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Hi, I have X96+ with armian. I have issue with usb hdd (usb 3.0) on both usb ports (2.0/3.0).Disk have ext4 partition. During hisk work very often disk unmounting (i hear when thisk stoping). In effect the disk is mounted as read-only and of course it generates disk errors that are repairable with fsck. What could be the reason? A badly mounted drive or a sluggish, dying power supply? How I can diagnose this? Any ideas? I simply mounting disk in fstab LABEL=usb-hdd /media/usb-hdd ext4 defaults,rw 0 0

Magicsee N6 Max rk3399 Doesn't boot on sd-card The last bootable image was 5.90-rc8 Kernel 5.97 works when copied to that image

I've installed and run a/m OS. BUT i have a problem with MAK address changing at every reboot. How to avoid that ? Is it possible to install the OS on the emmc instead of SD card?

Hi guys. I'm just wondering if I can install Linux on it. STB in DEVELOPER mode, I can connect ADB and I see some stuff here: vip6102w:/ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 1.9G 917M 1.0G 47% / tmpfs 822M 492K 821M 1% /dev tmpfs 822M 112K 822M 1% /mnt /dev/block/dm-1 488M 77M 401M 17% /vendor /dev/block/mmcblk1p22 8.8G 1.4G 7.2G 17% /data /dev/block/mmcblk1p8 0.9M 34K 970K 4% /dev/hwcfg /dev/block/mmcblk1p15 5.6M 120K 5.2M 3% /cache /data/media 8.8G 1.4G 7.2G 17% /storage/emulated vip6102w:/ $ uname -a…

I have successfully installed armbian on my EMMC . The systems works perfect but the Av Jack doesn't work. I have installed the Armbian_5.76_Aml-s912_Debian_stretch_default_5.0.0-rc8-g8201cd167-dirty_desktop_20190304.img.xz image. Any sugestion? thanks

I managed to install Armbian Focal Legacy Minimal on my MXQPro-RK3228A without any problem, but only the HDMI video output works. Has anyone managed to use the analog output? My installation does not have u-boot. The boot configurations are in armbianEnv.txt.

Hello everyone, I have two S905x3 boxes happily running Balbes150 20.08 Armbian build. I am trying to figure out how to make a working backup of the eMMC. Normally in a situation like this I would use Clonezilla, but that doesn't boot on these arm64 boxes. Should I make a bootable USB with one of Balbes150 images and use "dd" on /dev/mmcblk2 to an image file? Would I be able to then restore that image file with "dd" to another S905x3 box and have it boot?

Hi Guys, i am owner of this box and i wanted to ask you if anyone is intressted in getting armbian running on it. Dissasambly does not look to be a big problem. and here are som pictures: https://forum.freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/allwinner-tv-players/679476-beelink-gs1-6k-tv-box-allwinner-h6-android-7-1-bt4-1-1000m-lan-usb-3-0-media-player-2gb-ram-16gb-rom from the pictures i cannot tell were the uart pins are, anyone can ? from user froezus post Hi, I have tried to boot the OrangePi One Plus image on my Beelink GS1, but either the UART is bad configured or I have damaged the TXD p…

@balbes150(sorry to @ you and hope youre keeping well!!) I have a Beelink GT King, which its motherboard lists as being version 2.2-S922X-4G-64G/A It has a terrible stability problem using meson-g12b-gtking.dtb (I have tried the pro file as well as others in case, but it wont boot with those). The problem I am experiencing is that when any high level of file transfers occur, the system freezes. The mouse etc locks up, the time/clock freezes at the time of the system hanging and the system drops off the network (stops responding to ping). Ive tried multiple revisions of Ubuntu that can be currently downloaded on Yandex, and been through …

Hi there, I am very new here and would like to install Linux on my BOX Beelink GT king. I only read very little about the S922 and couldn't find out any correct information. Can you help me with the image and DTB I need? Thanks.

Can anyone help me to install linux on the box i testet Armbian_5.76_Aml-s905_Debian_stretch_default_4.20.5_20190224.img whit etcher on usb stick and 905x-p212.dtb as dtb.img then i test Armbian_5.78_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0-rc1_desktop_20190409.img.xz whit meson-g12a-x96-max-rmii.dtb dont work but after update the box only an error write the image to USB stick whit etcher what for files i need for beelink gt1 mini?

Hello all, I need some help. I have a Beelink GT1 Mini TV Box 64GB Gigabit Lan 4 GB Ram. I use this stock firmware: v007P0 stock firmware LPDDR4 version (SN: 95X2) for Beelink GT1 Mini TV Box from here. https://beelink-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/firmwareservice_beelink_onmicrosoft_com/EQ8GFfRPJopFoKLfJt71qyMB7ZuofgTb_L3_VW3CHO2g2g?e=Hq70yf https://chinagadgetsreviews.com/download-android-pie-9-v007p0-stock-firmware-for-beelink-gt1-mini-tv-box.html I am trying to flash Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img.xz using the meson-g12a-gt1-mini-a but I get the error here-below: I have tried all other meson-g12a with…

Hi there, I can't seem to be able to download the files for the Beelink X2, looks like dead links. Any other place I could look for them? Thanks.

