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When launching ddd in Armbian 4.5.1, the prompt isn't set properly and the terminal operation inside ddd isn't right. Launching gdb by itself works OK. When I try to load my executable for debugging, I get You can't do that when your target is `None' When I exit ddd, it complains that gdb is still busy. Anyone else seeing this? Why would ddd running natively under Armbian need to know its target when it doesn't need that anywhere else where its used natively? Chris

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Just wondering: what drives the 'Security update on all kernels' day counter on the main page of armbian.com? I noticed that it sometimes it increases as well...

Hi, I have currently a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running as WiFi access point, hooked up to the router via Ethernet. This allows me to play around and redirect traffic via TOR or whatever I can think of on the Pi. It works quite well, but I actually think the PI is possibly a bit overpowered and too expensive. Can anyone suggest an SBC that can handle the task equally well (stable + good WiFi performance for a handful of clients with connection to 50MBit/s uplink) but is less expensive? I already had a look at the Orange Pi Zero Plus 2, which seems suitable in terms of specs. Thanks, 1llusion

I am a developer from China and am not very familiar with English, so the following content is translated through Google Translate. When I successfully flash the image file of the built system onto the development board, the system seems to delete the directory under /home upon the first boot (from my observation). The build command being used ：./compile.sh build BOARD=firefly-rk3399 BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=focal This is an excerpt from customize-image.sh. Main() { case $RELEASE in stretch) # your code here # InstallOpenMediaVault # uncomment to get an OMV 4 image ;; buster) # your c…

Sorry, I just got information from the seller --- this box is a Rockchip RK3229, so please disregard my post. :/

Hello!! I need help with the Printer gadget i have a Beaglebone Black and Bixolon 350plus thermal printer. I need to Capture the output and send the captured output onwards to the printer. I m not sure how this is working and i dont know am i on the right track to solve this problem. I have enabled the CONFIG_FS and usb gadgets and when i load the g_printer with modprobe g_printer everything seems ok, the Beaglebone is connected to my pc( ubuntu 16.04) on my pc apperars that i have connected linux g_printer and it asks me to install ther drivers. And this is the output of lsusub Bus 003 Device 009: ID 0525:a4a8 Netchip Technology, Inc. Linux-USB …

Hi, I was able to perform serial communication (uart1, uart2, uart3) on Orange Pi PC with the arbiam operating system. Now, I need to perform the same communication using another operating system (Debian or Ubuntu). I can not set the pins on uart. Anyone have any tips? thank you Att, Rafael

I have nano pi neo (no air) Linux FriendlyARM 3.4.39-h3 #24 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 4 15:23:58 CST 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux fa@FriendlyARM:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by sunxi_spdma 3311 0 sunxi_spdif 6615 0 sunxi_sndspdif 3580 0 sndspdif 2619 0 snd_usb_audio 74879 2 snd_usbmidi_lib 15971 1 snd_usb_audio snd_hwdep 4841 1 snd_usb_audio I tried sound from board, and no successs, then I plugged in usb audio . Same thing no sound. Here are couple of shell commands I used and their output. dmesg | grep audio […

Hi martinayotte I have question ! can you reply for me? I can't use i2c in orangepi zero plus H5 My OS is Ubuntu I heard you made your own style kernel so you can detect i2c pin Can you share your method ?

I am opening a thread to pick a wiki software for Armbian documentation (or any software to help documentation building) feel free to propose a solution. Thanks.

I'm experience a really weird problem on a very experimental setup: the system is an Armbian build for an unsupported board (Rockchip RK322x) and Ubuntu Focal 20.04 with mainline kernel 5.6.4. The system has issues to boot when enters into systemd: it is slow but all of sudden it goes farther. Many different systemd services are complaining, expecially the journal and the chrony NTP client. Finally I found that the root of the problems is the system time which is abruptly moving back and forth even by months. Subsequent calls to date may report 20 June, then 4 March, then 18 August and so on... The kernel log is fine and, most of all, the very…

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If you have time and a spare Allwinner H3-CPU system (like the Orange Pi One or PC (not PC2 because of H3 CPU) you could try the BASIC Engine NG for H3-PiComputers/Boards. The - bare metall - BASIC seems to have very powerful commands - see the Online-Manual A forum in BETA state is at this URL I downloaded and booted the SDCard-Image from the 14.10.2021 (compressed size 5.4MB) from this directory Image was written with Balena Etcher to the SDCard Have fun and write new BASIC-programms!

