Nightly images for A64, H3, H5, H6 and R40 boards

roel · January 5, 2020 at 7:29 PM

Quote from lumpi

Interesting, never heard of that

roel is that projector usable for something or just a toy?

With android it wasn't usable. You had to control it wit a app but the wifi connection with the device was bad. You could, according the specs, also connect a bluetooth remote, but to be honest, I never found a good bluetooth remote. Most bluetooth remotes are a hybrid beween IR and bluetooth. For example, the navigations keys are IR, the special keys are the keyboard are bluetooth. I never understood these remotes. By the way, the bluetooth connection dropped also on regular base. You can find more info on the kickstarter of this device:

"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beaml…-so/description"

It's not for sale anymore because the company has stopped. It doesn't have usb and sd-card exposed. You have to tear it open, and that's not easy. I have to solder longer power cables as they are really short and I had to cut them to get the mainboard and projector out of the housing. I hope I can manage to put everything back together. I still have to test if LE boots, I still have to solder the power cable and I have little time. It's low on my priority list. I will try the cubieboard image first as I thing the most features are enabled there and I hope the projector is connected with a supported "video output). if this boots, I will search which device has the ampak AP6210 and a supported dtb and see further if this one boots are I have to build a custom dtb with the ampak AP6210 included.

Nikan · January 5, 2020 at 8:31 PM

Good afternoon.

On the night assembly LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.80-nightly-20191128-8a962b4-orangepi-pc-plus.img, add-ons are not installed, with an error about the inability to install package the kodi.binary.global.filesystem version 1.0.2 , but the rest works flawlessly.

The assembly LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.80-nightly-20200103-587404e-orangepi-pc-plus.img fails to go through the initial setup, with an error that the network is unavailable, but at the same time it receives NTP Orange-PI.

lumpi · January 6, 2020 at 8:18 AM

Quote from roel

I will search which device has the ampak AP6210 and a supported dtb and see further if this one boots are I have to build a custom dtb with the ampak AP6210 included

hi roel thanks for the very detailed answer.

Regarding the wifi i think the type of card doesn't matter for the dtb as Linux can autodetect what's on the bus once the sdio works.

Digitalis · January 7, 2020 at 4:18 PM

Quote from jernej

besit Can you test this update? libreelec-h3.arm-9.80-devel-20191225103817-587b061.tar

I enabled additional drivers in kernel. If it works for you, I'll open PR so those drivers will be included in nightlies.

I'd like to test the update too. How do I install it?

My current system is LibreELEC-H3.arm-9.1-devel-20190417111528-8a67660-orangepi_one.img.gz

It seems I got no update channels. There's no Update folder so I made one (under /storage) and I also tried with the existing /storage.update folder but to no avail.

best regards,
Digitalis

**jernej** · January 7, 2020 at 4:54 PM Official Post

Quote from Digitalis

I'd like to test the update too. How do I install it?

That is already included in latest nightlies. Proper update folder is /storage/.update - you just put .tar or .img.gz file into it and restart. But be aware, do nice restart (via Kodi menu) otherwise you might corrupt filesystem or more specifically, update file.

Alxscott · January 7, 2020 at 8:58 PM

Tried latest Nightly on Orange Pi 3... Played local media perfectly; however unable to connect to Kodi Add-on / Update? Presume upstream issue as able to ping Google via ssh session.

UPDATE: Captured the following from the logfile... Its a Repo issue....

Code

2020-01-07 21:50:50.532 T:2716   DEBUG:   ParentPath = [addons://repos/]
2020-01-07 21:50:50.533 T:2910   DEBUG: Thread waiting start, auto delete: false
2020-01-07 21:50:50.536 T:2910   DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: SELECT repo.id FROM repo .. took 1 ms
2020-01-07 21:50:50.536 T:2910   DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: no valid repository matching 'repository.libreelec.tv'
2020-01-07 21:50:50.536 T:2909   DEBUG: CRepositoryUpdateJob[repository.libreelec.tv] checking for updates.
2020-01-07 21:50:50.539 T:2909   DEBUG: CFileCache::Open - opening <9.80.2/H6/arm/addons.xml.gz.sha256> using cache
2020-01-07 21:50:50.539 T:2909   DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0xf330c228) https://addons.libreelec.tv/9.80.2/H6/arm/addons.xml.gz.sha256
2020-01-07 21:50:50.540 T:2909    INFO: easy_acquire - Created session to https://addons.libreelec.tv
2020-01-07 21:50:50.596 T:2749   DEBUG: PushCecKeypress - received key  b duration 91
2020-01-07 21:50:50.633 T:2716   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogBusy.xml) ------
2020-01-07 21:51:37.659 T:2909   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
2020-01-07 21:51:37.660 T:2909   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for https://addons.libreelec.tv/9.80.2/H6/arm/addons.xml.gz.sha256:
2020-01-07 21:51:37.660 T:2909   ERROR: Open - failed to open source <https://addons.libreelec.tv/9.80.2/H6/arm/addons.xml.gz.sha256>
2020-01-07 21:51:37.660 T:2909   ERROR: CRepository: failed read 'https://addons.libreelec.tv/9.80.2/H6/arm/addons.xml.gz.sha256'
2020-01-07 21:51:37.666 T:2909   DEBUG: CRepositoryUpdater: done.
2020-01-07 21:51:37.666 T:2909   DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: SELECT repo.id FROM repo .. took 1 ms
2020-01-07 21:51:37.666 T:2909   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.
2020-01-07 21:51:37.667 T:2909   DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: no valid repository matching ''
2020-01-07 21:51:37.667 T:2910   DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: no valid repository matching 'repository.libreelec.tv'
2020-01-07 21:51:37.668 T:2909   DEBUG: CAddonMgr::GetAvailableUpdates took 3 ms
2020-01-07 21:51:37.669 T:2909   DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: SELECT repo.id FROM repo .. took 0 ms
2020-01-07 21:51:37.669 T:2909   DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: no valid repository matching ''

