Although I just bought a Odroid N2+ because of all of the recommendations from the forum, and so far I like it very much, I am looking for an alternative and I found this:
As far as I see, it is like a N2 but much cheaper at 90 euros, including charger and remote.
(here in Germany the N2+ costs 100 euros + 10 euros the power cable (?!?!?) + 30 euros the remote + 30 euros de emmc module, + 15 WIFI dongle(!??!?!?!), so 150 euros, which is the cost of an Nvidia Shield).
So this looks really interesting. Anybody tried it? Thanks!
According post #10here, it should be possible to run CE. Checkout on your own. Due to bad experinece with X96 boxes, don’t expect much support for these china clones here…
First, you can run different operating systems on a SBC (12 on N2), and a box works as expected only on one → factory pre-installed.
Second, you cannot brick a SBC whatever OS/experiment you throw in it
Third, many other things I’d rather not go into…
The different OS is not a limitation of the box, if I can run CoreELEC, which is Linux, I can probably run others. But this is only relevant if that is your use case. I never run anything that is not CoreELEC.
About the non bricking, that could be and advantage, but I never bricked one device.
I don’t know much about TV boxes, so I read this post:
And, without reading the whole post, I learned that I should buy a device with an SOC (System-on-Chip) of S922X chip.
So I searched for S922X on an online shopping platform, and among the results, there was Ugoos AM6B+, but there was also another device, which was much cheaper than AM6B+. I checked the product details page and confirmed that it indeed used the S922X chip, so I bought it without hesitation.
After I purchased it, I learned that there are different versions of this chip, including -J, -H, and non suffix versions, and only the -J version can correctly play FEL Dolby Vision (which is exactly what I need). So I immediately asked the seller, but he replied that he didn’t know.
Now I have a question:
After my device arrives (it will take about 4 days), how can I quickly know if its SOC is the -J version, and in this process, there is an important condition that I do not currently have a display device that supports HDR/DolbyVision. The TV box I bought is actually prepared for the future (about a year).
From yesterday to today, I have prepared the USB flash drive, firmware (initially -ng, I learned today that I need to switch to -no, and the forum posts maybe need to be updated), and dovi.ko files. I have learned how to flash CE firmware from Android, and in order to quickly determine if it is the -J version that supports FEL DolbyVision, what else do I need to prepare？
Yes, But this is a website is from Chinese Mainland, and I’m not sure if you can opening it and view it normally. On the product details page, it only says it’s S922X, and the seller told me he doesn’t know the specific model of the chip.
I forgot to mention earlier that I also prepared the test video for FEL, but the issue remains the same, If my display device does not support DolbyVision, can I use the test video to accurately determine whether the chips supports FEL?
This box is neither officially supported nor popular, it’s unknown whether it will boot CE with any of the existing DTBs, but in all likely-hood it won’t. It would be up to you to develop a working DTB if you want to use this.
It’s also very unlikely that this is a DV licensed box. DV licensing costs extra, and any box that has it advertises it as a selling point. This device mentions nothing about DV.
I’d personally look for ways to return this box, or refuse delivery, and instead buy an officially supported device.
Thanks for your reply! Actually, it’s pretty much what I had guessed—cheap stuff isn’t usually good. The reason I asked was that the seller just said “I don’t know” instead of giving a definite “no,” which left me feeling a tiny bit hopeful.
An AM6+ or s922x isn’t needed for DV FEL support in CE. There quite a number of other devices and SOCs to choose from. DV-licensed s905x4 and s905x5m based devices are substantially cheaper. The Xiaomi 3rd gen S Box is one popular cheap option. There are also a little slower s905x4 boxes that have the advantage of Gbit ethernet,USB3 and 4GB RAM.
