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@paradigman

I agree with @fabiobassa: there is an attitude problem here, and your frustration is clear.

I'm not happy about your work being late, but that's not my fault, nor a fault of the Armbian project.
If you were in the nearby I would you offer a beer and try to find a solution about your problem, but I guess you're not in the neighborhood.


The only thing I can suggest you right now, is to find an officially supported board from Armbian here and pursue your business project forgetting tv boxes.

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paradigman

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@fabiobassa, @jock: you are right guys, I apologize to you.
I realize I’m really frustrated by the helplessness. I just want to work, but I can’t, I feel like I’m exposed to the playful entertainment of others.

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fabiobassa

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Well apologies accepted.

 

Let's start another way : what is the problem you are experiencing ?

If you can say it !!

we don't want your work, we want understand what is going on and if there is a workaround

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paradigman

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Thank you fabiobassa. The situation is as follows:
I need a linux server (only CLI) that works well on cheap tv boxes. It has to be cheap because otherwise it can’t be bought by poor, elderly people who (presumably) will use this product. Over the past year, I’ve bought four types of TV boxes (1 amlogic, 2 allwinner, 1rockchip) and tried to put a thousand kinds of armbian pictures on them, and I’ve even tried libreelec.
The tests have shown that libreelec makes excellent use of the (rockchip) box hardware, while armbian is unable to use the analog audio output and even some wi-fi.
The armbian's design is better suited to the success of the project, and libreelec meets the hardware requirements. I have already tried to combine the two at the file level, but without success. I want to understand how I can most effectively move on, I think I’m stuck.

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fabiobassa

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Ok @paradigman here where I live is deep night and better approach tomorrow , but I can tell you will achieve your goal, server on rk322x run very well.

Re-read my long post on the link I gave and try with relaxed mind to obtain the mix you need between good hardware recognitio and functionality.

you have all needed pieces in place already.

where are you from so we can adjust time shift eventually 

 

 

 

 

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RaptorSDS

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  On 11/1/2021 at 10:54 PM, paradigman said:

from Hungary, Budapest

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topic box

i running a Amlogic S812 box as a Print and Scan server for about 5 Years now ( wlan little bit unstable because of Kernel 5.11 and driver for rt8723bs, with out old kernel very smooth)

today also one rk3229 box for my smart electricity meter , and a RPi Zero as Pihole , all are stable enough for private use . But for professional use all are beta , without a full time company in backround i think its a very good state that we have.

 

 

to aliexpress

please can you send a link as PM ( i am looking for new box to play but european prices are to high at the moment )

 

@fabiobassa@jock@paradigman

 

i am very glad that you have found the way back to normal , i am also from hardware side and not software but with arduino , and raspberry and this box every day i learn new items

 

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fabiobassa

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@paradigman
 

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I'm from Hungary, Budapest

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Lovely city, have been there many times , loved the chain bridge, the pastry shop at the ending of tunnel, the casino :D in the castle of Buda

Well the problem with some new boards is the we don't have any sample with new storage EMCP so what is knew is made with test from other people. All the rest ( kernel and root fs ) should be working
If you have original firmware try to upload some where so @jock can have a look into

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jock

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  On 11/2/2021 at 11:16 AM, paradigman said:

Unfortunately, I couldn't back up the box's own firmware, but I found another firmware that also works well. I attached the first 32 MB of this.
 

R29_MXQ_LP3_V2.3_firmware_part 

 

@jock: thank you if you look into.

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Yes, I'm looking into.

I read your previous messages and as far as I remember you have two three problems:

- HDMI is not working

- eMCP flash is not working

- only one led is working

 

The first two are unexpected problems. If I remember correctly @marshall also had an eMCP board. He had a problem with SDIO, but eMCP flash is working fine.

You instead have a problem with eMCP flash, which is pretty unusual, strange and worse.

 

Could you please try this libreelec image and tell me if you see anything on HDMI? Armbian uses the same libreelec HDMI timing patches, thus we could discover if the problem may be related to those patches. You can just burn the image and sdcard, plug it in and ti should boot. If possible, please post dmesg output you get over serial too (don't remember if baud rate is 1.5Mbps or 115Kbps)

 

About the development process on testing armbian images, there are some things that I want to make clear:

  • we need to do several tests, it may be a slow process and results are not guaranteed
  • you should already be able to put Android back on the board with rockchip tools in case you want to go back
  • accept the very remote risk to brick the board

The plan is to first erase completely the internal eMCP flash, either using rkdeveloptool for linux of the rkdevtool for windows. For the former tool, instructions are in the paragraph Erase the flash memory in the first page of the thread.

