@eibrog I am glad to read that you succeed. This Tv-Box (Q1) works fine with Armbian. @svsruof You can also give a try with the above image to your box to see if Armbian is booting with secure boot.

I just realized that to mount some thing in Linux you make a folder and then you go on and mount your drive or partition in there. If for whatever reason it doesn’t mount right or it does but later it fails, that folder still exist there. If you don’t realize it failed you’re gonna put files in there and you’re gonna flood that system driver and then run out of space wich then will lead to boot failure. That is the stupidest thing I’ve realized about Linux.

Hey! I'm very new to this topic, do you mind helping? I installed your Multitool on an SD card, got the TV box backup, but now I have a 5 GB backup.gz file, and when I open it, theres a file without extention there. What programs would you advise to use (i'm on Windows 10) to extract the firmware from it and then put it back to this format later? If I understand it correctly, I need to decompress it with some program, edit, then compress it back with something and then flash to the TB box? Maybe there's some noob friendly guide out there that I didn't find, or you can explain the details yourself? My goal is to get the firmware, then edit it - translate to another language, add some games, etc, then flash it back to the TV box. Thank you!

It turned out that the sound card with the 3.5 jack output works properly and the cause of the strange earlier noises, crackles, etc. was probably the OrangePi 3lts power supply, although the specification stated: output 5V - 4A it probably wasn't 4A 🙂 I bought a different model and now everything is OK, the sound works properly. cat /proc/asound/allwinnerac200c/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S24_LE subformat: STD channels: 2 rate: 44100 (44100/1) period_size: 7350 buffer_size: 22050 this one is OK link I do not recommend this!!! link

@rafman Success! took a few tries to write the image - decompressing it first seemed to make etcher happier about it. (inside the archive the .img extension was missing) lack of bt or wifi is no big deal as mainly looking to repurpose some of these into pi-holes. Will let you know how I make out with the other box I have. I have a mix of some boxes because was using some for remote android signage players for a customer, and the signage app did not perform well on some boxes. Plus just other past tinkering. edit: so just tested what was supposed to be an H313 (best I can tell from my buying history) - no dice. opened it up, it's an S905W. It was from primecables (branded) and board is a TX3MINI-P If there is any other hardware that you spot or want tested, let me know. I don't mind buying & testing pre-built images. That much I have some time for. Zero programming chops here. Batch files at best.