[8.90.6] LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha for S905/S912 devices

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I am sending the unit back to amazon for a refund. I guess the whole market of these android boxes is f***ed up.

There is a saying if you buy cheap you end up buying twice.

I would not recommend Chinese boards period, pay a bit more and get either a KVIM OdroidC2 or LePotato.

Quote from bahtsiz_bedevi

What if one needs DVB-S2? None of these boards have DVB-S2 tuner.
Odroid C2 $60 + USB DVB-S2 tuner around $100 versus something like KII Pro for $70 ?

That's untrue, the KVIM has a DVB-S2 board, are you really going to squabble over $30? that's pocket change to most people.

If you would prefer to choose something flimsy over something quality for the sake of a few $$ then that is your prerogative but going forward none of 'us' developers want to support these Chinese boards any longer, it's too troublesome... just look at how many DTB's there is and none of these manufacturers have worked with us or provided us their kernel source to support these devices.

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Also for me wlan has very slow connection.

My box is a Beelink R68II (the same of Beelink GT1, but with external antenna)

i've done some tests:

my chipset is Aigale AW-CM273SM

This is the connection rates at about 5 meters from a Fritzbox with LE 8.2.2.3 (only on 2.4Ghz band)

-53dB

This is the connection rates at about 5 meters from a Fritzbox with LE 8.90.2 or 8.90.1.1 (only on 2.4Ghz band)

When in the other room with LE 8.2.2.3 i've a good connection, with LE 8.90.2 or 8.90.1.1 i can barely update ntp, sometimes i've no connection at all.

This is wlan relevant part of dmesg (LE 8.90.2)

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[    0.339468@3] Wifi: bcmdhd_init_wlan_mem: bcmdhd_init_wlan_mem: WIFI MEM Allocated
[   10.709844@0] wlan: loading driver v4.5.20.037
[   12.051270@4] android_readwrite_file: file /lib/firmware/wlan/wlan_mac.bin filp_open error
[   12.058617@4] Host SW:4.5.20.037, FW:0.0.0.60, HW:QCA9377_REV1_1
[   12.058695@4] wlan_logging_sock_activate_svc: Initalizing FEConsoleLog = 0 NumBuff = 32
[   12.058864@5] wlan_logging_sock_activate_svc: Activated wlan_logging svc
[   12.058955@0] wlan: driver loaded
[   12.557740@7] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   13.110546@7] wlan: connection failed with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx reason:3 and Status:7
[   13.110566@7] wlan: connection failed with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx reason:1 and Status:9
[  379.680786@7] wlan: 74:c6:3b:fe:66:67 connected to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
[  379.680909@7] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready

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Can be the new driver?

Can i test some alternative driver?

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Problem was firmware, it will not be fixed until 8.90.3 which will not be released until the end of the month, I can provide a dev version until then.

gulp79  alex0801 please try the following dev version for your issues here

Quote from bahtsiz_bedevi

I don't know anything about KVIM.
I wanted to buy an Odroid C2 at first, but buying an additional USB DVB-S2 tuner didn't seem a good idea.

So you thought buying a device with no source code is available was a better idea?

If afl1 had not made the dvb_tv-aml driver then the K series would not be supported right now.

Quote from The Coolest

GDPR-2

When you have time, please take a look at this:

GitHub - arthur-liberman/tx3mini_linux_fd628

(sorry for the mess with commits and merges, I'm still a bit new to github)

I added a sample.dts to show the new device tree properties.

That's great, it looks similar to how anpaza is doing it in his vfd driver, I think we could use this to expand support to more devices with the display.

The whole driver needs cleaning up and beautifying really.

Where are you getting the values for fd628_chars and fd628_dot_bits?

Quote from The Coolest

Yeah, the code has a lot of junk, but I didn't want to touch it too much.

The fd628_dot_bits will probably just work out of the box for all boxes, but I added this property just in case.

The values in fd628_chars are set up to work with my box, but I hope it shouldn't be too difficult to configure them for other boxes. Each number represents the 'index' of the respective character on the display.

So for my box index 0 is the 'dots' character, 1 - the hour x10, 2 - the hours, etc.

For other boxes the order of these indexes will have to be different if they are wired differently internally.

Can you make a dts with the original values for the TX3 mini and use the GPIO settings here gxl_p212_2g_tx3mini.dts so I can test it on the TX3 mini, if you want your modified DTB to be included in all future builds send me a copy of it with the fd628_chars specified in it as well, thanks.

I will be doing 8.90.3 a little earlier than I expected so it would be nice to try and squeeze this in if it works well.

Edit: I've tested your changes along with an updated dtb for my device and they all work, so just send me your DTS, also make sure you install the fd628 service via addons if you want the extra icons lit up