[Discuss] BPI-M5 Support CoreELEC

BPI-M5/BPI-M2 Pro/BPI-M2S/BPI-CM4/BPI-CM5
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Hi,

we want to help Banana Pi BPI-M5 to support CoreELEC.

CoreELEC is specialized for Amlogic platforms. We are providing the only fully working Kodi media center distribution (based on GNU Linux) for a very wide range of Amlogic devices.

https://coreelec.org/

Is there already some source available for this device? Like we would need at least a Amlogic compatible bootloader installed on the device to be able to run CoreELEC. Normally Amlogic devices are delivered with Android pre installed. I only found a empty link at the wiki: http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M5

Thank you very much!

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we will send sample to you ,and hope we can coworker

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Hi

I would like to download the coreelec image for my new BPI-M5. Could you help me ?

Regards

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http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_BPI-M5#Coreelec

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i wanted to download the image from this link https://download.banana-pi.dev/lib/898779c1-94be-4627-9a56-d8cec971e877/file/Public/Images/BPI-M5/coreELEC/CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-9.2-devel-1607997111-Bananapi_M5.img.gz

but i am asked for a login/password

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that link was incorrect, try this https://download.banana-pi.dev/d/3ebbfa04265d4dddb81b/files/?p=%2FImages%2FBPI-M5%2FcoreELEC%2FCoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-9.2-devel-1607997111-Bananapi_M5.img.gz

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Thank you. I tried it on a SD card but unfortunatelly it reboots in loop and corrupt my emmc Android installation.

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please go to the wiki and check the sd/mmc boot flow

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Does anyone know the MagicWord for android boot ?

@sinovoip Please advice.

I am working on Manjaro ARM image it won’t boot automatically while I can boot it manually from android bootloader cli. Source command is not matching the magic words.

Please advice.

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Our offer to officially support BPI-M5 by CoreELEC is still active but we didn’t received any sample yet to be able to perform quality tests.

We already got some user requests about your product:

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Sinovoip seems to be not interested on their customers. They just sell hardware without good software support. CoreELEC team offer help and they don’t send them a sample to test. First and last time I buy Sinovoip hardware.

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please give me your shipping message , we can send free sample to you .or we have send out ,but you not got it still ???

please contact [email protected] , we will send sample to you soon.

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any open source team need sample , we always full support . sorry , i will check this . why not send sample to CoreELEC team.