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wip · 2026-08-23 · Turning an idle TV box into a small homelab node.

An old TV box that had been sitting unused is being turned into a node of the home lab: something small that can run an Unbound DNS resolver or, later, an MQTT broker.

Hardware: Rockchip RK3228, kernel 3.10.104 (2020), 4 GB RAM, 64 GB eMMC.

First attempt, 23 August:

  • flashed Armbian to an SD card and tried to boot from it;
  • the board did not boot from the SD card;
  • next step: understand why the RK3228 ignores the card.

The boot attempt on video: