Recently purchased this card having seen "Works under Linux" in several user reviews. Card seems to be recognized at low level by the system (see extract from dmesg below)
Code:
[ 2.431754] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.434587] usb 2-1: Product: WinTV Nova-DT
[ 2.437379] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Hauppauge
[ 2.440137] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 4033792598
[ 9.020085] dib0700: loaded with support for 15 different device-types
[ 9.021649] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[ 9.086750] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[ 9.353455] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
[ 9.858214] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in warm state.
[ 9.863035] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[ 9.867710] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx))
[ 10.088496] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
[ 10.293038] DiB0070: successfully identified
[ 10.297219] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[ 10.301928] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx))
[ 10.453454] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
[ 10.658246] DiB0070: successfully identified
[ 10.685018] Registered IR keymap rc-dib0700-rc5
[ 10.689718] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/0000:01:06.2/usb2/2-1/rc/rc0/input4
[ 10.698298] rc0: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/0000:01:06.2/usb2/2-1/rc/rc0
[ 10.702886] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 50 msecs.
[ 10.707177] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx) successfully initialized and connected.
[ 10.712179] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700
So firmware, driver etc all seems to work and report to the kernel that it is ready to use.
However, all attempts to tune the card fail.
I have tried using Kaffeine (which I always used to use with an older TV card) - in this application you need to supply some information regarding which transmitter you are tuning to. No problem, I have those details. But no stations are found.
I have also tried using VLC. Not much feedback here, just a progress bar, but when it finishes, no stations have been found.
Also tried the CLI utility 'scan'. Loads of output, but every 8-10 lines the unwelcome message "WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!" appears.
I have plugged the same aerial into a standard digital TV box and television - plenty of channels available.
I have tried the board with and without a TV aerial amplifier. This makes one small difference: Using Kaffeine, during the channels scan the feedback bar shows signal levels as high as 72% during the scan. Without the amplifier, the signal is only about 40%. But no stations actually get found with or without amp. I notice that as well as signal level there is a meter which shows SNR (Signal-to-Noise-Ratio?) and this, under all circumstances shows 1%.
I am wondering if I should be doing something with the remote control and have pressed random buttons on this, but that also has made no difference.
Any help gratefully received.
