Magcubic HY300 Android 11 Projector Allwinner H713, 1GB/8GB

[curse]

I have one of those projectors, and I came to think about perhaps it could be possible to put Armbian on it.

 

Mostly just for fun. I really doubt it would be an improvement to have Linux on a projector, with most likely missing hardware decoding of codecs and other things, rather than having the original Android.

 

However, I haven't really found any information about the H713 chip in any of the different forums with Linux on Arm.  

 

Have any of you any information or think that it would be a fun project? If so, please respond.

 

[Nick A]

Last I heard about the H713 chip it was still in early development.

 

https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2024-03-29

 

 

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Thank you for the information @Nick A

[laminarize]

Very interested in the H713 - if someone can get that fully functioning I would be willing to pay for the image.

[well0nez]

have alook here:

https://github.com/well0nez/allwinner-h713-linux

 

its for an hy310 but its still a h731 ;)

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@well0nez

Thank you. Interesting project. It seems to originally be based on a HY300 project.

Unfortunately I don't have the Magcubic HY300 anymore, but both of the projects looks really promising, especially the HY310 project you linked that seems to be fully functional. 

[well0nez]

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well yes i started this port  because shift did a static analysis of the firmware with ai.

but well its not usable (mostly) and there are obviously differences between the 2 projectors.

 

i would somehow call it hacky, its nowhere near to be stable but for now its acceptable.

i dont know if i will ever be able to complete it. 

[curse]

@well0nez I didn't even think about that. When I made the original post almost two years ago, AI was much less capable than today. You just gave me a few ideas for different projects. 

As I said, unfortunately I don't have the HY300 anymore, but I do have a Magcubic L018(same chip I think), though it's in use every day as a bedroom TV. I don't think my girlfriend would appreciate if I started to hack it 😉 Especially if core functions like projecting the things coming through the HDMI port to the wall.

The L018 has worse software than the HY300, in my opinion, so I've connected it to a certified Android TV 14 Box.