Install Armbian Linux on Android TV box

Android tv boxes can have Armbian linux installed on them to make them into a cheap and low power server

Install on amlogic boxes

Download Armbian

Your going to want to find the SOC your tv box uses ether research the name of it or use a program like adia64 to get the name of it, Now you need to chose your version you want there are 4 Ubuntu: noble, jammy Debian: Bookworm, Bullseye i recommend using bookworm, now go to this website here

https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian/releases

And click the assets button on the version you want then use crtl-f and type in the name of your SOC should be like S905w or something like that and click on the latest version of your SOC there.

Flashing to USB/SD

once you got the armbian image fully downloaded now you need to flash it to a Micro SD card or USB drive

tar -xf <image file name here>.img.gz
sudo dd bs=1M if=<image file name here>.img of=/dev/sdx # < your drive

Once you flash the image eject the SD/USB device and put in the android tv box and plug the power cord in.

Seting up your new linux system

You should see a linux screen appear after starting the box and it should prompt you for a login and password use root for loging and 1234 for password and now your in your new armbian system

Install to Nand

You can install armbian on the nand of your tvbox type the comand

armbian-install

to install to your devices internal storage

WARNING this will remove android!