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[Search40]

Been told this box will be available soon from Zgemma, but i could not find any info about.

Do you have any info here if this box is on the way, or this is just dreaming from some people telling me?

 

Regards

[WanWizard]

I haven't heard anything about a new Zgemma box. But that doesn't say much...

[Dimmie]

I am also informed that new boxes with double/triple tuner will come. But no more info.

 

This is also one of the reasons why I posted about the problems with H9 with OpenPLI which should be fixed with the already in June released bsp-layer. When the double/triple tuners are coming it would be nice to have a good working OpenPLI image.

Edited by Dimmie, 7 October 2018 - 01:19.

[WanWizard]

We're looking into it.

[gorski]

I have it and I'm testing...

 

When I have good news, I'll report it here, too...

[gorski]

Pardon me: I have H9.2H (and S model), not "combo"!

 

But it is good! Testing in progress...

 

DVB-S2X/DVB-T2 in use...

[gorski]

Most stuff works fine here, even smooth PiP witnessed...

 

Kodi (Audio) is not OK, mind...

But other stuff seems fine!

DVD Player is not, sadly.

[Search40]

Tested Octagon SF8008 same processor with this Zgemma, did not like the box at all, bad picture quality, look like chip android 4k box, kodi was working ok, but i could not taste all the features, sold the box quickly, Hisilicon processor is total crap.

Gorski what do you think, is it worth buying one of this or not?

Thanks

[WanWizard]

The processor of the SoC is not involved in image processing.

 

And digital is digital, the bits are the same whether you send them through a $10 or a $1000 chip. Your configuration could be different through, especially if you have it configured so it has to scale.

[gorski]

One thing I can say is that various boxes give various quality images by default, so one must mess with video parameters to get what one wants... That's reality!

 

In Zgemma H9/H9.2 series we now have extended video settings - it matters not if they listened to me but I added my name to the requests...

 

I have various boxes on the same TV and I know why I asked for it.

 

Various boxes with the same HiSilicone SoC behave differently with the same plugin, doing the same thing, I suppose for various reasons - at least from what I read (I only have Zgemmas but people I know have other boxes with the same HiSilicon SoC). Different FW, drivers, images etc. I don't know, I am not a coder. But I can test and see clearly what works and what doesn't.

 

Kodi, for instance, has audio problems but E2iPlayer and PurE2 FNC plugins, plus internal player do not. Go figure... Do you need Kodi on it? I don't, so your answer depends on your needs, ergo there is not a single answer to that Q...

Edited by gorski, 18 December 2018 - 18:47.

[Search40]

I been selling satellite receivers for 15 years, I have tested all kind, from the cheaper ones to most expensive, no longer sell now, due to not much work, just repair, but my passion for satellite receiver will die with me, not expert on the field to why some boxes have great picture quality some not, but for the particular Hisilicon processor been told by expert that picture quality is no good at all, it is not real 4K, maybe are other components on the box, is like cheap android boxes 4k they are not 4k at all, the price is very low for boxes with this Hisilicon processor, is nearly the same with other enigma 2 full hd box, I will maybe test one in the future and let you know, I have Zgemma H5 at the moment and the picture quality is Great.

[WTE]

One thing I can say is that various boxes give various quality images by default, so one must mess with video parameters to get what one wants... That's reality!

 

In Zgemma H9/H9.2 series we now have extended video settings - it matters not if they listened to me but I added my name to the requests...

 

I have various boxes on the same TV and I know why I asked for it.

 

Various boxes with the same HiSilicone SoC behave differently with the same plugin, doing the same thing, I suppose for various reasons - at least from what I read (I only have Zgemmas but people I know have other boxes with the same HiSilicon SoC). Different FW, drivers, images etc. I don't know, I am not a coder. But I can test and see clearly what works and what doesn't.

 

Kodi, for instance, has audio problems but E2iPlayer and PurE2 FNC plugins, plus internal player do not. Go figure... Do you need Kodi on it? I don't, so your answer depends on your needs, ergo there is not a single answer to that Q...

 

You must test Openpli 7.0 it plays pretty much all audio good on Kodi.

I think it's far out the best Enigma2 kodi player of all. An enigma2 box can not quickly compete with real kodi player but this comes very near.

 

DVD player under PLi works fine by me. What is it that doesn't work by you?

