KWorld 120 IR control?

Hi...

This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

Hi Stuart,

Am Sonntag, den 14.09.2008, 15:07 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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Hi...

This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

Mauro, better we all of course, need to review Brian Rogers latest patch from Thursday on this to get it in.

Based on this, likely Dwaine Garden is the one who can further proceed for the Kworld stuff too.

Cheers,
Hermann

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Hi Stuart,

Am Sonntag, den 14.09.2008, 15:07 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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Hi...

This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

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I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

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Mauro, better we all of course, need to review Brian Rogers latest patch from Thursday on this to get it in.

Based on this, likely Dwaine Garden is the one who can further proceed for the Kworld stuff too.

Cheers,
Hermann

Hey, thanks to all who have contributed to the KWorld-120 v4l driver! If it wasn't obvious, I've been enjoying the sound and video from my v4l driven KWorld-120 for months now.

So, are these IR remote control patches in Staging (the v4l somewhat stable pre-release version). I've pulled and compiled from that repo before - no problem if that's where the new IR code is.

...thanks

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hermann pitton wrote:
Hi Stuart,

Am Sonntag, den 14.09.2008, 15:07 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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Hi...

This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

Mauro, better we all of course, need to review Brian Rogers latest patch from Thursday on this to get it in.

Based on this, likely Dwaine Garden is the one who can further proceed for the Kworld stuff too.

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Cheers,
Hermann

Hey, thanks to all who have contributed to the KWorld-120 v4l driver! If it wasn't obvious, I've been enjoying the sound and video from my v4l driven KWorld-120 for months now.

So, are these IR remote control patches in Staging (the v4l somewhat stable pre-release version). I've pulled and compiled from that repo before - no problem if that's where the new IR code is.

...thanks

there have been patches on the lists for KS003 and KS007 i2c driven remotes, but nothing is in yet.

Brian Rogers current version likely will make it in now for the saa7134 MSI TV@nywhere, based on Henry Wong's old patch.

Mauro will have a look at it again next week after Portland.

It likely can provide the base for other cards and drivers too then.

Cheers,
Hermann

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hermann pitton wrote:
Hi Stuart,

Am Sonntag, den 14.09.2008, 15:07 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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Hi...

This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

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I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

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Mauro, better we all of course, need to review Brian Rogers latest patch from Thursday on this to get it in.

Based on this, likely Dwaine Garden is the one who can further proceed for the Kworld stuff too.

Cheers,
Hermann

Hey, thanks to all who have contributed to the KWorld-120 v4l driver! If it wasn't obvious, I've been enjoying the sound and video from my v4l driven KWorld-120 for months now.

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So, are these IR remote control patches in Staging (the v4l somewhat stable pre-release version). I've pulled and compiled from that repo before - no problem if that's where the new IR code is.

...thanks

there have been patches on the lists for KS003 and KS007 i2c driven remotes, but nothing is in yet.

Brian Rogers current version likely will make it in now for the saa7134 MSI TV@nywhere, based on Henry Wong's old patch.

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Mauro will have a look at it again next week after Portland.

It likely can provide the base for other cards and drivers too then.

Cheers,
Hermann

Re: KWorld 120 IR control "Montly Bump"...

Sorry to bother you guys again. But some Brick and Mortar Frys stores (on line it's still the full $60) have this card on sale.

Perhaps if you could tell me (us) what to watch for in the different v4l repositories we could track this feature our selves.

...thanks

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 09:32 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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hermann pitton wrote:
Hi Stuart,

Am Sonntag, den 14.09.2008, 15:07 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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Hi...

This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

Mauro, better we all of course, need to review Brian Rogers latest patch from Thursday on this to get it in.

Based on this, likely Dwaine Garden is the one who can further proceed for the Kworld stuff too.

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Cheers,
Hermann

Hey, thanks to all who have contributed to the KWorld-120 v4l driver! If it wasn't obvious, I've been enjoying the sound and video from my v4l driven KWorld-120 for months now.

So, are these IR remote control patches in Staging (the v4l somewhat stable pre-release version). I've pulled and compiled from that repo before - no problem if that's where the new IR code is.

...thanks

there have been patches on the lists for KS003 and KS007 i2c driven remotes, but nothing is in yet.

