Tanix TX6

warchild · July 12, 2019 at 4:11 PM

Very pleasant.

Still slow on initial setup but Kodi gui snappy enough. Sound pass though working but TX6 not recognized at all by either Onkyo, Denon or DECware AVR. Plays beautifuly beautifully Samsung TV though and ARC passthrough is more than ok.

I had the TX6 in the dustbin of past mistakes, it's great picture the only redeeming factor. Your work is bringing it too life and at this rate it might become my main TV device.

Thanks

**jernej** · July 12, 2019 at 4:40 PM Official Post

Quote from djnice

Thanks, I tried on my TX6 Mini and there are HDMI handshake problem with my Samsung T24D391 Monitor TV. See this video:[link]

I have PC monitor with same issue, but I can't find out the reason why it's doing this. On the other hand, TV works just fine. I certainly work on this in the future...

djnice I'm glad it works well for you.

**jernej** · July 12, 2019 at 5:30 PM Official Post

New image, with fixed "no ethernet network after reboot" bug: libreelec-h6.arm-9.80-devel-20190712173500-e076031-tanix-tx6.img.gz

Since other issues are not that severe or critical, I'll pause Tanix TX6 specific development and concentrate on general issues, like 1080p bug on H6. I also have a fair number of Linux patches that need to be sent upstream, including these for ethernet on Tanix TX6.

chocho · July 12, 2019 at 7:01 PM

Ethernet works on TX6 mini too.

warchild · July 13, 2019 at 2:25 AM

Much appreciate your work.

Does this mean we can try the AllWinner 6 images?

Small niggling thing, the Tanix seems unable to read hfs hdd's. I still can't access the eMMC.

**jernej** · July 13, 2019 at 7:46 AM Official Post

Quote from warchild

I still can't access the eMMC.

That's what I wrote before, it's a known issue and something I don't really plan to work on now.

Quote from warchild

Does this mean we can try the AllWinner 6 images?

Not sure what do you mean by that? Tanix TX6 is a H6 image. If you mean nightlies, then no. It will take some time. I have to clean up the code.

Quote from warchild

Small niggling thing, the Tanix seems unable to read hfs hdd's.

It's not enabled in kernel (yet).

**jernej** · July 13, 2019 at 8:16 AM Official Post

Here is the source if anyone wants to customize his/her image: Commits · jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

**jernej** · August 16, 2019 at 12:45 PM Official Post

This is new image, which includes support for IR and USB3:

libreelec-h6.arm-9.80-devel-20190816133027-d484926-tanix-tx6.img.gz

Please report if it works ok. If it does, then I'll prepare PR for this box to be included in LE master and thus nightly images would be available.

chocho · August 16, 2019 at 5:58 PM

Tanix TX6 mini - works OK.

IR - OK

Ethernet - OK

WiFi - no ( but I don't need it )

I see no difference from my OPI-PC, except it's snapier and picture quality is better.

Tested only for Live TV with MPEG2 stream.

I don't know if this is important, but the sound volume is lower.

**jernej** · August 16, 2019 at 6:50 PM Official Post

Thanks!

PR is prepared: Allwinner: Add support for Tanix TX6 by jernejsk · Pull Request #3769 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

**jernej** · August 23, 2019 at 8:10 PM Official Post

Nightly images for Tanix TX6 should be available starting tomorrow. This thread will still be used for test builds and discussing Tanix TX6 specific issues.

BTW, I also have possible solution for eMMC.

**jernej** · August 24, 2019 at 9:12 AM Official Post

Here is new test image with working eMMC:

libreelec-h6.arm-9.80-devel-20190824084038-5c3df44-tanix-tx6.img.gz

**jernej** · August 24, 2019 at 2:21 PM Official Post

Here is new Tanix TX6 image with eMMC, HDMI-CEC and RTC fixes:

libreelec-h6.arm-9.80-devel-20190824143152-5c3df44-tanix-tx6.img.gz

I would love if someone can test this and confirm that eMMC and HDMI-CEC now work. This should put Tanix TX6 image on feature parity with other H6 boards.

chocho · August 24, 2019 at 3:32 PM

I can confirm eMMC works on Tanix TX6 mini, but I don't have a TV with CEC here.

Android gone to trash and new shiny LibreELEC is on eMMC

**vitalogy** · August 25, 2019 at 8:24 AM

uhm ...

I saw the changes in git and build an image yesterday ... I could have saved myself

Installed the image from jernej:

CEC - is working, here with a Denon AVR

eMMC - put the image on /dev/mmcblk1, remove sdcard and reboot?

jernej thanks for your work

**jernej** · August 25, 2019 at 8:34 AM Official Post

Quote from vitalogy

eMMC - put the image on /dev/mmcblk1, remove sdcard and reboot?

I believe that eMMC is /dev/mmcblk2, but please double check. BTW, these changes are not in any public git, I'm looking in another issue with Pine64+ and once solution is found, I'll make a PR to official LE git.

**vitalogy** · August 25, 2019 at 8:54 AM

Quote from jernej

these changes are not in any public git

Yes, I realized this, when I had looked into /dev with my image, build from LibreELEC git repo.

With your image the device shows only these two blocks. So mmcblk0 is the sdcard and mmcblk1 should be the eMMC.

LibreELEC:~ # ls /dev/mmc*

Code

/dev/mmcblk0       /dev/mmcblk1p1     /dev/mmcblk1p15    /dev/mmcblk1p4
/dev/mmcblk0p1     /dev/mmcblk1p10    /dev/mmcblk1p16    /dev/mmcblk1p5
/dev/mmcblk0p2     /dev/mmcblk1p11    /dev/mmcblk1p17    /dev/mmcblk1p6
/dev/mmcblk1       /dev/mmcblk1p12    /dev/mmcblk1p18    /dev/mmcblk1p7
/dev/mmcblk1boot0  /dev/mmcblk1p13    /dev/mmcblk1p2     /dev/mmcblk1p8
/dev/mmcblk1boot1  /dev/mmcblk1p14    /dev/mmcblk1p3     /dev/mmcblk1p9

**jernej** · August 25, 2019 at 8:56 AM Official Post

Ah, yes, then eMMC is /dev/mmcblk1. Anyway, let me know if you can boot from eMMC. I already got one confirmation but it's always good to get more