Over a year (or two?) I used a PS1-line in my ~/-bashrc with many cryptic ANSI-Escape-codes which were hard to read and edit export PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[1;33m\]\h\[\033[1;37m\](\[\033[1;32m\]$THEIP\[\033[1;37m\])\[\033[1;31m\]:\[\033[1;36m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]\$\[\033[0m\] ' Today I did installed Linux Lite 4.6 on a PC (a former Chromebox) and did see the nice Powerline prompt and did try to use that on a nanoPi Neo2. I installed the packages fonts-powerline & powerline and copied the powerline-script /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh from the pc to the NanoPi Neo2. It did work after I used UTF8 translati…

Maybe someone here knows the 8-Bit Guy and the project of his Dream-Computer - the Commander X16 You could see the actual state of the real hardware at YT-Video from the 8-Bit Guy: (Building my Dream Computer - Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-6Cjzzg8s Since the hardware isnt ready/completed yet there is a Emulator which uses SDL2 and can be compiled now (since r30) also on Linux ARM Github-page of the emulator: https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/releases Source: https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/archive/r30.zip or https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-e…

If you know the movie "Wargames" then you may know the computer of "David Lightman" a IMSAI 8080 Udo Munk did create the software z80pack (last version from 2017 v1.36 at https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/z80pack/ ) which does include - IMSAI 8080 - Altair - Cromemco Z1 and - cpmsim Emulation. Against the text based cpmsim emulation the other features a graphical frontpanel with "blinken lights" Yesterday I did try to compile/start my favourite IMSAI 8080. I did follow the instructions - which I collect and wrote for me - see attached to this message. But yesterdy I only got limited suc…

The Z80-MBC2 is a 4-chip Z80-computer which can run CP/M and has a 5V TTL-serial-port. The Z80-MBC2 is powered and accessable via a USB-TTL-serial-adapter (configured to 5V - not 3.3V) type CP2102 seen as /dev/ttyUSB0 The easy way would be to connect the USB-adapter to a Pi-style computer wth armbian, login via SSH and start minicom for the port. But that way doenst look as good - to me - as the following way First we need to install ser2net and telnet (telnet doesnt seem to be installed as standard) in armbian via apt install ser2net telnet Then we have to edit /etc/ser2net.conf (delete all lines after the comments and in…

I like it to anounce some messages/informations via TTS ( T(text)T(o)(S)peech) . Normally I use espeak with a litte better sounding mbrola-voice (No. 6 german). But on Android you could buy - for cheap againt the PC-version - some better voices. Like my favourite german Voice "Julia" from Acapela. So I always wanted to use this voice for the informations. I did found a "server"-app for android which takes a UDP/HTTP-request to play a given string via the default TTS on the android-device (or a .MP3 stored in the memory of the android-device). Its named Home24-MediaPlayer - and can be found at (isnt anymore in the Google P…

Normally you could install (if you use a 64Bit arm-system/OS) the 64Bit version of stockfish with apt install stockfish stockfish is a uci-chess-engine where some Chessboard-Display-Apps can conenct to (later I would show how to use this with TCP) Then you will get (at this time) the Version 8 64Bit = 8 64 = 11/2016 But the actual stockfish-engine is at Version 10 = 12/2018 ( see http://blog.stockfishchess.org/ ) So I did clone the git-master at https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish as .zip After unzipping and cd to ./Stockfish-master/src you could do -make clean -make help BUT there is for arm on…

For enabling - to use stockfish/armfish-chess-engine - as a TCP service we need to configure (add the lines at the end of the file) /etc/inetd.conf #:OTHER: Other services stockfish08 stream tcp nowait guido /usr/games/stockfish stockfish10 stream tcp nowait guido /usr/games/stockfish_10_64 armfish stream tcp nowait guido /usr/games/armfish_aarch64 and add the TCP-Port - we want to use - to the /etc/services (for optical reasons after pop3s port 995/tcp) pop3s 995/tcp # POP-3 over SSL # # stockfish08 1024/tcp # stockfish 8 chess engine stockfish10 1…

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00006.html Removal of Wheezy and Jessie (except LTS) from mirrors Hello, as Wheezy and Jessie have been integrated into the archive.debian.org structure recently, we are now removing all of Wheezy and all non-LTS architectures of Jessie from the mirror network starting today. That is, only Jessie i386, amd64, armel and armhf will continue to be hosted on the normal mirrors. The data is, of course, not lost - the whole of it is synced to archive.debian.org, so if you still need it you will be able to get it from there.[1] [1] Keep in mind that they have no securi…

Today I did compile the NeXT-Cube/Station Emulator Previous 2.2 ( http://previous.alternative-system.com/index.php/build ) on my NanoPi A64 (with installed Desktop-option for using SDL) Installing the dependencies and compiling Previous 2.2 has been done with the follwing commands ( while compiling there were MUCH warnings ) : apt install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-dev libpng16-16 libpng-dev libpcap0.8 libpcap0.8-dev apt install g++ cmake subversion cd /home/guido old Previous v1.8 : ===================== svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/previous/code/branches/branch_realtime previous-code actual Previous v2.2: ===============…

For "retro-reasons" I would like to SSH from my old Windows 98SE PC via putty 0.63 ( which is the last known to work under Windows98SE ) into armbian. This did work fine until armbian bullseye dev with kernel 5.6.8, because here we get the "new" openssh-serve 8.2p1: armbian bullseye kernel 5.6.8 openssh-server 1:8.2p1-4 arm64 secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines before bullseye we had with armbian buster and so on the "older" open-ssh-server <=7.9p1 (where we didnt got this problem) armbian buster kernel 5.6.8 openssh-server 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 arm64 secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from r…

