[Roby77]

Why don't you try open elec

Just to be sure that it's not hardware problem

[Freakshow999]

Hello All,

Is anyone aware of a suspend issue on the chromebox as of the latest firmware update?
System is an HP Chromebox running OpenElec native.
The suspend command was working perfectly with my remote control systems. I had a corrupt 5.08 OpenElec update so I updated to the latest firmware and did a fresh USB install of OpenElec.
Now when I send the suspend command via IR the unit goes into suspend and a split second later comes right back out of it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated? TIA

[Matt Devo]

Hello All,

Is anyone aware of a suspend issue on the chromebox as of the latest firmware update?
System is an HP Chromebox running OpenElec native.
The suspend command was working perfectly with my remote control systems. I had a corrupt 5.08 OpenElec update so I updated to the latest firmware and did a fresh USB install of OpenElec.
Now when I send the suspend command via IR the unit goes into suspend and a split second later comes right back out of it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated? TIA

there's no suspend issues with the latest firmware and OE, most likely some device you have connected is causing the immediate wake from suspend. Check the kernel log to see which device or remove all peripherals and add them back one at a time.

[azimuth01]

Hello Matt,

I need your help/guide to reconfigure my ASUS Chromebox.

Previously, I selected to configure it as standalone setup, and was able to make it properly work with Windows 8 or Linux via USB. Although the internal hard disk boot is now unable to load.

The thing that I want now is to reconfigure it to install Windows or Linux on the Internal storage.

Hope this is possible. Otherwise, please advise.

Thanks!

[Soli]

Just use rufus to image a Linux ISO to a USB stick, boot from the USB stick and install as normal. You might want to adjust the swap file partition though (or not use one at all). If you plan on running just Kodi, then 2GB is more than enough, even without a swap file. My HP, shows 3570MB free out of 4GB while streaming 1080p. Obviously I don't use a swap file and rather use that space for Kodi/extra storage.

[driekus]

I know this may have been covered earlier in the 270 pages.

I am looking at getting the asus Chromebox M004U with a Celeron 2955U. I noticed in the Chromebox wiki the following and am concerned that it wont have enough power to handle 1080p TV rips from my NFS server.Any concerns here?

H.265/HEVC is software (CPU) decoded, so playback is limited to 1080p and low/moderate bit-rates.

Also does my TV need to have a PC-HDMI port or does any port work with the Chromebox?

[Matt Devo]

Hello Matt,

I need your help/guide to reconfigure my ASUS Chromebox.

Previously, I selected to configure it as standalone setup, and was able to make it properly work with Windows 8 or Linux via USB. Although the internal hard disk boot is now unable to load.

The thing that I want now is to reconfigure it to install Windows or Linux on the Internal storage.

Hope this is possible. Otherwise, please advise.

Thanks!

you've flashed the standalone firmware, so your ChromeBox is now a regular PC. So just install whatever OS you want from USB, like you would on any other PC

I know this may have been covered earlier in the 270 pages.

I am looking at getting the asus Chromebox M004U with a Celeron 2955U. I noticed in the Chromebox wiki the following and am concerned that it wont have enough power to handle 1080p TV rips from my NFS server.Any concerns here?

H.265/HEVC is software (CPU) decoded, so playback is limited to 1080p and low/moderate bit-rates.

Also does my TV need to have a PC-HDMI port or does any port work with the Chromebox?

short answers: no and no.

[noggin]

I know this may have been covered earlier in the 270 pages.

I am looking at getting the asus Chromebox M004U with a Celeron 2955U. I noticed in the Chromebox wiki the following and am concerned that it wont have enough power to handle 1080p TV rips from my NFS server.Any concerns here?

H.265/HEVC is software (CPU) decoded, so playback is limited to 1080p and low/moderate bit-rates.

H265/HEVC is the very latest codec. It's unlikely that you'll have chosen to encode content in it. Most content that we watch currently is H264/HEVC, MPEG2, VC-1 and in some cases MPEG4 (non-H264) and WMV. None of my content is H265, and all of the content I play (with two notable exceptions) play fine with hardware acceleration.

