DATVision 1.0.0

The first official release of DATVision: a DATV receiver (DVB-S and DVB-S2) for an RTL-SDR stick, on a Raspberry Pi touchscreen and on Windows.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 5 or 4, Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit with desktop (Bookworm or Trixie). In a terminal:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/HB9IIU/DATVision/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash

The same command updates an earlier installation and keeps its settings. Remove with bash install.sh --uninstall.

Windows

Windows 10/11 x64. Download DATVision-1.0.0-win-x64.zip, extract the whole folder to a writable place and open DATVision.exe; no installation, .NET or MSYS2 needed. The RTL-SDR needs the WinUSB driver (Zadig). The app is not code-signed: Windows SmartScreen may ask for confirmation the first time.

What it does

• DVB-S and DVB-S2 up to 1500 kS/s with an RTL-SDR Blog V4 or R820T stick
• QO-100 with the BATC spectrum or a local scan, and LNB calibration on the beacon
• 4 m, 2 m, 70 cm, 23 cm, and 6 cm through a downconverter
• Tap or click a signal to tune; Es/N0, D margin, magic eye and constellation
• H.264, H.265 and H.266 (VVC) video; on the Raspberry Pi, H.266 needs Raspberry Pi OS Trixie
• Recording and playback of transport streams
• Live network stream to VLC on the home network

See the README and the guides in docs/.

Files

File
install.sh, pi-datv-rx-1.0.0-arm64.tar.gz	Raspberry Pi installer and programs
DATVision-1.0.0-win-x64.zip	Windows, portable
pi-datv-rx-1.0.0-source.tar.gz, DATVision-1.0.0-source.zip	DATVision source code (GPL-3.0-or-later)
rtl-sdr-driver-source.tar.gz	source of the RTL-SDR driver bundled for the Pi (GPL-2.0)
DATVision-1.0.0-third-party-sources.zip	sources of the FFmpeg and runtime libraries bundled for Windows
SHA256SUMS	checksums

Decoder based on OnAir by Kristijonas Adomaitis (adswill), with LDPC optimizations by Evariste Courjaud (F5OEO) and DVB-S/S2 contributions by Arclamp.