Tanix TX3 Mini with Amlogic S905W CPU - Libreelec

    Quote from kostaman

    Thanks for clarifying as a lot of Hoo Ha previously with this source code business made me cautious.:)

    tX3Mini_dtb.img.zip

    I have 8.2.3.1 running with the device tree from the original 8.2 thread. Would I have to do a complete reinstall if I wanted to use this device tree instead?

    And what functionality would then exist for the front display of the tx3mini?

    Thanks.

    Hi.

    Im trying to run libreelec from sd card. And i have dificulty to flash aml_autoscript.zip from link.

    The flashing always fails. Does anyone have latest how-to for runing libreelec from sdcard? is there posibility to run openelec from eMMC without android?

    Best regards

    Quote from adamg

    Did you decompress the image first before using dd?

    You have to copy device_trees/gxl_p281_2g.dtb to dtb.img

    Yes I extracted the image from the .gz first.

    It was the copying of the dtb.img file I was not sure of. Now I know which one to manually copy. ;)

    Thanks I will try again soon.

    EDIT:

    Presently booting, and resizing Storage partition.

    Thanks again. ;)

    OK, booted successfully, and set up the TV channels from the backend tuner server.

    Found I had to apply

    Code
    echo 1 > /sys/module/di/parameters/bypass_all

    to get rid of the colour bleed.

    EDIT:  Found Community Build Extras which has a Deinterlacing toggle which seems to do the job. Using that now in place of above.



    Is there something I need to do to get the display to show time instead of 'boot'?

    Sorry for being a pest, but it is not immediately obvious to me presently.

    Edited once, last by JohnBoyz (March 24, 2018 at 3:02 AM).

    Installed FD628 Display service add on.

    Copied vfd.conf into /storage/.config/

    Rebooted ....... no change in display.

    dmesg shows

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    LibreELEC:~ # dmesg | grep fd
[    0.000000@0] CPU: AArch64 Processor [410fd034] revision 4
[    0.000000@0] fdt Reserved memory table:
[    0.000000@0] fdt Reserved memory total:  456 MiB
[    2.044092@1] 4500f0241100001e000000ff0031313332343633363631313531000000fd0037
[   28.845365@0] aml_fd628: `' invalid for parameter `vfd_gpio_clk'
LibreELEC:~ #

    This seems to indicate a misconfig in the vfd.conf file?

    EDIT:

    The vfd.conf file shows

    Code
          <tr>
        <td id="L10" class="blob-num js-line-number" data-line-number="10"></td>
        <td id="LC10" class="blob-code blob-code-inner js-file-line">vfd_gpio_clk=&#39;0,76,0&#39;</td>
      </tr>


    Thanks for the help.

    Quote from JohnBoyz

    This seems to indicate a misconfig in the vfd.conf file?

    EDIT:

    The vfd.conf file shows

    Code
          <tr>
        <td id="L10" class="blob-num js-line-number" data-line-number="10"></td>
        <td id="LC10" class="blob-code blob-code-inner js-file-line">vfd_gpio_clk=&#39;0,76,0&#39;</td>
      </tr>


    You have to copy & paste and insert in editor like this

    ssh <box ip>

    cd /storage/.config

    vi vfd.conf

    press i key for insert mode

    paste

    press ESC : wq

    Don´t use "save as" on website

    Quote from The Coolest

    JohnBoyz

    Do a grep FD628 instead.

    And systemctl status fd628

    Edit:

    You're supposed to copy the raw text from the vfd in the repository.

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    LibreELEC:~ # dmesg | grep -i fd628
[   28.845365@0] aml_fd628: `' invalid for parameter `vfd_gpio_clk'
LibreELEC:~ #

    I copied the vfd.conf directly from your link and renamed it.

    I do not know what you mean by 'raw text' ..... all I can say is I did not introduce any formatting into the file that I am aware of.

    Hope the above can provide some indication of the problem.

    Thanks.

    Quote from JohnBoyz



    I copied the vfd.conf directly from your link and renamed it.

    I do not know what you mean by 'raw text' ..... all I can say is I did not introduce any formatting into the file that I am aware of.

    Like I told You before - directly copy was Your fault

    Have a look at Your vfd.conf typing cat /storage/.config/vfd.conf

    Should be something like that

    # This file must be renamed to vfd.conf and placed in the /storage/.config/ folder.

    #

    # Vorke Z6 configuration

    #--------------------

    #gpio_xxx:

    # [0] 0 = &gpio, 1 = &gpio_ao.

    # [1] pin number - kernel/meson-gxl-gpio.h at master · openSUSE/kernel · GitHub

    # [0] Reserved - must be 0.

    vfd_gpio_clk='0,76,0'

    vfd_gpio_dat='0,75,0'

    vfd_gpio_stb='0,53,0'


    If it shows something like - You made it wrong

    <!DOCTYPE html>

    <html lang="en">

    <head>

    <meta charset="utf-8">

    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://assets-cdn.github.com">

    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com">

    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com">

    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com">

    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com">

    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com">

    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/">

    Duh!

    It finally got through to me.

    (sorry I had missed your post due to getting the info to post)

    I copied the text from the site into the vfd.conf file and all is well.

    I have USB and Ethernet icons as well as time displayed. (just noticed the 'Playing' symbol there also when a stream is being played - nice)

    Thanks for your help AND patience.

    ;)

    Quote from bubblegum57

    then try a different device tree, plus of course as you know, you hold the reset button in, while you plug the power lead in

    If i understand correct:

    1.) I burn this image to an SD card with rufus: LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.90.6.img.gz or i need to burn this: LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.90.6.tar ?

    2.) Then i poop the SD card into tanix tx3 mini

    3.) I hold the reset button and get into the recovery?

    Then what?

    Can anyone write step by step guide?