Brian Rogers current version likely will make it in now for the saa7134 MSI TV@nywhere, based on Henry Wong's old patch.

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Mauro will have a look at it again next week after Portland.

It likely can provide the base for other cards and drivers too then.

Cheers,
Hermann

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Re: KWorld 120 IR control "Montly Bump"...

Sorry to bother you guys again. But some Brick and Mortar Frys stores (on line it's still the full $60) have this card on sale.

Perhaps if you could tell me (us) what to watch for in the different v4l repositories we could track this feature our selves.

...thanks

hmm, you called it successor/replacement of the Kworld saa7134 ATSC cards and I thought this would indicate that there is a KS003 or KS007 i2c controller with 16 pins at 0x30.

This is likely wrong.

The patch for the KS003 on the saa7134 MSI TV@nywhere is in v4l-dvb now.

I think it was not reported yet, what IR controller is on the ATSC 120. Maybe it is some known stuff and support can be added easily, but dunno.

Please be patient, can't tell if Mauro had any time to look at the remote at all so far.

You can try to identify the remote and controller chip by searching through http://www.bttv-gallery.de.

You find already supported Kworld cards then in cx88-input.c, saa7134-input.c ...

Cheers,
Hermann

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Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 09:32 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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hermann pitton wrote:
Hi Stuart,

Am Sonntag, den 14.09.2008, 15:07 -0500 schrieb stuart:

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Hi...

This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

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I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

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Mauro, better we all of course, need to review Brian Rogers latest patch from Thursday on this to get it in.

Based on this, likely Dwaine Garden is the one who can further proceed for the Kworld stuff too.

Cheers,
Hermann

Hey, thanks to all who have contributed to the KWorld-120 v4l driver! If it wasn't obvious, I've been enjoying the sound and video from my v4l driven KWorld-120 for months now.

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So, are these IR remote control patches in Staging (the v4l somewhat stable pre-release version). I've pulled and compiled from that repo before - no problem if that's where the new IR code is.

...thanks

there have been patches on the lists for KS003 and KS007 i2c driven remotes, but nothing is in yet.

Brian Rogers current version likely will make it in now for the saa7134 MSI TV@nywhere, based on Henry Wong's old patch.

Quoted 6 lines

Mauro will have a look at it again next week after Portland.

It likely can provide the base for other cards and drivers too then.

Cheers,
Hermann

Re: KWorld 120 IR control "Montly Bump"...

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Sorry to bother you guys again. But some Brick and Mortar Frys stores (on line it's still the full $60) have this card on sale.

Perhaps if you could tell me (us) what to watch for in the different v4l repositories we could track this feature our selves.

...thanks

hmm, you called it successor/replacement of the Kworld saa7134 ATSC cards and I thought this would indicate that there is a KS003 or KS007 i2c controller with 16 pins at 0x30.

This is likely wrong.

The patch for the KS003 on the saa7134 MSI TV@nywhere is in v4l-dvb now.

I think it was not reported yet, what IR controller is on the ATSC 120. Maybe it is some known stuff and support can be added easily, but dunno.

Please be patient, can't tell if Mauro had any time to look at the remote at all so far.

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You can try to identify the remote and controller chip by searching through http://www.bttv-gallery.de.

You find already supported Kworld cards then in cx88-input.c, saa7134-input.c ...

Cheers,
Hermann

Hi Hermann...

Thanks for taking the time to write back...

There is extensive information about the Kworld 120 here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Kworld_ATSC_120
...we've added information to it down through the months.

[From the above page:]
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Major components used

* Xceive XC3028 (tuner & analog IF demodulator)
* Samsung S5H1409 (digital demodulator, Conexant CX24227 compatible)
* Conexant cx23880 (A/V Decoder & PCI bridge)
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Status

As of 27 Mar 2008 and revision 7448 of the main v4l-dvb repository, this card can be used in both analog and digital ATSC modes via a set of experimental drivers. The FM radio, composite video, and S-Video inputs all work when the card is initialized into analog mode. Due to a resource conflict in the driver caused by this card's architecture, a reboot is necessary to switch between analog and ATSC modes. The cause of this issue has been located, and work is ongoing to fix it.