Once flash is erased, the board always boots from sdcard. sdcard is far easier to use for testing.

 

First of all, try both the legacy 4.4 and current 5.10 kernels and see if results are the same. dmesg log is always appreciated, even better is to paste the link produced by armbianmonitor -u

Images can be downloaded from armbian download page, just use a suitable burner tool like balena.etcher or whatever you prefer to burn the image on the sdcard.

 

This are two overlays to use for your board. They should provide at least working leds, hopefully the eMCP flash should work too.

This overlay rk322x-led-conf7.dtbo is for legacy 4.4 kernel.

This other overlay rk322x-led-conf7.dtbo is for mainline 5.10 kernel.

 

Use one or the other In dependency of which kernel are you testing.

The overlay must be put in /boot/dtb/overlay directory of armbian installation and must be activated adding a line overlays=led-conf7 in /boot/armbianEnv.txt file.

You should be able to do that with no hassle directly on the sdcard.

 

I hope this fixes led and eMCP flash problems. It is improbable that anything changes with HDMI. For that problem I need to know if the libreelec image is working right for you or it isn't.

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paradigman

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  On 11/3/2021 at 5:06 PM, jock said:

Could you please try this libreelec image and tell me if you see anything on HDMI? Armbian uses the same libreelec HDMI timing patches, thus we could discover if the problem may be related to those patches. You can just burn the image and sdcard, plug it in and ti should boot. If possible, please post dmesg output you get over serial too (don't remember if baud rate is 1.5Mbps or 115Kbps) ...

 

 

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I tried that libreelec picture and i don't see any change, still no picture on HDMI. 
Now I can't to attach a UART log either because my interface is not capable of 1.5 Mbps.
Don’t worry, I have the patience to tests, I’ve been dealing with this for almost a year.
Now the main problem is the non-functioning HDMI, followed by eMCP and finally Ethernet, Wi-Fi and analog audio. LEDs can be lit from me in any way. That will be a bonus if the IR will work.

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jock

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  On 11/3/2021 at 8:41 PM, paradigman said:

I tried that libreelec picture and i don't see any change, still no picture on HDMI. 
Now I can't to attach a UART log either because my interface is not capable of 1.5 Mbps.
Don’t worry, I have the patience to tests, I’ve been dealing with this for almost a year.
Now the main problem is the non-functioning HDMI, followed by eMCP and finally Ethernet, Wi-Fi and analog audio. LEDs can be lit from me in any way. That will be a bonus if the IR will work.

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Ok, so apparently there is something wrong with libreelec HDMI patches for legacy kernel.

Now you can proceed with the instructions I gave and try an image with the mainline kernel.

In the meantime I will remove the HDMI patches from the legacy kernel image and make an experimental image so you can test it.

 

edit: here there is a debian bullseye minimal image with legacy 4.4 kernel and HDMI patches removed. I only kept the fixes for HDMI audio. Take a chance to try it and let me know if something changes for you.

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Maker39

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Hello Jock !

I need to connect i2c-tiny-usb. As far as I understand, this requires an appropriate kernel module.

modprobe i2c-tiny-usb responds :

modprobe: FATAL: Module i2c-tiny-usb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.194

 

Do I need to rebuild the firmware myself with the necessary modules or is there some one already compiled?

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jock

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  On 11/5/2021 at 11:43 AM, Maker39 said:

Hello Jock !

I need to connect i2c-tiny-usb. As far as I understand, this requires an appropriate kernel module.

modprobe i2c-tiny-usb responds :

modprobe: FATAL: Module i2c-tiny-usb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.194

 

Do I need to rebuild the firmware myself with the necessary modules or is there some one already compiled?

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Hello @Maker39

since the module is not shipped with the image, you need to compile the module yourself.

There is no need to rebuild the whole kernel and all the modules, but you may want to install the kernel headers to compile the module alone.

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Maker39

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thanks, jock

From armbian-config i did it :

source_install 

headers_install

Now i have in /usr/src

linux-headers-5.10.60-rk322x

linux-source-5.10.60-rk322x

 

But how to proceed further to get the required kernel module I did not find in GOOGLE

 

my skill in linux is <=1

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paradigman

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  On 11/3/2021 at 9:03 PM, jock said:

edit: here there is a debian bullseye minimal image with legacy 4.4 kernel and HDMI patches removed. I only kept the fixes for HDMI audio. Take a chance to try it and let me know if something changes for you.

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Unfortunately, I have no luck with too this image, no picture, no UART log :-(

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LukeSky007

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  On 11/3/2021 at 9:03 PM, jock said:

Ok, so apparently there is something wrong with libreelec HDMI patches for legacy kernel.

