[ROM] Unofficial OpenELEC for MK808B+ and MXQ

[bromilow746745]

installed the new build on 3 box so far all great tried the 4th bopx and I get no wifi any solution its a driodplayer all black box if that helps

[sammaz]

How to run Retroarch and NES roms in Kszaq's 6.0.3.1 :

1. Download and install this special version of Retroarch addon for Openelec armv7 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxd...ew?usp=sharing

2. Place your .zip'd NES roms in /storage/emulators/roms/nes/punchout.zip

3. Once the addon is installed, ssh in and run

chmod +x /storage/.kodi/addons/emulator.tools.retroarch/bin/*

4. You can then launch punchout.zip rom by ssh in and run

[FONT=arial]/storage/.kodi/addons/emulator.tools.retroarch/bin/retroarch.sh fceumm /storage/emulators/roms/nes/punchout.zip[/FONT]

5. Your terminal window will respond with "Running as unit run-2641.service." But take a look at your TV

Update : I have now setup Rom Collection Browser and I can launch roms directly from the browser in Openelec! performance is perfect. no frames dropped.

Update 2 : I have been able to get my xbox360 wired controler setup perfectly in retroarch! Openelec 6.0.3.1 is a complete emulation station now also! Thanks Kszaq!

[vn800art]

Fine post, sammaz ! You put an animated icon one would imagine what the screen on the connected tv would be like! A screenshot ? A reference link to a dedicated forum for this extension? A way back to normal Kodi work ? What happens if ( and how ) I reboot?
Thanks, sorry for all the questions, but your fault, the post is highly intriguing indeed! Bravo!
Alessandro

[phinc]

Update : I have now setup Rom Collection Browser and I can launch roms directly from the browser in Openelec! performance is perfect. no frames dropped.

Update 2 : I have been able to get my xbox360 wired controler setup perfectly in retroarch! Openelec 6.0.3.1 is a complete emulation station now also! Thanks Kszaq!

Cool! Do you have a tutorial for both ?

[sammaz]

Cool! Do you have a tutorial for both ?

http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=18427

[kszaq]

Hi all

First of all, thanks for creating this great port of OpenElec. I have black MXQ box that i bought for 35 EUR to use for Kodi. However, under android there is annoying audio delay that i can't fix. With your image it just works great.

Unfortunately there is problem with Simple IPTV clieny in kodi 14/15/16, it tkes too long for stream to start playing. With Kodi 17 test build it just works fine!

Sorry for asking, but is there chance to build Kodi 17 image too?

There's no OpenELEC branch with Kodi 17 and I have to finish working on 7.0 branch to begin with. If you know how to compile OpenELEC, you can have a look at Stefan Saraev's github as he's working on Kodi 17 for WeTek Core and it should be quite easy to compile it for our boxes.

How to run Retroarch and NES roms in Kszaq's 6.0.3.1 :

1. Download and install this special version of Retroarch addon for Openelec armv7 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxd...ew?usp=sharing

2. Place your .zip'd NES roms in /storage/emulators/roms/nes/punchout.zip

3. Once the addon is installed, ssh in and run

chmod +x /storage/.kodi/addons/emulator.tools.retroarch/bin/*

4. You can then launch punchout.zip rom by ssh in and run

[FONT=arial]/storage/.kodi/addons/emulator.tools.retroarch/bin/retroarch.sh fceumm /storage/emulators/roms/nes/punchout.zip[/FONT]

5. Your terminal window will respond with "Running as unit run-2641.service." But take a look at your TV

Update : I have now setup Rom Collection Browser and I can launch roms directly from the browser in Openelec! performance is perfect. no frames dropped.

Update 2 : I have been able to get my xbox360 wired controler setup perfectly in retroarch! Openelec 6.0.3.1 is a complete emulation station now also! Thanks Kszaq!

This sounds really cool! I've always wanted to compile Lakka for our boxes but never had enough time.

As I'm quite busy with real life recently, I don't have much time to test new releases. Therefore I give you a new build to test - I can't tell if it runs 100% fine for me as I wasn't able to test all features. It should be running well, though. I included a few fixes and improvements:

• Linux kernel updated to 3.10.99
• included kernel patches from @arco to improve SquashFS performance and change System partition compression to LZ4
• changed a compilation flag for RTL8189 driver to make it not power off on suspend
• enabled kernel watchdog
• switched to stmmac Ethernet driver with fixed MAC address reading
• switched back to single device tree in HD18Q build and disabled DVFS for better compatibility with m201_1C boards

https://github.com/kszaq/OpenELEC.tv...es/tag/6.0.3.2

Edit: If you encounter error in check_update: mount_common: Could not mount /flash/System error during update, this is nothing to worry about. It appears because of changed compression method for Systempartition.

pigbait Please test if this release fixes your issues with Samba shares. I got heads up from Sam Nazarko from OSMC project that the buffering issues are caused by a buggy ethernet driver. I developed a fix for MAC address reading in new ethernet driver and switched to it in this build.
PatrickJB Let me know if your Blu-ray drive behaves better, I haven't got answer from you to my latest PM.
@Craigthread This build might resolve your boot issues. Please let me know if it does.

