Comments on: Howto: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 PCI under Linux

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:39:30 +0000

Just wanted to say “good work” and drop some credits! Great information, this helped me (togather with another article) to build a HTPC running MythTV under Ubuntu. And I’ve never even used Linux before.

@ Mattias Sjöblom

How did you achieve this? I’ve been trying to switch between three different firmwares, the oldest one being the one uploaded on this page and the newest on http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500#Firmware.
None of them gives anything similiar to “[ 34.787147] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input4″.

I just get:

“[ 38.296185] dvb-usb: found a ‘Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T’ in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[ 39.060961] dvb-usb: found a ‘Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T’ in warm state.
[ 39.061389] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T).
[ 39.190806] DVB: registering frontend 0 (DiBcom 3000MC/P)…
[ 39.779489] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T).
[ 39.786412] DVB: registering frontend 1 (DiBcom 3000MC/P)…
[ 40.424725] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T successfully initialized and connected.
”

Nothing about the IR thing…

By: B-squared

B-squared — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:29:13 +0000

Under the 2.6.23 kernel, in order for menuconfig to give you an option for the dib0700, one needs to also enable i2c and usb higher up in the menu chain. Then under multimedia devices select DVB for Linux (you know that) and DVB/ATSC adaptors, lo and behold, the DiBcom DiB0700 option appears. Hope this helps, took me a couple of hours to find. — bb

By: mattoys

mattoys — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:19:38 +0000

I can’t find the dib0700 driver when using “make menuconfig”, is there something i need to enable to be able to find the driver?

I have the sourcefiles anyway..
/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.3/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dib0700.h
/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.3/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dib0700_core.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.3/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dib0700_devices.c

By: James Mahoney

James Mahoney — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:40:05 +0000

Works great on Ubuntu 7.10 – just needs the firmware

By: Mattias Sjöblom

Mattias Sjöblom — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:08:10 +0000

Tada!!

Did a clean installation of Ubuntu Linux and followed the guide above again and everything worked just super.
Both TV-Card and remote control is now working flawless on my Ubuntu mashine.

It took a lot longer time to create a good xorg.conf though and the nvidia-new-drivers playing tricks with me.
But solved that too. I wanted to have the normal Linux desktop on my monitor but output MythTV-frontend to my TV (connected by composite cable to my graphics card).

By: Mattias Sjöblom

Mattias Sjöblom — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:35:05 +0000

Hello!
Great guide and I got my card up and running in no time.
But still havn’t got the remote to work…but according to this site it probably should work…
MythTV wiki
Anyone who managed to follow this guide and gotten the remote to work??

The information from “dmesg | grep DVB” should be something like…
…
[ 34.224298] DVB: registering frontend 1 (DiBcom 3000MC/P)…
[ 34.787147] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input4
[ 34.787308] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T successfully initialized and connected.

…but I don’t get the “…input: IR-receiver…” row when I grep.

Any ideas folks?

Live long and free!

By: Chris McEwan

Chris McEwan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:22:40 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for the great guide it helped me get the 500 installed. Unfortunatly I had to re-compile the kernel which is always fun

In reply to Nick Sharp.

You posted
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“So, extract the file named “dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw” and copy it to the directory /lib/firmware. Then load the module dvb-usb-dib0700 using the following command:

modprobe dvb-usb-dib0700″

but the dmesg said it could not find the firmware file”

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rename your firmware from dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw to dvb-usb-dib0700.fw and re-run the modprobe. (remove the -01 from the end !)

By: Björn

Björn — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:15:04 +0000

I have tried to record svt-hd with this card, partly succsessfully. i.e. i get picture and sound but the picture stutters (works fine for a couple of seconds) then freezes. The cpu load is about 10%.

//Björn

By: Nick Sharp

Nick Sharp — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:20:27 +0000

status 03 | signal b59b | snr 0000 | ber 001fffff | unc 00000000 |
status 1f | signal b5c2 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000438 | FE_HAS_LOCK

and while that is running, in another terminal:

# scandvb -c ie just scan the currently tuned frequency
using ‘/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0′ and ‘/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0′
0×0000 0×0001: pmt_pid 0×0100 Nine Network — NINE DIGITAL (running)
0×0000 0×0005: pmt_pid 0×0101 Nine Network — NINE HD (running)
0×0000 0×0006: pmt_pid 0×0102 Nine Network — NINE GUIDE (running)
dumping lists (3 services)
NINE DIGITAL (0×0001) 01: PCR 0×0087 V 0×0207 A 0x02d0 (eng) TT 0×0247 AC3 0x02d1
NINE HD (0×0005) 01: PCR 0×0080 V 0×0200 TT 0×0240 AC3 0x028a GOTCHA!!!!!!!!!!
NINE GUIDE (0×0006) 01: PCR 0×0085 V 0×0205 A 0x02bc (eng)
Done.

So now you know that NINE HD audio pid is 0x028a a.k.a 650, so edit that in to the end of the correct line in the channels file:

….HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:5

And it works!

One remaining challenge: find anything worth watching on NINE sigh (:=((

Final note: from the above it looks like some standard digital channels are offering both mpeg and AC3 eg NINE on audio pid 0x02d0 (720) AND on AC3 pid 0x02d1 (721) so altering the NINE digital channel audio pid to 721 gets you AC3 if you like that more than mpeg2. Haven’t a clue myself yet!

Hope this helps someone! And thanks again Jon for your work and site.

By: Nick Sharp

Nick Sharp — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:16:14 +0000

Finally cracked the mute HDTV issue, thanks to others on great blogs & forums

The earlier-mentioned scandvb gave me (in Sydney) 42 lines like these:
SBS HD:571500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:102:103:768

where the last three numbers are the video pid (102 here), the audio pid (103 here) and another number (768 here) which I do not know about. Here’s NINE HDTV though:

NINE HD:191625000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_3_4:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:0:5

Note that the audio pid is 0. scandvb has on this occasion failed to pick it because it is AC3. Hmmm? Seems most Aussie HDTV channels use AC3 for the audio.

Never mind. Here’s the trick. First, tune to NINE HD

# tzap -c /usr/bin/channels -r “NINE HD”
using ‘/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0′ and ‘/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0′
tuning to 191625000 Hz
video pid 0×0200, audio pid 0×0000