Now you can proceed with the instructions I gave and try an image with the mainline kernel.

In the meantime I will remove the HDMI patches from the legacy kernel image and make an experimental image so you can test it.

 

edit: here there is a debian bullseye minimal image with legacy 4.4 kernel and HDMI patches removed. I only kept the fixes for HDMI audio. Take a chance to try it and let me know if something changes for you.

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Hi @jock  I managed to run the image on my respeaker coreV2 board  added the rk3229-respeaker-v2-armbian-rev2.dtb to /boot/dtb  and  changed the fdtfile=rk3229-respeaker-v2-armbian-rev2.dtb in /boot - great work

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Luis Leite

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Hi, I'm sorry but could someone help me?
I tried to install Ambian, following step by step but I ended up formatting the memory card that contains the backup of my TV BOX MX9 4K (not the pro), now I can't get back to my TVBOX Android, I would like to ask if anyone could provide me backup of Android TV Box MX9 4K?

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mkultra

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  On 11/1/2021 at 10:35 PM, paradigman said:

I need a linux server (only CLI) that works well on cheap tv boxes. It has to be cheap because otherwise it can’t be bought by poor, elderly people who (presumably) will use this product

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i'm intrigued, why do poor, elderly people need a linux server? 

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paradigman

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  On 11/13/2021 at 8:07 AM, mkultra said:

i'm intrigued, why do poor, elderly people need a linux server? 

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Ehh.. because every elderly person - in my country - wants to be a linux administrator.

So seriously ... I want to make a special internet radio for them out of these cheap boxes.
To understand why they need this tool, you would need to know the local conditions. It’s a little tricky to explain, so I’m not even going to start with that.

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tv4you2016

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Hello friends. i have an mxq 4k i installed the Armbian Buster (https://www.armbian.com/rk322x-tv-box/) I did everything right, I tried to install hassio, it installed the docker, I waited 1 hour +- and I can't access ipdabox:8123 can someone help me solve my problem?

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Hello all! My first message, and of course about problems. Thanks @jock, @fabiobassa and others for this work!

I have a board with rk3229, 2gb ram ddr3, 8gb nand, esp8089 with 26MHz crystal. Just solder microsd slot to existing pads on pcb and install Armbian_21.08.1_Rk322x-box_buster_legacy_4.4.194_xfce_desktop via Multitool. Everything works except wifi. Module esp8089 is loaded and wifi0 exists, but can't see any network. I carefuly read a conversation with @victronikoat page 13 of this topic, try a different overlays and modules, no luck. Any change make wifi init impossible. My opinion is module esp8089 don't accept config=crystal_26M_en=1 at loading, but i can't uderstand why. 

Some bits from dmesg and other:

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Also i extract a device tree from genuine firmware, part about wifi:

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Also i try Armbian_21.05.1_Rk322x-box_focal_legacy_4.4.194_xfce_desktop with same result. Any suggestions?

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fabiobassa

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@calipzone

try to set 8723CS with CS and blacklist or rename both AS and BS.
modprobe when the kernel has already started could result useless unless you have blaclisted or renamed the other two

Just a try, my 8723 is working with cs !!!

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jock

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  On 11/24/2021 at 9:11 PM, calipzone said:

Is RTL8723AS supported on H96 Mini (RK3228A)? I see it in rk322x-config (Device ID: 024c:8723), but have no wifi. Tried modprobe r8723bs but no effect.

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Well never encountered 8723AS chip.

I have a board with 8703BS which wants 8723CS driver.

Your 8723AS should go with 8723BS driver.

Confused?

Well, I am... realtek drivers, expecially the 8723 family, are a real mess. And I'm puzzled due to plenty of 8723 variants that don't share a single driver.

 

Which kernel are you using?

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RaptorSDS

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  On 11/26/2021 at 5:56 PM, jock said:

Confused?

Well, I am... realtek drivers, expecially the 8723 family, are a real mess.

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í can confirm that , on Amlogic there are also many 8723xx chips

 

there we struggle also with 8723bs of diffrent box's ( both are same chip(8723bs) but 2 diffirent box , and both have diffirent firmware files on android )

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jock

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  On 11/26/2021 at 6:58 PM, calipzone said:

Tried all *8723* but no effect.

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Hmm I see no references to 024c:8723 in 8723bs mainline kernel driver and actually there are no references to 8723AS anywhere.

It should be nice to tweak the 8723bs driver to accept 8723as chip and see what happens :D

If you agree, I can do a minimal test image just to try and see what happens. Do you wish to conduct such test?

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