CoreELEC is a 'Just enough OS' Linux distribution for running the award-winning Kodi software on popular low-cost hardware. CoreELEC is a minor fork of LibreELEC, it's built by the community for the community. CoreELEC website.
Unfortunately, the official CoreELEC does not have the driver for unisoc uwe5621ds chip, which is commonly seen on IPTV boxes from China Mobile. This project aims to build CoreELEC system with uwe5621 driver.
The device tree file in source code common-files/e900v22c.dtb has fixed the frequency of the uwe5621ds chip for skyworth e900v22c tv box, and it has been packed into the image file as dtb.img. Do not use the device tree file device_tress/g12a_s905x2_2g.dtb in the boot partition for skyworth e900v22c, otherwise the WIFI will fail when the data traffic becomes too large. More seriously the system will fail.
The WIFI MAC address is stored in the file /lib/firmware/uwe5621ds/wifimac.txt. However, it is not possible to edit this file directly as the filesystem is readonly in CoreELEC. The way to change WIFI MAC address is copying the file /lib/firmware/uwe5621ds/wifimac.txt to /storage/.config/firmware/uwe5621ds/wifimac.txt. Edit the MAC address in the latter one and then reboot CoreELEC.
The remote keymap files has been packed into the image file. Unfortunately the numeric keys are not working with the virtual keyboard.
- Install the necessary packages (E.g Ubuntu 20.04 LTS user)
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y make gcc git texinfo gzip-
Clone the repository to the local.
git clone https://github.com/KryptonLee/e900v22c-CoreELEC.git -
Enter the
~/e900v22c-CoreELECroot directory and run Eg:./buildto build CoreELEC.