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Any projections on when there will be Armbian Linux for these new boxes running the new Amlogic S905X3?

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'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?

Hello Guys , I have ordered Micro SD Card Breakout for Exporting UART and JTAG Pins to get serial output on the SD card port without making any welding on the box. I have test it and it seems to work. The problem is that the output is some king of unreadable characters. I don't know whether it is a config issue or something else ? Does any one have used the UART over SD port ? Thanks,

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…

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?

I bought a tx3 mini 2gb/16gb s905w chip, may i know how i can run ubuntu mate in this tv box? sorry newbie here.

Hello community, I wonder how Armbian could run on this (now dirt cheap*) Mecool M8S Plus W Android 7.1 TV Box (Amlogic 905W) which doesn't have a microSD card slot or even ethernet. *Did I say dirt cheap? Around $18 shipped for the 2GB/16GB RAM/ROM sounds cheap - doesn't it? See here for more information: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/01/22/mecool-m8s-plus-w-tv-box-sells-for-less-than-15-promo/

Hi, I've tried booting into Armbian on a TX5 PRO and all i have managed up until now is to get stuck on the boot screen . Most tutorials I found are for older versions of Armbian. What i did: From here: [REMOVED LINK], i downloaded both the bionic and eoan versions, hoping a newen/older version might help. Both produced the same result. Even tried the newer RC2 version. After downloading the image, i used xzcat IMAGE | dd of=/dev/sdc to write it to a microSD card (also tried with usb stick) copied each *S905X* dtb file to the root of the same partition, and renamed them to dtb.img. None behaved any different. From the update app inside…

In the new year, I plan to focus on improving and developing Armbian-TV (Armbian-TV is a version that is based on the official Armbian, aimed at improved support for media capabilities and ease of use by ordinary users) support for the platforms Rockchip and Allwinner (perhaps a few more platforms will be added that are not yet in use). To do this, I have already ordered several popular models based on rk3399 (NanoPC T4, RockPi 4, Renegade-Elite), in a complete set with obligatory Support of nvme carriers (I consider this support essentially important, for transition of TV boxes and SBS to the category of mini-PC, as highly effective and improved replacement of the usua…

On this forum I read that for my device TXZ_A 20_V0.9 (Allwinner A20) are suitable firmware that are designed for CubieBoard2, I downloaded http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubieboard/debian/nand/debian-nand.img.gz, recorded the image to the SD card using PhoenixCard. I inserted SD card in my device and the firmware was successfully installed and works fine on my device. I wanted to install Arabian for Cubieboard2 on my device, but the image https://dl.armbian.com/cubieboard2/Buster_current is not compatible with PhoenixCard (PhoenixCard gives an error message " Script NOT found! Please use new version image!"). Only images designed for PhoenixCard work fo…

I just buy a tv box, X96 MAX PLUS. But i don't konw how to boot from usb stick? Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Googling this question leads to a lot of chromebooks with 8-12 hours of battery life at a cheap price range, and a few Windows/Qualcom Snapdragon laptops with 24 hours of battery life but much more expensive. I would love to see a linux or chromebook laptop with 24 hours of battery life at a reasonable price point but am perhaps not doing a good search. Would any of you know of a really long lasting ARM-based laptop at a reasonable price point?

Hey all. Does anyone know what image i need to get armbian working on this Android TV box? GOMYHOM TV Box Android 7.1 V9 Smart Box Amlogic S912 Octa Core 3GB RAM 32GB ROM H.265 3D 4K HD 2.4G/5G Dual Band Wi-Fi BT4.0 Link here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075S14NCN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Pictures of board here: https://forum.freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/s912/660970-vasteyu-v9-s912-tv-box-android-7-3-32-dual-wifi-bt I have already tried this image on my box: Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_buster_legacy…

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?

