Word to the wise. If you’re using this device on a Roku TV, you’ll have to set HDMI mode to Standard as for some reason HDR wasn’t being picked up. Doing that and a reset did the job well there. I’m pretty happy for the cost of this box. About 50 bucks and can play anything I throw at it. Don’t care for DV since my TV can’t play it
Just a report here on May 25, 2025. I am still using two of the HK1 Amlogic S905X4 boxes purchased from Amazon.
Decided to update to current nightly NO build.
CoreELEC-Amlogic-no.aarch64-22.0-Piers_nightly_20250521-Generic.img.gz
My steps.
1 - did a backup to USB stick of current running Coreelec.
2 - built a new SD card with Linux and Balena Etcher
3 - booted with new SD card - rebooted manually a couple of times. All looks fine.
4 - restored back up from USB stick
I am seeing a message about updating Android which I am ignoring. Should I update Android?
I have a TCL TV here with Roku OS. I do not use it and have the Ethernet port / WiFi port disabled. I do get HDR fine.
I am stuck in a boot loop here. It boots and saids something about connecting to the DB and migration. It then reboots over and over again.
I have been able to see some new stuff in the Kodi 22 build and do like it better than the Kodi 21 builds.
I did build another image here with the CoreELEC-Amlogic-ne.aarch64-21.2-Omega-Generic.img.
This one is OK and doesn’t reboot.
Backup/restore from kodi 21 to
kodi 22 not recommended…
Ahh…thank you @frodo19 . Yes here only get it to stay up by leaving the USB stick from the backup in place. Kodi 22 / NO seems faster to me than Kodi 21. So will try NO from scratch without restoring Kodi 21.