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AVWizard

2011-07-21T09:21:29Z

Maverick0815:

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This page covers the aspects of the AVWizard that the end user will be interested in. If you want to customise the AVWizard for your needs, like writing a separate backend, see [[AVWizard for developers]].

==Background==

LinuxMCE is intended to act like a normal consumer A/V device, even though it is PC based. As a result, the process for configuring displays is substantially different from configuring X11 on a normal Linux machine, and the A/V Wizard has been designed to make this process as easy as possible. Please see the [[EDID]] page for more details on the reasons behind the way it has been designed.

==Starting A/V Wizard==
===Initially===
This wizard is started automatically the very first time the system boots; it does not automatically start after that.

===Starting A/V Wizard from the LinuxMCE menu===
The A/V wizard can be restarted at any time from the LinuxMCE menu by choosing Advanced--> Advanced--> A/V Wizard.

===Restarting the AVWizard during bootup===
Alternatively, the AV Wizard can be started during bootup. Either hold down the Shift key on the keyboard, or press the "A/V Menu" button on the remote to make the A/V wizard start. During bootup you should hear a series of escalating beeps to tell you when LinuxMCE is monitoring the Shift (and "A/V Menu") keys.

When you hear the descending beeps it means that you're too late; the bootup has already gone past the AV Wizard check and LinuxMCE has already started.

==How A/V Wizard Starts==
When A/V Wizard starts it always outputs 640x480 on the VGA connector. If you are ''not'' using a VGA connector, you will likely see a black screen when the A/V Wizard starts (even if you previously saw the Kubuntu boot splash). You will know that the A/V Wizard is running, however, because you will hear a series of beeps. If you then have video after hearing the beeps, proceed to [[AVWizard_Step_by_Step| complete the A/V Wizard]]. If not, see the next section.

==What to do if A/V Wizard does not start==
Press the number 1 through 5 on the keyboard (or the remote control) to switch to the active connector. Wait 15 seconds, and you will hear that same sequence of beeps telling you that A/V Wizard has now restarted. If you don't hear the beeps after 15 seconds, press the number for your connector again. Some users may find that pushing 'QWERTY' keys may have the same effect.

<pre> Keys for choosing a connector:

1: DVI
2: VGA
3: Component
4: Composite
5: S-Video
Q: DVI-2
W: VGA-2
L: LVDS</pre>

If you hear the beeps but still don't see a picture, it's possible that the display you're using cannot handle 640x480. Press the number 6-9, or 0, as shown below, to select your resolution. Again, 15 seconds later, you should hear the beeps when the A/V Wizard is restarted. If you again need to choose a connector (other than the default VGA), press the 1-5 key (as above) and wait until you hear the beeps again. Repeat as often as needed.

<pre>
Keys for choosing a resolution:

6: 640x480
7: 1024x768
8: 720p
9: 1080i
0: 1080p</pre>

(''Note: Due to a bug in the 0704 release, the numeric keys 0-9 on the Windows XP I/R remote may not be able to set your output connector & resolution. Use the 0-9 keys on the keyboard instead, or use another remote.'')

Once you have a picture you can proceed to complete the A/V Wizard. You can then resize your user interface to fit your screen, choose your audio outputs, and so on. Follow the [[AVWizard Step by Step]] instructions.

If you have more than one video card, or a video card and an onboard video chipset LMCE might not be using the correct one, and so you will still get a black screen. To use a card rather than your onboard chipset, go into your BIOS and disable the onboard chipset - note some BIOSs cannot disable, they can only set your card as the primary or initial video chipset, if so then do that.

If you were able to disable the onboard chipset in your BIOS, then you should be ready to run the AV Wizard - the Linux kernel will not even see the onboard chipset, so will select the card for output.

If you could only set the card as primary (and not disable the onboard chipset) the you will probably notice that you now see the Kubuntu splash screen and progress bar during start up that you didn't see before. However, once you reach the AV Wizard, the screen goes black again - here it is defaulting to your onboard chipset.

To correct this, reboot and hit Escape during the GRUB boot menu (just after the BIOS self test), and choose the recovery option. Once you get a command line, you can execute the lspci command - this will list all your PCI interfaced devices, including the onboard and card video chipsets. Make a note of the PCI BusID of the card, eg 2:0:0

Now use a text editor and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. In the Device section you will see the PCI BusID specified - this is probably set to your onboard chipset's ID. Change this to the ID you noted above, save the file and reboot.

==AVWizard steps==
:''See [[AVWizard Step by Step]] for detailed screen-by-screen instructions.''

AVWizard is an easy 10 step configuration wizard:

*AV Welcome screen
*AV Resolution and Refresh screen
*AV Video Resolution counter
*AV UI Switcher
*AV Video Output
*AV Audio Connector
*AV Audio Volume
*AV Dolby Test
*AV DTS Test
*AV Final Selections

After that an [[Orbiter Generator]] will be launched, to create an [[Orbiter]] (remote control) for that tool.

