[Plugin] DVB-Driver

[ich777]

2 hours ago, bally12345 said:

I had a little play around but for some reason the adapter is detected in unraid but the blue activity light does come on.

Over here the blue light comes on too just fine, but keep in mind only after the driver was successfully installed.

We are talking about these adapters correct:

 

I have no issue on my server over here:

 

Are you also sure that you are using the Linuxserver.io version from the container?

 

What have you done on the plugin page?

Can you share your Diagnostics again please?

I think the driver is not installed correctly on your system.

If you follow the directions from the plugin page and install it to the container everything should work fine.

[bally12345]

Over here the blue light comes on too just fine, but keep in mind only after the driver was successfully installed.
We are talking about these adapters correct:

 
I have no issue on my server over here:


 
Are you also sure that you are using the Linuxserver.io version from the container?
 
What have you done on the plugin page?
Can you share your Diagnostics again please?
I think the driver is not installed correctly on your system.
If you follow the directions from the plugin page and install it to the container everything should work fine.

Yes same adapter and using lsio. I will give it a try again and share diagnostics.

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[bally12345]

and if my magic its working again, not sure if its because I still had binhex container and I had the same settings in there but that was stopped.

 

Either way now have my sundtek showing up as freeview and my old vu+ zero for freesat in plex

 

Edited April 23, 2023 by bally12345

[bally12345]

Happened again overnight

Apr 24 04:08:52 Server avahi-daemon[14073]: Registering new address record for fe80::44c7:feff:fed6:5844 on vethdbe9494.*.
Apr 24 04:08:52 Server kernel: mediasrv[28110]: segfault at 4 ip 0000000000418457 sp 00001536ad31d0f8 error 4 in mediasrv[405000+3c000] likely on CPU 11 (core 10, socket 1)
Apr 24 04:08:52 Server kernel: Code: 00 00 00 e9 61 ff ff ff 48 89 df 89 44 24 0c e8 4f d4 fe ff 8b 44 24 0c eb 83 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 87 c0 c5 00 00 <8b> 40 04 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 87 c0 c5 00 00 8b 00 c3 66 0f 1f
Apr 24 04:08:53 Server sSMTP[28140]: Creating SSL connection to host

server-diagnostics-20230424-0932.zip

 

Diagnostics attached

 

Edited April 24, 2023 by bally12345
screenshot attached

[ich777]

29 minutes ago, bally12345 said:

Happened again overnight

I really can't help with that since I've never saw that on my server, maybe try to create a post on the Sundtek forums or maybe @Sundtek can help over here.

 

Did you try this adapter on your Vu+ for a few days or only for a few hours, maybe you are correct and the DVB-C/T USB device is faulty, it could as be the case that something doesn't play nicely with your hardware, maybe check if a settings for USB devices is suspicious or try another USB port on your motherboard

[andritolion]

I use the Hauppauge WinTV QuadHD USB TV tuner and I'm having problems with using it with Plex. I'm using your DVB Driver plugin for Unraid, but although Plex can see the tuner, it is unable to find any channels with it. I've tried to configure TVHeadend as well, and it can't find any channels either. I'm not sure if I configured it correctly however, but as far as I can tell, it has the same issue Plex has. Do you have anything else I can try?

 

I've also noted that in the server console, it complains about firmware loading. Is the firmware being properly loaded?
 

May 28 08:44:32 catNAS kernel: mxl692 14-0063: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mxl692.fw failed with error -2
May 28 08:44:33 catNAS kernel: mxl692 12-0060: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mxl692.fw failed with error -2
May 28 08:44:33 catNAS kernel: mxl692 10-0063: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mxl692.fw failed with error -2
May 28 08:44:33 catNAS kernel: mxl692 12-0060: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mxl692.fw failed with error -2
May 28 08:44:33 catNAS kernel: mxl692 10-0063: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mxl692.fw failed with error -2
May 28 08:44:33 catNAS kernel: mxl692 8-0060: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mxl692.fw failed with error -2
May 28 08:44:33 catNAS kernel: mxl692 8-0060: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mxl692.fw failed with error -2

 

Edited May 28, 2023 by andritolion
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[ich777]

4 hours ago, andritolion said:

I've also noted that in the server console, it complains about firmware loading. Is the firmware being properly loaded?

I've now found the cause of the issue this USB device isn't fully supported under Linux yet.

I found a post on Reddit where someone has the exact same issue from about 6 months ago but never reachted out to me.

 

From what I can tell the card/firmware is supported on a newer Linux Kernel then what Unraid is using, to be a bit more specific it should be included in Kernel 6.3 which Unraid isn't using yet. So I can't help much here.

 

However you can try to switch over to the TBS-OS driver package and see if this does help but I don't think so.

You'll have to wait a bit longer until it's got fully supported on Linux.

 

Sorry for the bad news but at least it seems that it is coming. Kernel 6.3 or newer should be included in the Unraid 6.13 RC series.

[andritolion]

20 hours ago, ich777 said:

I've now found the cause of the issue this USB device isn't fully supported under Linux yet.

