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Quote from Jester

I must be drunk, but no, I used vi

Ill have another look, thx

You can use different modes in vi. Also it can happen if you copy paste something?

Jester You did not attach the file but looks like you have some nonsense inside. Looks like you edited that file in an archaic windows editor because \r is a special character for carriage return. Looks like you have that in one of the variables.

I'm using only my 32bit builds for WP2 and I never had network dropping or outage. I did some iperf experiments a while ago and I'm using Gigabit without any issues.

Quote from Jester

lrusak  chewitt  codesnake before I start testing and maybe do a PR, any reason for the outdated driver ? just want to be sure i'm not missing anything

Ask amlogic. The kernel is supplied by Amlogic and they screwed up big time many things. You can go ahead and try to backport a recent version. Just make sure to use git and keep the git history. cherry-pick might help.

Good luck.

Quote from wxyhxh

hi, JoKeRzBoX, do you plan update this mod to 7.09.009?

kszaq is now building with 32bit userspace too.

Can you please try most recent alpha LibreELEC-Odroid_C2.aarch64-7.90.009.img.gz. For lirc to work with mceusb you need a file called /storage/.config/lircd.conf
lircd.conf.mceusb

However in 009 I had lots of problems with mceusb. I worked around it here:
ODROID Forum • View topic - LibreELEC Krypton/Leia/Agile 64bit kernel 32bit libs

About your HDMI connect problem. Let's see if 009 fixes it otherwise we can try this patch from kszaq:
LibreELEC.tv/hdmi_always_connected.patch at 7.0.2.009 · kszaq/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Quote from mmk

wrxtasy, thank you. Although we haven't started the project yet but we do feel good when someone does acknowledge our effort to make something better.

I am not familiar with GPL open source infringement but I will read it up. But if we do develop a hardware and 'if' we managed to work out a deal so that Libreelec supports our hardware, I don't see any reason why we won't want it to be open-source. Many minds makes great work with little effort.

After all, we don't plan to develop a hardware where we want to control the software behind it. We are a small team and we all have full time jobs, we want to make money but of course we want to do it with as little as effort as possible. And definitely not pissing off the development community along the way.

But it has been several days since this thread started, there hasn't been any strong indication that there are 'MAGIC' features or options that could make KODI even better. Sure, more ram, bigger NAND or faster Ethernet is great but that seems to be a trivial matter to most users.

Well, we could throw in an aesthetic value like full anodized aluminium body with bright color that will look great on the user's table top. That is easy to make but is that what user wants? Who knows. Honestly, that is why we need input from the forum user.

We want to make a great hardware where we try to cram in as much flexibility/features as possible. Even going beyond the media center boundary. Then grows the software support and update it over the web.

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I really think that you are serious. To be honest I wasn't sure at first. Anyway, in my opinion if you want to build something and you want LibreELEC to support your hardware a forum thread is not the right way to go. Create your company, build some kind of product. Read this: Sponsor – LibreELEC
And get in touch with the LibreELEC Team by email.

no offense 2ami but if he hires a whole LE Team for software development you are not gonna buy it because its not the cheapest. Some other chinese box seller will bring out nearly the same product without software support but thanks to open source software he doesn't have to. And its not the fault of FOSS here, its the consumers fault. If it wasn't for Wetek there would probably be no Kodi support for Amlogic yet.

Quote from mmk

Raybuntu, I admit that I use kszaq's release on my unit at home and I didn't contribute a cent to it and yet I paid for my Windows 10 Operating System license. I also paid my steam games too. Occasionally, I watch movies at the cinema as well.

That is not right. I know that. I am pretty sure kszaq has a family to feed too.
I have never developed a commercial software before let alone an Operating System but I am programmer. It is a lot of work.

If this project do kicks off, we have never said we won't contribute to kszaq's work. No matter how compatible our hardware is going to be, it is going to require some tweaking from kszaq. I could do like what others do and start a thread and beg kszaq to do it but we didn't. When we said we were starting on this project, we said we were going commercial. If we are paying our packaging vendor to put a logo on the box, we are paying for kszaq's work for every copy we sell.

You may not believe it but this was one of the intention of this thread. We need support. Well, if we can't even manage to convince you guys or kszaq, we have no business into manufacturing a Kodi box.

