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Hi there, I've been contacted by KoVu Inc. regarding their RK3328 "SwiftBoard", which should be a great candidate for NAS applications. Any thoughts? https://www.board-db.org/news/2018/01/08/kovu-swiftboard-data-nas-single-board-computer-sata-hdmi-2-0-emmc-gbe-android-armbian-openmediavault/ P.S.: I should receive a sample of this board in the next weeks, if you're interested in further updates. Cheers!

Hi. I want to experiment building own WiFi-router so it definitely need stable Ethernet and WiFi. Next I want build something like home automation withing this board, so I think it should have a 2GB ram and A53 cores(64bit+performant). Think Sata is not important yet. Maybe way later I will try casting something to tv via WiFi(not HDMI). Of course I'm looking at OPi win plus/prime or Nanopi k2. They are very cheap, but are they of enough quality? Or I should choose something else?

I was informed about Armbian today, and so far from what I am reading it looks very promising. I was on the Armbian configuration utility doc page: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/ But it says nothing on how to start it. whats the command for it ?

Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask this question (if not, or if there are better places please let me know) I am looking for a very compact single board computer(SBC), that has at least two usb hosts, a low power consumption and ideally a thin form factor. I want to run to make a usb2.0 scientific camera wireless using a virtual usb server (https://www.virtualhere.com) which will compress (LZ4) and transmit the information via wifi. I have measured the usb data rate, it is about 23.5 megabytes/second. Thus, a wifi-ac dongle, connected to the SBC should be adequate for this purpose. Since I do not want the camera to share the USB host with the wi…

Want to know if some one succeded compiling ffmpeg with hw acceleration? Actually I'm looking for board which is good for Home Media Server with support for transcoding 1080p(4k? if any can) with good fps (24+) Already tried rpi3 results are not that good as i want 13fps for 720p x264 Hi10 5Mb/s bitrate=> 720p x264 5Mb/s bitrate So i think 1080p will be much slower. Do you think orange pi prime can handle this type of tasks well?

Will Armbian kernels be patched for these soon? https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

Helo, I would like to delete my account here, but I didn't find any links / buttons / whatever either in profile nor in account settings. How can I do this? Thanks & kind regards.

I just released my multi-system game emulator (GameBoy+NES+GameGear for now). Optimized for directly outputting to SPI LCD displays (e.g. ili9341). Runs on any CPU type, but has optimizations for ARM+X64. I wrote 100% of the code, so it might be behave differently than other game emulators. GB+GG are nearly perfect. NES is missing some popular mappers. The code is very optimized to begin with, but also uses a dirty-tile system to minimize the data sent to the SPI bus. This allows inexpensive SPI displays (e.g. ili9341) to run at or near 60 frames per second for many games even though the SPI bus can only do 30FPS of full screen updates. https://github.com/bitbank2/sg_fre…

I just released a new library to act as a DNS filter. This differs from pi-hole in that it runs as a user-level program and doesn't depend on dnsmasq. This allows you to run it on a machine without changing your network configuration. It hasn't been rigorously tested, but appears to work properly. It can either proxy the packets to a trusted DNS server or spoof the return address using RAW sockets to route the response back to the requestor. It can fool web pages (like CNN) as it blocks ads and replaces dynamic ad script requests with innocuous javascript responses. https://github.com/bitbank2/bb-hole

I'm looking for current and upcoming PXE bootable SBCs. I guess if it has uboot on a SPI chip (like ROCK64, PINE64, espressobin, opi r1 ...) this is already a good indicator that it will support PXE boot. But I'm not 100% sure if PXE will really work, it seems to be rarely used for such boards. The only board I know which does not have uboot but can boot via PXE is the rpi 3. Maybe there are other ones. Some other boards like the nanopi duo could boot via a SPI chip attached to the respective GPIO pins. Maybe someone here knows other boards with PXE boot support or has tested it already?

