LifeView TV Walker Twin DVB-T (LR540)
LifeView TV Walker Twin | DVB-T USB Receiver
USB id: 10fd:0514 (cold - before firmware download) USB id: 10fd:0513 (warm - after firmware download)
Status: Supported
Contains 2 tuners and 2 demodulators, and 1 remote control.
Works in kaffeine; dvbstream does not work (or wrong settings)
Images
- Coming soon
LifeView LR534 mini-PCIe card
Status: Supported using the driver for LifeView TV Walker Twin below
USB id: 10fd:0513
Contains 1 tuner TDA8275 and 1 demodulator TDA10046. No remote control.
Images
LifeView LR535 mini-PCIe card
Status: Unknown - seeking information and pictures
USB id: 10fd:0535
Images
Gericom TV Tuner USB 2.0 (digital and analogue)
Status: Possibly usable, see nick-linuxtv at nick-andrew.net
USB id: 10fd:1505
Has an m9207.
Images
http://www.bttv-gallery.de/high/pict0003.jpg_gericom_lr505_10fd_1505_box_top_a.jpg
Technical Details
Used ICs
- ULi M9206
- TDA 10046A (2 of them in the TV Walker Twin)
- TDA 8275a (2 of them in the TV Walker Twin)
Driver
- m920x experimental tree from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~aapot/m920x
- firmware dvb-usb-tvwalkert.fw from http://www.nick-andrew.net/LifeView/
- Go to http://linuxtv.org/repo/ and follow the instructions for building the modules and installing
Status
Supported and mostly working. Things which work include:
- Device is recognised and two tuners and two demodulators are attached
- Can play video streams using Kaffeine
- Remote control initialisation and codes have been determined
Things which may not work include:
- "scan" only finds some transponders (for Nick Andrew, at least)
- Have not successfully used dvbstream yet
Technical Details
The M9206 chip handles two demodulators and two tuners.
The demodulators are located at 7-bit i2c addresses 0x08 and 0x0b. The tuners are located at 7-bit i2c addresses 0x60 and 0x61.
With the latest driver from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~aapot/m920x both tuners are working fine.
People who own such a device
Feel free to add yourself here, testers will always be needed!
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Nick Andrew | nick-linuxtv at nick-andrew dot net (owns two LifeView TV Walker Twins) |
| Ketrox | ketrox at no-limitz dot org (owns a mini-PCIe) |
| manhunt | mike4004 at gmail dot com (owns a Gericom m9207-based analogue/digital receiver) |
| vguardiola | victor d0t guardiola at gmail dot com (owns a LifeView 535) |
| pelrun | pelrun at gmail dot com (owns one LifeView TV Walker Twin) |