Recommend an Android Box that runs XBMC - [No copyrighted material]

coldfire1x

Allyall wrote: »

€19.03

Whats the spec like for this box?

mightybashful

Allyall wrote: »

PM sent.

Would you send us a pm too please All?

dahat

mightybashful wrote: »

Would you send us a pm too please All?

As well if possible,thanks.

baingal nancer

Allyall wrote: »

€19.03

Link pls?

Invincible

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Android-4-4-TV-Box-Q7-CS918-MK888-RK3188-Quad-Core-WIFI-HMDI-AV-Media-Player/2051628677.html

I've ordered one, but as Allyall said earlier,no guarantees regarding delivery, so if you order no point in coming on here whinging if it's not delivered, that said dispute process on Aliexpress is straight forward.

Big Nelly

Invincible wrote: »

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Android-4-4-TV-Box-Q7-CS918-MK888-RK3188-Quad-Core-WIFI-HMDI-AV-Media-Player/2051628677.html

I've ordered one, but as Allyall said earlier,no guarantees regarding delivery, so if you order no point in coming on here whinging if it's not delivered, that said dispute process on Aliexpress is straight forward.

Ordered one as well, I had one of these before the Minix, great little box with loads of firmware options out there....

Invincible

Big Nelly wrote: »

Ordered one as well, I had one of these before the Minix, great little box with loads of firmware options out there....

Good to hear first hand experience

BenEadir

Just ordered two of them, not sure why but I see myself tuning each one from a €20 box into a gift for a family member with XBMC and all the tweaks etc which they'll place a much higher value on.

Or else I'll just sell them on Done Deal

The same box is for sale on Amazon for £94 http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiveSeasonStuff%C2%AE-Performance-Supported-SportsDevil-Jailbroken/dp/B00IR2BYDK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1413900083&sr=8-5&keywords=Q7+CS918+MK888+RK3188+Quad+Core

iba

BenEadir wrote: »

Just ordered two of them, not sure why but I see myself tuning each one from a €20 box into a gift for a family member with XBMC and all the tweaks etc which they'll place a much higher value on.

Or else I'll just sell them on Done Deal

The same box is for sale on Amazon for £94 http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiveSeasonStuff%C2%AE-Performance-Supported-SportsDevil-Jailbroken/dp/B00IR2BYDK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1413900083&sr=8-5&keywords=Q7+CS918+MK888+RK3188+Quad+Core

Got one too - but don't know why

Can't use it as a xmas pressie as I got everyone I know the MK908II last year.

k123456

Big Nelly wrote: »

Ordered one as well, I had one of these before the Minix, great little box with loads of firmware options out there....

Ordered 1 too, what FW would be recommended for this , please

JTMan

Very basic question.

My Minix NEO X8 box arrived today.

I have powered up the box, linked it to the TV via my HDMI cable, turned on remote control in settings on the box.

I then downloaded the official Minix remote control app on my smartphone in order to get a qwerty keyboard to type my wifi password. The official remote control app will not locate the IP address of my box / pair with my box.

What am I doing wrong? How do I get a qwerty keyboard on screen? / how do I pair the remote control app?

Thanks.

dahat

JTMan wrote: »

Very basic question.

My Minix NEO X8 box arrived today.

I have powered up the box, linked it to the TV via my HDMI cable, turned on remote control in settings on the box.

I then downloaded the official Minix remote control app on my smartphone in order to get a qwerty keyboard to type my wifi password. The official remote control app will not locate the IP address of my box / pair with my box.

What am I doing wrong? How do I get a qwerty keyboard on screen? / how do I pair the remote control app?

Thanks.

Is Bluetooth turned on on the box? Does ot connect by Bluetooth?

The app should have step by step guides much the same as pairing Yatse to XBMC.

JTMan

Problem fixed thanks.

In a nutshell, Yatse works. Official app won't work. Yatse does the job.

timetogo

JTMan wrote: »

Very basic question.

My Minix NEO X8 box arrived today.

I have powered up the box, linked it to the TV via my HDMI cable, turned on remote control in settings on the box.

I then downloaded the official Minix remote control app on my smartphone in order to get a qwerty keyboard to type my wifi password. The official remote control app will not locate the IP address of my box / pair with my box.

What am I doing wrong? How do I get a qwerty keyboard on screen? / how do I pair the remote control app?

Thanks.

You couldn't use the official app to type the wifi password as the app needs to connect to your box over ip.

Make sure you downloaded the correct version of the app. There are a couple. The app works fine with my box. You don't really need it though if you are using xbmc and yatse.

Hunt3R

Raspberry Pi B+ , install XBMC System ( I know, he said android but this is better in my opinion ).. less than 40 euro and a decent processor and 512 mb of ram. Great deal.

Jack_Reacher9

hey - i have a minix x8-h and im currently running IPTV from vdubt25; channels work great...epg never works and as someone has already mentioned there is no recording functionality.

Is there any PVR frontend/backend combo for Gotham 13.2 that actually works and has recording functionality of live tv??

Really appreciate any help; pulling my hair out as all seem to have "connection lost" when i enable the PVR add ons.

iba

Jack_Reacher9 wrote: »

hey - i have a minix x8-h and im currently running IPTV from vdubt25; channels work great...epg never works and as someone has already mentioned there is no recording functionality.

Is there any PVR frontend/backend combo for Gotham 13.2 that actually works and has recording functionality of live tv??