Yesterday i did install Armbian_5.86_Aml-s905_Debian_buster_default_5.1.0_20190514.img from @balbes150 on my Sunvell T95KPro (S912). While installing Pihole the Installation does break when trying to start lighttpd. After checking with journalctl -u lighttpd it turns out that the file /usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl is missing, because in the newer lighttpd-version of debian buster the file has be renamed to /usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.conf.pl (see also https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/lighttpd-does-not-start/6207/11 ) Pihole doesnt know/use the new name with debian buster, so it fails to start the lighttpd …

BPi M1 A20 with kernel 5.3.7/5.3.8 there are some problems using the onboard-analog-audio mpg123/espeak is freezing and cant write to the analog-audio via alsa. A USB-Audio-dongle does work fine. (also EOS devices like PCDuino A10 and Lime A10 have audio sync-problems with kernel 5.3 (but do work) - but its "OK" they are EOS) The BPi M1 A20 has no problem with the analog-codec while using kernel 4.19.81-sunxi analog-codec seems to be always active, because if enabled as overlay or not the analog-soundcard s shown: aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: sun4icodec [sun4i-codec], device 0: CDC PCM C…

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html These features are new in 0.71 (released 2019-03-16): Download at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html Windows Binary 32Bit: https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w32/putty.zip Windows Binary 64Bit https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty.zip

Today I updated some SBCs - 2x NanoPi Neo2 with 512MB Ram (debian buster) - 1x NanoPi Neo2 with 1GB Ram (ubuntu focal) - 1x BanaPI M2 Berry (debian buster) to kernel 5.10.0-rc2 DEV which are running a samba-server which is installed via "apt install samba" and not via the armbian-config SOFTYS. They are do run since serveral kernel-version - also with 5.9.1 But after the update my NanoPi Neo2 with 1GB Ram cant be connected from Linux or Windows 10 to his samba-server. It looks like samba freezed: mount -t cifs -o vers=3.0,user=guido,password=this_isnt_mypwd,domain=guido,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 //192.168.6.24/d…

This seems to be a interesting project for some of the SBCs which are supported ba armbian. Maybe its - in some parts - also a "inspiration" for armbian? Shedbuilt A rickety GNU/Linux Distribution for ARM Devices Long-story short You can build an entire operating system capable of communicating over the Internet, playing games, and robots, from scratch on a computer that costs less than a well-optioned burrito. Here's an admittedly over-the-top and entertainment-focused video that demonstrates what Shedbuilt is caple of on sub-$10 devices, using only open-source software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS9DArYH6WI …

They both look same and have same hardware design. So how can I know if the orange pi zero is lts?

Hello all, I'm relying quite heavily on RSS for my news feed. However I can only see two feeds on the armbian forum: New threads and posts. As you can imagine, I get quite a lot of pings for the post feed, and I'm not able to follow previous threads from the New threads feed. Is there more feeds or is it possible to add a feed per thread to the forum?

Hey, I am trying to use the UART pins to talk to an external module. I tried doing this, shorted the RX and TX pins respectively (ttys0-ttys3) screen /dev/ttyS[0-3] 57600 However, I keep getting the message that screen is terminating. uname -a Linux orangepizero 4.10.0-sun8i #14 SMP Fri Feb 24 03:02:58 CET 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Any help is appreciated. UPDATE: Got it working from a solutions from here

Hi there! First of all thanks for all the great work that you do here! I did a fresh install of the latest nightly (5.26.170227) and I can't mount usb sotrage devices or acces their content. The OPiZero detects the device but it doens't mount it. I can see the device by running sudo fdisk -l However if I try to mount it manually I get this error: sudo mount /dev/sda /media/usb mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. I've tried with three devices and none of them work with the OP…

"******************************************" "NO SKRC,we will use default KSRC" "******************************************" make ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/4.12.0-kali2-amd64/build M=/root/Desktop/TL-WN722N_v2.0-Ralink/rtl8188EUS_linux_v4.3.0.8_13968.20150417 modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.12.0-kali2-amd64' "******************************************" "NO SKRC,we will use default KSRC" "******************************************" CC [M] /root/Desktop/TL-WN722N_v2.0-Ralink/rtl8188EUS_linux_v4.3.0.8_13968.20150417/os_dep/linux/ioctl_cfg80211.o /root/Desktop/TL-WN722N_v2.0-Ralink/rtl8188EUS_linux_v4.3.0.8_…

error: make: *** No rule to make target 'include/config/auto.conf', needed by 'include/config/uboot.release'. Stop.

Hi all, I'm running DietPi on an Orange Pi Zero 3 (H618, sunxi64), which repackages the Armbian current-sunxi64 kernel. I use a USB DVB-T2 dongle (HanfTek Astrometa RTL2832P, VID/PID 15f4:0131) with tvheadend for over-the-air TV. After a routine update the dongle stopped working entirely, and I tracked the root cause down to missing kernel modules. ## Problem Starting from kernel 6.18.x (package linux-image-current-sunxi64 version 26.05.0-trunk-dietpi1 and all subsequent builds through dietpi5), the following modules are absent from the kernel package: - dvb_usb_v2 - dvb-usb-rtl28xxu - dvb_core …

Hello, Sometimes, i have following errors on main syslog-ng server : Spoiler 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir1-140-user kernel: 3,996,16878692493,-;mmc0: Card stuck in programming state! mmc_do_erase 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir1-140-user kernel: 3,997,16878692530,-;blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 10335392 op 0x3:(DISCARD) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir1-140-user kernel: 3,998,16878692736,-;mmc_erase: group start error -110, status 0x0 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir…

Any of you have such a beautiful problem? They like Orange Pi's, they are hot !

