How do I get an Enter USB TV Box TV tuner aka Gadmei UTV302 to work?

Solution 1:

This contains instructions for compiling from source, and is for a different model. this could cause problems with future updates breaking the compatibility of these instructions

1. Unplug the card from your PC (if you have already plugged it )

2. To run V4L (Video4Linux) Driver in system, you need following packages, make sure you add them through your Synaptic Package Manager.

   mercurial

   gcc

   build-essential

   linux-source

AND

type following to download and install your linux headers which is compatible with your kernel

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

1. You must get a copy of the V4L (Video4Linux) Driver to do so tap the following code in a terminal

$ mkdir tvdrviver

$ cd tvdriver

$ hg clone http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-kernel

above commands will download a copy of V4l Driver into your tvdriver folder.

1. Now we have to build the V4L driver and install it into the kernel. to so take following lines in your terminal window.

   $ cd v4l-dvb-kernel

   $ make

   $ sudo make install`

if every thing goes good it will install the driver in few mins without any errors.

At this point your must REBOOT your box (b4 you do so remeber to book mark this page )

1. You have installed your driver, now it's time to load the Driver. Before we do that I have to tell you this is where my problem was, coz the Driver couldn't detect my device automatically

so until it can't detect the device it will not give you /dev/video0

so what we have to do is we have to do detecting part manually. how we do it..? this is how.

The em28xx accepts the parameter 'card=' when it's loading, is where you have to mention your device number from the driver device list. so my device is listed on 37th location in the list So I'll load my device in to the driver as follows

Reference Check out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=646528 . The instructions are for a different model (UTV 330)