Can someone please validate the steps I am going to do is correct or does it need any changes. Please experts let me know if any changes is required to the below steps. https://github.com/150balbes/Amlogic_s905/wiki Root of s9xxx (S905 S905X S912) https://yadi.sk/d/srrtn6kpnsKz2 https://yadi.sk/d/srrtn6kpnsKz2/Linux/ARMBIAN/5.64/20181019 Step 1: From the above link download the file Armbian_5.64_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.19.0-rc7_desktop_20181019.img.xz Step 2: Unzip file using 7zip in windows 7zip => Armbian_5.64_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.19.0-rc7_desktop_20181019.img.xz = Armbian_5…

Does anyone have an opinion on what the best Kodi streaming box is? I've browsed through Amazon, just wondering if anyone had a more qualified opinion. There seems to be an almost infinite selection of choices.

hi, I am considering getting a couple of inexpensive tv boxes to play with, my goals in order of interest would be: - Test Linux running some monitoring bash scripts. - Test Linux running some lan services as PiHole, nginx service fallback static pages for a couple of domains. - Test Linux acting as a thin client to RDP servers (think LTSP). - Test Android acting as a thin client to RDP servers (think LTSP). I don´t intend to run all of these at once, but rather test how well those work (or not). I am leaning towards TV Boxes instead of SBCs for the "all in one piece" factor, with SMBs getting the board+case+PSU+wifi-dongle rapidly see…

Hey guys, I'm looking for a pretty budget TV box under $50, I really don't need much from it but here are a few things that are very important for me: Speed - I've had experience with super slow smart TV devices in the past, generally a cheap smart TV is simply pure sh*t. So I don't really need anything that should be capable of gaming, I'll probably never use that, but I do want the TV box to operate fast. Outer storage ability - Probably the most important thing for me is a device that will be able to hold up external storages(flash drive, SD card, HDD(?)). I believe I've seen some TV boxes that only support up to 64GB of SD card, I would really lo…

Hi, I search for a new development the best tvbox for run armbian, docker and microservices if possible around 100$ with 4GB Ram or more and 64 or 128GB eMMC. The display and wifi are not important, we run nodejs services only, so only cpu and eMMC performances are important for us. I have see a topic where balbes150 advises the ugoos AM6. I search a powerful tvbox for Linux usage. Thanks for your help

Hi everyone! Firstly sorry if this question is too basic or already had a solution in other topic, but I couldn't found the answer I'm looking for and I'm new to Armbian. But let's go... We have a standalone system here that plays videos all day long. That kind of "internal TV" from the company, where they put news and other things someone judge it's interesting. It works pretty well so far for roundly 10 years. Thing is: it relies on regular PCs! As you may know, they're big and has bigger energy consumption than this amazing TV Box. During a meeting someone came up with the idea of replacing it for something sm…

Hi there, As some of you (i guess) i want to update and upgrade to last debian and kernel version to test if it is better for my tv boxes (S905W, S912, S905X2) but before that i want to backup and possibly restore all the better way. Do someone have a hint for that ? Thanks I personnaly use portainer to manage docker images but never try it yet for disaster recovery or restoring data.

Hi. I am trying to connect a bluetooth speaker that also has a microphone to armbian. When using it as a plain speaker via A2DP, it works fine. However when i switch it to HSP/HFP in order to use the microphone, i get a lot of static, random crackling and very low volume on both the microphone and the speaker. Using a usb bluetooth adapter for this. I've used the same adapter + speaker on a different machine (x86 running lubuntu 19.10) and i did not have any static at all when using HSP/HFP (sound was indeed a bit lower quality that A2DP but nothing major). Also i could not get the speaker to switch to HSP/HFP with the default audio tool in armbian desktop, nor on …

Hellow there, I installed Armbian_5.67_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.19.0-rc7_desktop_20181117 to my Phicomm N1 box and found that the WIFI/Bluetooth is not available. Anyone can help me install the drivers? ____ ___ / ___|/ _ \__ ____ ____ __ \___ \ (_) \ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ / ___) \__, |> < > < > < |____/ /_//_/\_\/_/\_\/_/\_\ Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.19.0-rc7-aml-s9xxx System load: 2.45 1.19 0.57 Up time: 9 min Memory usage: 16 % of 1844MB IP: 192.168.9.46 CPU temp:…

Hi, I've compiled u-boot from source( I have the binary u-boot.bin.sd.bin file) now how can I boot this binary? I don't want to erase the vendor u-boot on the emmc and replace it with this, I want a way to boot into this binary for testing without writing it to emmc. Is this possible? My device is k2pro tv pro ( amlogic S905 SoC) Regards

Hello guys. Why my tv box mxq pro 4k doesn't start automatically from sdcard with armbian on it? i'm using it like server, so i don't want load android for reach armbian. Thank's

Hello Is there a way to install a bootsplash image when tvbox turns on? I´ll like to see an image and not text when it boots. Thanks Using 5.90. TV Box Nexbox A95X 2/16gb. Debian Buster desktop

Hi, I have a tvbox x96 s905w. I have tried to install armbian on a sd card. I took the 5.94 ubuntu desktop version. somme errors appears (files not found). After, i have installed Armbian_5.91_Aml-s905_Debian_buster_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190708. All works fine except wifi and bluetooth. The most important for me is the wifi. How can i do to make it working ? Thank you very much.

