CoreELEC Piers 22 is in alpha2 stage/phase.
Not SoC ,if the Device Tree Blob is in the CoreELEC Device Tree Folder, then it is supported.
That’s my understanding?
Agreed 
Technically very nice and interesting but visually horrible with this cheap fake gold aspect which hurts the eyes 
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Tox 3. No DV but hdr+. Just seems to work 
Affordable for us on a pension etc.
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No S/PDIF. So i choose x96 m300…
Yes saw that just now AliExp $90 au. Not bad price
I bought it here for $45 in August. If you wish, you can contact Steven Barry.
My friend and I bought the AM9 Pro, X96 M200, and X96 M300 from him.
Shenzhen Enstar Technology Co., Ltd.
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You can bargain at Alibaba; it’s a wholesale market.
Lol
Non factor for my Living Room, never even think about the Gold , all I see is the front Display, thanks to Arthur Liberrman and openVFD,periodically check the Temp SoC during playback.
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ok, but here the S905X5(M) is solely listed for NO and by that only supported with CoreELEC Piers 22 which is in ALPHA - at least this is my interpretation - can anyone confirm?
You are correct.
Will not work with NG/NE Branch, no device tree blob/ no support for that SoC.
Of course they are EOL both Branch ,so Piers is the way to go.
CoreELEC is now Piers Alpha 3 
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For anyone valuing a cheap, firestick like gadget that runs NO (and NE) with WiFi working, I’ve got to say I’m pretty impressed with the Tanix TX9 stick. I’ve run ceemmc -x successfully to install to internal. It runs in S905Y4 so I can tell the difference in response times when compared to my Odroid N2+ and it has only HDMI, a wired connection for the IR receiver and USB connections but it runs CoreELEC very well. Supplied remote is OKish but custom remote.conf remotes work thro the wired IR receiver.
It’s best run with a dedicated power supply as booting can be odd (no sound, scrambled picture) when using a TV USB for power. That said, I use a USB switch in the power connection from the TV’s USB and wait for the TV to power up before starting the stick and have no problems.
The supplied remote can be improved to get numbers working by getting the Tanix remote.conf from CoreELEC’s remote control repository.
EDIT: The supplied remote uses the same codes as the Hardkernel remote which explains why my Odroid N2+, being used as Plex and TV headend servers, kept turning off whenever I powered the TX9 down.
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this device function with Coreelec NO Alpha - but it has some quirks with Coreelec yet; overall, the N2+ is the round device, and better audio, function well; but the SingleCore execution on S905X5(M) is nice, it can respond more quickly.
I’ve been looking for a stick device. This one looks interesting, but only 2G RAM. Is there a similar device with 4G? What limitations will I find from using Coreelec on 2G RAM? I’m mostly planning on it to play videos (up to 4k) and running a torrent client in the background, would that be possible?
4Gb RAM- dunno, Google is your friend and the risk is yours if you buy something else and WiFi doesn’t work. 2GB RAM and torrent client - sorry no knowledge. Mine runs a fairly advanced skin that I’ve customised a fair bit (Aeon Nox Silvo) and multiple addons without problem. It plays 4K vids without problem BUT It has strong signal 5ghz WiFi feeding it.
Hope this helps but there comes a point where you just have to roll the dice.
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Hi! For those interested in Khadas hardware: Khadas has confirmed they are in early R&D for a VIM5.
No SoC has been officially confirmed yet, but they mentioned being involved quite early in the process (which makes it more challenging for them)…
This is worth keeping an eye on. Khadas has a proven track record ; the VIM4 has been one of the most powerful SBCs on the market for years, and Khadas has collaborated closely with Team CoreELEC on multiple occasions (Amlogic-ne and Amlogic-no projects), helping with implementation of software support. That history makes the VIM5 particularly promising for the future of CoreELEC.
Source: VIM5 (S928X-K)? - General Discussion - Khadas Community
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Hopefully not S5-S928X… Looks not good for FEL+S5…
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The VIM line of Khadas SBCs has so far been exclusively Amlogic SOCs. Is there at least confirmation that that will remain the same, and the VIM5 will use Amlogic?
I’d be surprised if they chose to use the S928X, Khadas has never had a strong focus on video playback (never used DV licensed SOCs). And the main selling point of the s928x is 8K playback. In many ways that matter for an SBC the A311D2 is already a better SOC than the S928X.
Given the small pool of Amlogic options, I’d guess that it’s either the s905x5 or possibly the s905x6. It feels a little late to be developing a s905x5 SBC, but maybe not too early to start planning for the s905x6 if AML gives them early information.
Khadas has a track record of releasing a product and moving straight on. Long term software support is appalling and any of their products will be left high and dry after a few years.
I tried to revive an old VIM2 recently but found that none of their OSs were still actively supported and working. Compare this to a raspberry pi where you can still get active support for model 1s.
This is fundamentally an issue with all ARM boards - and especially AMLogic boards.
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In the last few years there’s been an increasing push to get mainline linux driver support for Amlogic devices. That should help for software support. And AML is making more of an effort to continue support for their older boards, which is why the s905x2 (2016) is able to work with CE-NO and AML’s newest kernel. That’s not to say AML couldn’t do a lot more.
RasPi is the most popular SBC, it has the advantage of a much larger community and community development. It’s going to be hard to compete with that.
The Odroid N2+ was a relatively successful AML SBC, it’s still supported by many open source projects and was even used by Home Assistant in one of their early devices. More Odroid and Khadas AML developer boards are good for projects like CE in that they bring more kernel development, more driver support and more community development in general.
Though I agree with the thrust of what you say, I have an observation. Mainline support of AML boards has been an ongoing project for years. It focuses on having core feature support and these work well in mainline. However the video decoders are all closed source AML proprietory, reverse engineering them is very difficult and with the pace of chip feature development - mainline support never catches up before the chip is redundant. This leaves mainline using software decoding for which the cores simply are not adequate.
N2+ and Odroid in general are better than most, but they are still up against unfriendly proprietory ARM/AML licensing which even if Hard kernel wanted to release the drivers they are legally forbidden from doing so.
Ultimately Intel starts to look increasingly attractive as a media player.