[VU+ Solo4K] TBS 5925 USB Tuner

[maxben]

And does multistream survive an ABM scan?

Also we need to solve problems in transponder info.

And lastly we needs to check how settings from this will work on an image without this.

Yes, it survives an ABM scan, my base settings are Vhannibal's edited to my own liking then ABM scan on top.

MS channels without this just results 'tune failed' messages.

What is the problem with transponder info ?

Any luck with DVB-C problem ?

 

[Huevos]

What is the problem with transponder info ?

Any luck with DVB-C problem ?

The DVB-C issue is caused by transponder info. Need a step by step of what causes it and to add some debug to help track it down.

 

[Huevos]

Is it not just as easy as "have a little peek at the openatv commit"?

BTW, which commit did you mean? Link?

 

[DaMacFunkin]

I'm sorry i'm not mega technical, its just that maxben said previously it was now working in openATV, so there must have been a commit for it.
Maybe maxben knows where it is? I know from discussions i have had with him in another forum a while ago he has been banging the drum on this one to get full enigma2 support for the tuner.

 

[Huevos]

As far as I know this is not in any release image, just test images. On PLi there is not a single commit, but a whole branch. I guess ATV would be the same, but anyway their Enigma2 is pretty different from OpenViX so merging code from there is not always easy.

 

[maxben]

I'm pleased to say that today after many hours work Huevos managed to squash the bug mentioned earlier so now the TBS5925 is working very well on my Solo 4k with multistream.

As this so far has only been tested on my Solo 4k afaik I'm not sure when this will merged in to the main branch so if anyone has a different box and a TBS5925 I'm sure Huevos would be happy to provide a test image.

Any questions please ask.

 

[jamesjay]

I have a Solo2 and a TBS5925 that’s been gathering dust for a while that I could use to test out an image, but I am not very technical minded and I have only used it a few times to watch FTA channels on my laptop, it was a gift from my better half that doesn’t get used very much.

 

[Huevos]

I have a Solo2 and a TBS5925 that’s been gathering dust for a while that I could use to test out an image, but I am not very technical minded and I have only used it a few times to watch FTA channels on my laptop, it was a gift from my better half that doesn’t get used very much.

Interested in selling it if you don't really use it?

 

[Huevos]

Guys, can I have a list of STBs you are using so I can get some test images built.

So no one is interested in testing this?

 

[DaMacFunkin]

I may look into buying the tuner later in the month now that I know it works but I too would be using on solo4k.
Sorry.

 

[Huevos]

we need to solve problems in transponder info.

That is fixed.

 

[stone96]

I have VU+ duo 2 receiver and tbs5925.
Use experimental Satdream gr image and work very well.
Ready to try new OpenVix image.
thanks

 

[el bandido]

Guys, can I have a list of STBs you are using so I can get some test images built.

Also we need to know that the lamedb produced is compatible with settings editors before there is any chance of this being pushed to the release image.

I will be glad to test TBS 5925 if needed from Atlanta, Ga. in Vu+ Duo2, Vu+ Zero, and Edision OS Mini. I do not have any multistream to test here at this time.

 

[Huevos]

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[jamesjay]

Interested in selling it if you don't really use it?

Hi Huevos,

I was using it for feedhunting (mainly football for me and Badminton Super Series feeds for her on weekends) which was why she bought it for me, I now have CCcam working for footie and most of the badminton is on a YouTube feed, I had thought about selling it in the past but the idea got a bad response from the better-half that thinks if the badminton feeds go off YouTube...she won’t get her fix of badminton...she gets up at 4.30am to watch badminton in China and other parts of Asia.

I will let you know if she comes around.

Kind regards,

James.

 

[Arcy]

I now have the multistream image openvix-4.2.004.001.multistream-20160908-0008-vusolo4k_usb running on my Solo4K, and it's doing everything except receive multistream channels. With the TBS plugin loaded, it installed the TBS5925 as Tuner K (incidentally bumping my Vu+ Turbo USB DVB-T2/C tuner off the system). Tuner K can now receive all the usual DVB-S/S2 transponders on four satellites, but sees no carrier at all when scanning multistream transponders on 5.0W. The same TBS5925 has been receiving multistream channels perfectly on a PC, from the same antenna system. So I'm wondering what essential step I've missed.

The attached screenshots show thaT (1) there's no lack of signal, and (2) that a busy multistream transponder doesn't show up at all. (The Gold PLS code for this transponder, off the bottom of the screen, is 50416).

 

[maxben]

I did an online update yesterday and I've just tried the same individual TP scan as you and it failed too, something seems to be broken.

If you put the a satellites.xml that has multistream parameters included into /ect/enigma2 a full satellite scan should work ok, at least it does here

I'm going to some more testing, i'll post again but in the mean time if you haven't already got one I attach an ms compatible satellites.xml

 

[maxben]

So, I just reverted to a previous version 4.2.006.002 and multistream TP scan is ok.

It seems my version is higher than yours anyway so you should request newer version.

I just did the online update again and all is working as it should.

@Arcy it looks like you just need an updated image, or try an online update.

 

[Huevos]

The 4K image was the original one from a couple of weeks ago.

Latest images are here:

http://images.satellites-xml.org/multistream/

Post feedback please.

 

[maxben]

Today I did some experimenting with this tuner.

On my Solo 4k, so far my dish setup for this tuner has just been with a dedicated LNB on 5 west for the many multistream channels at that position.

There are other MS channels on other satellites too so I thought I would change around my setup.

Currently on sat input A I have Unicable II setup for 28.2 east.

On input B I have a diseqc switch with LNBs for 28.2e, 19.2e, 13e, 0.8w and a motorised dish driven by a vbox for all other satellites and it all works perfectly.

I decided to switch the above tuner B setup to the TBS which is tuner K as then it would allow me to tune multistream channels from other sats.

The good news is everything works the same as tuner B the bad news is it's all pretty slow, by that I mean the box UI slows down generally when on this tuner, on FTA channels zapping is not too bad but for crypted channels it takes quite a long to lock channels and decrypt.

I've read elsewhere that TBS will make new drivers in their own good time so I'm hoping they will improve the speed.

I'm unable to live with the slowness so in the meantime I've reverted to my previous setup.

@Huevos could you make an image for a Zero as out of curiosity I'd like to compare performance ?