[WTE]

I been selling satellite receivers for 15 years, I have tested all kind, from the cheaper ones to most expensive, no longer sell now, due to not much work, just repair, but my passion for satellite receiver will die with me, not expert on the field to why some boxes have great picture quality some not, but for the particular Hisilicon processor been told by expert that picture quality is no good at all, it is not real 4K, maybe are other components on the box, is like cheap android boxes 4k they are not 4k at all, the price is very low for boxes with this Hisilicon processor, is nearly the same with other enigma 2 full hd box, I will maybe test one in the future and let you know, I have Zgemma H5 at the moment and the picture quality is Great.

 

I think you mean the older chipsets from Hisilicon which were advertise as 4K android boxes but had actually quality of 1080p with somekind of upscaler to maximum 2160p25.

The Enigma2 boxes now in the market are real 4K support with 3798MV200 chipset and actually have better specs for video output then the Broadcoms.

 

In the end it's own opinion which someone likes better. My vote goes defently at the moment to Hisilicon

[gorski]

As I said elsewhere, one should carefully test, adding one item at a time and testing it seriously before adding another...

 

Why? Because I had all sorts "competing" for the same space (Kodi, E2iPlayer, FNC Plugins, serviceapp, my image comes with ffmpegh package etc.)...

 

So, from scratch, as ordered by WTE!

 

OK, testing openpli-7.0-rc-h9-20181218_usb

 

No device manager that I can find. Wrongly detected mSD as SSD. Managed to send recording and timeshift to HDD, as well as EPG to USB.

 

Downloaded and installed a couple of extensions (DreamExplorer, Device Manager etc.).

 

Moved everything (root) to mSD card via a script. Loooong reboot...waaaaaiiitiiinnggg... no go... restart button at the back...

 

Ahem, dunno why but it did not work... must do everything from scratch... oych...

 

OpenPLi, can you get the script into your image by default, please?

 

Delfi sent the pull request on the developer's GIT...

 

https://github.com/t...5343451d020d5dd

 

L8r...

[gorski]

So, all done from zero, very little added, just minimally done for easy functioning, ergo a "virgin installation of OpenPLi 7, settings done, testing the internal player via FILE LIST button, so DVD Player and Media Player, I guess, first from USB attached HDD...

 

DVD Eric Clapton "One more car, one more rider" - AC3 audio channel not working. DTS works but only after I switch off Multi Channel downmix and then switch it back on.

 

I went back into the menu to chack precisely, so I could write it here and when I got out of the menu the sync was gone and it was bad...

 

Getting in and especially out is followed by a big black flicker (nothing on the screen for about a second).

 

Bebe mais DVD - AC3 not working. Tried the same trick as above - sounds started but it was so wickedly cut at about 100 miles an hour it was impossible to discern anything at all...

 

Exiting to a TV channel - one more big black blackout for 1-2 secs...

 

Going back to FILE LIST > Babylon5 The lost tales-Voices n the dark.avi -> dark screen... If I press Audio (or MENU) button, weirdly, I get the image in PiG window... I press OK to go back to full screen and video is gone again...

 

From NAS

 

Phil Collins in Paris DVD > no audio, AC3 or LPCM. No trick brought about the sound, this time, except as with "Bebe Mais"...

 

Paco de Lucia - Anos de Flamenco - again no sound (MPEG) and nothing could get it... Concierto de Aranjuez as well...

 

Joe Satriani and co. G3 "Live in Denver" avi - no video... Sound is OK (MPEG3).

 

And so on... Just some of the problems I ran into on quick inspection...

 

So, I would say there are problems with this machine - what exactly? Dunno, not a coder but I know what I see/hear and no amount of "it's the best ever" will change these issues, I'm afraid... There are problems there which need to be addressed, as far as I am concerned.

My H7S has considerably fewer issues, I must say.

[gorski]

(Good news: PV works with OSCam Emu from OpenPLi feed, just wait on 9E AFN channel you have the signal for... 4.8E not yet...)

 

As I said, one step at a time... Installed Kodi (repos are not well supported these days, I couldn't install all that much but this has nothing to do with the STB at hand!)...

 

Take 1: Live TV Serbia (streaming) > Croatia > HRT1 > froze it all, had to reboot from the back button...

 

Retry... The same on HRT2, frozen solid, sadly... Button at the back...

