DVBSky
Introduction
Asian company, design and manufacture DVB PC Tuner Cards and USB boxes.
Products
DVB-S2
Based on M88DS3103 demodulator
- DVBSKY S950 PCIe card
- DVBSKY S952 PCIe card (Twin-Tuner)
- DVBSKY S950C PCIe card + CI
- DVBSKY S960 USB box
- DVBSKY S960C USB box + CI
Based on Montage M88RS6000 receiver
- DVBSKY S952 v3 PCIe card (Twin-Tuner)
DVB-T2/T
- DVBSky T680C USB box + CI
- DVBSky T980C PCIe card + CI
- DVBSky T9580 PCIe card (Combo with DVB-S2)
- DVBSky T982 PCIe card (Twin-Tuner)
DVB-C
- DVBSKY C2800E PCIe card + CI
Older DVB-S2 products
- DVBSKY S830 PCI card
- DVBSKY S850 PCIe card
- DVBSKY S860 USB box
Howto build driver for Debian/Ubuntu/openSUSE
Tested and works with
- Ubuntu 12.04 i386 (3.8.0)
- Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (3.8.0)
- Ubuntu 13.10 i386 (3.11.0)
- Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64 (3.11.0)
- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 (3.7.10)
- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 (3.11.6)
- Kubuntu 13.10 x86_64 (3.11.0)
# Start terminal (or press Strg+Alt+F1, back to Desktop: Strg+Alt+F7) # Login as root and update your system (openSUSE: `zypper update`) sudo su apt-get update apt-get upgrade
# Install required build tools (openSUSE: `zypper install make gcc kernel-devel`) apt-get install kernel-package linux-headers-`uname -r`
# Download DVBSky Media build package # (see: http://www.dvbsky.net/Support.html to download the package for your kernel version) cd /usr/src wget http://www.dvbsky.net/download/linux/media_build-bst-140128.tar.gz tar xf media_build-bst-140128.tar.gz cd media_build-bst # `build_x86.sh` for any 32-bit system with DVB-S/S2/T/T2 OR `build_dvbc_x86.sh` for DVB-S/S2/C driver # `build_x64.sh` for any 64-bit system with DVB-S/S2/T/T2 OR `build_dvbc_x64.sh` for DVB-S/S2/C driver # Run `uname -a` to determine if 32 or 64-bit (x86_64/amd64/ia64) is required. ./v4l/build_x86.sh ~OR~ ./v4l/build_dvbc_x86.sh ~OR~ ./v4l/build_x64.sh ~OR~ ./v4l/build_dvbc_x64.sh make && make install
# Download and install firmware cd /usr/src wget http://www.dvbsky.net/download/dvbsky-firmware.zip unzip dvbsky-firmware.zip sh ./bst-firmware.sh
# Alternative firmware (e.g. for S952 v3) cd /usr/src wget http://www.dvbsky.net/download/linux/dvbsky-firmware.tar.gz tar -xf dvbsky-firmware.tar.gz sh ./dvbsky-firmware/bst-firmware.sh
# Reboot and check DVB devices reboot ls /dev/dvb dmesg | grep -i dvb
Use the driver with ArchLinux
The media_build_bst-Software is self-compile- / self-bundling-able via the Arch User Repository. It's something similar to the PPA-mumbo-jumbo of *buntu-Linuxes. If you're not (yet) familiar with AUR, read on here.
To fetch the media_build_bst-Software, point your browser to here it needs as a prerequisite task the firmware files of the DVBSKY-Cards installed.
This is also an AUR-package and located here. Building is simple and done within few minutes.
Building media_build_bst-Package
After unpacking and cd'ing inside your build-directory of media-build-dvbsky, issue a simple
makepkg -csi
to build and install the additional drivers. Building may consume a serious amount of time; but will eventually succeed.
A reboot is required to get all parts into action. After re-login check your success with
ls /dev/dvb dmesg | grep -i dvb
for entries.