I tried to install Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_buster_legacy_5.3.0_20191126.img.xz to my T95Z Plus box (S912 with 3GB RAM) but got only wifi running. Any ethernet connection was not possible. I used meson-gxm-khadas-vim2.dtb in uEnv.ini and was able to boot the box into debian buster. The following steps are needed to get the ethernet running (it is may be valuable for other problems too): - go to the directory where all the dtb files are located sudo apt-get install device-tree-compiler sudo dtc -I dtb -O dts -f meson-gxm-khadas-vim2.dtb -o meson-gxm-T95Z-Plus.dts sudo nano meson-gxm-T95Z-Plus.dts Now search for "ethernet-phy@0" and insert the following 2 …

Because the device tree problem, Ethernet did not working under Armbian 4.19.x. The correct device tree as follow, this will make the T95Z Plus Ethernet working: // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) /* * Copyright (c) 2016 Endless Computers, Inc. * Author: Carlo Caione <carlo@endlessm.com> */ /dts-v1/; #include "meson-gxm.dtsi" #include "meson-gx-p23x-q20x.dtsi" / { compatible = "amlogic,q201", "amlogic,s912", "amlogic,meson-gxm"; model = "Amlogic Meson GXM (S912) Q201 Development Board"; }; &ethmac { phy-mode = "rgmii"; pinctrl-0 = <&eth_pins>; pinctrl-names = "default"; reg = <0x0 0xc9410000 0x0 0x10000 0…

Hi I have TV box as per the subject (MX170 board with no reset switch to be more specific). Wrote this image (on SD Card): Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_bionic_legacy_5.3.0_desktop_20191126.img.xz Using this DTB file (updated file name in uEnv.ini): meson-gxbb-vega-s95-meta.dtb (tried all other meson-gxbb-*.dtb files without success) Able to boot and so far everything (including LAN) seems to be working, except wi-fi. The module appears to load, but wireless card does not scan networks or connect to other networks. Extract from dmesg: [ 8.343637] asoc-simple-card sound: i2s-hifi <-> mes…

Hello, i'm using wvdial in order to connect my box to the internet which brings up the ppp0 interface, but when i try to ping an external host i get packet filtered. i was wondering which kind of rule should i set. Also i noticed that issuing sudo service networking restart wasn't enought after i edited /etc/network/interfaces in order to connect to the internet, instead a full reboot was needed. which comand should i use in this case?

Is there a combination of Armbian and DTB that supports Wifi on H96-Max-X2? I am currently using Armbian_19.11.5_Aml-g12_buster_dev_5.5.0-rc3_desktop_20191228.img + meson-g12a-sei510.dtb, I tried same OS with meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb, which cannot even make Ethernet work. And I tried to use USB NIC, also not detected. Any suggestions please? Thank you!

Hello to all; These are VERY exciting days for me as I installed ARMBIAN 5.37 on my s-805 MXQ box and its running beautiful! Thanks for all that made it happen. There is but one issue where I need some help: Running ARMBIAN 5.37 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 3.10.99, the system is unable to find my wifi adapter. Any help in how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Eddy_T, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

hi, i have 3 of those boxes 2gb/16gb https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/32705176060.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27426c37wfGP2L all are with armbian Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_bionic_legacy_5.3.0_desktop_20191126 tried to install to nand but it doesnt work i dont know what are those strange 15 partitions it creates in the nand before doing that i backuped with ddbr the original layout and datas restored it this morning and the box runs normally as android boxes if sd card armbian is not inserted if anyone is interested, pm me... it takes 15Gb.....its an img file.....

I have found this GREAT post by odroidn2user explaining hardware acceleration info and status in Amlogic devices. It answers most of the questions I've had since I first installed Armbian, maybe some admin can make a sticky. https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=36675 @balbes150 now I'm thinking about getting a RK3399 with a midgard GPU instead of a Ugoos AM6 Pro with S922X and a bifrost GPU. Or do you think bifrost support will be added soon?

Is there an updated distro for the RK3188 ? (Quad core A9, ARMv7) I have been looking around but not been able to find something newer than Ubuntu 12.02, or an old Linuxium Found this old stick in a drawer, and want to repurpose it to a headless Linux box. 2GB RAM. My goal would be to run Home Assistant on it, which does run on the Pi 3 Model B. So I assume the 20% better performance of the A53 would be offset a bit by having twice the RAM. I think it is better to repurpose it than to throw it out.

I have been trying to boot various images for a while. Recently I have tried the latest Armbian and Libreelec Images but without success. I have tried both usb and sd card. Today I managed to get my serial UART connected to the box to see where things are stopping. I have attached a log from the serial console. I have tried just about every single dtb I can find and I have removed the dtb for it to load from emmc, it still fails at the same step. I have waited over 15 mins and still nothing. Boot logo of the X92 is on the screen but nothing else. GXM:BL1:dc8b51:76f1a5;FEAT:ADFC318C:0;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; TE: 114034 BL2 …

