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But TV box manufacturers don't use armbian, they use android. How do they parasitize? I suppose by buying a TV box instead of an SBC? Then why don't SBC manufacturers make the boards cheaper. For example, raspberry pi 2w costs only $ 15. (700 Thai baht). And raspberry pi has the best support at a low cost. Many users do not need GPIO and camera interface. SBC manufacturers could reduce the cost of their products by adapting to the needs of users. Many people buy SBC for the server. What prevents the SBC manufacturer from making the same cheap board as the TV box, only excluding cvbs, SPDIF, camera bus and LCD display? Leaving the SD card slot, emmc, a pair of USB and LAN. And optional: a version with Wi-fi, if someone has it on the server (wi-fi) I don't need it 99% of the time. It will turn out to be a cheap fee, and instead of android, spend money on linux OS.

Armbian, like debian, is an open source project. The fact that my devices work, as you said, is precisely because of my work. For example, a tablet on A13, or HK1 box LAN 100, where I myself ruled dtb to make the LAN internal, not external. I added drivers for Wifi and BT myself. There is no ready-made assembly for the HK1 box s905x3 c LAN 100Mb. I agree, there are TV boxes with very poor build quality, but there are also good ones - the same HK1 box s905x3, aka vontar x3. Also T95W2 - there is no mention of this board at all on this forum. I also did a lot on my own, extracted and corrected dtb rules, tested and corrected. I tried to install slackware on some boards and the person who builds the OS does not ask for anything in return. The main reason for the discontent is that TV box producers do not pay armbian. But armbian is a NON-PROFIT organization, it says so. RED HAT is a commercial organization and their product costs money. Microsoft is also a commercial organization. Armbian can also become a commercial organization and sell its product. But, while the organization calls itself NON-commercial and provides an open source product, the question of what you have done to use this product is inappropriate. As inappropriate as it is, the requirement of users is to support a free product. Do you think it's unfair that people get a free product that says free, and condemn such people? I condemn people who say it's free, and when you get what's free, they tell you - what will you give me in return? There is a law of conservation of energy, when you take something for free, you should give something in return. And this one comes from a person of his own free will! And when they ask for something in return for a free product, it ceases to be called free. So answer me the question: does armbian sell its product or distribute it under a free license?

Only if your hands are crooked and you don't have enough patience, experience and knowledge. I have about 20 pcs of different TV boxes on different SOC and I managed to launch armbian on all of them and all work for my tasks. None of them ended up in the trash.

In fact, this is a good TV box for porting linux. Almost all the work has already been done. Video acceleration is working, cvbs is working. USB 3.0 and 2.0 are working. While there are problems with HDMI, you need to turn on the TV or monitor only after U-boot has started. And there is a problem with porting the OS to emmc. TV boxes are in high demand than SBC: they are cheaper, already with a case and a power supply, an HDMI cable, and a remote control. I always advise buying a TV box instead of an SBC. In addition, more and more SBC remain without armbian support.

I took off my radiator for an hour and a half. It is very strongly glued to the processor. It is removed as follows: swing clockwise, counterclockwise, slowly increasing the amplitude. And in the end, he pulls away. At the radiator itself, almost all the ribs are broken off. I removed the radiator to replace it with a more massive one: 25x25x10. Although in fact, it turned out that the processor is not very hot. There is no need to change the radiator.

did you tear off the processor along with the radiator?

Try USB flash

Shorting SARADC_IN0_BOOT (PIN AA10) to ground can put the device into Maskrom state. There is no need to short circuit EMMC_CLK/DATA to log into Maskrom;

Vontar R3 RGB (multi)

Using the Rockchip Create Upgrade Disk Tool Version 1.7, write the vontar r3 RGB firmware to SD card, insert the card into the TV box and connect USB to USB to the PC and then the TV box will determine the system.

Help this TV box to create an arbian with a kernel 6.x

My TV box freezes on the frequency 667. Until they make a u-boot with stable operation at 667MHz, it will not work well. If you need a frequency of 800MHz, you need to take a u-boot from android

No. Only linux or android

That's it works. But it is necessary to turn on the monitor button every time after turning on the TV box. How to fix it?

If you try to add this patch: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5723

DQ08 with pcb FX-RX3528-D4. HDMI - grey screen and nothing works

DQ08 with pcb FX-RX3528-D4. I built armbian using your patches on GitHub, but the HDMI-video didn't work. TV-out working

Where to get a stock vendor u-boot? I have tv-box T95w2

Bookworm 6.1.30 - wi-fi don't work.

I use Armbian_23.5.1_Orangepi3-lts_bookworm_current_6.1.30. I'm trying to download in armbian-config kernel headers, but linux-headers-5.15.93-sunxi64 are downloaded. How to download kernel headers 6.1.30.?