openelec for MXIII-G (amlogic S812) ?

[nighthawk1975]

Howdy All,

Another update - Mostly Kerber based (hence the naming), with a few reverted/added patches cherry picked from various places:

http://5.189.137.29/Openelec/MX3G/OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-MX3G-6.0.0.2b.zip

http://5.189.137.29/Openelec/MX3G/OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-MX3G-6.0.0.2b.tar

I am still concerned about the temp. of the CPU's, & personally use this autostart.sh:

---snip---
#!/bin/sh

echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo 1992000 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
---snip---

The "conservative" scaling governor functions similar to the default "ondemand" one - Due to issues with ondemand & hotplug noted in my previous post, I found the above actually keeps the box a little cooler, with no noticable impact on overall performance

Maybe you can help me out..

I updated my mxiii-g box to openelec 6.0. Only one thing is missing or is not working.

Please can someone add cec setting like the one that are used in a raspberry pi with openelec to our amlogic devices. See picture.



Originally posted by Condorello View Post
That linux rom make these box the perfect htpc!
any chance to have the tv remote wake up the box from standby through cec? In that way we can hide the amlogic device behind the tv or similar!

Now when i shut down my tv with te remote control te box stays red end will not turn on. Only by pressing the power button.. Now i can't hide it behind my tv.
Any sollution? On android it works like a charm.. But i prefer openelec

[stannoplan]

well i know what i'll be doing tonight

[wilro_6276]

Howdy All,

Another update - Mostly Kerber based (hence the naming), with a few reverted/added patches cherry picked from various places:

http://5.189.137.29/Openelec/MX3G/OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-MX3G-6.0.0.2b.zip

http://5.189.137.29/Openelec/MX3G/OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-MX3G-6.0.0.2b.tar

I am still concerned about the temp. of the CPU's, & personally use this autostart.sh:

---snip---
#!/bin/sh

echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo 1992000 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
---snip---

The "conservative" scaling governor functions similar to the default "ondemand" one - Due to issues with ondemand & hotplug noted in my previous post, I found the above actually keeps the box a little cooler, with no noticable impact on overall performance

[stannoplan]

yes wilro_6276 , there are prices to pay to live in the best country in the world cobber techprices, FTA TV and upload speed are all a pain.

BTW what improvements are you making? my second MXiii-g has just arrived and am playing with some heavy custom builds eg: the Beast, Andys Build and Spinztv, seems to handle it all ok but on some days its as slow as a wet week particularly wireless. Will be getting up in the roof tomorrow with some cheap CAT6 from MSY i forgot to reflash the firmware when changing OE builds which caused me some dramas but all good now, thanks for the earlier post that twigged my memory.

[Haba]

Hmmm... Tried 103, still no good here - I do believe I've isolated some of my problems with OE however, & will be pumping out an update as soon as it finishes uploading. Sadly, the sub-standard excuse for "HD" broadcast here, leaves me with little reason/need to replace the 'ol beyonwiz DPP2 (Just replaced the HDD, so it should be good for another 5 years - My plan is to replace it & use the MXIII-G+USB tuner (need to find a good OE compatible one), as I like the idea of driving everything through a common interface (ie. kodi).

Unfortunately, much like my PS3, the XBox360 generates far too much heat (it's a gen 1 with the brick powerpack, which gets obscenely hot after a few hours of operation - I've got a "graveyard" of various stb's I've tried as replacements over the years - I'd all but given up until the S805's came along (almost, esp. the x265 support), & the MX3G ticks all the boxes for me spec wise. I'll be investing a bit more time/effort on yet, as it is sooo close... (either that, or I'll end up frying it)

I looked up your unit, they didn't give that away in 2010 $999 in AU. I am using an HTPC with Windows MEDIA Center, 7 tuners with 1 TB recording drive Xboxes on each t.v. for whole home pvr or live t.v. Clarkss12 is using an s805 with Openelec and pvr backend plugin recording to a NAS for whole home pvr and live t.v. The MXIII-G has very good hardware specs that can replace my Xboxes if the software is there. They have patched Kodi 16 nightly for the h.264 Caption issue. I am watching a mpeg2 t.v. recording now with captions via Openelec Kodi on my zotac intel box without issue. Comcast my cable t.v. provider uses variable bit compression mpeg2 and mpeg4 now with 480i, some weird resolutions, 720p and 1080i so getting it all to work on any box without issue is difficult.

