Openelec for MatrixTBS

[vpeter]

Like I wrote this build is usable only for TBS tuners. USB tuners should work but I'm also interested about PCIe ones (check the commands I wrote).

[milan]

Mhm, maybe it would be better to have different device tree for tbs matrix. It would be easier to use all the differences.

+1

[PeterB]

Where to download latest version?

These links:

OpenELEC-iMX6.arm-devel-20141003181523-r19314-gf779b3e-Gotham-ljalves_media_build.tar - http://l.bitcasa.com/-_Wr198g
OpenELEC-iMX6.arm-devel-20141004135730-r19314-gf779b3e-Helix-ljalves_media_build.tar - http://l.bitcasa.com/nTsPb9Cp

return 'not found' when I click 'Download'..

[vpeter]

Where to download latest version?

Try again. And maybe using different browser.

[PeterB]

Where to download latest version?

Try again. And maybe using different browser.

Hmmm, still the same - both Firefox and Chromium.

[vpeter]

Same for me. But try #4 worked.

[PeterB]

After about 20 tries, and no success, tried using wget ... that always fetches 19,405 bytes, but my JS isn't good enough to interpret what it's supposed to be doing.

Edit:
Okay, four hours later it worked perfectly!

[PeterB]

The u-boot installed by OpenElec release will check every sd/mmc from 0 to 2. If present it will load kernel, system and dtb from partition 1. The kernel will use the first available sd as mmcblk0. That means if you put an sd-card with OpenElec layout into MatrixTv it will boot from it! Which is good because MfgTool is PIA for me, I do not have Windows at home.

I must be missing something! I've run the 'create_sdcard' script and have an SD card with two partitions:
1) a 131MB FAT partition, named 'System' and
2) a 3.8GB Ext4 partition, named 'Storage'

The System partition has:

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[peter@desktop System]$ ls -l
total 98886
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    32095 Oct 14 14:09 imx6dl-cubox-i.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    32377 Oct 14 14:09 imx6dl-hummingboard.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    33568 Oct 14 14:09 imx6q-cubox-i.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    33850 Oct 14 14:09 imx6q-hummingboard.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    38463 Oct 14 14:09 imx6q-sabresd.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  7048344 Oct 14 14:09 KERNEL
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    32511 Oct 14 14:09 openelec.ico
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter     3673 Oct 14 14:09 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    31744 Oct 14 14:09 SPL-cuboxi
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 93462528 Oct 14 14:09 SYSTEM
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   227284 Oct 14 14:09 u-boot-cuboxi.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   269312 Oct 14 14:09 u-boot-matrix.imx
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter      163 Oct 14 14:09 uEnv-cuboxi.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter      213 Oct 14 14:09 uEnv-matrix-v1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter      171 Oct 14 14:09 uEnv-matrix-v2.txt
[peter@desktop System]$


The Storage partition just has a lost+found directory.

I've tried this SD card in two 1.3 systems - one set to boot from SD (this one definitely boots a MatrixTV system from SD) and one set to boot from the internal flash.

Neither of these systems appears to boot into OpenELEC.

I have Rasberry Pis running OE, I have AMD E450 systems running OE ... why can't I get the Matrix to run OE?

What do I need to do?

[vpeter]

I have Rasberry Pis running OE, I have AMD E450 systems running OE ... why can't I get the Matrix to run OE?
What do I need to do?

I don't support sd card. Just use MfgTool2 supplied with image and select appropriate .bat file. How hard can this be?

[PeterB]

I have Rasberry Pis running OE, I have AMD E450 systems running OE ... why can't I get the Matrix to run OE?
What do I need to do?

I don't support sd card. Just use MfgTool2 supplied with image and select appropriate .bat file. How hard can this be?

I understood mllan to say that it was booting from SD.

MfgTool2/.bat file? So I have to find someone running Microsoft? ... or are those available for Linux?