Hi, i have installed armbian 5.98 aml debian buster desktop on a x96 mini smartbox tv with the meson gxl s905w p281 dtb file. The desktop run but only 1 gb memory is available. how do i do to have 2 gb memory available ? Best regards.

So, i managed to .... my box A95X, S905X, 2GB/16GB, I wrongly flashed to the internal the sd-card variant u-boot bin from the original firmware, on the serial console all i see is looping this message "EMMC:0;VEAD:0;CHK:AA;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:7" Anyone can advice on what do to next (beside the obvious "buy another one") ? Thank you.

Hello, I have a Beelink Mini MXIII. I successfully installed Armbian on an SDCard, and booted from it then I used the "Armbian configuration utility" to install onto eMMC. Now the box is bricked, there is no signal to hdmi. I tried to use the "USB Burning tool" method, and tried to burn the firmware on an SD card, but with no success when booting. What should I do from here ?

Hi, I'm trying to build a kernel for my tv box (kii pro) , but the resulting kernel doesn't have framebuffer or mmc drivers, first i tried to build the kernel from this git repo https://github.com/kszaq/linux-amlogic-le but not mmc devices or framebuffer then tried to build two versions of buildroot directly from amlogic site http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ARM/filesystem/buildroot-openlinux-20170310.tar.gz http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ARM/filesystem/Linux_BSP/buildroot_openlinux_kernel_3.14_fbdev_20170527.tar.gz unfortunately i can't build the dtbs that came with them (i get syntax error) basically i …

As I have been watching the development of Armbian for TV boxes, there is one area that my needs haven't been addressed yet. And since this is open source that means I needed to read a lot of posts and get into the code to understand how things are working. I have been doing that over the last six months or so and wanted to report back on what I am now doing to solve my issue as it may help others. I have a number of TV boxes running as headless servers for a variety of projects. Once I install Armbian on them I then get OS updates through ubuntu (I am using Ubuntu Bionic on my boxes). That gives me bug fixes and patches for the software running on these b…

HI I’ve looked through the whole internet looking on how to burn to eMMc without any external help (monitor or ssh). I want to put an sd card in for it to burn to the emmc automatically. I thought of adding a script in the local or in the /etc/init.d that goes like this: sudo dd if= of … and then when it boots from the sd card it will clone its contents to the emmc. Any help on how someone goes about doing this woud be great.

Hi guys. I had a s905x previously which died - the heatsink fell off. I ran armbian on it for a little while and it was great. But i replaced it with a s912 which i like the extra power of. I am now looking for an android box to get for armbian use only. I will probably put an intel heatsink/fan on it even if i feel it is necessary. Which devices under $70 would be considered most ideal for armbian only use? I hope not to have to go back to s905x after experiencing s912 but if it is the best stable one, i will get another cheap s905x. Onboard flash 8gb vs 16gb... Not a huge deal. Will use 200gb microsd either way. RAM at least 2gb my only real concern. Tha…

good day guys i am new here i have a android box that is a huawei model ec6108v8 settop box using a hi3719 processer is there away to install armbian on it

Yes, I am new to forum. Yes, I searched. But I still have questions. My story: At the beginning of the year (2021) I bought one orange pi zero 2 board at a good price. It was around 18 euro. I am very happy with the small board. So I was think to buy a second one. Turn out due to global chip shortage, the price of the board jump to 27 euro. The price is not attritive for me any more. Then I watched a youtube video. I think a lot of people watch the same video. Armbian install on H6 tv Box. so I bought the 'same' Tv box. Apparently, I did not read the spec carefully. The model I bought it is not with H6 CPU, but with H616 CPU. Yes, all the steps wh…

Its CPU is rk3328.It only costs $18.

hey, i have a tv box that uses the armbian firmware, can i install teleconference app like "zoom meeting" on my tv box? . . sorry for my bad english _/|\_

Hi. Currently, I subscribe to IPTV service, and have it loaded on Kodi (Raspberry Pi 3b). I don't have full EPG. Also, it's slow switching channels. Don't feel like a TV at all. I was wondering if any of these Arm SBC can function like and actual STB provided by cable providers? My IPTV service requires me to load the url to m3u8. I'd like to have something that looks like this Currently, I think I have something that looks like this It's also super slow to start a channel. Is this normal IPTV behavior?

I am thinking of buying the Alfawise H96 Pro+ TV Box ($67.99 USD). It has 3GB Ram / 32GB internal storage (some used for Android etc.) It has an Amlogic S912 Octa Core CPU. http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_503487.html I started looking for a mini PC after a recent trip. From some destinations you have to stick all electronic devices in the hold. I'd prefer to leave my laptop at home in such a case. Another motivation is that these TV boxes are easily hooked up to TVs (duh!) which most people have in their homes. I have been having a lot of discussions with people I meet. It would be handy to have documents, videos, quotes, not…

Hey guys, i don't know if it's a stupid question but, i'm trying to install KDE on my box (KI pro) under Ubuntu (Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20171212.img) if possible, can you show me how ? thanks

I have an X96 Air (version with chip wifi RTL8822CS). I installed Amrbian (via flash to SD Card) and run some months, next I install Armbian from SD Card to eMMC and run next some months. But in a day, it bricked, nothing in screen. And I have to flash stock rom (X96AIR_Q100_20210126-1140.img) via USB Burning Tool. Then my X96 is survive again, I can use it as a TVBox. But I try to plug SD Card with many images/versions of Armbian and with/without press reset, it can not boot from SD Card, it still boots to Android TVBox GUI. I try to flash Amrbian to USB stick, try each of three usb ports, it's still impossible boot to Armbian. So how I have to do now ?