[wilro_6276]

I am using what the box shipped with 103 I think. I have not done a lot of testing execpt trying to see if the pvr plugin would work using Android. I did the Kodi 15.x fix for smooth video, hardware acceleration. Pvr is my core use, I must have it working or box collects dust. I checked the box temps, never that warm. Unfortunately, I was using the Zbox Intel cpu box with Openelec 6 tonight and noticed playback issues (studdering) and missing Closed Captions. Comcast has partially changed to h.264 for some hd channels which has broken captions for those channels on Kodi. I changed deinterlacing settings which has fixed the studdering. I am very surprised my Xbox 360 extenders are working nearly perfectly including captions with the new h.264 hd channels. I now must ask myself if I have a use for these Kodi boxes. After Thanksgiving, I'll try Openelec on the MXIII-G.

Hmmm... Tried 103, still no good here - I do believe I've isolated some of my problems with OE however, & will be pumping out an update as soon as it finishes uploading. Sadly, the sub-standard excuse for "HD" broadcast here, leaves me with little reason/need to replace the 'ol beyonwiz DPP2 (Just replaced the HDD, so it should be good for another 5 years - My plan is to replace it & use the MXIII-G+USB tuner (need to find a good OE compatible one), as I like the idea of driving everything through a common interface (ie. kodi).

Unfortunately, much like my PS3, the XBox360 generates far too much heat (it's a gen 1 with the brick powerpack, which gets obscenely hot after a few hours of operation - I've got a "graveyard" of various stb's I've tried as replacements over the years - I'd all but given up until the S805's came along (almost, esp. the x265 support), & the MX3G ticks all the boxes for me spec wise. I'll be investing a bit more time/effort on yet, as it is sooo close... (either that, or I'll end up frying it)

[nighthawk1975]

I updated my mxiii-g box to openelec 6.0. Only one thing is missing or is not working.

Please can someone add cec setting like the one that are used in a raspberry pi with openelec to our amlogic devices. See picture.

Originally posted by Condorello View Post
That linux rom make these box the perfect htpc!
any chance to have the tv remote wake up the box from standby through cec? In that way we can hide the amlogic device behind the tv or similar!

Now when i shut down my tv with te remote control te box stays red end will not turn on. Only by pressing the power button.. Now i can't hide it behind my tv.
Any sollution? On android it works like a charm.. But i prefer openelec

[Haba]

Hi Haba,

Curious as to which version of android is not giving you problems (all The Lollipop versions I've run are extremely unstable (101-106, MXIII-G & MXIIIPlus variants, the 4.4.2 rom is mostly OK, but has a few other issues I'm not happy about - I will be making an update release shortly which *might* help with your pvr issues.

I am using what the box shipped with 103 I think. I have not done a lot of testing execpt trying to see if the pvr plugin would work using Android. I did the Kodi 15.x fix for smooth video, hardware acceleration. Pvr is my core use, I must have it working or box collects dust. I checked the box temps, never that warm. Unfortunately, I was using the Zbox Intel cpu box with Openelec 6 tonight and noticed playback issues (studdering) and missing Closed Captions. Comcast has partially changed to h.264 for some hd channels which has broken captions for those channels on Kodi. I changed deinterlacing settings which has fixed the studdering. I am very surprised my Xbox 360 extenders are working nearly perfectly including captions with the new h.264 hd channels. I now must ask myself if I have a use for these Kodi boxes. After Thanksgiving, I'll try Openelec on the MXIII-G.

[wilro_6276]

I have my unit now. Using Android, I am not seeing heat issues or lockups. Unfortunately, the pvr plugin pvr.wmc is not working in one way or another with all versions of Kodi I have tried. I will attempt Openelec when I get time.

Hi Haba,

Curious as to which version of android is not giving you problems (all The Lollipop versions I've run are extremely unstable (101-106, MXIII-G & MXIIIPlus variants, the 4.4.2 rom is mostly OK, but has a few other issues I'm not happy about - I will be making an update release shortly which *might* help with your pvr issues.

[wilro_6276]

Have you considered opening up the m3g's case and having a small fan blow over the CPU heatsink? This could help dramaticlly imo, I should have my M3G within the next 2 days so I hope this isn't a problem I will have but if it is, I wonder if it is possibly to mount a small fan inside the case connected to the boxes power???? not sure about that but it would be a cool mod!

I consider this a last resort (I'm more inclined to pull the board out of it's case, rather than introduce yet another fan around my home entertainment system - I'm also not 100% sure that the CPU heat alone is the culprit in my case...

