Armbian on a generic RK3518 TV box (AIC8800D80 Wi-Fi) — full bring-up guide

[Julio Cesar Goldner Vendramini]

Hi everyone! 👋

I managed to get Armbian running on a generic RK3518 TV box — mainline U-Boot, onboard Ethernet, and AIC8800D80 SDIO Wi-Fi all working. I couldn't find a single RK3518 thread here when I started, so I wrote everything up to help the community.

Full step-by-step guide, device tree, and the loader binaries I built are in my GitHub repo:

👉https://github.com/juliovendramini/rk3518_armbian

Happy to answer questions.

Hope it helps someone! 🙂

[Werner]

moved to tvboxes

[SteeMan]

@Julio Cesar Goldner Vendramini Are you planning on submitting this to Armbian as a PR so it gets included?

[Julio Cesar Goldner Vendramini]

Yes, but now, I'm trying to make Bluetooth work and put Armbian to boot from eMMC. But I don't know exactly how to correctly submit these changes.

Edited June 12 by Julio Cesar Goldner Vendramini

[prole]

Hey there!

 

Got a generic AndroidTV box (branded as "MORTAL") from AliExpress out of curiosity. It has suspicious applications baked in that cannot be disabled, so I want to flash it with clean custom firmware.

 

Chipset is RK3518, wifi is AIC8800D80, PCB is DR822.R1.1.1.C6.02.V1.1.3.260526.

 

Very happy to find your work, as Armbian seemed like the best bet here. Going to try out your build in the next few days and report back here.