I couldn't find the answer anywhere. I don't want to erase the onboard android os but I was wondering if I can boot from the sdcard without having to turn the box upside down and and pinching it with a pin.

Hello, I'm trying to follow the instructions here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/2419-armbian-for-amlogic-s905-and-s905x-ver-544/ Downloaded the image Armbian_5.99_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.3.0_desktop_20191110.img.xz and burned it to a 16GB sd card, put it in a tanix tx3 mini box and applied power. It booted Android as usual. The I opened Update& Backup app, which didn't even find the SD card. Then I rebooted to recovery, but that too didn't help. Not sure how to continue. Please help. TIA

I am trying to connect my H96 max tvbox to internet but it's not working I tried to connect with both wifi and Ethernet but it's not working

I have tried to install arbian but in vain there are no dtb for the a95x r1. Please help me to install it

Hello community. I have a X88 Pro S Android TV Box using chip Rk3318 that I want to run Armbian (steps by @jock) However I haven’t found a way to reset my box. I looks like this box doesn’t have a reset button. If someone can help me to figure this out, I will really appreciate. Thanks Link of my device images https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ka_k2l8_9YrwiZhLnA5YYcR7HS1P6rpY/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i_hw9qYigArmG6J46lNyYLI557hWjMtY/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QG_VKF4hDO2xSjjKKwy3bJMuBcDcFpc6/view?usp=sharing

Hello, i'm trying to burn with balena etcher but my sd card is unreadable with my macbook at the end of burn. I tested all versions from /armbian/dl/aml-s9xx-box/archive. Is there any instructions to burn? thanks

I figured I’d start a generic chat for this as I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants to know other peoples experiences on this. I’ve bought and run armbian on a number of boxes (x96, Trongle, a95x) and always run into the same problem, WiFi. I know I am not the only one and I know the reasoning behind it (too many chips to support) But… Has anyone got a build working with WiFi support? Ideally on a board less than $50? Amlogic, Rockchip, anything? I’ve never failed to get other aspects working, except WiFi (and Bluetooth) I know it must be possible, Android builds never seem to fail with WiFi support. …

I suppose that witht the commande mount /boot is from SD Card and not from eMMC ? So, I think I have found how to mount eMMC partition: root@arm-64:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT mmcblk1 179:0 0 59.5G 0 disk ├─mmcblk1p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot └─mmcblk1p2 179:2 0 58.4G 0 part / mmcblk2 179:32 0 29.1G 0 disk ├─mmcblk2p1 179:33 0 488M 0 part └─mmcblk2p2 179:34 0 28G 0 part mmcblk2boot0 179:64 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk2boot1 179:96 0 4M 1 disk zram0 254:0 0 50M 0 disk /var/log zram1 254:1 0 1G 0 disk [SWAP] root@arm-64:~# mount /dev/mmcblk2p2 /mnt root@arm-64…

I have now burned an image to SD card, Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_bionic_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205 That is supposed to be compatible, what is the next step to get this to boot on Tanix S912. Is there maybe a simple script to change the Tanix to boot alternatively from SD and Android installing required changes, or do i have to edit some file and install something on the Android device to get it going? A stepwise explanation would be nice, what file to edit where it resides, and what extra software to install. JT

I have a samsumg evo sdcard, one of the tops in performance according to So trying this with very slow sd cards probably wont produce a benefit Im using balbes 5.55 armbian I installed a swapfile with 2G , with sudo apt-get install dphys-swapfile sudo vim /etc/dphys-swapfile look for #CONF_SWAPSIZE= and change for CONF_SWAPSIZE=2000 then restart the system or sudo dphys-swapfile swapon It can take seconds (in my samsung evo) or 20 minutes (on an old kingston and raspberry pi running raspbian), so dont worry if it takes half hour the fir…

I currently have a X96 Air S905X3 4GB/64GB box that has 1Gbit ethernet and a USB 3.0 port that works well with Armbian. This was bought 5 years ago for only 35 USD. I would like to find another box for Armbian that also has 1000M/1Gbit ethernet + USB 3.0. The same or similar boxes are selling for 50-60USD at the moment which is a lot for an old box. Are there any other boxes with 1Gbit ethernet at a low price that work with Armbian? Not bothered about other features, wifi quality, performance otherwise - just Gbit ethernet and USB 3. Open to all processors - Amlogic, Allwinner, Rockchip etc

Hey guys. I need around 10-20 SBC or TV Boxes that can run Armbian. I only need Ethernet support, Wi-Fi and BT isn't required, but I'd like something stable that doesn't overheat. I'll be running Docker on them, is that an issue on Armbian? This can be a deal breaker for me. 2GB/16GB boxes would be the best option if I can flash armbian to the EMMC in board, requiring no SD card to boot, thus minimizing costs. I've seen that the Tanix TX3 Mini is stable and the 2GB/16GB unit is at around 25€, but this is a bit much. I managed to buy some RK3318 2GB/16GB boxes in the past for 18€, but they're gone. I've also seen the HK1 Mini, which uses…

