TP-LINK WR1043ND OpenWRT DVB-T with TDA18218 chipset - dvb-usb-af9015 with MumuDVB streaming MindigTV - HowTo + Firmware

Hello everyone. WR1043ND with OpenWRT is a great solution for many home usage, like file sharing, downloading torrents and much more. This howto adds another great feature to our beloved Router.
In this howto I've created a Set-Top-Box (STB) like feature with a cheap USB DVB-T receiver.

My DVB-T receiver (TDA18218 chipset): http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-dvb-t-tv-dongle-with-remote-8309 I had to buy a "MCX to COAX" adapter cable too from ebay.



The stuff: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/531976/Linux/OpenWRT/openwrt-2.6.39.4-dvb-usb-af9015.tar.gz
OpenWRT Firware (kernel 2.6.39.4): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/531976/Linux/OpenWRT/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-factory.bin

[ OpenWrt Firmware Attitude Adjustment (r31858) / LuCI Trunk (trunk+svn8683) ]
       

Screenshot with 4 unicast http stream:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/531976/Linux/OpenWRT/mindigtv001.png

Testing environment:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/531976/Linux/OpenWRT/mindigtv002.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/531976/Linux/OpenWRT/mindigtv003.jpg



README:

0, Read this through first. I have a DVB-T receiver with TDA18218 chipset, like this: "http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-dvb-t-tv-dongle-with-remote-8309". It's quite cheap. I had to bux a "MCX to Coax" adapter cable too. (Check google)

1, Backup your stuff and Flash your TP-LINK WR1043ND with OpenWRT latest firmware
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-factory.bin

2, Install required openwrt packages (plus recommended packages: nano htop screen):
opkg update; opkg install kmod-usb2 kmod-usb-core usbutils libpthread

3, These modules are compiled for linux-2.6.39.4. You need to place them to /lib/modules/2.6.39.4
scp modules/* root@192.168.1.1:/lib/modules/2.6.39.4/

4, Consider to use my script to load these modules (startdvb.sh). While loading these modules they have to be loaded in a specific order.
The script can (and will) download the needed firmware for af9015: http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/af9015/5.1.0.0/

5, To test if everything it's in place check "dmesg" and "lsusb" output

6, Install MumuDVB to stream. Here is a (little bit outdated) howto: http://mumudvb.braice.net/mumudrupal/node/36
opkg install mumudvb_1.6.1-openwrt-1_ar71xx.ipk

7, To start streaming with mumudvb use the following command (you should create an init script for it or something):
mumudvb -d -c /root/<MUMUDVB-CONFIG>.conf
screen -dmS mumudvb mumudvb -d -c /etc/mumudvb/mindigtv-mux-c.conf # check running screens with "screen -ls" command

8, Enjoy! Comments are welcome!


### More info ###
"modules_install" - directory contains few packaged modules. The thing is 2 needed modules are missing from these packages (mt2060.ko and qt1010.ko) but I provided them in the "modules" dir.
"mindigtv" - is a directory what contains mumudvb config files configured to a Hungarian DVB-T service, called MindigTV (http://mindigtv.hu/)

You can auto tune with a mumudvb config called "mindigtv-auto.conf".
When you start mumudvb with this config, it will auto generate the required configuration file (pid and id_ps).
You can copy it from: "/var/run/mumudvb/mumudvb_generated_conf_card0" for futher usage (creating own configs)


FILE LIST:

tree -h
.
├── [4.0K]  mindigtv
│   ├── [ 119]  mindigtv-auto.conf
│   ├── [ 673]  mindigtv-mux-a.conf
│   ├── [  79]  mindigtv-mux-b.conf
│   └── [ 694]  mindigtv-mux-c.conf
├── [4.0K]  modules
│   ├── [ 27K]  af9013.ko
│   ├── [115K]  dvb-core.ko
│   ├── [ 13K]  dvb-pll.ko
│   ├── [ 42K]  dvb-usb-af9005.ko
│   ├── [4.1K]  dvb-usb-af9005-remote.ko
│   ├── [ 32K]  dvb-usb-af9015.ko
│   ├── [ 27K]  dvb-usb.ko
│   ├── [6.1K]  mt2060.ko
│   ├── [ 38K]  mxl5005s.ko
│   ├── [ 14K]  mxl5007t.ko
│   ├── [6.9K]  qt1010.ko
│   ├── [ 27K]  rc-core.ko
│   ├── [6.9K]  tda18218.ko
│   └── [ 78K]  tda18271.ko
├── [4.0K]  modules-installer
│   ├── [ 11K]  kmod-dvb-usb_2.6.39.4-1_ar71xx.ipk
│   ├── [ 38K]  kmod-dvb-usb-af9005_2.6.39.4-1_ar71xx.ipk
│   ├── [2.4K]  kmod-dvb-usb-af9005-remote_2.6.39.4-1_ar71xx.ipk
│   └── [ 86K]  kmod-dvb-usb-af9015_2.6.39.4-1_ar71xx.ipk
├── [ 46K]  mumudvb_1.6.1-openwrt-1_ar71xx.ipk
├── [2.8K]  README
└── [1.4K]  startdvb.sh


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Updated: 2011-11-03



Thanks for reading. Comments are welcome!