[Wolves] hi trying to usb dvbt dongle working here in devon

Wed Nov 25 19:20:57 UTC 2015

the big problem we having is that we doing on very limited budget my
sister council disabled persons flat (which is pretty good and brand
new she is the first tenant here) does not have an aerial installed ,
it down to her to have one fitted. She just not got the money to pay
for it and we can't help there either. Only option she got really is
to do without tv or get a cheap sky dish installed(one off payment
about £30/£40 I think at a guess) or even have a 12 month contract
with sky and go to sky freeview after the year is up , so i guess will
have to wait till the money starts rolling in from distant hill.

mark

On 25 November 2015 at 12:54, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you say you were in Devon?  If so it's no surprise you are having
> problems wit getting a decent signal.  We've holidayed all over Devon
> and Somerset over the last few years and we can never get a decent
> signal anywhere.  The problem being that you have the choice of Welsh
> transmitters or those down South (few).  Could it be that the actual
> lack of decent signal is why the dongle is not working properly?  I've
> heard in the past that to get the best out of them (or indeed,
> anything) you need a very good aerial and a very good signal.  The
> aerial you can do something about.  Look up fractal aerials on
> somewhere like 'Instructables' (Google it as I can't remember the
> url).  There are loads of proven plans on there that should take less
> an hour to build ultra cheaply and will make the most of a poor
> signal.
>
> On 25 November 2015 at 11:18, Mark Croft <mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
>> do not have the money or time to wait for a new usb dvbt to come going
>> home on saturday maybe will to wait for a fixed solution her tv
>> problems down here . she really needs a proper tv aerial or a sky dish
>> (there lots of problems with freeview tv here i was told in the
>> morning - her neighbour across the road got a brand new aerial and
>> still can't get her freeview working)
>> i guess the biggest prob is that we trying to do this on the dirt
>> cheap again like everything in our lives.
>>
>>
>> On 25 November 2015 at 11:14, Mark Croft <mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> how would i check that the firmware is uploading to the device? i not
>>> seen any references to that in the forums i been reading threw.
>>>
>>> i am not sure i am reading the dmesg log correct.(see below)
>>>
>>>
>>> $ dmesg | grep -i dvb[   20.341913] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_af9035:
>>> prechip_version=83 chip_version=01 chip_type=9135
>>> [   20.342296] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'ITE 9135 Generic' in warm state
>>> [   20.345341] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2
>>> transport stream to the software demuxer
>>> [   20.345397] DVB: registering new adapter (ITE 9135 Generic)
>>> [   20.527921] usb 1-5: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Afatech
>>> AF9033 (DVB-T))...
>>> [   21.136465] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 500 msecs
>>> [   21.136470] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: 'ITE 9135 Generic' successfully
>>> initialized and connected
>>> [   21.136543] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9035
>>>
>>>
>>> finding it hard to focus so much going on around me here at my sister
>>>
>>> dog trying to eat my toastie sandwich
>>>
>>> here another version of dmesg
>>>
>>> [ 1905.974086] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, idProduct=9135
>>> [ 1905.974094] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
>>> [ 1908.287210] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_af9035: prechip_version=83
>>> chip_version=01 chip_type=9135
>>> [ 1908.287563] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'ITE 9135 Generic' in cold state
>>> [ 1909.296689] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: downloading firmware from file
>>> 'dvb-usb-it9135-01.fw'
>>> [ 1909.433209] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_af9035: firmware version=12.54.14.0
>>> [ 1909.433225] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'ITE 9135 Generic' in warm state
>>> [ 1909.435399] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2
>>> transport stream to the software demuxer
>>> [ 1909.435462] DVB: registering new adapter (ITE 9135 Generic)
>>> [ 1912.661076] i2c i2c-6: af9033: firmware version:
>>> LINK=255.255.255.255 OFDM=2.47.14.0
>>> [ 1912.661089] usb 1-5: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Afatech
>>> AF9033 (DVB-T))...
>>> [ 1913.770300] i2c i2c-6: tuner_it913x: ITE Tech IT913X successfully attached
>>> [ 1914.532095] Registered IR keymap rc-it913x-v1
>>> [ 1914.532467] input: ITE 9135 Generic as
>>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/rc/rc0/input20
>>> [ 1914.535951] rc0: ITE 9135 Generic as
>>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/rc/rc0
>>> [ 1914.535968] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 500 msecs
>>> [ 1914.535979] usb 1-5: dvb_usb_v2: 'ITE 9135 Generic' successfully
>>> initialized and connected
>>> [ 1914.536106] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9035
>>> markcroft at EQUIUM-P200 ~ $
>>>
>>> hope that helps.
>>>
>>> will be late tonite when i am back onto this project
>>>
>>>
>>> mark
>>>
>>> On 25 November 2015 at 09:53, John Alexander <acontractornow at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I'm not allowed to read your upload here at work, but as Ron said have you checked thatthe driver for the RTL have been loaded.Try lsmod before and after inserting the USB stick to see what it does.
>>>>        From: Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk>
>>>>  To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>>>  Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2015, 9:13
>>>>  Subject: Re: [Wolves] hi trying to usb dvbt dongle working here in devon
>>>>
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>>>> On 25/11/15 07:34, Mark Croft wrote:
>>>>> hi
>>>>>
>>>>> this explains what i done so far to get usb dongle too work and
>>>>> still no joy
>>>>>
>>>>> http://pastebin.com/V3RQ17hz
>>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have used the Realtek based tuners successfully with the rtl-sdr
>>>> package (some of the things you can do with it are far more
>>>> interesting than watching TV!).
>>>>
>>>> As this device requires external firmware to be loaded, do you have
>>>> have the correct firmware for your device?  Do you get any indication
>>>> that the firmware is being uploaded to the device?
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>> Ron Wellsted
>>>> ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk/
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