Hi everyone! I was asked by tkaiser to share something about my PHP control of GPIO pins. I can tell you that I will be happy to do so. Mostly because I'm really extremly good in one thing and that is forgetting how i did something. Now let's cut bulls**t down and start with small introduction of what I'm up to. I'll decsribe what I'm doing and what is working for me so it should all click together as project documentation and tutorial. Also all I'm going to describe is being done on Cubieboard2 (A20) but i guess that it can work almost on any ARM SBC running Debian or Ubuntu. Introduction / Motivation Basically, I'm really interested in connecting low-level …

Its a just a proposal. It would be nice to have a anonymous telemetry result that summarize boards and armbian popularity (distro, kernel, CPU from /proc/cpuinfo and memory size, board name if available) Another board's popularity source that is also interesting is a poll about boards in use (board name, development tools) Please star/mark this post to make it important for @Igor

with the armiban-build-system I did build some dev-images. Sometimes I see in other threads, that later build images have newer kernel or package versions. While trying apt update && apt upgrade I didnt get these newer packages So my first try was to use the armbian-build-system and do use the function for creating u-boot and kernel that will give me some .debs in ./build/output/debs/ like this: linux-u-boot-dev-nanopineo2_5.82_arm64.deb linux-dtb-dev-sunxi64_5.82_arm64.deb linux-image-dev-sunxi64_5.82_arm64.deb linux-headers-dev-sunxi64_5.82_arm64.deb linux-source-dev-sunxi64_5.82_all.deb install these (mostly I didnt do…

Yesterday 1 of my 3 NanoPi Neo2 didnt boot complete anymore. Because I had i the last time - I thought that the internal 2.5" HDD has died and couldnt mounted anymore from /etc/fstab Today I checked the 2.5" HDD externally and its fine So I connected a TTL-RS232 for the boot-output and did get: Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. done. Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did …

Pulpstone OrangePiZero OpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05.1 ============================ Orange Pi Zero Hardware specification CPU H2 Quad-core Cortex-A7 H.265/HEVC 1080P. GPU Mali400MP2 GPU @600MHz Memory 512MB DDR3 TF card (Max. 64GB)/ NOR Flash(2MB Default not posted) 10/100M Ethernet WIFI XR819, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n [http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/] . . Pulpstone OrangePiZero Added : All Modem Packages Support 4G Modem Support HiLink Modem Support USB Tethering Android Support SFTP Server Pulpstone Mikodemos v5 (fix restart OpenVPN) Pulpstone MJPG Streamer (gigi webcam-uvc) Pulpstone Tramsmission Pulpstone miniDLNA LuCI-App-SQM LuCI-App-Access-Control LuCI-App-HD-Idle LuCI…

It seems that the actual install routine of Pihole doenst detect buster with kernel 5.8 correctly. At "my" normal install command "curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash" I did get [✗] Unsupported OS detected: Armbian 20.08.0-trunk Buster https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequesites/#supported-operating-systems e.g: If you are seeing this message on a fresh install, you can run: 'curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true sudo -E bash' If you are seeing this message after having run pihole -up: 'PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true sudo -E pihole -r' (In this case, your previous run o…

I am using apt proxy on opi pc 20.11.1 buster. Te proxy was working fine but now it gives error for apt.armbian.com only, not for debian repos. Err:2 http://apt.armbian.com buster InRelease 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR [IP: 192.168.10.1 8080] Any hint? Edit: https works

Hi, Is there any plan fro Armbian to support Rockchip processors like RK3288 or RK3399? Any guide on how to port Armbian on them? These processors have official support on GPU (both openCL and openGL ES), HW video codec (like H264 encoding and decoding with gstream), and also open-sourced Kernel 4.4.x. And most important thing is they are willing to support opensource community and fix their bugs continuously. I've got a RK3288 proto board which was able to run Linux 4.4 + Debian with HW accelerated desktop and video playing, and it worked perfect. The only thing that troubled me is the Debian system that maintained by Rockchip is suck.…

I am a little surprised with the result of Phenom2 965 vs. Pine64 vs. XU4 time sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=8 run Phenom2 965 AMD64 (4 cores) (Ubuntu Trusty kernel 4.2 x86_64 SSE2/3) => 6.8390s gr@gr ~ $ time sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=8 run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 8 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 20000 Test execution summary: total time: 6.8390s total number of events: 10000 t…

EDIT: The tutorial below is based on outdated instructions. With the most recent Raspbian images the same is possible with less efforts using the g_ether module. All details here: https://gist.github.com/gbaman/975e2db164b3ca2b51ae11e45e8fd40a Today arrived both a RPI 3 and a RPi Zero. I want to use the latter to confirm some consumption measurements we're currently doing to prepare Armbian low-power (or IoT) settings for a couple of boards (see here and here for details) To my surprise I wasn't able to login to RPi Zero without soldering wires or GPIO header since I've no Micro-HDMI cable/adapter, my only Micro-USB adapter is a 90° one preventing to power the bo…

(I am running Ubuntu Core QT-Embedded on a nanoPi Neo using this network adapter)The first time I used the network adapter it worked perfectly. I saw the adapter when I typed ifconfig -a and it connected to my network when I typed the following commands: ifdown wlan0 ifup wlan0Then I unplugged the power supply and plugged it back in and now it doesn't work or show up on ifconfig -a. I tested it out on my Windows machine and the adapter works fine, and when I type lsusb I can see a network adapter so I'm very confused.How can I resolve this issue?

