Hauppauge Nova-T Stick

The Hauppauge Nova-T Stick is an USB2.0 DVB-T tuner with an additional antenna port. It features:

Microtune MT2060 tuner
Dibcom DVB-T demodulator
USB 2.0 controller
Remote control

Installation

Plug in your Nova-T Stick. You should see the following:

# dmesg

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2)

The stick has been recognized, but it is not working yet because the firmware was missing. Download the firmware file and copy it to /lib/firmware.

Depending on your box number (e.g. 293) or device number (e.g. 70009), the kernel may require the firmware version to be dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw. Either rename the firmware linked above or use a link.

Plug in the USB stick again, the result should look like this:

# dmesg

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw'
dib0700: firmware started successfully.
dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in warm state.
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T Stick).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
MT2060: successfully identified (IF1 = 1220)
dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T Stick successfully initialized and connected.

Configuration

User permissions

In order to have access to the USB stick, you will have to add yourself to the video user group.

Getting channels

Install linuxtv-dvb-apps^AUR.

We need a initial scan file. This file is needed for scan to work properly. It provides a frequency that scan is going to use as a starting point from which it will proceed with its scan. These files are specific to your geographic location and have the form of cc-Location, where cc is a two-letter country code. You will find scan files in the official dvb-apps repository^{[dead link 2024-07-30 ⓘ]}.

If you cannot find a suitable initial scan file, then you can build your own with w_scan_cpp^AUR:

$ w_scan -x > cc-Location

For example in Leipzig, Germany; you would look for a file called de-Leipzig:

$ scan de-Leipzig > leipzig.conf

After a few seconds, the scan should finish and all found channels will been written into leipzig.conf.

Usage

Various players such as kaffeine, xine-ui, MPlayer or VLC media player should be able to open the previously created leipzig.conf to watch TV.

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