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

[ChristianTroy]

I suggest you to install SuperSU from Play Store, let it update the "su" binary choosing the normal way and converting it into a system app + installing the backup script to let it survive rom updates. This because CM11's SuperUser doesn't work nicely with the way Kodi request root rights.

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[adoga]

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)

Thanks man! I can't wait.

[mbath]

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Done that but for some odd reason I can't access my external HDD? Message comes up saying "remote path not found"

[ChristianTroy]

How's your hard drive partitioned and formatted? On aosp based roms only the first partition will be mounted.

[ChristianTroy]

I did a bit into SPMC's question, it messes up playback with this kernel because it doesn't handle properly /sys/class/video/axis file.

If you wanna use SPMC you can flash this zip that will set 664 permissions to the file above, so SPMC won't be able to edit it.

Remember that if you run Kodi it will set 666 permissions on it (I think latest nightlies don't have this behavior anymore).

I haven't noticed any different video output between Kodi and SPMC, so I think it's upscaling as well, the thing I liked is that it has auto framerate enabled. I'd like to try SPMC a bit more but I noticed that Live TV mod for Aeon Nox doesn't work on it, if you have any hint on that I might try it a little bit deeper.

I found this addon modified to work on any Amlogic, it wasn't working with Kodi anymore so I modified it to make it work with Kodi and now Kodi can switch to 24fps as well

Here you can find the modified version, and here the diff with my modification.

[mbath]

How's your hard drive partitioned and formatted? On aosp based roms only the first partition will be mounted.

No partition, is this something I've missed? Hard drive is formatted as NTFS, it seems to work fine in openelec.

[ChristianTroy]

OE is pure Linux so is more flexible than Android. On Android you need a drive with a primary partition, or vold won't load it. Anyway, post logcat if you have problems.

[ulf.dugic]

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

Thanks for so fast response...
Unfortunately, I have WD disk, and also - I am not expert and don't know how to use those commands.
Therefore, I hoped that you will find the best way how to implement such functionality in next releases of your FW.
So - if you will have some additional time to investigate/implement it - that would be really great!

Thanks in advance!

[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.

Use this zip, works fine here

[ChristianTroy]

Kodi 14.2 BETA 1 apk

This is a Kodi 14.2 BETA 1 based build with two patches added that add support for automatic frame rate switch (you have to enable it in settings) and that should behave better with the black screen bug.

Since it's been signed with different keys respect those from Kodi build server you won't be able to install it over the older Kodi but you'll have to uninstall it.
Take a backup of /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi folder before uninstalling or Android will delete it and you'll lose your configuration; restore it after installing the new APK.

Download

I'm using this /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<advancedsettings>

  <network>
    <cachemembuffersize>20971520</cachemembuffersize>
  </network>

  <samba>
    <clienttimeout>30</clienttimeout>
  </samba>

  <network>
    <readbufferfactor>4.0</readbufferfactor>
  </network>

  <pvr>
    <minvideocachelevel>5</minvideocachelevel>
    <minaudiocachelevel>20</minaudiocachelevel>
  </pvr>
</advancedsettings>

[ChristianTroy]

* ROM (CM12) 2015-03-10
* ROM (Android TV) 2015-03-10
* ROM (CM11) 2015-03-10

- CEC improvements (codesnake's OE fix)
- Mapped CEC red/green/yellow/blue buttons to power/home/menu/search
- upgrade tvheadend and oscam with the native (android ndk) ones
- updated dvb code (same code as latest OE)
- few other minor things at kernel level
- updated upstream sources

Notes: run it with Kodi that I posted yesterday (and that you can find in the second post) with Aeon Nox skin + Live TV mod and you will get a very good experience, specially if using CM11 or, if you don't mind it being a bit more laggy, ATV

[ChristianTroy]

* ROM (CM12) 2015-03-11
* ROM (Android TV) 2015-03-11
* ROM (CM11) 2015-03-11

Fixed a problem with the dual tuner and the new bootloader (the one flashed by NAND version of OE and latest WeTek OS)

[adoga]

My fingers are itching to install your CH11. But I am still scared if its worth it or to wait for the new stock one. My questions are:

1. does it perform better than the stock firmware - android apps, tv experience and kodi 1080p, no micro jerks, auto RCU fixed?
2. I'm using Eminence Skin now for its simplicity and style. Does kodi perform well with this skin?
3. After upgrade cann I still use the stock firmware if I later choose to?

Your opinion will help. Thanks.

[ChristianTroy]

1. it's certainly snappier than the actual stock 4.2 based, if you install Kodi from the second post you will have a good experience, included auto frame rate switch if you enable if (for 24fps videos for example), I never had the RCU problem but I always used my roms so I don't know if it's something broken in stock.
2. I don't know about that skin, I use Aeon Nox + Live TV Mod; it's not as fast as on my x86_64 HTPC but it's not so bad
3. Sure, you can take a backup in cwm of your running stock rom (do it on the external storage) and restore it later, or just flash stock rom back.

[adoga]

1. it's certainly snappier than the actual stock 4.2 based, if you install Kodi from the second post you will have a good experience, included auto frame rate switch if you enable if (for 24fps videos for example), I never had the RCU problem but I always used my roms so I don't know if it's something broken in stock.
2. I don't know about that skin, I use Aeon Nox + Live TV Mod; it's not as fast as on my x86_64 HTPC but it's not so bad
3. Sure, you can take a backup in cwm of your running stock rom (do it on the external storage) and restore it later, or just flash stock rom back.

Thanks. That gives me courage to try it.

You said you dont know Eminence skin? just try it you might love it.