As a test I updated on a secondary Pihole-Server (buster on NanoPi K1 Plus) the kernel to 5.11.1-dev and at startup Pihole did seem to make some trouble The server isnt getting to the login prompt and on the serial console the last info is "Starting kernel..." I updated some of my SMB-Servers with kernel 5.11.1-deb without problems. Will later try a new resinstall with buster and 5.11.1 and see if Pihole will run on a complete new installation.

I have an Orange Pi 800 64GB version for sale located in Denmark, Europe. If you fancy a hackable Orange Pi with support for a lot of Linux based distributions in a nice package with a lot of connection possibilities and a built in keyboard but don't want to pay EU import VAT this is your chance! If desired I can flash it for you with OS of choice. Condition: Like-new in box but with minor wear inside box (see images). This does not have any impact regarding transportation. Price idea: 100€ + shipping Ships to: All EU countries Payment method: PayPal If you have any questions please let me know. I'll attend FOSDEM '24 hence I can send it from Bru…

This "motd" fragment has a bug/inconsistency. # any changes will be lost on board support package update THIS_SCRIPT="armbian-config" MOTD_DISABLE="" /etc/defaults/armbian-motd has : # add space-separated list of MOTD script names (without number) to exclude them from MOTD # Example: # MOTD_DISABLE="header tips updates" This works correctly for the other "motd" fragments which contain, for instance : THIS_SCRIPT="sysinfo" MOTD_DISABLE="" but fails to disable 41-armbian-config unless the MOTD_DISABLE string includes armbian-config. I've verified that nothing untoward happens if you change 41-armbian-config to …

We may move our IRC presence to Libera.chat somewhen in future due to the weird things going on at Freenode. For now the #armbian channels on both Freenode and Libera are linked with a simple relay bot. For those who where asking how its done technically: Very simple. Supybot with relay plugin. That's it.

Hi, I'm part of a nonprofit working on improving access to digital education in the developing world. I'm looking for a fairly cheap SBC (<$20) that has a HDMI port so that it can be connected to a TV monitor (including old TVs like CRTs). The microSD card will be preloaded with static webpages from educational websites so that students can surf these websites at home. It should also have bluetooth or a USB port so it can be connected to a keyboard ($10) or mouse ($1). I don't strictly need wifi (the microSD cards can be updated on a different device), but it would be a plus. Another nice-to-have would be compatibility with Android apps, since…

Hi, I just got 2 of these. Everything is fine but you need to order power adapter 12V 2A with 3.5mm x 1.35mm connector. Unfortunately due to earlier version of BIOS compare to same looking GeoBook 1E but with dualcore Celeron N4020 it cannot boot from microSD card. Speakers are rubbish but it could be good for some low powered machine projects. And one advice. Do not change "Quick boot" option in BIOS setting or it will not boot and you will need to unplug battery to reset BIOS. It work with both Windows 11 or Linux with no extra drivers mods needed. 5Ghz wifi and bluetooth also included. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166222480445

good day dear friends, well sure i know this is theoretically a bit difficult, but I dare to ask: what are the possible ways to connect an internal 3.5'' SATA HDD to the board (let's say i want to use a 1TB)? Let's ignore the need for additional power. i want to add a good power supply unit: So that i have enough power. What about the ways and options to connect a HDD. What is aimed: I want to make a box like a Network Attached Storage - a NAS - that contains the board and the HDD internally, so the trivial "plug to USB connector" is excluded. How can I do this? first approach: Well - i guess that the only way is to use a sata…

I have got 2x USB 3.0 RTL8156 ethernet dongles using one on my Rockpi4 the other windows client If the rockpi4 is the server speeds are awful [rock@rockpi4 ~]$ iperf3 -s ----------------------------------------------------------- Server listening on 5201 ----------------------------------------------------------- Accepted connection from 192.168.1.12, port 52620 [ 5] local 192.168.1.9 port 5201 connected to 192.168.1.12 port 52621 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate [ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 56.7 MBytes 475 Mbits/sec [ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 43.7 MBytes 367 Mbits/sec [ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 46.3 MBytes 388 Mbits/sec [ 5] 3.00-4.…

Grabbed the latest Jammy download for NanoPi Neo 2 - https://redirect.armbian.com/nanopineo2/Jammy_current Have to ask - why servers preinstalled and default configured? I found NFS/rpcbind and OpenVPN preinstalled on the image - this is a security risk that can be easily avoided.

still posting those 3d good job nicoD mind if I share some progress of my 3d engine as well?, easy port to armbian browser btw: Basically it is going to be a head band with a gyroscope to move around on the game.

