ASUS Tinker Board, RK3288 RPI3-Clone

joky · January 23, 2017 at 7:17 AM

Just read some specs about the new ASUS Tinker Board. It has the size and connectors as the RPi3 but 2GB RAM, RK3288, Gigabit LAN (hopefully not connected by USB), option to use an external WiFi Antenna and 4K output using HDMI 2.

I didn't get much details about the architecture but in the german forum they claim that the GPU might be not powerful enough for 4K and lacks hw-acceleration for some codecs.

I also didn't get any information if and how CEC is supported,..

Asus Tinker Board: der Bessere Raspberry? - Raspberry Pi - Kodinerds.net - Deutschsprachiges Forum zum Kodi Entertainment Center
ASUS release their Tinker Board Raspberry Pi competitor | Systems | OC3D News
Rockchip RK3288 - Wikipedia

kind regards,
joky

**popcornmix** · January 23, 2017 at 3:21 PM

Not really a RPi3 clone - it won't run any of the same software images.
It is a Rockchip SoC. Kodi has no support for Rockchip, so chances of LE support are low.

c-o-m-m-a-n-d-e-r · January 24, 2017 at 12:10 PM

software would be Debian with Kodi ... so i think Kodi is supported!?

TinkerOS Debian Image and TinkerOS Kodi Image could be found here

2GB&SLanguage=en-ene&os=8

**lrusak** · January 25, 2017 at 1:24 AM Official Post

Upstream kodi isn't supported.

see, Support Rockchip's RK3368 chip video hardware decoding and audio passthrough by vidonme-developer · Pull Request #8345 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

silashack · February 15, 2017 at 11:00 AM

I made the mistake of buying a beelink that uses the rockchip products and running KODI is fine (ish) and there are so called versions tweaked for the rockchips, but they are no way as well supported as LibreELEC does for other SOC, it was an early punt and I quickly learned.

They are also only available as an add in to the OS, not like our beloved LibreELEC

babboy · April 8, 2017 at 8:37 PM

Omegamoon’s GitHub: LibreELEC test build for RK3288
GitHub - omegamoon/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI

is it possible to get it work on the tinker