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Hello, I have android tv box with S912. On boot logo was GOOGLE TV and after android app. I put armbian on usb. I boot from usb with armbian by pressing reset button. I backup eMMC with ddbr and save this backup android img file on my computer. I put armbian on my android tv box. No logo, only messages. I don't know how armbian boot usualy, but I think it is same than usb. I think it works well (dual wifi ok, ethernet 100/1000 do not work, bluetooth I don't know). Before add anything, now I want backup eMMC again and save this backup armbian img file on my computer. I need boot from usb with armbian to do ddbr. But it is not possible to do that. Pressing reset button do nothing ! Tuto I read said modify this file /boot/uEnv.txt , maybe I do something bad. Can you help me please ? Sorry for my poor english. Have a good day.

I wanted replace android by armbian on a tv box with S912 to stop use this box as multimedia and have a very small linux server,

What build/download do you have installed? What instructions were you following? No TV box instructions say to use armbian-install.

Hi With a web search and in Kodi wiki I found only outdated info. Which ARM board with much better performance than Raspberry (I want 4K streaming) and good Linux support? Which is the flagship of 2023 for TV box? Installation and setup should be easy, like a x86 PC. I am not yet sure if I run LibreElec or armbian Thanks

Hello all, I'm new member on this forum and I want became new user of armbian to install Home Assistant on my box. My box is a Bqeel K12 but i opened box and I see a label on the mother board where is write Mini M8S pro C. So I try to install armbian debian. I used this version "Armbian_23.5.1_Uefi-arm64_bookworm_current_6.1.30_cinnamon_desktop.img" I followed this topic to find the good dbt file : https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus/ I found differents dbt files which look like working properly (I have the desktop, I can navigate, open application...) BUT at each time is not possible to acces to internet (with Wifi or lan). I try to configure manually the connection with the tool available on desktop but is not working. a precision : before to install armbian, I totally remove android. Do you think that can be the root cause ? Thanks in advance

Hello I have got the LEMFO RBOX HK1RBOX with rk3528 (https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005006654505780.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.32.7cbf5c5fIj4Quv&gatewayAdapt=glo2deu) Is there any img and dtb, that works with this TV-Box. I tried Armbian_24.5.0_rockchip_h28k_jammy_5.10.160_server_2024.04.25.img.gz from ophub with rk3528-hlink-ht2.dtb, unfortunately the LAN did not work, even with all rk3528 dtb's I have tried the image recommended above https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/24.5.0-trunk.367/Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.367_Hinlink-ht2_bookworm_legacy_5.10.160_minimal.img.xz but I was lost, since the folder structure is different from the ones I am familiar with. I copied the rockchip folder to the boot folder and as well the a armbianEnv.txt adding dtfile=rockchip/rk3528-hlink-ht2.dtb. The original armbianEnv.txt was modified the same way. that did not work. Did you miss any other steps? I would appreciate any hint?

I have install armbian version 10 on this box. Did watch video for some time, no issues except remote who do not only mine box but satelite receiver also, and this do then crash. I have a new remote who can be adjusted on mucho boxes and dvd, tv enc. but did not manage to let it work on this RT box (mxq pro). Oke I did watch video and encode some in H265, but get not such small files als with H264 in handbrake, I do use hardware encoding with videocard, I need stil to install new computer board with a intel I7 but has not yet the time so I can try the intel hardware encoder who seems to be better... The video has much artifacts, special color screens and darknes, clouds. The videobox I have for years now the Elvira Xtreamer has not this artifacts on that same encoded H264 video while armbian has, The RT29** box do have a lot artfacts in dark scenes, sound do loud bang in the amplifier when boot, need to watch out with this, but that is not because of armbian but hardware of these cheap boxes.. Short, the H265 decoder on chip does a bad job, or the version of armbian has issues, and then I think special with the videoplayer, I can also just have 1280 x 720 max in armbian setup, or there is a software active who recode video on the fly for adjust screen dimensions?. I do not now. someone has experience with this?. regards