Really appreciate any help; pulling my hair out as all seem to have "connection lost" when i enable the PVR add ons.

EPG does work - perhaps double check the URL.

k123456

Hi Xbmc users, is there on add-on maintenance tool, that allows
deleting of cache,
and setting up unlimited caching, which I think is zero cache.




Thanks

Heraldoffreeent

k123456 wrote: »

Hi Xbmc users, is there on add-on maintenance tool, that allows
deleting of cache,
and setting up unlimited caching, which I think is zero cache.




Thanks

Yeah, install Xunity maintenance, 0 Cache is in the tweaks section, and clearing cache is in Maintenance.

Big Nelly

Invincible wrote: »

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Android-4-4-TV-Box-Q7-CS918-MK888-RK3188-Quad-Core-WIFI-HMDI-AV-Media-Player/2051628677.html

I've ordered one, but as Allyall said earlier,no guarantees regarding delivery, so if you order no point in coming on here whinging if it's not delivered, that said dispute process on Aliexpress is straight forward.

Might have found out why they are selling that box off. It is using the old RK3188T processor in it.....still as mentioned it was good little box for me

Just seen the replacement one on GearBest
http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_79506.html

Looks a good spec box when you compare to the Minix X8-H

Big Nelly

Heraldoffreeent wrote: »

Yeah, install Xunity maintenance, 0 Cache is in the tweaks section, and clearing cache is in Maintenance.

I done this last week, after I set the 0 cache I had loads of issues. Very choppy playback and about 20 mins of playing and then it would drop back to screen and would have to restart

I got pi**ed very quickly and ended up scrubbing the box, flashing the new firmware udate and starting from fresh, still building back up XBMC

I think I am going to build back up the X8-H and then sell it on......so anyone looking for a box give me a shout :-)

Might try one of these: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_79506.html
Or actually looking at the following: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_94470.html
Great value and spec looks good

k123456

Big Nelly wrote: »

I done this last week, after I set the 0 cache I had loads of issues. Very choppy playback and about 20 mins of playing and then it would drop back to screen and would have to restart

I got pi**ed very quickly and ended up scrubbing the box, flashing the new firmware udate and starting from fresh, still building back up XBMC

I think I am going to build back up the X8-H and then sell it on......so anyone looking for a box give me a shout :-)

Might try one of these: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_79506.html
Or actually looking at the following: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_94470.html
Great value and spec looks good

Thats interesting on the zero cache, wasnt expecting it to cause issues

What FW did you flash to the minix

threein99

Big Nelly wrote: »

I done this last week, after I set the 0 cache I had loads of issues. Very choppy playback and about 20 mins of playing and then it would drop back to screen and would have to restart

I got pi**ed very quickly and ended up scrubbing the box, flashing the new firmware udate and starting from fresh, still building back up XBMC

I think I am going to build back up the X8-H and then sell it on......so anyone looking for a box give me a shout :-)

Might try one of these: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_79506.html
Or actually looking at the following: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_94470.html
Great value and spec looks good

Whats the alternative to setting the cache to zero ?

Big Nelly

threein99 wrote: »

Whats the alternative to setting the cache to zero ?

Letting it run as it is, I didn't have any issues. Sometimes I got error that cache was full but it didn't stop anything playing....most of the time a quick reboot and error was gone. Usually got error about cache after not rebooting for over a week

Thats interesting on the zero cache, wasnt expecting it to cause issues

What FW did you flash to the minix

Went to BETA 9-2....don't notice any real difference, apart from image changed on boot and seems slower to boot but still running ok....not great

Had issues last night loading unity

Allyall

Big Nelly wrote: »

Or actually looking at the following: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_94470.html
Great value and spec looks good

I was supposed to have one of them last week, but something happened in shipping. I'm expecting it in the next couple of days.
I have since read some not-so-good comments about it on one of the Russian forums using Bing, so I'm not looking forward to it as much as I was. But I'm also hoping it didn't translate properly, because of the way it was worded..

I also have the other MXq on it's way over, beside it.

Assuming all the delays are over, they should both be here before or on Friday at the latest, I can post which (if either), I think is better.

threein99

Big Nelly wrote: »

Letting it run as it is, I didn't have any issues. Sometimes I got error that cache was full but it didn't stop anything playing....most of the time a quick reboot and error was gone. Usually got error about cache after not rebooting for over a week

If I let it run I would be stuck with annoying buffering problems

BenEadir

BenEadir wrote: »

Just ordered two of them, not sure why but I see myself tuning each one from a €20 box into a gift for a family member with XBMC and all the tweaks etc which they'll place a much higher value on.

Or else I'll just sell them on Done Deal

The same box is for sale on Amazon for £94 http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiveSeasonStuff%C2%AE-Performance-Supported-SportsDevil-Jailbroken/dp/B00IR2BYDK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1413900083&sr=8-5&keywords=Q7+CS918+MK888+RK3188+Quad+Core

Just got confirmation from Ali Express that my two boxes have been shipped

k123456

Just adding this thread re caching

Looks like careful thought required before modifying cache

http://www.minixforum.com/threads/cache-full.1268/

dahat

BenEadir wrote: »

Just got confirmation from Ali Express that my two boxes have been shipped

I can confirm same. Happy days.

reni10

dahat wrote: »

I can confirm same. Happy days.

Yep same for me, so should be here in a couple of weeks!

What is the best custom Rom to install on these?