WeTek Play - unofficial CyanogenMod, Omni, ParanoidAndroid, AOKP 4.4.4 KitKat ROMs

[ChristianTroy]

Hello guys,

this is my first post here but maybe somebody already knows me for the things I've been doing on Allwinner/Amlogic/Rockchip tablets.

Anyway, today I'm here to talk you about some of the major Android roms and recoveries for an Amlogic 8726-MX based TV box.

WeTek Play is shipped with a customized JB 4.2.2 build but if you wanna try something different (always Android based, you have the OpenElec choice as well) I will give you some instructions.

As first thing you can choose between CWM or TWRP as custom recovery (you'll need it to flash the modified rom and to take backup/restores of the running system).

The Amlogic bootloader allows you to just load the recovery from a microsd card without flashing it on the nand (so in a non-destructive way).
To load the recovery just copy the recovery.img that you will find in cwm or twrp zip and copy it to a microsd card; insert that microsd card in the Play and plug-in the AC power cable while you keep pressed the little reset pin-hole located on the bottom of the device (once you have flashed one of those aftermarket roms you will be able to reboot to recovery straight from the power menu).

Once your device has booted to the new recovery, if you wanna try one of those KitKat roms just do a backup (in case you wanna go back to your previous configuration) and do a factory reset followed by the installation of the rom's zip and the gapps' zip.

Download link to the latest builds:

* CWM
* TWRP

* CyanogenMOD
* Omni
* ParanoidAndroid
* AOKP

* GAPPS

If you have any question I'm here to help you

[neomode]

Hello,

Thanks to have you here on the Forum !!!
We know and we proud that you Post here.
This TV Box you told about i will get this Week from WeTek and will Test it as well.

Regards

Neomode a.k.a Ray

[ChristianTroy]

Hello
I hope you'll enjoy it. These roms (and the previous 4.3 based) have one issue in the WeTek theater app (the dvb player) which is caused by a proprietary prebuilt library that leads to a force close if the channel is transmitting a subtitle.
I know what's causing it (it's the update of libskia that started with 4.3) but witout the code of that library my hands are tied.
Anyway if you launch the app again after the fc the channel is tuned (but subtitles won't work) and works fine

[no_spam_for_me]

Hi,

seems to be a nice toy with two DVB-S2 tuner

I think some more information for those who are interested in are really useful, so I post some links:
Product-page http://wetek.com/products
Unboxing http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/08/...oid-linux-stb/
Review http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/08/...lite-receiver/

I have to ask what's about e.g. OsCam and also external SC-reader

Regards

[ChristianTroy]

I'm going to inform myself if anything regarding oscam is frying in the pan, right now only FTA channels for what I know

It would be nice for myself as well since I could watch my local TivuSat share :P

[ChristianTroy]

I've been searching and it looks like there's a project that was porting oscam to arm, nothing is still public yet but I'll try to see if I can get it from the dev and I'll report some feedback

[no_spam_for_me]

I've been searching and it looks like there's a project that was porting oscam to arm, nothing is still public yet but I'll try to see if I can get it from the dev and I'll report some feedback

Also at Android?


Because generally there exists ARM ports like

http://www.google.de/search?q=oscam+arm+libusb

=>

http://download.oscam.cc/index.php?directory=1.20_TRUNK/arm-coolstream&

http://download.oscam.cc/index.php?order=mod&direction=0&directory=1.20_TRUNK/arm-asuswrt&PHPSESSID=i370rt9k3mhf75a5mga2ck1cp6

http://download.oscam.cc/index.php?order=mod&direction=0&directory=1.20_TRUNK/arm-dockstar&PHPSESSID=q3v7i8s5vtbv7skmquuse4a2r6

And you can also find something like this
Cross compiling OSCAM

http://www.streamboard.tv/oscam/wiki/crosscompiling

OSCam (compiling)

http://maruscha.org/content/oscam-osemu-howto

(I had researched it because of TVHeadEnd e.g. at openELEC... but also have no idea how to implement it)


But at Android????

[ChristianTroy]

If I've understand it right it's for Android (I guess it isn't using glibc but bionic, so it has less dependencies), anyway I'll have to let him explain better (specially if it's something that is ready for "production" or not).

BTW, running oscam on arm is not a problem, I was running my local server 4 years ago on a Linksys NSLU2 (I had a qemu arm debian distro that I was using on my PC to compile packages); I have to inform me better about WeTek Player compatibility with external plugins for live tv vision (aka in which way it would communicate with an eventual oscam)

[no_spam_for_me]

THX
I also know OpenWRT Images with OsCam support for usb-ftdi reader/ccid and PCSC Reader. E.g. smargo, easymouse (2) Cardman etc.
E.g. at TP-Link router.

[no_spam_for_me]

BTW:

http://linuxsat-support.com/forumdisplay.php?f=921

=> Oscam and MCas apk's for Alien A3

[ChristianTroy]

I will give it a look this week

[androidgadget11]

Welcome,

* CWM
* TWRP

Will it be working with G-Box MX2 Android TV Box from Matricom?

http://matricom.net/product_page/g-box-midnight-mx2/

There is Amlogic AML8726-MX.

Greetings

[ChristianTroy]

Probably, if Matricom cared about the community

[androidgadget11]

Probably, if Matricom cared about the community

Can I or no?

[ChristianTroy]

You can, but not the one I built for the Play. I don't work with Matricom stuff so I can't help you, I'm sorry


edit: modified the OP with a newer cm build, it fixed an erratic behavior of the airmouse