Giving a second life to EM95X

Two years ago I bought an EM95X, a TV Box powered by Android to convert my TV into a Smart TV. It worked correctly the first few months, but the problem came with the EM95X when I found that there were no updates for the software, and somehow it became deprecated. So I unplugged from the TV and I left it in a drawer, until I discovered CoreELEC and I tried how it works on my device. And I can say it works pretty well.

The installation is quite easy, just download the image, write it into a SD card and copy the file gxl_p212_2g.dtb inside the folder device_trees into the root folder with the name dtb.img.

When you have it running, connect to the device via ssh using:

user: root
password: coreelec

And type installtointernal in order to install CoreELEC in the internal system. You will need to do this twice, because the first time you'll see a message telling you the memory is corrupted.

Now it's time to make the remote control working again. Create a file rc_maps.cfg inside /storage/.config/ with this information:

meson-ir * em95x

And download this file and put it on /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/, you can do it by just copying the command below.

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rnicolas/7c2c2874374d95632a778da945533292/raw/2ba608335e5355c16cc0a57bb28b4fa7c7d95b0b/em95x -P /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/

The file downloaded is used by the system in order to understand the signals send by the remote control. If you want to change any behave of the buttons in the remote control, you must change it here.

Finally, type ir-keytable -a /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg -s rc0 and reboot the device, your remote control will work again.

New section on the blog: Videos

This section is just a way to share some films, short movies and TV shows that are legally available on the internet and I find them interesting. Some maybe are very typical, some other maybe aren't.

The link of any film will be posted here directly, short films will be posted individually and added in a playlist (if they are available on Youtube or Vimeo or some similar service) and TV shows will be linked using playlists; because I couldn't understand a TV show with just one episode, if that happens, I would consider it as a documentary.

Go to Videos section.