The two forms of content I play that don't accelerate properly are interlaced VC-1 (which some Blu-rays are encoded in) and 4:2:2 H264 and MPEG2 content (which some broadcast content is encoded in). The former may be an issue for you (and I believe is being worked on), the latter is unlikely to be.

Also does my TV need to have a PC-HDMI port or does any port work with the Chromebox?

No - the Chromebox will drive any standard HDMI port. Like any HDMI device there are occasional incompatibilities. I've had no problem with Sony, LG and Panasonic HDTVs either connected directly or via an Onkyo amp.

The Chromebox is effectively a standard Intel x86 box - so behaves just like any other Intel Haswell box in HDMI terms pretty much.

[Boulder]

Regardless of being progressive or interlaced, VC-1 seems to be a problem with VAAPI (hardware acceleration). I tried watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone yesterday and there were severe blocking artifacts in flat areas in some scenes. They were gone after disabling VC-1 hardware accelerated decoding. The movie is encoded and flagged correctly as progressive.

[azimuth01]

Just use rufus to image a Linux ISO to a USB stick, boot from the USB stick and install as normal. You might want to adjust the swap file partition though (or not use one at all). If you plan on running just Kodi, then 2GB is more than enough, even without a swap file. My HP, shows 3570MB free out of 4GB while streaming 1080p. Obviously I don't use a swap file and rather use that space for Kodi/extra storage.

Thanks Soli!

Withthe rufus, I was able to make my OS Installer placed on a USB thumb drive, which then used it to install Windows 8 on the internal storage.It's all success! Cheers!

I just notice something, although my Chromebox has 4GB RAM installed (1 piece 4GB stick), I can only see "Installed memory (RAM) : 1.99GB" in my system information. I want to fully use all the RAM that is installed. Please advise.

Thanks again.

[Matt Devo]

use a 64-bit version of Windows

[azimuth01]

Hello Matt,

I need your help/guide to reconfigure my ASUS Chromebox.

Previously, I selected to configure it as standalone setup, and was able to make it properly work with Windows 8 or Linux via USB. Although the internal hard disk boot is now unable to load.

The thing that I want now is to reconfigure it to install Windows or Linux on the Internal storage.

Hope this is possible. Otherwise, please advise.

Thanks!

you've flashed the standalone firmware, so your ChromeBox is now a regular PC. So just install whatever OS you want from USB, like you would on any other PC

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the reply. I was able to make my machine work as a full fledged Windows 8 on the internal storage by following the way that Soli has suggested. I think it should also work the same way for Linux.

The only problem that I am facing now is the RAM which is showing as 1.99GB only, although I have 4GB RAM installed (1 x 4GB stick). I hope there's a fix to this.

Please advice. Thanks!

[Matt Devo]

I already did but Windows-related questions/issues have their own thread, so take things there please. Don't want that crap polluting this one ;-)

[Matt Devo]

for example updating from 14.1 to 14.2 version of kodi, if you follow the wiki, the update works on the official kodibuntu, on the custom one, doesnt work. It doesnt update kodi. been using tvheadend and transmission for a while now, neither will work on the custom build, follow the same instructions and they work great on the official kodi builds. Idle on the official build is a few percent, custom build idle is over 70% when shutting down on the kodi build, it doesn't spin my external hard-drive up, custom build, spins my hdd then cuts power. Sounds like it going to damage my external hard drive.

working with HugeGreenBug to identify/fix some of these issues. I couldn't reproduce the high idle CPU or inability to update Kodi.

[driekus]

Ordered my Chromebox, cant wait to set it up

So in preparation I setup openelec on an old and I mean old AMD setup. Openelec worked perfectly and gave me flawless hdmi on my samsung TV as soon as I named the HDMI to PC. The Chromebox has better performance and uses about 1/10th the power and should be a little bit more quiet, so cant wait.

Thanks Matt for answering the question and putting the work in to make Kodi work on inexpensive hardware.