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== Driver Information == | == 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- | + | 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- | + | 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. | |
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== Installing The Drivers and Firmware == | == Installing The Drivers and Firmware == | ||
Revision as of 10:24, 7 October 2009
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 [1]
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
