Armbian on Amlogic S805 Android TV Box

Installing Armbian 20.10 Bullseye (with Linux 5.9.0) on an old A95X Android TV Box. Everything went well (follow this guide) - New link download Afterwards I installed OpenwebRx Plus (follow this guide), with RTLSDR V.3 dongle. Now my SDR receiver is online, so I replaced my RaspberryPi 3. The performance of this Amlogic S805 is exceptional, I was very surprised. 😋
 
 
👉 Article published on the official blog of RTL-SDR.COM (see here) 👈



  
OpenwebRx public decoding to MQTT
 
 

OpenwebRx receiving DAB
 
 To add the decoder, type in the terminal:
sudo apt update
 sudo apt-get install dablin
sudo apt-get install python3-csdr-eti
 
 
 OpenwebRx receiving DSC
 
 
 
OpenwebRx receiving DMR - D'STAR
 


D'STAR and C4FM mode reception with geolocation on the map.




 

OpenwebRx receiving at 21 MHz in WSPR mode 😉

 
 WSPR reception on 15/20/40 meters with OWR background service. 😆
 
 
 WSPR reception on 10 meters with OWR background service. 😆
 

 
WSPR reception 20-30-40 meters in automatic rotation (background service) 💫


 
 Rx FT8 on 40 Mhz and 50 Mhz
 
 

 
Rx HFDL 💨
 

 
 WSPR-Packet-AIS-VDL2 and HFDL 
Reception (8 hours) with automatic band switching and OpenwebRx+ background service 😎






 




 

Rx ADSB (background decoder)
 


 Rx satellite StratoSat TK-1 


 
OpenWebrx+ background decoder SSTV (11-20 meters)  and JS8call👻
 
 
 
 
FAX
Reception (7878 Khz) background service. 😎
 




 NMF Boston Marine Radiofax to 9110 Khz 
 



 

 


Comments

MASSIMO said…
grazie delle info IW0CJE
Jhosua said…
No hay acceso al archivo armbian del enlace. Algun enlace con desktop para amlogic S905x? Saludos
IT9YBG said…
Jhosua: utilice esta página:
https://mirror-eu-de1.armbian.airframes.io/dl/aml-s9xx-box/archive/
Jhosua said…
Grazie mille per l'aiuto. Ho scaricato diverse immagini desktop da testare, ma nessuna funziona per me. Il mio dispositivo è un modello Android TV EM95X con Amlogic S905X. Seguo i passaggi in base ai tutorial che ho visto su Internet:
Modifico il nome del file u-boot-s905x-s912 in u-boot.ext
Modifico il file /extlinux/extlinux.conf
ETICHETTA Armbiano
LINUX/Immagine
INITRD /uInitrd

#FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200.dtb
FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb
#FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb
#FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-q200.dtb
#FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb
#FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-g12b-odroid-n2.dtb

Modifico con # in base al mio dispositivo Amlogic e salvo le modifiche
Inserisco la scheda SD nel mio Android TV e accendo l'alimentazione. Avvia l'avvio di Linux dalla scheda ma si blocca a metà dell'installazione e non procede. Non riesco a farlo funzionare con nessuno dei file che ho provato. Mi potete aiutare? Grazie
IT9YBG said…
Try installing an older version, the procedure you follow is correct, I tried 3 images.
IT9YBG said…
La mia versione:
Static hostname: arm-64
Icon name: computer
Machine ID: c89ea87dd75d4e68995ac8cb2*******
Boot ID: e98339179d534d28aa261f392*******
Operating System: Armbian 20.10 Bullseye
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-arm-64
Architecture: arm64
Welington said…
Hello

I could not find Armbian 20.10 Bullseye Linux 5.9.0-arm-64 , tried other images without success on my amlogic MXQ with S805 and S905 , is it possible to you to leave an ISO image for us ?

Thank You
Welington
Ulrich said…
Hello, how is the performance compared to RPi3? I installed OpenwebRx on the Pi, but got buffer underrun and stutter all the time.
Anonymous said…
Ciao,

tested on my TVbox S905W2 without problems. Except one... the codecs.

In the first screenshot (under "OpenwebRx receiving at 21 MHz in WSPR mode") there are no dmr and dstar, while in the second (under "Rx HFDL") they are present. Did you add them using codecserver-softmbe or codecserver-mbelib-module? If so, how did you do it?

I'm asking you because I've never succeeded on armbian. I can compile and install the modules without problems, but after this the services don't start, not even manually. And the configuration file in /etc/codecserver/codecserver.conf isn't even created. Also tried on Orange Pi PC, always with Armbian obviously, same result.

Thanks in advance,
Andrea
IT9YBG said…
Armbian unfortunately does not support manual installation of DMR -D'STAR. What you see is on RaspberryPi3. Be happy that you have already saved a TVBox :-)
IT9YBG said…
# Ulrich:
With my TV Box I didn't find any slowdowns, audio ok! I deactivated Desktop mode from ARMBIAN - CONFIG so I have more memory for OWR+.
IT9YBG said…
This is the correct link to add DMR-D'STAR, YSF codecs... good work


https://github.com/fventuri/codecserver-mbelib-module