Tested with a few drives, and different operating systems. Also a couple power supplies. The harddrive runs extra hot 107F on the outside for the last one I measured myself. It dies during heavy loads. a simple fsck will kill it. But put it in my main computer and I can write /dev/zero to it all day long. My first thought is that I had a power issue with some power supplies lying about their actual amperage. So I found "FSP Net 36 Universal Netbook Power Adapter 12V 36W for ASUS Eee PC" in the discount bin and modified it to work in a 12v adapter. Still the crashing persists. However if I don't use the 3.5 addon package and I use a 2TB samsung laptop drive, no …

Suptronics/Geekworm sells RPi add-ons for a long time. They started with an add-on using the crappy/slow GL830 USB-to-SATA bridge but switched to a good JMS578 after some public complaints (see there also for the issues with GL830) Now they offer a metal box with fan kit and for their X830 USB-to-SATA board for less than 30 bucks. Power input: 14 to 40V DC via 5.5/2.5mm power barrel jack, the SBC can then be powered through GPIO header pins. Boards that should fit inside the enclosure: Any RPi Libre Computer Tritium H2+/H3/H5 Libre Computer Le Potato MiQi NanoPi K1 Plus NanoPi K2 ODROID C1/C1+ …

I just released a new C library for communicating with those inexpensive 4-digit 7-segment LED displays: https://github.com/bitbank2/tm1637 They can run on 3.3V or 5V and draw between 1 and 15mA depending on the brightness setting. I purchased mine from an AliExpress vendor for 68 cents each with free shipping. They use a custom 2-wire communications protocol and must be "bit-banged" from 2 GPIO pins. In my demo, I assign pins 38 and 40 on my Orange Pi Lite.

Just trying to sort this out. Does anyone know if I can get 5.1. audio working out of the cubietruck hdmi output? T

I noticed that on the Duo I can select 5.5.0-rc6-sunxi in dev. Is there any idea when 5.5.0 will be the default release? Also, I noticed that there's no matching 5.5.x kernel source. I'm playing with linux-headers-dev-sunxi to see if I can compile libgpiod master which requires 5.5.0.

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I'm older and not much time allowed to "F" off. I used to spend time in my late 30's On Q3A InstaUnlagged. I'm using AI The best I can to do the things I dont have time for. I bought a OP5b before our house flooded and then I started AI for geneology.. went f'n amazing... Family came here from France in 1624. In 1924 there was a commemorative coin and 2 stamps celebrating my family and other French and Belgium Huguenots working the American Dream, with religious freedoms... Then a book about our Family's farm in Central Park. An artist hired to painting of the description of the farm.. So I bought the coin, the two stamps, the painting, the book and the French Bible that…

A case for "Sticky" Subjects I see a need for "Sticky" Subjects, or a board category for some appropriate discussions: WishBoard support: Let user's provide both a wish list of boards they would like to support, and what they might be willing to do get support for a board. Let me start that on out: How about a NVIDIA Jetson TX1? The drivers are avialable, there is probably good support for getting it off the line, and I would be willing to try to get someone a dev board to work with: http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tx1-module.html Publicity Support: Publicity for armbian means awareness and donations. Let's not forget there must be manufacturer'…

Hello! I've just recently gotten a few (okay, several. I might have a problem here.) small single-board computers and I'm thoroughly in love with them. I also purchased a few small LCDs so I could make small independent thing that wouldn't require a huge display - perhaps even portable ones. While I do enjoy using the terminal for practically anything (give me lynx, rtv, byobu and the likes and I'm happy), there are certain advantages in a graphical user interface. But let's face it, the default UIs with modern window managers are... not exactly designed for small, low-res screens. With a 800x480 screen it's plausible to use just a normal WM and be rather fine…

i have an orange pi 2 board, but the questions could be applied to any, i think so questions: 1. (the most interesting for me now) is it possible to change screen resolution of the screen without changing\replacing script.bin and rebooting? could we just avoid rebooting and somehow force linux to change resolution? 2. is it possible to boot from network for any of the boards and orange pi in particular? 3. to power up the boards could we use lipo accums like 18650 with step-up voltage converter? (i had a bad expierence in finding working image to my orange pi and it occurs that it was because of too long cable to the board, so it very sensitive to stable current i …

I have a running obsession with sensors/motors/SBCs and have been creating a collection of C libraries as I learn/conquer each new device. I recently added a few that might interest some of the forum residents here. They include a C library to talk to the RPI Sense Hat, ST Micro VL53L0X time of flight distance sensor, and CCS811 air quality sensor. You can find them all here: https://github.com/bitbank2 If anyone has a sensor/add-on that they would like to program in C from their Orange Pi and there isn't any code available, let me know and maybe I can add it to my collection.