Hello, I find armbian awesome and my problem is because of the manufacurers. I basically want to play accelerated video (because I need 4k). I tried amlogic, but it is not still supported (https://linux-meson.com/hardware.html) the status is partial for the chips I tried. I don't what "partial" means but I can hardware decoding. I also tried allwinner, several chips. In this page https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus I see that it is supported but I tried with new kernels, old kernels... Nothing worked. I always reach a point that stops me (like segmentation fault when loading sunxi modules, system freeze when using vdpau, compilation errors due inco…

this is just a quick note that in my experience the amount of tv boxes with fake specs has grown quite a bit in the last months and that this is something to always have in mind when getting a box for a surprisingly cheap (i.e. quite a bit cheaper than usual or most of the other offerings) price - you might be lucky and it will be a bargain or you might hit one with fake specs. some examples i saw recently: a qplus 4g ram / 32g emmc ended up to be 2g ram and 16g nand, a h6 box sold as 4g ram / 32g emmc ended up as 2g ram / 16g emmc, a x96mini 2g ram / 16g emmc ended up at only 1g ram / 16g emmc, a r39 2g ram / 16g emmc with rockchip rk3229 ends up as 1g ram / 16g emmc and…

Hi, I have installed latest armbian linux OS into amlogix x96 max+ (S905X3) device. (op-hub link here) Would like to run chromium browser and play youtube videos etc., but I see videos are lagging, experiencing slowness and mostly it got crashed. Here is the command I used to run. chromium-browser --disable-software-rasterizer --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --disable-gpu-driver-workarounds --disable-gpu-vsync --disable-features=UseOzonePlatform --disable-reading-from-canvas --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-accelerated-video-decode --enable-accelerated-mjpeg-decode --enable-features=VaapiVideoEncoder,VaapiVideoDecoder,CanvasOopR…

I couldn't find anything on the web, I looked everywhere. With the dd command I can of course create a complete image of the eMMC anywhere, even on a network path, but I can't find anything that allows me to do what the "nand-sata-install.sh" script does, which formats the eMMC and populates it with all the contents of the MicroSD, appropriately adapting some files needed for booting. It would be many useful to be able to do the exact opposite as well, i.e. clone eMMC to MicroSD, which would be useful to have a bootable backup with all the customizations performed on the eMMC, without having to go through the process of creating an image file. I tried modifying the …

I buy a V88 mini 3 (2G ram / 8G EMMC) for make the test of MPP api and use it in ffmpeg. ( because i must wait for the version with amlogic ) 1 Install Armbian 2 Checkp MPP 3 Compile last ffmpeg 4 Test So let's go ...

Hello, My OS : Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_server_20180601 My Devise: X96 mini ( 1 G Ram 8 flash + SD 16 G sdcard ) I want to use hw codec of the aml with ffmpeg So i find https://github.com/roman-rybalko/FFlmpeg-aml/ so i try to compil : AML_LIBS git clone https://github.com/Owersun/c2_aml_libs.git cd c2_aml_libs make all -j4 make install cd .. copy all files from /usr/lib/aml_libs/ to /usr/local/lib (or change the path of the install ) cp /usr/lib/aml_libs/ld.so.conf /usr/local/lib/ld.so.conf cp /usr/lib/aml_libs/libamadec.so /usr/local/lib/libamadec.so cp /usr/lib/…

Hello all, I buy an another box tv ( ... do not laugh please ... it's only my 3 .... ) A K3 pro with S912 aml soc ( 8 cores = 4c a53 at 1.5ghz plus 4c a53 core at 1 ghz, 3G Ram and 16 G Flash ) with a DVB T2 and DVB S2 tuner ( find promotion at 60 $ ) I play with android 7.1.1 and use ffmpeg , i make an transcode : ( French Channel M6 in DVB T2 in 1920x1080 ) ffmpeg -i http://192.168.1.50:8001/+1:0:19:401:4:20FA:EEEE0000:0:0:0 -s 320x240 /tmp/test.mp4 and speed ( without hardware decoder / encoder , only software ) give : Speed 1x !!! ( my other S905W with 4 cores in same test give Speed 0.65 ) So test last libreele…

Just wanted to report that I have been experimenting compiling the kernel for Oleg's various Armbian images for S9XXX TV boxes and have managed to compile and boot mainline kernel, but this required a small change in Oleg's S905_autoscript in /boot. Basically I just added a couple of lines that bootm the uImage if it is present. If there is no uImage it proceeds to booti Oleg's zImage: setenv boot_start_ml bootm ${kernel_addr} ${initrd_addr} ${dtb_mem_addr} if fatload mmc 0 ${kernel_addr} uImage; then if fatload mmc 0 ${initrd_addr} uInitrd; then if fatload mmc 0 ${env_addr} uEnv.ini; then env import -t ${env_addr} ${filesize};fi; if fatload mmc 0 ${dtb_m…

Hello, I am about to buy a TV box with the following characteristics, I would love to know if it is compatible to install a distro CPU Cortex-A7 Quad-Core Procesador gráfico Mali-400

