[ROM] Unofficial OpenELEC for MK808B+ and MXQ

[mike77]

I released a new version today with booting from SD card possible for all supported devices. See first post for links and full info!

Sd card version installed successfully ( beelink mxq) !

Thanks!!!

[kkm]

Everybody, thank you for your tests and reports. I released a new version today with booting from SD card possible for all supported devices. See first post for links and full info!

Thank you!

SD is booting is great. Is it possible to auto-mount NAND for storage access from OE-SD?

My MS BT mouse issue seems to be resolved on p16.

[kszaq]

Thank you!

SD is booting is great. Is it possible to auto-mount NAND for storage access from OE-SD?

My MS BT mouse issue seems to be resolved on p16.

You should be able to add this code in autostart.sh:

mount /dev/data /media/data

You can do this for every NAND partition, not only data.

[rev6]

Thanks for the updates and SD card functionality. Gonna try it out

[kkm]

With the new SD bootloader, normal toothpick + recovery.img no longer works, so now NAND backups can't be done with TWRP and we have to use SSH or terminal from OE-SD, correct?
Or maybe there is a way to make TWRP as image bootable from SD?
And to restore the original non SD-boot we'd have to reflash it with USB Burning Tool?

[kszaq]

With the new SD bootloader, normal toothpick + recovery.img no longer works, so now NAND backups can't be done with TWRP and we have to use SSH or terminal from OE-SD, correct?
Or maybe there is a way to make TWRP as image bootable from SD?
And to restore the original non SD-boot we'd have to reflash it with USB Burning Tool?

Toothpick + recovery.img should normally work - as far as I rememeber it worked for me yesterday.

The easiest way to restore non-SD boot is to re-flash Android - either via recovery or USB Burning Tool.

[rev6]

Will a 2GB micro-SD card be enough to run OpenELEC from?

[zeon]

Hi to all of you.

Which is the best remote "out of the box" for MK808B+/OpenELEC?

Many thanks.

[override]

Same problem again no audio output in 24p as was on p15, maybe the problem is in updated amlogic kernel or something. It seems i stick with p8 for now.

[karl0ss]

I was pretty busy moving home in last 2 days - it's the reason for no updates from me. SD card booting coming today (fully works on MXQ, testing now on MK808B+). New OpenELEC 5.95 beta coming soon-ish as I have to merge improvements from my 5.0 branch.

Wicked Thanks so much for all your hard work on this

[kszaq]

Will a 2GB micro-SD card be enough to run OpenELEC from?

It should be enough but you might run out of space pretty soon.

Same problem again no audio output in 24p as was on p15, maybe the problem is in updated amlogic kernel or something. It seems i stick with p8 for now.

I wasn't able to reproduce that. Parhaps you can PM me a sample?

[kkm]

Toothpick + recovery.img should normally work - as far as I rememeber it worked for me yesterday.

No it definitely does not work anymore. I double-checked it on another SD card with recovery.img. It just boots to Android (but without the Google TV initial logo).

I had my MK808B+ re-flashed to original 111k4 before installing OE-SD boot. Perhaps you have a different bootloader version?

[kszaq]

No it definitely does not work anymore. I double-checked it on another SD card with recovery.img. It just boots to Android (but without the Google TV initial logo).

I had my MK808B+ re-flashed to original 111k4 before installing OE-SD boot. Perhaps you have a different bootloader version?

I'll re-check that when I get back home. As a workaround you can rename recovery.img to kernel.img and a toothpick won't be necessary.

[kkm]

As a workaround you can rename recovery.img to kernel.img and a toothpick won't be necessary.

Yes it works this way :-)

[smoothquark]

My issue is HDMI-CEC or rather, the lack of. No problems with my Samsung but my LG TV does not work. I think the problem is with the amlogic kernel. Openelec on my cubox-i using libcec works fine with both TV's. Any chance of getting libcec working with the mk808b? I think there is a patch available now. How can I get the openelec to use libcec? I have compiled from git but cannot figure out how to get libcec compiled.