Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#13027 new enhancement
Write an RTL2838 driver
| Reported by: | kallisti5 | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Drivers/DVB | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | dvb | Cc: | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
The RTL2838 is a *cheap* DVB-T usb dongle used to receive European TV signals. It can also be used as a digital SDR tuner receiving 20Mhz - 1.9Ghz. (http://oh2bsc.com/2015/02/17/getting-started-with-sdr-radio-using-dvb-t-usb-dongle-and-gqrx/) Given the flexibility of this device, the low price, and the wide range of uses, we should investigate writing a driver.
Our current TV application is pretty much useless as the only dvb driver is for the old cx23882 PCI card.
The linux dvb-usb-v2 driver supports multiple USB dvb devices including a single c file to control the rtl28xx...
Our existing DVB driver: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dvb
This might make a better reference since it is a usb video device: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/video/usb_vision
Example hardware:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQZU1ZO?psc=1 https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 https://amzn.com/B009U7WZCA
USB Device:
- 0bda:2838
