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

Will the H6 get RGB LCD support ? Just found a H6 board with RGB LCD ,but without HDMI port. this board also have a I2S codec(NPCA110B) for headphone jack and speaker.

Allwinner H6 - Page 2 - Allwinner CPU Boxes - Armbian forum

Quote from jernej

Nope, Olimex released image for it some time ago. However, you can open pull request on github for it. Not much needs to be added...

Hello from the past !

I successfully compiled the GitHub - LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI repo (latest) with the 10 commits from GitHub - OLIMEX/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI.

I had to resolve some conflicts but nothing hard.

It is booting and working like a charm on olimex A64

jernej !

I have a problem with my Orange pi 3 and Pine H64. All my 1080P contents (movies and episodes) are jerky (not smooth). The only workaround I found is to put devices to 2160p and whitelist only 2160p resolution. That way all my contents play well.

Do you have this problem on your side ? This problem doesn't exist on my raspberry pi 4, orange pi PC and Orange pi PC2.

Hi everyone!I have tanix tx6 4/32 dual wifi,i install official 9.95.2,but i don't see any wifi connection,on android all works.Can somebody help me?

p.s. sorry for my bad English

Hi jernej !

I played with my Orange pc2 and I can confirm that my PC2 work as well as my Orange pi PC.

I found a way to help my Orange pi PC2 and my Orange pi PC to stop freezing because of low memory, I enable the swap file, I set the swap file to 512MB and that help. No more freeze at all, some slowing down when the device access the swap file but overall that help a lot.

It's sad that we can't enable Zswap, it's a lot better dans the swapfile. I use Zswap that on other devices at home and that work really great. For device with 1 GB memory Zswap can do a huge difference.

Zswap is a battle that I can't win, other people tried before witout success. Anyway, in my case I play with these devices only for fun of testing.

Quote from mike2002

jernej !

I have a problem with my Orange pi 3 and Pine H64. All my 1080P contents (movies and episodes) are jerky (not smooth). The only workaround I found is to put devices to 2160p and whitelist only 2160p resolution. That way all my contents play well.

Do you have this problem on your side ? This problem doesn't exist on my raspberry pi 4, orange pi PC and Orange pi PC2.

Yup, playing content at native 24/25/30 Hz is still broken on Kodi+H6, very jerky.

I even bothered to compile and test in mpv, using same drmprime path on H6, play silky smooth there.

Playback is also OK on H3 board, using both Kodi and mpv.

Its somehow related to the combination of Kodi stopping rendering GUI/OSD during playback and panfrost on H6.

Workaround is to force Kodi to render GUI even when hidden, set algorithmdirtyregions to 0 in advancedsettings.xml. Of course power consumption/temperature rises a bit.

offbeat , thank you for the trick "set algorithmdirtyregions to 0" it works well.

jernej can you remind me the "echo" command to set to performance ?

I try this :

echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

But it doesn't work

-sh: can't create /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor: nonexistent directory

Quote from jernej

Can you test if using performance governor helps? That's only conceivable difference between H3 and H6 that could make a difference.

Actually performance governor instead of schedutil makes it even more visible and easy to repeat, at least for 30FPS content on 30Hz.

I've made a short clip of how it looks on display, will send PM.

Hi guys!

I cant open menu Libreelec Configuration.

LOG:

2021-05-07 18:56:27.262 T:899     ERROR <general>: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                                    - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                                   Error Type: <class 'locale.Error'>
                                                   Error Contents: unsupported locale setting
                                                   Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                     File "/usr/share/kodi/addons/service.libreelec.settings/service.py", line 8, in <module>
                                                       import oe
                                                     File "/usr/share/kodi/addons/service.libreelec.settings/resources/lib/oe.py", line 68, in <module>
                                                     File "/usr/lib/python3.8/locale.py", line 660, in getpreferredencoding
                                                     File "/usr/lib/python3.8/locale.py", line 608, in setlocale
                                                   locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
                                                   -->End of Python script error report<--

locale output:

LibreELEC:~ # locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

LibreELEC:~ # locale -a
C
POSIX

How to fix it ?

Dear friends, as I tried the nightly omage for my Pi Plus 2E Chinese board, it gives this via debug TTL line:

U-Boot SPL 2021.01 (May 07 2021 - 10:17:51 +0200)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1




U-Boot 2021.01 (May 07 2021 - 10:17:51 +0200) Allwinner Technology, Build: jenkins-H3-621


CPU:   Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680)
Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Plus 2E
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c10000: 2, mmc@1c11000: 1
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 1:1... In:    serial@1c28000
Out:   serial@1c28000
Err:   serial@1c28000
Net:   No ethernet found.
starting USB...
No working controllers found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf
Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf
197 bytes read in 6 ms (31.3 KiB/s)
1:	LibreELEC
Retrieving file: /KERNEL
9587960 bytes read in 430 ms (21.3 MiB/s)
append: boot=UUID=0705-1059 disk=UUID=3859ac44-e574-453b-9d54-c2beaabd942b quiet console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 vmalloc=320M
Retrieving file: /sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dtb
33791 bytes read in 5 ms (6.4 MiB/s)
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
Loading Device Tree to 49ff4000, end 49fff3fe ... OK

Starting kernel ...

[    0.001616] /cpus/cpu@0 missing clock-frequency property
[    0.001656] /cpus/cpu@1 missing clock-frequency property
[    0.001683] /cpus/cpu@2 missing clock-frequency property
[    0.001709] /cpus/cpu@3 missing clock-frequency property
[    0.091851] sun4i-usb-phy 1c19400.phy: Couldn't request ID GPIO
[    0.349001] sun4i-codec 1c22c00.codec: Failed to register our card
[    0.807592] debugfs: Directory '1c22c00.codec' with parent 'H3 Audio Codec' already present!

And it stucks after that, i.e. hangs. What am I doing wrong?

Quote from jernej

offbeat your samples plays fine with my two monitors, one full hd and another 4k. It stalls only once at the beginning but after that it plays normally. Tested on PineH64 model B.

Hmm, did you have "Adjust display refresh rate = on" set?

Playing everything at default 60 FPS most displays have in EDID is fine, jerkyness only appers when Kodi switches output HZ to match content FPS.

Auto refresh rate switching is one of the major selling points of LibreElec, could even be enabled by default IMHO.

Many of Android TV boxes can't do that, since there was no such API until recently.

It gives user ability to play 24/25/30Hz content on TV without forced convertion to 60Hz. As well as ability to use TV provided motion interpolation, some hate it, some love it, but its a big deal anyway.