Rk3229 not the ideal SoC choice and no doubt the PSU will incur wrath of European Commission Rapid Alert System but price seems OK for what it is.
M0nk3h to AndyRoyd
4 Jul 172#2
Took the words out of my mouth.
The SoC is one to avoid but the advantage is you get 2GB RAM and the price isn't so bad. Personally for me, the negative out weighs the positives, so I'd have to give it a miss.
I'd rather spend this on an AmLogic box.
Gottograbthemall to AndyRoyd
7 Jul 17#15
Can you enlighten us please? As I have no idea why I should avoid this? Serious question, not trolling
Why? They are better value than anything Sky/BT/Virgin can offer..
M0nk3h to davnav
4 Jul 172#7
Which is the reason why these gems get a bad press. The use for these are far from dead and far from ever being dead. They make a great Kodi box and Kodi isn't just a platform for piracy you know, it's a whole media centre and a brilliant one at that. It rustles me up Kodi has become a household name for an all-in-one piracy platform.
89quidyoucantgowrong
4 Jul 17#6
Smash repo is probably being run by the us satellite company sueing some of the kodi addon writers, same as the sky code breaking ring was back in the day. They'll be collecting data for legal notices, no doubt.
SpitfireXXI
5 Jul 17#8
I agree with the above positive comments about Kodi. It's got a 'bad' name purely because of what people have been using it for. Personally I use my android box purely as a media centre as it uses way less power than the PC it replaced, and it's much smaller and quieter. These boxes are worth it for that alone I think?
polly69
7 Jul 17#9
Is anyone else having issues with the movie scrapping as if you choose the movie database as the scrapper its not getting any movie info and i have multiple Kodi boxes all with the same issue, ive swapped the scrapper to another and its pulled all the covers but nether TV or movie is updating the recently added. I bet its down to the Kodi piracy thing thats going on.
iclarke2004 to polly69
7 Jul 17#20
If your using something like SPMC instead of Kodi that is the problem
ourdave
7 Jul 171#10
Gazzie
7 Jul 17#11
I've got the mxq (bit similar, lesser spec). Fantastic support for getting LibreElec on it. Obviously I don't do the dodgy stuff, but it's ideal for streaming content from my zgemma box.
Opening post
Features:
CPU: Rk3229 Cortex Processor 2.0GHz
GPU: Penta-Core ARM Mali-450
RAM: 2GB
ROM: 16GB EMMC FLASH
OS: Android 6.0
WIFI: 2.4G
Ethernet: 10/100M
Blutooth: 2.1
Video Decode: H.265
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tops-Android-Smart-Amlogic-Bluetooth/dp/B01K74KHVU/
All comments (37)
The SoC is one to avoid but the advantage is you get 2GB RAM and the price isn't so bad. Personally for me, the negative out weighs the positives, so I'd have to give it a miss.
I'd rather spend this on an AmLogic box.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tops-Android-Smart-Amlogic-Bluetooth/dp/B01K74KHVU/