tbs6909x User Guide
tbs6909x User Guide
tbs6909x User Guide
TBS6909-X
2022-02-10
TBS6909-Xis a powerful DVB-S2X/S2 and annex M octa tuner card with PCI Express interface, it is
capable of receiving SD/HD digital TV channels from 8 different satellite transponders simultaneously, which
is considered as a professional TV tuner for industrial-level users. When you have limited PCIe slots in your
server, TBS6909 enables you to receive more channels than the usual dual or quad TV tuner, thus it is
Data receiving
IPTV streaming
Media monitoring
Digital content distribution
QPSK 64 720 64 60 45
8PSK 64 720 60 45 30
16APSK 64 720 45 30 22.5
32APSK 51 720 36 24 18
64APSK 43 720 30 20 15
Model TBS6909-X
Connection PCI-express
4x RF in
DVB-S/S2/S2X
QPSK 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10
8PSK 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10
DVB-S/S2
16APSK 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10
32APSK 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10
1/4,1/3, 2/5 (S2-MODCODs)
VCM Yes
ACM Yes
Power consumption
Input/ Power: 12V/7~15W
temperature 0°~ 60°
Other information:
System Requirements Windows XP / Vista/ 7/8/10, Linux
Available PCI Express x1, x4, x8 or x16 slot
Dimension:
TV tuner card size 145*92*1.6mm
Gift Box Size 200*130*30mm
Weight 400g
Package Contents 1*TBS6909-X
1*Power cable
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.
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.
Download TBS6909x Windows Driver from Our Website (See screenshot below)
https://www.tbsiptv.com/tbs6909-x-dvb-s-s2-s2x-octa-tuner-pcie-card
Start your 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 more details.
3.33 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)
below)
To verify if driver was correctly installed: Choose “My Computer”, right click and choose “System
Properties” to pop up “System Properties” windows, click “Hardware”→“Device Manager”. Then
click “+”in front of “Sound, video and game controllers”. If you can see “TBS6909Dual BDA
Tuners” that means you do have installed driver correctly. Just display as below:
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
Now, we take TBS6909-X tuner card as an example to show you how to scan multistream in
DVBdream. First, install a DVBDream, you can download it from our website:
The satellite is Eutelsat 5 West A at 5.0°W, we select one of transponders 11179000, V, 30000000,
3/5, in this picture you can see more informations about it:
PLS gold=131070;
Stream ID=4,5,12;
Details please check the next screen:
https://www.tbsiptv.com/tbs6909-x-dvb-s-s2-s2x-octa-tuner-pcie-card
Please make sure you properly connect the TV signal to the TV tuner on computer in case of the
damage to antenna device. The following TBS6909x TV Signal Table is for your reference.
Input 1 Interface: You can only receive DVB-S/S2 TV channels from high-frequency noise V/H TV
signals. After connecting to these TV signals through “Input 1 Interface”, you can receive SD/HD
TV channels from the 8 different satellite transponders simultaneously.
Input 2 Interface: You can only receive DVB-S/S2 TV channels from low-frequency noise H/L TV
signals. After connecting to these TV signals through “Input 2 Interface”, you can receive SD/HD
TV channels from the 8 different satellite transponders simultaneously.
Input 3 Interface: You can only receive DVB-S/S2 TV channels from high-frequency noise H/H TV
signals. After connecting to these TV signals through “Input 3 Interface”, you can receive SD/HD
TV channels from the 8 different satellite transponders simultaneously.
Notes: If you would like to receive full TV channels from V/H satellite TV signals simultaneously,
you need to connect your satellite TV signal cable to the corresponding “Input” interface.
At the every beginning, you have to create configuration file under the Linux system directory:
/etc/modprobe.d/stid135.conf. The content of the configuration file: options stid135 mode=1. After
configuration completed, please reboot your computer.
Under the condition of Normal mode: You can search full TV channels from high-frequency / low-frequency
noise V/H TV signals via all the four interfaces “Input 0,Input 1,Input 2,Input 3 interface”.
Notes: If you would like to receive full TV channels from V/H satellite TV signals simultaneously, you need to
connect more than 2 satellite TV signal cable to the corresponding “Input” interface. For example, connecting
satellite cable to “Input 0” interface and “Input 1” interface, then you can separately search TV channels from
V/H satellite TV signal at the same time
The second Normal mode, input0 corresponds to Tuner0 or Tuner1, can only work V or H of
which a signal channel, if you want to work V Tuner0 signal channel, Tuner1 work H signal
channel, is not allowed
This mode is for which signal comes from Unicable LNB. It requires to create a configuration file
under the Linux system directory to change the mode:
/etc/modprobe.d/stid135.conf
Content of the configuration file is: options stid135 mode=2. After that, please reboot your
Computer.
Like this:
Reboot your computer and then enter the operating system webui, right click to open “Terminal”,
input the command “sudo-s” and Ubuntu default password; finally you will get access to the
operating system.
# lspci -vvv | grep 6909 (This command detects whether there is “Device 6909”, displaying as the
following webui.)
Set up a directory named “tbsdriver”. Here takes saving the directory on the desktop as an
example.
Execute the command and install “git” package. (See screenshot below.)
# apt-get install git
5.4 Download the linux driver package and execute the following command to install
5.41 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
1)Execute#wgethttp://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/linux/tbs-tuner-firmwares_
v1.0.tar.bz2
5.47 Execute all the above commands, you should have successfully completed installation.
Reboot your computer and input the following commands to detect if you have done it.
# reboot
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
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.)
TBS6909-X 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.)
7.8 Click Advanced to save the settings in the reference diagram.(See screenshot belo
w.)
7.10 Log in “Networks” and then click “Force Scan” to lock TV channels.(See screenshot below.)
7.11 Log in “Services”, you can live streaming all the TV programs that you would like to watch
in “Map services”. (See screenshot below.)
Click “Muxes” item add a new muxes.In this dialog box, please enter the correct transponder
information including Frequency, Symbol rate, Modulation, FEC.
PLS code, Stream ID, click “create” at last and wait a few seconds, the channels will be scaned
out.(See the screenshot below.):
Transponder 1: 11179000, V, 30000000, 3/5, PLS code=131070, Stream ID=4
For the normal stream, just use it as usual, you don’t need to care about the PLS code and stream
ID.
1>Click the “Services”item to check the the scan result, and pick these channelsyou want to
mapout.
2>Cleck your map out result in “Channel/EPG”, now you can play your channels in media player
which support network stream play like VLC. There are two ways to play your stream, the one is
to play all the channels you map out, and the other is play them one by one. Like this:
URL1: http://192.168.8.51:9981/playlist;
URL2: http://192.168.8.51:9981/stream/channelnumber/1, it means the channel TF1 HD will be
play out:
Linux:
1. How to install the driver
Closed Driver install steps:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9875
Open Source Detail steps:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9960