Mele M5

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Mele M5
Mele M5 front.jpg
Manufacturer Mele
Dimensions 175mm x 110mm x 47mm
Release Date August 2013
Website Product Catalog
Specifications
SoC A20 @ 1 GHz
DRAM 1GiB DDR3 @ 384 MHz
NAND 8 GB
Power DC 5V @ 2A
Features
Video HDMI (Type A - full), Composite
Audio R/L Cinch, HDMI, SPDIF
Network WiFi 802.11 b/g/n (Realtek RTL8188EUS), 10/100Mbps Ethernet (Realtek RTL8201CP)
Storage SD, SATA
USB 3 USB 2.0 Host
Headers UART

The Mele M5 is an A20 based upgrade to the Mele A1000 family of set-top-boxes. The Mele M5 shares the same case as the Mele A1000, but uses the same motherboard as the A3700, however with an A20 SoC.

Identification

The manufacturer name and model-number are clearly printed on a label on the bottom of the device.

Sunxi support

Current status

Supported.

Images

HW-Pack

BSP

Manual build

  • For building u-boot, use the "Mele_M5" target.
  • The .fex file can be found in sunxi-boards as mele_m5.fex

Everything else is the same as the manual build howto.

Tips, Tricks, Caveats

FEL mode

The Mele A1000 can be put into FEL mode by shorting jumper 11K1. This has not been verified to work on the M5.

Adding a serial port

Mele M5 UART Connector

Device disassembly

Trivially unscrew 4 screws.

Locating the UART

The Mele has a 4 pin 2.0 pitch JST-PH connector available for its UART0 port. This is the same as some 90s analog audio cables which ran from a CDROM to the sound card. More information is available at our UART howto.

Pictures

Also known as

Like the Mele A1000 family, the Mele M5 appears to have two A20 based siblings: the Mele M3 and Mele M6.

GPIO

There are approximately 30 GPIO pins available on the top side

Gpios mele m5 hi res.jpg

and at least 4 GPIO pins accessible on the bottom face of the board.

Mele M5 gpios bottom hi res.jpg


To access to all of them you need to disable some features of the motherboard in the script.bin file. For example to access the pins used for flash memory that is present on the motherboard you must before desolder the flash memory and change the file script.bin properly.

The following file File: File:Script.fex.30gpios.pdf offers access to at least 31 GPIO pins.

See also