Features:

  • HIGH PERFORMANCE DESIGN: Quad 64-bit 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A53 Processors, 4K Ultra HD ARM Mali-450 750MHz GPU, 2GB of High Bandwidth DDR3, 4K 60FPS High Dynamic Range Display Engine for H.265 HEVC, H.264 AVC, VP9 Hardware Decoding and 1080P 60FPS H.264 Harware Encoding, Up to 50% faster than Raspberry Pi 3.
  • ADVANCED LOW POWER TECHNOLOGY: Built on advanced 28nm High-Performance Mobile (HPM) fabrication technology, power optimizations increases sustained performance under load while reducing failures due to high-current voltage drop, peak board power consumption, and brown-outs. Consumes half the power of the Raspberry Pi 3 at equivalent load and supports voltage levels as low as 4.0V*. Say goodbye to the dreaded rainbow square and brown outs.
  • COMPATIBILITY AND EXTENSIBILITY: 40 Pin header enables hardware re-use by maintaining compatible alternate pin functions like SPI, I2C, PWM, UART, and GPIO. 3 Additional pin headers provide more debug and audio capabilities. Form-factor compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 for easy migration. Software re-work may be necessary*.
  • ANDROID SUPPORT: Run media-center optimized Android 8 Oreo and turn this board into the ultimate TV solution for movies, games, and more from the Android ecosystem! Popular Linux-based distributions like Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Debian 9 Stretch, Armbian, and even Raspbian! Please note that you can not use images prepared for Raspberry Pi boards without modification.
  • SUPPORT OPEN-SOURCE: The Libre Computer Project contributes to open-source software development around our boards, the chips, and the technologies powering them. We contribute to interesting work by the community such as the upstream Linux support and more.
Awesome

Installed Armbian on it and works like a champ. Also bought an RPI3 case for it and fits perfectly. Much better hardware for the cost compared with the RPI3.

Works well. But none of the OSs properly recognized my screen.

I had a significant issue with feathering due to my 720p screen. It was a 1280x720 screen instead of the usual 1366x768. Manually entering the correct resolution fixed that. Otherwise this works great for a media center and as a lightweight NAS.

Great buy.

I bought this to play games with, works fine with LAKKA.

Good value, Kodi 4K/HD audio.

Good value, reasonably priced (no price gauging like on odroid-c2 board). Fits rPi case perfectly. LibreElec v.8 works like a charm, running cool (45C; 50C when in case) - no heatsink is needed. Almost perfect, only 3D MVC is missing. Google "Libre Computer" click on "AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato) – Libre Computer" (second link from top). Click on "Download" Tab - choose OS link you want to install.

Always pushes the U boot button and it will boot up.

So at first I was really upset and then it dawned on me that you're supposed to push the U boot Button on the board and after making a boot micro SD card and put the information on the card. It is a pain to push a button to boot and believe it or not it worked. I've even played Electro Libre and it does play 4 k videos. Now I am going to try retropie and see if the retro games with play smooth during the game. So please don't entirely give up on this for and really pay attention to those details regardless.

Excited to see a useable ARM computer so cheap! Software in development.

I'm excited to see how far this board goes. Boots to Ubuntu fine and runs a nice user interface. Has wireless mouse and keyboard support through USB. Fits in a raspberry pi 3 case with minor modifications :) (Has some extra headers and an infrared sensor that bumped the case on a layered raspberry pi3 case with a fan.) The software support is still in development so be careful if you are new to Linux and SBCs. The USB interface has trouble with hot plugging devices so be sure to plug in your keyboard and mouse before boot. Wireless USB dongle support doesn't seem to be there yet.

I honestly didn't expect this thing to work as well as it does.

I've tried using a Raspberry PI as a media center before -- and it works fantastically... except that the PI can't do 4K@60Hz. This thing can. Yes, even HEVC. I'm using CoreElec on it, which *is* optimised for the thing, too. It also has a built-in IR receiver, so it's pretty much made to run a media player! If I needed to come up with any nitpick for it, it'd be that the LEDs are *super* bright. There are no user controls for the power LED, either. Course, you can just cover it up!

Great LibreELEC Upgrade for a Raspberry Pi

UPDATE 2: I've since switched to using CoreELEC, and it's also been performing wonderfully. It may be optimizations from the latest version of Kodi or of the skin I was using (Titan), but it's a lot more responsive now. Also, the CEC issue below seems to no longer be an issue, but I didn't test it exhaustively. Not much else to report. Would definitely recommend this little guy as a media center using CoreELEC. It plays everything I throw at it, including 4K HDR content, and it uses about half the power of the RPi3+ it replaced. Early adoption is always a risk, but I'm happy this one paid off. UPDATE: I've been using this daily for 10 months now on the same old 'community' build of LibreELEC. No problems! Watched plenty of 4K HDR HEVC/H265 movies, and all have come through beautifully without a hiccup. However, of note is that LibreELEC now officially supports the LePotato in their mainline builds as of November 13th's v8.90.007 ALPHA release. So this makes the board an even better choice if you were holding off due to the unofficial nature of support in that project. (Also, note that there is the CoreELEC distro which forked from LibreELEC specifically to support Amlogic boards, so you also have that distro to choose from) ORIGINAL POST: I bought this as an upgrade/replacement for my Raspberry Pi 3. I only use these boards to run LibreELEC and function as a Kodi media center front end. My rating and thoughts are only related to the board's usefulness as that. The main perk of swapping from the RPi3 to this was the 4K and HDR output along with HEVC hardware decoding. My TV (a Samsung KS8000) supports both and, happily, both features seem to work great! I've already watched quite a few UHD HDR 10bit HEVC files, and playback was smooth as butter in full 4K with HDR kicking in on the TV. So that said, this has been a mostly great upgrade. A few developers from the LibreELEC community have supported this board specifically (and the Amlogic S905X generally), and the one stable image has been working well for me so far. I've had a few hiccups with HDMI-CEC causing it to freeze, but I believe that's more an issue with LibreELEC than the board itself (HDMI-CEC did actually work fine for when I used it). Disabling HDMI-CEC solved the issue. I have not tried the latest 'developer' build to see if this is resolved, but it's not a deal-breaker for me. If you're a LibreELEC user who's looking to upgrade to a 4K/HDR/HEVC-capable device while still retaining the same form-factor as an RPi (while also reducing power requirements!), this is an excellent choice. And I'd definitely recommend it with the caveat that you should probably be comfortable with at least a bit of tinkering as necessary. If you are, this is a great upgrade.

Better than a Raspberry Pi!

This outperforms my Raspberry Pi 3 it pretty much every regard. The only drawback is that it is not as well supported by the community as the Raspberry Pi's are. So finding suitable images already built is a bit more challenging. I'm using one right now as a proof of concept to mine Monero, and using XMRig (had to build from source on the device) I'm getting about 24.2 H/s, which isn't great, but it works! I've also got one set up as a KODI/LibreELEC box and it can play H265 encoded blurays flawlessly. Next project is going to be making an Emulator on one. I definitely recommend getting the cool little blue heatsink to go along with these. It's about $6 on Amazon and it really does help lower the temps. I also added a small fan exhausting the heat.

First time using a Libre board- won't be the last.

Small but dedicated community- while it's not RPi as far as the amount of compatible OS'es available, it's got quite a few solid choices. Quick little board- definitely the cheapest route for 4k video.

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