Hello, wanted to post up a success note and thank you to Jock and everyone else who has contributed to this work. I bought myself a stack of four tv boxes to play with each with different processors. Started with the H96 Max V11 RK3318 4GB/64GB. I read up on this thread and this person's guide and opted to build myself a trunk image from mainline to see how its doing, using the non-edge 6.6 kernel. So far its been the most painless bringup on a TV box I've done so far (owned a couple of older amlogic ones in the past that were pretty rough to work with), the tooling has come a long way in the past few years. I found a copy of the vendor firmware and used AmlogicKitchen to unpack it and retrieve the nvram file for the broadcom-based wifi to work, its an HS2734C, with the proper nvram file I have 2.4 and 5ghz wifi working. I've attached a copy if its of any use, I see now that there are a few versions floating around the internet already. TODO: Get HDMI audio to work. Don't see an HDMI audio output and haven't had time to investigate. Will report back. I applied your 1.3ghz CPU tweaks in rk3318-config along with both EMMC tweaks (DDR and HS200) and they appear to be holding. I see an HS200 message in dmesg about the EMMC and the CPU is boosting to 1.296ghz. I'm currently burn-in testing it by bootstrapping a gentoo prefix inside the armbian environment, she's been maxed out for an hour now and holding strong, core temps are peaking at 82C maximum load then settle into the low to mid 60s, which is pretty good for this QC reject chip from what I've been reading about how leaky they are One question: When I did the installation, I opted to do a full emmc backup. I am able to see that the resulting (60GB!) image has a GPT and named partitions inside. I attempted to loopback mount them via kpartx and mount, but only a couple out of the 15 partitions will mount. The rest seem to have no recognizable file system. AmlogicKitchen won't work as it doesn't start out as a rockchip packed image like the recovery firmware from the vendor's website. Do you have a script or tool to fully unpack the backups that multitool creates? (for grabbing nvram, firmware, dtb etc.) Anyhow, sketchy TV box made of reject parts now a functioning desktop computer compiling software for itself.... awesome! brcmfmac4334-sdio.rockchip,rk3318-box.txt

@SteeMan Yes i did it that way. Inserted the SD with the fix for boot. It booted, then I powered of and removed SD. After that I Inserted the Armbian SD card but then is when the boot loop appears. So there was no way to boot form any SD card anymore. But still works on Android TV when no SD card is present. Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong. Thank you.

@cuker thank you for the tip. I've just tried, but after installing the aml_autoscript suggested on that link the box with Armbian on Sd inserted starts a boot loop. It boot normally to Android TV with no SD card inserted. Any other suggestions will be appreciated.

What build and instructions are you using? https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33676-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus If you are using the above instructions, note the first sentence about having ever run another distro on the box. If so a reinstall of the original android firmware is required to reset the box to a unmodified state (I point this out as you say you have run emuelec on the box - and yes running from sd card counts as running on the box).

Greetings Armbian Community, We’re thrilled to share our latest strides in enhancing partnerships, expanding support, and advancing innovations within the Armbian ecosystem. Here’s a roundup of recent developments: 1. Strengthening Partnerships in Shenzhen: We’ve embarked on a mission to fortify our collaborations with partners in Shenzhen, aimed at fostering better support for our community. During our visit, we engaged with both existing and potential partners to deepen our ties and enhance the services we offer to you. Read more 2. Platinum Support and Giveaway for Bananapi M7: We’re excited to announce the launch of platinum support and a special giveaway for the latest Bananapi M7, a collaborative effort between Bananapi and ARMSOM. This initiative aims to provide unparalleled assistance and rewards to our valued users. Learn more 3. Expansion of Community Build Framework: Our community interaction has led to the integration of several new boards, including SakuraPi and H96 TV box, into our build framework. Additionally, we’ve upgraded u-boot on 32-bit Rockchip devices and successfully ported Khadas Edge 2 to kernel 6.1. Moreover, FriendlyElec NAS now runs on mainline-based kernels, enriching our ecosystem with more versatile options. 4. Ongoing Upgrades and Future Ventures: In the pipeline, we have several exciting upgrades underway. We’re working on upgrading the Odroid XU kernel to version 6.6 and adding support for Orangepi 5 PRO. Furthermore, we’re introducing mainline kernel support for Orangepi Zero 2W, and our team is eagerly diving into the development of the new Radxa Rock 5 ITX board and Rock 5C. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to elevate the Armbian experience! Best regards, The Armbian Team View the full article

