Either I write them myself or sunxi community writes them. Either way, somebody does it (in most cases) in spare time for free...
Thank you for that explanation.
Posts by clarkss12
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There is no upstream display driver nor HDMI audio driver. There is some work done in that regard, but current state is not yet useful for LE needs.
Thank you for that information. I have no clue about drivers. How do you get the drivers?
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Can I ask why the Allwinner H618 won't be supported??
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Thanks for that information. I could not resist, ordered it anyway. Will have to see what it can do running the native Android.
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Been years since I used a device that used the Allwinner SoC. Winter has gotten me bored, so looking for a new device to tinker with. I think the price is right, and don't mind if I brick it while tinkering with it.
I really don't just want to purchase it for the existing Android, I really would like to test LE on it. So, give my your opinions if it is possible to run LE on this box.
Transpeed Android 12.0 TV Box 3D 6K 4K H.265 BT5.0 Wifi6 Allwinner H618 Quad Core Mali G31 MP2 Set top box. Only $37 USD for 4/64 GB.
Yes, I am aware, no Gigabit ethernet nor USB 3.
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Dug out my old Beelink GT King to test LibreELEC. I did a complete install of the original firmware, then tried to get LE to run from microSD card.
I tried both device trees for the King and King Pro, but it never boots into LE. What am I missing?? I tried the "tooth pick" method and "reboot to LibreELEC" app from Android.
thanks.
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I had a brain fart. :). I was confusing the Emby server with CE and LE....... Disregard. Smoked too much dope when younger.
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I can use my CoreELEC UI using a Windows browser by using this IP >> http://192.168.10.88:8096<< . Does LE have an interface like CE on a Windows browser like Chrome?https://imgur.com/R3vXcZs
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Been a few years since I used LibreELEC, because all of my media players are based on Amlogic SoCs.
Anyway, back to my story. I have been trying to find a good solution for a file server, tried Windows, Linux, NAS etc., none worked exactly as I wanted.
My media is scattered all over my network in an assortment of storage devices. I needed a GOOD solution to aggregate all of the media and make that media accessible to all of my devices. This has been an on going challenge, and I have finally decided to find the best solution. Right now, I think LibreELEC is about as close as I can get.
I am testing an older Beelink L55 as my file server, I tried Windows, Linux and now LibreELEC. Yes, I have 3 different NASs, but too expensive, and complicated for what I need.
Windows was OK as a file server, but had to "mount" those drives when using Linux. What a pain to do.
I tested Linux file server, and quite a big learning curve, and never was able to get it right, finally gave up.
Now, I installed LE and this works great for my purposes as a file server. It does have some issues as a player. When testing UHD videos on an older 1080i TV, the video is horrible. Lots of video settings in LE, but not sure which ones to use. Anyway, I will NOT be using it as a HTPC it does not really matter.
This is just an FYI.
And thanks to all of the LE devs, that make this possible.
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I had issues booting GT-King Pro using the original Android factory firmwares as Beelink tweaked the u-boot environment to minimise the point in the boot sequence where u-boot waits for input (e.g. IIRC the power button on the Pro being pressed). This makes the boxes boot a little faster, but also makes them a pain in the rear as you need to press the button at exactly the right time (measured in ms) to invoke restore mode; then u-boot checks SD/USB media for images and finds LE and boots. The official response from their developers is "keep pressing the reset button during boot" and after a few attempts you'll get the timing right. More recent Beelink firmwares appear to be easier to interrupt and work with so I assume they increased the wait period a little. I forget which firmware I have installed now (as only booted it once or twice) but it was from ~October ish last year. It's a nice box once you get over the install hurdle
I was also able to get an earlier version to install, but don't remember which version......... But that has been awhile.
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Good balbes150 , I had recently updated my android, so it was necessary to install universal multi-boot again, something I had done almost 2 years ago.
Thank you I leave the link here, in case someone else has the same problem.
s905_multi_boot · 150balbes/Amlogic_s905 Wiki · GitHub
After that, everything went well! as expected.
Some important addons like pvr.hts, crazycat are missing.
CvH please how is the TBS5520SE driver process going?
Bring some news to minimize expectations.
