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Installation Instructions for TV Boxes with Amlogic CPUs

SteeMan, September 8Sep 8
TV Boxes running Armbian
TV Boxes running Armbian
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TT TV box s96max+ not working.

Werner, September 1Sep 1
Reviews / Tutorials
Reviews / Tutorials
- 31 posts
Unbrick Amlogic S905x3 T95 Max + (plus) TV box after install Armbian - Tutorial

ant_thomas, June 5Jun 5
Amlogic CPU Boxes
Amlogic CPU Boxes

A place for discussion of TV Boxes using Amlogic CPUs (s905, s905x, s905w, s912, s922, etc)
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Latest Armbian for S805 TV

eloirotava, September 22Sep 22
Rockchip CPU Boxes
Rockchip CPU Boxes

A place for discussion of TV Boxes running with Rockchip CPUs (rk322x, rk3328, rk3399, etc)
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Efforts to develop firmware for H96 MAX M9 RK3576 TV Box 8G/128G

gregordinary, October 6Oct 6
Allwinner CPU Boxes
Allwinner CPU Boxes

A place for discussion for TV Boxes using Allwinner CPUs (H6, etc)
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How to install armbian in h618?

dale, Thursday at 05:46 AM4 days
General Chat
General Chat

An area for discussing general topics about Armbian on TV Boxes
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Can't connect my tvbox to internet

skeleton, August 14Aug 14

[CNX-Software] - Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S – A fully integrated 4.3-inch ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C5 touch display devkit
[CNX-Software] - Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S – A fully integrated 4.3-inch ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C5 touch display devkit

RSS Bot · yesterday at 11:36 AM1 day

Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S (ZX4D30CE405-V1.3) is a fully integrated 4.3-inch touch display development board that combines an ESP32-P4 MCU with an ESP32-C5 wireless module supporting dual-band WiFi 6 (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth LE, and 802.15.4 connectivity. Unlike previous ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C5 solutions, this one comes with a built-in touchscreen, so you don’t need to connect a separate display. Designed for industrial automation, smart control panels, and edge AI vision terminals, the board also int
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RSS Bot

Yesterday at 11:36 AM1 day

RSS Bot

Yesterday at 11:36 AM1 day
[CNX-Software] - M5Stack ToughC5 weatherproof ESP32-C5 IoT controller offers dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5, and Zigbee/Thread
[CNX-Software] - M5Stack ToughC5 weatherproof ESP32-C5 IoT controller offers dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5, and Zigbee/Thread

RSS Bot · Saturday at 07:00 AM2 days

M5Stack has just introduced the ToughC5, a rugged, weatherproof outdoor IoT controller built around the ESP32-C5. The device features a bright 2.0-inch capacitive touch IPS display and RS485 connectivity. The ToughC5 is an upgrade to the ESP32-base3d M5Stack TOUGH introduced in 2021, with the upgraded model featuring a more modern ESP32-C5 MCU with dual-band (2.4/5 GHz) Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, and an IEEE 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee and Thread. Other changes include faster Octal PSRAM, an upgrade
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RSS Bot

Saturday at 07:00 AM2 days

RSS Bot

Saturday at 07:00 AM2 days
[CNX-Software] - Open-source ESP32-C3 DNS ad blocker supports up to over 500,000 domains without PSRAM
[CNX-Software] - Open-source ESP32-C3 DNS ad blocker supports up to over 500,000 domains without PSRAM

RSS Bot · Friday at 12:00 PM3 days

Developed by Zed (M-Abozaid), the esp32-c3-adblock is an open-source, Pi-hole-style DNS ad blocker that runs on a $2 ESP32-C3 microcontroller board/module without requiring PSRAM. It blocks ads and tracking domains across devices on a home or small office network by filtering DNS requests. Instead of storing domain strings in RAM, the project stores them as sorted 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash memory and uses binary search to check DNS requests. When a UDP DNS query comes in, the C++ firmware ex
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RSS Bot

