Posts by jernej

If thickness is the only difference, then not.

I should rephrase my request - PCB images with clearly visible chip labels. Currently I can't tell which chip is used as DC-DC (top side, right of board label, on top of 4 pin connector).

Anyway, XR819 is probably the cheapest and worst way for wifi (random disconnections were observed). There is not and won't be support for this wifi in official LE builds unless this driver is included in Linux itself. Some time ago it was decided to stop adding support for random, out of tree wifi drivers. Nobody wants to maintain them and it's not always trivial to fix them for new kernel release. You are better off with supported USB wifi dongle. If you want, you can take a look at Armbian which has support for this wifi, but I won't be able to help you much (I never worked with this driver).

What is max. ethernet speed? 100 Mbit or 1 Gb? First one should work with TX6 image. Not sure how wifi could work (it's not enabled on TX6) unless it's based on USB, but that would be very unusual. Detailed photos of both PCB sides would also help.

For your second question - there is no way to install pyhon2. Kodi announced that this would happen a couple of years back, but a lot of addons are still not updated. If you have addon source, you can try to rebuild it with python3 dependency, but very likely it won't work well without changes.

norberto_ I just tested CEC on Pine64 Plus and apart from one hickup, it works fine with my TV (LG B8).

Not really. I don't have that box and based on the other post I read, this box is problematic for unknown reason.

norberto_  syao There was a switch to HW CEC engine few months ago from SW emulation. Last time I tested on OrangePi Win it worked. I'll try on Pine64 Plus soon. Going back to SW variant is not an option, it was done more or less by chance.

jdww At least some images will be released as stable - I'm not sure if all boards or not. Depends on discovered issues during testing period.

mike2002 I didn't do any H6 optimizations recently. LE settings addon was recently fixed so shutdown time is very improved. But that is not H6 specific...

what do you mean by "microusb"? Forpower supply?

You can try, it won't cost you anything except your time. Just burn image on micro SD card, put it in box, reboot and see if it works. I don't have that box, so I can't really help much with debugging.

Eachlink H6 mini is not supported by LE. You can try Tanix TX6 image but there is no guarantee it will work. IIRC there is issue with HDMI plugin detection. If that's still the case, you need to override screen settings with kernel parameters.

mike2002 there are some technical issues. You can still build images yourself

mike2002 I see out-of-memory message in dmesg. Today two fixes were merged - one for installation script and another for virtual memory size. Please try tomorrow nightly image.

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So, it is possible to run Kodi over Armbian without X11? What is the difference with LE?

You can run Kodi in Armbian in whatever way you want. But Kodi alone won't help you, you have to patch ffmpeg and kernel in order to work smoothly.

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Is it possible to use this images with another tv-boxes with allwinner H3 or H5, if they are not in the list of supported models ?

If the box is similar HW wise to one of the supported boards then yes. But that's not something I would rely on. There is no way to tell.

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the file is read-only. how do i edit? Tried via SSH

Put SD card to PC and then you can edit file in whatever way you want. You can also run mount -o remount,rw /flash if you want to edit file via ssh.

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U-Boot not found. Please update current installation with board specific update or image first.

That will be fixed soon. Problem is that image can be build in two ways and one is not supported by installation script.

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my Pine H64 continue to freeze on a regular basis. As soon as it is idle for some hours, it freeze. No message in log, that's weird. I installed armbian on it and I ran a lot of stress test witout issue so it's not an hardware issue. I don't know what's the problem...

I'll test with my board, but no promises, such bugs are hard to analyze.

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I try to test I little my Orange pi PC and it freeze during image caching.

Nothing in the log. Enable debug logging in Kodi settings to get much more verbose output. Use pastekodi command to include system logs.

Let me clarify few things:

1. GPU has nothing to do with video decoding - VPU does (completely separate thing with separate driver)

2. GPU on H5 is mali450 which was never supported in mripard's repo. There are no userspace binaries for it.

3. GPU on H5 is a bit special, even if you find mali450 blobs, it most probably won't work, only safe bet is mesa

4. Cedrus (VPU) driver exposes new interface which is not really supported anywhere except in gstreamer or patched ffmpeg, so basically no app will work out of the box.

5. Additional patches are needed for better video support, Cedrus driver is work in progress.

Yes, it's possible to add Prime support. Check scripts/uboot_helper for clues and wiki for build instructions. There is enough information to do it yourself. In the mean time, you can use PC2 images.

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btw, what is the best way to update LE on opi3?

To copy .img.gz or .tar file to /storage/.update and reboot.

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May it be issues with wifi?

Hard to say.

Kodi restarts very occasionally for me with local files and it happens only when video is stopped. How often does it happen to you? Only at video stop? Do you get similar lines in crash log?

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x0045deb0 in CDVDTeletextData::ResetTeletextCache() ()

Can you find any patterns when it happens? like when playing specific files?

I hope we have same issue. If not, I can't do anything about it because fixing something you occasionally see but not me is practically impossible.

AZukr How much memory your OPi3 has? 1 GiB?

It seems that H6 must have at least 2 GiB to work properly. I have 2 H6 boards with 3 GiB and I didn't observe any crashes. I got report that OPi3 with 2 GiB of RAM works ok too, but my OPi3 with 1 GiB of RAM occasionally crashes too. However, I can't make it crash reliably. it's always different combination of videos. Anyway, this is not Kodi issue but something either in driver, ffmpeg or both. I'll take a look into that.

mike2002 No idea. What is frozen exactly? Only Kodi? Is it possible to connect to ssh? If so, try to restart Kodi with systemctl restart kodi and see if that helps.

gabe TV out is now supported in nightly images on H3 and H5. You have to add FDTOVERLAYS /overlays/sun8i-h3-tve.dtbo for H3 or FDTOVERLAYS /overlays/sun50i-h5-tve.dtbo for H5 in extlinux/extlinux.conf file, right before APPEND line.

Good, I don't have it.