TerraTec Cinergy T RC MKII USB Stick
TerraTec Cinergy T RC MKII is a USB DVB-T receiver manufactured by TerraTec Electronic GmbH. This page describes the installation of the TerraTec Cinergy T RC MKII USB Stick.
Verify device ID
Make sure you have the 'correct' device. The USB ID is 0ccd:0097:
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ccd:0097 TerraTec Electronic GmbH Cinergy T RC MKII
Installation
If you plug-in the device you will see the following kernel message:
# dmesg
[ 4403.369654] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd [ 4403.862797] dvb-usb: found a 'TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [ 4403.864076] dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-af9015.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2) [ 4403.864103] dvb_usb_af9015: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -2
You need to install the firmware—af9015-firmwareAUR.
Reconnect the device and you should see the following output. The device is now ready to use :)
# dmesg
[ 4867.138959] dvb-usb: generic DVB-USB module successfully deinitialized and disconnected. [ 4870.056313] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd [ 4870.549447] dvb-usb: found a 'TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [ 4870.551676] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-af9015.fw' [ 4870.618834] dvb-usb: found a 'TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC' in warm state. [ 4870.618971] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 4870.619381] DVB: registering new adapter (TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC) [ 4870.622186] af9013: firmware version:4.95.0.0 [ 4870.627936] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)... [ 4870.630198] tda18218: NXP TDA18218HN successfully identified. [ 4870.631940] Registered IR keymap rc-terratec-slim-2 [ 4870.632197] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/rc/rc2/input11 [ 4870.632437] rc2: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/rc/rc2 [ 4870.632446] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 500 msecs. [ 4870.632454] dvb-usb: TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC successfully initialized and connected.