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ver 20.02.0-rc1 20200129
 
The sound works on all models S9xxx, rk3399 , rk3328 , aw h6.
Please note that to enable audio on g12 chips s922x s905x2 (models Ugoos AM6, Ugoos x2, Odroid N2 etc), you must follow the instructions specified in the first message.

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 an allwinner h3 cpu and so on. the fake specs are not that easy to spot: in android they even fake the storage size shown in the storage settings and with a terminal installed even the "free" command tells you most of the time that the memory amount is proper. what usualy works for storage is "cat /proc/partitions" and watching for the device itself (for instance mmcblk0) - this also quickly shows you if its emmc (=mmcblk) or nand (=nand) and for memory "dmesg | grep -i mem" (do this immediately after booting android, otherwise the memory lines from the bootup might run out of the log buffer) - both of course called in a terminal app. booting one of balbes150's armbian images usually quickly shows you the real specs of the box too.
 
good luck at not ending up with fake boxes and best wishes - hexdump
 
p.s.: one thing to keep in mind is that allwinner h6 boxes always only can use 3g ram, even if they have 4g installed - this is a limitataion of the soc ...

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 usual PC). I'm plan to buy several more models on Allwinner (I'm still evaluating the capabilities of the selected models). 
I had plans to buy some more models based on rk3399 from other manufacturers, but there were problems with delivery and / or payment for my country.
 
If anyone has any suggestions for models that I should consider, I'm willing to listen to reasonable descriptions of the models.

For the same price, I prefer to buy an ugoos am6 pro (what I have done). The sdcard with coreelec is not so interesting compared to what you can get for balbes150 excellent work.

Armbian (5.98_20191018) and Libreelec KODI-19 (kernel 4) 20191018 images update for rk3399 platform with USB startup support. Important change. When testing these images on Magicsee N6 Max (rk3399) and MVR (rk3328) I found an interesting nuance. If you install one of the versions of Armbian or Libreelec in eMMC of these models with support for launching from USB, you can write to a USB flash drive any version of the image for rk3399 or rk3328 and use it on both platforms (on TV boxes with rk3399 and rk3328 at the same time). I. e. the image from rk3399 can be run on rk3328 and Vice versa (you only need to correctly specify the desired DTB in the settings).
 
 
p.s. On Magicsee N6 Max running from USB works on both USB 2.0 ports (on the left side of the TV box).

I'm not going to waste my time on all the shit that manufacturers shove in their crafts (just to write on them - WiFi available). Want to have WiFi, you have several options.
1. Use normal equipment where there is guaranteed WiFi support.
2. Use external USB WiFi with good support.
3. Themselves add the necessary support for your WiFi.
4. You seek from the seller\manufacturer of your equipment the necessary support.

Hi,
You'd may look at this topic:
With jock image, I'was able to boot my ut3s. I didn't take time to customize a dts to have a better support, but it was useable for a light desktop.

Small progress update -
 fresh photo.
 
 

Added nightly minimal images (root ≈ 500 Mb in size) for La Frite.
https://dl.armbian.com/lafrite/

Added a wip target to the build system, it is dev kernel only, and builds just fine, however booting is another issue I've not spent a lot of time with yet:
 
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3048 bytes read in 11 ms (270.5 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 08000000 154 bytes read in 5 ms (29.3 KiB/s) ## Error: Can't overwrite "ethaddr" himport_r: can't insert "ethaddr=00:50:43:84:fb:2f" into hash table 8101414 bytes read in 217 ms (35.6 MiB/s) 16093192 bytes read in 416 ms (36.9 MiB/s) libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC No FDT memory address configured. Please configure the FDT address via "fdt addr <address>" command. Aborting! 232 bytes read in 26 ms (7.8 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (meson-fixup.scr) ## Executing script at 34000000 ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 13000000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Created: 2019-08-12 5:04:59 UTC Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 8101350 Bytes = 7.7 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ERROR: Did not find a cmdline Flattened Device Tree Could not find a valid device tree The device tree is there in the /boot/fdt/amlogic folder, and the script is the same for Le Potato/ Khadas Vim/Nanopi K2 and works.
 
[some minutes elapse]
 
I think I found it, the printenv (had to figure out the UART, not an easy task) shows me
 
fdtfile=libre-computer/aml-s805x-ac/platform.dtb
 
...which is completely wrong in a normal context, where it should match the linux device tree:  meson-gxl-s805x-libretech-ac.dtb
 
I'll try to figure that out later.
 
 

I was under ubuntu using gtkterm.
 
