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

[ChristianTroy]

Hi ChristianTroy

First of all, BIG THX for supporting WetekPlay! Your involvement "pushed" me to buy it, and now I am really satisfied with it.

I have a few questions for you, and I would be very glad if you will find some time to send me your answers:
1. can you please explain me (from your point of view) - why should I use "your" Android version (with tvheadend) instead of pure Openelec version? Now those 2 variants look almost the same for me, the main difference if their base - Android or pure Linux, am I right?
2. I like your modification that once when system is "powered off" it is not really powered-off, it just "turns off the screen" and that way we can have "fast start-up". But, is there any chance to "power off" USB ports in that case, since I don't want that my external HDD is constantly on power? What do you think about that option?
3. In case that it is not possible to "power off only USB ports", can you have "parallel" version of your release - that will make "real power off"?
4. Is NTFS supported? Once I configured TV recording via native TV application, and it was not recorded at the end (my assumption was that the reason was that recording was too big (more than 2 hours) - that can cause problems in case of FAT system)...
5. and my final question: since I have DVB-C module and cable operator, is there any way to "decrypt" DVB-C channels? Currently I have PCMCI card/adapter that I put in my Samsung TV and it decrypt those channels, but is there any chance to decrypt them on WetekPlay too? If I understood correctly, OSCAM tool is used only for DVB-S, or I got it wrong?

THx

You're welcome I'm going to answer you point by point.

1. it depends, if you wanna a faster system mainly based for tv watch only then OE is the better choice, but if you need apps from Android ecosystem then you have this further choice ,)

2/3. That's something I hadn't thought about. Disabling it would just require typing "echo DoNotSleep > /sys/power/wake_unlock" but tomorrow I'm going to try to build spindownd daemon using android ndk and will give you a link to try it, that will turn off disks after a user defined time idle.

4. Sure, NTFS, Linux EXT2/3/4 and ExFat are supported

5. You should see which encryption method uses your provider and search the net for an oscam configuration. After that you should get a usb smart reader like a smargo (the easiest to use and support because just uses libusb) or even possibly a smartmouse using a usb2serial adapter. In this last case I might have to build you the usb2serial driver for your device.

[ChristianTroy]

About the spindown, I see that cm's busybox doesnàt have hdparm applet. Can you try to install busybox from this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ricson.busybox put it in /system/xbin so it will overwrite cm's and see if you have an "hdparm" command?

In case try this command when the disk is unused "hdparm -y /dev/block/sda", if it puts it to sleep you can put something like "hdparm -S 241 /dev/block/sda" in one of the files under /system/etc/init.d which will spindown the drive after 30 minutes of idle.

If it doesn't I'll enable hdparm in cm's busybox but not every drive work with hdparm, most of wd doesn't and they require spindownd configured to trigger sg_start --stop

[ChristianTroy]

External disk spindown for WeTek Play

Flash this zip from recovery, once booted to android use a root capable file explorer (like Solid Explorer for example) and edit "/system/etc/spindown.conf" to fit your needs.

The default configuration is set-up to spin down "sda" disk after 3600 seconds (60 minutes) using sg3-tools.

You don't need to flash the zip again if you do a rom update because I've added the addon.d backup script.

Note: your drive have to ne able to be set to sleep using "sg_start --stop /dev/block/$disk", I've tried it with 3 drives, 2 WDs and 1 Seagate and it worked.

[mbath]

Hi Christian,

I think I'm now ready for a custom install. I've been using openelec with oscam and tvheadend and it works great.

Am am I reading everything correctly in that if I download one of your latest custom roms I can now use oscam without using openelec? I have no issues with openelec but I'm not a huge fan of having to remove my ex car when I want android.

Many thanks for for all your help and hardwork

[ChristianTroy]

Sure, you just have to set up tvh like this:



I also suggest you to use the latest oscam/tvh zip built using native android toolchain that work very nicely

[adoga]

There is something missing in this thread. No one talks about personal experience here such as performance when using the tv and and tv on kodi. Would have been nice to, in the first place, give a list of the improvements so others can consider to install or not.

Please can someone write what the improvements are over the weTek android firmware? I would appreciate it, so I can consider spending the extra time reconfiguring everything.

[mbath]

Sure, you just have to set up tvh like this:



I also suggest you to use the latest oscam/tvh zip built using native android toolchain that work very nicely

So I installed Android Tv (very nice look and feel by the way). So what's next? I thought the ROM came with KODI preinstalled? Am I just being daft? Also how do you add apps to the main screen?

Thanks

[ChristianTroy]

There is something missing in this thread. No one talks about personal experience here such as performance when using the tv and and tv on kodi. Would have been nice to, in the first place, give a list of the improvements so others can consider to install or not.

Please can someone write what the improvements are over the weTek android firmware? I would appreciate it, so I can consider spending the extra time reconfiguring everything.

The main difference in these builds is android version, cyanogenmod personalization and live TV playback using kodi and tvheadend.

So I installed Android Tv (very nice look and feel by the way). So what's next? I thought the ROM came with KODI preinstalled? Am I just being daft? Also how do you add apps to the main screen?

Thanks

For more info about android TV have a look at the main sticky android TV thread that has an exhaustive release notes section. Right now atv is a joke, maybe a Google Glass alike fail just see how empty is the store after months.

As a general advice I'd suggest you to use cm11 since kitkat on this soc plays in a different league compared to lollipop that requires more horse power and is not working as good as kitkat.

Regarding kodi see the release notes of this thread. It comes as a flashable zip linked in the op.

[mbath]

Excellent will try CM11 now. Is the kodi install just like a standard apk install? Sorry for all the questions

thank you

[ChristianTroy]

Just flash the kodi zip that is in the bottom of the opening post and it will automatically install during boot

[mbath]

Apologies for the dumb question but do you mean flash the zip once I've flashed the ROM & GAPPS in CWM recovery?

Thanks

[ChristianTroy]

Yes just flash it after the gapps zip

[adoga]

I am using the stock android firmware with 1080p 24HZ. It s not bad, can manage the way it is now but I hate the GUI of the WeTek Theater. Is there a way you guys can just make a better skin for it? I would like to turn off the animations. The Channel list is terribly white, I think the could have done a better job on that.

Is it also possible to use the Android TV Launcher on the stock firmware?

[ChristianTroy]

Android TV launcher is practically the whole Android TV platform It needs Lollipop and a dedicated build (you can't push it on a regular Lollipop build).

AFAIK the gui of WeTek Theater is being re-organized and will be included in the KitKat OTA that should arrive anytime soon

I find myself very good using Kodi with Aeox Nox + Live TV mod (that make it look like an Enigma 2 device)

[mbath]

When I launch Kodi I get "super user access denied". Any ideas please?