Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2013-01-03 Thread Oliver Schinagl
You may want to read into oscam and maybe tvheadend or the likes. On 02-01-13 03:19, Renato Gallo wrote: anyone can explain to me why i cannot seem to catch anything else than rai and how can i use a legally bought scart into an omnikey reader to get scrambled channels ? Il 31/12/2012 21:09 A

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2013-01-01 Thread Renato Gallo
anyone can explain to me why i cannot seem to catch anything else than rai and how can i use a legally bought scart into an omnikey reader to get scrambled channels ? Il 31/12/2012 21:09 Antti Palosaari ha scritto: No! You will need a real antenna, not amplifier(?) like that. One of the best a

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-31 Thread Antti Palosaari
No! You will need a real antenna, not amplifier(?) like that. One of the best and easily available antennas in EU are Televes DAT75 and few Triax models. Compare DAT75 and your antenna, DAT75 is 19dB and your is 30dB, guess which one is still 1000x better. You will not likely need that heavy a

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-17 Thread Renato Gallo
is there any kind of filter so that i can filter out the noise and then amplify the signal ? Il 17/12/2012 22:45 Luca Olivetti ha scritto: Al 17/12/12 20:57, En/na Renato Gallo ha escrit: can i amplify the signal to improve reception ? an amplifier will amplify the noise as well as the sign

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 17/12/12 20:57, En/na Renato Gallo ha escrit: > can i amplify the signal to improve reception ? an amplifier will amplify the noise as well as the signal (i.e., an amplifier is only useful to compensate for the losses in the cable, not to improve the signal). > why with the bowl is better ?

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-17 Thread Renato Gallo
i am testing this antenna 30db on an aluminum bowl reception still sketchy at times but a bit better which is in your opinion the most powerful portable antenna ? can i amplify the signal to improve reception ? why with the bowl is better ? http://unixproducts.com/antenna2.jpg http://www.e

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:16:31 +0100 Renato Gallo wrote: > stock one that came with the device > > http://unixproducts.com/antenna.jpg > If this is an antenna with a magnetic base you can try putting it on top of one of those tin boxes for candies like this one: http://img.alibaba.com/wsphoto/v0/

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Renato Gallo
I will be honored if my name will be added as reporter, thanks for your kind and fast advice. I have ordered another portable (30 db) antenna and will talk about that in a future reply to this thread :) Il 16/12/2012 22:22 Antti Palosaari ha scritto: That antenna is your problem. I will send

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Antti Palosaari
That antenna is your problem. I will send that patch to the Kernel 3.8, but as I think it is maybe too late for 3.8 it will eventually go to the 3.9 which is out sometime near beginning of next summer. If you wish I add your name as reporter then reply. Otherwise case closed. Feedback from t

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Renato Gallo
stock one that came with the device http://unixproducts.com/antenna.jpg Il 16/12/2012 21:34 Antti Palosaari ha scritto: It is very likely weak signal issue as I said. What kind of antenna you are using? Antti On 12/16/2012 10:13 PM, Renato Gallo wrote: i found it is a problem with kaffeine,

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Antti Palosaari
It is very likely weak signal issue as I said. What kind of antenna you are using? Antti On 12/16/2012 10:13 PM, Renato Gallo wrote: i found it is a problem with kaffeine, with other programs i can lock a signal but reception is very very sketchy (like in unviewable). GlovX xine-lib # dmesg

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Renato Gallo
i found it is a problem with kaffeine, with other programs i can lock a signal but reception is very very sketchy (like in unviewable). GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep e4000 GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep FC0012 GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep FC0013 [ 28.281685] fc0013: Fitipower FC0013 successfully

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Antti Palosaari
On 12/16/2012 07:15 PM, Renato Gallo wrote: now the modules loads and kaffeine recognizes the device but i cannot find any channels. can it be a tuner bug ? I think it is bad antenna / weak signal. Try w_scan, scan, tzap. Could you say which RF-tuner it finds from your device? use dmesg to du

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Renato Gallo
now the modules loads and kaffeine recognizes the device but i cannot find any channels. can it be a tuner bug ? kaffeine(5978) DvbDevice::frontendEvent: tuning failed kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerEvent: timeout while reading section; type = 0 pid = 0 kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerE

Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Antti Palosaari
On 12/16/2012 04:23 PM, Renato Gallo wrote: any news on this ? Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 Bus 001 Device 015: ID 1b80:d3a8 Afatech [ 6956.333440] usb 1-6.3.6: new high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci_hcd [ 6956.453943] usb 1-6.3.6: New USB device found, idVendor=1b80, idProduct=d

cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

2012-12-16 Thread Renato Gallo
any news on this ? Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 Bus 001 Device 015: ID 1b80:d3a8 Afatech [ 6956.333440] usb 1-6.3.6: new high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci_hcd [ 6956.453943] usb 1-6.3.6: New USB device found, idVendor=1b80, idProduct=d3a8 [ 6956.453950] usb 1-6.3.6: New USB devic