 

Take 3: Croatia > RTL1 - worked for a little while, then exited from the image to a menu with the cogs... video was frozen solid while audio was going... no way back to having the image => reboot at the back...

 

Take 4: video addons > Nicke85 free list > didn't even get to channels list let alone streaming... button at the back...

 

Take 5: video addons > YouTube didn't even wanna star (error...) but British Council Film gave me a menu > error after error, nothing to see... OK, CBC also error, not even getting in... Classic cinema - nada! Comedy Central - zilch! Never mind...

 

PLAYBACK:

 

HDD: Babylon5 The lost tales-Voices n the dark.avi - no image, only audio... after that the RC was unresponsive, nothing would show on the screen, only the button at the back helped...

 

Second attempt: DVD Eric Clapton "One more car, one more rider" - zero, not a sausage, damn...

 

Film noir in LA (a documentary recorded from HRT3) in TS format - wouldn't even start... And there I was stuck, couldn't do anything, button at the back again...

 

After reboot GSOD... Ahem...

 

OpenPLi Enigma2 crash log

crashdate=Thu Jan  1 01:00:19 1970
compiledate=Dec 19 2018
skin=PLi-FullNightHD/skin.xml
sourcedate=2018-12-19
branch=rc
rev=987d8bc
component=Enigma2

stbmodel=h9
stbmodel=h9
kernelcmdline=console=ttyAMA0,115200 root=ubi0:rootfs rw ubi.mtd=7,2048 rootfstype=ubifs rootwait mtdparts=hinand:1M(boot),1M(bootargs),1M(baseparam),1M(pqparam),1M(logo),1M(deviceinfo),16M(kernel),234M(rootfs),-(others) mem=1G mmz=ddr,0,0,48M vmalloc=500M
nimsockets=NIM Socket 0:
imageissue=openpli 7.0-rc %h

close failed in file object destructor:
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