Hello, I am looking to do a diy gameboy running an emulator (eg. retroorangepi). However there're many SBCs out there and I'm not very sure where to stuck. Was about to order the Orange Pi Zero H3 when I realize it has major heat issues which would make it unsuitable for such a usage. What SBC should I use that will ideally: 1) Be really small 2) Doesn't overheat in a small container 3) Has support for gaming emulation

I just updated my LCD library to make use of ArmbianIO. Now you can easily talk to those inexpensive LCDs from your ARM SBC. You can find the code here: https://github.com/bitbank2/nokia5110

I just received this sample sent by Nora Lee (Foxconn). I have put here the H3 and H5 side by side. I have been told it is pin to pin compatible so basically same pinctrl config would work, right? Let's find out, will try to build an Image with legacy and mainline and check out what we have here. Hey, don't expect a technical overview here.

is it css challenged at the moment or is it me? it looks like this here where the options to the right are overlapping making them difficult to use:

Wow ... I just discovered "nmtui" to configure Wifi from the CLI / ncurses. No more difficult file editing for Wifi. Nice! nmtui -> "Activate a connection", then select the Wifi network you want to connect to, fill out the password, and you're done. After configuring, the settings appear in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ Only after finding 'nmtui', I found this page https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-connect-to-wireless Hope this helps others.

This may be useful to some of you. I wrote some C code to talk to those common 2x16 LCD displays that are available in various colors from various vendors. My purpose in writing the code was to learn about the device and help document it better for other people to have an easier time using it. In my search for info, I only found poorly documented Python and Arduino code, so I thought I would write a C version and make it easy to read. You can find the code here: https://github.com/bitbank2/LCD1602

Hi Experts, I am using Armbian Ubuntu Xenial image on Orange Pi Zero and I get following Failure during boot after which it starts rebooting itself. [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-ttyGS0.device. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Serial Getty on ttyGS0. THIS HAPPENS ONLY WHEN WIFI (SSID) CONFIGURED IN THE IMAGE IS POWERED OFF. IF WIFI ROUTER IS ON, IT SUCCESSFULLY GOES TO THE LOGIN PROMPT. Is there specific boot sequence that cause this failure when WiFi is not available. Any workaround please?

Unless my eyes are deceiving me, that appears to be a Molex Mini-SPOX 2.5mm connector, I have seen some questions here and there about what that thing was, I'll order a couple connectors and verify (once I see if I have a usable crimper), since it would be nice to have a few more laying around.

Wanted to automate payroll. Needed to be as simple/easy on the eyes as possible for your run of the mill user. General functionality is that it makes digital timecards for every employee action/swipe of an RFID tag. Every swipe also punches a Google Sheet based on company department, by utilizing regex to find column associated with employee name, then the row based on today's date. It then punches current military time to corresponding clock in/out offset. The timecard math is all done using the Google spreadsheet functions to discern overtime, total hours, etc... More will be included later to automate even the spreadsheet template even though copy/pasting once every…

Hello, first post to the forum. I have a WD My Cloud, 1-bay, gen2, 4TB device. As it seems it runs on the following (or similar) SOC (taken from Marvell's website): Dual-core Cortex A9 ARMv7 CPU with NEON SIMD and Floating Point Unit (FPU) Up to 1GHz per core Symmetrical/asymmetric multiprocessing (SMP/AMP) operational modes 32 KB-instruction/data (4-way) set associative L1 cache per core 256 KB shared and unified 16-way set associative L2 cache High-bandwidth, low-latency coherency fabric High-speed, low-latency, tightly coupled DDR3/3L DRAM memory controller with advanced transaction re-ordering and pref…

Yesterday I came across the following - for me - fine project (Demo-Page): ESPTERM Release 2.3.0 Cricket https://espterm.github.io/term.html GitHub-Page: https://github.com/espterm/espterm-firmware Downloads: https://github.com/espterm/espterm-firmware/releases Its a VT100-Webpage-Terminal on a ESP8266-Microcontroller which opens a Accesspoint. You could connect via this VT100-Webpage-Terminal to the TTL-Port of the ESP8266. TTL-Connection is done (like allways in TTL-Connections) with RX,TX and GND I connected my Orange Pi R1 via TTL and 115200 Baud and could "work" at a (max.) Terminal-Size of 80…

Hi there, I noticed that current Raspbian distributions use an extra group called "gpio" for /dev/sys/gpio access. Somewhere I read that this coud be accomplished via udev but I also read that /sys is not affected by udev (only /dev). Anyhow, what can I do to permanently set gpio permissions to a group e.g. "gpio"? Would it be of general interest to include this in Armbian?

