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

[eprom101]

Hey eprom101,
Yeah sadly I had one of those boxes also. It WOULD NOT flash or work with any of the ROMs. Tuns out it was completely the wrong chipset as advertised. I got it cheap on Amazon and it was a knockoff. To confirm, you need to crack open th case and pop off the heatsink to see what the exact chipset is.
Cheers,
Ken

It's an 812 chip set.

[eprom101]

That is a clone box! That is what you guys get for buying them cheap from Amazon. When will people learn!!

What I get? Really, I don't care if its a clone. It's just a hobby. I also have a couple of other boards I'm playing around with. Anyway if I put any money into a board it's not going to be any pre-loaded Android TV box. If you ask me all of the boxes out have many board versions and made in China for less than 20 dollars. Eventually openelec will evolve and will work with all micro architecture.

[loki7777]

Question bit related to openelec bit to Kodi. When skipping video inside openelec(6.0.3e and 7beta))(box connected to denon avr) i see black screen for few sec(like out of sync), when doing the same inside android+kodi 16.x all is fine same as box connected directly to tv.Any way to fix it or anyone have the same problem as well?

[Doggyofone]

Installing from the toothpick method is not updating. It is doing a fresh install. The update is done by placing the files in the update folder via PC.

I have installed extfsd to be able to explore the sd card in Windows. However, I don't see the "update" folder. All I see is aml_autoscript, kernel.img, kernel.img.md5, system and system.md5. I can't explore any of them to find sub folders. How/where do I find the "update" folder?

[Doggyofone]

I'm up and running dual boot with openelec 6.95.2a. Nice and fast and problem free so far. Unfortunately openvpn is not included in the build, although it is included in OE 7.0 official builds. Including openvpn in this build would helpful and very useful for those of us trying to keep things private and secure.
wilro 6276, I hope you will consider this in future builds.

Thanks

In case you were looking for openvpn for OE/LE, I ran the install for LE from here: Index of LibreElec MX3G wilro and this build http://5.189.137.29/Openelec/MX3G/le...-7.0.1c.img.xz
I followed the instructions on page 1, booted and LE installed. I checked the build via ssh using putty and found the openvpn bin where it is supposed to be in /usr/sbin. I installed VPN manager from here: http://openelec.tv/forum/unofficial-...n?limitstart=0
and setup my service. I now have a working openvpn.
As I found, the pre version 7.0 OE/LE builds do not have openvpn pre-loaded, so you have to install 7.0 builds.

[Doggyofone]

change the extension of the file, should work

Changing the ext isn't required. I figured this one out.

[mazsuper]

change the extension of the file, should work

[Doggyofone]

I'm up and running dual boot with openelec 6.95.2a. Nice and fast and problem free so far. Unfortunately openvpn is not included in the build, although it is included in OE 7.0 official builds. Including openvpn in this build would helpful and very useful for those of us trying to keep things private and secure.
wilro 6276, I hope you will consider this in future builds.

Thanks

[alon24]

wilro_6276 any thoughts about adding support for 2 keyboard langs (phisical keyboard) in setting so I can do a script to change phisical layout?

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/s812-aa/tronsmart-aa/firmware-roms-tools-ah/541755-rom-unofficial-openelec-for-mxiii-g-tronsmart-mxiii?p=579245#post579245

[Bruur]

I then flashed via toothpick Openelec from http://amlinux.ru/image/ and Im running OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-M8SPlus-6.95.1.1 with all hardware recognized and working well. The box is just as fast as the previous MXIII-G but it does run cooler and doesn't get warm to the touch.

I'm not sure if you want to make a version of OpenElec for this version, I just wanted you to know about the differences and that it is a good piece of hardware... IMO

I'm willing to test for you if you are...

How about powering the box off? Does this work well with this firmware? I'm (still) on OpenELEC 6.0.0 and the box doesn't power off. The red power button on the remote doesn't power the button off. I remapped it to the Kodi shutdown menu. Selecting Power off results in a reboot and suspend sends it into a deep coma. The only way to get it out of suspend is by unplugging the powerplug and putting it back in again. The button on top of the box doesn't work with this firmware, only to power it on right after inserting the powerplug. So, does the OpenELEC 6.9.5.1.1 firmware solve these issues?

Also, I'm also up for testing! New boxes indeed all come with 201L1 firmware and Netxeon MXIII-C_V1.1 written on the mainboards, I even have the newest boxes underway with Netxeon MXIII-C_V1.2 mainboard. It would help to have an updated version of OpenELEC or better: LibreELEC for these newest model MXIII-G 2GB/16GB boxes!

[MinixCrazy]

Wilro,

After going through several variations of the MXIII-G it looks like they are now shipping the MXIII-C board with 202L1 firmware. This board is not compatible with previous firmware and only flashes with M8S+ firmware. I noticed Bruur's post on how he recovered from brick and tried a stock firmware for Acemax M8S+ burn from PC via Amlogic USB Burning Tool. This worked well to recover and is just an FYI for others with this box...

I then flashed via toothpick Openelec from http://amlinux.ru/image/ and Im running OpenELEC-Amlogic.arm-M8SPlus-6.95.1.1 with all hardware recognized and working well. The box is just as fast as the previous MXIII-G but it does run cooler and doesn't get warm to the touch.

I'm not sure if you want to make a version of OpenElec for this version, I just wanted you to know about the differences and that it is a good piece of hardware... IMO

I'm willing to test for you if you are...

Frank

[alon24]

another question:
If I want to do this:
http://openelec.tv/forum/105-keyboar...-request#31349

How can I do this with this build???
be able to support switching between 2 physical keyboards on screen, it need xorg and also
setxkbmap -display :0 -layout us,ru -option "grp:rctrl_toggle"

I checked this on an intel machine running OE (not amlogic this version) and it changed my keyboard lang.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help

[alon24]

Would it be possible to add 2 things:
1. the second phisical lang keyboard selection (like i openelec progrmas) so I can define a second lang
2. The unoffical addons, so i can install vnc

This is ofcourse for the libreelec 7 version (zip file install on nanad)
Now I see the openelec version also does not have these 2 things, How can we get access to them?

[hscotty55]

its an M8S......lol I got it for like 25 dollars.

That is a clone box! That is what you guys get for buying them cheap from Amazon. When will people learn!!

[hscotty55]

Openelec runs like crap on these devices Im going back to android!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet you have a clone box because Openelec runs fast and flawless on these boxes.