short story
The box was designed in 2015 by a romanian guy,and produced in china, you can’t find anything about it becouse in 2019 the guy has some legal problems and the goverment shut down his site and all his forums. dotsmart.ro I’ve called the guy last month to ask for help, at first he told me he is out of business but he called me back and give me the root password.
Now to answer what i’ve tried to boot:
1. format the sd card with sd card formater for Mac
2. burn the image with balenaetcher for Mac
Armbian_20.09_Aml-s812_focal_current_5.9.0-rc7_desktop.img
Armbian_20.09_Aml-s812_bionic_current_5.9.0-rc7.img
Armbian_20.09_Aml-s812_bullseye_current_5.9.0-rc7_desktop.img
Armbian_21.02.0-trunk_Aml-s812_buster_current_5.10.0_xfce_desktop.img
Armbian_21.02.0-trunk_Aml-s812_focal_current_5.10.0_xfce_desktop
3. edit uEnv
first i’ve tried meson6-atv1200.dtb, meson8-minix-neo-x8.dtb, meson8m2-m8s.dtb,meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dtb, meson8b-mxq.dtb then the dtb i posted
rename armbian_first_run.txt.template to armbian_first_run.txt, tried with no edit first but can’t see the box on my router and then:
FR_general_delete_this_file_after_completion=1
FR_net_change_defaults=1
FR_net_ethernet_enabled=1
FR_net_wifi_enabled=0
FR_net_use_static=1
FR_net_static_ip='192.168.1.89'
FR_net_static_mask='255.255.255.0'
FR_net_static_gateway='192.168.1.1'
FR_net_static_dns=‘192.168.1.1' #2 entries max, seperated by a space.
but box not listed in router, tried with ping, ssh, no luck
the monitor on hdmi port keeps telling me wrong refresh rate 32-30 MHz
Change VMODE=1080P50HZ and #VMODE=1080P in uEnv.txt
Every day i’ve tried somnting else and stil in the dark. don't know what to do.