Well, I beg to differ on a quote you mentioned. While it is true that China's labor cost is generally lower than anywhere in the world. Penang is a very competitive place to build PCBAs. Some of the top contract manufacturer like Jabil, Plexus and Flextronics are based in Penang. We are not saying we can engage them for this project because this is a low volume manufacturing. But what we are trying to say is that, the cost of material procurement, SMT, case production, assembly and testing are within China's higher range.

So your statement that China can do it for half the price, I don't think so. I am from the manufacturing industry, fake parts, low quality solder paste, poor solder connection, reworks are the common activities on how China manufacturing plants cut cost. Which is why so many of us gets conned once or twice buying China made Android box. I am sure there are many.

Maybe kszaq has some ideas that he wants to see in a Kodi box as well. After all, this project won't even give birth if I haven't found Libreelec OS that supports my S905. We feel that, is project like ours that may help to keep kszaq going, getting paid for his hardwork. Wetek is based in Europe, so a lot of the profits are lost in currency exchange. People in Asia can't afford paying USD120.

Quality, reliability and building something that works well is what going to set us apart from those China boxes.

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What about Hardkernel. They are based in South Korea.

Well and here is your problem and it doesn't really distinguish you from any of the other chinese box manufacturers, no offense. You just want to build a cheap device and hope others like kszaq will do the software support for free. There is a reason why Wetek devices are more expensive but without Wetek there probably wouldn't be proper Kodi support.

Please make an effort to consider supporting development. Think about paying developers to develop and support software. You'll have to spend a lot of money for someone that will make his work public and free. Do the math.

And after you've invested that money another chinese manufacturer comes a long and builds a similar device for half the price.

Maybe someday it'll be possible. See here Shashlik | Android Simulated Environment

No this is not possible. You can not run Android apks in LibreELEC.

I have libwidevine with Amazon Instant Video in 1080p running like a charm with Odroid C2 and WeTek.Hub.

LibreELEC Krypton/Leia/Agile Hub 64bit kernel, 32bit libs - WeTek Community Forum

ODROID Forum • View topic - LibreELEC Krypton/Leia/Agile 64bit kernel 32bit libs

But it could work with this build too. Just inspect the script and download the lib yourself and put in in .kodi/cdm

Quote from JoKeRzBoX

Ok, I get it. I read his commit and understand the use of TARGET_KERNEL_ARCH for the S905 builds keeping TARGET_KERNEL_ARCH=arm64 and TARGET_ARCH=arm, with some linux drivers forcefully compiling using gcc-linaro-aarch64-elf. Sounds like a great plan! Please keep us posted as it progresses.

Thanks JoKeRzBoX for the motivation ;). The idea is very good to use 32bit libs userspace. I've wanned this for a long time but I hate repacking. Using a precompiled toolchain is currently the fastest and cleanest way to implement this without changing the whole build system. To be honest I'm not entirely happy with this solution because we need gcc 4.9 toolchain for uboot but gcc 4.9 is pretty old and there were issues with one RTL driver to compile.

I've made my own build for Odroid C2 ODROID Forum • View topic - LibreELEC Krypton/Leia/Agile 64bit kernel 32bit libs
My main motivation was libwidevine and Amazon VOD.

Quote from faugusztin

I tried it with cec-client, and it seems to be some sort of timing issue ?
Ubuntu Pastebin (cec-client log)

If the Pi CEC client is marked as active source, it is getting keys. Then at message 11850, the tv is turned off, then at 17327 it is turned back on. Then it is not getting key presses until i type "as" into cec-client, marking it as an active source again - and at that moment, i am getting the key presses again (message 39055 and later).

This is with LE 7.0.1, Samsung 55JU6400, firmware 1470.

You are probably correct. Thats what I assume. Unfortunately I don't have a TV with that issue. Amlogic CEC driver had a similar issue (read my previous post). But I can only speculate.

While developing the CEC driver for Amlogic S905 with @gda I saw a similar issue on my Samsung TV's. Took me a while to figure it out. I'm not 100% sure but in my case Kodi was sending CEC messages too fast and some got dropped by the TV. We fixed in in the kernel driver by delaying the CEC write a little bit. Remember CEC is a very sloooooow protocol according to the CEC spec.

Don't get emotional with Samsung. It might be a feature not a bug. Anyone with S905 and Recent samsung firmware having this issue please ping me.

ssh into your device and stop kodi. Then start cec-client and poste the log here.

It's not possible. C2 is build for aarch64 and there is no multiarch support.