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TBS6905 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide

TBS6905 User Guide

Dear Customers,

Thank you so much for using TBS products. TBS6905 is a PCI Express TV tuner card

that supports multiple digital TV standards, including DVB-S2/S, 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

1.2 Connect TV Signal Cable to the PCI-e 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 TBS6905

Page 1: ...lease 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 Tu...

Page 2: ... PC and jump to Computer Management There will pop up a notice Failed to install the device driver if you use Windows 7 operating system In order to install the driver 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 the right hardware device for mor...

Page 3: ... Download TBS6905 Windows Driver from Our Website See screenshot below http www tbsiptv com tbs6905 dvb s2 quad tuner pcie card search 6905 2 download and then unzip TBS 6905 Windows driver 3 Click TBS_6905_driver_setup and then a new window will pop ...

Page 4: ...rd User Guide 4 If the quick installation fails to try to manually install open the drive compression package according to their own system copy the drive path see below 5 Open the device manager to drive the manual update see below ...

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Page 6: ...TBS6905 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide 5 Click Next Install Finish to complete installation ...

Page 7: ...ove series of TBS TV tuner Card is compatible with a lot of software like TBSViewer DVBDream ProgDVB etc Here is a link is for downloading Player software Fordetailed installation instructions see its Software Installation Instructions http 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 ...

Page 8: ...o 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 6905 This command detects whether there is Device 6905 displaying as the following webui 4 3 Set up a directory named tbsdriver Here takes saving the directory on the desktop as an example mkdir tbsdriver See screenshot below ...

Page 9: ...t 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 media_build git git clone depth 1 https github com tbsdtv linux_media git b latest media ...

Page 10: ...TBS6905 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 11: ...TBS6905 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide 4 8 make j4 4 9 make install See screenshot below ...

Page 12: ...and 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 firmwares_v1 0 tar bz2 2 tar jxvf tbs tuner firmwares_v1 0 tar bz2 C lib firmware See screenshot below ...

Page 13: ...ut 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 commands to update the drivers See the commands below cd media git remote update git pull cd media_build git remote update git pull make sudo make install reboot ...

Page 14: ...50000 v 13 a 0 LNB 1 dvblast f 12538000 s 41250000 v 13 a 1 LNB 2 dvblast f 12538000 s 41250000 v 13 a 2 LNB 3 dvblast f 12538000 s 41250000 v 13 a 3 6 3 Lock TV Channels from DVB S2 Signal See screenshot below LNB 0 dvblast f 12660000 s 45000000 v 13 m psk_8 a 0 LNB 1 dvblast f 12660000 s 45000000 v 13 m psk_8 a 1 LNB 2 dvblast f 12660000 s 45000000 v 13 m psk_8 a 2 LNB 3 dvblast f 12660000 s 450...

Page 15: ...de 7 1 Connect Satellite Cable to LNB 7 2 Install Software and Run tvheadend c See screenshot below 7 3 Launch Firefox browser input the IP address of your PC and port number 9981 as below then you can log in tvheadend configuration webui See the following screenshot ...

Page 16: ... Card User Guide 7 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 7 5 Log in Muxes setup freq parameters and save it See screenshot below ...

Page 17: ...d User Guide 7 6 Enter adapters Tv select the LNB port you want to play open the TurboSight and set the reference map to save See screenshot below 7 7 Click Advanced to save the settings in the reference diagram See scree nshot below ...

Page 18: ... Standard Tuner Card User Guide 7 8 Click 1 Position add the settings provided by the network channel save See screenshot below 7 9 Log in Networks and then click Force Scan to lock TV channels See screenshot below ...

Page 19: ...uld like to watch in Map services See screenshot below 7 11 If you want to work with LNB1 or 3 please set the correct configuration parameters according to the 7 4 7 10 tvheadend step 8 Astra User Guide Trial version 8 1 Connect Satellite Cable to LNB 8 2 Install astra software and run the program See screenshot below ms ...

Page 20: ...webui See the following screenshot 8 4 Create a new Adapters and then set the right satellite TV signal and frequency parameters via LNB finally click Apply See screenshot below 8 5 Log in Adapters again If the LNB signal indication pops up in the window you have successfully completed the configuration Click it and enter into the operation interface See screenshot below ...

Page 21: ...s to scan TV channels and then select the programs that you would like to watch Finally click Save as below 8 7 Save all the selected TV programs you will find them in Streams Then please set the output protocol according to your needs Finally click Apply as below ...

Page 22: ...es 3 10 0 327 13 1 el7 x86_64 ln sf usr src kernels 3 10 0 327 10 1 el7 x86_64 build Then install the driver 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 http www tbsdtv com forum viewtopic php f 86 t 9976 5 How to use OSCAM with tvheadend http ww...

Page 23: ...dll_v1 0 0 3 zi p 4 Why can t use it with Windows Server 2008 Please install this patch for your windows server 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 BIOS to the latest version make sure set the PCI E link speed to Gen1 like this as most users a...

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