There’s no confusion. Get a USB hub so you can plug a USB stick into the RPI Zero. You’ve only one USB port Simple solution.
Posts by petediscrete
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You’ll probably need to supply a log but in the meantime have you tried changing skin to see if that makes any difference.
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If you attach a powered USB hub to the Zero you could copy the file from your PC onto a USB stick, remove it from the PC and then plug it into the USB port on the powered hub.
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Select Videos>Files and search whatever USB device is mounted on your system. If the device is not mounted you’ll need to mount it first. You can then add those videos to your Library.
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This is a prime time for manufacturers/resellers to shift their slow moving stock. Demand currently way outstrips supply so the lower spec equipment will always be available as a last resort. If it’s purely for LE by all means 2gb or 4gb but we all know that Ubuntu Desktop and Wayland will benefit from bigger memory capacity.
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Bigger memory capacity is always a better thing. They wouldn’t produce the bigger memory options otherwise. Open a few applications simultaneously and you’ll get the picture.
There’s plenty of posts on the web that will explain this concept in greater detail. Don’t settle for a board with smaller memory capacity because that’s all they have. Most manufacturers are getting production back up to capacity so
wait a while longer to get what you’re looking for.
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As previously mentioned here driver support was probably available for a particular kernel at the time but with regular kernel updates in LE chances are it broke at some stage. Best you shipped it back while you could.
Linux support can be a very arbitrary statement when it comes to hardware peripherals. Research is your only true friend in these cases.
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On that download link I included they do mention X692 Linux driver. Did you try downloading it. Probably not worth the effort now. Best returning it for a refund as you mention. I imagine Linux support for the MyGica range is suspect at best.
The TBS range ain’t cheap. Did you look at Sundtek. One of their development staff is quite active on this forum and reports on Linux support looks quite positive. Just a suggestion.
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My experience with MyGica USB DVBS and its non functional driver would lead me to believe you’ll be out of luck getting that card to work in Linux. You could check here and see if their driver offering for Linux works but I wouldn’t hold my breath
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I went ahead and added exactly what was in that closed merge request, built, and it worked (I confirmed by connecting to it via ssh)
Nice one dude. You don’t wait around to be told what can and can’t work. You’ll go far on this forum.
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emveepee i wouldn’t really be interested in using DVBS on a SBC. It was just out of pure curiosity I tried the MyGica USB on the RockPro64 and once I researched the back story behind this unit it got consigned to an old Windows laptop using NextPVR as a backend with Kodi as the frontend. I’ll be sticking with my DVBS PCIe tuners on my X86_64 machine currently running TVH server and full Kodi frontend. It works flawlessly.
LE on the RockPro64 is at the centre of my audio system outputting all my audio needs to a pair of monoblock amps via my Cambridge Audio DAC Magic 100. Perfect combination in my opinion.
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CvH Whatever about Geniatech equipment I’ve successfully used various other DVBS PCI/PCIe cards and USB tuners in various flavours of Linux for over 20 years with great success, particularly Hauppauge with the help of Brad Love and his Media tree https://github.com/b-rad-NDi/Ubun…-kernel-builder Anything that’s presented to him is quickly resolved and a solution is found.
Maybe those who are looking for an “out of the box” solution in Linux and its variants are not willing to put in a bit of effort so may want to follow your advice but again you are expressing a personal opinion.
In fact I’m working on this GitHub project using a TBS USB tuner and again thanks to another very clever developer who has developed an application far superior to any product on offer from Windows
GitHub - deeptho/neumodvb: neumoDVB DVB-S2/DVB-T/DVB-C settop box and DX program for LinuxneumoDVB DVB-S2/DVB-T/DVB-C settop box and DX program for Linux - GitHub - deeptho/neumodvb: neumoDVB DVB-S2/DVB-T/DVB-C settop box and DX program for Linuxgithub.com -
I am confused since Kodi on Windows 10 or any platform won't support tuners, you need a backend for that.
I am running a backends on several SBC's RPi's and a Pine Quartz 64a for LE, and also on CE devices and for kernel supported tuners they normally work fine. Powering the USB devices and of course using SD cards are the biggest issues.
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emveepee I have NextPVR acting as the server on Windows along with Kodi as the front end.
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It’s working fine with Kodi in Windows 10. I’ll use it on a spare laptop I have. My DVBS needs are more than covered in Linux / Kodi with PCIe cards on an x86_64 machine so I’m not too bothered either way. No need for purchasing additional DVBS USB units just to get one working on the SBC running LE. I’m assuming that in 2022 without some serious intervention this unit will not work in the Linux environment.
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An interesting post from the OSMC forum in 2019. Appears there is a working solution to getting this unit working. Not sure how relevant this is in 2022 or if this solution could be adapted to work in LE but I thought it would be worth mentioning again.
Geniatech HDStar v3 DVB-S2 Not Working?Finaly made work HD Star v3 in last osmc build (OSMC June 2019 2019.06-1) Run sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/media/* Install this…discourse.osmc.tv -
chewitt my main server back end is an x86_64 based system with two quad PCIe cards using TVH and full Kodi as a front end on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It’s absolutely fine.
I was trying to get the MyGica USB DVBS working on the RockPro64 purely as I had it lying around and was interested to see how DVBS would operate on a SBC. It works on Windows fine, tunes all available channels on 28.2e and is very watchable.
The fact that there is actually three revisions of this unit obviously doesn’t help trying to locate the correct firmware for the model I have. It seems v 1.5 was working at one stage, v2.1 not sure and no reports of v3.0 working.
I’m continuing to investigate this elsewhere and hoping that I come up with a solution for LE at some stage.
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If a USB tuner has heat issues there can only be one issue - poorly designed LNB Power supply.
The same can apply to PCIe cards. All other parameters are the same.
Our tuners (sundtek) do not have such an issue, dual and single DVB-S/S2 USB.
What bothers me is the manufacturer who supplies a tuner that is powered from the USB port. In my experience that’s where most of the problems lie with USB tuners. You need an external power supply.
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I had a couple of these and gave up on them, it's probably possible to get them working but it's a PITA. Do yourself a favour and get a Telestar DIGIBIT R1.
Probably and there’s a number of others that work too but this is Linux and the challenge is to get things working. We’d never have anything working if we gave up.
I’m just trying to find out if anyone had gotten this working and how they went about doing it. Thanks for the recommendation though.