@royk thanks for the build, still i didn't test it but i performed some new tests, using the dist from Joshua Riek as Ubuntu is ready, with GPU, and the Kernel is already patched And same problem with Nexus, but i was able to build Omega and is working fine if in System -> Video i select my TV on not the default option (dunno why), after that i can change the resolution to 1080p and everything is working fine, HDR10, x265, x264, 4k.. all good although when i start a video the change of resolution is a bit slow and in the Kodi logs i can see an issue with the EDID: 2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038 error <general>: [display-info] Error parsing EDID: 2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038 error <general>: [display-info] ---------------------------------------------- 2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038 error <general>: [display-info] Block 1, CTA-861 Extension Block: 2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038 error <general>: [display-info] Colorimetry Data Block: Reserved bits MD0-MD3 must be 0. 2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038 error <general>: [display-info] 2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038 error <general>: [display-info] ---------------------------------------------- after these messages in can see in the Kodi log that is able to load all the resolutions profiles Don't know if there is a fix for the EDID After installing Omega it create automatically the GBM profile, using that Kodi works, meanwhile if I'm using yours with the FFMPEG_RKMPP_DEC_OPT="afbc=on" option the video is not showing and Kodi crash cat /usr/local/share/wayland-sessions/kodi-gbm.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Kodi on GBM Comment=This session will start Kodi media center Exec=kodi-standalone --windowing=gbm TryExec=kodi-standalone Type=Application Keywords=audio;video;media;center;tv;movies;series;songs;remote; Icon=kodi Also, there was an issue with the python IMP module not found that caused some crashes, and addon probs. finally resolved installing python3-zombie-imp

Hello to everyone! : ) I've made a lot of digging around but I haven't found a final reply to my questions because all the informations I've found are quite old and probably outdated. I own an OPi PC which I was using with Libreelec but unfortunately the HDMI output broke because of the missing protections. By what I know, there isn't any mean of getting AV out working on Libreelec so I switched to Armbian for which it seems to be possible instead. I've installed it with no issues at all (version as per title) but all the guides I've found on this forum to enable AV out seem not to apply, probably because they're intended for much older Armbian versions nor I couldn't find other threads and/or guides online on the subject. I've also read the AV out at some point have been disabled because it drawed electricity with no use for it in the most of the cases but also another thread where it seems that for H3 it is enabled and working out of the box so, overall, a lot of contrasting answers. I don't know what to think and I'm COMPLETELY clueless. It could well be that it doesn't work not because it is missing all the necessary background but maybe 'just' the X11 environment given that I've just written the image to an sdcard, completed the first run wizard, enabled wifi and then installed the kodi package (which, indeed, I can't start because it complains about the inability to create a GUI). I know I'm making a dumb effort actually shooting in the dark but, in spite of my many attempts, I couldn't find conclusive answers nor any documentation in the forum or anywhere else. I hope to get at least an hint from someone and I thank you all in advance.

Armbian now has a community supported build target for amlogic TV Boxes (aml-s9xx-box). You can now build your own builds directly with the Armbian build system. This is now an opportunity for members of the community to move the support for amlogic TV boxes forward within the Armbian framework. If you are not familiar with the Armbian build system check out the Armbian developer documentation. If you have idea on how you would like to see things evolve/change please use this forum to share your thoughts and ideas and submit PRs for any code changes you would like to see. I am currently testing this code against the four different amlogic based boxes I own, but would appreciate others testing as well. Once I have completed my testing, I will be updating the FAQ amlogic install instructions with this information.

Not sure 'AI' is the answer, this requires actual embedded dev skills. I have (lame) news tho. I gave the box away. A family member needed a TV box and the Tanix is doing that now. Giving up is kinda lame I know but there were good reasons for it. Mostly that the box is pretty much undocumented except that it has an rk3566 on it. This and that the manufacturer seems to have no interest in open source support and never replied to repeated attempts of getting some documnetation, SDK etc. The idea was to teach myself SBC embedded linux/android and reverse engineering seemed interesting at first but ialso maybe not the best way to learn. In the end it didnt seem worth the effort. I bought a firefly rk3566 instead, stationpc m2 instead. Well documented board with NVME interface, good wiki/docs, Android and Linux SDKs on gitlab, plenty of tools and firmware to play with. It's a much more rewarding environment for a developer to learn. Sorry if I disappointed people replying, trying to support here. Thanks in any case!