[wilro_6276]

Hi there! Do you know any openelec image for USBBURN? I can't reach my bootloader anymore (it's a very good stance compared to two days ago, when it was bricked ) Thanks

Hi Kozzito,

Not aware of any Openelec usbburn images - Safest bet is to use one of the Lolllipop images to restore device functionality (I use MXIII-G_101L1.img), then toothpick/sdcard flash OE. I've had to do this more times than I can remember due to near-bricking my device

[Haba]

Have you considered opening up the m3g's case and having a small fan blow over the CPU heatsink? This could help dramaticlly imo, I should have my M3G within the next 2 days so I hope this isn't a problem I will have but if it is, I wonder if it is possibly to mount a small fan inside the case connected to the boxes power???? not sure about that but it would be a cool mod!

I have my unit now. Using Android, I am not seeing heat issues or lockups. Unfortunately, the pvr plugin pvr.wmc is not working in one way or another with all versions of Kodi I have tried. I will attempt Openelec when I get time.

[ChrisR132]

Howdy Guys,

Sorry I've been a bit quiet here lately - I've been trying to track down some rather annoying behaviour with this box:

1. Overheating/heat problems - Once the box hits the 60+ degrees mark, I'm seeing sporadic behaviour (wifi 2/5ghz stop, playback picture quality degrades/locks up, ssh crashes, etc)
2. CPUFREQ doesn't behave, possibly contributing to the overheating issue - ONDEMAND pegs all 4 CPU cores to max ( 1608000hz), & never changes, the HOTPLUG scheduler only uses 2 out of the 4 CPU cores (but DOES scale up/down as expected), resulting also in degraded playback quality, & occasional lockups
3. Audible "clicking" every few minutes when sitting in Kodi's menu system, with an occasional very loud one.

I use NFS+Mysql to access resources across 3 different amlogic based devices, the other 2 units don't appear to exhibit any of these problems (MXQ-S85 + OTT all-black MXQ), it only happens with the MX3G. Admittedly, the MX3G behaves far better through the Gigabit lan port, rather than wifi, however, still exhibit's picture quality degradation when it hit's high temperatures (quality is pretty much restored for a while if I stop playback,reboot & resume).

I have tweaked 100+ options/recompiles since my last release, none of which has conclusively addressed the above 3 problems I'm seeing - I'm curious as to what others are seeing?

I don't make use of many kodi plugins personally, & really only use it to access my own media library - I had planned on looking into plugin related issues, however the above issues take priority (I also don't want any rogue plugins interfering/skewering my ability to track down the above problems

Have you considered opening up the m3g's case and having a small fan blow over the CPU heatsink? This could help dramaticlly imo, I should have my M3G within the next 2 days so I hope this isn't a problem I will have but if it is, I wonder if it is possibly to mount a small fan inside the case connected to the boxes power???? not sure about that but it would be a cool mod!

[kozzito]

Hi there! Do you know any openelec image for USBBURN? I can't reach my bootloader anymore (it's a very good stance compared to two days ago, when it was bricked ) Thanks

[wilro_6276]

Howdy Guys,

Sorry I've been a bit quiet here lately - I've been trying to track down some rather annoying behaviour with this box:

1. Overheating/heat problems - Once the box hits the 60+ degrees mark, I'm seeing sporadic behaviour (wifi 2/5ghz stop, playback picture quality degrades/locks up, ssh crashes, etc)
2. CPUFREQ doesn't behave, possibly contributing to the overheating issue - ONDEMAND pegs all 4 CPU cores to max ( 1608000hz), & never changes, the HOTPLUG scheduler only uses 2 out of the 4 CPU cores (but DOES scale up/down as expected), resulting also in degraded playback quality, & occasional lockups
3. Audible "clicking" every few minutes when sitting in Kodi's menu system, with an occasional very loud one.

I use NFS+Mysql to access resources across 3 different amlogic based devices, the other 2 units don't appear to exhibit any of these problems (MXQ-S85 + OTT all-black MXQ), it only happens with the MX3G. Admittedly, the MX3G behaves far better through the Gigabit lan port, rather than wifi, however, still exhibit's picture quality degradation when it hit's high temperatures (quality is pretty much restored for a while if I stop playback,reboot & resume).

I have tweaked 100+ options/recompiles since my last release, none of which has conclusively addressed the above 3 problems I'm seeing - I'm curious as to what others are seeing?

I don't make use of many kodi plugins personally, & really only use it to access my own media library - I had planned on looking into plugin related issues, however the above issues take priority (I also don't want any rogue plugins interfering/skewering my ability to track down the above problems