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@tasknodes as SteeMan requested, you should provide details and steps of how you installed Armbian. also provide details of what caused a boot failure and details of what error messages or logs that you saw on your tv/monitor.

I brick my tv box HK1 Rbox cpu3528 ram 4gb rom 64gb can someone help me unbrick this tv box, thank you very much for your help

Description X96Q TV Box LPDDR3 H313 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] ./compile.sh build BOARD=x96q-tvbox BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no KERNEL_GIT=shallow RELEASE=noble [x] Tested on current Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Armbian doesn't support TV Boxes. Read the following to understand the status of Armbian and TV Boxes:

Hi guys, its the first time im gonna post here so bear with me, i am a recent user of orange pi zero 3, one with 4GB RAM and i have been able to run the latest community release on it, things work besides audio thru hdmi, but i have noticed that the video encoding and decoding is not working, albeit 3d acceleration works thru panfrost and Mesa. I have been digging this topic and i wanted to share what i found and maybe validate if im right or perhaps i am not getting this well. 1. Video encoding and decoding in G31-MP2 is something separated from what Mesa and panfrost would do, so even if those work i cant get video acceleration with h.264 etc. 2. It is possible because the android 12 TV version from the manufacturer can do it in a very easy way, but as far as i understood this is because it is using some kind of closed source driver, that the SoC manufacturer provided (that almost all the boards made with the allwinner H616/H618 would run, so it isnt like orange pi dedicated developers to create the android being offered but it is a stock stuff that Allwinner has available for whoever buys their chips) 3. There are efforts to reverse engineer this properly called CEDRUS but there is kind of a lack of information about them since 2019, it is supposedly present in the kernel, but as many others have said and tried for some reason is not working with H616//h618. Anyone knows if it is still being developed? In conclusion the state of things with hardware decoding and encoding of video in ARM is like a wasteland, at least for linux, these chips, ARM chips we get are mostly developed for android TV boxes or TVs or tablets, but they do not develop for linux, that maybe transferring the necessary code to make it work could be trivial, but with thin resources and doing the bare minimum and being closed source the SoC manufacturer has no interest in creating this support and it is left to open source volunteers to find a way. Which means that support for the H616/H618 might come several years into the future perhaps never. Am I interpreting reality right?, i had some hopes to create something like a jellyfin box with accelerated hardware coding and decoding but nothing might be possible, there is maybe some hope, i read somewhere in the LibreELEC forums that someone made it possible to run it with video decoding (if i am not mistaken) with no audio, so perhaps someone found a way?, thanks in advance.

damn, it looks like I screwed up the WiFi chip model Actually I have p9012s in my box. And if I understand correctly, there are no drivers for it and it won't work. I had a USB WiFi adapter on a Ralink MT7601U chip. It worked in this box right away. P.S. I still don't understand why I assumed that I have an esp8089 chip. Since I have two such TV boxes, I even disassembled the second one to check - but it also has a c9012p chip. A mystery to me) ___ By the way, the other day after an unsuccessful Armbian firmware update I almost got a brick. If earlier I was able to restore it using a PC and a USB-A - USB-A cable, this time the PC didn't even see this box. Maybe this will be useful to someone. I revived it by switching to mask mode by shorting contacts on emmc. launched RK Batch Tool 1.8 and specified the path to the stock firmware (don't forget about the drivers) completely disconnected the power supply to the box shorted contacts 29 and 30 to each other connected the box to the PC. The program immediately recognized it. All that was left was to flash it My box specifications: Rockchip RK3228A (Aida64 for some reason says that it is 3229), 2/16gb, WiFi S9012P. Board: MXQ_RK3229_V2.0 2019.07.2022

@rockamal Write the image to the SD card using whichever method you prefer—Balena Etcher, Rufus, dd, etc. I installed it on Manjaro using gnome-disk-utility. Just insert it and power on the TV box, and it should boot from the microSD.