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'm building an advertisement kiosk with the orange pi one, but I have concerns for too high night time screen brightness or too low day time screen brightness. Please could someone one provide me with a solution to solve this issue. I'm not a guru when it comes to Linux programming, but I can run basic Linux commands and can find my way around terminal. I've seen a few solutions; like this (https://askubuntu.com/questions/894460/automatically-adjust-display-brightness-based-on-sunrise-and-sunset), where they get the sunrise and sunset times of the day from a website and use a Cron script to set the screen brightness based on that. But my kiosk is going to be offline so t…

A while back I wrote some simple C code to talk to those inexpensive little 128x64 OLED monochrome displays. I just added options to initialize the display in inverted and/or flipped 180 modes: https://github.com/bitbank2/oled_96

Just a quick note to say thank you to the Developers for all that you do and have done to make our favorite Arm Linux Distro a success! My only wish is that you guys supported Raspberry Pi's, lol!

I appily donated and started to study this distro. I am learning what it is and what it could do for me as micro server. Especially am uninstalling and purging software. For example there is Thunderbird into my orange Pi Armbian. I need to purge it. I need to purge Libre office. If I give: sudo apt-get remove (or purge) thunderbird, the terminal says that the app doesn't exists. Please can I uninstall software via other ways? Thanks.

Here in turkey they got a own webpage for/from Orange Pi: http://orangepi.com.tr/index.html On their download-pages for the Orange Pis they have mostly armbian-images linked. OK, old 5.25 ones - but they refer for other Operating Systems the normal Orange Pi webpage. Download Page is http://orangepi.com.tr/destek.html , but you have to select the model of the OPi. Orange Pi Türkiye Armbian İşletim Sistemi'ni önerir. Orange Pi Turkey Suggests the Armbian Operating System. The NAS-Expansion for my OPi Zero/R1 did I get from the distributor here in Turkey (Türkiye): https://www.robotistan.com/orange-pi For m…

I just open-sourced some code to replace fbtft and fbcp. It uses dirty-tiles to try to minimize the writes to the SPI LCD and improve the framerate. I'm working with some of the guys at sudomod to get it working on Lakka builds too. You can download it here: https://github.com/bitbank2/BB-CP

Hi, I am new of this kind of computing. I pointed my attention on Orange PI boards, because their cheapness. I just made a donation because I prefere this distro instead of the Orange Pi factory. I tested both and I prefere a lot this. This website is well readeable instead of other. I think that I will do other donations because I believe in this project. I am here because I am trying to create a cluster in superlow power consumption. I would like to create it with one Orange Pi Pc 2 and some Zero boards. I will search for informations and libraryes to build and configure the cluster. Please if anyone want to share his information is wellcome here in my posts thread.

Please choose the best reason for selecting Armbian and using an ARM SBC not manufactured by the Raspberry Pi Foundation

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.

Out of curiosity, i have two different builds for the same board, burned it to the same sdcard and ran on the same board and the raid6 numbers are twice as fast for one case. Can anyone give some explanation what this numbers mean (if that means something running a SBC with sdcard)? I am curious to know what settings (or wrong settings) would give such a boost on this? Build one: Spoiler [ 0.625230] raid6: int32x1 gen() 189 MB/s [ 0.795324] raid6: int32x1 xor() 169 MB/s [ 0.965393] raid6: int32x2 gen() 204 MB/s [ 1.135559] raid6: int32x2 xor() 166 MB/s [ 1.305616] raid6: int32x4 gen() 186 MB…

Dear all, Official ARM distro are there and ARM devices are everywhere. Why can't *ALL* ARM SBC run official Linux ARM distro out of the box like all x86 devices does. I really want to know the reason behind this situation and is there a way out? Thanks

Dear all , I am successfully running remote windows XP desktop on OPi+2E (using rdesktop ) but not able to forward client side (OPi+2E) local USB port to application running on remote windows XP server side ... so any workaround/solution recommended ? Hardware :- OP+2E OS(client) :- Armbian Desktop legacy(latest) OS(Server) :- Win XP Sp3.

Hi. I want to get an Orange Pi Plus 2 or 2E to do tests. Does anyone sell any board of these models? I'm from Spain. Thanks.

