[Sholander]

@bossanova808
I use Harmony 650 IR with AM6B+. Harmony is set as for X-Box (XBMC) with IR Power Button captured-transferred from original Ugoos remote. For me, it works satisfactory...

[bossanova808]

That's great, thanks for confirming.

[meridius]

Just had a thought i have a harmony hub and never used the remote that came with the hub, can I control the CoreELEC Kodi with it and if so which codes to use or is it better to program it

[mavvy]

That is how I've been using Kodi on a Vero 4K+ for years now. I have the Harmony Smartcontrol and the Harmony Companion, both without a display, hence battery lasts 1+ year. Best Harmonys for me, I dislike using smartphone apps instead of real oldschool remotes.

If I remember correctly you can either control via IR or Bluetooth if your player and Hub offers it. You can select Kodi (or was it XBMC?) from the Logitech database and customize/change the buttons to your needs.

That was years of years ago, maybe your device itself is in the database so you won't have to use the generic xbmc nowadays.

[teamrocket]

Does anyone own Ugoos AM8 / AM8 Pro. If so, please do let me know of your experience. My main use case is Kodi +Moonlight Client.
I found this review :
https://www.eyalo.com/213024/review-ugoos-am8-pro/
It said using external USB and playing Kodi DV files will cause crash and reboot, which made testing harder. But i might be able to get around with Jellyfin Media Server.
What I don't know is if using CoreElec is mandatory for proper DV playback? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...=427220017
My Windows mini PC has a Kodi server for normal SDR HD files sourced from third party cloud. Currently because DV can't play DV well I use FTV 4K for DV and other local content, then stream my Kodi server via Moonlight/Sunshine. It works nice enough, surprisingly...
But dayummm I'd be honest and say DV in FTV 4K felt so dark. The DV stuff link confirmed this, so I thought just maybe if I switch to Ugoos AM8 /AM8 Pro it could fix that issue, alongside the low powered cpu issue and aging problems, as now I also experience random reboots when using Kodi.

[meridius]

Does anyone own Ugoos AM8 / AM8 Pro. If so, please do let me know of your experience. My main use case is Kodi +Moonlight Client.
I found this review :
https://www.eyalo.com/213024/review-ugoos-am8-pro/
It said using external USB and playing Kodi DV files will cause crash and reboot, which made testing harder. But i might be able to get around with Jellyfin Media Server.
What I don't know is if using CoreElec is mandatory for proper DV playback? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...=427220017
My Windows mini PC has a Kodi server for normal SDR HD files sourced from third party cloud. Currently because DV can't play DV well I use FTV 4K for DV and other local content, then stream my Kodi server via Moonlight/Sunshine. It works nice enough, surprisingly...
But dayummm I'd be honest and say DV in FTV 4K felt so dark. The DV stuff link confirmed this, so I thought just maybe if I switch to Ugoos AM8 /AM8 Pro it could fix that issue, alongside the low powered cpu issue and aging problems, as now I also experience random reboots when using Kodi.

The Ugoos AM8 /AM8 don’t support fully Dolby vision, as posted on coreelec forums.
“The S928X is a paperweight at this point. I think that companies will either pressure Amlogic to release the necessary driver for CoreElec to support the S928X or other companies will start producing S922X-J devices. This is a huge cash cow for Amlogic/Ugoos and other manufacturers will want a cut. FEL support will become as common as the USB.“

Only the Ugoos AM6b+ and minix 22xj-Max

I upgraded from 20 year pc driven Kodi media player. Had some teething problems but plays everything. Would the new chipset. support do much more who knows as it could get av1 support I suppose.

[teamrocket]

 
The Ugoos AM8 /AM8 don’t support fully Dolby vision, as posted on coreelec forums.
“The S928X is a paperweight at this point. I think that companies will either pressure Amlogic to release the necessary driver for CoreElec to support the S928X or other companies will start producing S922X-J devices. This is a huge cash cow for Amlogic/Ugoos and other manufacturers will want a cut. FEL support will become as common as the USB.“

Only the Ugoos AM6b+ and minix 22xj-Max

I upgraded from 20 year pc driven Kodi media player. Had some teething problems but plays everything. Would the new chipset. support do much more who knows as it could get av1 support I suppose.

