No SSH Access

    Hey all,

    My no SSH access is solved ! But not in the manner I wanted... ;(

    My old and friendly Wetek Play 2 isn't anymore. I do not know what happened, but it full crashed, impossible to boot. I think I had some electrical issue or something. none of the LED are blinking when I plug the DC adapter.

    Nontheless now it's time to find a new board where I can install a TVHeadend PVR. I only have the possibility to get DVB-T (DVB-T2) TV signal, so condition number one is finding a box with a tuner built in (like my old WP2).

    I think I find out the right one. I see that the "formuler cc" seems to be a goo challenger (https://fr.formuler.tv/cc).

    Seems that he as an ARM A-53 CPU. so I do think it is a SOC S905 and that I could use the LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-11.0.3-box image to root it.

    I think that I am not in the right topic to ask this and if not, feel free to signal or migrate to a new post.

    And otherwise, have you guys any suggestion for an LibreElec ready box with built in DVB tuner ?

    Regards

    Pierre

    Quote from pierremillien

    Seems that it has ARM A53 CPU so I think it is a SOC S905 and that I could use the LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-11.0.3-box image to root it.

    If you scroll down the page far enough it shows "CPU: Hisilicon Quad-core" which means it's not Amlogic and we currently have zero support for any HiSilicon chips (all their chips require horrid vendor kernels, nothing upstream).

    Quote from chewitt

    all their chips require horrid vendor kernels, nothing upstream

    Hi Chewitt, you always answer :)

    That's what I unfortunately thought... Maybe I'm to lazy to check everything in details, but what make me say that it would be a possible candidate was when I google (duckduckgo'ed more precisely) : "Hisilicon Quad-core" the first result I found that link :

    https://www.hisilicon.com/en/products/sm…STB/Hi3798MV200 where it says : blablabla hanks to the powerful Arm Cortex-A53 blablabla

    I'm not so good in hardware stuff but Amlogic is different from ARM chip ? (I know this is a noob question).

    I tried to figure that out myself and read a couple of articles and something in Wikipedia makes me wonder that I might have found what I need. In the chart where you can find ARM and I thought bingo !

    And finally I reread it this evening and saw that, indeed, Hisilicom seems to only buy the architecture licence from ARM and design his own chip... DAMMMIT (language please, would say Tony Stark ^^)

    Back to the start... I need to find something who has the ability to run TVHeadend with a DVB-T2 tuner.... Why.. but why didn't Wetek exist anymore ...

    Have a look at HDHomeRun boxes for a 'Network' tuner device. Then use something else as the client/player device. In the long term you can update the client as needed for latest features while the tuner remains the same. It avoids lots of kernel/driver matching complexity which is often a challenge due to the state of DVB drivers in the kernel.

    Thanks Chewitt.

    I checked, but unfortunately... HDhomeRun doesn't sell any DVB-T boxes anymore. Or maybe I did not search properly... seems that ran out of component :P

    Meanwhile, I'll give a try to a USB Hauppage DBT stick which I will connect to my PVE NUC. Already installed the soft TVHeadEnd and now waiting for the delivery of the stick. I just hope that I will not hardness with the ubuntu configuration (finger deeply crossed)

    Thanks thanks again