Greetings In my case , I only needed to re-install network-manager , I did it this way: - Connect box via Ethernet. - apt install wicd. -open synaptic and uninstall network-manager , network-manager-gnome and network-manager-vpn. - Rebbot - open Wicd and check if WiFi networks are detected , otherwise use dongle. - In terminal, apt install network-manager && apt install network-manager-gnome. - Reboot. - Check if WiFi networks are detected and tadaaa, yes they are. -open synaptic and uninstall : wicd, wicd-gtk, wicd daemon and python- wicd. - final reboot and everything is working fine. Hope …

I purchased this TV box for my project to make an Hybrid media player/server based on Linux. I selected the Excelvan TV box as it Is the only based on S912 and with a SATA Port to add an hard disk. The idea is to: - install Armbian - install and activate Kodi stand alone - install Media server (Plex or Emby) Anyone succeeded in getting a fully working Armbian installation? Can It boot from the SATA disk? So far I succeeded in installing Armbian (dtb gxm-q200) from USB but ethernet port is not working. I am waiting for an HD Firecuda 1TB to test of it can run from the SATA disk. Appreciate any help on my project. Inviato dal mio MI 8 Lite utilizzando Tapatalk

can someone please help the idiot (me) to install armbian into internal emmc ? there is no /dev/data device so install.sh doesn't work after reboot from android or even after two or 51 reboots. what i did 1. made micro sd with etcher and Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_3.14.29_server_20180729.img. as i can see 3.14 kernel is the only kernel that works with my meecool. 2. copy gxl_p281_2g.dtb or gxl_p212_2g.dtb to sd's root into dtb.img 3 run update with aml_autoscript.zip from android 4. reboot to armbian booted from sd. make new user and so on. ethernet works. 5. reboot again 6. run install.sh that fails with no /dev/data …

I am trying to load armbian server with a mainline (at least 4.9) linux kernel on my s912 box. I currently have a the 3.14 linux Kernel running fine. The mainline images on yadidisk dont seem to have as many dtb files as the image i used and they dont run anything. Steps I have tried: factory reset and load image factory reset and copy dtb files from 3.14 image and load image copy the autorun zip files and load image. i do not get any action on the 4.9 images or the 4.18 images but i can reload the 3.14 images is there any other method to try?

Hello. I have an error when trying to upgrade the kernel root@jdm:/boot# apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: linux-image-aml-g12 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/27.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 31.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 53286 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-aml-g12_5.99_arm64.deb…

How to install gapp on armbian mount emmc i can mount /system /data possible to manual install gapp on s912 android 7.1.2 or can run install zip file with out TWRP thank you

Hi guys, I was wondering whether the image for, e.g., the Rock64 can be expected to work also on a TV-Box with RK3328 chipset, for example this one? Cheers, chessplayer

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 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

According to 2019 intruction post of TX3 mini tvbox, here https://www.codedbearder.com/posts/mainline-linux-on-tx3-mini/ I would like to know that the newer hardware are possible to go with linux on internal storage or not? i'm planning to buy it. I would like to have linux running on the internal memory. I wonder if there is an issue with changing from eMMC to NAND on this model and the internal memory can't be used for linux installation anymore. Please anyone help clarify this issue?

Hi, I bought x96mini with 2G RAM and 16G emmc and booting to android works fine. I want to run armbian on it so I followed this post: https://blog.danman.eu/bricking-and-unbricking-vontar-x96-mini/ to solder serial console. Aftre plugging to pc and starting minicom I cannot see any info out of serial console. Does anybody experience similar or something else must be done to have output on serial console? Thanks a lot. Marek

Hello, Can some one to explain me, how exactly armbian set face RTC clock on interface up? I need to synchronize clock on tx3 mini with local NTP server, but no success at this moment. There are no chrony or ntp running... tx3mini@aml:~$ cat /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony #!/bin/sh set -e [ -x /usr/sbin/chronyd ] || exit 0 if [ -e /run/chronyd.pid ] && ip r list dev $IFACE 2> /dev/null | grep -q '^default'; then chronyc online > /dev/null 2>&1 fi exit 0 tx3mini@aml:~$ ls /usr/sbin/ch chgpasswd chmem chpasswd chroot tx3mini@aml:~$ ls /etc/chrony/chrony. chrony.conf chrony.keys

Hey folks - spend my money... I have a current TV box - Beelink X2 (Allwinner H3 based) getting subscription services for IPTV from Japan via Hong Kong (long story...) - what's nice is that I have not had to do odd things with VPN, etc... Anyways - while the X2 has been a stable box, it's Android is getting old (4.4.2), and perhaps it's time to move on - actually I'm being forced to move on to some degree, as my agent not longer has ability to renew subs for HikariTV, so I'm running out of time Basic Wants: 1GB RAM - minimum 8GB eMMC - minimum 100BaseT (Gigabit is a plus) 2.4GHz 802.11n (stable) is a must, 5GHz 8…

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

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/…

I have a tvbox quad core uhd android5.1 model H97 rockchip 3229. I need linux Wiking on it. Please, Amrbian could help me on it? I hope so.Thanks all.