Oh. I thought because AM8 /AM8 Pro is the successor it will automatically play everything better lol. I'd like to think AV1 support is nice for some futureproofing, though for real world situation I doubt AV1 (for Kodi) adoption rate would flourish quickly. Adoption of new standards are usually slow. Streaming services would definitely jump on it tho no doubt.
Ermm sorry I kinda bad at reading between the lines, did you mean that now you own AM6B or Minix 22xj-max running CoreElec? If so, do you think if it is possible to play DV (profile 8 is adequate) with the OS it shipped with (Android) and Kodi V21? I kinda want to have Moonlight Client

[meridius]

 
The Ugoos AM8 /AM8 don’t support fully Dolby vision, as posted on coreelec forums.
“The S928X is a paperweight at this point. I think that companies will either pressure Amlogic to release the necessary driver for CoreElec to support the S928X or other companies will start producing S922X-J devices. This is a huge cash cow for Amlogic/Ugoos and other manufacturers will want a cut. FEL support will become as common as the USB.“

Only the Ugoos AM6b+ and minix 22xj-Max

I upgraded from 20 year pc driven Kodi media player. Had some teething problems but plays everything. Would the new chipset. support do much more who knows as it could get av1 support I suppose.

Oh. I thought because AM8 /AM8 Pro is the successor it will automatically play everything better lol. I'd like to think AV1 support is nice for some futureproofing, though for real world situation I doubt AV1 (for Kodi) adoption rate would flourish quickly. Adoption of new standards are usually slow. Streaming services would definitely jump on it tho no doubt.
Ermm sorry I kinda bad at reading between the lines, did you mean that now you own AM6B or Minix 22xj-max running CoreElec? If so, do you think if it is possible to play DV (profile 8 is adequate) with the OS it shipped with (Android) and Kodi V21? I kinda want to have Moonlight Client

Here is a spreadsheet that tells you what is supported and what devices plays what.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0...=427220017

[teamrocket]

 
The Ugoos AM8 /AM8 don’t support fully Dolby vision, as posted on coreelec forums.
“The S928X is a paperweight at this point. I think that companies will either pressure Amlogic to release the necessary driver for CoreElec to support the S928X or other companies will start producing S922X-J devices. This is a huge cash cow for Amlogic/Ugoos and other manufacturers will want a cut. FEL support will become as common as the USB.“

Only the Ugoos AM6b+ and minix 22xj-Max

I upgraded from 20 year pc driven Kodi media player. Had some teething problems but plays everything. Would the new chipset. support do much more who knows as it could get av1 support I suppose.

Oh. I thought because AM8 /AM8 Pro is the successor it will automatically play everything better lol. I'd like to think AV1 support is nice for some futureproofing, though for real world situation I doubt AV1 (for Kodi) adoption rate would flourish quickly. Adoption of new standards are usually slow. Streaming services would definitely jump on it tho no doubt.
Ermm sorry I kinda bad at reading between the lines, did you mean that now you own AM6B or Minix 22xj-max running CoreElec? If so, do you think if it is possible to play DV (profile 8 is adequate) with the OS it shipped with (Android) and Kodi V21? I kinda want to have Moonlight Client

Here is a spreadsheet that tells you what is supported and what devices plays what.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0...=427220017

Yeah I am aware of that spreadsheet. I linked it on my previous post. I only wanna know if CoreElec is mandatory to get proper DV playback, or if using Kodi Omega V21 in Android is satisfactory for the am6b+ or Minix 22xj-max client. Oh well...

[Sholander]

Oh. I thought because AM8 /AM8 Pro is the successor it will automatically play everything better lol. I'd like to think AV1 support is nice for some futureproofing, though for real world situation I doubt AV1 (for Kodi) adoption rate would flourish quickly. Adoption of new standards are usually slow. Streaming services would definitely jump on it tho no doubt.
Ermm sorry I kinda bad at reading between the lines, did you mean that now you own AM6B or Minix 22xj-max running CoreElec? If so, do you think if it is possible to play DV (profile 8 is adequate) with the OS it shipped with (Android) and Kodi V21? I kinda want to have Moonlight Client

Here is a spreadsheet that tells you what is supported and what devices plays what.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0...=427220017

Yeah I am aware of that spreadsheet. I linked it on my previous post. I only wanna know if CoreElec is mandatory to get proper DV playback, or if using Kodi Omega V21 in Android is satisfactory for the am6b+ or Minix 22xj-max client. Oh well...