dmesg

<6>Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
<5>Linux version 4.4.35 (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 6.3.0 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Sun Nov 25 03:06:35 CET 2018
<6>CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fd034] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=10c5383d
<6>CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
<5>initmrd: found no initmrd.
<6>tag-emmc: emmc is not scaned!
<6>Machine model: Hisilicon
<6>cma: Reserved 48 MiB at 0x3b800000
<6>cma: Reserved 4 MiB at 0x3fc00000
<6>Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
<7>-------------Fixed IO Mapping----------
<7>Virt,            Phys,             Size
<7>0xF9000000,    0xF8000000,    0x02000000
<7>--------------------------------------
<7>On node 0 totalpages: 262144
<7>free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0b6ecc0, node_mem_map dfbf9000
<7>  Normal zone: 1032 pages used for memmap
<7>  Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
<7>  Normal zone: 132096 pages, LIFO batch:31
<7>  HighMem zone: 130048 pages, LIFO batch:31
<6>PERCPU: Embedded 13 pages/cpu @dfbb5000 s22604 r8192 d22452 u53248
<7>pcpu-alloc: s22604 r8192 d22452 u53248 alloc=13*4096
<7>pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3
<6>Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 261112
<5>Kernel command line: console=ttyAMA0,115200 root=ubi0:rootfs rw ubi.mtd=7,2048 rootfstype=ubifs rootwait mtdparts=hinand:1M(boot),1M(bootargs),1M(baseparam),1M(pqparam),1M(logo),1M(deviceinfo),16M(kernel),234M(rootfs),-(others) mem=1G mmz=ddr,0,0,48M vmalloc=500M
<6>log_buf_len individual max cpu contribution: 4096 bytes
<6>log_buf_len total cpu_extra contributions: 12288 bytes
<6>log_buf_len min size: 16384 bytes
<6>log_buf_len: 32768 bytes
<6>early log buf free: 14404(87%)
<6>PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
<6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
<6>Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<6>Memory: 963848K/1048576K available (7804K kernel code, 590K rwdata, 2224K rodata, 532K init, 523K bss, 31480K reserved, 53248K cma-reserved, 456692K highmem)
<5>Virtual kernel memory layout:
<5>    vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
<5>    fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
<5>    vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff800000   ( 496 MB)
<5>    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0400000   ( 516 MB)
<5>    pkmap   : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000   (   2 MB)
<5>    modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000   (  14 MB)
<5>      .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc07a7424   (7806 kB)
<5>      .init : 0xc0a6f000 - 0xc0af4000   ( 532 kB)
<5>      .data : 0xc0af4000 - 0xc0b87a5c   ( 591 kB)
<5>       .bss : 0xc0b89000 - 0xc0c0bd4c   ( 524 kB)
<6>SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
<6>Hierarchical RCU implementation.
<6>    Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 32.
<6>NR_IRQS:352
<6>clocksource: hisp804: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 79635851949 ns
<6>sched_clock: 32 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 89478484971ns
<6>Console: colour dummy device 80x30
<6>Calibrating delay loop... 3170.30 BogoMIPS (lpj=1585152)
<6>pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
<6>Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
<6>ftrace: allocating 26735 entries in 79 pages
<6>CPU0: update cpu_capacity 1024
<6>CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
<6>Setting up static identity map for 0x8280 - 0x82d8
<4>CPU: hi3798mv200
<7>CPU1: powerup
<6>CPU1: update cpu_capacity 1024
<6>CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
<7>CPU2: powerup
<6>CPU2: update cpu_capacity 1024
<6>CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 0, mpidr 80000002
<7>CPU3: powerup
<6>CPU3: update cpu_capacity 1024
<6>CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, socket 0, mpidr 80000003
<6>Brought up 4 CPUs
<6>SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (12681.21 BogoMIPS).
<6>CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
<6>CPU3: update max cpu_capacity 1024
<6>devtmpfs: initialized
<6>VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 40 variant 3 rev 4
<6>clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1911260446275000 ns
<4>PCIe read alloc area phyaddr 08  size 00000000
<4>PCIe write alloc area phyaddr 08  size 00000000
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 16
<6>DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
<6>CPU3: update max cpu_capacity 1024
<6>hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
<6>hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
<6>Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
<6>f8b00000.uart: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0xf8b00000 (irq = 25, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
<6>console [ttyAMA0] enabled
<6>f8b02000.uart: ttyAMA1 at MMIO 0xf8b02000 (irq = 26, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
<6>f8b03000.uart: ttyAMA2 at MMIO 0xf8b03000 (irq = 27, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
<6>pl061_gpio f8b20000.gpio0: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b20000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b21000.gpio1: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b21000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b22000.gpio2: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b22000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b23000.gpio3: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b23000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b24000.gpio4: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b24000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8004000.gpio5: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8004000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b26000.gpio6: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b26000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b27000.gpio7: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b27000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b28000.gpio8: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b28000 registered
<6>pl061_gpio f8b29000.gpio9: PL061 GPIO chip @0xf8b29000 registered
<4>hisilicon-pcie: probe of f0001000.pcie failed with error -1
