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  • No DVBT 2 channels found for geniatech t230 tuner??

    Thanks for the reply.


    At the moment the best bet seems to be to find the info to add to channels.conf - but I am confused as to the format used in channels.conf?, there are a lot of numbers and letters, what do they mean?- is there a wiki page that explains in detail the format of the channel info?


    That way I might be able to convert the data from tvheadend's dvbt2 channels to put in channels.conf.


    Thanks a lot :]


    pootler

  • No DVBT 2 channels found for geniatech t230 tuner??

    Hi Wirbel,


    Thanks for the reply - did you get my mail about this from about a week ago?
    As mentioned , I am not very tech, and it appears OPENELEC isa bit locked down in terms of adding new versions of programs.

    The only way I am able to add a version of w-scan is either from a repo with a pre compiled package, or via a .zip file.


    Is there any way you know i can add the version you are talking of, as i have no ability to 'compile' anything 8)
    The stick I had previously was an august, and it wouldn't find dvbt2.


    Quite how I would find one of the dvbt2 transmission data info and add to channels.conf is bit above me.
    Although the VDR OSD is available in OPENELEC, using wirbelscan crashes the whole distribution, thats why I ssh in from another windows computer to use w_scan.


    Thanks


    pootler

  • No DVBT 2 channels found for geniatech t230 tuner??

    Hi hepi,



    thank you for your comprehensive reply.



    - here we go then [Blockierte Grafik: https://s.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo1.gif] -



    Not sure how familiar you are with the raspberry pi, but the distros quite often push out firmware in earlier kernels.



    the latest official build of OPENELEC ( a distro for rpi ) is at 3.1.7, but I can confirm that it has the necessary firmware and drivers in that build for geniatech t230/mygica



    VDR client is version 1.9.22



    VDR addon is 4.3.7



    W_scan version is 4.3.2



    - I think these may be custom builds maintained for the Pi ?-



    Find enclosed dmesg for the build showing recognition as a dvbt2 device.



    Also two logs showing w_scan recognising the device,and also the log of the scan in case you are able to see anything unusual.



    I am sorry but I don't know where to look for VDR's sys.log on the Pi, and also not sure what you mean by starting and stopping the device?- it appears to be seen.



    As for power , the Pi is fine and has no problems.





    Many thanks



    pootler

  • No DVBT 2 channels found for geniatech t230 tuner??

    Hello,
    I am new to these forums and am really struggling to find an answer to my problem.
    I use VDR on the raspberry pi. ( front and backend)
    I am in the UK and use a usb tuner stick for the Freeview channels
    It works great , but recently I bought a new dvb t2 tuner stick ( Geniatech t230 DVBT2 usb tuner ) and w-scan( or is it VDR? ) will not find dvb t 2 channels.
    It finds dvbt fine and works fine- but no dVbt 2?
    Other PVR software for the Pi ( tvheadend) finds the dvbt 2 channels easily.
    A question on the openelec forum raised this explanation as a possible answer- can anybody shed any light on this??



    There has been a change to DVB-T2 support recently, and newer drivers use the new model, as does TV Headend. It could be that VDR hasn't been updated to use the new model yet?


    Older drivers (like the PCTV 290e) would tune to both a DVB-T and a DVB-T2 mux with the same tuning instruction (effectively if a DVB-T tune didn't work they'd try a DVB-T2 tune - effectively ignoring some of the demodulation parameters), possibly because there wasn't, then, a standard for sending T2 demod parameters to frontends.


    The Linux APIs now include proper T2 tuning support, so newer drivers (I think the 292e, and some of the Geniatech/August dongles) use the new API, so need to be specifically told to tune in T2 mode rather than T mode.TV Headend was modified to add support for this new T2 model (probably because it's devs are based in Sweden and the UK which both have a lot of T2 stuff)


    It may be that VDR doesn't yet have these changes made? Certainly on the VDR build in the OE 5.0.1 x86 builds I don't get a T2 tuning option (which I'd expect) for a single frequency scan. (VDR appears to be developed mainly in Germany, where T2 isn't yet broadcast.)


    I've also found that VDR doesn't appear to support the UK Huffman compressed Freeview HD EPG information (though it does support Freesat - which uses the same compression, but with differently flagged packets - as Freesat has to work side-by-side with Sky's EPG) - so you will have to use XMLTV to get EPG data for the HD channels on Freeview in VDR ?


    Buggy as TV Headend is, it still supports UK DVB-T/T2 stuff better than VDR in my experience.


    Many thanks


    pootler 8)