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# Hauppauge Nova-T Stick

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

## Features

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

## Installation

Plug in your Nova-T Stick and run 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)

As you see, 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 no. (e.g. 70009), the kernel may require the firmware version to be dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw. So either you just rename the firmware linked above or put a link. That's up to you. Both seem to work fine.

If this is done, just plug in the USB stick again, the result is supposed to 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 our USB stick as a normal user, you will have to add yourself to the `video` group:

    # gpasswd -a USER video

Where `USER` is the name of the user which you want to grant access. Afterwards, either reboot or relogin.

### Getting channels

Now that we have setup our USB stick and it is working fine, let us scan for channels. Therefore, I recommend the linuxtv-dvb-appsAUR package which you can find in the community repository.

Also, we need a so called 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-Ttttt, where cc is a two-letter country abbreviation, and Ttttt is the name of the location of the transmitter. You will find a lot of scan files in the official dvb-apps repository.

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

    $ w_scan -x > cc-Ttttt

So 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 has finished and all found channels have been written into our leipzig.conf.

### Watch TV

Now there are a lot of ways to watch TV, for example, with kaffeine, xine-ui, MPlayer, VLC media player, and so on. Also, some of these programs provide EPG, Time shafting, and things like that.

A fast way is to just open your leipzig.conf with VLC and enjoy watching!

## External Links

- Official LinuxTV site
- Hauppauge Germany product page

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