Abilis AS102 DVB-T USB TV tuner sticks
A family of consumer USB DVB-T television tuner sticks built around the Abilis AS102 chipset, sold in Europe in the early 2010s under names like the Hauppauge PCTV picoStick 74e, Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe, nBox DVB-T Dongle, and Sky Italia Digital Key for watching over-the-air digital TV on a PC.
recommendation
A candidate for future removal because the supported hardware is a small handful of early-2010s consumer DVB-T USB sticks (PCTV picoStick 74e, Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe, nBox DVB-T Dongle, Sky Italia Digital Key) that have not been sold new for years. Upstream activity has thinned to roughly two substantive commits in five years with no active development, though no removal discussion is in flight, so it can stay until the remaining user base shrinks further. No other in-tree driver covers these USB IDs, so removal would orphan the few remaining users.
repository signals
sources
- cateee.net
LKDDb maps CONFIG_DVB_AS102 to this directory and lists only a small set of legacy USB DVB-T devices using the AS102 driver.
- docs.kernel.org
Current kernel docs still list dvb-as102 for older USB DVB-T products such as PCTV picoStick 74e, Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe, nBox DVB-T Dongle, and Sky Italia Digital Key.
- hauppauge.de
One named AS102 device, PCTV picoStick, is marketed around Windows 7/8-era PC usage, consistent with hardware that was broadly available in the early 2010s rather than new 2025 deployments.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Real driver directory: Kconfig and module markers in-tree, plus USB ID table from local shell `rg` inspection. Lore grounding: `lore_file_timeline` on `drivers/media/usb/as102` returned zero indexed events; follow-up `lore_regex` and `lore_path_mentions` timed out, so there is no positive evidence here of active removal discussion. Combined with the prompt's only 2 substantive commits in 5 years and a 2024 last substantive touch, this looks maintained enough to still build but not actively developed. Deployment is likely low: all supported products are DVB-T USB sticks from the early-2010s consumer TV-tuner market, and web evidence found only legacy product/catalog pages, not current 2025 sales. No natural upstream replacement driver covers the same USB IDs; replacement is effectively different modern tuner hardware, so `replacement_driver` is null. URLs were obtained via web search; lore results were tool outputs without citeable URLs.