Posts by anonzaur

  • Raspberry pi as DVB-S TV Tuner

    Hey guys, I came here to ask if there is any way to create TV tuner with DVB-S, something like Zgemma H9 or other TV tuners on Raspberry Pi?
    Someone have experience with creating something like that    ? I saw that RPi have DVB-T hat but I would need DVB-S, I've seen some guys just buying these external tuners and plug it via USB. Second big thing tho is software, Zgemma for example can have openPLI with engima2 but I didn't see any software for raspberry pi, third thing I guess would be tv pilot, but dunno how it should be solved properly, buy some IR hat with tv pilot or something?

    Maybe someone have ideas how it should be done or someone already done that? I would be grateful for any tips, thanks!

  • Zgemma H9.2S bricked

    Quote from piterfree

    hi, have you tried sending only the file...rootfs.tar.bz2...?

    I don't know what u mean? I have only .ubi file, not .tar. I don't really know if it would work tho, since it wont have any bootloader/boot partition? Burning rootfs is like more than 3 hours cuz its 120MB.

  • Zgemma H9.2S bricked

    Hello guys, so apparently I bricked my Zgemma H9.2s tuner.
    I've tried to update it, it had OpenPLI 7.3 version, in Update image section on my tuner. I plugged USB stick, chose image and then error pop up about failed to updating and something about rootfs.
    Then nothing worked, I've tried several USB sticks, 32GB FAT32 with different images etc, nothing worked. When turning on, only Hisillicion logo poped up, when holding reset with USB pendrive only black screen, it didn't went into boot mode/recovery mode/bootmenu tho.

    Then I've started looking in internet about how to repair it and I came along different posts about repairing it in hitool with rs232, and I've tried it - unsuccessfully.
    I tried to erase all in partition menu, then burn only fastboot (didnt worked), then burning all partitions so fastboot, baseparams, rootfs.ubi etc etc and it also didnt worked. (process of burning was successfull, it just didn't worked at the end when turning tuner, trying to get into boot menu etc)
    To be specific and clear, my Zgemma specs:
    256 MB NAND flash memory, its very important, its NAND, not eMMC.
    1GB ddr3 ram,
    chipset: Hi3798MV200.

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    This is one of pendrives and what programmator I've used to connect on rx, tx and gnd on zgemma motherboard.

    This is how my HiTool looked like.
    Right now it is in state where nothing really works, if i turn it on its just black screen, whatever i press reset or not. Only white logo shows in front of tuner.

    If someone who have any clue what I could do more to repair it, please feel free to write it down. Thanks