[ROM] Unofficial OpenELEC for MXIII-G & Tronsmart MXIII+

[al8782]

Howdy All,

Just put up build "g" - This release includes all the latest package updates for OE - The "official" OE 6.0.1 maintenance release is due shortly, I suspect this build is very close to what it will be - Most significant part of this build is inclusion of the latest amlogic mali (gpu) drivers, temporary removal of the bluetooth drivers (I suspect it impacts the wifi, & BT hasn't worked since switching to codesnake's kernel anyway

These newer amlogic drivers appear to be changes needed for the new S905 based devices, & as I'd hoped also help significantly with our S812 based devices - I will hopefully put up a test build based on OE7 soon, but at this stage, there isn't a whole lot different to the stable build (apart from kodi 16 + newer build chain) - Any stability improvements it introduces for our devices will be backported to my stable build, regardless.

Enjoy!

Awesome. Can't wait to get my box to give your build a try. I have a G Box Q running OpenELEC and sometimes when exting an menu option the screen goes blank. It'll stay blank until I pull the plug or it sometimes just reboots itself.

Have you encounter that at all with your build for the MXIII - G?

Thank You

[wilro_6276]

Howdy All,

Just put up build "g" - This release includes all the latest package updates for OE - The "official" OE 6.0.1 maintenance release is due shortly, I suspect this build is very close to what it will be - Most significant part of this build is inclusion of the latest amlogic mali (gpu) drivers, temporary removal of the bluetooth drivers (I suspect it impacts the wifi, & BT hasn't worked since switching to codesnake's kernel anyway

These newer amlogic drivers appear to be changes needed for the new S905 based devices, & as I'd hoped also help significantly with our S812 based devices - I will hopefully put up a test build based on OE7 soon, but at this stage, there isn't a whole lot different to the stable build (apart from kodi 16 + newer build chain) - Any stability improvements it introduces for our devices will be backported to my stable build, regardless.

Enjoy!

[ilfrance]

I've discovered a little bug, i'm not even sure it depends on the openelec builds, or kodi, or whatever.. When i watch a 3d movie and kodi tries to autoswitch the tv to 3d i get a black screen... has anybody else tried this feature? Does it work for you and so it's a problem with my tv?

[ilfrance]

Latest version seems to have improved cec support, now my box turns on automatically when I switch the input with the tv remote... Great, thanks!

[wilro_6276]

Does this have any implications for the MX III or is it only of interest to x86 boxes?

It's probably more interesting for those that want to continue running android of some sort on these boxes, that being the case, it's really of no benefit to OE (It's just another custom android rom - just x86 specific in this case
I did have a bash at stripping down the L106 rom for the MX3G a while back (just leaving the bare minimum for kodi to run , sadly, this didn't improve overall performance of the device significantly, so I gave up on it (Thankfully, I *did* make significant progress with OE instead, which is why I'm still here

[wilro_6276]

Ordered a couple MXIII-G's from gearbest.

How's the heat on these boxes? I had these square boxes before and had to keep them turned upside down to help keep them a little cooler. They would get extremely hot.

Well, I think we've improved the temperature handling significantly in the latest builds, however, I still think they run a little bit hotter than they should (I haven't had any heat related lockups in the current build - YET

[wilro_6276]

Do you think it would be possibile to compile OpenPHT (https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT) for these openelec build? At the moment it works for rasplex which is openelec + plex for raspberry pi. I would love to have native plex on this box instead of kodi + plexmbc

This appears to be a fork of xmbc(kodi), customised for plex server, as I don't use plex, & there is no way for both versions to co-exist on my builds, I'm afraid I can't include it in my builds. (If it includes any patches/fixes that benefit kodi on amlogic devices in general, I will certainly incorporate them into by build

[wilro_6276]

Fwiw the openelec backup did not work so I ended up starting from scratch which worked out well.

For any more updates I will probably just delete those last two line and do another fresh install when we move to kodi 16

Any idea the timeline on when kodi 16 will be final?

Box seems to be running even better with the latest updates

Hmmm... That's unfortunate, I really depend on the backup/restore functionality (It takes *forever* to rebuild my setup from scratch - time I'd rather be spending fixing prob's with my build While kodi 16 will "upgrade" a V15 install, the reverse is not true (so we really need to ensure backup/restore is working %100)
V16 is still in it's infancy development wise, & thus far I see no compelling new features/design fixes to justify moving to it at the moment (I use mysql for central database storage for multiple devices, so when I start migrating to v16 on one device, I have to do it on ALL of them - Which I won't do until I'm sure it works solidly on all of them
That said, I plan on releasing test builds based on OE7 dev, which has V16beta as default - There are still quite a few prob's with this build that I haven't had time to fully investigate yet, however. (There are a couple of nice features in OE7 already, which I want to backport to stable as well

[Ozman]

Does this have any implications for the MX III or is it only of interest to x86 boxes?

[al8782]

Ordered a couple MXIII-G's from gearbest.

How's the heat on these boxes? I had these square boxes before and had to keep them turned upside down to help keep them a little cooler. They would get extremely hot.

[ilfrance]

Do you think it would be possibile to compile OpenPHT (https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT) for these openelec build? At the moment it works for rasplex which is openelec + plex for raspberry pi. I would love to have native plex on this box instead of kodi + plexmbc

[Bigredfan]

Hi Bigredfan,

You can use OE's backup/restore function to preserve your existing config (& copy it to a usb drive), or you can edit the "factory_update_param.aml" file once copied to an sdcard, & remove the last 2 lines from it (ie. "--wipe_data" & "--wipe_cache&quot - I generally use the later approach for minor updates, & the former when I'm experimenting with new patches to kodi. (It's always good to have a recent backup of OE regardless, while kodi 15.2 is stable, once we start dealing with OE7/kodi 16.x, we're bound to see a bit of strange behaviour

Fwiw the openelec backup did not work so I ended up starting from scratch which worked out well.

For any more updates I will probably just delete those last two line and do another fresh install when we move to kodi 16

Any idea the timeline on when kodi 16 will be final?

Box seems to be running even better with the latest updates

[wilro_6276]

If I upgrade my boxs using the toothpick method will I lose all the configuration that I have already done?

Or is there a way to use toothpick and just update the openelec files and not lose my skins/addons

Hi Bigredfan,

You can use OE's backup/restore function to preserve your existing config (& copy it to a usb drive), or you can edit the "factory_update_param.aml" file once copied to an sdcard, & remove the last 2 lines from it (ie. "--wipe_data" & "--wipe_cache") - I generally use the later approach for minor updates, & the former when I'm experimenting with new patches to kodi. (It's always good to have a recent backup of OE regardless, while kodi 15.2 is stable, once we start dealing with OE7/kodi 16.x, we're bound to see a bit of strange behaviour

[Bigredfan]

If I upgrade my boxs using the toothpick method will I lose all the configuration that I have already done?

Or is there a way to use toothpick and just update the openelec files and not lose my skins/addons

[al8782]

I bought my on Gearbest.

Ok good. Just wanted to make sure not to buy a clone with different hardware.

Thanks