WinTV-HVR-950Q hybrid TV stick on karmic

[rflores2323]

ok I bought this tv tuner. I cannot get it to work however. I called tech support and they said linux is not supported. I am running karmic 9.10. I live in the US and thought that this worked out the box and would scan all digitial channels.

can anyone help me get this set up. here is my dmesg log

http://pastebin.ca/1794108

I have read this post at TV linux and it says that it should work out the box with karmic, my kernel is 2.6.31-17-generic

I scanned channels using this command tvtime-scanner and it found some channels here is the output

it shows channels picking up

xbmc@xbmc-desktop:~$ tvtime-scanner
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/xbmc/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
Scanning using TV standard NTSC.
Scanning from  44.00 MHz to 958.00 MHz.
Found a channel at 176.50 MHz (176.25 - 176.50 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 184.00 MHz (183.75 - 184.00 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 212.00 MHz (211.75 - 212.00 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 511.75 MHz (511.50 - 511.75 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 514.50 MHz (514.25 - 514.50 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 538.00 MHz (537.75 - 538.00 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 614.25 MHz (614.00 - 614.25 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 731.00 MHz (730.75 - 731.00 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 766.25 MHz (766.00 - 766.25 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 794.25 MHz (794.00 - 794.25 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 852.25 MHz (852.00 - 852.25 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 867.00 MHz (866.50 - 867.50 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 868.00 MHz (867.75 - 868.00 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 881.50 MHz (881.25 - 881.50 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 929.25 MHz (929.00 - 929.25 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 932.50 MHz (932.25 - 932.50 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 939.00 MHz (938.75 - 939.00 MHz), adding to channel list.
Found a channel at 939.75 MHz (939.50 - 939.75 MHz), adding to channel list.
xbmc@xbmc-desktop:~$  - No signal

how do I configure tv time to work? it just comes up with a no signal



after I get this working I want to get the tvheadend working from this XBMC Thread

Pls help as I need help on this.

[Chris]

Usually, it will be necessary to extract the demodulator firmware (and also tuner firmware if it's an Xceive tuner) from the original Windows drivers. I don't know about the HVR-950Q though.

I think it's an eMPIA based device, so see here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Em28xx_devices

Edit: See here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.ph...WinTV-HVR-950Q

Edit2: I see you posted a link to that page already!
What happens if you type dmesg from terminal? Any errors relating to firmware download either after connecting the HVR-950Q or when trying to scan for channels?

Also, are you only interested in analogue, or digital?

[rflores2323]

Usually, it will be necessary to extract the demodulator firmware (and also tuner firmware if it's an Xceive tuner) from the original Windows drivers. I don't know about the HVR-950Q though.

I think it's an eMPIA based device, so see here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Em28xx_devices

Edit: See here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.ph...WinTV-HVR-950Q

Edit2: I see you posted a link to that page already!
What happens if you type dmesg from terminal? Any errors relating to firmware download either after connecting the HVR-950Q or when trying to scan for channels?

Also, are you only interested in analogue, or digital?

my dmesg log is here http://pastebin.ca/1794108

I am interested in both actually however would like digital to pickup HD channels.