Agree only 4 months left in this year
Which has been Best Device/ Machine for you in 2022/23 ?
Happy Testing
We will see what kernel 5.15 does bring. AML does say it support G12B and SM1 as well, untested.
Also right now there show up S5, S928X(-J) on the marketā¦
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As you I was also looking for a replacement for my old X96Air (s905x3).
I tested the new beelink gt king II (A311D2).
Very fast and good but does not support HBR audio yet and no Dolby Vision.
Since I have no need for Dolby Vision but I do have for Dolby Atmos and HD audio codecs with HBR I decided to try a ToX3 (s905x4) and it works great. Faster than old x96 but slower than beelink but with all support I need. And I can use my hd-ma and true-hd audio and Atmos
First of all thank you very much CoreELEC team. I installed your OS on a Banana Pi M5 some time ago and everything works charming out of the box, really great stuff. Also the documentation how to perform the installation is very useful.
Regarding the topic, for me the Banana Pi M5 is one of the best models in Mid 2023 to buy for CoreELEC and those are my reasons:
- You can actually just buy it and get it in under a weekā¦
- Price point <90ā¬ but still with GbE, USB3 and 4k decoding
- Itās an development board, there is no vendor lock or situations you canāt escape
- Supports many other scenarios as well once not needed as HTPC anymore
Before I had a Nexbox and stopped counting the hours I spend to get LibreELEC running, searching the forum for new (of course unsupported) firmware or translating Chinese websites to find a newer Android firmware. So happy I found and bought an alternative and that CoreELEC existsā¦
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Can this box be taken? We want to buy for my friend.
G7 Max S905X4
Was tempted myself today as amazon uk has the dune in stock,but ive waited this long so il jst wait for the ugoos am8 and id imagine odroid are atleast in the design stage for the S928x soc
Hello, you can buy, because Tencent 5x is also a 928x chip, it seems that the Tencent team and coreelec team cooperate to adapt.
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Iām looking for a new device to run CoreELEC on.
Any advice is highly appreciated!
Requirements (no particular order):
- bluetooth or wifi remote controler (no IR)
- 4K
- fully supported by CoreELEC
- Amlogic-NE (preferably)
- price range around 100 euro
- available to buy
There are 200 posts above you answering that. Itās all subjective.
Iām thinking of buying ugoos x4q extra, I have a question can coreelec be installed?
For the same price, buy a Homatics instead and it will be good for streaming too.
Box no good then?
The device is very nice, I have one. CoreELEC is running well with no major setbacks. The Android kernel is not the same as ours so youāll need someone to pass you the dovi.ko module so DV works in CE.
It always comes to what use case you have. The homatics has all the licences in Android for the streaming apps, for personal library use theyāre similar. The Ugoos has a nice large storage.
Thanks for the great information Iāve already ordered the device will ugoos work with coreelec
Hello, I saw support for DV shipped for Homatics box, rocktek g2ā¦
Do those boards support HDR10+ ?
Which one should I choose ? Rocktek g2 seems pretty good.
Thank you !
Rocktek G2 is Amlogic device similar to Homatics and Dune
I am happy with the Rocktek G2, it doesnāt have an IR but I use an USB HID remote with CE leaving BT for Android. From the four similar S905X4-J DV devices price is pretty important distinction and the G2 is often available on sale with free shipping in the US (right now $110 USD).
I just purchased x4q extra can coreelec be installed and will dolby vision work as the chip is S905X4-J
You had your answer here. The answer is yes to both if you can reach someone that provides the dovi.ko module for the 5.4.210 kernel (like the one found in homatics)