Port XBMC for Linux to run on the ASUS O!Play (O'Play / OPlay) media player hardware?

CrashX · 2009-10-09 20:17

Fry's Store has ASUS O!Play - TV HD Media Player for $89.99.

Koenradus · 2009-10-10 10:20

Hi guys,

I just found this thread been looking for something like this for ages. I would like to offer any help I can give on getting XBMC working on O!Play. I'm a fairly advanced Linux user and owner of the O!Play so any testing questions can be submitted and I will try to answer as fast and complete as possible.

Observations so far (using ACRyan topic as guideline to confirm O!Play compatibility)

Filesystem is mounted read only, but the folder /usr/local/etc is mounted read-write and contains a rcS with gets executed on startup.
By adding stuff to this rcS you can get it to boot at startup. Even stuff you put on an external flash drive (have to utilize a sleep to allow for mounting)
Custom apps (I have FTP up and running for instance) can now be run from external flash drive on startup.

Ok, that's it for now. Any more you'd like me to test / share?

hijack204 · 2009-10-10 16:08

Koenradus Wrote:Hi guys,

I just found this thread been looking for something like this for ages. I would like to offer any help I can give on getting XBMC working on O!Play. I'm a fairly advanced Linux user and owner of the O!Play so any testing questions can be submitted and I will try to answer as fast and complete as possible.

Observations so far (using ACRyan topic as guideline to confirm O!Play compatibility)

Filesystem is mounted read only, but the folder /usr/local/etc is mounted read-write and contains a rcS with gets executed on startup.

By adding stuff to this rcS you can get it to boot at startup. Even stuff you put on an external flash drive (have to utilize a sleep to allow for mounting)

Custom apps (I have FTP up and running for instance) can now be run from external flash drive on startup.

Ok, that's it for now. Any more you'd like me to test / share?

Filesystem is mounted read only but I had no problems remounting

mount -n -o remount,rw /

Koenradus · 2009-10-10 16:58

Very nice. But have you been able to run further commands? Say dpkg or use a newer version of BusyBox with more commands?

CrashX · 2009-10-10 22:22

Koenradus Wrote:Ok, that's it for now. Any more you'd like me to test / share?

Any luck in getting optware and openssh working ?

chrsb · 2009-10-11 00:22

Long time reader, first time posting.
Since most of these new media players are all based off of the same Realtek-based player, the new CinemaTube would maybe be able to be flashed if the Ausus O!play can be?
This model accepts plug-ins according to the manual-
http://www.brite-view.com/cinematube.php

hijack204 · 2009-10-11 00:38

chrsb Wrote:Long time reader, first time posting.
Since most of these new media players are all based off of the same Realtek-based player, the new CinemaTube would maybe be able to be flashed if the Ausus O!play can be?
This model accepts plug-ins according to the manual-
http://www.brite-view.com/cinematube.php

That looks exactly like the o!play interface except the torrent application and upnp

pmcd · 2009-10-11 01:38

Koenradus Wrote:Hi guys,

I just found this thread been looking for something like this for ages. I would like to offer any help I can give on getting XBMC working on O!Play. I'm a fairly advanced Linux user and owner of the O!Play so any testing questions can be submitted and I will try to answer as fast and complete as possible.

Observations so far (using ACRyan topic as guideline to confirm O!Play compatibility)

Filesystem is mounted read only, but the folder /usr/local/etc is mounted read-write and contains a rcS with gets executed on startup.

By adding stuff to this rcS you can get it to boot at startup. Even stuff you put on an external flash drive (have to utilize a sleep to allow for mounting)

Custom apps (I have FTP up and running for instance) can now be run from external flash drive on startup.

Ok, that's it for now. Any more you'd like me to test / share?

I just got an O!Play and the only thing I want is to have ftp (server that is) running so I can move stuff back and forth to a hard drive connected to it. I don't mind formatting the hard drive to whatever will work.

Would you please detail how to get an ftp server working on this? Sorry, but my Linux abilities are not up to that (:

XBMC on it would of course be wonderful, but for now ftp will have to do for me Smile

Thank's,

philip

Koenradus · 2009-10-11 14:56

If you follow the instructions in this post you should be OK. Pretty straightforward and the same files work on my O!Play: http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5637#p5637

Koenradus · 2009-10-11 15:36

CrashX Wrote:Looks like you are getting 45 MBytes/s on your network ( I presume you are testing from a network drive )

How easy was it to get into linux shell ?
Have you tried installing optware packages ?

Again, thanks for the tests ..

Okay, optware up and running:
Telnet in, first remount /:

Code:

mount / -o remount,rw

Then install bootstrap. ipkg-cl is extrated by someone on another forum from the xtreamer firmware

Code:

mkdir /opt

mkdir /opt/tmp

mkdir /opt/tmp/ipkg

cd /opt/tmp

wget http://www.kovari.priv.hu/download/ipkg-cl.tgz

tar -xvf ipkg-cl.tgz

mv /opt/tmp/ipkg-cl /usr/local/bin/

rm ipkg-cl.tgz

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk

ipkg-cl install uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk

ipkg-cl install ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk

rm *.ipk

/opt/bin/ipkg update

Ok that's it. Now, any package can be installed like: "/opt/bin/ipkg install mc"
Furthermore to make some room for the packages, and since i'm not chinese Laugh

, remove those big (total +/- 30MB) fonts:

Code:

cd /usr/local/bin/Resource/

cp arial.ttf CHI.ttf

cp arial.ttf JPN.ttf

cp arial.ttf cwheib.ttf

cp arial.ttf cwyen.ttf

Before 92.5/203.6 MB free (55% used), after 126.6/203.6 free (38% used), thats better!
That's it for now. So to answer CrashX's question: Optware is working...

CrashX Posting Freak Posts: 1,216 Joined: Jan 2009 Reputation: 2	2009-10-09 20:17 Post: #21 Fry's Store has ASUS O!Play - TV HD Media Player for $89.99. The normal XBMC log IS NOT a debug log, to enable debug logging you must toggle it on under XBMC Settings - System or in advancedsettings.xml. Use XBMC Debug Log Addon to retrieve it.
	find quote

Koenradus Junior Member Posts: 19 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-10-10 16:58 Post: #24 Very nice. But have you been able to run further commands? Say dpkg or use a newer version of BusyBox with more commands?
	find quote

CrashX Posting Freak Posts: 1,216 Joined: Jan 2009 Reputation: 2	2009-10-10 22:22 Post: #25 Koenradus Wrote:Ok, that's it for now. Any more you'd like me to test / share? Any luck in getting optware and openssh working ? The normal XBMC log IS NOT a debug log, to enable debug logging you must toggle it on under XBMC Settings - System or in advancedsettings.xml. Use XBMC Debug Log Addon to retrieve it.
	find quote

chrsb Junior Member Posts: 6 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-10-11 00:22 Post: #26 Long time reader, first time posting. Since most of these new media players are all based off of the same Realtek-based player, the new CinemaTube would maybe be able to be flashed if the Ausus O!play can be? This model accepts plug-ins according to the manual- http://www.brite-view.com/cinematube.php
	find quote

Koenradus Junior Member Posts: 19 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-10-11 14:56 Post: #29 If you follow the instructions in this post you should be OK. Pretty straightforward and the same files work on my O!Play: http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5637#p5637
	find quote