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TBS5580 User Guide Dear Customers, TBS5580 is a multi-standard external TV tuner USB box with CI interface, it is supports multiple digital TV standards, including DVB-S2/S, DVB-T2/T, DVB-C2/C, DVB-S2X and ISDB-T. It is built with Common Interface which allows insertion of CAM and smartcard for pay TV, so it is a good choice for watching/recording digital cable HD TV on PC.
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4 ) If the quick installation fails to try to manually install, open the drive compression package, according to their own system, copy the drive path (see below) 2. 2 Download TBS5580 Windows Driver from Our Website 1)https://www.tbsiptv.com/tbs5580-multi-standard-univer sal-tv-tuner-ci-usb-box?search=5580 5)Open the device manager, to drive the manual update...
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6) (see below) 9) (see below) 7) (see below) 10) (see below) 8) Click “Next”, “Install” and “Finish” to complete installation. 7 )To verify if driver was correctly installed: Choose “My Computer”, right click and choose “System Properties” to pop up “System Properties” windows, click “Hardware” → “Device Manager”.
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3. TBS5580 Mode change tool (See screenshot below.) 4.1 Used by DVB Dream, setting up satellites(see below) 3.1 Open the TBS5580 Mode Change tool choose the right Mode as you want then click Write to apply the change .(See screenshot below.)...
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4. Linux open source drive installation Reboot your computer and then enter the operating system webui, right click to open “Terminal”, input the command “sudo-s” and Ubuntu default password; finally you will get access to the operating system. # lsusb -vvv | grep 5580 (This command detects whether there is “Device 5580”, displaying as the following webui.)...
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5.4 Execute the command and install “git” package. (See screenshot below.) # apt-get install git 5.5 Enter the directory of “tbsdriver”, and then download “media build” and “media” files. (See the following screenshot.) # git clone https://github.com/tbsdtv/media_build.git # git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media.git -b latest ./media...
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5.6 Enter the directory of “media build”,execute “ make dir DIR=../media” as the following screenshot. # make dir DIR=../media 5.7 # make distclean(See screenshot below.)...
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5.8 # make -j4 5.9 # make install (See screenshot below.)...
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Install “firmware” and execute the following command. Please save the file in 5.10 your favorite directory, and then unzip the file to “lib/firmwares” directory as the below screenshot. 1)Execute #wget http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/linux/tbs-tun er-firmwares_v1.0.tar.bz2 2)#tar jxvf tbs-tuner-firmwares_v1.0.tar.bz2 -C /lib/firmware/ ( See screenshot below.)...
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5.11 Execute all the above commands, you should have successfully completed installation. Reboot your computer and input the following commands to detect if you have done it. # reboot # dmesg | grep frontend 6. If you would like to get latest source program, please enter the “tbsdriver /media”...
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7. Open Source install tips /bin/sh: 1: lsdiff: not found #sudo apt-get install patchutils 2.you may need to install the Proc::ProcessTable module #sudo apt-get install libproc-processtable-perl 3.fatal error: drx39xyj/drx39xxj.h: No such file or directory #mkdir -p v4l/drx39xyj #cp v4l/drx39xxj.h v4l/drx39xyj/ 4.Can not find the 6909 firmware #Do not forget the firmware install steps 5.If you find module load errors like "module has wrong symbol version"...
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8. Use dvblast under Linux Operational Environment Please connect the required TV signal cable to RF-Input with the purpose of locking TV channels. Lock the S signal you need to do as follows. (see screenshot below.) cd / dev / dvb / adapter0 # Ln -s demux0 demux1 # Ln -s dvr0 dvr1 # Ln -s net0 net1...
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9. Tvheadend User Guide Connect the required TV signal cable to RF-Input, then install tvheadend software driver and run tvheadend-C. (See screenshot below.) Open Firefox browser, input the IP address of your PC and port number 9981 as below, then you can log in tvheadend configuration webui. (See screenshot below.)
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Log in “Networks”, set the right “Network Name” with product model number and required TV signal via LNB, and then save it.(See screenshot below.)...
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9.4 Log in “Muxes”, setup freq. parameters and save it.( See screenshot below.) 9.5 Enter adapters Tv, select the LNB port you want to play, open the TurboSight, and set the reference map to save(See screenshot below.)...
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If you want to play the DVB-T signal, please perform the9.3~9.4 step first, set up the T signal and the frequency point you need, and close the9.5 step DVB-S signal channel. Application DVB- T signal channel, and save (as shown in Figure) 9.7 Click Advanced to save the settings in the reference diagram.(See scree nshot below.)...
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Click #1 Position, add the settings provided by the network channel, save(See screenshot below.) Log in “Networks” and then click “Force Scan” to lock TV channels. ( See screenshot below.)...
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9.10 Log in “Services”, you can live streaming all the TV programs that you would like to watch in “Map services”. (See screenshot below.) 8.11 VLC input playback address http:\\192.168.8.61:9981/playlist 9.12 If you would like to broadcast other satellite programs, please set up the right configuration parameters according to “tvheadend 9.3-9.11”...
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Linux: How to install the driver Closed Driver install steps: http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9875 Open Source Detail steps: http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9960 Can not compile the driver in CentOS 7 check your kernel version: uname -a Link the build folder .Go to this folder such as : cd /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64/ ln -sf /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64/ build Then install the driver as normal steps...
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Windows: 1. Windows 7 x64 Code 52 issue Please check this guide: http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9989 2. Does your driver support windows 10? No problem you can feel free using windows xp,vista/7/8/10 1. Can’t watch the HD channels,only picture or only audio. Make sure that you have installed the right video and audio decoder. 2.
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