[mythtvnz] Skystar USB in Linux

[Simon Green]

On 05/09/07, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_USB_Devices
>
> mentions two USB skystar cards, although identifying exact models is not
> that easy.

Thanks. I've gone and bought one of these, but now am having problems
setting it up. I am a current sky subscriber and have pulled the
satellite cable out of the sky box and plugged it into the skystar2
usb box.

I'm running Ubuntu Fesity 64bit, and have a pvr150 (pci) card in my
box, and have installed the dvbsnoop, dvbtune and dvb-utils packages.

lsusb reports:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0af7:0101 B2C2, Inc. Digital TV USB Receiver
(DVB-S/T/C / ATSC)

lsmod|grep b2c2 reports:
b2c2_flexcop_usb        9476  8
b2c2_flexcop           30604  1 b2c2_flexcop_usb
dvb_core               92336  2 stv0299,b2c2_flexcop
dvb_pll                17540  1 b2c2_flexcop
i2c_core               26496  16
lirc_pvr150,cx88xx,bttv,lirc_i2c,i2c_ec,wm8775,cx25840,tuner,stv0299,b2c2_flexcop,ivtv,nvidia,dvb_pll,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_viapro
usbcore               154416  4 b2c2_flexcop_usb,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

(without me modprobing) so it seems the computer has found the device
okay. The tuner appears to be of the stv0299 type. Since my sky dish
was installed about two months ago, I am assuming I am using the new
LNB frequency of 10750. Following the instructions on the wlug wiki, I
tried this:

simon@mythbox:~$ dvbtune -f 1733000 -s 22500 -p h -m
Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=22500000, 22kHz=off
ERROR setting tone
: Invalid argument
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS:
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_CARRIER
polling....
polling....
polling....
...

I get the same output if I try a frequency of 1183000. Help!

  -- simon