OpenELEC

[synportack24]

I'm curious as to the amount of work it would be to port the imx6 version of openELEC (currently only for cubox i). I saw that there was a decently working version of the 3.14 kernel for the wandboard. I have never done anything like this and was wondering about the complexity of such a thing.

Also would editing the openembedded xbmc yocto recipe to get the newest version of XBMC (which supports imx6) be an easy method to get a xbmc build? I've used wolfgar's dora build but fell a bit short trying to get it to build under daisy (which I was aiming for as I have a C1 and daisy has wifi support).

[XoD]

Hello, I have take a look at this, and discuss it on OpenELEC IRC,

I think it's shouldn't be very difficult to add wandboard management in imx6 version of OpenELEC, but I don't have lot of time to devote to it.

The two think I have notice than missing in the imx6 build of OpenELEC are :
- the build of wandboard dtb (very easy to add)
- the management of wandboard in the u-boot version from SolidRun, or a u-boot version than manage Cuboxi and Wandboard.

My first test are available on my github fork in branch wandboard_support_wip_1 :
- https://github.com/xoddark/OpenELEC.tv/ ... port_wip_1

For information vpeter work on update imx6 project to add "TBS Matrix" support.

[XoD]

vpeter4 have made is pull request for matrix support in imx6 project :
https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv ... 45/commits

It means than Wandboard support should be more easly to add

[synportack24]

thanks for updating on OpenELEC for wandboard.

the guys at Lakka TV (an emulator console) have used openELEC to create their build for the wandboard (which works very well)
https://github.com/lakkatv/Lakka/tree/lakka-wandboard

I'll take a look this weekend when I have time and report back.

[XoD]

I have tested Lakka TV on the wandboard, but not successfully booted.
But it could be due to the FullHD resolution wanted, and my Wandboard was plugged to a screen with 1680*1050 maximum resolution.

But I have tested Lakka TV on a Cuboxi and it's work great

[synportack24]

I noticed you created a wip2 on github. I created a fork of it have started to push some of my changes to it as well.

https://github.com/synportack24/OpenELEC.tv

[Chris81T]

Hi @all,
I have found this thread about openelec support. I am very interested in, too. Actually I have running xbmc with a Gotham yocto image, but it is not very stable. Sometimes it freezes when I press the pause key or switch a movie...

My question is:
Is it possible to get the openelec running at the wandboard quad using the code provided by the posted github branch here? Or does it actually not work?
Do I have to simply compile the sources or do I have to adapt something?

I'm using fedora.

[Chris81T]

May be some one has a ready to use image for the wandboard and can provide it?

[XoD]

@Chris81T: the wandboard management is wip, and don't work for now. I don't have many time to work on it, then I publish my wip work to share work with other people, and to have help .
@synportack24: cool, thank you for your help. I take a look at your change, but I don't understand how it's should work ?
I think it' should be necessary to manage different u-boot version for one project(imx6), or we should have a u-boot version who manage wandboard, cubox-i and matrix. But I don't know if this is easy.
If I correctly understand your change Update package.mk, you should change also the file projects/imx6/options, and your result are incompatible with Cuboxi ?

I also open an Issue on official project repository too help asking help and tracking update : https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues/3653.
Feel free to use it to post your work, and ask thing to OpenELEC dev.

Edit: And great to see interested people, and people to help .

[XoD]

Hello, just a small update, I have made some progress.

See update on github thread : https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv ... t-67955123