[EXPERIMENTAL] Unofficial CM12 for WeTek Play with Kodi & TVH Live TV

[mbath]

I'm telling you to install the apk from the file manager... So you have to do it once you booted into Android

Sorry mate epic fail on my part . Thank you for your continued support

[ChristianTroy]

to access sdcard from CM file manager swipe with the mouse from the left border to the middle and it will show you all the available storages

[mbath]

to access sdcard from CM file manager swipe with the mouse from the left border to the middle and it will show you all the available storages

Stupidly I confused CM with CWM recovery

Thanks again

[adoga]

I flashed your last image on this page, the "Shutting down" problem came back. I then flashed the the patch again but still not working.

I did not install su from play store but updated the one in your mod. I don't know if that is the cause, I will try it later to see if it solves the problem.

Your kodi stays at 720p and cannot be changed. Maybe its also su problem.

The "Power off" -> "reboot" dialog ( the second dialog that appears when you choose reboot) cannot be navigated with the remote. Though I use mouse but kann you take a look into that? so I can just use my Tv remote without using the mouse.

Thanks.

[ChristianTroy]

Press "OK" to reboot, "Menu" to reboot to recovery.

Shut down works (just tested again), but I have not changed anything so it was expected to be working
If it doesn't shut down it's because you have a wake lock keeping the device awake (maybe some app is doing something in the background). As soon as the wake lock will be released, the device will turn off.

I don't understand your question about Kodi, on the MX you will always have the framebuffer set to 720p (and with Amlogic scaler doing up or down scaling), no matter what resolution you choose unless you use the "real 1080p" zip.

Using a patch from koying that I have included it will tell you 1920x1080 if /sys/class/display/mode contains a 1080* resolution, but it's practically a lie

The only way to have real 1080p is using OE or using the "real 1080p" zip

[ChristianTroy]

* ROM (CM12) 2015-03-20
* ROM (Android TV) 2015-03-20
* ROM (CM11) 2015-03-20

- updated upstream sources
- handle Kodi 666 permissions in an init.d script so I updated Kodi in the 2nd post with a version that doesn't ask root permissions
- CM11 only: I noticed that if the router is rebooted the device doesn't get network connection (if connected by eth cable), I added a workaround where every time the screen is turned on it sends a ping to 8.8.8.8 and if it fails it resets the interface. It's not the ideal solution but, in the meantime, it's a workaround til I figure out a better solution.

[adoga]

Its getting too quiet here. It seems everyone is happy.

Are you still working on a stable version? have you added new features?

[ChristianTroy]

This is already stable, I keep updating the three roms on a weekly base.

BTW no news good news :P

[ChristianTroy]

Updated Kodi in the second post to 14.2

[ChristianTroy]

ROM (CM11) 2015-04-04

Happy Easter guys

Added Dolby/DTS decoding in Android apps (as long as they use Amlogic media codec). It was working only with Kodi before this build.

[robimo]

Hi CT,
I've installed CM11 + Kodi Live TV on wetek with dvb-t decoder.
On live tv, sometime, skipping from one channel to another with up and down I ear the audio, but I've a black screen.
I can resolve skipping newly up and down.
I've also two question.
First, I've a lot of channels on tvheadend that I'm non interested. Is better disable - delete the channels or is the same ?
Second, on Openelec I tried to connecting an old Terratec Cinergy usb TV stick and It work correctly with tvheadend like a second decoder, on android the decoder is non recognised by tvheadend. Is possible to use it ?
Thank for your good work.

[ChristianTroy]

* ROM (CM11) 2015-04-06

- Fixed a wakelock introduced by latest Google Play Services that was preventing the device from being turned off from power menu -> power off.
- Fixed ext4 drive mount

robimo
the first is the infamous and known black screen bug that plagues Amlogic video playback on Kodi Live TV, are you using my custom build of Kodi? Because that one has a patch that totally fixes the problem under OE and mitigates the problem on Android but doesn't really solve it.

There's no other driver available and I won't supply them for the following reason: Android doesn't have a way to detect connected hardware and automatically load the proper kernel modules because it doesn't have something like udev (so I had to include them in the kernel zImage)
For special uses like this you should use OE that is a fully featured Linux distro, Android is meant to be used as it's been provided, anything extra that you add requires skills from the user that has to do something to load stuff (like in this case setting up a script that loads all the kernel modules in the correct orders, because there's no depmod support in Android as well, or even just to use a mce remote where you have to create your own .kl file...)
About the channels, I just disable them (but I've only scanned the transponders that I needed and disabled NIT scan because really there was too much useless stuff)

[robimo]

robimo
the first is the infamous and known black screen bug that plagues Amlogic video playback on Kodi Live TV, are you using my custom build of Kodi? Because that one has a patch that totally fixes the problem under OE and mitigates the problem on Android but doesn't really solve it.

There's no other driver available and I won't supply them for the following reason: Android doesn't have a way to detect connected hardware and automatically load the proper kernel modules because it doesn't have something like udev (so I had to include them in the kernel zImage)
For special uses like this you should use OE that is a fully featured Linux distro, Android is meant to be used as it's been provided, anything extra that you add requires skills from the user that has to do something to load stuff (like in this case setting up a script that loads all the kernel modules in the correct orders, because there's no depmod support in Android as well, or even just to use a mce remote where you have to create your own .kl file...)
About the channels, I just disable them (but I've only scanned the transponders that I needed and disabled NIT scan because really there was too much useless stuff)

Thank for your reply.

[adoga]

Troy
Hi. can you create a version of Kodi for the official WeTek android version, that allows 1080p and automatically set the refresh rate of the box like you did in your CM11 version? This will be nice. Each time, to get good performance, I had to change the refresh rate to 50Hz for TV and when playing videos I had to set it to 60Hz on the android settings. Failing to do so results to stuttering.

One more thing, when I start the WeTek Theater from Kodi I ge a blank screen whe I close the WeTek Theater. I had to return to Home and back to Kodi again. But this is not the case with the WeTek IPTV app.

Is it possible to change the background of the WeTek Launcher from Black to any color or image?

Thanks in advance.

[ChristianTroy]

My custom build of Kodi will work with the future Kitkat update, it can't work right now because the underlying kernel is not able to do that right now. Not without an update that for JB is not going to happen.

WeTek Theater takes the control over the screen and you have to go back to WeTek Launcher to restore it, I don't know if things will change with Kitkat's WeTek Theater that has been greatly improved since I don't use it and am focused towards Kodi and Tvheadend.

As for the launcher's background I will forward your request.