Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV / FireDTV (incl. CI)

Hi all,

just found out that these cards have finally some preliminary Linux support. They seem quite versatile and even customizable -- a true gift for dedicated hobbyists. :) PCI/PCIe/AGP or floppy drive mounting and firewire /connection/ chaining look especially interesting. Even FloppyDTV is apparently half internal, half external - sort of. Anybody with hands-on access? Any updates? Share your experience! :o)

E-shop:
http://www.dvbshop.net/index.php/cat/c441_Digital-Everywhere.html

Linux driver:
http://www.firedtv.bbackx.com/

Manufacturer's links & Linux Forum:
http://www.digital-everywhere.com/en/alcms/index.php?sid=1207139884
http://forum.digital-everywhere.com/viewforum.php?f=34

Dave

I have been evaluating the Floppy DTV DVB-S2, DVB-T and DVB-C variants.

So far I have managed to get fairly good results from the DVB-S2 and DVB-T adapters but I can't get the DVB-C device to tune under linux. I tested it with a windows PC to be sure it wasn't faulty and it worked fine.

I've had them all working (i.e. appearing as devices) while chained one to the next and when individually connected to a 1394 adapter card.

Now I need to spend some more time to see if they will give the performance I need, but so far so good.

If anyone has been able to tune the cable adapter under linux I'd like to hear more.

I had to make a small modification to the driver to enable some frontend settings required by my applications, but apart from that the latest v4l
drivers have been sufficient.

Cheers,

Lou

I have a firedtv c/ci which I have had some success with in linux. I have no problem tuning and watching/recoding programs as long as they are not scrambled. If the channel is scrambled I need to tune it twice before I can watch the channel. I made a post on this some time back, but didn't get any replies. I have tried figuring out what the problem is, but without any luck. So as a final desperate measure I've ordered a new CA module to see if that helps.

/Johs

Same here, the CI part is useless with firedtv driver. I have self-compiled VDR v1.7.7 running with xine-plugin on Debian testing/unstable 2.6.29 x86_64, and there's no CAM menu available in VDR's setup screen. Tested with older SCM Conax and now CAS7 capable NP4 Conax CAM, no success. Both CAMs work fine with Sony Bravia V3000, and SCM card was working fine in a Technotrend T1500+CI (DVB-T) with VDR v1.4.7.

Updating firmware of my FloppyDTV C/CI (which can only be done on a Windows box, great) didn't help anything either, but it seems to have made things even worse. Now there's occasional errors like

Jun 15 21:40:04 silver kernel: firedtv 00128726020026b2-0: FCP response timed out

which didn't show up before firmware update. Now VDR recordings from FTA channels fail sometimes too, and kernel log gets filled with

DVB (dvb_dmxdev_filter_start): could not alloc feed

Hi Lou,

I do not have a DVB-C variant, but if you enable the AVC logging in the driver (cat -1 > /sys/module/firedtv/parameters/debug) and give a pointer to a log from where you try to do a tune or scan, I can take a look at the log for you to see what I can come up with.
Also, please provide information about what scan file you are using.

Regards,
Henrik