Hi there! I built a new system that automates the control of GPIO pins and makes it easy to switch them. It is fully realtime and based on NodeJS & Socket.io. I hope you like it. Originally supported board types are OrangePi, NanoPi & RockPiS. The Raspberry Pi support is recently published, there may be some bugs. Here is a link to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/ArdaSeremet/SBC-RealTimeIO . Please feel free to tell me about any further improvements. For now, I am working on PWM output support! Take care, be well!

linuxgizmos Our June 2018 round-up of hacker-friendly single board computers comprises three resources: an overview of recent SBC market trends; this catalog; and a Google docs spreadsheet that tabulates the boards’ key features. I haven't checked the list, well beside sunxi which lists all Allwinner another list.. http://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-116-open-spec-hacker-boards/

Lately there have been many commits in the rockchip kernel github repository talking about imminent new chips (they have been removed though and the 4.19 kernel last commit "regressed" to 11 Aug 2020), but here there is the announcement of the rk3588: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/26/rockchip-rk3588-specifications-revealed-8k-video-6-tops-npu-pcie-3-0-up-to-32gb-ram/ Enjoy!

Hey I managed to get the WiringOP libraries to build with the Python WiringPi libraries on my OPI One. I wrote up a quick gist and made a dinky fork to save some people some time: Orange PI WiringPi-Python Gist PS: Igor, TKaiser, and other contributors. Armbian is a really great distro. I'm very grateful for all your hard work.

Imagine a new SBC is developed specifically designed for computing tasks and clustering but should also be available for a rather low price. Which features should it have or not have? What do you think? Is it even possible?

I just released the source code to a very simple weather monitoring app. I wrote it to run on my Orange Pi Zero and make use of a few environmental sensors (Bosch BME280 and AMS CCS811), along with a SSD1306 OLED. It records the data every ten seconds into a CSV text file. https://github.com/bitbank2/weather_mon It's just a simple idea that I had to monitor the conditions overnight in my kids' bedroom since our place doesn't heat/cool evenly.

I don't know if this the right place to post this question. I am looking for a board that fits what I need. I have been looking and could not find everything I need in one board. I thought of asking here maybe someone can suggest something. So here are the specifications I am looking for: 1- CPU: has a crypto engine/ Security system. Almost all Allwinner Axx and Hx have crypto engines. 2- wireless connectivity Has all or most of the following: WiFi 2.4G, 5GHz and 3G/4G Module if possible. 3- Network connectivity: Has 1000 Mbps Ethernet. 4- USB : At least one A-type USB. Thanks

Dear all: i am new at the forum and want to ask where can I download a ready to use .img with any version of Debian for my old A13 tablet in its standard Q88 design. Thanks a million in advance. nelson.

Hello, I'm using Armbian (kernel version 5.0.21-sunxi) on an Olimex a13 SOM. I'm trying to implement wiegand interface on GPIO pins, that means that I have to fire interrupts on 50uS pulses. I solved my problem with writing down a driver capturing edge triggered inputs. So, with some readers (200uS pulses, 1.5ms between pulses) i can get all data, but with other readers (e.g. 100uS pulse, 500uS between pulses) I miss some interrupts (e.g. I have a wiegand42 reader and sometimes I get 41 interrupts, sometimes I get 39 or 36). I read that kernel fires new interrupt only when the previous interrupt function has returned, so I tested it with just addi…

Hi We've made a patch for the current a64 megous 5.10 kernel which enables writing to the 2K SID/Efuse security area of the A64/R18 processor. Our initial investigations have found that the A64 doesn't seem to match the tables found in the SID Register Guide, however we've proceeded to perform various write tests and are presenting our results here for anyone that may found it useful in further development. There shouldn't be any issues using the same patch in the 5.14 kernel, as the driver code is still the same. The patch won't be pushed upstream, and is for dev purposes only, as the original intend of the driver is to be read-only. (This is EFUSE area …

to reduce the noise level? For example I created a topic this afternoon that is irrelevant at best, misleading at worst and solves no problems for anyone. It would be best if it never got into the Google cache. But, failing that, can

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I can clearly see the point for the maintainers, but there is an issue with the old boards. For example, I have a cubietruck which I would definitely like it to keep being supported, and I could probably help to maintain it within Armbian. Though I do have only one board which works 24/7. To my understanding, I can not be a maintainer, as I can't test new releases on a productive board. So If no one has two pieces, then the board can not be supported. In this case, I expect that current owners have to freeze kernel updates and keep the board for some more months - years, or try to test and use plain Debian or other distros. Is there any other alternative?

Hi, Im going to buy an Orange Pi Zero+, but I heard that the same manufacturer's product Orange Pi WinPlus's onboard Gigabit NIC has a serious packet loss problem: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-win/ Does Orange Pi Zero+ have such a problem? Im entangled that I should not buy

I'm using an eBay packaged Debian 6 MySQL server that is on an OPi PC v1.2 (at least that's what's printed on the board). I am building a database for my app. Just discovered "Browse Network" on the File Manager app and was pleasetly surprised to see "WORKGROUP" appear, which is my (otherwise) Wintel home network. That network has an NAS, but dble-clicking the WG resulted in the attached popup "Failed to open "WORKGROUP". My Linux Bible suggested commands showmount, ftp, lftp and findsmb, none of which, apparently, are installed on my OPi Suggestions, please. Gene

Hi, Anyone knows how to delete the account and my data here in the forum?

