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DGTechnics Smart HDTV/FM is one of the cheapest TV/capture cards in the market. It has been built using a TM6010 chipset from Trident. Unfortunatelly this chip is not supported in standard linux. I hve tried to install it and finally it gets working even better than the standard installation in Windows. I have used Video4Linux drivers as the base. There is a guide to install TM6000 Familly chipsets on the Video4Linux Wiki pages take a look here. But it is not complete and TM6010 driver installation needs more steps. I’ll explain here, all the steps to get it working:

1. First you must ensure that you have installed development packages. Needed packages are:
   • gcc, make, kernel-source, kernel-devel.
   
   These packages has dependencies so you better install them using your distro package manager:
   • YaST, Zypper: OpenSuSE, SuSE
   • RPM: OpenSuSE, RedHat, Fedora, Centos, …
   • apt-get: Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Knoppix, …
   
   
2. Now you must install Mercurial package to be able to download Video4Linux Drivers. Install it by your desired package manager or by compiling from the source.
3. Now you must clone the latest Video4Linux drivers. Do as follows:

$hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb


4. Currently TM6010 driver is in experimental version so you must active it before compiling drivers. to do so do as follows

$ cd v4l-dvb
$ make menuconfig

On the menu appeared:
• Mark Stagging drivers
• Select Media devices in stagging
• Mark TV Master TM5600/6000/6010 driver
• Exit and save configurations


5. Now compile the drivers:

$ make
$ sudo make install


6. DGTechnics Smart HDTV/FM uses XC3028 as the TV tuner chip so you must install it even if you don't need the TV functionallity. This chip's driver has been compiled in the last step but there is no firmware to active it. You can download a functional compatible firmware for this chipset from:
   http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
   which has been released for HVR-12x0 TV Tuner cards. To extract the firmware do a s follows:

$ unzip -j HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip Driver85/hcw85bda.sys
$ wget www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/video4linux/extract_xc3028.pl
$ ./extract_xc3028.pl
$ sudo mv xc3028-v27.fw /lib/firmware


7. I prefer to monitor kernel messages before activating the card. To do so I have written an script like this:

   Code:

   	$ cat > mondmesg.sh
   	#!/bin/sh
   	while [ 1 = 1 ]
   	do
   	dmesg -c
   	sleep 1
   	done
   	[press CTRL+D to Save]

   Now change it's mode to executable and run it:
   
   $ chmod a+x mondmesg
$ sudo ./mondmesg.sh
   
   All the kernel messages are dumped. Press Carriage return twice to have space between old and new kernel messages.
   
   
8. Now install the receiver card in one of yoour USB ports. You will get a message similar to the following:

Code:

	[15.370020] usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
	[15.489972] usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=6000, idProduct=0002
	[15.489980] usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=64
	[15.489986] usb 1-7: Product: TVBOX
	[15.489989] usb 1-7: Manufacturer: Trident
	[15.489993] usb 1-7: SerialNumber: 2004090820040908
	[15.490097] usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice



9. Now setup the card using following command:

$ sudo modprobe tm6000

Kernel messages will be similar to the following:

Code:

	[16.763509] tm6000 v4l2 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
	[16.764439] tm6000: alt 0, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764445] tm6000: alt 0, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764449] tm6000: Bulk IN endpoint: 0x82 (max size=512 bytes)
	[16.764454] tm6000: alt 0, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764457] tm6000: alt 1, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764461] tm6000: ISOC IN endpoint: 0x81 (max size=3072 bytes)
	[16.764466] tm6000: alt 1, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764469] tm6000: alt 1, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764473] tm6000: alt 2, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764477] tm6000: alt 2, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764481] tm6000: alt 2, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764485] tm6000: alt 3, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764488] tm6000: alt 3, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764492] tm6000: alt 3, interface 0, class 255
	[16.764496] tm6000: New video device @ 480 Mbps (6000:0002, ifnum 0)
	[16.764500] tm6000: Found Generic tm6010 board
	[17.227017] Board version = 0x67980bf4
	[17.500019] board=0x67980bf4
	[17.594015] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[17.730016] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[17.870015] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.009503] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.156008] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.300543] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.438016] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.574016] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.710017] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.850013] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[18.994015] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[19.130010] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[19.266017] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[19.402016] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[19.538015] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[19.674016] tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	[19.806017]   ................
	[19.807484] tuner 7-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (tm6000 #0)
	[19.807560] xc2028 7-0061: creating new instance
	[19.807565] xc2028 7-0061: type set to XCeive xc2028/xc3028 tuner
	[19.807570] Setting firmware parameters for xc2028
	[19.807577] usb 1-7: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
	[19.826698] xc2028 7-0061: Loading 80 firmware from xc3028-v27.fw, type: xc2028 firmware, ver 2.7
	[20.100016] xc2028 7-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE (1), id 0000000000000000.


And After 5 Seconds youo will get following messages:

Code:

	[25.131013] xc2028 7-0061: Loading firmware for type=(0), id 000000000000b700.
	[25.815237] SCODE (20000000), id 000000000000b700:
	[25.815249]xc2028 7-0061: Loading SCODE for type=MONO SCODE HAS_IF_4320 (60008000), id 0000000000008000.
	[25.623097] Trident TVMaster TM5600/TM6000/TM6010 USB2 board (Load status: 0)
	[25.623124] usbcore: registered new interface driver tm6000
	[25.624315] tm6000: open called (dev=video1)
	[25.455023] Original value=255
	[25.471398] tm6000: open called (dev=video1)


In the last line of the kernel message you will find device video number:

open called (dev=video1)

Also you will have a same named vido device in /dev


10. Now you can check your installation using a video player such as MPlayer or VLC I prefer MPlayer because it is capable to switch the card to video capture mode and setup some filters and receiving parameters. A sample command to start capturing from the composit input of the card is as the following:

$ mplayer tv:// -tv "device=/dev/video1:noaudio:norm=PAL-BG:input=1:outfmt=uyvy"

Which will start capturing from composite (caused by input number 1) in PAL mode and output format set to YUV. Then you can use any video player or video capture program such as VLC, OpenCV, Matlab, ... to capture from this video device. Take note that first time you have setup the card there will be a delay about 10 seconds before showing up any video.