Homatics Box R 4K Plus

I will receive dune soon, and i read how to install coreelec. If I have understand I need to keep an usb drive to boot coreelec is it true ? Thanks

Yes, permanent occupy 1 usb slot

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Good Day, I switched back from 20 to 21 beta a few days ago and I am seeing on startup a massive amount of internet queries within a short period of time like 10 thousand plus requests, when I first switched it was close to 26 thousand requests is this normal or should I update. 18/11 is the image I used. I might add this was with a restore from a 20 version.

I am seeing this through my pihole.

Where did you get Android 12 from? Is it available only for Homatics and not for Dune boxes? When I checked for updates on my Dune box yesterday, it fetched new update, however it was 11.something only, not 12. I am asking because of AFR, that is still not available in 11 and might be in 12?

ATV12 only available for some alpha and beta homatics testers.
Once, when it will be stable, the “dune version” will be come in OTA.

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Does ATV12 bring improvements to CoreELEC?

and/or, is Automatic Frame Rate switching working in Kodi in version 12?

Yes afr works when the app support it , under kodi, netflix, vimu smarttube, and some other.
Of course not as good for media playing as in CoreElec.
CE under atv12 mostly works, issue just in the h264 hw decoding files.
But when once the Atv12 will be put to end users, the CE team can repair that, I hope.

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Anyone out there have any actual true 24fps (not 23.976) content to test with?

I cannot seem to figure out the magic combo of settings (if possible) to not have the image seem like 5fps.

Some guys in Telegram group said that they got fw update for dune box, version v5554.
Does it compatible with CE, or need something to do?

That just old v5310 special build, dated 12.07.2023, repair some rosegold box dvb tuner issues. Same kernel as v5310. Coreelec works under that.

I have the Dune HD black model. Its on 5554 now but it was shipped with FW prior to 5310. CE works perfect on 5554 no issues DV P7 also works on it. On top of that DTS-HD and DTS-X passthrough also works with CE.

Anybody experiencing over heating? I get temps up to 167f and it doesn’t go past that. Some films will stutter if on too long, and I think it’s related to the heat. It sits on the wood shelf of my entertainment stand, which seems to not help it, and propping it at an angle seems to cool it off a fair bit dropping temps around 10 degrees, and the stutter goes away.

I saw a post how poor the stock thermal pad is, and I ordered a longer one and expect it to be here on Saturday and hoping it helps. That mecool box posted here earlier looks really attractive and has grills on the bottom, I imagine that design is much better.

Which version Nightly of Coreelec do you recommend to install, 20 or 21 ?

Use 21, it’s better.

Okay, the Coreelec system is starting problem with the remote control because it doesn’t work what should be done for the remote control to start working ?

Ok, I managed to configure the remote control

I have another problem What program to install to configure Hyperion NG I installed this plug-in, but the LEDs didn’t light up what program should I use for configuration?

Use Webinterface:
https://docs.hyperion-project.org/en/user/Configuration.html

Does this program support this ambilight set?

The highest temps i have seen after 4-5 hours of runtime is 122f. so 167f seems really high as something is not right with those thermals.