S912 Box T95R Pro

Xcalibur.uy · August 26, 2023 at 5:47 AM

Just to notify, i'm using the box in the title and is running Libreelec. But it was not easy (kinda)

For what I understad, it has to automatically chose the image but it does not. I had to edit the ini file and change the value to the correct one (q200/q201)

The autoscript is called s905 instead of s912 or autoscript... Just in case it may be something wrong around ther.

Is there something I could change for this to go back and automatically select the correct image or is there something from developer's side?

Thank you.

Now I'm configuring Kodi, WiFi worked from the start, but I still have no Bluetooth. (enabled it, but does not work)

**chewitt** · August 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM

Quote from Xcalibur.uy

For what I understad, it has to automatically chose the image but it does not. I had to edit the ini file and change the value to the correct one (q200/q201)

Incorrect. You must always configure the device-tree file in uEnv.ini

https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/amlogic

**chewitt** · August 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM

What WiFi chip is in the box?

Xcalibur.uy · September 12, 2023 at 2:44 AM

So i did it correctly then....
Then all was working fine. Until it didn't any more.

Is an S912 box with 2GB ram 1000bps Lan WiFi and Bluetooth,l if i'm not mistaken it has 16GB internal storage too.

Some days ago, I found out my tTV series collections was corrupt and was not finding new chapters, so I tried to reset to default, and WiFi stopped working.
Is not connecting to anything, anymore.

Then, too late I started to look for help about the library and found out it was never going to work properly because of how the Kodi scrubbers work.

But now my tv-box can't connect to any other WiFi any longer, not even without encryption, which seems odd....
Using it's original OS I can connect to any WiFi, so is not the device itself, is LibreElec
Triied to find any solution, but none so far.

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Prior to this, I was having "invalid-key" message aafter boot up, so I had to enable and disable WiFi 2 or 3 times (in the box) until it hooked. Strange thing, I tested with some other random dtb files and there was one that allowed WiFi to connect without hassle all the time. (can't remember wich)

Xcalibur.uy · September 12, 2023 at 2:45 AM

Oh, the WiFi chip is Realtek 8723

Xcalibur.uy · September 12, 2023 at 3:25 AM

Now I could connect WiFi with your answer here.

[Solved] WIFI "invalid argument"

**Da Flex** · September 13, 2023 at 8:37 PM

Does Bluetooth work now?

Xcalibur.uy · November 12, 2023 at 4:07 AM

Quote from Da Flex

Does Bluetooth work now?

Sorry for the delay.

Nope, bluetooth is not working, but i think is a chip thing because It didn't work either with armbian and stopped working on android too after Armbian.

**chewitt** · November 12, 2023 at 6:34 AM

WiFi is conected via the SDIO bus which supports device discovery, so even if the device-tree file you're using describes a Broadcom wireless module (as is the case with all the generic reference designs) the bus is probed and if a Realtek device ID is found the correct driver will run, and as long as the firmware is available WiFi will work. BT is different; it's a serial UART device and requires device-tree to correctly describe the hardware, and if a Broadcom chip is the 'compatible' hardware described a Realtek chip doesn't work. The solution to that is creating a dedicated device-tree file for the box. It's not a particularly complicated process (fairly easy to copy/paste) but still requires you to then create kernel patches and self-build an LE image and most users aren't interested in having a go.

Xcalibur.uy · December 6, 2023 at 8:41 PM

Well, BT does not work either on Android, so I will assume chip is bad. Can't tell why becuase never used BT, but... don't care.

Now the thing is, LAN works correctly on Android but is not working under Libreelec.
(yes, it took me all this time to throw a cable from the router to the TVBox... and i'm not meaning since August, but since a couple years ago when I started using the TVBox)

I've read undergigalan are not supported but this is a gigalan interface, already prooved it under Armbian. Will test tome other dtbs and see what may come.

Xcalibur.uy · December 6, 2023 at 9:02 PM

Nevermind... I was using q201 dtb file, just tested q200 and started lan without a hitch.

(bluetooth still missing)

**chewitt** · December 7, 2023 at 11:14 AM

WiFi uses the SDIO bus which supports device discovery so as long as device-tree contains a reference to some form of WiFi device it will normally result in probing and the drivers being loaded. BT is a serial UART device so the're no discovery and device-tree needs to contain the right GPIO and compatible details for it to work. The Q200/Q201 device-trees both assume a Broadcom module. If you have something else e.g. QCA9377 then the details are wrong and .. it won't work. It's not too hard to create custom device-trees but if you need BT support the easiest option will be a $5 generic USB BT device from Amazon/eBay.

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