28.2, joint into one cable and then into K3 pro. Also have 2nd cable with dvb-t2 signal connected into K3 pro.

I installed latest Coreelec, but there is no dvbt/dvbs settings. Can anyone point me to a right direction with step by step guide please? Thank you

Good to hear a fresh install worked for you.

If you upgraded from LibreELEC to CoreELEC this may have been the cause.

If you did a fresh install of CoreELEC and restored a previous LibreELEC BACKUP

to your CoreELEC OS that will also POSSIBLY caused the issues.

I had those issues and did a Fresh Install and a Fresh Build with no remnants of LibreELEC.

For the benefit of those that have not migrated with us from the LE forums, it has long since been a pre-requisite of posting issues here that you first confirm the apparent issue still exists after a completely clean install of CE

> Are you definitely after PCIe? On ebay a DVB-T2 USB tuner is 17 pounds, so four would make 68 pounds, which is cheaper than the PCIe card. That means you could buy six of them. Or throw in a good signal booster and it is still cheaper. Though of course, cabling is much messier with usb tuners, but has the advantage that you can migrate them to lower-spec hardware (such as a Pi) in the future.

> Does the patched driver now support more than one xbox one DVB-T2 tuner? I was following the thread and they were making great progress, but some people said it didn't support two tuners with DVB-T2 and someone mentioned memory leaks. With nine multiplexes in UK that makes 45 pounds to record every channel at the same time. Imagine all the hours of QVC you could enjoy.

Yep - driver now supports multiple tuners. I've not used it in anger - but have tested with two and both worked simultaneously with no major issues on a strong Crystal Palace DVB-T2 feed from a rooftop aerial.

> > Does the patched driver now support more than one xbox one DVB-T2 tuner? I was following the thread and they were making great progress, but some people said it didn't support two tuners with DVB-T2 andsomeone mentioned memory leaks. With nine multiplexes in UK that makes 45 pounds to record every channel at the same time. Imagine all the hours of QVC you could enjoy.

> Yep - driver now supports multiple tuners. I've not used it in anger - but have tested with two and both worked simultaneously with no major issues on a strong Crystal Palace DVB-T2 feed from a rooftop aerial.

> I already have a 9 tuner set-up (3 x PS3 Play TV Dual DVB-T for PSB1/2, COM 3/4/5 and Local - 1 x Dual DVB-T2 Hauppauge WinTV Dual HD - COM7/8 and an August T210v1 - PSB3). You have to roll your own kernel to get round the default 8-adaptor maximum that stock kernels are usually compiled with - but it does work. I went for as many dual tuners as possible to keep the size and RF splitting minimised. I probably don't stress it that much - but do use it for remote viewing (both within the UK and overseas) via a VPN (no exposed ports) and for recording stuff I want to archive (day-to-day stuff is on the Sky HD PVR)

I was under the impression that USB tuners were inferior in every way (ran too hot, were less sensitive, were less reliable etc.) but later posts suggest that they clearly seem more than capable of doing the job. I was also wary that using USB is more CPU intensive but that is probably insignificant anyway.

Is interesting that for not much money, you could cover every Mux and never have a clash when recording. I rarely tend to watch live TV and the amount of repeats (and +1) channels mean that I am rarely aware of clashes that take place and get rescheduled - it is definitely cool to know that you have access to every channel, whenever you want.

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