<6>hisi_iommu_ptable_addr:phy 0x1e800000    size:0x400000
<6>hisi_iommu_err_rdaddr :phy 0x1f7e5200    size:0x200
<6>hisi_iommu_err_wraddr :phy 0x1f7e5400     size:0x200
<6>in hisi_iommu_domain_init start
<6>in hisi_iommu_domain_init end
<6>vgaarb: loaded
<5>SCSI subsystem initialized
<7>libata version 3.00 loaded.
<6>ssp-pl022 f8b1a000.spi: ARM PL022 driver, device ID: 0x00041022
<6>ssp-pl022 f8b1a000.spi: mapped registers from 0xf8b1a000 to f9b1a000
<6>spi_master spi0: will run message pump with realtime priority
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
<6>usbcore: registered new device driver usb
<6>media: Linux media interface: v0.10
<6>Linux video capture interface: v2.00
<6>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.
<6>clocksource: Switched to clocksource hisp804
<5>FS-Cache: Loaded
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 2
<6>TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
<6>TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
<6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
<6>UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
<6>UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 1
<6>RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
<6>RPC: Registered udp transport module.
<6>RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
<6>RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
<7>PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
<6>NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
<6>hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a17 PMU driver, 7 counters available
<6>futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
<5>VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
<6>VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
<6>Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
<5>FS-Cache: Netfs 'cifs' registered for caching
<6>jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
<6>fuse init (API version 7.23)
<7>yaffs: yaffs built Installing.
<6>bounce: pool size: 64 pages
<6>Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252)
<6>io scheduler noop registered
<6>io scheduler deadline registered (default)
<6>io scheduler cfq registered
<6>hiahci-phy: registered new sata phy driver
<6>brd: module loaded
<6>loop: module loaded
<6>hifmc100: registerd new interface driver hifmc100.
<5>hifmc100: Found flash memory controller hifmc100.
<6>hifmc100: no found spi-nor device.
<6>nand: id: 0x01 0xDA 0x90 0x95 0x44 0x01 0xDA 0x90
<6>nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0x01, Chip ID: 0xda
<6>nand: AMD/Spansion NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit
<6>nand: Block:128KB Page:2KB OOB:64B ECC:4bits/512 Chip:256MB
<6>flashcache: initialize nand flash cache feature.
<6>flashstats: Create nand flash statistics interface.
<6>flashstats: nand:-read,-write,-erase,-ecc,
<4>mtd: hinand: skipping zero sized partition
<5>8 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device hinand
<5>Creating 8 MTD partitions on "hinand":
<5>0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "boot"
<5>0x000000100000-0x000000200000 : "bootargs"
<5>0x000000200000-0x000000300000 : "baseparam"
<5>0x000000300000-0x000000400000 : "pqparam"
<5>0x000000400000-0x000000500000 : "logo"
<5>0x000000500000-0x000000600000 : "deviceinfo"
<5>0x000000600000-0x000001600000 : "kernel"
<5>0x000001600000-0x000010000000 : "rootfs"
<6>mtd-regop: Create nand register operation interface, buffer size:8566
<6>hifmc100: no found spi-nand device.
<6>FEPHY:addr=2, la_am=0xe, ldo_am=0x3, r_tuning=0x14
<6>libphy: himii: probed
<6>hi_eth: attached port 0 PHY 2 to driver HiSilicon Festa v330
<6>libphy: higmac_mii_bus: probed
<6>Eth phy 3 has invalid OUI:0x0
<6>PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
<6>PPP BSD Compression module registered
<6>PPP Deflate Compression module registered
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver ax88179_178a
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver dm9601
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver net1080
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_subset
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver zaurus
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ncm
<6>ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
<6>ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
<6>ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
<6>ehci-platform f9890000.ehci: EHCI Host Controller
<6>ehci-platform f9890000.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
<6>ehci-platform f9890000.ehci: irq 33, io mem 0xf9890000
<6>ehci-platform f9890000.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
<6>hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
<6>hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
<6>ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
<6>ohci-pci: OHCI PCI platform driver
<6>ohci-platform: OHCI generic platform driver
<6>ohci-platform f9880000.ohci: Generic Platform OHCI controller
<6>ohci-platform f9880000.ohci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
<6>ohci-platform f9880000.ohci: irq 34, io mem 0xf9880000
<6>hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
<6>hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
<6>xhci-hcd f98a0000.xhci: xHCI Host Controller
<6>xhci-hcd f98a0000.xhci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
<6>xhci-hcd f98a0000.xhci: hcc params 0x0220f06c hci version 0x100 quirks 0x00030010
<6>xhci-hcd f98a0000.xhci: irq 36, io mem 0xf98a0000
<6>hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
<6>hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
<6>xhci-hcd f98a0000.xhci: xHCI Host Controller
<6>xhci-hcd f98a0000.xhci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
<6>usb usb4: We don't know the algorithms for LPM for this host, disabling LPM.
<6>hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
<6>hub 4-0:1.0: 1 port detected
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
<6>usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver usb_debug
<6>usbserial: USB Serial support registered for debug
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver option
<6>usbserial: USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
<6>usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
<6>mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
<6>i2c /dev entries driver
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
<6>USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
<6>sp805-wdt f8a2c000.watchdog: registration successful
