Anything on the S905 front?
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The S905 SOC is as good as it gets at this stage using Stable 9.2.1
Hi
I’ve installed this version:
CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-9.2-nightly_20200311-Generic.img.gz
on my x96 max+ s905x3 device. Everything went smoothly and seems to be working ok except for one thing, when I connect my external USB 3.0 portable drive it mounts correctly but it’s impossible to watch movies as it works too slow, even browsing. USB stick 2.0 works flawlessly in the same USB 3.0 port so the issue must be connected to the USB 3.0 hdd but it works great when connected directly to my TV. What can be the cause?
Does that same USB 3.0 HDD connected to USB 3.0 port work OK in Android ?
What happens if you connect this HDD to USB 2.0 port, does it work OK then ?
The same thing happens when I connect it to USB 2.0 port. USB 3.0 stick works well in both ports, the only problem is with this portable USB 3.0 hdd, there’s this sound like it was turning off constantly and it’s very slow. I haven’t had chance to check it in Android on this device as it came without batteries in the box and I’ve had no time to get new ones today so I can’t operate in Android. In Coreelec I’m using my TV remote.
This issue has been solved.
https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/solved-hdmi-signal-lost-when-play-4k60fps-movie/9986/12?u=szlww
Probably drawing to much power. Try another portable drive.
This sounds like your USB 3.0 HDD needs a better power supply with more power than it gets from USB ports on your box. Use an external powered USB hub in that case.
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X96 S905X nightly builds, periodically restarting Kodi.
P.S. : stable build is working fine.
That must be the case here. Is there any way to increase the voltage in the USB port on my device? My old Mini 8s tv box was able to power two usb HDDs at the same time.
btw, I have disabled the new updates notifications on the CE settings but I do still get the popups sometimes.
You can only try with a more powerful power adapter for the box. If that does not work, only powered USB hub will solve the problem.
If possible try to find/borrow any USB 3.0 HDD with it’s own power supply to see how that behaves on your box.
This is a feature, not a bug.
In Nightly Builds You will always get the popups
Thanks.
I had the nighty updates set to manua, and notifications popped-up that overlayed the screensaver. This isn’t optimal to avoid burn-ins. I do use a kodi addon screensaver and not the default one, and it was suggested that’s why it overlayed. To avoid that, I disabled the notifications in settings, but they still seem to pop-up sometimes.
Yes.
You have to accept this developer decision and You can find a lot of posts about this feature in the forum
I’ll do some reading. Thanks.
A setting called “Show Update Notifications” that can be turned on and off seems pretty straight forward to me, but if you say it isn’t meant to disable them, then I’m curious to find out what it does.
FWIW I use nightlies and often update too. But not automatically. I usually look the changelog first to be sure it’s something that seems like it might have some benefit for me. e.g if it’s a bunch of fixes for rPI that I don’t use, I see no reason to need to go through the download/reboot/install process.
I also make sure there aren’t hysterical reports of issues. Unlike some of the people here, I’m not that comfortable with futzing around with linux and SSH.
Reading this bit Update notifications
So I need to have it on Auto in order to switch off notifications? Seems a bit counter intuitive. Or I guess this means it will just download updates automatically without prompt, and tell me to update when ready.
Perhaps an info blob at the bottom could make it more clear.
Was not aware this was a well discussed feature. Thanks again.
hello,
i’m using nightly on KVIM 3, on SD card and when playing a 4K HDR file i got a black screen with below error in log:
2020-03-15 11:14:29.179 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
2020-03-15 11:14:29.284 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
2020-03-15 11:14:29.802 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
2020-03-15 11:14:29.802 T:3405169536 NOTICE: CVideoPlayerVideo::OpenStream - Creating codec: 173
2020-03-15 11:14:29.805 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Creating video thread
2020-03-15 11:14:29.805 T:3386286976 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
2020-03-15 11:14:29.875 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
2020-03-15 11:14:29.876 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86060
2020-03-15 11:14:29.876 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Creating audio thread
2020-03-15 11:14:29.876 T:3405169536 NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 1024
2020-03-15 11:14:29.877 T:3313324928 NOTICE: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
2020-03-15 11:14:29.929 T:3313324928 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86060, channels: 8, sample rate: 48000, pass-through)
2020-03-15 11:14:29.930 T:3313324928 ERROR: CAEStreamInfo::GetDuration - invalid stream type
2020-03-15 11:14:29.985 T:4063227920 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
2020-03-15 11:14:29.985 T:4063227920 NOTICE: Whitelist search for: width: 3840, height: 2160, fps: 23.976, 3D: false
2020-03-15 11:14:29.986 T:4063227920 NOTICE: Display resolution ADJUST : 3840x2160 @ 23.98 - Full Screen (39) (weight: 0.023)
2020-03-15 11:14:30.091 T:4063227920 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: OnLostDisplay received
2020-03-15 11:14:30.091 T:4063227920 ERROR: GetString: error reading /sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/custom_mode
2020-03-15 11:14:30.510 T:4063227920 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: OnResetDisplay receivedNightly 20200313
1 CEC problem. Turning on TV makes turning on my S905X2 (Ugoos X2 Cube) as well. In LibreELEC (other boxes) switching source on TV made my box on. Can You fix this? Turning off TV without turning off box working well.
2. Sleep/wake issue. Chooseing sleep from power menu makes my TV box sleep. I cannot wake it back. Any advice?
3. Not working 5 GHz wifi. May it not CE issue, but im not sure.
I moved from LE and mostly im glad of working CE. Despite described issues.
Thanx a lot! 
Turn off cec adapter in settings and see if problem persists.