20:08 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> Ey guys! I got a Beelink x2, and I would like to make something useful out of it. I tried recompiling Armbian multiple times, all it does is turn the led purple-ish color (red+blue) and do nothing else. I also tried the old pre-compiled release, same thing. And with the h3droid installer, it just refuses to do anything when pressing the power button until I remove the SD card and <clipped message>

20:08 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> dissconnect the power. Any ideas why this could be happening? I really don't wanna use the preinstalled SpyDroid 4.4.3, it's full of malware and "movies free" apps, and it also overheats under a minute.

20:12 <DC-IRC> <viraniac> Can you connect to the serial console and see if you have any output?

20:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> scroll up to see the existing issues i had...

20:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> try the orangepi-pc-plus images, they work mostly without issue (except that cpufreq & reboot / power is not working and the board runs a bit slower)

20:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> sd card in, power in, led turns red -> purple -> blue, done

20:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> which version of armbian did you try to compile? on one the kernel directly hangs on boot, on the nightly / latest ones it crashes quite often (have to do university stuff rn so no time to debug)

20:53 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> I currently don't have any devices with UART

20:54 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> I tried to compile master edge/minimal jammy, and also jammy with default settings without changing any kernel options

20:55 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> I will try orangpi, tho cpufreq is pretty important to have for me

20:55 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> I will try orangepi, tho cpufreq is pretty important to have for me

20:59 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> maybe some cpu/ram freq issue since the boards don't have a lot of difference in the configuration files (random segfaults and other issues happen on the x2 image, had that on a pi a long time ago where i bumped the clocks too high)

20:59 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> i would say test that image, if it runs check the differences between the configs and what might be causing crashes on the x2 build config

21:02 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> IDK, max I can say is that when I tried using ice as cooling and actually dared to use the built-in firmware, I noticed that the CPU can't go over 1.8GHz. Like, at all. The changes just revert back as soon as I set them.

21:02 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> Tho I will test that image tomorrow.

21:05 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> i could try liquid nitrogen if i manage to get my hands on it xD

21:05 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> what do you want to do with that board?

21:07 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> I wanna save up for a 5V Noctua fan, then put it on my wall next to my router with double sided tape and use it as a server, so my laptop's CPU doesn't load up with stuff like https server and minecrap server while I do more important stuff

21:07 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> I also might as well just end up using the TV box... as a TV box xD

21:15 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> add a proper heatsink too, instead of that improvised built in cooling chunk :D

21:15 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> as for using it for video playback:

21:15 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> kodi might actually run without issue if you add the libreelec patches to ffmpeg and build it yourself

21:15 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> mpv is broken, you will get a red tinted image and often sw decode

21:15 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> gstreamer 2.20 works really good, but i only tested it without x and with gpu rendering

21:18 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, what about VLC Player, ffplay, Plasma BigScreen and changing Firefox's user agent to make it play YouTube TV?

21:34 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> no idea, since i was only interested in playing back a h264 stream with lowest latency possible in fullscreen without x

21:34 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> everything ffmpeg based (except mpv) should work with patched ffmpeg; decoding works, presentation no idea

21:34 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> firefox & vlc should run with libva-v4l2-request (but that library is unmaintained and needs to be fixed for newer kernels iirc)

21:34 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> firefox & chromium could have support by now for the underlying api, did not test that tough

21:34 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> easiest way to play a video right now (i guess) is trough (some sort of player using) gstreamer / kodi

21:36 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> Hmmmm, why would you want low latency fullscreen, are you doing some sort of security camera setup?

21:37 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> Hmmmm, why would you want low latency x-less fullscreen, are you doing some sort of security camera setup?

21:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> Car infotainment, since the ones where that would live have everything, except new maps, rear view camera, and other goodies (the hw/sw designs of the original navs are from 2002-2006, quite modern for the time)

21:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> Instead of paying scammy 400-500€ for some „magic android/converter boxes“ i can just take a hdmi to vga converter, some old arm box + an autobox dongle: carplay/aa/navit/retroarch on an old original car navigation for like 40-100€

21:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> With my pi setup i can currently even put custom mesages/menus on the cluster and use the car data in a dashcam overlay

21:51 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> If vcds works with box86 doing diagnostic stuff in the car would be possible too :D

21:52 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> Tough playing back security cameras was an idea too, since thats really easy with gstreamer

21:52 <DC-IRC> <dschndr> One command, put it in autostart and never touch it again

21:52 <DC-IRC> <Алексей Песорин> Wow, that's a pretty big brain move