<4>registered new interface driver himciV2.0_4.4.35_20170401
<6>usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
<5>f9820000.himciv200.SD: eMMC/MMC/SD Device NOT detected!
<6>usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd
<6>hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
<6>hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
<5>f9c40000.himciv200.SD: eMMC/MMC/SD Device NOT detected!
<6>usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-platform
<6>usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
<6>usbhid: USB HID core driver
<6>ashmem: initialized
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
<6>oprofile: using timer interrupt.
<6>Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
<6>nfnl_acct: registering with nfnetlink.
<6>ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
<6>arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 10
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 17
<5>Key type dns_resolver registered
<5>Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
<5>ubi0: default fastmap pool size: 90
<5>ubi0: default fastmap WL pool size: 45
<5>ubi0: attaching mtd7
<6>usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
<6>scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0
<6>usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-platform
<6>usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
<6>scsi host1: usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0
<5>random: nonblocking pool is initialized
<5>ubi0: scanning is finished
<5>ubi0: attached mtd7 (name "rootfs", size 234 MiB)
<5>ubi0: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 126976 bytes
<5>ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 2048
<5>ubi0: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data offset: 4096
<5>ubi0: good PEBs: 1872, bad PEBs: 0, corrupted PEBs: 0
<5>ubi0: user volume: 1, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
<5>ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 16/1, WL threshold: 128, image sequence number: 1394621616
<5>ubi0: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 1872, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40
<5>ubi0: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 927
<6>ALSA device list:
<6>  No soundcards found.
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 929
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): recovery needed
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): recovery completed
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "rootfs"
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): FS size: 230461440 bytes (219 MiB, 1815 LEBs), journal size 9023488 bytes (8 MiB, 72 LEBs)
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): reserved for root: 0 bytes (0 KiB)
<5>UBIFS (ubi0:0): media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID 5EF95472-29E2-4685-9A70-06D98254970A, small LPT model
<6>VFS: Mounted root (ubifs filesystem) on device 0:14.
<6>devtmpfs: mounted
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 532K (c0a6f000 - c0af4000)
<4>This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
<5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
<5>sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 31266816 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB)
<5>sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
<7>sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
<3>sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
<3>sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
<6> sda: sda1
<5>sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev romblock5, sector 0
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev romblock5, sector 8
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev romblock5, sector 16
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev romblock5, sector 24
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev romblock5, sector 0
<3>Buffer I/O error on dev romblock5, logical block 0, async page read
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock5, sector 0
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock5, sector 8
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock5, sector 16
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock5, sector 24
<3>blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock5, sector 0
<3>Buffer I/O error on dev mtdblock5, logical block 0, async page read
<5>scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Seagate  Desktop          0130 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
<5>sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
<5>sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
<7>sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 2f 08 00 00
<3>sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
<3>sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
<6> sdb: sdb1
<5>sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
<3>Buffer I/O error on dev romblock5, logical block 0, async page read
<3>Buffer I/O error on dev mtdblock5, logical block 0, async page read
<4>EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
<6>EXT4-fs (sdb1): recovery complete
<6>EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Opts: (null)
<3>Buffer I/O error on dev romblock5, logical block 0, async page read
<3>Buffer I/O error on dev mtdblock5, logical block 0, async page read
<6>EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
<6>EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Opts: (null)
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver tpm
<6>hisi-sndcard hisi-sndcard: aiao-hifi <-> hisi-i2s mapping ok
<6>input: dreambox advanced remote control (native) as /devices/virtual/input/input0
<6>DVB: registering new adapter (dvb0)
<6>platform dvb0.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DVB-T/T2/C)...
<6>platform dvb0.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 1 (DVB-S2)...
<6>input: front panel as /devices/virtual/input/input1
<4>Mali: Mali device driver loaded
<4>RTL871X: module init start
<4>RTL871X: rtl8192eu v4.3.1.1_11320.20140505
<4>RTL871X: build time: Nov 28 2018 13:53:24
<4>RTL871X: rtw_ndev_init(wlan0)
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192eu
<4>RTL871X: module init ret=0
<6>IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
<6>hieth f9c30000.hieth eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
<6>IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

