I just received my X96 Air. How can I check the current temp of the SoC while playing a movie without having to enter the menu? Or how do I see afterwards if the system has been throttled to reduce the temp?
For example:
- CLI
SSH to the box and execute a script like:
#!/bin/bash cpu_temperature=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp) echo $((cpu_temperature/1000))°C
- Map this to a button on the remote
If you are willing to enhance your skin, you can use $INFO[System.CPUTemperature()] for that information. For example, on Confluence skin you would modify this file DialogPlayerProcessInfo.xml
The temp itself will not tell you if you are throttling, you need to monitor the CPU speed in real time as well. Even then you can only do it if you have your governor set to Performance. In performance your CPU is locked to its maximum speed and it is the dropping off from that max speed which indicates throttling. Anything else is simply inference.
Shoog
And how can I monitor the CPU speed (if the temp does not get me anywhere)?
The easiest way is to use the CE information screen. This has the advantage of placing extra stress on the CPU.
If you
-set governor to performance (there is a CE setting for that)
-play a movie and open the information panel you can observe the temp and CPU clock in real time.
If it sticks at 1.9ghz then you do not have throttling issues, you should also observe that the thermal controller and throttling kicks in at the trigger temp of 70C (or close to), but these on chip tempo sensors are not that reliable.
You only need to see this for a few minuites to confirm if you have an issue with overheating. Setting the governor back to ondemand might then be all you need to do to avoid throttling - but there is no real way of checking this.
Shoog
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Just popped in to say thanks to the OP. Finally got a X96 Air 32GB version and CE is very good on this box. Easy to install to internal as well.
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Hi.
Have any of you tried the latest CE version on this hardware?
Is it possible to do a “painless” update from version 9.2.7 to the newest?
If everything has to be done from scratch, what does the case of the pilot / bl301 / VFD look like under the CE19.x?
Thanks for any feedback.
Cheers.
If you just let it do the auto update from the CE settings, it will be painless. Bear in mind, this will still leave you on the Leia Version. (legacy)
Did this on my X96 Max+ same specs as your. VFD still works, I don’t use bl301.
I then did an update from Leia to Matrix on a separate sd card. I can’t remember exactly how I did this. My MQ8 skin doesn’t work, my skin went to Estuary, a couple of addons don’t work, Onmute being one. I get a message saying VFD doesn’t work, display comes on, but stuck.
Thanks for reply!
So I guess that CE19.x is not a good idea right now ?
Cheers.
A fresh install will be needed. Anything less will have retained settings which will mess up your functionality.
Shoog
Hi awesome community! Firstly, thanks for all the tips & suggestions I’ve been able to scrape off this thread and many others. As a new user I thought I may contribute by reporting on my newly arrived box from AliExpress
It is advertised as 4gb+64gb+1000m and comes up with new version ‘X96Air_100_20201125-2051’.
The boot screen was just stuck on the X96 Air screen forever on trying 4gb_1gbit & 2gb_1gbit dtbs. I finally got it to boot by using sm1_s905x3_4g (not 1gbit) dtb! On testing lan speed within coreelec I get 200+mbps on 5g wifi but ~90mpbs using lan. Therefore, I think the X96Air_100 new variant is 4gb+64gb+100m!
Other observations: 5g wifi works, bluetooth works, atmos etc everything works just fine.
o
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A few months ago I bought my second X96Air 4/64GB device on Aliexpress and I had many doubts because many vendors offered more modern devices but only with 100Mbps ethernet which I did not want. In the end it seems that I found an honest seller like the first time I bought this and I have two X96Air 4/64GB 1000Mbps.
In summary, we must be very careful when we buy online, check the age of the store, the volume of sales, the comments of other users. Aliexpress works fine, I’ve only had a problem with a fake seller (unfortunately this is more and more frequent) and my money was refunded to me by Aliexpress.
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Hi everyone,
I have an air96 air box p3 4ghz ram véion running coreelec 2.9.7 everything ok
But when i play dolby atmos movie, it always decode to dolby trueHD, how can i fix this?
My AVR is denon x4300H and It can decode dolby atmos
Thank you all.
Dolby Atmos is built as a layer on top of Dolby TrueHD, it seems that the X96Air isn’t passing through the Atmos Layer.
Have you got all passthrough options enabled in the media player setting ?
Shoog
After some google i have solved this issue!
Problem here relate to my AVR configure not X96Air!
Need to add 2 front height speakers in speaker configure option in AVR and everything work like a charm! AVR now let me choose Dolby TrueHD or Atmos when playing Movie.
Thank you all
I’m still “stuck” at Leia version.
Will we gain important advantages like hardware performance or other to migrate to CoreELEC Matrix?
If yes, what?
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Havent noticed any advantages of Matrix over Leia, but others may differ.
Shoog
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Yeah I’m still on Leia too. I see no reason to update, yet.
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The general consensus in the Kodi community is similarly luke-warm as most addons have not yet migrated to Matrix and probably will not do so until absolutely necessary. This is very slow for a new release which has been out for at least 6 months.
I personally have lost at least 4 very useful addons as a consequence of moving my bedroom install to Matrix for testing purposes.
Shoog