I do share your point of you, one to rule them all (and the amount of space it uses compared to waf).
I guess it is possible. But at what price?
In principle itās definitely a good idea but I doubt that Beelink or many other vendors really ask users what they want and what they would be willing to pay for it.
The Chuwi Larkbox is another good example of how to nearly get something right but do something so fundamentally poor that you end up with a likely lemon but thatās for a whole other discussion.
My Netflix Add-on sound issue was due to the fact the Dolby Digital audio setting was enabled (and I donāt have the premium account for that or my TV is too old for this). By disabling it, I have sound back :).
I do have a problem with CEC : it keeps sending a signal an active signal to the tv.
I mean, I cannot get the TV to remain in standby while having the box on (when using spotifyd for instance, but not watching tv).
Check libCEC settings in Kodi. There is a option to turn on/off such features.
thanks, this is what I did.
but I wanted to stress the fact that I hadnāt this issue with the gt-king : i guess there is a firmware issue here.
You can compare (lib)CEC only on SAME boxes/devices, because CEC implementation is a little bit different on almost every device including TVs. If it works one way on some box/tv combination it does NOT mean that it will behave the same for any other combination!
Sure, but in this case, the DTB is the same between the GT-King and GS-King X.
This tends to proove that the board inside these boxes are pretty similar, doesnāt it ?
libCEC is not affected by the used CoreELEC device. Itās a software solution only.
On 9.2.1 libCEC 4.0.4 was used, on 9.2.2 libCEC 4.0.5 and now on 9.2.3 it got downgraded again to 4.0.4 as the 4.0.5 doesnāt work properly and cause more issues as it will solve.
The only diff is the TV/AVR part.
Every brand and type of TV have a own firmware and his own CEC handling and errors. So you can never be sure if CEC works with LG as example that it also works with Panasonic.
Nice example:
Same brand different type, CEC is working only on one TV.
I have a working jellyfin and nextcloud both on docker which is running on H5 aarch64 and I am very happy with it.
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I doubt this box will be a hit.
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It can be a hit if they provide the right software along with it. Just how synology have done with their low end product line running on an armv7 soc.
Btw IDK how many have seen the teardown video, I saw somewhere that it have A311D instead of S922X-H, I know theyāre mostly similar but then A311D have the NPU which might be of no use in this box.
I am still not sure of how usefull this box will be until I get a stable os working on it.
I did again some networking benchs after the upgrade to 904P0 firmware and Iām getting a very good speed when doing some scp from the GT-King to the GS-King X (around 90MB/s), I guess that the slowlyness issue is now gone.
The team currently beginning to receive the samples from Beelink and the analysis is started already.
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FAN: it looks like itās not a real PWM fan and it canāt be controlled sensible. This will need more tests.
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The front LEDs in the skull are controlled by system voltage, not by GPIO.
So the only way to ādisableā the front LEDs is to pull off the connection cable of the LEDs.
Just remove the insert HDDs and you should be able to access the cable. Just pull it down until the connection is open. This apply for hardware revision X-HD-V2.0-/A.
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So you basically have the fan always running but if that doesnāt annoy you enough it will also keep shining in your eyes 
ā¦and you can hear the HDD from insideā¦
There is a new android firmware available on Beelinkās homepage: http://www.bee-link.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=69789&extra=page%3D1
Thanks for the feedback.
Without any HDD plugged, would you say that the fan is noisy or not ?
I didnāt try to remove the fan to check if it has bearings. l believe this noise comes from rotation contact (without bearing), not from the air flow.
A side note regarding the firmware update, I did apply it without any issue and CoreELEC is working fine with it.
No there is no noise from the fan until you get very close to it.
Looks like the fan are run at 3.3v just for a stable airflow as s922x donāt really get to hot and with such a big heatsink it just need good ventilation to keep the temps under control.
When using nightly image and correct dtb the fan is off until 60Ā°C are reached. Then it rotate with like half speed. After hitting 75Ā°C the fan use max speed.
Also the last nightly brings a feature in CE setting to park the HDD on power off/suspend and also to idle the disk.
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To bad itās this expansive, judging by the specs, it could very well be quite a selfhosting server on CoreELEC.
The case is nice and gives opportunity to cram in whatever the future might bring. The skull is a bit off-putting, but each to their own.
Is the last firmware (905P0) mandatory for running CE 9.2.4.1 ? My box is stucked at boot screen after applying the update and opting for the GS King dtb file that comes with it.