Hello all, I've been recently burned by a failing SD card (armbianmonitor -v possibly saved me a much worse fate!) and I'm now trying to proactively avoid a similar situation. I found that WD has a line of cards that claim a health status feature that "Helps in preventive maintenance by signaling when the card needs to be replaced". One of them is the Purple QD101 that seems reasonably priced at $15 for 64GB. I'm not finding much in the way of details of how this is exposed though. Is there any way to get access to this information on linux?

Nothing like a good weekend challenge to occupy my inner nerd. I love this web interface NODE JS along with this relay plate RELAY PLATE and have it working with Raspberry PI3, but now I want to take advantage of the additional ram I have with Rock64. The process did not go without a hitch. I list the latest version of NPM in my machine and the web interface is working. I don't think the relays are getting triggered even though I painstakingly crossed the power pinouts and the gpio pinouts. Not sure if this can be adapted or if it has been done before. I am good at following those that know more than me, but do not consider myself knowledgeable enough to blaze new trails.…

I am in the middle of porting a proof of concept app from Raspberry Pi/Raspbian to its (hopefully) permanent home on Orange Pi PC/Armbian, and I am really loving the new environment. Now I need to get my non-standard HDMI display working. It's a 800x800 circular display from China that works fine on my Raspberry Pi once I figured out what the HDMI timings were (they weren't even on the data sheet!). As I learned when configuring the RPi the display does not report its resolution correctly, so it won't work out of the box, but in Raspbian you have the option to force the system to use your custom configuration defined in the config.txt file. I have …

I wonder how the community would react to an addition to the existing version of the images with XFCE DE , new version with Mate DE. Or other variants. The issue arose due to the fact that collecting different images and often get from users are requests for different options that vary from the norm in the community Armbian variant of DE (ICEWM KDE LXDE LXQT etc). I tried to add a test version with a Mate. Got to add the Assembly of images with alternative DE without prejudice to the basic variant (XFCE).

FYI, for the next hour, Samsung EVO 32 GB (I hope genuine ones) are at 9 USD http://www.gearbest.com/memory-cards/pp_28060.html?wid=21 => ends at 18.30 CEST (and no... my forum account has not been hijacked)

Hello Folks I'm after some advice. I've been an avid user of Raspberry Pi's for some time and just love how good they are for tinkering around with without breaking my larger main system, helps me learn all the time. I've recently started using my Raspberry Pi (3b+) to automate several task. I have three mono and two python services running, well I say running...... Essentially if any more than two of these need to process data together the pi can't cope. Top command tells me RAM usage is often 90-100% and the CPU running at between 115-130% before system starts to error out and SSH becomes inaccessible. I feel like I need a…

Hello All, I am working on a freelance testing project and I want to know which model is better for testing in the process and concept point of view between agile and waterfall. Yesterday when i search for difference between them I found this reference and as I know Agile method uses an incremental development approach, the phases of design, production, testing, and other project management may appear several times as well as testing is frequently done in conjunction with the development phase in Agile model to maintain consistent quality. but not an idea about waterfall. Can anyone know which model is useful in testing? and what technique the waterfall model used?

I am new to single board computers and have previously used Microsoft Windows computers or Android TV dongle/box. I do find it a bit odd that everyone seems to be working on their own versions of operating systems. It would be a bit like Intel coding their own Windows and AMD coding their own version of windows too. Now while people have different aims and software needs it is I think a shame all the different programmers and groups cannot come together more on software. You have the various Linuxs Then all the soc variations. Now Armbian seems a step in the right direction and you have various Socs and SBC computers, it is just a pity Xapple, Lem…

Hi - Earlier this week ( begin April 2020 ) I found out H5 boards become scarce. I was unable to find the H5 chip at allwinner tech H series section, suppose this will be replaced ? Anyone more info perhaps?

Hi there, I bought a few months ago a H616 based TV Box, and made the same kind of mistakes this week. I bought an OrangePi Zero2, also sporting a H616. I bought the TVBox because at that time: "wow, an undocumented AllWinnner SoC!", how stupid is that? I bought the Zero2 because CNX software gave a few hints about the SoC features, like the fact the G31 GPU is a Bitfrost GPU, meaning it supports Vulkan, and down the line, it could potentially be supported by Panfrost open-source graphics driver. I'm still dreaming of an Armbian based video encoding SBC, and this SoC (like so many others on the paper) looks promising: Video D…

Hi there, I'm currently struggling to get the Cedrus VPU up and running. I have downloaded the specific version from bootlin and got the kernel up and running, however the V3s isn't supported by the Sunxi SRAM driver. This driver is important to get the VPU going. I tried altering the devicetree of the V3s to match a SoC that is somehow similiar, but it clearly failed for obvious reasons. I get this error message: [ 1.035259] cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: Failed to claim SRAM [ 1.040990] cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: Failed to probe hardware [ 2.478247] cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: Failed to claim SRAM [ 2.484047] cedrus 1c0e…

Alpine is not nearly as feature rich as many other distro's, I mainly see it deployed in containers using Docker... https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.9.0-released.html They do have a very good wiki article on how to onboard ARM SoC's including some good stuff on u-Boot (that might be useful for folks working to onboard a new board into Armbian) https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/DIY_Fully_working_Alpine_Linux_for_Allwinner_and_Other_ARM_SOCs