hello,
May be widely discussed this theme here, anyway I didn't find exactly for my case
I have this cheap dongle tuner, recognized by box zgemma star s with openpli 7.3:
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 15f4:0131 HanfTekDevice Descriptor:
bLength 18bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00bDeviceClass 0
bDeviceSubClass 0bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64idVendor 0x15f4 HanfTek
idProduct 0x0131bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 astrometadvbt2iProduct 2 dvbt2
iSerial 0bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2wTotalLength 0x0022
bNumInterfaces 2bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 4 USB2.0-Bulk&IsobmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)MaxPower 500mA
Interface Descriptor:bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific ClassbInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific ProtocoliInterface 5 Bulk-In, Interface
Endpoint Descriptor:bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type NoneUsage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 1
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol
iInterface 5 Bulk-In, Interface
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 6
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
bNumConfigurations 2
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)
[ 9.772000] Registered IR keymap rc-cec
[ 9.773000] input: RC for hdmi_cec as /devices/platform/hdmi.0/rc/rc0/input4
[ 9.776000] rc rc0: RC for hdmi_cec as /devices/platform/hdmi.0/rc/rc0
[ 17.896000] usb 1-1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Astrometa DVB-T2' in warm state
[ 17.984000] usb 1-1: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
[ 17.985000] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (Astrometa DVB-T2)
[ 18.111000] i2c i2c-7: Added multiplexed i2c bus 8
[ 18.111000] rtl2832 7-0010: Realtek RTL2832 successfully attached
[ 18.111000] usb 1-1: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
[ 18.240000] r820t 8-003a: creating new instance
[ 18.249000] r820t 8-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
[ 18.319000] Registered IR keymap rc-empty
[ 18.320000] input: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/ehci-brcm.0/usb1/1-1/rc/rc1/input5
[ 18.321000] rc rc1: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/platform/ehci-brcm.0/usb1/1-1/rc/rc1
[ 18.351000] usb 1-1: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs
[ 18.361000] usb 1-1: dvb_usb_v2: 'Astrometa DVB-T2' successfully initialized and connected
[ 18.361000] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
but as dvb-t/2, and I, desperately, need a dvb-c.
It, clearly, registers one frontend only. Refering to: https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Astrometa_DVB-T2, I think that is model TVR801/R820T, where is specified, also, that may be not support dvb-c. I downloaded a latest kernel source and while browsing menuconfig, found at 'device drivers' - 'multimedia support' - 'Media ancillary drivers' - 'customize dvb frontends' where driver rtl2832 is exclusively under dvb-t section.
Saying these, I used this tuner as dvb-c in windows with altdvb working ok, in HD too:
USB\VID_15F4&PID_0131&MI_00\6&12B1B47A&0&0000
with drivers got at manufacturer website: http://www.astrometa.com.tw/integrated_en.html.
There are separated windows drivers for dvb-t and dvb-c, not both, no support for linux, briefly mentioning that drivers are integrated in kernel.
Is there a happy end for using this tuner as dvb-c?
thanks in advance