Pinnacle PCTV Sat HDTV Pro USB (452e)

A DVB-S2 USB 2.0 Device from Pinnacle.

It is currently unsupported.

Overview

It has a USB ID: 2304:021f

What we know:

 - uses parts/all of the ttusb-USB-protocol
 - isochronous Data transfer (whole TS only)
 - no firmware is needed (budget device)

Components Used

• STM STB6100 (tuner) [1]
• STM STB0899 (demodulator) [2]
• Cypress CY7C68013A (i.e. FX2) (USB bridge/controller) [3]

The following drivers are needed for these devices:

 - stb0899.ko
 - stb6100.ko
 - lnbp22.ko
 - dvb-usb.ko
 - dvb-usb-pctv452e.ko

Driver Status

Working:

- Remote Control
- LNB Power (13/18V)
- 22kHz
- DiSEqC
- DVB-S

TODO:

- DVB-S2

To use this device you have to have a tuning application that uses the new DVB api. there's a patched version of szap available (search mailing list).

Make sure you haven't loaded any old dvb drivers. Here's a step by step howto:

hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~manu/stb0899
wget -O pct452e.patch http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20071021/968fad73/attachment-0001.patch
cd stb0899
patch -p1 < ../pctv452e.patch
# change line 405 in linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c
# from   { STB0899_I2CRPT        , 0x58 }, // 0x2c
# to     { STB0899_I2CRPT        , 0x5c },
make ; # there might be a few warnings.
cd v4l
insmod dvb-core.ko
insmod dvb-pll.ko
insmod stb6100.ko verbose=0
insmod stb0899.ko verbose=0
insmod lnbp22.ko
insmod dvb-usb.ko
insmod dvb-usb-pctv452e.ko
# in case some insmod complains about unresolved symbols: 
modprobe firmware_class

External Links

• Pinnacle product page