Friday at 12:00 PM3 days

RSS Bot

Friday at 12:00 PM3 days
USB keyboard does not work after installing Armbian_community_26.11.0-trunk.62_Orangepiplus_trixie_current_6.18.54_minimal.img.xz on the Orange Pi PC Plus
USB keyboard does not work after installing Armbian_community_26.11.0-trunk.62_Orangepiplus_trixie_current_6.18.54_minimal.img.xz on the Orange Pi PC Plus

Sergio · Friday at 09:40 AM3 days

After installing Armbian_community_26.11.0-trunk.62_Orangepiplus_trixie_current_6.18.54_minimal.img.xz on the Orange Pi PC Plus, the USB keyboard does not work.
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Sergio

Friday at 09:40 AM3 days

Werner

Friday at 10:56 AM3 days
v26.11 on Orange Pi PC Plus fails to boot from eMMC.
v26.11 on Orange Pi PC Plus fails to boot from eMMC.

Sergio · October 1Oct 1

The system v26.11 rolling for Orange Pi PC Plus running Armbian Linux 6.18.53-current-sunxi cannot boot from eMMC on the Orange Pi PC Plus. The bootloader is looking for an old partition on /dev/mmcblk0p1, whereas the current partition of emmc is identified differently - as /dev/mmcblk2p1. Therefore, it is necessary to use a bootloader from an SD card, which specifies the path to the eMMC partition for subsequent operation.
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Sergio

October 1Oct 1

Sergio

Friday at 08:53 AM3 days
iso loopback mount broken with linux-image-bleedingedge-rockchip64 7.3.0-rc4
iso loopback mount broken with linux-image-bleedingedge-rockchip64 7.3.0-rc4

TrevorH · Friday at 06:11 AM3 days

I have a recently commissioned Radxa Rock-5B that I use as my PXE host. It has a number of iso images that are loopback mounted on directories like /var/www/html/mirrors/Fedora-44. I recently attempted an install of Fedora 44 on a VM and it crashed, complaining that it was unable to download a package from /var/www/html/mirrors/Fedora-44/Packages/p/parted-3.6-14.fc44.x86_64.rpm. I checked the directory on the Rock-5B and it was indeed missing but it was also giving me a lot of output that looke
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TrevorH

Friday at 06:11 AM3 days

Werner

Friday at 06:32 AM3 days
Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 and T2-OLinuXino-LIME2 wrong resolution on HDMI
Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 and T2-OLinuXino-LIME2 wrong resolution on HDMI

sasha2002 · Friday at 05:01 AM3 days

Sometimes if your monitor is off and olimex start first and after that just monitor is on you will get "default" resolution : ~> cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size 1024,768 I've created a script that fix that with recompiling initramfs, adding necessary /lib/firmware/edid/1920x1080.bin file directly into it. Feel free to use, suggestions are welcome. P.S. Please add tags A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 and T2-OLinuXino-LIME2 fix_hdmi_resolution.sh
- 0 replies
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sasha2002

Friday at 05:01 AM3 days

sasha2002

Friday at 05:01 AM3 days
NATIVE ARM64 Steam Client Installer built on RK3588 board (Using the ARM64 Steam Frame's Client)
NATIVE ARM64 Steam Client Installer built on RK3588 board (Using the ARM64 Steam Frame's Client)

Scrumpper · September 26Sep 26

Valve published native ARM64 Steam in roughly April 2026. The Steam Frame launched September 14th. I built a client that installs the Steam Frame ARM64 Steam client on my RK3588 board. It launches Big Picture mode and firstboot makes you get past the VR Joystick screen. You can run it as desktop mode thereafter. The CLIENT and GAME run natively, naturally on ARM*. No box64 etc workarounds. Why not try to share if I can? *panvk
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Scrumpper