I had this plan on utilizing the Radxa Rock 5 ITX+ as a Moonlight client device to stream games from my desktop computer to my living room TV, and using my 8BitDo Ultimate controller to play. On paper, the board has all the bells and whistles needed to do it, but I am having trouble getting hardware decoding of H264 and/or HEVC to work as expected. From what I gather, I need mesa-vpu support, but the documentation I find is very scattered, and repositories that once held the needed resources are no longer available. I am currently running Armbian_25.DBhsHKsx.2.2_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img (build date 21st of February, 2025), downloaded from Armbian.com. Hardware decoding does however not work, despite it being marked with "backported mesa". I've been at this for two weeks now with different images, including Armbian and Radxa OS, even going so far as trying to build Armbian myself from scratch. The image I am currently using is however the most stable I have experienced so far. Am I missing something? How do I get hardware decoding to work? Edit: Link to armbianmonitor output

Hi there! Firstly, a huge thank you to all the maintainers for this amazing project. I was hoping you could assist me with two questions: Which version of Armbian (Desktop or Server/IOT) would be better for running TVHeadend on my device? How can I add the DVB-S2 drivers to my device? I've come across this post: However, I'm unsure how to add those drivers myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Hello people, I'm trying to compile armbian to run on my TV Box. If I use the image Hinlink ht2 I can boot without problem, but if I try to compile my version of Armbian, the tv box does not boot. I'm using the follow sintax to compile: ./compile.sh build BOARD=hinlink-ht2 BRANCH=legacy BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base EXPERT=yes KERNEL_GIT=shallow DEB_COMPRESS=xz I haven't the TTL to debug. What I already tryed: Burn the hinlink ht2 image to SD card and change the ROOT partition to my image (no work) Burn my image to SD card and copy the boot partition of hinlink to boot partition on SD Card (no work) Burn hinlink ht2 image and get the dtb and put on my image (no work) I'm accept any suggestion. Why I'm trying to compile ? The Ethernet is not working, on my board it uses the gmac0 and the hinlink ht2 uses gmac1 regards. Panda

I need some help for My TV Boxes / STB That Run Armbian Debian Because The kernel panic every im booting , Any Solution ??

I have TV-BOX Ugoos SK1. how I can Install Armbian for it. My TV-Box using chip S928X-K this is device information: https://ugoos.com/ugoos-sk1-8-128-gb-amlogic-tvbox-s928x-k Best regards

@KrzyPacu Can you look at your full dmesg output (no filter on tm16xx)? I guess there are some other error messages prior to there filtered output. I don't think that you have a different controller. Maybe rather the pinout: which pins of the SoC of your TV box are wired to the controller and how they are declared in the device tree. Was your display working properly with the OpenVFD driver and the hk1-x3.conf VFD configuration file you posted? If so, the controller is good and it's probably the pin numbers described in the device tree that needs to be adjusted. My hk1-x3.dtso was converted from the OpenVFD configuration file, but the device hasn't been tested yet to my knowledge. So it might need some corrections.

Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well. A couple of days ago, I got interested in installing Linux on one of these Chinese TV boxes to use it with a 3D printer. I've been trying to follow the tutorial step by step, but I'm having a problem. The box boots into Multitool correctly, and at first, it let me burn the image to the flash, but it didn't work. Now I'm trying again, but it's giving me an error saying there is no eMMC. I'm not sure what’s going on — could someone please help me? Thanks in advance!

Will disassembling the TV box help get this display working? The TV box looks like it's glued together, but if that helps, I can open it.

hk1-x3.conf I haven't opened my TV box but I saw a picture and it seems to me that the controller is "FD6551"

What is your Android TV device model? What is the led controller model? Then what is your DTS configuration for the display client?

Notice, translation by ChatGPT. Hi everyone! I have an MX10 F3 TV stick running Android for a specific purpose, but I believe it could be more efficient with Armbian. I'm testing Nick's image Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-lpddr3-v1-3_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz on a microSD. It works well, except for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — the chip is AIC8800. I don’t know how to install the patch that has been shared. I also haven’t been able to make it work by installing the firmware and SDIO from https://github.com/geniuskidkanyi/aic8800 @Nick Aif you plan to release future versions, do you intend to include native support for the AIC8800 chip?

