Genius TVGo DVB-T03

Petr Jakubec has reported v1.4.2 also works with Genius TVGo DVB-T03. This card has new hardware revision which utilizes RTL2832U. I've also bought these tuners, actually to replace RTL-based ones, however I've learned this truth too late. I've decided to give them a go, so more info on my side about these later on. Peter has created page at abclinuxu.cz about this USB stick. Page is written in Czech!

NOTE: Beware! There are still AF based tuners(link is in Czech language) out there. I've been able to buy myself one on 15.1.2011. But it might have been some old “on stock” reserve.

Chips inside

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1b80:d393 Afatech

# dmesg
dvb-usb: found a 'USB DVB-T Device' in warm state.
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
DVB: registering new adapter (USB DVB-T Device)
DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek DVB-T RTL2832)...
dvb-usb: USB DVB-T Device successfully initialized and connected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl2832u

These cards work just fine with v2.0.1 and probably even with an older version of RTL driver. I haven't tested remote control though, as usual. They [cards] keep up with Volar X pretty much. Broadcast tower is ~ 65 km away, we have some regular antenna (12dBi I think), active amplifier and signal is just fine.

— Zdenek Styblik 2011/01/15 21:10