Hauppauge Nova-HD-S2

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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

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