tbs electronics TBS6508, User Manual

Page 1: ...SDB T four RF INs are independent of each other With this multi standard TV tuner card it is much easier to switch between different digital TV signals TBS6508 not only supports normal DVB S2X DVB S2...

Page 2: ...tion Data receiving IPTV streaming Media monitoring Digital content distribution 2 Hardware Installation 2 1 Install TBS6508 into PC Turn off the computer or server remove the computer cover case and...

Page 3: ...use under Windows 3 1 Windows driver installation Attention When turning off the computer please do not touch the PC s internal components especially the CPU and VGA chip which has a high temperature...

Page 4: ...r from page of TBS6508 https www tbsiptv com tbs6508 multi standard octa tuner pci e card download section 3 1 2 Install the Windows driver Open the windows driver which downloaded from website unzip...

Page 5: ...ctly installed or not choose My Computer right click and choose System Properties to pop up System Properties windows click Hardware Device Manager Then click in front of Sound video and game controll...

Page 6: ...ge of TBS6508 download section Open the TBS6504 Mode Change tool choose the right Mode as needed click Set to apply the change See screenshot below Attention In some case the card cannot be detected b...

Page 7: ...atible with a lot of Players such as TBSViewer DVBDream ProgDVB etc Here we take DVBDream as an example to illustrate 3 3 1 Download the DVBDream software from our website www tbsiptv com download DVB...

Page 8: ...ware IPTV System Video IP Encoder Transcoder 8 www tbsiptv com support tbsdtv com Choose the tuner we need to use and click OK a new window will pop up 3 3 2 1 Setting the LNB parameters Choose Option...

Page 9: ...dware IPTV System Video IP Encoder Transcoder 9 www tbsiptv com support tbsdtv com If the signal does not pass the DISEQC please choose Option DISEQC Switch Type None Click Properties to see the below...

Page 10: ...belongs click LOF Settings select the correct LNB type and put the corresponding frequency parameters You can get the corresponding frequency parameters from the instruction of the purchased LNB Once...

Page 11: ...nels After setting up the LNBs we can scan channels there are two methods to scan channels auto scan and Manual scan when we do not know the specific frequency information we choose auto scan as follo...

Page 12: ...st appears on the left side of DVBDream and you can watch TV If we know the specific frequency information we can choose Manual Scan Choose the correct transponder Fill in the correct frequency and ba...

Page 13: ...ease open Change mode tool and set the tuner mode as DVB T2 T Wait for device initialization to complete about 1 5 minutes Open DVBDream choose Tuners the following windows below will pop up Attention...

Page 14: ...4 www tbsiptv com support tbsdtv com Click OK to enter DVBDream There are two methods for scan channels auto scan and Manual scan When we don t know the specific frequency information we choose auto s...

Page 15: ...nels videos channels or data channels have been scanned Click OK you will find the program list appears on the left side of DVBDream and you can watch TV If we know the specific frequency information...

Page 16: ...IPTV System Video IP Encoder Transcoder 16 www tbsiptv com support tbsdtv com Attention We can see an icon in front of each program means encrypted channels means free channels means only have sound...

Page 17: ...ting for DVB C2 C mode Please open Change mode tool and make the tuner mode as DVB C2 C Wait for device initialization to complete about 1 5 minutes Open DVBDream choose Tuners the windows below will...

Page 18: ...ation we choose auto scan do like this Click Option channels scan auto scan Once the scanning finished a new window will pop up from which we can get the information about how many audio channels vide...

Page 19: ...port tbsdtv com If we know the specific symbol rate information we can choose Manual Scan Choose the correct transponder fill in the correct parameters then click scan after the scanning finished clic...

Page 20: ...tallation of Linux Driver Please download the TBS6508 Linux driver from this link https github com tbsdtv linux_media wiki Install the Linux driver git clone https github com tbsdtv media_build git gi...

Page 21: ...PC run command reboot In the process of installation compilation if you encounter errors you should first fix the error first and then continue to install compilation until completion We have listed c...

Page 22: ...ail to use when searching for programs Run command cd dev dvb adapter0 ln s demux0 demux1 ln s dvr0 dvr1 ln s net0 net1 Same method for soft link to other adapters for example adapter1 cd dev dvb adap...

Page 23: ...group 1 tuner 0 1 group 2 tuner 2 3 group 3 tuner 4 5 group 4 tuner 6 7 Each group has a master tuner and a slave tuner they use the same Diseqc together but only the master tuner can issue the Diseqc...

Page 24: ...blob master INSTALL Scan signals from DVB S2 S dvblast scan dvbs dvblast f 12538000 s 41250000 v 13 n 1 a 0 Dvblast scan dvbs2 dvblast f 12660000 s 45000000 v 18 m psk_8 n 1 a 1 f frequency s symbol...

Page 25: ...4 5 DVBC_ANNEX_A Specify DVB mode Scan signals from ISDBT dvblast f 473143000 b 6 a xx Scan signals from QAM_B dvblast f 476143000 s 5360000 m qam_256 a 5 For more details of on using DVBLast please c...

Page 26: ...ra xxx Grant authority chmod x astra Copy Astra to usr bin cp astra usr bin Create a menu to store configuration files mkdir ect astra Create a configuration file vi astra conf Purchase the Astra lice...

Page 27: ...DVB Hardware IPTV System Video IP Encoder Transcoder 27 www tbsiptv com support tbsdtv com For other modes like DVBT T2 DVBC QAM_B ISDBT etc choose frontend0 the first one of each ADPater...