@KrzyPacu The Amlogic TV Box builds use extlinux.conf. So you should add your overlay info in that file (/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf). I believe the syntax for extlinux is: OVERLAYS /dtb/amlogic/overlay/... (I'd recommend placing it just below the FDT line) (Note: I've never tried to load an overlay through extlinux, but have been intending to try it some day. Let us know how it goes)

Good day, respected Balbes150. Please advise an Armbian build for the Roc-rk3588s-pc v1.1, with support for an M.2 NVMe SSD, intended to be used as a "smart home" server. The image will be installed on an SD card. The single-board computer is connected to the home router via Ethernet cable. HDMI is only used temporarily to connect to a TV for initial setup (further configuration will be done via SSH). The board will run Docker containers. Thank you so much in advance!

Dear Community, I'll build a Developer Team specially for Banana Pi Boards!" GPIO Libarys I started updating/modifing the old GPIO-Libarys, so they can be used on the latest builds! I want to build a Team, for GPIO-Libary Development, for porting these Libarys: WiringPi-Node WiringPi-PHP WiringPi-Perl WirinigPi-Ruby gpiozero rpi-gpio Updating and modifying these: RPi.GPIO BPI-WiringPi2-Python BPI-WiringPi2 At the end, all currently working GPIO Libarys are: luma.oled RPi.GPIO BPI-WiringPi BPI-WiringPi2 BPI-WiringPi2-Python Armbian Build System for Banana Pi I started building the build-system for full banana pi support! Anyone who would like to join the developer-team, just pn me, post in this thread, or contact me on github or discord!" I created a GIthub-Organisation for this project and a Discord Server. A Domain & VPS Server is commin Monday!" Goals: Support ONLY for Banana Pi Boards Board Determiner Script which exports Board-Infos, required by gpio-libs (usual located at: /var/lib/bananapi) APT-Mirror Archive Hosted by our project-teams vps-server! ( Mirror stores all latest gpio-libarys we specially build for using on latest builds and other packages we'll develope in future) Added APPGROUPS: Pentesting, TV-Box, Server-Side, Game Desk & Development Revised menu for selecting extensions and other additional items Revised config menu Adding additional build options A Web-Based Project-Server Hosted Build-System will be build and available on the project-page, where you can build images remotely, according to you settings made in the WebInterface, with live progress & build-log + downloading compressed own image-release. A publish option will be added to, where you can upload your builded image to any Cloud/Storage we provide. Revised device trees According to APPGROUPS and Enabled Extensions: I2C, SPI, UART are enabled in the gpio_develope extension, and all requirements for gpio-programming are pre-installed, the gpio libs are pre-installed too. If you have some Ideas, what we could add or which wishes we can make true, just reply in this post, or contact us. Github Organisation Discord greetz, hexzhen3x7

@Nguyễn Tất Hùng If you want to use Armbian, you should start here: https://www.armbian.com/amlogic-s9xx-tv-box/ And specifically look at the link to the Status of TV Boxes on Armbian information.

I research this link https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian I success install armbian for TV-Box Tx3 mini but devices Ugoos SK chip S928X-K Haven't armbian for it do you have document compile Armbian for Hardware custom? can you share for me Best Regards

Good afternoon everybody, I have a minix mini neo 5 box and I wanted to install Armbian for the home assistant. Specifications: 1G Ram and 16 nand chip rk3066. I've already tried with the multitool and I can't start it. Thank you for help

Hello everyone, I'm working on repurposing an MX9 5G TV Box (RK3229) for educational use and I'm looking for a lightweight Armbian image that already includes a working desktop environment (XFCE or similar) with GPU acceleration enabled (Mali drivers, no llvmpipe). I’ve tried minimal builds and installed XFCE manually, but I’m still getting software rendering (llvmpipe) instead of hardware acceleration. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could recommend a tested image (preferably based on Bookworm or Bullseye) that: Boots successfully on the MX9 5G (RK3229) Has Mali GPU acceleration enabled by default Includes or supports installing a lightweight DE (XFCE preferred) Bonus if it includes support for video playback or has a browser that runs decently. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or links!