CoreELEC

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:35 pm

I'm creating this Topic already.
We've made great progress for the few days we have the Odroid N2 device.
I'm happy to report that we have Kodi running with HW decoding, CEC, Audio. Also our Team Member Shanti tested several retro Gaming stuff and the performance is amazing.
There remains a lot of work to do especially for HW decoding but I'm confident that we will have a good working image when the Odroid N2 hits the market.
It is one of the best devices for Kodi Mediacenter I've ever seen!

Thank you @odroid and Hardkernel!

hoppel118 · Post by **hoppel118** » Sun Feb 24, 2019 12:15 am

Fantastic news! I am looking forward to buy this device!

Best regards Hoppel

rooted · Post by **rooted** » Sun Feb 24, 2019 12:32 am

That's good news Raybuntu, I look forward to giving it a go.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Sun Feb 24, 2019 2:42 am

I might share some builds for the debugging party @rooted

rooted · Post by **rooted** » Sun Feb 24, 2019 4:41 am

Raybuntu wrote:I might share some builds for the debugging party @rooted

By all means.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:21 am

We fixed some FB issues. Will push a Kodi patch later. Now scaling works perfect.
Also @Portisch made suspend2ram work And wakeup from IR remote. We improved cfgload a little bit. You can now have simultaneous emmc and sd card connected. SD is the priority so you can fix your emmc.
@odroid Do you want PR's now or should we wait for more stuff?

Post by **odroid** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:36 am

Please send PR's to our github.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:28 pm

odroid wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:36 am
Please send PR's to our github.

We will.

For now here is the first test version. I can confirm that NF plays with 1080p flawlessly in KODI now (highest bitrate). There are still tons of bugs in this new kernel. HW decoding is far from perfect. The cooling is superb! Even though some LibreELEC developers are spreading Fake News about the passive cooling and trying to discredit Hardkernel I have to say this cooling system is awesome [1][2]. I have been watching SW decoded NF video for 20min in my very warm room and the temperature never went over 45°C. Good job Hardkernel!!

https://test.coreelec.org/ray/CoreELEC- ... _N2.img.gz

[1] https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/14783 ... /?pageNo=1
[2] https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/02/13 ... ent-560829

adamg · Post by **adamg** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:56 am

Small video of Netflix on CoreELEC for the N2, sorry it's not longer, was pressed for time.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 5:07 pm

https://test.coreelec.org/ray/CoreELEC- ... _N2.img.gz

Post by **odroid** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:02 pm

It booted beautifully.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:14 pm

odroid wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:02 pm
It booted beautifully.

I sometimes get a black screen. I've included a script to install CE on emmc from a CE running on SD card. Some of our guys don't have this emmc2sd adapter that's why. It's handy this way cause we made SD the priority to boot so users can have their stable system on emmc and use sd cards to test new stuff. Or if you need to repair your system. I'm sure @Portisch will send some of our cfgload changes as PRs for you guys to consider.

rooted · Post by **rooted** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:27 pm

adamg wrote:Small video of Netflix on CoreELEC for the N2, sorry it's not longer, was pressed for time.

Excellent, and excellent choice in shows. Each episode is like a good movie.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 8:42 pm

https://test.coreelec.org/ray/CoreELEC- ... _N2.img.gz

Massive hw decoded playback improvements

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:19 pm

I've wrote about the current status and also made some power consumption measurements here:
https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/the-fu ... /121?u=ray

Basically we can do a first official release soon. Looking good. I will make a new test version next week.

AnjunaBeats · Post by **AnjunaBeats** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:51 am

Great Job Raybuntu.

Im waiting for official release!!!!
I was really waiting for it.

Congrats!

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:26 pm

Just finishing touches required. We want to make a first official release when shipping starts (3rd of April).

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:15 pm

https://test.coreelec.org/ray/CoreELEC- ... _N2.img.gz

SlappyMcPhee · Post by **SlappyMcPhee** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 3:28 am

Awesome to see. Will need to check out!

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Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 3:31 am

Found some other issues. We will do an official build soon. But I use it as a daily driver now. It's working really good.

SlappyMcPhee · Post by **SlappyMcPhee** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 3:55 am

What I would like to do is have it as an alternate booty OS on our TheRA build.