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Digitalis · January 7, 2020 at 9:26 PM

My restart probably wasn't nice enough. LibreELEC logo appears, then after about 20 seconds: "can't access tty job control turned off".

I guess I have to restart from scratch.

Any useful links?

**chewitt** · January 8, 2020 at 12:33 PM Official Post

The kernel init script cannot find the disk= device that's been specified in boot params. This is usually because the kernel cannot see it (missing mmc driver) or your're trying to use disk=GUID=<string> when the kernel only supports LABEL or PARTUUID.

Digitalis · January 8, 2020 at 4:19 PM

Thanks for your hints. I checked boot.scr and script.bin using a hex editor but couldn't find the string "disk" in it.

However, it seems my SD card layout and boot partition is different from what I expected. And the boot partition's 16bit FAT is damaged. fsck didn't do any good about it. Unfortunately I don't have a backup since I got the Orange Pi from my nephew and he deleted everything from his old PC.

How can I get a fresh SD-card image of LibreELEC for my Orange Pi One H3?

roel · January 8, 2020 at 6:21 PM

Digitalis

read this thread: Orange Pi One Build

**jernej** · January 8, 2020 at 8:15 PM Official Post

Digitalis if you are talking about boot.scr and script.bin, then you probably working with old kernel (3.4) and OpenELEC, which isn't supported at all.

Digitalis · January 10, 2020 at 10:56 AM

I'm asking myself if the Orange Pi One H3 really is what I need. Probably too cheap for running tvheadend and a DVB-T2 tuner (H265 TV).

Suggestions?

TIA,

Digitalis

lumpi · January 10, 2020 at 3:58 PM

jernej do you know if H5 is advancing somehow? Just out of curiosity, I'm not owning any...

What about lima and panfrost, how far away are they still?

So many questions

**jernej** · January 11, 2020 at 9:47 AM Official Post

Digitalis One is not supported here because it has less than 1 GiB RAM and currently I don't have time to do memory optimizations.

lumpi now and then I do a new H5 build, but current issue is that Lima for some reason doesn't work well in combination of sun4i-drm driver (DE2 part) and Kodi. For example, Lima works with A20, which has DE1. Interestingly, Panfrost works with H6, which has DE3, and Kodi (DE3 uses mostly the same code as DE2). Someone would need to do thorough test Lima on A20, but last time I tried, it crashed in menu after a bit of playing. But Lima fixes are coming in every week, so I'm optimistic this will be sorted out soon.

Miguel · January 11, 2020 at 12:16 PM

Good evening,

I am wondering if there is a image that I can download for Orange Pi PC Plus with Kodi version 18?

Regards,

Miguel

lumpi · January 12, 2020 at 1:40 AM

Quote from jernej

lumpi now and then I do a new H5 build, but current issue is that Lima for some reason doesn't work well in combination of sun4i-drm driver (DE2 part) and Kodi. For example, Lima works with A20, which has DE1. Interestingly, Panfrost works with H6, which has DE3, and Kodi (DE3 uses mostly the same code as DE2). Someone would need to do thorough test Lima on A20, but last time I tried, it crashed in menu after a bit of playing. But Lima fixes are coming in every week, so I'm optimistic this will be sorted out soon.

that means except for a10/13 and 20 this bug stops lima from being used successfully until a solution is found.

Let's see soon we will be blob free

filkint · January 12, 2020 at 3:39 AM

Quote from jernej

Digitalis One is not supported here because it has less than 1 GiB RAM and currently I don't have time to do memory optimizations.

zram?

**jernej** · January 12, 2020 at 6:58 AM Official Post

filkint I never used it, so I don't know. If someone can prove that's all that is needed, then fine.