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LifeView LV5TDLX

Device Identification

HW Revision 1

# dmesg
usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1f4d, idProduct=b803
usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-1.1: Product: RTL2838UHIDIR
usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Realtek
usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 00000001
usb 1-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
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 RTL2832 DVB-T  RTL2836 DTMB)...
dvb-usb: USB DVB-T Device successfully initialized and connected.
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 1 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T  RTL2836 DTMB)...
dvb-usb: USB DVB-T Device successfully initialized and connected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl2832u
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1f4d:b803
# lsmod | grep dvb
dvb_usb_rtl2832u      147072  0 
dvb_usb                21388  1 dvb_usb_rtl2832u
dvb_core               99732  1 dvb_usb

HW Revision 2

Note: However, this might actually be LifeView LV52T which has dual HD turner1)

# lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1f4d:b803 G-Tek Electronics Group Lifeview LV5TDLX DVB-T [RTL2832U] 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 15a4:9016 Afatech Technologies, Inc. AF9015 DVB-T USB2.0 stick

In the field

We have these with standard 12dBi(?) DVB-T antenna, tower is no further than 30km away and they do work just fine. I practically don't know about these.

Zdenek Styblik 2011/01/15 21:05

Pictures

LV5TDLX package LV5TDLX and its robust antenna connector