The remote control is not currently supported in any mode, yet.

The Line-out jack is somewhat functional, but is not considered ready to use, yet.
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thanks, I tried to look it up better this time and saw this already at the linuxtv wiki. Also found a reasonable picture, but not good enough. At least no 16 pins KS007 so far.

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thanks, I tried to look it up better this time and saw this already at the linuxtv wiki. Also found a reasonable picture, but not good enough. At least no 16 pins KS007 so far.

I have sent Hermann some high resolution photos of my Kworld ATSC 120 by direct email.

Hermann, feel free to pass these around if you need to; if you need better ones, or you want me to direct my camera to a particular spot on the card, please let me know.

Hi Vanessa,

Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 18:54 -0500 schrieb Vanessa Ezekowitz:

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thanks, I tried to look it up better this time and saw this already at the linuxtv wiki. Also found a reasonable picture, but not good enough. At least no 16 pins KS007 so far.

this needs correction. KS003 and KS007 both have 18 pins and are clearly marked with these names. They are on many recent Kworld products.

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I have sent Hermann some high resolution photos of my Kworld ATSC 120 by direct email.

Hermann, feel free to pass these around if you need to; if you need better ones, or you want me to direct my camera to a particular spot on the card, please let me know.

Thanks, but no luck on the bttv-gallery so far.
Maybe somebody else saw it already.

It should be the chip with 20 pins in position U9, unfortunately only marked with a green colored spot and connected to the xtal X0 16MHz in front of the radio RF input.

We have an unknown gpio remote controller marked with a grey spot on the saa7131e Kworld TV Studio Terminator, but 18 pins and 20MHz clock and that smaller grey remote with 36 keys. Usually RM-Kum01 and xtal 4MHz. Also one only with a blue spot on Kworld Creator TV MCE 100 Pro and remote with 32 keys. (BTW, some rare KS008 is on Cinergy 250 PCI)

	case SAA7134_BOARD_KWORLD_TERMINATOR:
		ir_codes     = ir_codes_pixelview;
		mask_keycode = 0x00001f;
		mask_keyup   = 0x000060;
		polling      = 50; // ms
		break;

On cx88-input.c all Kworld stuff has that too.

		ir->gpio_addr = MO_GP1_IO;
		ir->mask_keycode = 0x1f;
		ir->mask_keyup = 0x60;

But you switch already some pins within mask_keycode on MO_GP1_IO. Maybe on MO_GP0_IO. Is that gpio0 and gpio2 stuff needed at all in the card's entry? If not, but some of the first 8 gpios are connected, might be the remote. Needs to have the cx23880 pinning at hand, but seems there are no simply visible connections from that green marked chip. Maybe worth to try with mask_keycode = 0x0.

On the other hand, on the backside seem to be two lines from that chip more in direction to the tuner. Could hang on i2c there, but can't tell. Does any unknown device show up with cx88xx i2c_scan=1?

For now, known Kworld stuff has various IR controllers with 18 pins. It is not one of the newer KS00x i2c devices here and a controller with 20 pins and 16MHz clock seems to be new. How many keys/buttons has the remote?

That is not much, but hopefully better than nothing.
I can't exclude that the controller needs some sort of initialization/activation or maybe even uses a new IR protocol, but testing in the above directions should not be too much work.

Cheers,
Hermann

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Hi Vanessa,

Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 18:54 -0500 schrieb Vanessa Ezekowitz:

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thanks, I tried to look it up better this time and saw this already at the linuxtv wiki. Also found a reasonable picture, but not good enough. At least no 16 pins KS007 so far.

this needs correction. KS003 and KS007 both have 18 pins and are clearly marked with these names. They are on many recent Kworld products.

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I have sent Hermann some high resolution photos of my Kworld ATSC 120 by direct email.

Hermann, feel free to pass these around if you need to; if you need better ones, or you want me to direct my camera to a particular spot on the card, please let me know.

Thanks, but no luck on the bttv-gallery so far.
Maybe somebody else saw it already.

It should be the chip with 20 pins in position U9, unfortunately only marked with a green colored spot and connected to the xtal X0 16MHz in front of the radio RF input.

