Posts by chewitt

  • @balbes150 LE images with Kodi-19 for S9xxx

    ^ bad translation - I've no idea what point you're trying to make

  • Bricked Amlogic S905X 1G/8G, please help

    If you want to install LibreELEC on the devvice we can help. If you want to restore Android on it .. that's someone else's problem and you're asking for help in the wrong forum. I'm not trying to be awkward, but our expertise is all about erasing Android not installing and recovering it.

  • @balbes150 LE images with Kodi-19 for S9xxx

    Quote from crazyturk

    Tuner drivers are not installed.

    If you (and the persistent +1/me-too tuner-using collective) want tuner drivers in mainline kernel images please petition afl1 to reach-out to the linux-amlogic kernel maintainers and start upstreaming them. It's the only way forwards. There are people who are willing to help/assist this activity.. but it's his code and responsibilty to initiate the process. As the saying goes "the ball is in his hands" (not ours).

  • (S922x, S905x3) Odroid N2 vs Khadas VIM 3 vs ...?

    Quote from Marciano

    Is hw decoding working on the N2 with mainline?

    And how about hdmi audio and ethernet?

    Yes .. with caveats for 4K and HEVC which have dependencies on 10-bit video work (which is now active work-in-progress again). HDMI audio is 2.0 at the moment but we've started looking into what's needed for multi-channel .. although bizarely 7.1 pass-through (AC3/DTS) also appears to be working as long as you set 'optimised' not 'best match' in Kodi. Ethernet is no problem.

  • (S922x, S905x3) Odroid N2 vs Khadas VIM 3 vs ...?

    I see both HK and Khadas as different shades of the same grey when it comes to software support. HK definitely have a more active user community around their products and some reasonable staff, but you can count the number of upstream kernel/u-boot/etc. commits from those staff on the same lack of fingers as Khadas (and several other SBC vendors). At the end of the day they all have the same business model which relies on seeding free samples among the Linux community in the hope that enthusiasts will do most of the work for them. The *only* board manufacturer who gets my vote for contribution is LibreComputer; who don't code anything themselves, but have been bankrolling Amlogic GX mainline development for some time - which has directly benefitted the entire community in addition to their own products. LibreComputer customers don't need much vendor support because you can just grab the latest upstream source for kernel, u-boot, etc. and everything is already supported.

    VIM3 has a reworked heatsink and fan; there are taller vanes on the heatsink and the fan (which is allegedly silent now) has swapped sides to improve the cooling .. although I wouldn't know as Khadas forgot to include one in the sample kit. I have the board in one of their fancy cases (which I think are a bit crap, but they do the job) and it's warmer than cool (and the N2) but also shows no signs of overheating and it's still nowhere near the "raging inferno" temp that mk1 AppleTV's used to reach. Once G12 devices start running at full speed I might need to check the temps - right now they're on minimum clock at 1.2GHz (and still faster than previous generations) - but then adding the fan is the obvious addition. I wouldn't want to run one for long without the heatsink.

    NB: The initial VIM3 device-tree that I made was literally a 10 mins copy/paste exercise (in a Hotel room .. no special tools needed). Once we have a few more devices under our belt I think G12A/B will be an identikit exercise.

  • @balbes150 LE images with Kodi-19 for S9xxx

    I have an untested device-tree for the GT-King in my repo .. I'll pick a couple of people to test it and give feedback. Once we have at least one "box" device-tree for S922X it should be a simply copy/paste exercise to create more - the only thing that's likely to be different is the Ethernet spec and the remote control keymap.

  • (S922x, S905x3) Odroid N2 vs Khadas VIM 3 vs ...?

    Both HardKernel and Khadas are producing decent hardware. I personally prefer the VIM3 over N2 as it has eMMC and Bluetooth on-board; both of which make my development and testing work easier - one less SD card needed, and I can use a BT remote (which I prefer) instead of IR. In theory VIM3 also has WiFi but in practice the chip is not supported in the mainline kernel yet (and Ethernet is better anyway) so that's not a big factor. I'm sure Minix make reasonable hardware too, but I've never personally had anything to do with them. Do they have any S905X2/S922X product?

    NB: I do not work for Khadas or any other box/board vendor .. fiddling with ARM boards for a living would never fund my Porsche habit :)

  • (S922x, S905x3) Odroid N2 vs Khadas VIM 3 vs ...?

    LE doesn't look at any "box" devices but one of the main upstream support targets is S905X2 so G12A hardware is well supported. S905X3 is being sampled to manufacturers but I'm not aware of anyone shipping product with it yet. LE prefers "board" devices because the manufacturers who sell them take fewer shortcuts and provide better customer support. Boot on the VIM3 is not as fancy/complicated as the N2.

  • VIM3 Support?

    I have a pre-production VIM3 board which works fine (same as the N2). Once we have multi-channel LPCM audio and mainline u-boot support working (soon hopefully) I'll be using it as the family daily-driver. I'll submit the device-tree so it goes upstream before/for the Linux 5.3 merge window.

  • delayed Autostart Kodi

    You can delay when autostart.sh runs, but you cannot control when it finishes or the sequence with Kodi start.

    If you move commands to a systemd .service file in /storage/.config/system.d/ you can control the sequencing, e.g.

    I won't guarantee this ^ will work as I'm no systemd expert, but "After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target" ensures the network is up, and then "WantedBy=multi-user.target" ensures it runs before Kodi startup.