How to boot armbian for S912 when EMMC Data is lost (no Factory Rom to flash) I want to boot armbian Amlogic S912 By No booloder,recovery,etc... in EMMC THank you Very Much

hello have an old s812 box I was going to trash. I came across this forum. Its an m8s device with a m8_v8 motherboard, s812 cpu, and 1gb of ram. i went through this post @ https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3023-armbian-for-amlogic-s802s812/ I think it is a clone with a m8v8 motherboard. I can't figure out which one is the otg port of the two usb ports, or if i need to jump a resistor on that port by the usb port, etc. Amlogic flasher will not find it on a usb 2 or 3 port on ym pc. Basically I want to load whatever version of armbian that works, and install pi hole, the dns sink hole) and a script to keep the logs i…

Hello, I am looking for a cheap SoC (less than 15$ per SoC) that has the most efficient HW based h.264 encoder. I want to transcode multiple 1080p (6-12 mbps bitrate source) TS streams. I will probably use couple of those SoC's. I was reading about Allwinner V3S (~3$ per CPU) based SoCs but can't find any cheap one for sale based on that chip. Also I don't really know what kind of performance this cheap have for HW h.264 encoding. Anyone have any experience with HW 1080p encoding on SoCs? Any suggestions?

I took apart a tx3 pro android box I had collecting dust and realized I could put debian on it. I went through the process on Armbians website and got it to sucessfully boot into the user login screen of Armbian Heres the weird part when I login it begins to load and then for some reason opens Kodi 17.3 and I have no way of exiting kodi without it rebooting the box. I believe I only had Kodi 16.0 on the box so I think 17.3 is coming pre-installed in this file they give you for the Armbian Debian install. If anyone has any idea why it would do this I'd appreciate it.appvalley tutuapp tweakbox

I recently wanted to buy a tv box, but I don't know much about the technical parameters, h96 max vs h96 max plus, I feel that these two products are similar, the main difference seems to be that the chipset is not the same. So rk3328 vs rk3318 Which one should I choose?

Anybody know of a good vpn service for my tv box. Purevpn supports linux and even has an 85% off but i havnt used it before

Hello all, i download the new DEV image 20191025 ( kernel 5.4.0 rc4 ) For the dtb is use : meson-gxm-s912-kiii-pro.dtb ( h96 pro+ hardware like the k3 pro ) in the file : uEnv.ini change this line : dtb_name=/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-s912-kiii-pro.dtb install packages : sudo apt-get install nasm sudo apt-get install yasm apt install autoconf automake cmake libtool git checkinstall nasm yasm libass-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl2-dev p11-kit libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev pkg-config texinfo wget zlib1g-dev libchromaprint-dev frei0r-plugins-dev gnutls-dev ladspa-sdk li…

Hi to all, I recently purchased a COOLEME brand tvbox (but internally is marked W95T) with S905W, 2GB / 16GB of memory. The wifi chip is SV6051P. I tried to install ARMBIAN Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180203.img and it works all very well except WIFI. I tried several DTBs, both gxl212 and gxl281, I also tried to modify them but I could not make the WIFI work. I saw that in the folder / lib / firmware there is a subfolder SSV6051 that contains a .bin file and a .cfg but I have no idea how to load them. Among other things I tried to install LibreElec and the wifi in that case works ... But I'm interested in Linux because I intend to use t…

Hi, Can someone explain to me, How to compile à driver for my tvbox. The WiFi chip is ssv6051 and my tvbox is x96mini with s905w processor. I have installed armbian from balbes version 5.91 debian desktop. thank you very much.