We have an unknown gpio remote controller marked with a grey spot on the saa7131e Kworld TV Studio Terminator, but 18 pins and 20MHz clock and that smaller grey remote with 36 keys. Usually RM-Kum01 and xtal 4MHz. Also one only with a blue spot on Kworld Creator TV MCE 100 Pro and remote with 32 keys. (BTW, some rare KS008 is on Cinergy 250 PCI)

	case SAA7134_BOARD_KWORLD_TERMINATOR:
		ir_codes     = ir_codes_pixelview;
		mask_keycode = 0x00001f;
		mask_keyup   = 0x000060;
		polling      = 50; // ms
		break;

On cx88-input.c all Kworld stuff has that too.

		ir->gpio_addr = MO_GP1_IO;
		ir->mask_keycode = 0x1f;
		ir->mask_keyup = 0x60;

But you switch already some pins within mask_keycode on MO_GP1_IO. Maybe on MO_GP0_IO. Is that gpio0 and gpio2 stuff needed at all in the card's entry? If not, but some of the first 8 gpios are connected, might be the remote. Needs to have the cx23880 pinning at hand, but seems there are no simply visible connections from that green marked chip. Maybe worth to try with mask_keycode = 0x0.

On the other hand, on the backside seem to be two lines from that chip more in direction to the tuner. Could hang on i2c there, but can't tell. Does any unknown device show up with cx88xx i2c_scan=1?

For now, known Kworld stuff has various IR controllers with 18 pins. It is not one of the newer KS00x i2c devices here and a controller with 20 pins and 16MHz clock seems to be new. How many keys/buttons has the remote?

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That is not much, but hopefully better than nothing.
I can't exclude that the controller needs some sort of initialization/activation or maybe even uses a new IR protocol, but testing in the above directions should not be too much work.

Cheers,
Hermann

I looked and found an 8 and 16 pin SMD IC on my kworld 120. The 16 pin device turned out to be a multi-bit A/D converter, not an I2C controller. After reading the above again I believe I understand what 20 pin device you are talking about. Just right of the composite video input past the Xtl in this photo:
http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/15-260-007-15.jpg
...I'll have to take another look.

The remote for my kworld 120 has 35 keys. (My kworld 110 remote has about 45 keys.)

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I looked and found an 8 and 16 pin SMD IC on my kworld 120. The 16 pin device turned out to be a multi-bit A/D converter, not an I2C controller. After reading the above again I believe I understand what 20 pin device you are talking about. Just right of the composite video input past the Xtl in this photo:
http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/15-260-007-15.jpg
...I'll have to take another look.

Interesting, I can not read any writing on that chip. All I see is a green dot probably identifying pin 1. If this is a common i2c controller - why bother? Or are the KS003 and KS007 custom chips?

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Does any unknown device show up with cx88xx i2c_scan=1?

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I looked and found an 8 and 16 pin SMD IC on my kworld 120. The 16 pin device turned out to be a multi-bit A/D converter, not an I2C controller. After reading the above again I believe I understand what 20 pin device you are talking about. Just right of the composite video input past the Xtl in this photo:
http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/15-260-007-15.jpg
...I'll have to take another look.

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Interesting, I can not read any writing on that chip. All I see is a green dot probably identifying pin 1. If this is a common i2c controller - why bother? Or are the KS003 and KS007 custom chips?

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Does any unknown device show up with cx88xx i2c_scan=1?

If by this you mean to add an appropriate line to /etc/modprobe.d/options... Here's what I got in dmesg when I did this (after a clean reboot with no cx88-related modules loaded):

cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x32  [???]
cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x34  [???]
cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x66  [???]
cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0  [eeprom]
cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc2  [tuner (analog/dvb)]

If you need more from the dmesg output, let me know.

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This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

...thanks

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This is my monthly (humm, more like quarterly) bump to see if anyone has looked at (or can tell me what to do with) the KWorld 120 video4linux drivers when it comes to getting the IR hardware to work.

I would think, by now, there are a lot of these cards out there. Were not the KWorld 110 and 115 ATSC tuners popular here? And haven't they been replaced by the KWorld 120? If so, what are people doing for IR?

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I think we left off last year w/a green dotted I2C mystery chip on the kworld 120 cards that no one could identify. Anyone know more about the subject?