It's nice to see your experiments even if it has been better that realtek and manufacturers published documentations.

I don't agree with desktop horrible performance. I already use an s912 board as a small dev computer and it's a bit slow because of mali performance with a browser, but otherwise it works well.
rk3399 is better on all point. I just bought a khadas edge-v and I plan to use it instead my s912 box. thanks to JMCC script, I expect enough performance for a smooth desktop usage:
 

I haven't this board, but here is my opinion about your questions:
0) 2G RAM may be enough since zram can increase it and it's activated by default in recent images.
1) I don't see real hardware differences between your current config and the new one, but I can't give you any guarantee it'll work.
2) It mainly depends on your use case and the loads you expect on the board. But it'll be much more powerful than your existing hardwares. I'll recommend the aluminium heatsink to avoid too much throttling.
3) A quick search on google gave me a like to thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3313324, but you have to print it. The main problem is the sata hat, and the way to integrate your external drive.

NanoPi M4 and Rockpro64 have sata card extensions. You can have a look at them to see which one fit at best with your needs.

NanoPi M4 and Rockpro64 have sata card extensions. You can have a look at them to see which one fit at best with your needs.

With this budget, any well supported board with rk3399 and a good sata2usb3 converter will make the job.
The NanoPi M4 with its big heatsink can be nice for less than 72$ without shipping fees. For similar price you've got also the rockpro64.
The Odroid N2 (or Khadas Vim3 launching soon) could be nice also, but amlogic S922x is a recent soc and current boards are not officially supported event if there are good progress.
 
If you absolutely want a sata port, an odroid hc1 is cheap and interesting but there is no hdmi output. For both sata and hdmi, you can look at the Odroid H2 (based on intel J4105) but it's out of stock and you have to add ddr4 ram. The main advantage of this last one, is that you are on an x86 soc, so any "standard" linux distribution may work quite out of the box.

Hi, I also noticed this issue with other debian images since 2 months. You have to edit manually /etc/environment to set you locales and LC_ALL settings.
It seems to be a debian issue, not armbian specific.

You have to run "sudo apt upgrade" and not only update.
If no kernel upgrade is proposed, you may have to download the deb file from Oleg's yandex repository: https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei/5.77/deb
But be careful, you may have to check that the new kernel support is as good as your current one. You can try just to burn latest image and if everything works as you expect, you can then come back to your current version and install the deb files.

S905X was released three years ago. The main WiFi is rtl8189. 9082C WiFi is an alternative. Now most S905X/S905W are using SSV6051WiFi.
I'm a manufacturer of Android TV box and I'm currently developing armbian and learning how to compile it.

I'm currently accessing it through ssh and using a wireless connection. It works well, here is iwconfig result:
wlxa02c36cad0d2 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"XXXXXXXX" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=61/70 Signal level=-49 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 EDIT: I used armbian-config to set up the wifi.

Hi,
 
I received my box yesterday and was able to build and follow your instructions to get the following system:
 
_ _ _ | | __ _| | _____ / | | | / _` | |/ / _ \ | | | |__| (_| | < __/ | | |_____\__,_|_|\_\___| |_| Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.76 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.9.157-rtd1295 System load: 1.31 0.91 0.41 Up time: 5 min Memory usage: 3 % of 1636MB IP: CPU temp: 52°C Usage of /: 2% of 58G Great work!

Since I upgrade frequently, I think there is not too much difference. Armbian tools and firmware are updated as other packages. Of course there should be some specific modifications of Balbes after each update he made.
If 5.41 has mali, it is useless for me since I use my box as a server.

I'm currently running a Beelink GT1 ultimate (S912, 3Go DDR4, 32Go) with your armbian 5.37 based on 3.14.29 debian stretch without specifying any dtb file.  It is used as a server with openmediavault and homeassistant. I'm running armbian from sd card.
I just made upgrades and got armbian-config 5.64 with an uptime of 70 days.

I'm currently running a Beelink GT1 ultimate (S912, 3Go DDR4, 32Go) with your armbian 5.37 based on 3.14.29 debian stretch without specifying any dtb file.  It is used as a server with openmediavault and homeassistant. I'm running armbian from sd card.
I just made upgrades and got armbian-config 5.64 with an uptime of 70 days.

Hi,
 
I saw you tested your Up board based on atom z8300, so I tested my x5 based on z8350: http://ix.io/1lwg
However, I have only manjaro installed on it and cpufreq is not reported, nor the soc temperature, so maybe this numbers are not relevant for you.