[HW support - Armbian on Excelvan Ex-T2]

Hi all,
After some months of stop I purchased a USB box for my SATA drive and flashed it with Win32load using the same procedure I used for USB sticks. The only problem I encountered is that it wipes the full disk even of you install on a partition.
What you get in a working ARm box with Linux, portable, cheap and lightweight, with a full blown hard disk (1tb in my case).
Impressive!

Inviato dal mio MI 8 Lite utilizzando Tapatalk

[HW support - Armbian on Excelvan Ex-T2]

Ho all, after few weeks of testing and some Summer stop I still did not do any extra step.
I gave up on ethernet, I al now trying to boot this unit from the SATA drive.

I have a working USB pen with armbian on it, how could I trasfer the OS to the SATA drive?

Inviato dal mio MI 8 Lite utilizzando Tapatalk

[HW support - Armbian on Excelvan Ex-T2]

On 5/3/2019 at 1:30 PM, darioc1981 said:

Thanks, I will test vim2 dtb and check the ethernet support. With q200/1 everything but ethernet is ok, wifi included.

The remote is not working out-of-the-box, my next challenge is to configure lirc. Anyone succeeded in having a working remote?

UPDATE: I tested vim2 dtb and It works, I did not notice major differences vs q200, ethernet still not working.

 

Ifconfig does not show eth0 while ifconfig -a lists eth0 too. Any help?

[HW support - Armbian on Excelvan Ex-T2]

Thanks, I will test vim2 dtb and check the ethernet support. With q200/1 everything but ethernet is ok, wifi included.

The remote is not working out-of-the-box, my next challenge is to configure lirc. Anyone succeeded in having a working remote?

[HW support - Armbian on Excelvan Ex-T2]

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