 

So, then I wanted to see a bit behind the scenes:

 

openpli 7.0-rc h9

h9 login: root
root@h9:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
ubi0:rootfs             202.6M    202.6M      4.0K 100% /
devtmpfs                470.6M      4.0K    470.6M   0% /dev
tmpfs                    64.0K         0     64.0K   0% /media
tmpfs                   470.9M    132.0K    470.8M   0% /var/volatile
/dev/sdb1               915.2G    236.8G    631.8G  27% /media/hdd
/dev/sda1                14.7G    609.9M     14.1G   4% /media/usb

root@h9:~# free
-sh: free: not found

 

So, it seems to me OpenPLi Team need to implement that script to move the root to mSD or USB stick...

Hell, I'll try to do it again now...

[WanWizard]

A 200MB rootfs partition on a modern box? That is very small, even a low end as the Amiko Viper has double the space...

[gorski]

I am surprised you do not know this, WW, as after all this is a box that OpenPLi supports and I am testing OpenPLi 7 image...

 

As I said, Delfi has the solution for mSD or USB (the first one we found on OpenATV and that was only for mSD) - please, feel free to implement the script...

 

I will include the script here...

 

I edited the original "how to" with additional info, thanx to Terrajoe!

 

Here is a slightly edited "tutorial" from a non-IT person's perspective...

========================EXPANDING ZGEMMA H9 FLASH TO MICRO SD CARD=====================

ZGEMMA H9 has a 256 MB Flash, so serious hobbyists need to expand its Flash. There are 2 ways:

1) Flash Expander E2 plugin, to a fast USB 3.0 stick (I wrote in detail about it on this forum and elsewhere) or

2) the following script moving it all from the flash to a fast Micro SD memory card (Zgemma H9 Flodder, as it were... ).

Various Micro SD cards have been tested: class4, class 10 and class A1. In principle, they are all working but not all Micro SD cards
will work.

HOW TO CHECK IF A MICRO SD CARD IS OK FOR FLASH EXPANSION WITH ZGEMMA H9
================================================== =======================

Insert the Micro SD card into Zgemma H9 and reboot the box. Check the /var/logs/message file, using the PuTTy app. Log in by writing:

root
password - for an image you use (for example "pure2" for PurE2 image [without "" signs]).

Now, copy and paste this telnet command into PuTTy:

cat /var/log/messages | grep mmcblk0:

If you see these messages:

Apr 6 19:28:13 zgemmah9t user.info kernel: mmcblk0: mmc0:59b4 USDU1 7.31 GiB
Apr 6 19:28:13 zgemmah9t user.info kernel: mmcblk0: p1

or

May 20 13:25:49 zgemmah9s user.info kernel: mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SC64G 59.5 GiB
May 20 13:25:49 zgemmah9s user.info kernel: mmcblk0: p1

...then you can proceed..

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++LET'S DO IT===============================

Download the "H9 SDcard Mover" attached to this message.

Extract the zip file and copy all 3 files to Zgemma H9 /tmp folder, using FileZilla Client app, for instance.

Now, right click on h9_mmc.sh file > File permissions > 755 > OK.

Warning: all data on your Micro SD card will be lost when your start this script!

Start the script by the following 2 telnet commands:

cd /tmp

./h9_mmc.sh

Reboot the box and wait for the script to move everything to Micro SD card.

Your Zgemma H9 just got a boost!

Just remember that there is a small price to pay: your flash is larger but the Zgemma H9 might be a bit slower than if everything
is running from H9 flash alone.

================================================== =====================

How to go back to a previous state of things (rollback to rootfs, to NAND)?

Simply flash a new image.

================================================== =====================

Credit to Captain @ OpenATV

Text edited by gorski, thanx to TerraJoe for the missing IT info...

================================================== =====================

P.S. Do not mount Micro SD card using pManager (in PurE2 or any kind of Device Manager in any other Enigma2). Then, the script can't
umount it. Once I unmounted it, using pManager - it worked!

Attached Files

•  SDcard Mover.rar   2.61KB   3 downloads

[gorski]

WW, I am trying to remove some plugins, so I have some space to put the script to good use, alas the PLUGINS > red button does not work... After I removed 2 manually - there is no difference, still 0% free space...

 

Btw, free command does not work in OpenPLi...

 

And the script needs editing for PLi...

[WanWizard]

I am surprised you do not know this, WW, as after all this is a box that OpenPLi supports and I am testing OpenPLi 7 image...

 

I have a entire cupboard full of boxes, and if I had 30 days a week, I might come around to using them all on a regular basis.

 

Unfortunately, that is not the case, but my time and my mental capacity (due to illness) in that time is limited.

 

WW, I am trying to remove some plugins, so I have some space to put the script to good use, alas the PLUGINS > red button does not work... After I removed 2 manually - there is no difference, still 0% free space...

 

Might be related to http://www.linux-mtd...tml#L_df_report

 

Btw, free command does not work in OpenPLi...

 

It was removed a long time ago, as it was constantly mis-used by N00bs to complain, while the output of free is completely useless if you don't know exactly how Linux works. For those that do: cat /proc/meminfo.