Posts by Old-guy

Quote from Da Flex

Start with a clear description of your goal next time. LE isn't made for split screens.

The goal still is to be able to downgrade my WeTek play 2 and to gain some knowledge, both accomplished.
Will find another goal for the unit anyways as it is pefectly capable to stream a single RTSP stream

Quote from chewitt

It doesn't cause any issues though.

Well I am still not able to successfully boot any version of LibreElec other than 11 as all older version get in a boot loop.
Too bad I cannot find the RS232 cable so I am not able to debug that.
Curious what the cause is will spend some time on it when I have some to spare.

Well long story short.
All previous version boot from SD but after the partitioning the startup of Kodi results in a boot loop.
Tried several stable versions.
Only succesfull boot from SD is .. the box image of 11.05 the version I initialy got stuck on

No Idea why, I also did the recover option I found here (unbrick option via the reset button on the bottom of the unit).
This procedure also works but still gives same behaviour bootloops after the resizing of the partitions on the SD card.

Still happy as I was able to boot WeOs that has a old Krypton version of Kodi installed so I was able to try the Surveilance Camera plug in. This was not what I was looking for.

In the end I hope to use my old Wetek Play 2 to show preferably 4 CCTV camera's in 1 view (RTSP streams) or cycle trough them as I expect the WeTek Play 2 has not enough resources to handle 4 streams and recalculate them to a full hd resolution.

Thanks all for the support it was a fun ride and almost successful.

chewitt Thank you sir the first option worked perfectly I was perfectly capable to restore it back to Android / WeOS with your procedure. Thank you.

For future reference it is essential to create a new SD card I used the version I installed but a freshly flashed SD with LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-11.0.5-wetek-play2.img.gz
As chewitt mentioned the Wetek Play 2 unit automaticly boots from the SD card, one can tell as the first boot the installation initiates the new partitions on your SD card.

Enable SSH & Samba in the KODI wizzard you get after the succesfull boot and than copy the backup-wp2.img.gz to a Samba share I used the update share which you can find in /storage/.update in the filesystem.
I did the gunzip on the device this is SLOW 30 minutes or longer .. so for a faster procedure use 7zip or whatever you use on your workstation to extract the backup-wp2.img file from the backup-wp2.img.gz and copy this directly to the share.
Than revert back to the SSH shell and use emctool to write the image to your EMC emmctool w backup-wp2.img.

This is also a slow process 10 to 15 minutes or so and will give a few errors no worries this was my output :

Reboot your device et voilla back to the stock WeOS.

Big thanks to this community best support ever !

Thank you sir Will try this tomorrow evening (CET) and will report back my findings.
For now my sincere apparition for your support and time !

chewitt Sir thank you I read most of your post in regard to this topic (twice sometimes before I actual got them).

I understand the recovery actions and already found and downloaded the backup-wp2.img.gz. (thanks for that ! )
Challenge lies now in booting from SD and having the EMM enabled (after boot) to do the recovery DD, as you mentioned in earlier post one is not able to do a DD to a storage device that the unit booted from as the OS is running of this device.

So what is the best way forward?
Option 1
Hardware disable EMM (as mentioned by dtech ) boot the unit and enable the EMM again ( I am thinking putting 2 wires to pad 7 and 8 and a switch to tmp short / disable the EMM during boot and enable it as soon the SD card boots).

Option 2
Erase the EMM with a rm * -rm command having no bootfiles on the EMM forcing Uboot to boot from another storrage device (SD card / USB) ?

Thanks Will try that route too.

I also reread the mentioned threat in my openings post and I overlooked initially that erasing the EMM / make it unbootable forces the Uboot loader to find another boot medium and enables the boot via the SD card again.

There is only one way to find out, and not having currently an option to unbrick my unit makes this me a bit hesitant as if this does not work my unit is permanently bricked.

So anyone able to confirm this actualy works / or able to share his / hers experience with this ?

Found my old Wetek Play 2 recently and thought to give it another go. Want to use it to stream some security cams to it.
Happy to see it's still supported I directly installed the latest LiberElec directly to the EMM with the EMM tool.

Great units boots trying to setup Kodi finding that my CCTV plugin (Surveillance Camera) is not supported by the latest version of Kodi and I need to downgrade.
No worries I found the legacy stable on the download page but than realised I am not able to select to boot from SD CARD anymore.

I tried all "unbricking" methods but LibreElec won all battles and still is booting bravely every attempt I made (Tried several unbricking methods using the reset button on the bottom of the device as found in the Unbrick resources of Libre Elec

I found a threat mentioning using DD to write an image back to the EMM (as the EMM tool does not allow this as you boot from it and not having another boot option it's unusable) but that seems impossible to do so to the medium which I booted from, is mounted and I am running the OS on.


Can anyone help me out here, what am I missing ?
Goals is to get the 9.0 version running either on SD or EMM I actually do not care but currently I feel out of options to access the EMM / downgrade the unit.
It only wants to boot LibreElec 11 whatever I try.

Would be fun if I am able to fix this, I just opened the box but that also seems not to give any extra options.