Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Android TV Boxes
From:    Mindsurfer
Date:    Sat Nov 07, 2026 22:05

@VIA: FUNTOPIA
  Re: Re: Android TV Boxes
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mindsurfer on Fri Nov 06 2026 20:30:32

 Mi>> First you prepare a SDcard or USB stick with Armbian. You have to edit a
 Mi>> text file there to match your exact hardware. To get into the bootloader
 Mi>> you have to power on the device while holding down a little switch inside
 Mi>> the av port (with a toothpick or so). Then you boot from SDcard or USB
 Mi>> stick, setup your software and eventually use a script that comes with
 Mi>> armbian (or armbian-config) to write everything to the emmc flash drive.
 Mi>> There are several tutorials out there. This is one of those:
 Mi>> https://github.com/berci9ke101/nexbox-a95x-armbian


 PF> I'm picturing a stack of those things forming a cheap Proxmox cluster.
 PF> Very cool!

Sure, if you want to experiment like one did back in the early Raspberry Pi days, you have another inexpensive option now. =)
But keep in mind that proxmox itself will need a quite big amount of space and that EMMC flash memory does wear out faster if you write alot of logs etc. to it. So it is maybe not perfect to run a proxmox server on it. But proof me wrong =)

Mindsurfer

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