eriefisher

Let me do some reading and then maybe attempt an install. If I can figure that out maybe I will have some to contribute. That's for the help so far.

I understand completely. There's only so much a small community can do. Thanks for the links. I have some reading to do.

Hey all! Just signed up. I had been thinking of converting an older T.V. box and was hoping I could do it with Debian. Debian has been my preferred OS for some time now. I have never dealt with these boxes or arm for that matter. It looks like it may be possible to install armbian on this box and I started reading some of the documentation. What I would like to ask before I go down the rabbit hole is, based only on the specs below, if it looks possible? Would it be a good candidate for armbian or would there be too much non-cpu bits that surely won't work. If you folks thinks it's a capable box then I will put on my boots and get into it. Just an honest opinion. Also if you could point me to the "do not miss this section". OFF THE BOX SPECIFICATIONS Hardware Specifications Chipset: Rock-Chip RK3288 Cortex A17 Quad Core ROM: 8GB internal NAND FLASH RAM: 2GB DDR3 Power Supply Specifications Power Supply: DC 5V 2A Power Indicator (LED): Power ON - blue; Standby - Red Main Features OS: Android 4.4 KitKat OS Supports Full HD 1080P, H.265 video decoding 3D: Hardware 3D graphics acceleration Supports Decoder formats: HD MPEG1/2/4,H.264, H.265, HD AVC/VC-1,RM/RMVB,Xvid/DivX3/4/5/6 ,RealVideo8/9/10 Supports Media formats: Avi/Rm/Rmvb/Ts/Vob/Mkv/Mov/ISO/wmv/asf/flv/dat/mpg/mpeg Supports Music formats: MP3/WMA/AAC/WAV/OGG/AC3/DDP/TrueHD/DTS/DTS/HD/FLAC/APE Supports Photo formats: HD JPEG/BMP/GIF/PNG/TIFF USB host: 2 High speed USB 2.0,support U DISK and USB HDD Card reader: SD/SDHC/MMC cards HDD file system: FAT32 or NTFS HDD up to 4TB Support Subtitle: SRT/SMI/SUB/SSA/IDX+USB High Definition video output: SD/HD max.1920x1080 pixel OSD type of languages: English/French/German/Spanish/Italian/ etc multilateral languages LAN: Ethernet:10/100M, standard RJ-45 Wireless: Built in WiFi 802.11 b/g/n Dual Band Wi-Fi(2.4GHz/5GHz) Mouse/ Keyboard: Support mouse and keyboard via USB;Support 2.4GHz wireless mouse and keyboard via 2.4GHz USB dongle HDMI: HDMI 1.4 up to 1080p 4K ULTRA HD RESOLUTION AV&YUV: Support Digital Surround: DOLBY TrueHD and DTS HD Bypass through HDMI Software Specifications Network functionality Skype chatting, Picasa, Youtube, Flickr, Facebook, Online movies and more! Internet access on your TV with thousands of android applications and many kinds of games.