I converted the .dtb file to .tds and saw that the 2G ram information is correct. I did everything I can never use more than 720Mb of RAM, after that, use the zram. As the free command shows. my box is S905x 2GB and kernel 5.1.0-aml-s905 #5.90 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 1 15:40:37 MSK 2019 aarch64 GNU/Linux oot@fenix:/boot/dtb# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1849584 713516 883136 41232 252932 1019832 Swap: 2774372 381696 2392676 It appears that in 2GB of RAM but only uses 720Mb what to do? I turned off the zram0 sw…

Short Story , dead TV box...no Leds,Lights,output...nothing...but serial console works Any idea of what is wrong =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2020.10.06 13:20:30 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= SM1:BL:511f6b:81ca2f;FEAT:A0F83180:20282000;POC:F;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; bl2_stage_init 0x01 bl2_stage_init 0x81 hw id: 0x0001 - pwm id 0x00 bl2_stage_init 0xc0 bl2_stage_init 0x02 L0:00000000 L1:00000703 L2:00008067 L3:15000020 S1:00000000 B2:20282000 B1:a0f83180 TE: 135603 BL2 Built : 14:57:11, Sep 1 2020. g12a g3c95fed - gongwei.chen@droid11-sz Board ID = 1 Set cpu clk to 24M Set clk81 to 24M Use GP1_pll as DSU cl…

using bionic, eoan & focal on x96max+2 (meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb) y always get a cyan background as shown in attached image: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VmgmZ5nCSkYKnPgR7 solved!, writing from the device, just renamed u_boot.sd to u_boot.ext and it worked

i have a tv box mxq pro 4k, i installed Armbian_ubuntu_xenial_mate_2018, and have a problem with display on desktop. i dont access into desktop, must access by CLI, then query armbian-config -> -> switch lightdm ..... so i just to desktop. how do i do to access desktop when boot, not must step above ?

I've been trying to activate the framebuffer on a Armbian Debian-server image. The framebuffer doesn't exist on a server image but I need to be able to install it. So I thought, what about DirectFB. I've been searching the web for instructions on installing DirectFB. I need to install it and not have to burn a new image (I'm not capable). I just noticed that if I go to /boot/debian i find all the libdirectfb files. Can somebody show me (step by step) how I could install DirectFB or directly activate the framebuffer using these files? What files (including directories) to install, scripts to modify, etc. Any help would be…

Hello, I've just buy a MX10PRO 6K tv box from Aliexpress. In the specs there is written that in an allwinner h6. Which distro could I download and install, please?

When building An armbian image, it takes a lot of time to create u-boot and I want to understand how it is necessary to include u-boot in the image immediately. If most people don't use it, I'll disable copying it to the image when I build it. For those who will need the image with the embedded u-boot, it is possible to easily add the right version of u-boot into the existing image.

Hi, i have a Flow fon F1 (Gearbest) with allwinner H6 and i've been trying to put a linux working with it. Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks.

Hello. I won't be able to find the armbian M8C amlogic S802 download file. I want to try to use it. Thank you in advance.

I didnot find a driver for MT7668RSN at armbian Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.038_Aml-s9xxx_eoan_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205 . There is little info. about this chip on Internet either . But it works at the orignal android with kernel 3.14. Will it be avail. at the coming new armbian release ? Regards ! Guofu Han P.S. if this is not the right place to post it , please help me to move it . Thanks !

Hi, I have a Mxq Pro 4k box S905 on which I have enabled dual boot and running Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_server_20171226 on SD card Here's the output of uname -a Linux amlogic 3.14.29 #150 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 26 16:55:23 MSK 2017 aarch64 GNU/Linux I want to add some modules so have followed the instructions here on compiling linux https://github.com/umiddelb/armhf/wiki/How-To-compile-a-custom-Linux-kernel-for-your-ARM-device I have compiled the kernel with new modules enabled and could see the Image at ls arch/arm64/boot/ dts Image Image.gz install.sh Makefile From the URL above I can see …

Hello, I have recently found two android TV boxes and am interested in getting Armbian running on them versus the very deprecated Android versions they have. Doing a little research, I've found that they're MXQ EasyView TV models and run on ARM processors similar to my Le Potatoes that I've been playing around with for a few months. I've found their webpage, and it's pretty comical. Unfortunately, they don't list the exact ARM processor and/or specs and just looking up MXQ results in newer models only and Easyview barely anything except the mentioned site. https://easyviewtv.com/homepage.html Now, there does look like there was a p…

I have used the Armbian images created by Balbes150 on my VIM2 Max. Awesome software in all respects. If I use an image with the 3.14.29 kernel: 1. Framebuffer is correctly installed/configured 2. HDMI does not exist 3. Displaying EDID reported: No EDID on bus 1,2, or 4 Bus 3 doesn't really have an EDID... Couldn't find an accessible EDID on this computer However, if I use an image with the 4.16.1 kernel: 1. No framebuffer 2. HDMI detectable connected/disconnected 3. Displaying EDID detected contents correctly I wouldn't mind a 4096x4096 framebuffer so, if necessary, I can …

I have a board of S905W with 1GB+8GB. I want to configure sound with HDMI output during RDP (Remmina) but when I do RDP and plays a video no sound comes out. I have a kernel version of 3.14.29. Please let me know how can I enable a sound on this board during RDP.