Hi all, I am working with GSM Module MC60 from Quectel. I am facing a problem with AT commands of the module. When i am trying to close the connection using AT+QICLOSE= server_index,the response i am getting is +CME ERROR 0. The +CME ERROR 0 indicates phone failure error. Can someone please explain what is this phone failure error in GSM modules and when it generally comes. Also if there is a solution to rectify this. Thanks Amit

hi there, i'm newbie How user (root) auto login when opi reboot?

how do opi become wisp, Thanks before

Hi there, please apologize if this has been asked before, but I was not able to find a concise answer. I'm on a Cubox i4 pro using latest armbian. My main use case is a simple LAMP server, mainly as distributed database for several Kodi clients. Currently my installation is "SD card only". Is there any performance gain or other advantage by using an installation to SATA or USB etc. via the armbian-config script? Thanks in advance, Christoph

For a few years now I've used a Cubietruck as a "gateway" for my home network - it mostly just runs nginx as a reverse proxy for the various other computers I have to expose them to the internet via HTTPS. It still runs as good as it always has, I chose it for the task because: 2GB RAM at the time a reasonably fast CPU - dual 1GHz A7's "real" gigabit network interface built in battery management, so no need to worry about power failures corrupting anything sata support for local disk All of these points are now no longer relevant. Over the years I have amassed a few more SBC's, many of which also have 2GB RAM, a faster CPU,…

Overpriced but absolutely gorgeous. GPD Pocket Mini Laptop I would love an ARM mini netbook with the same form factor (no trackpad) although only a 40-50% price cut could make it interesting to my pockets.

Hi, I noticed OrangePi have started selling a 7" lcd with an hdmi adapter. It's only 1000x600 (which might be an awkward resolution to get working with some SBCs) but I thought I'd give one a try. This might fit into my farm build as a dedicated status monitor or something It's 22 usd plus shipping: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/7inch-TFT-LCD-Screen-for-Orange-Pi-H3-chip-Boards/32831758014.html

Hi guys. I'm trying to install motioeye on dietpi zero. After many attempts to install and always getting this message on the step 13: 1 su root 2 apt-get update 3 apt-get upgrade 4 apt-get install 5 wget https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wi ... _armhf.deb 6 dpkg -i ffmpeg_3.1.1-1_armhf.deb 7 apt-get remove libavcodec-extra-56 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54 8 apt-get install python-pip python-dev curl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libx264-142 libavcodec56 libavformat56 libmysqlclient18 libswscale3 libpq5 9 wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motio ... _armhf.deb 10 dpkg -i pi_jessie_motion_4.0.1-1_armhf.deb …

Hello. I'm an happy armbian loaded Opi Plus 2E and Opi Pc Plus user and i want to thanks a lot the armbian community for their hard work on H3 devices. I use Plus 2E it as a seedbox/NAS with two 2.5" btrfs Raid1 1gb usb hdd, I must say that i love that little board. But, a friend of me wanted to buy one and told me that it was unavailable for now . Do you think it's temporary out of stock or we can consider it a discontinued board ?

about COCKPIT in opposite to eg. Webmin does Cockpit edit just like you would in the configuration files. So it doesn't matter if you do any changes via SSH or via Cockpit. It is pretty neat to view your devices, see whether they run smooth or if one is going mad If you grab it from their website you get the latest and greatest (updates pushed weekly) but the easy way is: apt update && apt-get install cockpit (available since Ubuntu 16.04, needs systemd). I got Version 151. On the tinker board mainline the download was only about 1750Kb, the server side is written in C and in your browser it runs with Javascript and such. Just lik…

I'm looking for an enclosure for my espressobin. I tried to find a suitable enclosure based on it's form factor Pico ITX, but couldn't find any. Is anyone here using an enclosure for the board? Thanks.

Dunno if there are many people using OSMC (Kodi/XBMC Distro) but me and another guy has been tweaking it and managed to get Emulationstation installed along side Kodi then i wanted my old wiimotes for gaming so i started to work on a little script thats gonna be awesome once im completely done with it.

Hello guys, I have a orange pi prime, how to use uart pin like PG8 ? I don't read it. I'm work on orange pi prime debian desktop resource (download from orangepi.org / resources) I'm installing orangepi_PC_gpio_pyH3 (lib files change *) & wiringOP. I dont read uart pins Also there is no script.bin file in the boot folder. What can i do ? * Thanks martinayotte

"******************************************" "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_…

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

For anyone interested I have pushed the sources to github here: https://github.com/avafinger/ffmpeg-3.3.4_cedrus264 Feel free to try. It has been tested on A64, R40 and possibly will work on H5 too. Cross compiling and re-writing the package in a compliant way would speedup things.

