DVB support? (1 reply)

Hi everyone (and bodhi in particular),

after a few years I am currently trying to see what my old Kirkwood machines can still do and first of all I would like to say thank you very much to bodhi for keeping this alive.

Anyway, way back when I used the boxes as a headless VDR, which worked quite well. The problem was that I needed USB receivers which were installed in user space and cost a lot more than the boxes themselves. Meanwhile, however, there is the XBOX One Digital TV Tuner which is a really cheap option for DVB-C (and also DVB-T(2)). Apparently, this is supported in mainlne from kernel 4.16-rc1 according to LinuxTv.org.

Sure enough, when I plug the tuner in on my Ubuntu Laptop running kernel 4.18.0-20, it not only recognizes the tuner but generates a DVB-device in /dev/dvb/adapterX (usually X=0, if no other DVB-devices are present). Using the latest rootfs with kernel 5.1.0 on a Kirkwood box, the tuner is recognized:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05dc:a205 Lexar Media, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 045e:02d5 Microsoft Corp. Xbox One Digital TV Tuner
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

but the DVB device is not generated, so the tuner cannot be used.

What would I need to do to add DVB support for the boxes?

Help greatly appreciated, as always!

Cheers,

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