How helpful will this be to getting LibreELEC on allwinner android boxes?

**jernej** · August 23, 2022 at 4:28 PM

H616 won't be supported by LE for a long time. Two main issues - no proper audio driver (very hacky hdmi audio driver exists, but I'm not willing to maintain used hacks) and bigger issue display driver is not good enough (it lacks support for YUV format and scaling, which is essential).

H6 is arguably better for LE:

- it has power management coprocessor, which can be programmed and supports many ways for powering up or resuming from sleep

- it has USB3

H616 has following advantages over H6:

- better GPU, but LE doesn't use it much aside for drawing GUI and some addons

- supports 4 GiB RAM max, while H6 only 3 GiB max. But that's not big deal either

jorgealdojr · September 9, 2022 at 1:47 AM

I bought a cheap Android TV Box on shopee and it comes with a boring android. Its a really cheap one.

MXQ Pro 5G bla bla bla

The board resumes to an H3 SOC, 8x 1gbit dram (making 1Gbyte total), a 8Gbyte flash NAND (i believe) and an SV6256P wifi adapter.

The board is quite similar to an Orange Pi Lite, but the WiFi ic is different, i believe it wont work. Its there a way to add a new wifi driver to an existing h3 distro ?

I really want to get rid of android.

**jernej** · September 9, 2022 at 5:10 AM

We don't add support wifi chips without mainline driver, even existing such out of tree are slowly removed. However, nothing prevents you to create your own custom image with such driver in it.

jorgealdojr · September 9, 2022 at 2:03 PM

I can do that if given directions, this board is also know as sunwell r69 and its quite popular (same soc and wifi).

**chewitt** · September 13, 2022 at 3:49 PM

Quote from jorgealdojr

I can do that if given directions..

You will fail in the task because the drivers for Silicon Village WiFi chipsets are designed for (at best) Linux 4.9 era Android kernels and will not compile against the modern-era kernels that LE10/11 use. The changes needed are not cosmetic nip/tuck .. it's more like a lung replacement (lots of crypto differences).

keesijp60 · May 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM

Hi

I have tv box TV98 atv plus alwinner H313 cortex A53. 2 g ram and 16 g emmc, or nand, that I do not now.

What libreelec can I use, this box has a bleutooth remote control.

regards

keesijp60 · May 27, 2024 at 4:39 PM

Hi all

I have a tvbox who is not proper I think, did read hardware with deviceinfo and get strange stuff.

hardware is amlogic and the cpu a alwinner H131.

not one firmware burntool do work. to check.

So i send it back. It is just terrible how we get ripped by China, I do order parts for mine electronic hobby where I had

multiple times fakes, transistor was double diode and mosfet a transistor, both reprinted, I did read EU will do

something about it.. to much people get victims.

**chewitt** · May 27, 2024 at 6:40 PM

They probably used the Android image from one device (with all their piracy/malware hacks) and swapped the kernel so it boots another. No idea which way around they are though.