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xtertristl · Post by **xtertristl** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:31 pm

I'm I missing something all the test build links come up 404 for me. I just got my N2 and would like to start playing with it.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:41 pm

We removed it for preparation of an official release. But I can make another test version

xtertristl · Post by **xtertristl** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:00 pm

If the official release is coming within the next 24h I can wait but if you think it's going to take longer that that I'd love a test version to play with until then.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:09 pm

xtertristl wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:00 pm
If the official release is coming within the next 24h I can wait but if you think it's going to take longer that that I'd love a test version to play with until then.

Will make a quick test version. Hopefully it will be done in 1h.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:42 pm

https://mega.nz/#!19YyHaAZ!kznvmdmdEoMM ... 1zkARY4cpk
Untested but it should work

This is still temporarily. Don't expect that it will be able to tar update to official from here. Only use as clean flash.

xtertristl · Post by **xtertristl** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:01 pm

Raybuntu wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:42 pm
https://mega.nz/#!19YyHaAZ!kznvmdmdEoMM ... 1zkARY4cpk
Untested but it should work

This is still temporarily. Don't expect that it will be able to tar update to official from here. Only use as clean flash.

Thanks for this! I understand about not being able to upgrade to the official version

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:04 pm

xtertristl wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:01 pm

Raybuntu wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:42 pm
https://mega.nz/#!19YyHaAZ!kznvmdmdEoMM ... 1zkARY4cpk
Untested but it should work

This is still temporarily. Don't expect that it will be able to tar update to official from here. Only use as clean flash.
Thanks for this! I understand about not being able to upgrade to the official version

It might work but I can't guarantee it yet.

xtertristl · Post by **xtertristl** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:18 pm

Raybuntu wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:04 pm

xtertristl wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:01 pm

Raybuntu wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:42 pm
https://mega.nz/#!19YyHaAZ!kznvmdmdEoMM ... 1zkARY4cpk
Untested but it should work

This is still temporarily. Don't expect that it will be able to tar update to official from here. Only use as clean flash.
Thanks for this! I understand about not being able to upgrade to the official version
It might work but I can't guarantee it yet.

Well thanks for trying now it's time to debug because the image didn't work. I'm going to try reinstalling it again but it boots up gives me 1/2 a screen of static for about 2 seconds then just goes to black. I'll have to check the SD card as it's new. and the file size is weird as it's 150mb from mega but etcher is saying the image is over 500mb.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:22 pm

Did you switch the SPI switch by mistake? It happened to me too lately

xtertristl · Post by **xtertristl** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:26 pm

hmm I thought there were only two positions on the switch emmc and spi do I need to remove the emmc memory or is there a 3rd position?

xtertristl · Post by **xtertristl** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:35 pm

OK got it working I installed it to an SD card but had the emmc board connected it was booting off the emmc board. I might have to buy one of those adapters to write it to the emmc memory but I thought I could boot into coreelec then write it over to the emmc board in there when the stable build was published.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:40 pm

xtertristl wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:35 pm
OK got it working I installed it to an SD card but had the emmc board connected it was booting off the emmc board. I might have to buy one of those adapters to write it to the emmc memory but I thought I could boot into coreelec then write it over to the emmc board in there when the stable build was published.

We have a script included odroidn2toemmc. But I just fixed a bug.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:43 pm

https://github.com/CoreELEC/CoreELEC/bl ... idn2toemmc

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:20 pm

Here is our first official build for the N2:
https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/odroid ... uilds/4560

I'm using my device as a daily driver now. Thanks to Hardkernel again for providing N2's for part of the Team.

AnjunaBeats · Post by **AnjunaBeats** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:26 am

Is possible install transmission?

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:12 am

We do not offer these but there is a 3rd party repo from Thoradia

AnjunaBeats · Post by **AnjunaBeats** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:27 am

Does it work with a resolution of 3840x2160?

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:11 am

CE works in 4K of course.

AnjunaBeats · Post by **AnjunaBeats** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:15 am

Yeah!!
I just installed it and it works like god!
Thanks a lot for the work!

