A little success with TBS5527 and TBS 5520se and Tvheadend

[Tony3]

Only sharing what I managed to make working on the Orange Pi5: a Tvheadend server with satellite cards TBS 5527 and TBS 5520se.

The rough path I followed:

   - recompiled the kernel in order to have "Linux tv" as a module (CCONFIG_DVB_CORE=m). This will be replaced by the tbs driver in next steps.

   - installed TVheadend from the armbian-config

   - compiled tbs drivers by following standards instructions....but:

           - had to add a CFGLAGS += -w  to avoid some warning stopping the build (Makefile in the v4l directory)

           - had to disable the creation of the mc.ko (MEDIA_CONTROL) to avoid conflict with kernel built-in module (not sure why, but trying to rebuild the kernel with "Media support" as a module was causing some compilation errors dealing with a samsung chip in the RK5588s).

 

That is it, hope it will helps the ones wondering like myself whether it would work or not.