Using Zorin 8, on ASUS mobo with Rosewell internal port adaptor (usb, sd, etc, all in one). Everything is working great, but... Did following steps, bluetooth is able to connect and headphones work, but have to fiddle around with settings every time I want to use my BT headphones. (Jam Transit Bluetooth headphones) Selected Iogear adaptor from Ubuntu Hardware Support list. Plugged in usb adaptor. Installed Blueman. Ran detection Went to Bluetooth in Settings and detected headset, ok. Device does not show up in Sound. Searched through various Ubuntu forum help sections, finally found that running the command : pulseaudio -k Then my BT headset appears…

I have seen many Wifi Benchmarks for speed only and not for reliability. I stopped doing wifi benchmarks for speed since i get very different values for the same board a few hours later,. For real life projects reliability and availability is what matters when you depends solely in wifi network. I would strongly suggest @tkaiser to include "reliability" in his tests, maybe a new thread. As for example you can try iperf with -t 1000, -t 2000, -t 3000 and -t 10000 (if it allows?). Try this with your board and see what happens...

I would like to raise the "issue" of power supply units. Indeed, they are the key component of all what we build, it is also a security issue (what happens at full load) and it seems to me quite difficult to distinguish between the numerous PSU over the market. I am just an newbie on this topic, just willing to get a stable, silent (I mean without annoying sharp noise, not talking about cooling fans) and safe PSUs. I found this page http://lygte-info.dk/info/ChargerIndex UK.html which is the beginning of what could help. Most of us probably already own a charger adapter, I just wonder if "charger adapter" is just a…

Hi! Are there any ways to donate Turkish Lira? I've been using this operating system for a year now. I would want to support Armbian a little bit (around 5-10TL) occasionally. I know that it is not a big money but I'm a student And I believe that support is support.

Hello! I have the NXP i.MX7Dual developer board for Android Things (ARM Cortex-A7 + M4, 512MB DDR3L, 4GB eMMC flash; you can find the reference guide here). Is it possible to run Armbian on it?

Hello, I'm following my investigation in order to have a SBC that can use armbian to deploy it in schools with the Primtux OS in order to make DIY activites ,more details here : A user tell me about a Banana Pi SBC, thanks a lot to him. I'm trying to add http://www.banana-pi.org/m2plus.html to the benchmark tool : https://mutualiser-les-comparatifs.les-cercles-vertueux.org/comparatif-des-nano-ordinateurs-monocarte Here is my first questions : Banana Pi M2+ could have H2+, H3, H5 processor. 1) What is the most adapted for my needs ? My needs are : The most usable on VGA old screen that have schools or that people can give…

I'm augmenting my iBook G3 with my pcDuino3 Nano to act as a wireless gateway and host for a development toolchain. It's working fine so far and once I'm done it will be completely powered by the FireWire port The only downsides are that it is a bit big and at idle it's taking ~250mA which I'm going to have to play with at some point and see if I can get it down any more.

Any help much appreciated. Having something of a battle getting the GC2035 working with an OPI One. TAIA.

I hope this is the right section to post my inquiry, and I hope it doesn't breach any forum policies I'm excited to have learned about this community for the current project I've dreamed up. Some background on me: So, professionally I'm a software engineer with ability to self-teach, solve weird problems, and innovate. Personally, I am annoyed, and amazed that what i dreamt up doesn't already exist, and the versions that do exist are very crude, and unimagined. Yes, I know I'm being cryptic, but bare with me for a moment though. I have a vision for a completely untouched modern take on OS design, and completely possible. _Versions_ of it even already exist rig…

@Igor @zador.blood.stained @tkaiser + any other mods, devs and users. I'll try and keep this brief and to the point but I probably won't succeed. Donations and campaigns We ever thought about doing a kickstarter or indiegogo campaign for donations? I'm not sure of the exact differences between them but I know you can do campaigns for non profit means and donations. ie: Employing more devs, buying boards with donations, etc... w/e it is you guys might need. I'd be willing to set up the campaign with basics like pictures, description outline and what not with some more input. Then hand the 'keys' to the profile over to Igor or whoever, for financia…

Hi, I am trying to run ubuntu 14.04 on a rk3066 SoC. I am having trouble with X not configuring itself properly. The Screen is limited to left half of the momitor. I may not have the most appropriate driver since I only have fbdev but it is enough for my purposes -general browsing. I dont need 2D/3D hw accelaration etc. I tried to work driectly with the framebuffer (/dev/fb0) using fbi image viewer and it displays full screen. The resolution reported is correct too -1920x1080 but for some reason Xorg runs at half screen. I cant seem to change x settings via xrandr -it looks like there is a bug in xrandr when fbdev is used. (google failed to get size of gamma fo…

