Introduction

Lots of Chinese supplies making piles of $20 crap.

This page is specific to Sabrent PCI TV Tuner Card 7130/TV-PCIRC01061000290

If you have a different model of Sabrent TV-PCIRC card - well, good luck. They rebadged pretty much anyone's overstock tuner card, so buyer beware.

I just want it to work under Linux!

Use the audio-pass through cable. The remote control doesn't work, but the card tunes NTSC.

modprobe saa7134 card=86 tuner=2 # (maybe tuner=32 also?)

Clearly labelled, it's a Philips SAA7130HL.

If you peel away (carefully!) the OEM label, the can has a sticker that says:

  SAMSUNG
TCPN9082DC270(T)
- - - - - - - -
030527    AIO

The tuner is on i2C bus address 0x60 (which is a pretty standard place for the tuner to be)

One 4.000 and one 32.110

18-pin package, label removed.

Some sort of IR decoder.

Pin	Symbol	Direction	Connects to...
56	GPIO23	Input	Resistor Pads R20/R23 (Unused)
57	GPIO22/TS_LOCK	Input	Resistor Pads R19/R22 (Unused)
58	GPIO21/TS_S_D	Input	Resistor Pads R18/R21 (Unused)
59	GPIO20/TS_CLK	NC
60	GPIO19/TS_SOP	NC
61	GPIO18	Input	Resistor Pad R72 (Unused)
67	GPIO17	NC
68	GPIO16	Input	Resistor Pad R24 (Unused)
69	GPIO15/VP7	?	IR Chip Pin #17 (has a pull (up? down?), so this may be a 'request' or 'ready' line
70	GPIO14/VP6	?	IR Chip Pin #13
71	GPIO13/VP5	?	IR Chip Pin #12
72	GPIO12/VP4	?	IR Chip Pin #11
75	GPIO11/VP3	?	IR Chip Pin #10
76	GPIO10/VP2	?	IR Chip Pin #9
77	GPIO9/VP1	?	IR Chip Pin #8
78	GPIO8/VP0	?	IR Chip Pin #7
79	GPIO7	NC
80	GPIO6	NC
81	GPIO5	NC
82	GPIO4	NC
83	GPIO3	Input	Resistor Pad R52/R53 (Unused)
84	GPIO2	NC
85	GPIO1	NC
86	GPIO0	NC
87	GPIO27	NC
88	GPIO26	NC
89	GPIO25	NC
90	SCL	Bi	Tuner Can I2C Clock
91	SDA	Bi	Tuner Can I2C Data
103	OUT_RIGHT	A.Out	Audio Output Jack
104	OUT_LEFT	A.Out	Audio Output Jack