Looking to purchase new tv box will be installing armbian desktop logging in remotely i will need wifi to work. Are there any tv boxes anyone could recommend that has wifi working . Thanks: for your help

On my Beelink Mini MXIII, I would like to run a home automation server (Jeedom) and many user based on RaspberryPI have issue with bad sector because SDCard cannot handle a lot of Read/Write cycles. I successfully run armbian from SDCard, but I would like to copy it to eMMC. and change DTD in boot.ini, uEnv.ini, extlinux/extlinux.conf and then did a sudo nand-sata-install (Below is the load result) I've been told that armbian kernel did not support this specitif eMMC controller (Brand FORESEE), I there a a to install drivers on armbian, or should I install armbian on a USBKey (how to boot from USB) Or should I buy a new box (android TV box, o…

Ok guys looking for some help on shutting down issue. I installed Armbian_5.90_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190701.img.xz using S905.p212.dtb two days ago. It was logging ADC errors in the kernel log every three seconds but they have gone now , it is now logging the errors below in the kernel log and ttyS0 errors in the syslog and kernel log as well. I disabled the ttyS0 service to stop it logging all the time and around 25 minutes later it shutdown, There are no errors in the kernel log apart from the ones below. It was stable for 1.5 days until I disabled the ttyS0. It keeps shutting down every 25 minutes but was st…

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, around 2 months ago I installed Armbian 5.75 onto an Armlogic S905W by flashing Armbian_5.75_Aml-s905_Debian_stretch_default_4.20.5_desktop_20190211 . My box is currently out of commission because of a bad HDMI port but I need to know the releases default gcc version in order to trouble shoot a package build issue on a different board. How can I find the default version that the above release would have shipped with? Thanks

Hey guys, I bought the A5X MAX+ and the specification is rk3328, 4GB, 1GIB, usb3, android7. I tried to burn the blewing roms on my USB flash drive and SD card: Armbian_5.76_Rk3328-tv_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.154_20190306.IMG Armbian_5.96_Rk3328-tv_Debian_buster_default_4.4.154_desktop_20190911.IMG Armbian_5.96_Rk3328-tv_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.154_20190911.img And I tried to input the text "rk3328-a5x.dtb, rk3328-a5x-1500.dtb, rk3328-a5x-mx10.dtb, rk3328-evb.dtb" in "/extlinux/extlinux.conf", the system entered android instead of armbian which i really wanted. I followed the steps as belows: 1. Burn the SD card or USB flash drive; 2…

I strongly want to buy T95Z PLUS, but I noticed that its operating system is Android 7.1. I am a bit worried that this version will be out of date, causing software incompatibility problems. I have searched on Google for a long time and have not found an answer. Does anyone can answer it?

Hello, I have bought an x96mini with a uboot version from 03/2019, everythings works perfectly when booting from SD, but when I try to boot from internal the kernel boots and it stops at "waiting for root device", after an investigation I have noticed that the partitions layout is different from the standard one, I have updated the dtb to be inline with that layout but the problem remains the same, unable to boot from internal. Here is the original dts file from that box, Any help would be appreciated, knowing that I am using the kernel version 3.14. Thanks, 01_dtbdump_Amlogic.dts

I have a number of headless AML S905 / S912 1GB Ram TV boxes running a bastardised Armbian for systems monitoring. I have a 200MB zram compressed block device setup to store temporary data which gets processed locally then synced to a command server every hour because the eMMC's on these cheap boxes do not last very long under sustained write scenarios. I would like to increase the zram filesystem size to 500MB so I only have to sync daily instead of hourly but because 25% of the RAM is allocated to the GPU/VPU I dont have enough available ram All the devices I have seen seem to allocate approx 250MB for the GPU which is obviously wasted in a headless scenario…

Hello. I'm new to Linux, a real DAU. my question how do I get twonky Server 8.5.1 running on m9cmax (s905x p212 2gb)? is that possible? can someone help me there? Best reguard

i have stb with s905x , ram 2gb with essencore brand, 8gb emmc essencore. after install armbian with mason_gxl_p212.dtb it boot fine. the problem is system only can use 1gb at max and the system start to unresponsive. while the free -m still see available 800mb free. how to make the system can use all available ram?

