Posts by KEgg

Long time no post.. Just to say thanks for the awesome work so far on getting Libreelec on the likes of the s905x2.

Have done a quick install to test on a 'Bqeel Y5' .. Everythings working except for it's IR remote, and to be honest the wifi is soooo slow, but I'm a wired man anyway.

Any suggestions on how i could get the IR remote running on this?

I've also got the Odroid N2, as I'm helping out with a certain Retro Gaming distro for it, and will have a play about with LibreElec on that too.

cheers guys.🖖

Quote from niabi

If you only want Retroarch, you can use the source directly from....

I actually got that side of things well a truly sorted yesterday... also I discovered I could easily build a non-laka Retroarch executable simply by going into the build folder for your chosen architectures Retroarch, give it a clean and build it again. Full Retroarch without any of Lakkas custom bits, and full Retroarch Update system for the like of assets, cheats, overlays, etc are back in the menu. The first thing I tried before going down the Lakka route was your suggestion. Cheers

I'm really not sure as to why this is not working for you.. I've checked here and all is working perfectly.

not sure what to suggest

Also been able to compile Retroarch for s905x from Lakka source using your provided link.. did not have to change anything to do with package.mk files though.. alls good.. cheers for the link... really did not think of using Lakka source to do this.

also, in the switch.sh script, you could delete line 9 'ICON_PATH' and replace $ICON_PATH on line 11 with $ADDON_DIR.

it slipped my mind for a moment.. been a few months since I last played with addons in Kodi

the thing a lot of people forget to do is to make sure the bash scripts permission is set to be executable.

link to script below..

sample script

don't install it straight off.. uncompress, go to the switch.sh script and change the location of the executable and config paths and zip it up again.

hope this helps

Nice one.. Did it compile retroarch to 1.7.1 or Lakka's 1.6.7?

The easiest way is to just write a little addon that suspends Kodi and launches retroarch by calling a bash script to do so.

I'll write up a quick example and share it up in a bit.

Hi there,

I'm currently doing a little bit of self education, and was wondering if you came across any guides on how to build Retroarch and cores for amlogic s905/x. Found plenty on compiling from scratch for Pi with very little effort. I've written my own addon for Kodi that launches roms directly, with a nice simple interface to do so, but with some nice features including the likes of MAME rom name scraping and more. At the moment, for amlogic, it relies on the Lakka cores and executable. I'm wanting to update Retroarch to 1.7.1(Pi version updated), but it looks like Lakka development has gone silent for the moment.

like yourself any pointers would be a great help

@estimadarocha Yep.. I know... It does not make any sense as to why it would work, but it does.. I tried it just as a laugh after the dtb I created from the M8S Pro W gave no joy, but it's working 100% here wifi and all.

Not sure if will work for all s905w boxes as I noticed one other, over on the s905/x thread, mention that wifi was not working on the brand of box he had.

** the thread was actually the for Tanix TX3 Mini with Amlogic S905W

Have LibreElec working perfectly here on the M8S pro W... Still left scratching my head slightly as I found myself having to use an s905x dtb for it to work, even though I created a dtb.img specific to the box.

Just received a MECOOL M8S pro W (sample from Ali-express supplier) and would also like to help, and have done some prep and tests.

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KEgg I have looked at your device tree and everything regarding Ethernet is the same - actually there are very few differences in whole device tree file. You can try deleting dtb.img from your SD card to use device tree from internal memory but I suspend this won't solve your issue.

Came to the same conclusion.. But not a complete waste of time.. Learnt a few new things on this fishing trip

Thanks for all your help, and keep up the great work you do for all

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I will look at your file later. It's hard to write any tutorial on a mobile phone, so I can only give you a stick and some line, you have to figure our making a rod and fishing on your own. Look for these key works: dtc (tool), dtbSplit (tool), dtb (device tree blob), dts (device tree source).

Success this end.. Have been able to pull the dtb out of the dd image using dtc. Have decompiled it to check it against the two posted by your good self. Looks like it should of done the trick, but still no change when it comes to Ethernet.

Thanks for all your help kszaq

@kszaq Love to know what the next steps are.. Best to teach a man to fish than to do the fishing for him.

file attached.

many thanks

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I meant the specific post and this command: dd if=/dev/dtb | gzip > /storage/downloads/dtb.img.gz

had done so.. the resulting dtb.img came out at 225kb.. quite a size difference in comparison to the ones supplied by you. Also unable to decrypt the file. No problem doing so with yours and many other examples across the forum. Making me think this dtb is not quite right. Is there something I'm missing after dd ?

many thanks

Quote from kszaq

Please check if connection works in Android. If it does, you can backup device tree from internal memory by following this post: [S905] Device trees

All works perfectly in Android.. Thanks for the link, but sadly I don't think this will work as WeChip have not supplied an OTA zip.. well not as yet, and the firmware they have on the support side of the their site come as .img. Just not able to unpack the image even though I've tried various ways here to do so.

Quote from kszaq

KEgg Try using 100Mbit device tree first.

Have done so already. The Ethernet connection does not even show up in the dash. Least with the 1gb dtb it does know that a cable has been plugged in and shows up in connection settings. Just cant get it to connect. That's why I thought about creating a WeChip v7 specific dtb.

cheers

kszaq

I was wondering if I could get some advice about creating a dtb.img specific to my WeChip v7? Everything works great except the 1g Ethernet not wanting to connect via dhcp or even manually. Thought I check to see if the device tree could solve this.

I got hold of a backup of the firmware from the website but unable to unpack their .img file for a deeper look. Tried various things to find out what kind of format the .img is, from seeing if its just a tar'd up file to trying to mount it as an ext4 file system, even a squashfs with no luck. Also tried various things from unpacking a TWRP recovery to get the backed up boot, to using adb and to dd out separate partitions to see if they could reveal the necessary files for creating one.

link to Wechip V7 official firmware stored on OneDrive

any suggestions, help and direction would be great.