Would it be possible to install the official Hauppauge firmware on this version? https://hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_linux.html#firmware

[ich777]

46 minutes ago, andritolion said:

https://hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_linux.html#firmware

Please note that you tuner isn‘t listed there and those formwares are for PCIe based Tuners.

Your tuner is simply based on another chip that is not supported yet as far as I can tell.

[andritolion]

There is mention of the WinTV-QuadHD with their Ubuntu PPA, however. Would that work with Unraid? https://hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_linux.html#main
Additionally, the same apt-get command as the first link is mentioned for the Ubuntu PPA as well, so maybe it was updated to include support?

Edited May 29, 2023 by andritolion

[ich777]

11 hours ago, andritolion said:

Would that work with Unraid?

The answer is complicated and apt-get is not part of Unraid because Unraid is based on Slackware and apt-get is part of Debian based distributions.

 

I have now built a custom package for Unraid 6.11.5, to use that please do the following:

1. Maker sure that you've selected the LibreElec DVB package on the plugin settings page
2. Place the attached files in /boot/config/plugins/dvb-driver/packages/5.19.17/ (if ask replace the files which are in there)
3. Reboot your server

 

Please note that this package will only work with Unraid 6.11.5!

libreelec-20221103-5.19.17-Unraid-1.txz libreelec-20221103-5.19.17-Unraid-1.txz.md5

[andritolion]

46 minutes ago, ich777 said:

Please note that this package will only work with Unraid 6.11.5!

Unfortunately, I recently upgraded to 6.12.0 rc6 to experiment with any new changes that might be coming soon while my server isn't doing too much. Could you compile a copy for 6.12.0 rc6? My apologies.

[ich777]

2 hours ago, andritolion said:

6.12.0 rc6

I have attached the new files.

 

The procedure is the same except that the correct path for 6.12.0-rc6 is:

/boot/config/plugins/dvb-driver/packages/6.1.29/

libreelec-20230517-6.1.29-Unraid-1.txz.md5 libreelec-20230517-6.1.29-Unraid-1.txz

[ich777]

@andritolion have you yet tried the new files? Wihtout positive feedback I won't implement the firmware files since I don't know if they are working.

[andritolion]

17 hours ago, ich777 said:

@andritolion have you yet tried the new files?

Hello there. Apologies for the delay. I just moved in somewhere new and I was busy getting everything set. However, I would like to report that I can scan for channels now! Sadly, my connection is rather weak where I am at, but I think I can get that figured out and I doubt it's related to the firmware. Thanks so much!

[ich777]

7 hours ago, andritolion said:

Sadly, my connection is rather weak where I am at, but I think I can get that figured out and I doubt it's related to the firmware.

So is it now working or not, I need a definitive answer, I'll hope you understand that.

Are you able to tune a channel and watch it?

If it's working I'll add the firmware to the package ASAP.

[andritolion]

Just now, ich777 said:

Are you able to tune a channel and watch it?

Yup! Just got a better antenna from the store and I'm watching local TV right now as I speak.

[ich777]

6 minutes ago, andritolion said:

Yup! Just got a better antenna from the store and I'm watching local TV right now as I speak.

I can't tell if it's making it in the release from the next RC release but I'll try my best.

[andritolion]

I have forgotten that I am currently running a modified version of your driver to have my TV tuner working on Unraid. I've installed the next release candidate, but have not yet rebooted. Should I hold off on rebooting my system?

[ich777]

1 hour ago, andritolion said:

Should I hold off on rebooting my system?

Please reboot, the driver is already modified and should work.

Let me know if everything is working after you rebooted.

[andritolion]

Unfortunately, after the update, the driver does not load. I am running 2022.07.20.
 

Jun  6 22:00:22 catNAS kernel: tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
Jun  6 22:00:22 catNAS rc.docker: Plex-Media-Server: Error response from daemon: error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/dvb": no such file or directory
Jun  6 22:00:22 catNAS rc.docker: Error: failed to start containers: Plex-Media-Server

 

[ich777]

57 minutes ago, andritolion said:

Unfortunately, after the update, the driver does not load. I am running 2022.07.20.

Please post your Diagnostics.

 

Are you sure that the Plugin is still installed and not in the Plugins Error tab?

[andritolion]

2 minutes ago, ich777 said:

Please post your Diagnostics.

 

Are you sure that the Plugin is still installed and not in the Plugins Error tab?

Yes, the plugin is still installed and is not in the error tab. Here are my diagnostics.

catnas-diagnostics-20230606-2302.zip

[ich777]

11 minutes ago, andritolion said:

Yes, the plugin is still installed and is not in the error tab. Here are my diagnostics.

I don't see the card in lspci, this could be because it hung up (didn't properly reset).

 

Please try the following:

1. Shut down the server
2. Pull the power cord from the wall or flip the power switch at the power supply
3. Press the power/reset button a few times (to empty the caps)
4. Wait for at least 30 seconds
5. Put power back to your server
6. Power the server back on

[andritolion]

22 minutes ago, ich777 said:

I don't see the card in lspci, this could be because it hung up (didn't properly reset).

I've went over to the cabinet where I stashed my server and pulled the power from it. Unfortunately, the same symptoms persist and Plex won't start.