[mythtv-users] PCTV 292e not being detected by mythtv-setup

[John Pilkington]

On 19/03/15 15:03, Tim Draper wrote:
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> ---- On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:30:19 +0000 Andre Newman<mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote ----
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>   > On 19 Mar 2015, at 13:03, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:
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>   > > I've just bought a 292e tuner, and am struggling to get it detected by mythtv.
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>   > > I'm on fedora server 21 (3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64), em28xx shows in 'lsmod', and when i plug the device in, dmesg shows the correct 292e info.
>   > > What i have noticed is that when the 292e shows in dmesg, then no /dev/dvb/adapter is assigned to it - i presume this is why i cant get it working.
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>   > > Looking at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCTV_Systems_tripleStick_T2_%28292e%29, then no firmware is seemingly required, but i've seen threads online that i do need firmware.
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>   > > How have you other 292e users got this running?
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>   > I’m on Ubuntu 14.04.2 with kernel 3.16.0 I definitely needed firmware: dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw
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>   > I didn’t get a /dev/dvb/ node until I got the firmware and re-plugged the adaptor.
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>   > I followed some instructions on Antti’s blog "Naked Hardware” to get the firmware but I can’t find them right now to link to, sorry.
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>   > Andre
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> i found http://blog.palosaari.fi/2014/04/naked-hardware-15-pctv-triplestick-292e.html, but even after putting the .fw files into the firmware dir and a reboot, still no /dev/dvb/ adapter appears for the 292e.
> my TBS-6981 sat card is getting an adapter assigned and mythtv is happy so definately something specific i'm missing..
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I'm still with the 290e, but an easy way of seeing what's happening is 
to unplug, reinsert and look at the last few lines of dmesg.  You need 
to see 'registering adapter'.

The 'naked hardware' blog + comments suggest that there's still work  in 
progress.