USB dongle dvb-t2 Afatech AF9015 not identified by LibreELEC 8.2.1 kernel 4.9.59

frtorres · December 9, 2017 at 3:23 PM

Hello all.

My first time with LibreELEC. I have been interested to test this kodi because of tvheadend dvb-t service (client and backend).

1) I have a dvb-t2 usb adapter, properly identified linux kernel in my PC.

Product: DVB-T 2 - Afatech AF9015 reference design

Manufacturer: Afatech

SerialNumber: 010101010600001

firmware: 'dvb-usb-af9015.fw'

From dmesg:

[25472.584840] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (Afatech AF9015 reference design)

[25472.593146] af9013 9-001c: Afatech AF9013 successfully attached

...

2) On LibreELEC, same adapter is not identified properly by kernel. Kernel on this rpi3: (Linux version 4.9.59 (chewitt@buildbox))

Tested on a raspberry pi 3:

tested raspberry pi3 image: LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2.1.img

Kodi 17.6 Git:a9a7a20

got this messages (dmesg).

[ 13.469034] usb 1-1.5: dvb_usb_af9015: command failed=170

[ 13.469076] dvb_usb_af9015: probe of 1-1.5:1.0 failed with error -5

[ 13.469204] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015

I came here because OpenELEC did not have the repo available to use tvheadend backend

I noticed there is not a previous OpenELEC version to downgrade in order to test another kernel.

I know this is a kernel issue but maybe is there another kernel version ready to support this adapter?

Please advice.

Thanks in advance.

JohnBoyz · December 10, 2017 at 12:45 AM

I have a similar device and it is working as I write.

I am using the x86_64 version of LE rather than the Arm version.

Code

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#                  LibreELEC                 #
#            https://libreelec.tv            #
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LibreELEC (official): 8.2.1 (Generic.x86_64)

LibreELEC:~ # uname -a
Linux LibreELEC 4.11.12 #1 SMP Mon Nov 13 05:12:26 GMT 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
LibreELEC:~ #

Code

[56305.056309] usb 1-8: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[56305.200924] Afatech DVB-T 2: Fixing fullspeed to highspeed interval: 10 -> 7
[56305.201302] input: Afatech DVB-T 2 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.1/0003:15A4:9016.0001/input/input14
[56305.256686] hid-generic 0003:15A4:9016.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.01 Keyboard [Afatech DVB-T 2] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-8/input1
[56305.276425] usb 1-8: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Afatech AF9015 reference design' in cold state
[56305.280785] usb 1-8: dvb_usb_v2: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-af9015.fw'
[56305.351170] usb 1-8: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Afatech AF9015 reference design' in warm state
[56305.721610] usb 1-8: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
[56305.721684] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (Afatech AF9015 reference design)
[56305.743771] i2c i2c-9: af9013: firmware version 5.24.0.0
[56305.746022] usb 1-8: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013)...
[56305.771146] i2c i2c-9: tda18218: NXP TDA18218HN successfully identified
[56305.789481] rc rc0: Afatech AF9015 reference design as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/rc/rc0
[56305.789485] Registered IR keymap rc-empty
[56305.789592] input: Afatech AF9015 reference design as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/rc/rc0/input15
[56305.791041] usb 1-8: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 500 msecs
[56305.791049] usb 1-8: dvb_usb_v2: 'Afatech AF9015 reference design' successfully initialized and connected
[56305.791098] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015

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