Hello, I am looking for one board in order to build one NAS. I already have one bananapi pro, I am happy with it, the hardware used to be quite better than raspi boards, but it does not seem to still be marketed. It is just a matter of plugging a 2.5" hard drive on it (usb or sata). So the board would require : - be cheap - credit card format - not interested in video performances - the usb and ethernet not built on the same bus (this is why I say bananapi pro is way better than raspi boards) - can be cooled silently - one sata port - good support from armbian (not talking about video) …

At a first glance NanoPi Duo looks like a combination of Lichee Pi Zero (form, idea) and Orange Pi Zero (ingredients: H2+ and XR819 Wi-Fi). But once combined with the Mini Shield (RPi form factor -- connector and mounting hole positions), USB hub to provide 4 USB2 ports, Fast Ethernet exposed and a short mSATA slot behind a JMS567 USB-to-SATA bridge) it starts to get interesting. More information in FriendlyELEC's wiki/Github: http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_Duo http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/Mini_Shield_for_NanoPi_Duo Device tree file

Since I wanna get a jetson tx1 for some other stuff, I was wondering how do you guys think it will do as a NAS. I'm thinking I could connect 4 SATA HDDs to the PCIe2.0 4-lanes connector using something like http://www.ebay.com/itm/Marvell-9230-PCIe-To-4-SATA3-0-Raid-Card-PCI-Express-4Ports-SATA-6Gbps-Raid-Card/201168267815 (Marvell 9320) or http://www.ebay.com/itm/Free-Mouse-Pad-New-PCIe-x4-slot-Card-HyperDuo-4-port-SATA-III-SATA-3-4-port/381891976760 (Marvell 88SE9230) or http://www.ebay.com/itm/HighPoint-RocketRAID-640L-6Gb-s-SATA-RAID-Host-Adapter-Serial-ATA-600-PCI/332262844972 (please suggest others you think it would work, I just looked for x4 size PCIe cards t…

hi, since two weeks i fail to install nexctloud 12 on armbian at an bananapi 1. may be one mistake seems to be, there is no php 7 for armbian? the second mistake: i get no LogIn to mariasql, because of password problems. If somebody would give me a hint on an tutorial to nstall nextcloud 12 on armbian for bananapi 1, may be i find my mistakes. may be there is no such tutorial ? I wasn't able to find ist via google. I am a "starter/beginner" with armbian, but medium knowledge on windows

Hi all, I tried to share my experience about how to burn preloader/uboot/OpenWRT image, and then boot from eMMC on BPI-R2... 1.Download flash tool from https://spflashtool.com/ windows: https://spflashtool.com/download/SP_Flash_Tool_v5.1628_Win.zip linux: https://spflashtool.com/download/SP_Flash_Tool_exe_Linux_64Bit_v5.1520.00.100.zip 2. Install MT65xx drivers for your windows PC. You need to install drivers in order to connect your device properlyhttps://spflashtool.com/download/MediaTek_USB_VCOM_drivers.zip 3. Hardware setup before starting up hacking the board 1) use 12v pow…

I am new for Orange Pi. I got an Orange Pi Zero board and want to install Q4OS on it. I download the Q4OS image from its official website and load it to the SD card. However, I start the Orange Pi zero with the SD card, it can not display anything. Does anyone know the reason for that and how to resolve it? I really need help for this issue. Thanks a lot.

Hello, http://primtux.fr/ is a debian configuration for french schools. I'm trying to participate to make a dynamic in order to deploy PrimTux on open hardware nano computer in schools, to support makers activities for 6 years old to 10 years old (3D printing, Snap!, OpenScad, arduino IDE...). Choosing the right card is a big problem for a newbie as me. I have benchmarked some cards https://mutualiser-les-comparatifs.les-cercles-vertueux.org/comparatif-des-nano-ordinateurs-monocarte and choose the orange win pi + to try. However I had some problems to use it with old vga screen (and in schools, there is a lot of old vga screen) cf. http…

Greetings, colleagues! When I connect a Wi-Fi USB adapter, the system assigns it a terrible interface name! I'm used to the fact that a well-bred Linux gives them names like wlan0, wlan1, etc... Armbian gives the name according to the following scheme: "wlx<MAC-ADDRESS>"! It is very uncomfortable! How I can persuade him to give names according to the traditional scheme? I am grateful for the answers on the essence of the question, Ogogon.