==Running A/V Wizard from the Commandline==
If you are having difficulty running the AVWizard normally (by selecting the option in the Orbiter) it can be run manually by typing in the command line. <pre>/usr/pluto/bin/AVWizard_Run.sh</pre>
Note that you should kill X and any process trying to reload it before running the wizard. You should only do this if your attempt to run it normally fails for whatever reason.
Note: I had to use <pre>sudo -s /usr/pluto/bin/AVWizard_Run.sh</pre> to get my AVWizard to restart.
[[Category: Tutorials]]

Hauppauge Nova-HD-S2

2009-10-18T11:48:12Z

Maverick0815: /* Installing The Drivers and Firmware */

[[Category: Video]]
[[Category: TV Cards]]
[[Image:Novahds2 top.jpg]]

Digital satellite TV and radio for your PC. Watch free-to-air satellite TV, in a window or full screen on your PC!
*Record digital satellite TV to your PC's hard disk in original MPEG-2 quality. Digital TV recordings will typically take 1,5 Gigabytes of disk space per hour.
*Pause digital satellite TV with instant replay.
*Listen to digital satellite DVB-S/DVB-S2 radio.
*DiSEqC 1.0 support.
*Includes Hauppauge new IR remote control, for easy control of TV watching, record and play functions.

== Driver Information ==
This card uses the same DVB-S and DVB-S2 hardware as the HVR-4000. Therefore, this wiki also applies to getting the DVB-S2 element of the HVR-4000 card working in LinuxMCE 0710 as well as the current LinuxMCE 8.10 alpha.

The DVB-S2 element on the NOVA-HD-S2 has run successfully on LMCE 0710/ 8.10 alpha using VDR and MythTV.
Previously multiproto-drivers were required to receive DVB-S2. However something new called S2API has come up from the guys and gals at LinuxTV.org, which -as I understand it- renders multiproto obsolete. It is included in v4l and in kernel v2.6.28.

== Installing The Drivers and Firmware ==
To keep things a bit in order and together I prefer to
cd /usr/local/src
Then we should get the firmware. There are severel verions out there, but I use this one, since it is the most recent I could get:

wget http://tevii.com/Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar

Unfortunately they are using rar for their archives, so unless you have unrar installed, you don't need this:

apt-get install unrar -y

Now we need to unpack the firmware and put it in the right place:

unrar x Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar
cp tevii_linuxdriver_0815/fw/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw
ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw

When this is done, we have to prepare v4l-drivers. I suggest using the repo of Igor M. Liplianin. It also has support for some other S2-cards, which have no support in other repos.
But before that we might need to make some additional preparations. If this isn't installed on your system, you need to get this:

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install mercurial cvs subversion libncurses-dev

Lets get the drivers downloaded and installed:

cd /usr/local/src
hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin/
cd s2-liplianin
cd linux/include/linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/linux/compiler.h ./
cd ../../../
make
make install
depmod -a

now reboot, and check that the card has loaded
dmesg | grep cx88
you should get an output stating "hvr-4000-lite / Nova-HD-S2" somewhere.
If successful, you can now proceed on configuring either VDR or MythTV, whichever you prefer

== Scan for Channels ==

See LiuxMCE [[VDR]] wiki entry.

Instead of the scan command used in the VDR wiki I used:
scan -o vdr .kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E > channels.conf
Where my satellite is Astra-28.2E (the BSkyB (Sky-tv-uk) satellite)

To scan free-to-air channels only add an "-x 0" in the command. e.g.
scan -x 0 -o vdr .kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E > channels.conf
Add the created channels.conf to VDR in the LinuxMCE admin / advanced / configuration / VDR setup as per the VDR wiki

Hauppauge Nova-HD-S2

2009-10-07T09:54:53Z

Maverick0815: /* Installing The Drivers and Firmware */

[[Category: Video]]
[[Category: TV Cards]]
[[Image:Novahds2 top.jpg]]

Digital satellite TV and radio for your PC. Watch free-to-air satellite TV, in a window or full screen on your PC!
*Record digital satellite TV to your PC's hard disk in original MPEG-2 quality. Digital TV recordings will typically take 1,5 Gigabytes of disk space per hour.
*Pause digital satellite TV with instant replay.
*Listen to digital satellite DVB-S/DVB-S2 radio.
*DiSEqC 1.0 support.
*Includes Hauppauge new IR remote control, for easy control of TV watching, record and play functions.

== Driver Information ==
This card uses the same DVB-S and DVB-S2 hardware as the HVR-4000. Therefore, this wiki also applies to getting the DVB-S2 element of the HVR-4000 card working in LinuxMCE 0710 as well as the current LinuxMCE 8.10 alpha.

