Posts by bago82

I am hoping there is someone on this forum that can help as there seems to be alot of interest in Linux based kodi on arm devices and very little support available. The issue is that the live tv side of android boxes is lacking usability which can be fixed by tvheadend, unfortunately kodi for android doesn't support the backend.

I have made a start on learning the basics of Linux but so far it is all trial and error which is slow. I will be happy to help someone create / test a guide. Below are the steps I assume are needed but I do not know the code / programmes needed for each.

1. Create sd card that will boot a "persistent" Linux based system with the ability to connect to a network via ethernet and have SSH enabled. This will probably involve using the files in the official firmware release but it's unclear how this is achieved. (kodibuntu or ember maybe as they would be a good starting point, not openelec as the commands / development is limited)
2. Use SSH to compile a kernel based on the one in android settings which will enable WiFi etc.
3. Install/update kodi and have the system boot straight into it
4. Install/configure tvheadend / oscam (this part has plenty of support)

This may be over simplified but I doubt by much, the problem is that most people have no Linux knowledge and nearly all how-to's take it for granted that they do. There are some systems that have Linux like wetek or venz k1 using the vitmod openelec but everything seems quite specific and not aimed at creating a universal way of getting Linux to run on arm devices generally.

Any advice would be good but a universal "dummies" guide would be invaluable to alot of people who have already bought an arm box.

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I'm not sure if a single tuner can handle 2 LNBs tbh, maybe someone with more experience can help you there, this is more a work in progress for me as I'm picking it up as I go along. I have recently realised that my wifi isn't being detected so i'm working on that now.

Hi I recently bought a Vigica C100S, a £50 single DVB-S2 tuner from china with android OS, kodi, cccam etc. When I got it i quickly realised that the UI for the DVB was severely lacking and that channel lists etc were going to be a nightmare.

I decided that Openelec with tvheadend was the way forward and started reading around as I have no experience with this setup, finding a compatible image wasn't easy but in the end I went with vitmod 2.1 and thought I should share the outcome with the forum as it's been so helpful when it came to getting my head around things.

I have created the vitmod v2.1 micro SD card using win32diskimager and the image from http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showt...#entry39619319 (Thanks to Vitaly_S and Google Translate)

I then renamed the kernel on the SD Card and replaced it with the one from http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showt...#entry39937060

I booted with the SD Card inserted and openelec booted fine, I setup OSCam using https://tvheadend.org/boards/13/topics/13301

I installed tvheadend-3.9.2712 from the 1st link and configured it using the guide http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=78286 (Using a DTH Bouquet for local tv with SD channels preferred and the Irish bouquet with all apart from the setanta channels disabled) and installed the TVHeadend HTSP Client.
(There is an update for tvheadend available but I haven't updated it yet as I'm not sure whether this will be compatible, when i have this system tested i will try updating to see how it affects it)

I am currently using OpenTV and PyEPG but some channels are missing from it, I have tried different combinations but this is the best 1 i have found so far as other combinations/changing channel numbers of BBC One HD seem to affect things somehow and cause glitches.

Everything seems to work ok then out of nowhere i will have Oscam issues, i remove the SD card and boot in android and can confirm it's not my C-line but I cannot understand what is actually causing the problem, I am starting to think it might not actually be linked to me adding EIT DVB Grabber in the epg grabber settings and if I can figure out the real issue then I might be able to have EPG for the other channels too. I am using OSCam r10615 if anyone would like to see any logs let me know as any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am new to all of this so please bare that in mind but I cannot see any problems with the original system from running this alongside it, I'm sure if somebody who actually has experience of this stuff were to get involved the kinks could be ironed out fairly easily, eg. updating tvheadend/oscam could well fix this but i have no idea whether or not different versions are hardware specific, I also can't confirm that the custom openelec is working as it should.

I hope this saves people the hours of trial and error I have endured over the past few weeks and reassures anyone sitting on the fence that it is possible to get these cheap little boxes up and running with Openelec. There is a lack of an English speaking community but hopefully that will change shortly with a bit of help from linuxsat-support, after all if a complete noob can get it up and running using using a russian website imagine the possibilities for experts with a good support forum :)

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A few general questions i could do with clarification on before moving forward if anyone is feeling helpful

1. Could anyone tell me if the latest arm-cortex version of oscam from the OSCam link on the top of the page would be compatible with this box? It has an AMLogic S805 Cortex A5. The version i am running is Build r10615 compiler armv7a-openelec-linux-gnueabi

2. Has anyone been successful at using openelec 6 and if so which version did you use?

3. Do TVHeadend updates work for all setups or are they hardware specific as OSCam and Openelec appear to be? Are there any reasons not to update?

full spec available here http://www.smartvboxs.com/prod…00s-new.html#.ViUZ6H6rSJA