Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe v2

Also called Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe 2009, it is a DVB-T USB device from Elgato intended for use with Apple Computer based systems.

Installation

Install linuxtv-dvb-apps^AUR.

Download the firmware and copy the files to /usr/lib/firmware

$ wget https://kernellabs.com/firmware/as102/as102_data1_st.hex
$ wget https://kernellabs.com/firmware/as102/as102_data2_st.hex
# mv as102_data* /usr/lib/firmware 
# chmod 644 /usr/lib/firmware/as102_data*

Now you can plug it in and you are ready to go.

Use

When plugged, you should see the following:

# dmesg

[  484.336751] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[  484.804400] dvb_as102: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[  484.804853] as10x_usb: device has been detected
[  484.804865] DVB: registering new adapter (Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe)
[  484.805121] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe)...
[  484.964484] as10x_usb: fimrware: as102_data1_st.hex loaded with success
[  485.199985] as10x_usb: fimrware: as102_data2_st.hex loaded with success
[  485.200015] usbcore: registered new interface driver Abilis Systems as10x usb driver

More info on DVB-T can be found on the DVB-S page.

A common use can be installing the vlc package, then doing the following:

$ scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/de-Nordrhein-Westfalen | tee channels.conf
$ vlc channels.conf

External Resources

• https://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?p=1378
• https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Elgato_EyeTV_DTT_deluxe_v2