Tanix TX5 plus S905x3 4/64GB 1000Mbps lan

Help & Support Installation & Booting
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Hi thanks for your message.

Tanix doesn’t plan to commercialize the box preloaded with CoreELEC or emuELEC, just want to help users by releasing a firmware that can be downloaded and flashed. Maybe a dual boot (or even triple boot).

Around 2-3 years ago we shared the source of the LCD display (TX3 mini) to the openElec community, so, I think we can share things if we do some modifications.

Let’s try to make it work at first.

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Sure but modifications apply to GPL license. We are happy to receive the changes cause it will be long term.

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TaNiX did a good job with the TX3 Max firmware Dual boot between AliceUX and LibreELEC. I especially liked the way the dual boot routine was implemented, remembering the last boot choice and allowing to boot into either OS from either OS via the power menu.

CE already can use the reboot to eMMC option to reboot to Android, but lacks a companion app to reboot from Android into CE, nor does CE store the last boot option and therefore defaults to boot into CE).

Maybe this is something Team TaNiX and Team CoreELEC could work together on?

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Testing Tanix Tx5 plus deluxe 4/32

Finally got vfd working!!!
Whew lot of reading
None of the above files worked for me
Or any from link to VFD thread/discussion

Using latest nightly

This dtb
sm1_s905x3_4g_1gbit.dtb

And from repository vfd/leiberman
This works on my box
/tanix-tx5-pro-vfd.conf

20220904_132530
20220904_1325301920×2560 302 KB

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Nice. Try to reboot and look at the vfd screen during boot :slight_smile:

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Working on a different box now
I did see CE. 19 right at start briefly