Hello Forum,

i just got my new tinker board running with armbian, thanks for the good work !

I want to set up a vdr vnsi server on this to replace the existing Raspberry 2.

To get the DVB USB Skystar Tuners running several modules out of kernel/drivers/media like dvb-core and usb are needed.

Are this kernel drivers already compiled available or what to do to get them ?

Thanks

  Thomas

If those drivers are part of a kernel, tell me which should be enabled in kernel configuration:

 

4.4.x: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/kernel/linux-rockchip-default.config

4.11.x: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/kernel/linux-rockchip-next.config

 

or provide a patch / submit PR to our repository.

 

If they are not part of the kernel source, then you need to obtain source (and possible firmware) and proceed this way: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/#how-to-build-a-wireless-driver

Hello,

i think this are the first ones but then several DVB Tuner devices for USB and PCI will follow:

CONFIG_MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT

CONFIG_V4L_PLATFORM_DRIVERS

 

My personal interest is in USB DVB Sky Star Module first, but there may be the other modules needed by others:

kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-technisat-usb2.ko

 

The default governor needs to be changed as well, the powersave setting seems to impact USB transfers pretty significantly.

Hello,

i found this

https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/technisat-skystar-usb-hd-device-not-found/

and installed the media_build.

Seems that this drivers aren't included in standard kernel package.

 

Hello Tony,

can You please explain how the powersave settings are to be tuned ?

The data rates on USB would be about 10MBit/s per Transponder and i would like to install 3 USB tuners.

With 2 transponders on 3 tuners round about 60MBit/s on USB and this transferred to GBit LAN should be possible.

The Raspy 2 fails with more than 4 transponders because of the slow LAN attached behind USB.