Good Day everyone! I have 4 of these Kata Boxes lying around the house, and due to the poor firmware of which was never updated, I was hoping to have Armbian installed to that I could place these near my DAC's to become essentially DLNA devices (Of which I hope will be painless). However, in trying to boot armbian, I have no luck whatsoever. In Libreelec, I am able to boot fine from the SD Card no problem, and since I have an opportunity to SSH, I wanted to know the device tree it was using by running the command "cat /proc/device-tree/le-dt-id," the result of was "gxbb_p200 LibreELEC:~ #." With that information, I've used the same dtb located in the dtb folder of …

Good Day I have a Mecool K3 Pro (S912 - 3GB) which includes an internal DVB tuner. I have installed images from balbes150 ( https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei) The latest device tree source (dts) for meson-gxm-s912-kiii-pro.dtb includes the dvb config. So the K3 boots fine without any problems, except there is no dvb interface (/dev/dvb). So I need to load the kernel modules for the AVL6862 tuner, but it is not included in the images. To compile my own modules, I can only find source drivers here: https://github.com/afl1/dvb_tv-aml https://github.com/avlogic/AVL6862 but I am unable to successf…

Mornings all :) i was in china for a business trip and i bought 2 android box's called T1BOX , but when i returned to my country egypt i found that it's all with chinese firmware and i am unable to install google play or youtube or any app and cant go to developers mode and also cant root the box , i opened it and took a snap from he mother board as below , tried to reset the box with the reset button with no use as the power do not come up while pressing the button , i got a male to male usb cable and with phoneix i put a firmware but for sorry the box now dont want to power on , can any one support me with a firmware i can flash my box , if now i have another box how ca…

Hello. I bought a A5x max with android 9.0 https://pt.geekbuying.com/item/A5X-MAX-RK3328-4GB-32GB-TV-Box-398231.html I can only boot in the combined mode (i.e. with an SD card + USB). I tried to boot to emmc doing the procedure described here However without luck so far. It didn't boot. Do I need a diferent uboot.img to be able to boot from emmc ? Is there any procedure so that I can boot from the SD card instead of the combined mode? What is the best dtb for this A5x max tv box? I was hoping this tv box would have a better performance than my rasberry pi 3b+ is that unrealistic? Sorry for my begginer questions.…

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.

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How can i turn on wifi on armnian 5.89 ubuntu bionic default 5.1.0 dekstop

After reading through the forum I found the file I want to download - ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.4.143-rk3328-tv 20181203 +compton. How do I find this file when I don't know which of the almost 100 boards it's under without looking at the hardware specs of each. Is there a way to cross-reference that I'm not seeing?

https://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_1667603.html RK3399 4GB ram Anyone had any luck running Armbian on this?

According to https://linux-sunxi.org/Optimizing_system_performance adding export XDG_CACHE_HOME="/dev/shm/.cache" to /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager does some good to desktop performance.

SCISHION Model X TV Box Rockchip3229 Android 8.1 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM 5G WiFi 100 Mbps support 4K H.265, I would like to install Armbian, you can ?

Hello all! I have one of these (possibly!) a sunvell R69 tv- box (it says R69 on top and has a green line going around it). I did try to check on its built-in android to see what CPU is in this box; I couldn't really find a 100% answer but it is either an H2+ or H3. I did download and manage to get to work one of the armbian images (but I cannot remember which one it was) but then later used the micro sd for other purposes. I then tried downloading the armbian image for the orange pi one (I can't remember if that was the one I chose earlier; I've seen others use this image for 'a' R69 and some say it works) and writing it but my R69 refuses to boot…

Hi All I started playing with Armbian recently with some old S905 / S905X based TV Box devices I had lying around. Im working with a T95 S1, an A95X and an MXQ Pro and using the images from @balbes150 yandisk repo (thanks!) Mostly everything seems to work fine except when transferring data to or from the devices (I havent tested WiFi or BT). My problem is that I cant use the ethernet to transfer any files. Network data transfers start as expected then get gradually slower and slower until after 10-15 seconds at which point data transfer stops and the device becomes unresponsive for a few minutes. Eventually I can SSH back into the device but any at…

Hi, Long time OrangePi PC user here who was going to get another of these devices but is intrigued by the TV Boxes which some can be get for about $15. I'm confused about what is the 'best' Tv Box chip-set to get here, Amlogic (yeah I noticed the threads about them lying about CPU speed, but I don't care) or Rockchip etc. What has the best, or is likely in the future to have good Linux Kernel support for WiFi, Ethernet, SD Card, Audio, HDMI and Hardware Decoding (and bonus points for encoding!)? Amlogic seems to be a winner right? Any links to Aliexpress products that fit the bill?