Hello! Shortform: SDCard recreated from .iso image does not boot. #### Detailed: I use an Odroid as my Minecraft server. I have a fast 32GB card in it, and a usb hdd for swap and media files. After the setup was working, and after each update, I pulled the card from the machine (after shutting down) and plugged it into my PC to make a backup: dd if=/dev/sdc bs=4M | gzip -c >/media/backup/odroid.img.gz In case I ever needed to recreate the card, I have this line to run: gunzip -c /media/backup/odroid.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=4M /dev/sdc is a placeholder for whichever drive my USB Cardreader is appearign as. I do have a https enabled Apache webserver with some static content, a Mumble voicechat server for gaming voicechat, Dokuwiki for my occasional bouts of hobby writing and a lot of other little tidbits on the machine, such as a VPN and one of these mediaserver thingies for my TV. That is a LOT of hand crafting that went into it over the years, and I am effectively unable to recreate all the little things I added over the years, which is why a new setup is something I am scared shitless imagining. Also, I named every backup separately, so I do have a LOT of backups - my backup drive is 4TB in size and my systems run on average on a space budged of 32 to 64 GB, my home partition being rsynced to a NAS via 1GB ethernet on each shutdown. When my SDCard died after years of trusty service and I replaced it with a newer, faster card, writing the isoimage went smoothly, the ext4 partition was flawless un doing fsck on it before doing sync and then pulling the card. However, the machine doesn't start. Power LED goes on, but nothing else happens. #### The error I see - Power LED on, no Keepalive LED blinking - makes me guess the bootloader isn't - or wasn't - backed up with the method I used. However, the way I use DD I am very sure it should copy the whole drive inclusive the bootloader, grub, lilo, uboot or whatever else there might be on it. Even cloning Amiga HDDs works flawlessly with DD this way. So, assuming I am correct and the way the backup was made was correct: 1) is there a known way to get an image written to SDCard that wil lhave the odroid bootloader workable? 2) is there a trick, like creating a new SDCard from an Armbian image and then copying the /dev/sd*1 partition from the image file to the newly made sdcard, that might get the image working? 3) Which other recommendations or suggestions ( I don't know, like mounting a rewritten image and a newly made SDCard and then doing cp -a /mnt/source/* /mnt/target/ ?) that might help me get my system back to working do you people have? With kind regards, a frustrated SDCard-user (with HDDs doing DD in the manner described above works nicely since almost 20 years for me, cloning systems between machines, replacing deceased drives and so on )

Hi, So I trashed the eMMC on my Amlogic s805 based TV Box, with 1GB RAM and 2GB eMMC. Getting it into mask ROM mode is easy enough, but how to resurrect the eMMC, so that I can boot Armbian off an SD card, is a total mystery. Can it be done, and if so...how? Any advice, or direction to said, greatly appreciated. T.

Yes, mine is 10/100M. I'm using it to watch content on a 1080p TV and works pretty fine. If useful to you, it has an USB 3.0 port, to use an external HDD or probabbly a gygabit LAN to USB dongle...

Hi Dave, I don't see any difference between our dts (That deal with hdmi/audio). Maybe the overlay dtbo_a changed something.? If you can extract that. Have you tried your box with different TV/monitors and hdmi cables? Here's my dts. devicetree.dts

I'm sorry but I don't know the answer, I use my fake Tanix TX3 mini TV box with SOC 905L2-B as a server and I don't know if it's possible to have graphics acceleration with the Linux kernel. This post is related to android factory firmware request. I advise you to write a new one to ask specifically, you could ask in the general chat section of TV boxes forum.

@Dbosco Build and install with at least GBM Paste the following in /usr/share/wayland-sessions/kodi-wayland.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Kodi Wayland Comment=This session will start Kodi media center Exec=env FFMPEG_RKMPP_DEC_OPT="afbc=on" kodi --windowing=gbm --audio-backend=alsa TryExec=kodi-standalone Type=Application Keywords=audio;video;media;center;tv;movies;series;songs;remote; Icon=kodi Otherwise try to stop the window manager and start it manually to see if it gives an error, from login window press: ctrl+alt+F2 -> sudo systemctl stop gdm3 -> env FFMPEG_RKMPP_DEC_OPT="afbc=on" kodi --windowing=gbm --audio-backend=alsa

Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum. I'm trying to boot armbian on a Mecool KM1 tv box. It's an armlogic S905X3 with 4GB ram,, 32Gb storage. Cant find a viable uboot and dtb combination for it as the usb flashdrive or microSD card simply won't boot. I can, however, run coreelec with no issues. Does anybody had any success with this box? Thanks

No clue as I don't have that box. Search the forums for information. As far as build goes, you should be reading the FAQ posts: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33676-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus