VIM3L - Opening Up New Possibilities for DIY-HTPC Enthusiasts

I’m in direct contact with some TBS developers.
I am sending you the request that you described.
I hope to get a response to your request.
Because we have a private group of users who use TBS.

We would like to use SBC as khadas plus TBS.

Instead of using TBS +Linux +Tvheadend, anyone who uses TBS knows that it is perfect in linux and windows.

Sometimes holding your breath with great expectation leaves you dead.

Shoog

TBS make some nice kit and in the last couple of years they made the positive step of open-sourcing all their code and maintaining drivers in a public repo. This gets my general thumbs-up, but the next step is to get their code out of their github repo and into the mainline kernel … and I don’t see much effort or progress on that, which is a shame. Froms a distro maintainers perspective it would be nice to have DVB drivers that don’t break with every kernel bump (as with media_build).

The happiest DVB users that I know bought Digibit R1 or SiliconDust network tuners. It’s an expensive approach but the tuners support multiple “dumb” client devices around the house well and the vendors have historically provided good long-term support. If budgets are lower I would still recommend people run tuners on a separate device as this architecture allows the head-end to run an OS with a stable combination of kernel and drivers while cheap client devices run more bleeding-edge code.

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@Gouwa, for the Android image for VIM3L, would you be providing

  1. TWRP recovery?
  2. Root access in the ROM?
  3. OMS support for theming?

1-TWRP is a specialist third party recovery app, you need to take up porting it with the TWRP project not Khadas.
2-The Android ROMs supplied by Khadas are all rooted.
3- ?

Shoog

  1. OMS is required for Substratum theming in Android

Any news about the shipment ? :package:

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@Ticc0 yes still on schedule. :slight_smile:

Estimating shipping before 30th October 2019.
When exactly?

When are you shipping???

Hi VIM3L backers:
We just completed the 1st batch VIM3L SMT process, and our guys are running the QA process now and will complete it before 5th Nov on next Monday.

At the same time, CoreELEC team are optimizing the CE image for VIM3L.

Sorry for the few days delay :upside_down_face: we will post some photos here of VIM3L production.

Thank you for all the support!

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Thanks Gouwa. Looking forward to receiving my VIM3L.

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Will post more later.

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Any chance of dispatch date???

It is November 5th and there is no news of the dispatch.
Come on guys!

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The production VIM3L has the -N0N lasered onto the SoC:

And we are now busy bees, preparing your VIM3Ls and HTPC Kits for shipment! :smile:

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From the last picture, it is a good thing you don’t have any cats around there.

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It would quickly become an electrified kitty. :smile:

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The email has arrived Waiting for it!l

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