September 26Sep 26

Scrumpper

Thursday at 08:43 PM3 days
Edge kernel 7.3.0-rc6
Edge kernel 7.3.0-rc6

j0ta · Thursday at 02:01 AM4 days

Edge kernel 7.3.0-rc6 Makes board unstable [ 1173.843180] rockchip-dw-pcie 3c0800000.pcie: PCIe Gen.3 x2 link up [ 1173.971258] pcieport 0002:20:00.0: Root Port has been reset [ 1173.971328] nvme nvme0: restart after slot reset [ 1173.982877] nvme nvme0: D3 entry latency set to 8 seconds [ 1173.994210] nvme nvme0: 4/0/0 default/read/poll queues [ 1173.994642] pcieport 0002:20:00.0: AER: device recovery successful [ 1173.994719] pcieport 0002:20:00.0: Recovering Root
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j0ta

Thursday at 02:01 AM4 days

MaxT

Thursday at 05:20 PM3 days
[CNX-Software] - Sipeed SLogic32U3 – A high-speed 10 Gbps USB 3.2 logic analyzer (Crowdfunding)
[CNX-Software] - Sipeed SLogic32U3 – A high-speed 10 Gbps USB 3.2 logic analyzer (Crowdfunding)

RSS Bot · Thursday at 05:01 PM3 days

Sipeed has just launched what they claim is the world’s first 10 Gbps USB 3.2 logic analyzer. The SLogic32U3 is the successor to the SLogic16U3 3.2 Gbps logic analyzer launched in 2025. The SLogic32U3 USB-C logic analyzer supports up to 32 channels via four mini HDMI connectors, 350 MHz signal bandwidth, up to 1400 MS/s per channel with four channels, or 200 MS/s per channel with 32 channels, and is offered with an optional ADC module. SLogic32U3 specifications: FPGA – Not mentioned (potentially
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RSS Bot

Thursday at 05:01 PM3 days

RSS Bot

Thursday at 05:01 PM3 days
OS is not detected by ABL on AYN Odin 2 Portal
OS is not detected by ABL on AYN Odin 2 Portal

devnull982 · Thursday at 04:15 PM3 days

When flashing the Armbian image for the Odin 2 Portal to the SD card and attempting to boot (on ROCKNIX ABL v1.2), the ABL can detect the SD card but does not detect the OS at all. This is on the latest version of the OS, with the GNOME/ubuntu image flashed via the official Armbian Imager. When will this be fixed? (image not uploaded as it kept throwing errors)
- 1 reply
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devnull982

Thursday at 04:15 PM3 days

devnull982

Thursday at 04:27 PM3 days
[CNX-Software] - Q8botOne – A palm-sized open-source quadruped robot with ESP32-C3, DYNAMIXEL smart actuators (Crowdfunding)
[CNX-Software] - Q8botOne – A palm-sized open-source quadruped robot with ESP32-C3, DYNAMIXEL smart actuators (Crowdfunding)

RSS Bot · Thursday at 09:00 AM4 days

ZeroWire Robotics Q8botOne is an open-source, palm-sized quadruped robot built around an ESP32-C3 MCU and ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL smart actuators. Designed with a unique wire-free architecture, the robot integrates all components onto a central printed circuit board also used as the structural chassis. The robot is roughly the size of a smartphone and can jog, jump, and carry up to twice its 250-gram weight. The main PCB uses a dedicated 6V/16A step-down converter for motor power and includes a batter
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RSS Bot

Thursday at 09:00 AM4 days

RSS Bot

Thursday at 09:00 AM4 days
image build fails on grub-efi install
image build fails on grub-efi install

eselarm · Thursday at 08:58 AM4 days

While doing some testing of multiple things I decided to build 2 images, fresh/new for my nanopineo's also trying to have the resulting image as close as possible to what I have running on the nanopineo's for years since 2022 or so. That was originally Armbian Buster and I have been tweaking the installations to match other computer installations. Main thing is split the root partitions into a rootfs (Btrfs) and a bootfs (Ext4). More recently, I did more changes, such that I can run the whole im
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eselarm

