[Armbian for Amlogic S905X3]

1 hour ago, Armin said:

 

Thanks for your feedback.  I'm not sure what is your chipset: RTL871X / RTL8188F / rtl8189fs (anyway different than mine:  rtl8822cs) 

Yea I found that weird.

It's also weird that ur X96 Air has a different chipset....

 

Another weird thing is that my X96 Airs had different bootscreens, some had the X96 Max for some reason 

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I cant edit my post above but I've managed to connect to WiFi and it worked.

I'm not sure if its stable though

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15 hours ago, Armin said:

 

I have also an X96 Air (4/32 Go) and with armbian-config, I'm not able to see the wireless network:

my view

 

And into my report with "armbianmonitor -u", I can see a warning with the Bluetooth / Wireless chipset (rtl8822cs):

my report

 

What's your Bluetooth / Wireless chipset ?

 

Which dtb file did you select ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

I'm using the meson-sm610.dtb on a 2GB/16GB X96 Air.

 

This is my output http://ix.io/2pos

When I do armbian-config and access the WiFi section it finds me my network 

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Is there a way to enable WiFi on X96 Air?

I can see the wireless networks via

armbian-config

but I can't connect.

[Choice of TV box.]

5 hours ago, Madasafish said:

I have a X96Air P3 4/64MB with 1GB ethernet. I can confirm Wifi, Bluetooth and HDMI audio are not working with Armbian and the Ethernet speed is only 100Mb.  For me, it is not a question of uptime but question of ALL things working with Armbian.

 

I have the base model, so it's only a 100Mbps link. Have you tried enabling speed 1000 in ethtool?

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3 hours ago, balbes150 said:

Don't mislead people. Launching Armbian on s x96air models and other clones s905x3 from unknown manufacturers, occurs with significant difficulties and some of the equipment will not work at all. Those who decide to use them must be ready, there will be no support and everything must be done by themselves.

I dont think I'm misleadign people... All I'v said was that my X96Air are running just fine.

I've got uptimes of over a month and for what I use them that's perfectly fine

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I'm running some X96 Air 2/16 variants on Armbian with no issue.

They're quad-core S905X3 based and come with DDR3. They're also very compact which is great for my use.

Using the meson-sm610.dtb, ethernet works and HDMI works as well.

 

I have no clue about audio or wifi as I do not use a desktop environment 

They also have 16GB of eMMC which can be flashed to host armbian

 

 

 

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On 6/1/2020 at 11:07 PM, epson950 said:

Friends, help choose TV Box. I bought X96Max (S905x3) from China, but it doesn 't run Armbian. I can give it to my brother, but I want to buy myself a reliable TV Box that Armbian will definitely stand on. I need Octoprint! Prompt what to choose?

 

Are you sure? I actually run many X96 Air and some X96Air even said X96Max when booting up lol. They're all running armbian just fine.

have you tried the meson-sm610 dtb?

[Single Armbian image for RK + AML + AW (aarch64 ARMv8)]

Hello guys. Sadly I'm still limited to 1 post per day so I'll try to make this as complete as possible.

I bought an X96 Air 2/16GB to try armbian on. It seemed like a good box for the price and it has a recent SOC on 12nm.

 

I managed to install armbian with no problems.

I used the Armbian_20.05.0_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.6.0-rc6_20200403 desktop release, then switched back to minimal since I dont need a desktop environment.

 

Everything is fine, ethernet works, but I didnt test wifi or BT since I dont use those.

 

Now comes the part when I started having issues. 

I've read many tutorials and videos on installing to eMMC and I was confindent.

 

So I've made a backup and I tried running nand-sata-install but that command doesnt exist anymore.

I searched a bit more and found the scripts inside the root folder.

Since my box has an Amlogic SOC (the S905X3) I ran the amlogic script.

 

On the first try it failed saying there was no u-boot.sd, so I made a copy of u-boot.ext and renamed it to u-boot.sd.

On the second try it wen fine and said it installed successfully, but the box never booted again. I tried everything!

 

So I had to download the factory firmware the flash it with the toothpick method. Glady it came back to life!

 

So then I tried the S905X script which I thought would work since I have a S905X3. But no... it didnt work and bricked again even though it said it was a success.

 

What am I doing wrong? I'm using the  meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb and I'm sure the env file is setup correctly.

I really need to install into eMMC

 

@gabe5000 @balbes150 @SteeMan I mentioned you guys because I've seen you talk about the X96 Air and helping people with eMMC installs. I followed your tips but was unsuccessful

 

Thank you for the help!

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Thanks for both answers.

Yea I've seen that machine, sadly the specs are not enough.

I was looking for 1GB of RAM at least, that's why TV boxes make sense.. They're enclosed, good specs for the price and I can sell them later on for whatever reason.

 

I was looking at getting OrangePi One Plus, which has a new H6 and 1GB of RAM for around 24€, but for that price I can get a S905X3 box with 2GB of RAM.

 

 

Any other TV boxes that you recommend? From what I've read I should avoid Rockchip afaik, and Allwinner seems to have the best support around here, but (correct me if I'm wrong) most of the allwinner tv boxes can't be flashed to run from EMMC instead of sd card?

 

Also, if I want to restore the original firmware that was on the EMMC I can always do that right?

[Cheapest TV Box/SBC that can run Armbian?]

Hey guys. I need around 10-20 SBC or TV Boxes that can run Armbian.
I only need Ethernet support, Wi-Fi and BT isn't required, but I'd like something stable that doesn't overheat.

I'll be running Docker on them, is that an issue on Armbian? This can be a deal breaker for me.
 

2GB/16GB boxes would be the best option if I can flash armbian to the EMMC in board, requiring no SD card to boot, thus minimizing costs.

I've seen that the Tanix TX3 Mini is stable and the 2GB/16GB unit is at around 25€, but this is a bit much.

I managed to buy some RK3318 2GB/16GB boxes in the past for 18€, but they're gone.

 

I've also seen the HK1 Mini, which uses the RK3299 SOC, but I can't find much info on it.

 

Thank you for your time!