Good evening! I've bought the R69 1GB TV-Box on eBay some days ago with the plan in mind to run Armbian there. Sadly the box even dont want to start the kernel, it's stuck in U-Boot Loader when a SD is inserted: U-Boot SPL 2018.05-armbian (Jul 31 2018 - 05:08:39 +0200) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 And then nothing happens. I've tried couple of images. Beelink Image with Mainline and legacy Kernel, RetroOrangePi Images and so on - for now I haven't found a working one. In some other Thread someone mentioned that there are different versions of this device, and i found some Thread where someone also has trouble w…

Variants of alteration of the cooling system. For example, three models MVR9 (rk3328), MX10 (rk3328) x96mini (s905w). In the body, above the radiator of the processor, a large hole is made and on the sides of the body a large hole is made for the free passage of air. On x96mini had to add a new radiator. Note need necessarily two holes, one for air intake, the second for exit. This is a very common mistake TV box manufacturers, they sometimes make only one type of holes, which is not enough for the normal operation of the cooling system. The air must pass freely through the body. The direction of air supply for TV boxes is optimal from the hole on th…

I'd like to do hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding on TX3 Mini. I compiled latest Armbian with kernel 5.1.0, however it is not working, when I try to use a h264_v4l2m2m encoder, I get this error: [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] driver 'meson-vdec' on card 'Amlogic Video Decoder' [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] Could not find a valid device [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] can't configure encoder On lsmod, I only see amlogic-vdec, not venc[oder]...

Hey I've managed to boot armbian on my box with S905X using meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb. The thing is that the screen resolution isn't properly setup. For some reason it detects Composite-1 when there's none and HDMI default is 1024x768. This isn't that big of an issue as I was able to use xrandr to fix it for my monitor. However when plugged to something bigger like TV the screen is very weird. Colors start to change color and screen has some weird artifacts. You can watch it here https://streamable.com/2615s A friend of mine has another box and it works perfectly out of the box. The TV is not the issue but rather the dtb. the meson-gxm-khadas-vim2.dtb also works but wifi…

Hi. Currently using Kodi on Raspberry Pi. I also run IPTV service on the Kodi Raspberry Pi. It seems switching channels is slow, EPG seems limited as well. I want to know when I buy a TV box, does it come with OS? Can I just load the m3u file so it allows watching IPTV? Does it allow faster switching of channel than using a Raspberry Pi? So many questions regarding TV Box. But seems to me the forum has a lot of topics of people getting TV Box and repurposing the box as desktop. Why is this? Not really using it for IPTV?

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?

Settled here on using the AmiLogic S912 for my KODI boxes replacing the current Aopen Digital Engines. Purchased another AmiLogic S912 here to be utilized as a headless automation server running: 1 - Mono 2 - Homeseer 3 3 - Home Assistant - docker 4 - Node Red 5 - MQTT (and be a Mosquitto Server). Note mini automation server started with an RPi (years ago), MiniCube (dual AMD) then a Pine64 (currently running with Armbian). Moving this one to the Leviton Media panel. Looking to modify hardware a bit adding a RTC with battery. I have modded a few non RTC tabletop tablets and OpenWRT routers…

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 all, I have a Tronsmart Vega S95 Telos box that I am running armbian 5.76 using an SD card. This works fine, however I would like to boot from a USB to SATA converter instead. It is using a JMicron jms578 which works once Linux has booted however attempting to probe USB devices it prints an error. Is there any way I can make my drive work? I am using the stock Amlogic U-boot, version information also printed below. gxb_p200_v1#usb reset board_usb_stop cfg: 0 (Re)start USB... USB0: dwc_usb driver version: 2.94 6-June-2012 USB (0) peri reg base: c0000000 USB (0) use clock source: XTAL input, div: 1 USB (0) base addr: 0xc9000000 Force …

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, Im running newest build of Armbian on my TV box But in current kernel į dont see ssv6051 firmware. Would it be possible to add it to The build? Ar maybe some One could assist on building it on my system? Thanks

Hi i am traying to install armbian in my new tv box (Mecool km3). i have used the image: Armbian_5.89_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190617 but my tv box only show the initial screen "Tv box" and never follow there. The step to step that i have used is: 1. Burn the image 5.89_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.1.0_desktop_20190617 in an usb pen using etcher. 2. I have activated the multiboot mode ( Pushing internal button while a power the tv box for 5 seconds). 3. The tv box shows in its screen "Tv box" and it does not continue. Can you help me??