[sonofdibnah]

Just tried your 6.0.3.2 update tar on mxq nand. Update loaded and then on rebooting system "error in check_update: mount_common: Could not mount /flash/System".

Tried a power off and on and it loaded successfully. Just mentioning in case it happens to others.

[kamacnik1]

same thing happend to me on mk808b+ , after restarting loaded successfully and work without any issue

would be possible run kszag ROM on this box :

http://www.tomtop.com/s905-smart-android-tv-box-android-51-s905-quadcore-1g-8g-kodi-xbmc-uhd-4k-3d-mini-pc-wifi-h265-dlna-airplay-miracast-bluetooth-40-hd-media-player-v1838eu.html

maybe someone have try it

[PatrickJB]

PatrickJB Let me know if your Blu-ray drive behaves better, I haven't got answer from you to my latest PM.

I had no Internet access for a couple of days except by using my mobile as a hotpot, I use the guys from the flat above and he was away when it went down, sorted now though. Will give the new build a go tonight.

[pigbait]

@kszaq

thanks will try this asap. fingers crossed.

[kszaq]

Just tried your 6.0.3.2 update tar on mxq nand. Update loaded and then on rebooting system "error in check_update: mount_common: Could not mount /flash/System".

Tried a power off and on and it loaded successfully. Just mentioning in case it happens to others.

Thank you for noticing that. This is nothing to worry about and the error appears because of changed partition type.

same thing happend to me on mk808b+ , after restarting loaded successfully and work without any issue

would be possible run kszag ROM on this box :

http://www.tomtop.com/s905-smart-android-tv-box-android-51-s905-quadcore-1g-8g-kodi-xbmc-uhd-4k-3d-mini-pc-wifi-h265-dlna-airplay-miracast-bluetooth-40-hd-media-player-v1838eu.html

maybe someone have try it

My ROM won't work with that box as it's got S905 and not S805 CPU.

[kamacnik1]

thanks kszag for quick answer
just asking, never mind

[jekkos]

Hello all,

I'm facing some weird problems with my AM_MXQ_A board (rlt 8189ETV chip). All was running wel with 6.0.1.2 and all of a sudden the board stopped booting. I attached a serial console and found that the bootup stalled after the bootloader started the kernel. As I didn't change anything I thought this was pretty weird and tried to reflash. Device boots up from sd after toothpick and flashes new version to nand. But after reboot it stalls at this line

From device tree /memory/ node aml_reserved_end property, for relocate ramdisk and fdt, relocate_addr: 0x5195001
Loading Ramdisk to 05009000, end 051948cf ... OK
Loading Device Tree to 05000000, end 05008ad3 ... OK

Starting kernel ...

[ 0.000000@0] Global timer: MESON TIMER-F (c07d3100) initialized

I was able to reflash original stock android rom which does work!! But once I want to go back to OpenElec the board stalls on on this line. Anybody got any idea what could be wrong here? Maybe a hardware issues or bad flash block or something? So no problem to boot into recovery or into original Android ROM, it's just that none of kszzaq's (nand, sd) builds work any longer, I've tried all recent version to no avail (even 6.0.3.1)

I could try to boot into uboot and load kernel on different address (not from nand) but no idea how to boot further. One thing I did notice is that the address of timer changes from boot to boot. Not sure whether this is normal or not.

[sonofdibnah]

I just have to say that I think you're a great bloke kszaq. Your posts are always polite, helpful and I'm in awe of what you've done with your releases. On the back of what you've done, I've risked the previously unthinkabe with the purchase of an Ott mxq for a friend who lives in Sri Lanka. Obviously I'll test it before it goes out but I think I have a fair chance of it working without too much messing.

The beloved mxq beelink red tickboxes seem to be reaching the end if their availability, at least cheaply. If you decide to move on to other boxes at any time in the future, please tell us what you're moving to and I for one will follow.

[pigbait]

kszaq still no dice... it might not even be anything with SMB im playing 1080p over LAN on my pc and M8 at the same time and both work... when I try the MXQ stream just shutter and buffer.....

this is a kodi log for you... if nothing comes of it dont worry i feel terrible bothering you about all these problems.