Posts by ilmich

ml-1 thank you very much for your contribution which I included in my builds!!
I know that the soc can support higher frequencies, but the current ones are the result of many tests and take into consideration the fact that these boxes often have very poor heat dissipation and therefore you could encounter sudden restarts due to excessively high temperatures.

Hi all,

a new build of libreelec 12 available with:

- updated to latest libreelec source
- added Alfawise A95XR1 thanks to ml-1

Cheers
Michele

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First, I just want to say thanks for this port!

I'm happy that my work is useful

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It made my old device collecting dust worth using again.

Aside from the fun of developing this port, reusing 'old' hardware is one of the goals.

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I have an Alfawise A95XR1 so I needed to make my own dtb in order to get leds working but after that it seems to work very well except for HD audio passthrough, it's just silent, but works it well if I disable passthrough for TrueHD and DTS-HD. Other passthrough works fine.

Make sure you have selected the correct device (default could be spdif output). Send a log anyway if you can.

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Any chance of getting a95xr1 included in future builds?

Of course, I don't understand if you can do it independently, in any case I need the stock dtb (or a link to download the original firmware)

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However, ilmich uses mainline kernel (6.x) in his builds where this module is probably no longer usable.

I can try. The Realtek drivers are very similar, so I should be able to make it work with the new kernels, too.

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while balbes150 's unOfficial LE uses kernel 6.12.3 (latest stable) , it can boot successfully, so which means it uses a vendor rockchip bootloader?

I don't know where to find the source of those builds but I imagine yes

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LibreELEC 11.0 uses kernel 6.1.x (not mainline), LibreELEC 12.0 uses kernel 6.6.x (not mainline)

Libreelec uses the latest LTS version of the mainline kernel (i.e., the official one, not the RockChip one), which is available when the stable version is released.

The 6.12 kernel will (probably) be used in libreelec 13, which is currently still in development.

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Is there any official way to install LE to the internal eMMC ?

Official no, so if you have problems (in reality, it's very unlikely that you have them), you may not have support. But if you want to install it in your internal emmc, just write an image of Libreelec (previously saved on a SD card) with dd after starting it from the SD card.

Rockchip CPUs, if they find a bootloader in the internal memory, start with that and possibly try to launch the operating system from the SD card.

but if I remember correctly your vendor's bootloader (which is the one you have with the Android installation) is not able to launch the mainline bootloader (which is the one used starting from libreelec 11) and vice versa. you can see this from the fact that libreelec 10 works instead (because it has the vendor rockchip bootloader) and also the unofficial builds you mentioned.

more information can be found here

Boot option - Rockchip open source Document

the only options I know of are

- install libreelec in your emmc
- delete your emmc so that the board, finding nothing in the internal memory, boots entirely from the SD card

hi FurmanSK if you can, try this build of libreelec 13

roc-3328-cc

where I've added some optimizations that I will send upstream.
I did some testing and it works very well even in 4k. let me know if you notice anything strange.

the main changes are
- ddr4 at 800mhz
- I improved the infrared receiver support by adding some remote controls that I created over time thanks to the users of my build for rk3228
- I increased the gpu frequency to 500mhz
- I enabled the multigen lru in the kernel

the source is here

GitHub - rockchip-with-unofficial-love/LibreELEC.tv at roc-cc-le13-wip

Just enough OS for KODI. Contribute to rockchip-with-unofficial-love/LibreELEC.tv development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Unfortunately, I also had little time this year.

In any case, and without any definite planning, I'm working on some small improvements (having said that the 4k problem is a known problem of the kernel used in libreelec 12, which should be okay with libreelec 13).

I'll keep this thread updated when I have news.

Hi all,

a new build of libreelec 12 available with:

- added RTL8189ES wifi driver (thanks Lochnair for testing)
- various fixes and improvements
- finished porting from libreelec 11
- reintroduced wpa_supplicant as wifi manager (iwd has problems with bad drivers that I have to use)
- updated to latest libreelec source

Cheers
Michele

Lochnair my apologies, the repository was not updated. try again now.

Thank you

Hi Lochnair , try this test build where I compiled the driver you suggested (and added firmware for usb ethernet)

test

Unfortunately we have to go by trial and error because I don't have your device.

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The stock Android is terrible, but LibreELEC seems to run pretty well on it, so thanks a lot!

I'm happy, the work behind it was long and sometimes complicated.

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Ethernet and Wi-Fi doesn't work,

I saw some errors related to missing firmware. Let's see what I can do.

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Ended up dumping DTB from both image and /proc as I wasn't sure if I did it correctly from the image, both attached should they be useful somehow.

they are useful because I could add support to your box too.

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My Apple type-c to headphone adapter doesn't show up as an audio device in settings. I did check lsusb and it does show up there so not sure what's up. This also happens in LE11. Currently my workaround is to use a cheap optical/coax to 3.5mm converter, which works with the SPDIF output.

After some research, I read that the device actually activates when you connect a device via 3.5mm jack. Can you please try? In the meantime, I'm trying to understand if some drivers are missing.

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Hey, good to know you're still maintaining this box.

thank you for using my builds to save old hardware from oblivion

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Wifi still doesn't show any networks to connect to. It's never worked on LE11 either. Mine has the RK3228A + ESP8089.

I saw that the driver loaded correctly. try disabling and re-enabling networking from the libreelec configuration tool. I don't think this is the problem but also make sure you have wifi networks in 2.4ghz mode because the chip does not support 5g and higher

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Framerate on the UI seems pretty low.

I saw that you use 4k resolution. Comparing Kodi Nexus with Kodi Omega is difficult, but the processor may not be able to handle the UI smoothly at such high resolutions. For now, I advise you to try with a lower resolution, leaving the switch to the player that increases the resolution only when needed.

At this moment I don't have a 4k device for tests, perhaps in the future I will be able to further optimize the performance even if a lot depends on the work of Kodi developers who care about less powerful devices.

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Is emmc install no longer a thing?

your device has an internal emmc so should works, but I only recommend it to those who know what they are doing.
I prefer boot from an SD card because I can decide the capacity and in case of problems I simply replace it (which you can't do easily with internal memory)

Hi hamafever , sorry for the late reply.

Your board is one that I know has startup problems. Please try with my previous libreelec 11 build https://ilmich.libreelec.tv/libreelec-11/ and let me know.

In any case it would be useful

- if you can produce a boot log via serial connection (I see from the photos that you have a cable connected so perhaps you already have a uart available)

- the exact version of your android firmware (even better if you have a download link)

Cheers
Michele

hi hamafever,

please I need to know

- model of your box
- version of the android operating system
- possibly a photo of the motherboard
- are you sure it's an rk3228 box? my builds support only booting from an SD card and maybe only some particular models have problems

cheers
Michele

hi spigui

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Thanks for continuing to update this box, great job!

thank you very much.

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1) It plays some videos but it freezes every few seconds, I tried to make the cache bigger but it didn't work.
2) Some videos don't play and I've attached a picture of the screen and logs

from the log you sent, I saw there are errors with your multimedia UPNP server (ums?). I used minidlna for a while but never had any problems. I'll try to install it and do some testing even if it could be a kodi bug.

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3) I couldn't find the AC3 and EAC3 passthrough option that was previously in AUDIO. I saw it in the player but it didn't work, I couldn't get 5.1 sound like I had in LE11.

I know.. the porting of libreelec 11 is not completed yet.

Cheers
Michele