Installing on Android TV Box

Not sure if anyone else has tried, but I’ve installed Anthias on one of those inexpensive TV boxes you can find everywhere for like 40 bucks. Mainly because I had one sitting around collecting dust and I wanted to see if I could get it working. This particular unit has an AmLogic S912 with 2GB ram, and I’d already installed Armbian 26.2.1 bookworm which wasn’t any more difficult than burning the image to a MicroSD card, sticking it in the box and powering up while holding the reset button for a few seconds.

The next part was getting Anthias installed. I ran the install, but it failed. The installer script makes the platform determination quite simply; “if this isn’t x86_64, it’s a raspberry pi.” As such a few things will go wrong installing on this type of board. Not sure what the right answer (if any) is for handling platform detection very specifically, for instance my board has “Octopus Planet” in /proc/device-tree/model :slight_smile: There’s no telling what is all out there, but theoretically it would not matter too much if the system is running on a supported release of Armbian. So I just went down the path of “if it’s not x86, and it’s not a Raspberry Pi, it’s a generic ARM board.”

After making the necessary edits (more or less just skipping Raspberry Pi specific things), I got the installer to complete, pull down the docker images, and complete the install successfully. I ended up using the pi5 docker images. I don’t have accelerated video support and see 3 or 4 frames a second, but just loading a couple static web pages works fine.

@Brains, thank you for sharing your thoughts. I’m glad that you have found a way to install it on a device that’s not a Raspberry Pi or a generic x86 (amd64) device. If possible, could you please share more details of how to managed to install Anthias successfully?