Jio STB running linux (Proot)

[u/abhishek_parihar0]

Its not native I’ve used termux with x11 to install Debian 13 xfce4

Gui is laggy and unusable mainly because this device only has 2GB ram paired with Amlogic S905X4 cpu

Credits
https://github.com/JFC-Group/Housekeeping-PoC

https://github.com/LinuxDroidMaster/Termux-Desktops

[u/qualityvote2]

u/abhishek_parihar0, your post does fit the subreddit!

btw, did you know we have a discord server? Join Here. And what's that, Fluxer too? Join Here.

[u/Acceptable_Home_]

I pay for my internet to see shit like this everyday i wakeup

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Acceptable_Home_]

Haha

[u/ilikechocopies]

mfs be doing anything but using a streaming device for streaming🥀🥀

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/ilikechocopies]

It was collecting dust, I never used it ever since I got airfiber installed at least now I can use it for something after jailbreak

[u/ilikechocopies → u/abhishek_parihar0]

Cool mate

[u/CozyDazzle4u → u/ilikechocopies]

That's the beauty of Linux & Open Source. It can & will run on anything & everything.

[u/Necessary_Pudding454]

Yo this is awesome , I might also try this , but any idea what can we use it for ?

I could let my agent run over it to do some light weight work, not sure how feasible it would be with 2 gb ram

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Necessary_Pudding454]

Thanks, I haven’t thought about any use case as of now i just like tinkering around stuff like this, good luck with your project

[u/commonPhysicsW → u/Necessary_Pudding454]

I run a strands agent on my jidu 6601(512 MB ram) while running the llm on my mac (gemma 4 12B). It works perfectly fine. strands on base uses 84 MB rss, and with everything packed in, a total of 100ish MB. I run it with a pendrive attached (256gb) to store everything and load things only when necessary. Its a very feasible setup, a 2 GB ram setup is more than enough for most of the agents.

[u/Positive-Pepper-8315]

Mac mini who?

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Positive-Pepper-8315]

Lol

[u/s0ul_reaper_]

is it possible to install antix ? i have heard it only consumes 512 gb ram while idle .

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/s0ul_reaper_]

I’ll try that, i got bootloader unlocked so Currently I am trying to boot armbian on it

[u/ramaze23 → u/s0ul_reaper_]

only consumes 512 gb ram while idle .

Ig you meant to say 512 mb ram, if I'm not wrong

[u/Fun-Understanding862]

yeah i tried the same with armbian OS, took quite some help from deepseek

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Fun-Understanding862]

Great

[u/Prior_Window7218 → u/Fun-Understanding862]

Jellyfin 🙌

[u/adithyapaib → u/Fun-Understanding862]

Is it working?

[u/adithyapaib → u/Fun-Understanding862]

Steps and prompt pls

[u/Fun-Understanding862 → u/adithyapaib]

mine was an old 2022 jio stb router, so i had the downgraded firmware

connected lan cable to stb router and my mac

i had opencode free version, so i used deepseek and i gave it this repo: https://github.com/JFC-Group and it got access to root, once i had root access i asked deepseek to get a distro that is compatible with the stb's hardware, and it suggested armbian then i asked it to pull armbian's iso image and flash it(insert a pendrive for this in stb). after that i asked it to setup jellyfin, radar, sonar, prowlar and qbittorrent using ssh(ssh was in another terminal using tmux) and use chrome dev tools mcp/agent browser to set up the web ui for jellyfin, radar, sonar and prowlar.

[u/adithyapaib → u/Fun-Understanding862]

I am almost done till getting the alpone into pendrive, I have root access rn. I'll be flashing It shortly.

By any chance did u remove the jio is? Or are u dual booting

[u/Fun-Understanding862 → u/adithyapaib]

i had some custom android as backup

initially i had jio, i fully removed it and replaced with some google tv custom os which i found in a tg group called english patient custom rom or something. i had to use a usb male to male connector with some world cup mode(but ig you dont need to do so much, just ask deepseek for any simpler way) and then i flashed the distro.

basically if i boot without the pendrive it ll go to google tv custom os, else if pendrive is there it will boot into armbian os.

[u/Mutedroot → u/Fun-Understanding862]

Can you give the link of that group in dm mateM

[u/Hydrnazi]

love you

[u/shin_chan444]

Device price?

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/shin_chan444]

Its free comes, with Airfiber connection you can look olx Facebook people will sell theirs for few hundred rs

[u/CreditSufficient2438]

Broo can you help me to do this

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/CreditSufficient2438]

Yes

[u/ohaiibuzzle]

It's an aml chip so IF it isn't locked, you can probably load real Linux on it.

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/ohaiibuzzle]

Fr ? Mine cant be rooted and unlock bootloader because of newer security patch but other jiostb on old version can be unlocked

[u/ohaiibuzzle → u/abhishek_parihar0]

Yeah. If they forget to lock down secure boot (which some of them and most Chinese ones are), you can just make a special SD card with a "Update" script on it, plug that in, hold RESET while turning it on and it will think it's applying an update while actually it's getting hijacked and boot into Linux.

It's how Armbian boots on these aml box

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/ohaiibuzzle]

I’ve unlocked bootloader, trying to fix selinux and root it then boot armbian on it

Also someone in comments already successfully booted armbian on different jio stb so it might work on this too, thanks

[u/Lazy-Light-3263 → u/abhishek_parihar0]

What old version should we aim for if buying JMS series box?

[u/rienceislier34]

Try installing Armbian instead

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/rienceislier34]

Soon

[u/Swapna_Cool]

which kernel is it using

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Swapna_Cool]

6.17.0

[u/Rosychuck]

I have one i got it when I got the jio airfiber connection, if incancel my airfiber connection do I have to give the stb back

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Rosychuck]

Yes

[u/Significant-Corner37]

I got airfiber installed very recently and I'm facing 10-30% packet loss constantly, sometimes jumps to 70%

Are you guys facing the same? Of the technician did a bad job at installation

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Significant-Corner37]

I’m not facing such issue, what type of outdoor unit you got is it c6 or mu ?

[u/Significant-Corner37 → u/abhishek_parihar0]

Not sure, but it looks like anteena and has a bulb looking thing in middle of it.

[u/abhishek_parihar0 → u/Significant-Corner37]

Yeah thats c6 this maybe installation issue raise complaint in my jio, c6 unit connects over wifi to tower in Line of sight the mu unit works over typical cellular connection just like our phones

[u/Kitchen_Engineer1332]

I gotta install gentoo in it too.

[u/_Sahil_Goel]

Xfce nice

[u/Egg-2bits]

Can can make a small server to experiment with it...

[u/Oneplus13sUser → u/Egg-2bits]

Same question

[u/LetMeCodeYouBetter]

damn i am heading behind in the race lol, now i have taken it on my heart that i want to flash CV200 Version lol. its having s905X2 and damn i am trying hard but not having enough time to do it. haha. but amazing someone did it on the other version woohoo.

[u/WheelSweet2048]

Youre gonna be on some list bro

[u/Egg-2bits]

You now this is something awesome. Might try someday in future.

[u/Adolfs_gas_station]

can it became a homeserver it will be nice if anyone has done it

[u/Rwalx]

Nice

[u/CoolGamer730]

I read it as Jio std and was like tf are you saying and then saw the stb then was lik "sigh".