Dear everybody,

Yesterday, I've received my USB TV dongle.

It has an AF9015 chip and an NXP TDA18218 tuner, which is currently not really supported in linux.

However, there are some patches to make it work. Currently, I've found one that works with this compilation:

- The patch can be found here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/101170/

- You can apply it to code from here: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/

- You also have to download dvb-usb-af9015.fw firmware file and copy to directory /lib/firmware/
It can be found here: http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/

I'm using kernel version 2.6.33.4

You can search for channels with:
scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/your country > channels.conf

Ensure you have installed dvb-apps package.

For playback, vlc works well when I launch it in the following way:
vlc channels.conf

I had to upgrade vlc to support mpg4a and now I can view all the channels fluently, except it seems I may have a stronger machine to correctly receiving HD channels.

I hope it will help somebody to make it work and also I hope this patch will be in the main code soon... :(
Although, it seems it will take for a while since it was created a long time ago and is still not in the main code. So it always has to be modified to be able to use this tuner... :(

Could this work in ubutu on an arm processor?

I think yes...

"- The patch can be found here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/101170/

- You can apply it to code from here: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/ "

I have both on my computer and what now? How I can add the patch to code? Help please.

Uncompress the file, go to af9015.../linux directory, copy the patch there, then execute 'patch -p1 < copied_patch'.

If it succeeded, you can compile the code and install it.

it now works for me with mythtv thanks to your instructions.
thanks

The above instructions didn't work for me with Ubuntu 8.04 perhaps I missed something.

These instructions got it working:

http://www.dealextreme.com/forums/Forums.dx/Forum.8440~threadid.661972

Probably it's reason is the older kernel of the system.

A patch contains the modifications against the original code base.
Every changes of this code breaks the patch by modifies this 'reference'.
If you apply a patch to a modified base of code, it may not be applied successfully when the source code has been changed.

Thus a patch created for an older kernel most likely will not work in a newer (modified) version, that's why it would be good to include this code to the main base.

So you have to match your kernel version and the correct patch for it.

could somebody PLEASE write a step-by-step-tutorial for getting this stick to work on ubuntu (10.04)?? unfortunately i'm an ubuntu-noob :(

i got the mentionend files and extracted the archive to a new folder on the desktop. now what to do with the patch-file? place it into that folder? how to apply it? and where to put all files after applying the patch?

please help, i really wish i get this to work :)

thx a lot.

Now it works perfectly out of the box from kernel version 2.6.37.

All you need is to compile a new kernel or try to get a compiled one somewhere. So it should be 2.6.37 or later version.