Yes it is, if by this you mean proper DV P7 DTDL reproduction. It does not work on Android AFAIK... At least I did not get it to work in Android

[teamrocket]

Here is a spreadsheet that tells you what is supported and what devices plays what.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0...=427220017

Yeah I am aware of that spreadsheet. I linked it on my previous post. I only wanna know if CoreElec is mandatory to get proper DV playback, or if using Kodi Omega V21 in Android is satisfactory for the am6b+ or Minix 22xj-max client. Oh well...

Yes it is, if by this you mean proper DV P7 DTDL reproduction. It does not work on Android AFAIK... At least I did not get it to work in Android

Thank you for letting me know.... If it's not too much trouble, I'd love to know if Android build would at least play DV profile 8 (the one with HDR fallback).

[noggin]

Here is a spreadsheet that tells you what is supported and what devices plays what.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0...=427220017

Yeah I am aware of that spreadsheet. I linked it on my previous post. I only wanna know if CoreElec is mandatory to get proper DV playback, or if using Kodi Omega V21 in Android is satisfactory for the am6b+ or Minix 22xj-max client. Oh well...

Yes it is, if by this you mean proper DV P7 DTDL reproduction. It does not work on Android AFAIK... At least I did not get it to work in Android

Profile 7 DTDL is only supported by CoreElec on the older AMLogic-ng-only devices like the Ugoos AM6+ or Minix NEO U22-XJ (Max) equiped with S922X-J, not the newer AMLogic devices like the Homatics/Dune R 4K Plus, RockTek G2 or Nokia 8010 that also support AMLogic-ne (and had DV support first).  The latter boxes will playback Profile 7 stuff - but they do it by converting to another profile and AIUI don't use the Enhancement Layer AIUI.  (There's a kernel (?) issue in the ne releases that causes issue with Profile 7 DTDL stuff?).

[Sholander]

Yeah I am aware of that spreadsheet. I linked it on my previous post. I only wanna know if CoreElec is mandatory to get proper DV playback, or if using Kodi Omega V21 in Android is satisfactory for the am6b+ or Minix 22xj-max client. Oh well...

Yes it is, if by this you mean proper DV P7 DTDL reproduction. It does not work on Android AFAIK... At least I did not get it to work in Android

Thank you for letting me know.... If it's not too much trouble, I'd love to know if Android build would at least play DV profile 8 (the one with HDR fallback).

Yes it will, it plays DV P8 in Android Kodi 21; it plays also DV P7 DTDL by converting it to P8.1 STDL the same way the boxes with S905X4 SoC do, I think.
I haven't spent much time investigating Android possibilities, but I think that it does not support "Display-led" (DV_RGB_444_8BIT) only "Player-led" (LL_YCbCr_422_12BIT) also known as "Low Latency". In CoreElec you can choose between these two mods.

Edit:  @hdmkv tested here AM6B+ in Android, and it does support TV-led (Display-led) DV, but does not do a great job with P7 FEL, although it supports it. Also it supports Player-led (Low Latency) DV...

[stammie]

Well my Ugoos AM6B+ turned up a couple of days ago and after setting up an initial/test coreELEC installation on a USB stick I'm pretty impressed,
everything works pretty snappily and all content types I've thrown at it work perfectly
I don't need Android on it at all and want to set up a proper coreELEC install on the EMMC but the instructions on the coreELEC forums are confusing me, do I need to set up dual boot even though I will never use Android and in the process lose some storage space or can I just set up an instance of single boot?
Also I could swear when I set up my Odroid N2's I only had to do one fully then save its settings to a USB stick to transfer to the next device but my dumb backside is struggling to find that setting so any advice on it would be welcome and also can I backup my Kodi install from one device and transfer it to a completely different manufacturers device?

[Sholander]

Well my Ugoos AM6B+ turned up a couple of days ago and after setting up an initial/test coreELEC installation on a USB stick I'm pretty impressed,
everything works pretty snappily and all content types I've thrown at it work perfectly
I don't need Android on it at all and want to set up a proper coreELEC install on the EMMC but the instructions on the coreELEC forums are confusing me, do I need to set up dual boot even though I will never use Android and in the process lose some storage space or can I just set up an instance of single boot?
Also I could swear when I set up my Odroid N2's I only had to do one fully then save its settings to a USB stick to transfer to the next device but my dumb backside is struggling to find that setting so any advice on it would be welcome and also can I backup my Kodi install from one device and transfer it to a completely different manufacturers device?

Single boot to CoreElec cannot work, because for DV to work in CE, Android installation is mandatory. If you get rid of Android on AM6B+ you'll also get rid of DV.
Transferring complete CE backup settings to any USB works without any problem using Kodi File Manager.