As some might imagine, you can buy a bunch of different ribbon cables on Aliexpress. Different pitches, pins, etc... I could just buy the camera module but I would like an extended cable for my uses, just to be safe. It looks like the one it comes with is prolly only 6 inches. I can't quite discern from the product listings the type of ribbon cable used for OPi cameras and I'd like to know so that I can bundle it with my next purchase. So, if anyone who has one, can provide pictures (with something reliable to scale) or details, it would be much appreciated. If I find an extension option that proves to work, I'll post it here. Searching for O…

I am using image armbian Debian jessie Default, I reinstalled the system and now, after add command "deluge-web&" and "deluged" in /etc/rc.local, system does not start anymore, has already 5 times, always same thing.

Hi all, this is my first posting although I've been following armbian for some time. Hopefully this is the right forum area... Does anyone know the availability (or otherwise!) and cost of the Banana Pi Zero? It looks like a board clone of the Pi Zero W but with a different processor. Secondly will/does armbian support it assuming it is available? I have a project using the Pi Zero W but of course they are only available in one off quantities. Cliff

Well, it's gotten to the point where I'm dedicating a PC to this, using the VM is only so useful. Any recommendations on tools (Git gui's, specific code editors, etc?) A lot of this stuff I already have ideas/"go-to"s, but I'd like some new ideas/recommendations. And I think it would help out others to know.

Hello everyone! I am here to ask for knowledgeable suggestion: I am looking for a possibly armbian supported board capable of hardware transcoding a single 1920x1080 hdmi source at 15 fps. Source is coming from a usb UVC video grabber in raw yuv422 format. Hard requirements is to produce a rtsp stream at original resolution/framerate of the source. Soft requirements is to have also an HTML5 embeddable stream to use in a web application without needing a plugin. Tipically, this would be a MP4 (h.264 codec) and a webm (V8 codec) streams (possibly both to ensure best browser compatibility). This would be used for monitoring purposes by the user, so 5fps…

Open a terminal then issue: su apt-get install npm git clone https://github.com/Enrico204/Whatsapp-Desktop.git cd Whatsapp-Desktop nano package.json Make this edit: "build:linux": "electron-packager ./app \"WhatsApp\" --out=dist --platform=linux --arch=x64 --version=1.4.3 --icon=assets/win/whatsapp.ico" to "build:linux": "electron-packager ./app \"WhatsApp\" --out=dist --platform=linux --arch=armv7l --version=1.4.3 --icon=assets/win/whatsapp.ico" Exit nano and save changes. Back in terminal, follow the usual build instructions: npm install cd app/ npm install cd .. npm run…

Hi, I am trying to configure OrangePi 2G-IOT, which is not booting once ip address is assign. It stuck at below mention line. [ OK ] Started Network Manager Wait Online. [ OK ] Started Authenticate and Authorize Users to Run Privileged Tasks. [ OK ] Started Set console font and keymap. [ OK ] Created slice system-getty.slice. Step followed by me:- 1. Burn the ubuntu server on SD cars. 2. Power on the device and connected through serial connection. 3. Assign the network address 4. reboot the device. Can you please help me regarding the same? Please find boot logs attached. …

Tinkering with API's is fun. Always wanted to allocate the scripts and tools made over time and allow quick access to the data they can provide. Never liked the idea of leaving a power hungry Desktop running to have access to it and am too paranoid to leave any SBC (FTP/WebServer) connected to the World Wild West for too long. As seen with the Mirai Botnet/DYN attacks. So my answer was to have something low power (SBC and armbian) that was at least 'secure enough' for me to let it interface with the world. So this was made: https://github.com/BiTinerary/PersonalAPI In a nutshell this is how it works: Scripts on an OPi Zero that make API calls, scrape web da…

Hi Everyone, I am new with Raspberry Pi. I need to install FreePBX into raspberry Pi3 and make raspberry Pi acts for server I need to know what OS have i install in raspberry Pi and how i install my FreePBX

Hello! I want to replace my old "Server" (Pi 1B) with something more powerfull. In the same move, I want to use my server to do a lot more things than it does now. To be future-proof I would like my server to have GbE and 2 GB RAM. I would also love internal storage that I am able to do software RAID 1 with my SD-Card for security (Could I also use an simple USB-Stick instead of onboard flash?). Also I want to have a Home-NAS for Backups. (SATA; GbE) I am wondering if I should combine the two into one ... in this case, the Server-OS would be backed up probably on my workstation. Why using two devices if I could use one ... It would have lots of m…

