Nice android box.
Well at least you know it will boot and run linux.
The question would be is it better to extend it with some custom apps or
hack it to run a standard distribution?
For me the deal ends in 03days.
:(
Has anybody used geekbuying?
On 01/27/2016 01:30 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
Scott brought his Tronsmart Pavo M9 to the last GTALUG meeting.
<http://www.tronsmart.com/products/tronsmart-pavo-m9>
This looks like one of many Android TV boxes. But it has a unique
feature: it has HDMI-in as well as out.
So, Scott, how's the hacking going?
I ask because there seems to be a very good deal on these for the next
3.666 days:
<http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Tronsmart-Pavo-M9-4K-TV-BOX-Android-4-4-2-Mstar-MSO9180D1R-1GB-8G-802-11-b-g-n-LAN-H-265-USB3-0-HDMI-347691.html>
US$49.99. Free shipping (slowly, from China).
This is based on the MSTAR MSO9180D1R chip. There is a theoretically
better box based on this chip (and also with HDMI in), the
Zido X9. It has 2G of RAM (vs 1G) and might have better I/O (I haven't
checked). But it seems to be ~US$120.00.
I guess (without making any attempt) that hacking on these cheap Android
boxes is more trouble than it is worth. Especially since hacking on cheap
Windows boxes is so much easier (at least the ones with 64-bit UEFI). But
nothing else that I know of has HDMI in.
Scott: can you summarize what you've learned about the box and how you
feel about it so far?
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