Johan S

Hi Hayat, Just out of curiosity could you share the following: 1) A picture of TV box' PCB and picture where you zoom in on the WiFi module (it is probably a module with a metal EMC-shield covering it). 2) Regarding WiFi: Could you run dmesg | grep brc and share output. Then run ip link and share output. 3) Regarding EMMC, could you run the commands below and share output sudo lsblk df -h On my system, the emmc drive showed up as mmcblk2. I was trying (unsuccesfully) to load MiniArch on to the emmc, in the process, I first formatted the emmc to get rid of the android OS files using "fdisk /dev/mmcblk2" and interacting with the on-screen menu, but in MiniArch I was never able to complete the formatting operation, my system would hang every time I asked fdisk to create a new partion table. When I eventually booted up Nick's Armbian image, I was able to install to EMMC directly using the Armbian tool sudo armbian-install

Hi Hayat, Just to confirm: I was able to boot up the image Nick provided without any further changes / patching. - I used the "server" image of release V20240726 (https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/v20240726) - I first unpacked the .xz file and then I flashed the .img file using balenaEtcher on a 16GB SD card. *** Notice, initially I flashed the compressed .img.xy. The operation would complete, but when I tried to boot up, the boot process would fail in a similar manner to what you describe (black screen). I noticed that balenaEtcher did not correctly create a bootable system on the SD card. After unpacking the .xz file and flashing the .img file directly with balenaEtcher everything went smoothly. Good luck!

Thank @Nick A! The internal wifi adapter is correctly loaded and working - thank you Btw i noticed that the brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin in the git repo is identical to the brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin file already contained in the /lib/firmware/brcm directory. Maybe the underlying issue was that my system was configured to look for the brcmfmac4334-sdio.transpeed,8k618-t.bin instead of just the generic brcm4334 driver? Anyway, everything works and the tvbox is surprising useful for light desktop and server applications (given it only cost about 26 bucks! What a deal)

Hi @Nick A and friends, I got my own Transpeed 8K earlier this week (4GB ram / 64GB emmc). I am including a picture with the top off below. 1) I first tried to install the MiniArch OS of WarpMe. I used the VONTAR image as recommended in this thread. Almost everything worked out of the box including WiFi. - HDMI: Display works, sound not tested - Ram: MiniArch correctly detects all 4GB of ram. - EMMC: For some reason, I could not get the emmc to work. First I tried to use the tool supplied by MiniArch to flash the OS to emmc, but it just hangs indefinitely. Then I tried to manually format / partition the emmc with fdisk, but everytime i try to write a partition table to mmcblk2 (both GPT and MBR), my system would just hang indefinitely - attempting to mount /dev/mmcblk2 produce the same outcome. I manage to somehow format the emmc. - WiFi: The only other (minor) issue i had with MiniArch is that it takes about 2 min for the OS to properly load the wifi drivers (see output from dmesg for reference). I didn't spend so more time on MiniArch because I'd much rather use Armbian. [ 67.908595] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 69.615347] brcmfmac mmc3:0001:1: loading /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio.clm_blob failed with error -22 [ 69.625299] brcmfmac mmc3:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio.clm_blob failed with error -22 [ 69.635482] brcmfmac mmc3:0001:1: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio.clm_blob [ 131.233673] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available [ 131.233699] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_txcap_blob: no txcap_blob available (err=-2) [ 131.234035] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4334/3 wl0: Jul 24 2019 12:58:36 version 6.10.191 (TOB) (r) FWID 01-b049404e 2) I then tried the Armbian-20240726-unofficial_24.8.0-trunk_Transpeed-8k618-t_bookworm_edge_6.7.12_server.img.tar.xz prepared by Nick. - I had to unpack the xz file before flashing with balenaEtcher to get it to work correctly. The image works really well on my Transpeed8k. - HDMI: Display works, sound not tested - Ram: Correctly detects all 4GB - EMMC: It works! I ran armbian-install and succesfully transferred to OS to emmc and I am booting from emmc without SD-card! - WiFi: does not work out of the box (dmesg output below). I have added a wifi dongle (RealTek 8188) and it worked right away. I will see if i can get the internal wifi to work. - DE: I installed xfce4 and it works really well on the transpeed. - Other: I noticed that the 7-segment display (time display) on the device is driven by a FD650 chip that communicates over i2c. brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio for chip BCM4334/3 brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio.transpeed,8k618-t.bin failed with error -2 brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio.txt failed with error -2 brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50 Thanks