Hi With a web search and in Kodi wiki I found only outdated info. Which ARM board with much better performance than Raspberry (I want 4K streaming) and good Linux support? Which is the flagship of 2023 for TV box? Installation and setup should be easy, like a x86 PC. I am not yet sure if I run LibreElec or armbian Thanks

Hello everyone I'm posting here what I did to run Armbian on a 4G LTE EM90 box. The image I'm using is armbian_5.37_S9xx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_icewm_20171226. I extracted the dtb.img from the rooted android, I had to remove the beginning of the file to make it work. If you don't cut the file until you reach 0xD0 0D FE ED, you will get a magic number error when decompiling and Armbian will not boot with your fresh DTB. WIFI : The wifi is not well initialized at startup. You must precise to modprobe the firmware to load to AP6330 WIFI + BT4.0 chip Create the file /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf and add the following line : options dhd fir…

I am trying to build from Balbes Amlogic github source, it starts the process, but i got 2 errors, error in function compile kernel (compilation.sh:404), failed moving kernel DEBs. There's a line of code mv: missing destination file operand after 'home/khadas/build/output/debs/'. I am doing this on Lubuntu xenial, trying to build 16.04. xfce with mainline kernel, by the output in terminal it looks like it 4.19 rc3 kernel, am i missing some packages or do i need to edit some config file?

Hi all, I'm trying to compile open vfd driver for my tx3 mini tv box. It's running Armbian buster with kernel version 5.9.0. Here is what I've done so far. sudo make ARCH=arm64 -C "/usr/src/linux-headers-5.9.0-arm-64" M="/home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver" make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.9.0-arm-64' AR /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/built-in.a CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/protocols/i2c_sw.o CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/protocols/i2c_hw.o CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/protocols/spi_sw.o CC [M] /home/dale/linux_openvfd/driver/controllers/dummy.o CC [M] /home/dale/l…

# apt-get install linux-image-current-meson64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-current-meson64 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/42.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 214 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-current-meson64. (Reading database ... 85331 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-current-meson64_21.02.3_arm64.deb ... Unpacking linux-image-current-meson64 (21.02.3) ... Setting up linux-image-current-mes…

Hi, my S912 box was untouched for the past few weeks, I tried to connect to it and couldn't I tried direct access and turns out my eth0 (wired lan) is still detected but marked as down the green/yellow light on the box and on the router is not blinking for it. nothing changed in my setup, maybe a armbian update was done recently? my uptime is 7 days but I am not sure I recall restarting 7 days ago.. ifup eth0 image attached what can I check or do to revive it? any help appreciated as the box is currently offline and useless armbian 20.04 on a beelink GT1 TV box using a fast SD card

I have a ShellCloud TV Box, below are the parameters: CPU: RK3328 RAM: 2*512M=1G emmc: 8G 4*USB3.0 (usb hub) 1000M Ethernet port -RTL8211F Android 7.1 I want to install Armbian on it, but when I used Armbian_5.75_Rock64_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.174.img , it could not start, if I use omv4-rk3328-0.7.9-armhf-image, it can be started, but no network, the box could not get IP address. it seems that the dtb file did not choose correct, right? As it's a new box,what should I do?

andrew@m9cmax4k:~/Benchmarking/Linpack/hpl-2.1/bin/Aarch64$ uptime 13:43:47 up 39 days, 14:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 andrew@m9cmax4k:~/Benchmarking/Linpack/hpl-2.1/bin/Aarch64$ uname -a Linux m9cmax4k 4.19.7-aml-s9xxx #5.67 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 28 10:16:25 MSK 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux 39 days uptime. Ubuntu 18.04 running from eMMC. I practically never have to reboot this box (used as a file server with a USB hard disk), it is that good. As always, I am grateful to Oleg and the entire Armbian development team for their amazingly good work.

Is it possible to extract the DTB file from a working Android TV BOX? I'm having fun with a new TV BOX TX3 Mini with Amlogic S905L2B (I was sure to find S905W) and before asking for help I wanted to know if I can recover the DTB file from the Android image that works correctly. Thanks

Hi, I followed a standard guide to install docker on Ubuntu 20.04 https://medium.com/@Grigorkh/how-to-install-docker-on-ubuntu-20-04-f1b99845959e everything went fine until I tried sudo apt install docker-ce which suggested I try a amd64 specific version: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package docker-ce is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: …

In the mainline kernel, meson-gxl-s905d-phicomm-n1.dts has been around for a long time, but there has been a problem of high CPU load. I fixed it and it has been stable for several months, so it is shared for reference . I think the cause of the problem is that the IRQ is wrong. The original value is 29 and needs to be changed to 25. // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) /* * Copyright (c) 2018 He Yangxuan */ /dts-v1/; #include "meson-gxl-s905d-p230.dts" / { compatible = "phicomm,n1", "amlogic,s905d", "amlogic,meson-gxl"; model = "Phicomm N1"; cvbs-connector { status = "disabled"; }; leds { …

Greetings I dont know about you all but i still did not find an image of Armbian that installs without broken permissions issue. my box is T95R Pro S912 , 2/8 GB , i have tried every flavour of Armbian 9xxx running kernel 5xxx and tried every " gxm.dtb". everytime is the same error when i type : sudo , i get this : sudo : /usr/bin/sudo must be owened by uid 0 and have the setuid............. I did some home work and fixed it this way; - Ctrl + Alt + F3 , log in as root with the password you entered instead of 1234. - Open terminal and type: mount -o remount,rw / passwd ( enter a new password to reset the old one ) chow…