Thursday at 08:58 AM4 days

eselarm

Thursday at 08:58 AM4 days
zfs-dkms module build has been unsuccessful for a while
zfs-dkms module build has been unsuccessful for a while

Gunwoo Gim · September 3Sep 3

Hi, `zfs-dkms` package's module-building process on Armbian-ubuntu-noble has been unsuccessful with recent versions of the linux-current-meson64 kernel/headers/dtb that is higher than `26.5.1` (I'm not sure if `26.5.1` is the highest version that works with `zfs-dkms`; there might be a working version higher than `26.5.1`, but my fail-safe version has been this one.) Can someone help me keep updating linux kernel without breaking zfs-dkms? I attach the output of `apt` jus
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Gunwoo Gim

September 3Sep 3

tlied2

Thursday at 07:38 AM4 days
HEVC root cause found — it never worked, for anyone. Fix is on the dev branch, verified bit-exact. Testers wanted.
HEVC root cause found — it never worked, for anyone. Fix is on the dev branch, verified bit-exact. Testers wanted.

defcom5-rockchip · September 4Sep 4

If you ever got a solid green frame trying to play H.265 through the RK3588 VA-API driver — on any image, any board — here's the closure: it was never your setup. HEVC never worked in this driver. It advertised the profiles, but there was no HEVC bitstream assembler in the code; the VPU received unparseable data and handed back empty (green) buffers. Two years, every user, same green. The assembler now exists on the deep-ink branch, and the verification is numeric, not eyeballed: hardwa
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defcom5-rockchip

September 4Sep 4

Werner

Thursday at 07:21 AM4 days
OK Now I am going to ask the question I never see. The RK3588 Big Advertisement is 8k video
OK Now I am going to ask the question I never see. The RK3588 Big Advertisement is 8k video

defcom5-rockchip · Tuesday at 10:28 PM5 days

<prompt> "Talk to me about it." <claude> Good question, because the honest answer has layers, and most of the "8K" in the ads lives in only one of them. What's real: the decoder. The RK3588's video engine (RKVDEC2) really does decode 8K: HEVC and VP9 at 8K@60, H.264 and AV1 at 8K@30, in silicon. That's not marketing. It's the same block Deep Ink talks to for our 4K HDR work, and 8K is just more macroblocks through the same pipe. So "8K video decoding" is a true statemen
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defcom5-rockchip

Tuesday at 10:28 PM5 days

Werner

Thursday at 07:19 AM4 days

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[CNX-Software] - Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S – A fully integrated 4.3-inch ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C5 touch display devkit

[CNX-Software] - M5Stack ToughC5 weatherproof ESP32-C5 IoT controller offers dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5, and Zigbee/Thread

[CNX-Software] - Open-source ESP32-C3 DNS ad blocker supports up to over 500,000 domains without PSRAM

USB keyboard does not work after installing Armbian_community_26.11.0-trunk.62_Orangepiplus_trixie_current_6.18.54_minimal.img.xz on the Orange Pi PC Plus

v26.11 on Orange Pi PC Plus fails to boot from eMMC.

iso loopback mount broken with linux-image-bleedingedge-rockchip64 7.3.0-rc4

Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 and T2-OLinuXino-LIME2 wrong resolution on HDMI

NATIVE ARM64 Steam Client Installer built on RK3588 board (Using the ARM64 Steam Frame's Client)

Edge kernel 7.3.0-rc6

[CNX-Software] - Sipeed SLogic32U3 – A high-speed 10 Gbps USB 3.2 logic analyzer (Crowdfunding)

OS is not detected by ABL on AYN Odin 2 Portal

[CNX-Software] - Q8botOne – A palm-sized open-source quadruped robot with ESP32-C3, DYNAMIXEL smart actuators (Crowdfunding)

image build fails on grub-efi install

zfs-dkms module build has been unsuccessful for a while

HEVC root cause found — it never worked, for anyone. Fix is on the dev branch, verified bit-exact. Testers wanted.

OK Now I am going to ask the question I never see. The RK3588 Big Advertisement is 8k video

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