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* [http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/de/Products/Consumer%2BProducts/PCTV%2BTuners/PCTV%2BDigital%2BPVR%2B%28DVB-S_DVB-T%29/PCTV%2BSat%2BHDTV%2BPro%2BUSB.htm Pinnacle product page]
* [http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/de/Products/Consumer%2BProducts/PCTV%2BTuners/PCTV%2BDigital%2BPVR%2B%28DVB-S_DVB-T%29/PCTV%2BSat%2BHDTV%2BPro%2BUSB.htm Pinnacle product page]
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Revision as of 21:52, 4 May 2009

Top of PCTV 452e PCB
Barren bottom of the PCTV 452e PCB, save for the stickers

A DVB-S2 USB 2.0 Device from Pinnacle.

It is currently unsupported, but is identical to the TechnoTrend TT-connect S2-3600 which has experimental support via patches.

Overview/Features

Evidently, as can be seen in the images, the silkscreen writing on the PCB indicate that this device is actually a [TechnoTrend] design, identical to the S2-3600.

Components Used

  • STM STB6100 (tuner) [1]
  • STM STB0899 (demodulator) [2]
  • Cypress CY7C68013A (i.e. FX2) (USB bridge/controller) [3]

Identification

It has a USB ID: 2304:021f

Making it Work

What we know:

  • it uses parts/all of the ttusb-USB-protocol
  • isochronous Data transfer (whole TS only)
  • no firmware is needed (budget device)

Drivers

The following drivers are needed for these devices: 

 - stb0899.ko
 - stb6100.ko
 - lnbp22.ko
 - dvb-usb.ko
 - dvb-usb-pctv452e.ko

To use this device you have to have a tuning application that uses the new multiproto DVB api. there's a patched version of szap available (search mailing list).

Make sure you haven't loaded any old dvb drivers. Here's a step by step howto: 

hg clone http://www.jusst.de/hg/multiproto
wget -O pctv452e.patch http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20080125/b9e1d749/attachment-0001.patch
cd multiproto
patch -p1 < ../pctv452e.patch
make ; # there might be a few warnings.
cd v4l
insmod dvb-core.ko
insmod dvb-pll.ko
insmod stb6100.ko verbose=0
insmod stb0899.ko verbose=0
insmod lnbp22.ko
insmod dvb-usb.ko
insmod dvb-usb-pctv452e.ko
# in case some insmod complains about unresolved symbols: 
modprobe firmware_class

Driver Status

Working: 

- Remote Control
- LNB Power (13/18V)
- 22kHz
- DiSEqC
- DVB-S
- DVB-S2

External Links

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