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
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@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
Dear Lucas,
[posting one more reply to the list, to document this publicly, feel free to send further replies to laforge@osmocom.org and not to the list]
On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 12:44:38PM +0100, Lucas Van Overberghe wrote:
Why am I still getting all these emails, even though I unsubscribed through the official channels?
which "official channel" did you unsubscribe via? Did you use the address provided in the List-Unsubscribe headers contained in each and every message on this list - as it is standard for all mailing lists?
See https://sendgrid.com/en-us/blog/list-unsubscribe or IETF RFC 2369 available from https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2369.txt
If so, did you use the mail-based unsubscribe option or the web-based unsubscribe option? Which exact error message did you get when this was not working?
Thanks in advance for your kind assistance in helping us to figure out which of the official unsubscribe methods is not working.
Kind regards, Harald
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