Support/builds for other s922x devices

We’re aware of the plethora of different boxes that are likely to flood the market very soon.
In the past there was a community developer (kszaq) who decided to add support for every possible box he or his users encountered, and that’s why CE currently supports pretty much every S905*/S912 device out there. None of the CE (nor LE, AFAIK) devs are willing to do something similar for the new SoCs.

Why people acting like the N2 so expensive is beyond me.

The driver has to be available for the wifi/bt functionality on those Chinese devices otherwise it’s useless, we have had trouble gaining drivers for these devices in the past.

I think personally its better to buy a S905X device if you don’t want to pay the extra for an Odroid N2.

We could very easily add support for the new Chinese devices, but do we want to… is a question that has weighed heavily on the whole team.

Supporting the Chinese S905/912 devices created a massive support burden on everybody who has worked on CoreELEC, if we add support for the new Chinese S922X devices then this would place a burden on the team all over again.

We want our users to have the best possible experience and right now we feel we can deliver that with the N2 as nearly the whole team has one and we are all working from the same device, we can not reliably do the same with any other device unless we all have one.

You have to ask yourself if you are prepared to spend $80 on a new device that has no guarantee of continued support or functionality, is it not worth spending the $30 extra to be guaranteed support and functionality.

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Maybe it makes sense open S905X2 thread?
Development LE is underway, many test builds, many is working. Seeing, it quickly to be, if altogether…

Noone of the team owns such a device.
It is impossible to work on a device without the chance to actually test anything.

Well, let’s collect the money. They need $ 50 total…

Each developer needs this device, because everyone is working on different aspects of CE. :wink:

We don’t have plans to support generic Android boxes based on the newer SoCs at this point, it’s not just the “lack of money”. Everything has been answered in previous posts in this thread already. Nothing changed since.

That’s disgustingly expensive…

you joking right? with shipping that’s an average of $126 per device.

And that is still cheaper than the now much slower Vero 4K+. The N2 is totally worth the price.

S905 was $80 CAD… S905x2 was $102 CAD… are you kidding me? Not to capitalize on this thread but you’re super out of touch…

I am privy to the efforts in development of this s922x N2 by all the developers in slack.

The amount of FREE time they have allocated in their daily lives to make the Odroid n2 work astounds me.

The software they have developed so far is worth more than $100 USD considering the ongoing OTA updates.

The old days of 1080p was not as complex in developing images for different chinese hardware. Even then it was a total cock.

To pick up every chinese S922 box and make them work with CE is just asking too much of the Team who have REAL Paying jobs and a REAL LIFE to fit into a 24 hour day.

Think about that before putting a $$$$$$$ value on other hardware.:heavy_dollar_sign:

Go and get you a cheap chinese box with fake ram and all the other goodies that come along with that.

Feel free to buy what you want. I will not put in effort and energy just to please your pocket.

Some users just want everything for free obviously. Not enough that the software is free, hardware needs to be free too and best if others get to work their ass of for this almost free hardware crap to work.

Many is working are you kidding me. You mean these SW decoding soundless builds of this balbes_the_radiator dude. Have fun with that.
If you want to know what a bad working AML build is go use one of LibreELEC. Either their current 3.14 based image or mainline stuff it is useless for daily driver of an Mediacenter.
Wait till mainline is working (it will take some time), then we will switch over to mainline and improve it further. LibreELEC could ever do. CoreELEC will always give you the best experience for Amlogic device not people like chewitt who doesn’t know shit and is only sitting on his hands waiting for Baylibre to deliver.

I’m closing this topic.

There is enough being said here to clarify where CoreELEC stands.

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."
Benjamin Franklin.

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This is not true, just because you don’t like some of our comments it does not mean that we are out of touch.

CoreELEC is very much pro-User, it is one of the key fundamental reasons that it was formed.

We care about all of our users and devote hours of our time to help each and every user that needs it.

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Also our work in the 4.9 kernel is prepared for any other AML box. We happily accept contributions it’s just that we don’t focus on that and we will not do so because some people want cheapest of the cheapest.