26 Nov
2023
26 Nov
'23
12:44 p.m.
Why am I still getting all these emails, even though I unsubscribed through
the official channels?
I'm sorry that I have to write like this to everybody, but I see no other
way.
*To any admin: please remove me from your mailing list.*
Best regards,
Lucas
On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 at 12:38, Nick Burch <osmocom(a)gagravarr.org> wrote:
Hi All
I bought a cheap DVB-T stick that was supposed to be a RTL2832U with a
FC0012 tuner with RTL-SDR support. As might have been expected given the
price, it doesn't work. The various rtl_ tools all report "No supported
tuner found", eg rtl_eeprom gives:
Found 1 device(s):
0: Generic RTL2832U OEM
Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM
No supported tuner found
Enabled direct sampling mode, input 1
Current configuration:
__________________________________________
Vendor ID: 0x0bda
Product ID: 0x2838
Manufacturer: Realtek
Product: RTL2838UHIDIR
Serial number: 00000001
Serial number enabled: yes
IR endpoint enabled: yes
Remote wakeup enabled: no
__________________________________________
The vendor did give me a full refund suspiciously quickly, so clearly the
lack of advertised RTL-SDR compatibility is well known to them!
I then took the cover off, and it does have a chip that's labelled
RTL2832U, plus another similar sized one I can't read the label of.
After a bit of searching, I found this old post with a patch to list all
the I2C devices:
https://www.mail-archive.com/osmocom-sdr@lists.osmocom.org/msg00454.html
That reports:
I2C devices found:
20 a0 a2
So there is something working there, but I'm not sure if it's enough...
Is there any hope for this stick? And if so, what would my next steps be?
Thanks
Nick