I am again trying to get this version of LibreELEC to run from SD card on my Beelink GT King Pro, but not having any luck. I am pasting this "meson-g12b-gtking-pro.dtb" into the "uEnv.txt" text file, so it looks like this >>
FDT=/dtb/amlogic/meson-g12b-gtking-pro.dtb
LINUX=/KERNEL
APPEND=boot=LABEL=LIBREELEC disk=LABEL=STORAGE quiet console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 systemd.debug_shell=ttyAML0
But it won't boot into LibreELEC, just stays at the boot loader screen........What am I missing
I am running a modded ATV firmware.
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Good balbes150 , I had recently updated my android, so it was necessary to install universal multi-boot again, something I had done almost 2 years ago.
Thank you I leave the link here, in case someone else has the same problem.
s905_multi_boot · 150balbes/Amlogic_s905 Wiki · GitHub
After that, everything went well! as expected.
Some important addons like pvr.hts, crazycat are missing.
CvH please how is the TBS5520SE driver process going?
Bring some news to minimize expectations.
Thank you Erbas for this information.
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clarkss12...
I did mess with one that one of our group guys got back in Dec and eventually got a modded LE 9.2 build using the generic project mostly working, but to be honest it was a big waste of time as the guy that owned it had nothing but trouble with the device pretty much right outta the box... Windows 10 kept crashing and the box ran hot which i suspect was at least partly to blame why Winblows was really buggy and locked up and crashed a lot.
He got the unit because we've been looking around for awhile for a SoC without the typical Arm GPU and the Intel was appealing and we figured we'd loose winblows anyways as really we were just looking for a better board for Linux and LE.
After some tinkering I got LE working by 1st making a full linux distro run on a modded kernel on the box, we used the kernel tweak learned from that to tweak LE's kernel and got it working...
Thru all of this tho the box still had heat issues and kept crashing so we stopped and he tried returning or getting it swapped out but ran up against a wall with Customer Service as they didn't like the idea of messing it with.
In my normal job I do a lot of mb repairs on Macbooks and a variety of other low level boards as i do reworking and repair as well as design and consult on custom boards and I've seen a lot of poorly made crap over the years and the board in his box was manufactured poorly with things not down and poorly oriented before going thru the oven. The sad part is its not the 1st time i have seen that kinda poor quality come out from Beelink before. Its just disappointing to see a supposed Premium maker as they claim produce bad boards in the same manner you would expect from some knock off clone shop charging half the price, I did consider pulling the chip and reballing it but for the time investment it was not worth it, but i am sure that will be the last Beelink product he buys.
Anyway...To your point.. If your up to building LE git sources you should be able to build the Generic project and work out from there as i am not sure if anyone else has really gone down this rabbit hole yet...
Tigro... Sorry don't mean to hijack your thread so i will shut now... Chewitt and Da Flex i think have probably helped so i need no say anymore.
Thanks for the info. Nothing more to be said on this thread.
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If you have an old PC, the Android X86 project is an option. I'm not sure whether RPi Android is already usable (young project), but I have been tested Android X86 successfully. In combination with the Kodi app this could be all you need.
I have this low powered minipC and tried to install LibreELEC but no luck......... Any clues on what I need??
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Swapped OS on my Beelink GT King, that does not contain TWRP. Booted right away into LibreELEC from Android using a terminal emulator app and typing "reboot update".
It boots and goes into the setup screen, but can't get an internet connection. The Ethernet connection does not connect, gets some strange IP address. The WiFi will not pick up an IP address at all........
Thanks Balbes150 for working on these Amlogic devices..........
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clarkss12 I can confirm that it is not working.
You don't need to install the official rom.
Try it: Index of /
Because I tried it here and installed it easily.
balbes150 holding the lower box pin goes to the recovery screen.
Not boot.
I downloaded and installed the LibreELEC-AMLG12.arm-9.80-nightly-20200119-635fa1e-box.img.gz file that I got from the link you posted. However, a lot of the device trees are missing, including for the "King".
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Here is my Dropbox link for the LibreELEC port for the MK808B+. Use Etcher to create the bootable microSD card.
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Would it be possible to grab an openelec and libreelec zip, ideally not a tar but beggars can't be choosers, I'll take anything at this point.
Also, it's been such a long time since I've played around with these it's become a bit of a blur, device tree is only relevant for s90x?