Wanting to build a new Armbian server from a TV Box. Video is not a requirement here as the device will be headless. Just a quickie picture relating to the size of this box. I am impressed. It will be mounted inside of a security panel (Leviton Omni Pro 2) and serve as a console to said security panel using automation software. Ideally though want: - Gb NIC - 32 Gb eMMC - 4 Gb RAM Bluetooth and WLAN is nice to have but not necessary for my use. Been only tinkering here with Octocore ARM CPU TV boxes but not necessary. I am currently wanting to add a firewall (2nd NIC) and am familiar…

Hi, I got a Phicomm N1 TV Box, which is Amlogic S905D. I'm trying to build libreelec/coreelect for it. I saw there is a step in the build script to build and write the u-boot to the header of the output disk image. I don't understand the purpose of this step. In my understanding, u-boot is already in the NAND of the box. What's the purpose to write it into the disk image? Is this step needed for my device? Currently I can see these u-boot env variables with my device: start_autoscript=if usb start ; then run start_usb_autoscript; fi; if mmcinfo; then run start_mmc_autoscript; fi; run start_emmc_autoscript; start_emmc_autoscript=if fatload mmc 1 1020000 emmc_…

Hello, this is my first post after lot of reading in this forum. First of all, my goal: use the M16 TVBOX as Think Client to use as RDP client. M16 TVBOX spec: Android 7.1 S905X RAM 2GB Space 16GB PCB: M16_V8.0 171109 The problem would be solved, except that for functional reasons, I have to install Armbian on internal memory, replacing Android. I've tested Armbian_5.77_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.0.2_desktop_20190401.img.xz successfully, boot from SD, no errors, installed Remmina, RDP comes up. Too good to be true. Too bad I can't install it on the internal memory…

I am French so I apologize in advance for my english. (and thanks google trad lol) I bought a kvm box to use the same keyboard for my desktop pc and my box with armbian. It works fine on my desktop pc with manjaro but the keyboard is not detecting on armbian, would anyone have any idea where it might come from? Thank you in advance.

Hi, I have just made some decode test on my amlogic boxes. The result is strange because I got performance decrease on S905X board vs. S905 Does it have weaker VPU? The test was made with 150balbes kernel version 5.0.2+ and ffmpeg 4.1.3 v4lm2m hw decoder.

Source from: https://iridiumbrowser.de/downloads/source Wonder how hard it is to cross compile to Arm?

Hi Balbes, I am M-tech student and trying to do R&D on S905 image. I need the remmina-next plugin for ARM-64 board. Please try to make it for me. So, that I can continue my research. Also, I have try to modify the S905 image with the help of my senior then I am getting S905 black Xorg. Can anyone guide me on this that would be a plus point to my work. Please reply to me ASAP as I have to give update of my work in this week earlier. Thankyou !!!

Hello Guys , I have ordered Micro SD Card Breakout for Exporting UART and JTAG Pins to get serial output on the SD card port without making any welding on the box. I have test it and it seems to work. The problem is that the output is some king of unreadable characters. I don't know whether it is a config issue or something else ? Does any one have used the UART over SD port ?

Hello all, I have a a95x r1 with a amlogic s905w 2g 16g I have tried all the awesome linux Images that Balbes150 decated so much time too. I want to try and take the ubuntu 18.04 image released for the odroid c2 sbc and run it on my box , all the main hardware is the same on both devices. The reason i wish to use this img is because it has all the mali 450 drivers setup for x11 ect... So my question is can someone point me to so documentation explaining me how to setup the uboot to use this image Thanks Donny

My English isn't very smooth. First of all I'm sorry. I installed the arbian on a tv box. Model number X88 mini, Rockchip 3328, 2GB RAM, 16GB Flash. I installed version 5.75 Ubuntu rock64. The problem is that the internet does not connect. The WiFi and ethernet card certainly do not recognize. I've also installed and run the same version Debian and slackware onto this device. No one connects to the internet. I know it's a mismatch problem. These versions are designed for rock64. I want to use the X88 mini device as a Linux lover to be able to use. Can you help me? http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_Main_Page

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…

I would try that but I tried flashing a rom for it and now I keep getting a disk error at 7%.... This is the file I'm trying to flash: https://mega.nz/#!VnhjTSYa!t6w10yz0zXHFCRugsvZJibyjISz_g7uN-jAJp9OVKZI Also tried: s905w_atvXperience_v2FF the above link worked and flash sucsessfully but I can't boot it, the box doesn't show anything on my TV. tried multiple too. I keep getting a disc write error???????????????? How long does android take to boot after a successful flash? This is the error: I've tried Windows 10 and Windows 7; both the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is …