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found this topic about getting bluetooth to work, maybe some clues here to help get it working https://forum.armbian.com/topic/13218-cant-start-bluetooth-on-orange-pi-zero-plus-2-h5/

After playing around with overlays, seems they do not alter existing setting, only add new setting. nothing changes by editing overlays and using sudo armbian-add-overlay /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/bluetooth.dts

for extra USB port. Try adding this to your .dts &ehci2 { status = "okay"; }; &ohci2 { status = "okay"; }; what is the & for ? overlay dont like it ? I want to make the above in an overlay.

I been comparing the different bluetooth patches for transpeed, vontar and tanix TV boxes. I made an overlay bluetooth.dts with the changes i need for my vontar tv box using transpped image. using overlay allows you make changes for testing. got the idea from the openvfd.dts overlay by @MMorales cp bluetooth.dts /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/ sudo armbian-add-overlay /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/bluetooth.dts bluetooth.dts

Thanks for the tip. thats fixed it

is it safe to do ? sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade I have been unable to boot after doing this, had to burn fresh .img to sdcard to boot again. I have done this previously with no issues (is this due to ubuntu noble 24.11.0 > 24.11.2 updating ?) here is update and upgrade list and update. No Boot after reboot.

regarding openvfd.dts file Tanix Tx6s PCB is mounted upside down in the case and thats why the openvfd.dts file is different. swapping my SD card between Vontar (transpeed) and Tanix resulted in the time being displayed upside down lol.

I have a save the build folder after compiling you your transpeed 8k618. Makes doing patches changes quicker. Especially if compile fails, i can just delete all and make new copy to edit. I will also try without KERNEL_GIT=shallow option.

I think i just edit your sun50i-h618-transpeed-8k618-t.dts file as its mostly working as is. will be faster to complile than creating patches. would this be ok to do? or would doing that also need patches? I use setting in the volume sound icon to switch audio to line out on my vontar, but not working on my tanix, sure i have to edit dts to get it and other thingsd working. thanks for the info, i keep trying, more to learn.

I have Transpeed-8k618-t Armbian 24.11.0 Kernel 6.10.10 using 20241125 build Noble 24.04 cinnamon desktop working on my Vontar H618. still no bluetooth and video acceleration. I am unable to create kernel patches or use patch provide by nick for previous build for my tanix-tx6s after many attempts all weekeend. I have now using the same image for my Vontar on my Tanix Tx6s but using sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s-axp313.dtb mlink to sun50i-h618-transpeed-8k618-t.dtb in /boot/dtb/allwinner It allows more features of the tanix tx6s to be used like the 3 usb ports etc and is more reliable compared to when I used patches on previous build branch v20240909 which would freeze after a few minutes. still no bluetooth, video acceleration , no sound via line out. I am looking for any online guides on how to add patches to armbian. as i seem to be doing it wrong and only guessing how to do it. when i create my patches they are nothing like the ones that Nick provided me. (patches to add tanix-tx6s-axp313.dts to uboot and kernel) these are the build instructions i been using. any advice on how to do it better would be appreciated. After reafing again from beginning of forum post and have gained more info and tips about how dts and setting i need for vontar h618 and tanix tx6s builds. Will keep trying to get it to build.

I have openvfd working on my Vontar H618 and Tanix TX6s. I attached the openvfd.dts for the Tanix Tx6 as it is different. I also have IR remote working on both. Bluetooth and Video Acceleration are not working. Thank you @MMorales for openvfd @rafman for IR remote @Nick A for Armbian 24.11.0 build and 6.10.10 Kernel Headers. openvfd.dts

I download the android DTB file to extract the DTS for my Tanix TX6 using my box.dts is Can this dts be used by armbian as it looks different to the existing dts i seen. ??

https://tuxcare.com/blog/firefox-116-with-hw-accelerated-video-decode-for-raspberry-pi-4/

and firefox 😁

Sunxi-Cedrus is an effort to bring hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding support for Allwinner SoCs to the mainline Linux kernel. Additional userspace components that interface with the kernel driver are also provided, for typical GNU/Linux-based systems. https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus

@vitya you could try this

still trying to get my bluetooth working on Vontare H618. could not power it on. renaming from uppercase filename to lower case allowed me to turn it on. BCM4334B0.hcd to bcm4334b0.hcd still unable to discover and connect. log of dmesg | grep -i bluetooth when uppercase BCM4334B0.hcd it found firmware patch ,but bluetooth power on failed when lowercase bcm4334b0.hcd not found firmware patch but bluetooth power on succeeded think patch / filename needs to be checked or matched.

I using build 240909 with Kernel 6.9.12 and edge ubuntu noble and i do not have hardware accelerated video and no Blue Tooth. Xtal usually alway measured in MHz, except for "clock" Xtal used in clocks and watches. 32.678 kHz size 3x8mm

No that Xtal is 37.4MHz or 26MHz used to generate the 2.4 and 5GHz radio fequency. (If no Xtal is used it be using internal oscillator or 24MHz from H618 cpu Xtal). The Low Power Clock, LPO is used to Clock the wifi chip when off/sleep and turn wifi and bluetooth on and off, 3 clk pulse after the voltage rails are turned on or off. When on it uses high speed clock from Xtal. See Page 17 of datasheet. Its Input Pin 24 of Wifi/BT chip, clk comes from H618/H616 arm CPU. Pin 24 LDO is marked with Pink dot.

@Nick A Vontar H618 HK6334Q this is from data sheet: "Pin 24 LPO External Low Power Clock input (32.768KHz)" measured with Owon HDS2202S hand held Oscilloscope. its 32.768KHz NOT 32kHz AP6330.pdf

i like to make a bootable micro SDcard with the Vontar H618 Android 12 firmware and see if it would boot on the Tanix Tx6. Use Disks to make an image and restore to sdcard?

Found this by searching vontar h618 firmware. https://androidpctv.com/vontar-h618-firmware-update/ And https://www.vontar.cn/pages/download

Vontar H618 working with transpeed,8k618-t image. wifi working with brcmfmac4334-sdio.transpeed,8k618-t.bin bluetooth does not work but icon appears in task bar I had to install no internet apps for desktop as armbian mirror for firefox is broken as there is file size missmatch and it cancels the compile of image trying to instal firefox by apt or synaptic package manager gave same error. I had to install firefox nightly to get a working browser.

Vontar H618 PCB: FX-H618-D4_V10 23-03-21 Ram: 4GB (8 x K4B4G0446B HCK0) Rom: 64GB (KLMCG4JENB ) Wifi: HK6334Q Osc: 37.4MHz LED: FD650B-S PMIC: AXP313A Android 12 is much better than Android 9 on my Tanix Tx6, better ui and more responsive. I will test with default transpeed-8k618-t image.

I have Tanix Tx6 and now a Vontar H618. which just arrived. I will check out your build. I cant even detect Bluetooth device. I need to dump my android DTS. looking at the AP6330 (SP6330) datasheet wifi/bt chip uses External Low Power Clock input (32.768KHz) and External Xtal Osc 26MHz. AP6330.pdf