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:40 am

Well there are a few issues remaining. But we are getting there.

adamg · Post by **adamg** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:42 am

Worth adding that people have only started to receive these over the last few days and we already have more than 60 unique devices running CoreELEC

I can easily see this becoming the most popular device if the trend continues.

tobetter · Post by **tobetter** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:16 am

adamg wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:42 am
Worth adding that people have only started to receive these over the last few days and we already have more than 60 unique devices running CoreELEC I can easily see this becoming the most popular device if the trend continues.

Cool, how do you know numerous devices are running with CoreElec?

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:03 pm

tobetter wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:16 am

adamg wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:42 am
Worth adding that people have only started to receive these over the last few days and we already have more than 60 unique devices running CoreELEC I can easily see this becoming the most popular device if the trend continues.
Cool, how do you know numerous devices are running with CoreElec?

We have an anonymous counter:
https://discourse.coreelec.org/privacy#os
Basically each time the system asks for an update we collect DTB id, unix timestamp, Country.
These can be disabled but as I said those data is based on a nonpersonal anonymous random 32 character id (created like uuid's) and is stored for a week only.
This is helpful to use what devices are being used. For instance we now have more users than Khadas Vim1 in over a year.

tobetter · Post by **tobetter** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:14 pm

Raybuntu wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:03 pm

tobetter wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:16 am

adamg wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:42 am
Worth adding that people have only started to receive these over the last few days and we already have more than 60 unique devices running CoreELEC I can easily see this becoming the most popular device if the trend continues.
Cool, how do you know numerous devices are running with CoreElec?
We have an anonymous counter:
https://discourse.coreelec.org/privacy#os
Basically each time the system asks for an update we collect DTB id, unix timestamp, Country.
These can be disabled but as I said those data is based on a nonpersonal anonymous random 32 character id (created like uuid's) and is stored for a week only.
This is helpful to use what devices are being used. For instance we now have more users than Khadas Vim1 in over a year.

Wow, thanks...impressive...

jasio2 · Post by **jasio2** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:58 pm

I received one of my new N2's yesterday and CoreELEC was the first thing I tried on it. This might replace my unstable NUC running LibreELEC. Everything worked right away, and it is super responsive; this is very impressive.

I've seen the menu freeze for a few seconds once during the original setup but it hasn't happened again. And I currently have one new TV episode that does not get added to the database no matter what I try. But I was probably asking for trouble by copying the database files from the old machine!

I almost turned off the anonymous stats but thought you'd get some satisfaction from seeing the growing number of users.

Thank you all.

Raybuntu · Post by **Raybuntu** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:21 pm

jasio2 wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:58 pm
I received one of my new N2's yesterday and CoreELEC was the first thing I tried on it. This might replace my unstable NUC running LibreELEC. Everything worked right away, and it is super responsive; this is very impressive.

I've seen the menu freeze for a few seconds once during the original setup but it hasn't happened again. And I currently have one new TV episode that does not get added to the database no matter what I try. But I was probably asking for trouble by copying the database files from the old machine!

I almost turned off the anonymous stats but thought you'd get some satisfaction from seeing the growing number of users. Thank you all.

Well the stats thing is really random and non personal and it only makes sense to us as a whole. Their has to be a justification to support one or the other device. If it was just 3 users we wouldn't have to spend money on hosting and a forum etc.
We do have a small user base in general (around 8000) compared to LibreELEC. I think they have over 300000 users which most are Rapberry Pi's.

adamg · Post by **adamg** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:09 pm

So we now have more than 100 active devices running CoreELEC since some people have started receiving their 2GB boards, this is more than our combined Khadas VIM1+2 device count and I think it goes to show the amount of interest in this board, still only 13% of our C2 count but I'm sure it will catch up in no time at all.

powerful owl · Post by **powerful owl** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:09 pm

More than 101

This is awesome, thank you.

tomk · Post by **tomk** » Wed Apr 24, 2019 3:52 am

Just got My N2, installed coreelec using SD card(eMMC removed). Want to install it to EMMC, but I cannot boot to SD while it's installed, even using SPI. In SPI, It just says 'processing new Disk device' and sits. if I press any key it says 'Failed to launch petitboot, dropping to a shell' and restarts if I type exit. I have updated SPI to latest, and tried different sd cards and even a couple of usb devices. Any ideas?