提交 b4a41387 编写于 作者: M Mauro Carvalho Chehab

[media] doc-rst: add documentation for si470x

Convert it to ReST and add to media/v4l-drivers book.
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
上级 9cbfcd7c
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Driver for USB radios for the Silicon Labs Si470x FM Radio Receivers
.. include:: <isonum.txt>
Copyright (c) 2009 Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net>
The Silicon Labs Si470x FM Radio Receivers driver
=================================================
Copyright |copy| 2009 Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net>
Information from Silicon Labs
=============================
-----------------------------
Silicon Laboratories is the manufacturer of the radio ICs, that nowadays are the
most often used radio receivers in cell phones. Usually they are connected with
I2C. But SiLabs also provides a reference design, which integrates this IC,
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Supported ICs
=============
-------------
The following ICs have a very similar register set, so that they are or will be
supported somewhen by the driver:
- Si4700: FM radio receiver
- Si4701: FM radio receiver, RDS Support
- Si4702: FM radio receiver
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- Si4707: Dedicated weather band radio receiver with SAME decoder, RDS Support
- Si4708: Smallest FM receivers
- Si4709: Smallest FM receivers, RDS Support
More information on these can be downloaded here:
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBFMRadioRD.aspx
Supported USB devices
=====================
---------------------
Currently the following USB radios (vendor:product) with the Silicon Labs si470x
chips are known to work:
- 10c4:818a: Silicon Labs USB FM Radio Reference Design
- 06e1:a155: ADS/Tech FM Radio Receiver (formerly Instant FM Music) (RDX-155-EF)
- 1b80:d700: KWorld USB FM Radio SnapMusic Mobile 700 (FM700)
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Software
========
--------
Testing is usually done with most application under Debian/testing:
- fmtools - Utility for managing FM tuner cards
- gnomeradio - FM-radio tuner for the GNOME desktop
- gradio - GTK FM radio tuner
......@@ -54,8 +65,12 @@ Testing is usually done with most application under Debian/testing:
- radio - ncurses-based radio application
- mplayer - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
- v4l2-ctl - Collection of command line video4linux utilities
For example, you can use:
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --set-ctrl=volume=10,mute=0 --set-freq=95.21 --all
.. code-block:: none
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --set-ctrl=volume=10,mute=0 --set-freq=95.21 --all
There is also a library libv4l, which can be used. It's going to have a function
for frequency seeking, either by using hardware functionality as in radio-si470x
......@@ -69,30 +84,48 @@ There is currently no project for making TMC sentences human readable.
Audio Listing
=============
-------------
USB Audio is provided by the ALSA snd_usb_audio module. It is recommended to
also select SND_USB_AUDIO, as this is required to get sound from the radio. For
listing you have to redirect the sound, for example using one of the following
commands. Please adjust the audio devices to your needs (/dev/dsp* and hw:x,x).
If you just want to test audio (very poor quality):
cat /dev/dsp1 > /dev/dsp
.. code-block:: none
cat /dev/dsp1 > /dev/dsp
If you use sox + OSS try:
sox -2 --endian little -r 96000 -t oss /dev/dsp1 -t oss /dev/dsp
.. code-block:: none
sox -2 --endian little -r 96000 -t oss /dev/dsp1 -t oss /dev/dsp
or using sox + alsa:
sox --endian little -c 2 -S -r 96000 -t alsa hw:1 -t alsa -r 96000 hw:0
.. code-block:: none
sox --endian little -c 2 -S -r 96000 -t alsa hw:1 -t alsa -r 96000 hw:0
If you use arts try:
arecord -D hw:1,0 -r96000 -c2 -f S16_LE | artsdsp aplay -B -
.. code-block:: none
arecord -D hw:1,0 -r96000 -c2 -f S16_LE | artsdsp aplay -B -
If you use mplayer try:
mplayer -radio adevice=hw=1.0:arate=96000 \
-rawaudio rate=96000 \
radio://<frequency>/capture
.. code-block:: none
mplayer -radio adevice=hw=1.0:arate=96000 \
-rawaudio rate=96000 \
radio://<frequency>/capture
Module Parameters
=================
-----------------
After loading the module, you still have access to some of them in the sysfs
mount under /sys/module/radio_si470x/parameters. The contents of read-only files
(0444) are not updated, even if space, band and de are changed using private
......@@ -100,7 +133,8 @@ video controls. The others are runtime changeable.
Errors
======
------
Increase tune_timeout, if you often get -EIO errors.
When timed out or band limit is reached, hw_freq_seek returns -EAGAIN.
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Open Issues
===========
-----------
V4L minor device allocation and parameter setting is not perfect. A solution is
currently under discussion.
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Other useful information and links
==================================
----------------------------------
http://www.silabs.com/usbradio
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