Hello, I have a formuler z alpha. I think the gpu is a ARM Cortex A5 (but not sure) Some have an ARMBIAN version for booting on USB with this model of CPU ? Thank you

Hardware : Amlogic S905X , 3x22650 battery, SIM, EMMC SEC 8Gb, RTC with battery, AP6255 WiFi, 4G modem QUECTEL EC25-EFA-512-STD, IR, opt ZigBee Q: Please help me choose a Armbian image to write to the flash EMMC or mSD thanx in advance

Hi, So I have an MXQ S805 box. I installed Armbian_5.44 S805 Debian Server on SD card, got the right DTB to work and its working well. I have run the install.sh file to install to NAND and that has gone well too However, when I reboot, it goes into a weird loop that basically does not allow it to boot right. I encountered this loop previously when I was trying to identify the right DTB for my box, so I am confused that much more. What am I missing? Help. Thanks.

Hi, I have recently bought a 17 inch rk3288 android tablet. It has 2gb of ram and 16gb of nand running android 5. The reason I bought this was to get libreelec OS and kodi run on it. I found a rom for ugoos 3288 running libreelec and flashed to the tablet (Link). Everything works except tablet’s screen (and probably touch screen) and wifi. But I could get display from hdmi output and see everything runs good. I asked the seller to send me the android’s image file and now I also have android full firmware for this tablet. My question is, how can I make everything work in Libreelec by using/extracting required files from android image and add them t…

Hi, I have a small beelink Z83 box running windows 10 connected via ethernet to my router and my 1G/100Mbit fiber connection. https://androidtvbox.eu/beelink-z83-mini-pc-powered-intel-atom-x5-z8300-cherry-trail-promo/ running speedtest windows store app on this computer, usually it is closer to 980/110, ping is usually 1-2ms next to it I have a beelink GT1 octa core box running armbian 20.04 rc, connected via ethernet to my router (Linksys EA7500) https://androidtvbox.eu/beelink-gt1-review-smart-tv-box-with-android-6-0-powered-by-amlogic-s912/ running speed test on it produces 400-500Mb tops, usually it…

Hi I'm in the market for a cheap Linux Bo and from what I see it seems these Android TV boxes are the cheapest. I basically want a system I can just muck around with about, but also one that has working WiFi, can play 1080p video in H264 and H265 and can surf the web/play YouTube without much issue. I'm not interested in the boxes Android capabilities, I'm interested in if it can run a desktop Linux with things above. Essentially Wifi, Hardware decoding of H264/5 video and acceptable video playback on the Internet. Considering a raspberry pi with all the needed things costs more than one of these boxes it is a very nice alternative, but in a sea of…

Hi TV boxes hackers, We are thinking of re-purposing an existing Android TV box into a $30 personal cyber-security monitoring server for your home. Good or terrible idea? What caveats should we pay attention to? We will order directly from the manufacturer so we should be able to save some money (no need for a remote or an HDMI cable) and ensure they all use the same components. Giving the current chip shortage, it is though to reach a $30 price point without being creative... (we won't take any profit on the hardware) The project will be open source (no code yet). Current status: Armbian running on RK3318 -…

Hi, I plan on running octoprint on my Amlogic S912 china android box. Now I need to connect a filament runout sensor via gpio, in a octoprint plugin one specifies the used pins. Unfortunately my device has no dedicated gpio header built in, so I want to ask: Is there a way (that maybe works easily with armbian) to have gpio somehow? Like some usb stick with gpio on it that can forward gpio in and output? I have a pi zero lying around and found this https://github.com/raspberrypi/gpioexpander/wiki where some pigpio library is mentioned. But no idea if or how this could work on an Amlogic box. Any ideas?

Hi, I always had the desire to understand if it is possible to use the pins of the IR sensor, as general input / output to control sensors and actuators ?! What would be the steps to allow this? My Board: TX8 PRO / Amlogic S905W root@arm-64:/sys/class/gpio# cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip1: GPIOs 401-500, parent: platform/c8834000.bus:pinctrl@4b0, periphs-banks: gpio-420 ( |regulator-hdmi-5v ) out lo gpio-422 ( |enable ) out lo gpio-436 ( |reset ) out hi ACTIVE LOW gpio-449 ( |cd ) in lo ACTIVE LOW gp…

booted up fine and then a green screen came up and then I couldn't do anything it's like the thing locked up. So I unplugged it and the screen came back on and then went back to the green screen. Maybe I got a bad ua any help thanks

Hi everyone, I have 3 these weird kind of boxes, which have allwinner h3 processor, 1gb Ram and 8gb NAND flash. I want an armbian image that could work with this. beelink x2 link is down l. and I have tried Orange pi pc plus image. but it does not boot.

I have a small problem I have quite a lot of sites as well as forum sites visited and find a solution my tv box h6 allwinner see picture. I would like to operate tv box with linux would nice who you may have a few helpful tips have Thank you. ich habe ein kleines problem ich habe schon ziehmlich viele webseiten so wie forum seiten besucht und finde ein keine lösung meine tv box h6 allwinner siehe bild . ich würde gerne tv box mit linux betreiben wäre schön wen ihr eventuell ein paar hilfreicht tips hab danke.