Raspberry Pi TV uHAT

noggin · October 27, 2018 at 1:23 PM

Hi all

Just to let everyone know that the new DVB-T/T2 Raspberry Pi TV uHAT (released recently by Raspberry Pi) works fine in recent builds of LibreElec on a Pi 3B+ (it works on a Zero too - though it's a little sluggish) with the standard LibreElec TV Headend server.

The TV uHAT is neat, as it uses an SPI connection to the Pi, rather than using the single USB bus, so it removes the DVB I/O from that bus (which can be a bottleneck). It will stream a full DVB-T/T2 mux across the SPI - so you can stream (and I guess record - subject to USB bandwidth if you're recording to USB storage) all the channels on a given mux. In the UK this is neat as all the main 'big 5' HD services are on the same mux (PSB 3/BBC B)

It's pretty good value at £20incVAT

If you are looking for a neat, single DVB-T/T2 tuner it's worth a look.

**HiassofT** · October 27, 2018 at 1:33 PM

Another big plus of the TV uHAT is that it works with the stock Linux kernels out of the box - no need to mess around with the out-of-tree DVB drivers.

so long,

Hias

noggin · October 27, 2018 at 4:02 PM

Quote from HiassofT

Another big plus of the TV uHAT is that it works with the stock Linux kernels out of the box - no need to mess around with the out-of-tree DVB drivers.

so long,

Hias

Yes - and as it is a full HAT with an onboard ID EEPROM - it identifies itself automatically so not even a need to manually edit config.txt to add a device tree.