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TBS6528 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide

TBS6528 User Guide

Dear Customers,

Thank you so much for using TBS products. TBS6528 is a PCI Express TV tuner card

that supports multiple digital TV standards, including DVB-S2/S, DVB-T2/T, DVB-/C,
and ISDB-T, which makes a switchover between different digital TV signals more
convenient. Furthermore, with built-in Common Interface that allows insertion of
CAM and smartcard for pay TV, it becomes your best choice to watch/record digital
cable HD TV on PC.

In order to use this item correctly, please read this user manual carefully at the

beginning.

1. Hardware Installation

1.1 Install TBS TV Tuner Card

Power off the computer, remove computer cover and take out cover panel of

PCI-e slot in which you want to put the card. Insert the card in

PCI-e slot

and fix

card bracket with screw. Make sure the card fit in PCI-e slot tightly. Then put
back computer cover.

1.2 Connect TV Signal Cable to the Tuner Card on Your PC

Attention

When turn off the computer, please do not touch the PC internal components especially the

CPU and VGA chip, which has a high temperature with a risk of burns.

Please be sure to see the manual of PC and peripheral equipment.

Summary of Contents for TBS6528

Page 1: ...PC In order to use this item correctly please read this user manual carefully at the beginning 1 Hardware Installation 1 1 Install TBS TV Tuner Card Power off the computer remove computer cover and ta...

Page 2: ...ice The following TBS6528 TV Signal Table is for your reference When you want to use a CAM and smart card to descrypte you need check the encryption of the channels first then buy them because they ar...

Page 3: ...successfully you have to do as the prompts step by step Then you can check the TBS TV tuner hardware device ID as follows Open Computer Management click Other devices finally choose and double click t...

Page 4: ...and then unzip TBS 6528 Windows driver 3 Click TBS_6528_driver_setup and then a new window will pop 4 If the quick installation fails to try to manually install open the drive compression package acco...

Page 5: ...TBS6528 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide 5 Open the device manager to drive the manual update see below...

Page 6: ...TBS6528 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide 6 Click Next Install Finish to complete installation...

Page 7: ...hoose 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 controllers If you can see TBS6...

Page 8: ...lti Standard Tuner Card User Guide 7 TBS6528 Mode change tool See screenshot below 8 Open the TBS6528 Mode Change tool choose the right Mode as you want then click Write to apply the change See screen...

Page 9: ...TV tuner Card is compatible with a lot of software like TBSViewer DVBDream ProgDVB etc We take DVBDream as an example when you install the software first time please select tbsci item then you can che...

Page 10: ...p www tbsiptv com index php route product download path 6 Moreover you can check some Video Guide on the following link https www youtube com user buydvb videos ATTENTION In some case the card can not...

Page 11: ...open Terminal input the command sudo s and Ubuntu default password finally you will get access to the operating system 4 2 lspci vvv grep 6528 This command detects whether there is Device 6528 displa...

Page 12: ...package See screenshot below apt get install git 4 5 Enter the directory of tbsdriver and then download media build and media files See the following screenshot git clone https github com tbsdtv medi...

Page 13: ...TBS6528 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide 4 6 Enter the directory of media build execute make dir DIR media as the following screenshot make dir DIR media 4 7 make distclean See screenshot below...

Page 14: ...TBS6528 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide 4 8 make j4 4 9 make install See screenshot below...

Page 15: ...nd Please save the file in 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 firm...

Page 16: ...t the following commands to detect if you have done it reboot dmesg grep frontend 5 If you would like to get latest source program please enter the tbsdriver media directory and execute the following...

Page 17: ...tion step by step See screenshot below cd dev dvb adapter0 ln s demux0 demux1 ln s dvr0 dvr1 ln s net0 net1 6 2 Input 0 Lock TV Channels from DVB T Signal See screenshot below 6 3 Input 1 Lock TV Chan...

Page 18: ...f 12538000 s 41250000 v 13 a 0 n 1 Input 1 dvblast f 12538000 s 41250000 v 13 a 1 n 1 6 7 Lock TV Channels from DVB S2 Signal Input 0 dvblast f 12660000 s 45000000 v 13 m psk_8 a 0 n 1 Input 1 dvblast...

Page 19: ...r Guide 8 2 Install Software and Run tvheadend c See screenshot below 8 3 Launch Firefox browser input the IP address of your PC and port number 9981 as below then you can log in tvheadend configurati...

Page 20: ...Card User Guide 8 4 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 8 5 Log in Muxes setup freq parameters and...

Page 21: ...uide 8 6 Log in TV adapters add a new Networks same as you set up before and then click save See screenshot below 8 7 Double click Silicon Labs Si2183 folder tick Enabled and Save as below The the fol...

Page 22: ...annels See screenshot below 8 9 Log in Services you can live streaming all the TV programs that you would like to watch in Map services See screenshot below 8 10 If you would like to broadcast other s...

Page 23: ...9 Tvheadend CI Function Tutorial video of tvheadend by using Canax cam 9 1 Log in General and then double click Configuration to set User HTTP digest authentication as Expert model finally save it Th...

Page 24: ...d then click ca0 slot empty finally tick Enabled and Save The following screenshot is for your reference 9 3 Insert the Cam and then carry out the above steps from 3 4 to 3 9 you can live streaming TV...

Page 25: ...he following information step by step cd dev dvb adapter0 ln s demux0 demux1 ln s dvr0 dvr1 ln s net0 net1 10 2 Install astra software and run the program See screenshot below 10 3 Open Firefox browse...

Page 26: ...t satellite TV signal and frequency parameters via LNB finally click Apply See screenshot below 10 5 Log in Adapters again If the LNB signal indication pops up in the window you have successfully comp...

Page 27: ...to scan TV channels and then select the programs that you would like to watch Finally click Save as below 10 7 Save all the selected TV programs you will find them in Streams Then please set the outp...

Page 28: ...r as normal steps 3 How to use tvheadend Check this http www tbsdtv com forum viewtopic php f 86 t 9949 4 How to use astra Script Guide http www tbsdtv com forum viewtopic php f 86 t 9862 Video Guide...

Page 29: ...rver 2008 http www tbsdtv com download document common win2008_bda zip 5 The card don t been detected by motherboard Please refer to attached pics to change some pcie setting on BIOS and update the BI...

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