This is a great thread.
I've had a magcubic android 12 box I've been using for a while just to watch things off a USB when we stay at hotels. It looks like the one in this video but the chip ID's are different. Mine seems to be running with Samsung memory, the clock chip? is FD650 instead of FD6551 and the wifi chip is labelled as HK5236F.
Most hotel TV's don't support modern video codecs so this has worked ok. But I want to look at accessing my NAS remotely and this box is a bit of a dud if you want to install your own apps. Play store doesn't work, aurora store doesn't work. Tried sideloading Tailscale and it just crashes.
While doing some research I noticed it also seems to be sold under the Vontar brand so I flashed @Nick A "Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_Vontar-h618_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img" to an SD card and it booted up. Happy days. It appears to have ethernet but I have not plugged it in yet. No wifi though.
I just have 2 questions.
1. Is there any way this can be made to boot from internal storage or do I need to keep the SD card in if I want to run Armbian on it?
2. Is there a driver available for this wifi chip and do I need to mess around updating the boot image or can I just run a command for it?
I'm not a regular linux user but I've got a bit of experience messing around. I don't currently have an environment setup to build my own image but I've played around with WSL before so I could probably set something up.
Thanks for everyone that has contributed to this. It's good to make use of these boxes considering how cheap they are.