The DVB-S2 element on the NOVA-HD-S2 has run successfully on LMCE 0710/ 8.10 alpha using VDR and MythTV.
Previously multiproto-drivers were required to receive DVB-S2. However something new called S2API has come up from the guys and gals at LinuxTV.org, which -as I understand it- renders multiproto obsolete. It is included in v4l and in kernel v2.6.28.

== Installing The Drivers and Firmware ==
To keep things a bit in order and together I prefer to
cd /usr/local/src
Then we should get the firmware. There are severel verions out there, but I use this one, since it is the most recent I could get:

wget http://tevii.com/Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar

Unfortunately they are using rar for their archives, so unless you have unrar installed, you don't need this:

apt-get install unrar -y

Now we need to unpack the firmware and put it in the right place:

wget http://tevii.com/Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar
unrar x Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar
cp tevii_linuxdriver_0815/fw/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw
ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw

When this is done, we have to prepare v4l-drivers. I suggest using the repo of Igor M. Liplianin. It also has support for some other S2-cards, which have no support in other repos.
But before that we might need to make some additional preparations. If this isn't installed on your system, you need to get this:

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install mercurial cvs subversion libncurses-dev

Lets get the drivers downloaded and installed:

cd /usr/local/src
hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin/
cd s2-liplianin
cd linux/include/linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/linux/compiler.h ./
cd ../../../
make
make install
depmod -a

now reboot, and check that the card has loaded
dmesg | grep cx88
you should get an output stating "hvr-4000-lite / Nova-HD-S2" somewhere.
If successful, you can now proceed on configuring either VDR or MythTV, whichever you prefer

== Scan for Channels ==

See LiuxMCE [[VDR]] wiki entry.

Instead of the scan command used in the VDR wiki I used:
scan -o vdr .kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E > channels.conf
Where my satellite is Astra-28.2E (the BSkyB (Sky-tv-uk) satellite)

To scan free-to-air channels only add an "-x 0" in the command. e.g.
scan -x 0 -o vdr .kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E > channels.conf
Add the created channels.conf to VDR in the LinuxMCE admin / advanced / configuration / VDR setup as per the VDR wiki

Hauppauge Nova-HD-S2

2009-10-07T09:24:38Z

Maverick0815: /* Driver Information */

[[Category: Video]]
[[Category: TV Cards]]
[[Image:Novahds2 top.jpg]]

Digital satellite TV and radio for your PC. Watch free-to-air satellite TV, in a window or full screen on your PC!
*Record digital satellite TV to your PC's hard disk in original MPEG-2 quality. Digital TV recordings will typically take 1,5 Gigabytes of disk space per hour.
*Pause digital satellite TV with instant replay.
*Listen to digital satellite DVB-S/DVB-S2 radio.
*DiSEqC 1.0 support.
*Includes Hauppauge new IR remote control, for easy control of TV watching, record and play functions.

== Driver Information ==
This card uses the same DVB-S and DVB-S2 hardware as the HVR-4000. Therefore, this wiki also applies to getting the DVB-S2 element of the HVR-4000 card working in LinuxMCE 0710 as well as the current LinuxMCE 8.10 alpha.

The DVB-S2 element on the NOVA-HD-S2 has run successfully on LMCE 0710/ 8.10 alpha using VDR and MythTV.
Previously multiproto-drivers were required to receive DVB-S2. However something new called S2API has come up from the guys and gals at LinuxTV.org, which -as I understand it- renders multiproto obsolete. It is included in v4l and in kernel v2.6.28.

== Installing The Drivers and Firmware ==
Download and install the v4l-dvb drivers
[http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/]
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
cd v4l-dvb
make
make install

Change into the downloaded directory, and open up a console. Type:
make
sudo make install
Now fetch the firmware:
wget ftp://167.206.143.11/outgoing/Oxford/88x_2_119_25023_WHQL.zip
unzip:
unzip -jo 88x_2_119_25023_WHQL.zip Driver88/hcw88bda.sys
and put it in place:
dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw skip=81768 bs=1 count=32522
now reboot, and check that the card has loaded
dmesg | grep cx88
you should get an output stating "hvr-4000-lite / Nova-HD-S2" somewhere.

== Scan for Channels ==

See LiuxMCE [[VDR]] wiki entry.

Instead of the scan command used in the VDR wiki I used:
scan -o vdr .kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E > channels.conf
Where my satellite is Astra-28.2E (the BSkyB (Sky-tv-uk) satellite)

To scan free-to-air channels only add an "-x 0" in the command. e.g.
scan -x 0 -o vdr .kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E > channels.conf
Add the created channels.conf to VDR in the LinuxMCE admin / advanced / configuration / VDR setup as per the VDR wiki