Hi to all, another little question whit Armbian 5.31 Stable on Orangepi+2E. I installed a transmission-daemon that works perfectly but when typing the transmission-remote command for scripting torrent management from terminal the system responds command not found. I thought the command was included in the transmission-daemon installation (according from man transmission-daemon), something wrong? thx a lot and sorry for my bad english

I'm running Openwrt CC on orange pi zero, I use it as a router with its built-in wifi. When I transfer files from my computer to the opiz, I get 1MBps of transfer speed, is this normal ? Is it possible to increase the transfer speed by using an external USB wifi ? On my android phone it gets even worse, even loading pictures from the opiz through ES File Manager lags a lot.

I would like to create an ubuntu desktop image for a rk3066-based dongle (measy u2a). Is there anything in this website where start from? Or something ready-to-try? Will the docs here be helpful? I managed to run armbian on a measy u1a (which has a Allwinner A10) by simply flashing sdcard with an image (Lime A10) found here, I would like to do the same with rk3066. Thanks, Antonio

Jared McNeill is porting NetBSD to H3 SoCs now tested with NanoPi NEO and Orange Pi Plus 2E http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/porting_netbsd_to_allwinner_h3

The past few weeks I did see a lot of anger and frustration on this forum. Key contributors of the forum (.. Armbian developers) seem to struggle with the level of their audience. People ask for functionality which is not around because of bad hardware, people aspect certain things from Armbian which are not possible, people expect “out of the box” solutions, no feedback from users, etc., etc. I personally think this is getting more and more a problem. The risk is that key Armbian developers get frustrated and not motivated to continue their absolute fantastic contribution to the development of “THE NUMBER ONE OS” for SoC Arm boards! I think it is best t…

Hello guys, I hope, I picked the right section. I'm looking for a most suitable SBC for DVB-T2 decoding. Here in Germany is DVB-T dead, so the successor DVB-T2 is there. BUT, the codec here is H.265 and not H.264... So, my idea is to use an PCTV tripleStick 292e, which is supported by LinuxTV sind kernel version 3.16. This stick is able to decode H.264 in hardware. So, to decode H.265 I need a SoC which is supporting H.265 in hardware. The suitable SoC are i.e. Amlogic S905 (Odroid C2) and RK3266 (Asus Tinker). Which SBC would you take for it? I would like to use mainline kernel, if it's possible. Wha…

In order to do a new image in armbian, what is the correct docker baseimage to as parent? The ones I found are for rpi. As i have a bpi, to get it all working do i need a specific bpi baseimage to it?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/librecomputer/libre-computer-board-next-gen-4k-sbc-dev-board-for Sounds good, the site reads like they have been here reading TK's post, saying all right stuff

@tkaiser I'm looking for advice, I'm looking to use a single board computer of some sorts, to run a lightweight linux distro as a watered-down PC. Standard things like Webbrowsing, Netflix (Youtube, etc...), LibreOffice, etc.. can run on. Additionally I've seen some interesting videos of people running Python and I don't really understand the limitations of these boards. Are one of these boards equivalent to a circa 2000 PC? circa 2005? circa 1990s? Ideally I'd like to run a small standalone PC for day to day tasks and maybe some basic python or other coding environments. There's TON's of info online..which I've tried to go through myself, but again there TONs of info on…

What's your choice and why, tips and tricks. I'm using Geany , simple but it does have some problem with multiple files. I also downloaded code blocks but could not set the flags right (-lwiringPi) and left it for now as it is. To lazy to investigate

https://sites.google.com/site/zberrysbc/ Is it worth it? Assuredly not, but you can't help but smile if you have any sense of nostalgia. It also doesn't help that the entire thing can be implemented in an FPGA, although that may actually turn out to be more expensive...

Within the next few weeks or months a new Banana Pi model called BPI-R2 will be available. The average buyer of this board thinks of the R2 being an upgrade of BPi-R1 (also known as Lamobo R1) and will also think that software support situation will be the same (trusting in Armbian, Bananian and OpenWRT here). R2 is NOT an upgrade, it's just an entirely different device using an MediaTek MT7623N SoC instead of an Allwinner chip as all the other boards of this vendor. What do we know about the hardware: Quad core Cortex-A7 'up to 1.3Ghz' (no performance numbers known, no info about real clockspeeds, currently cpufreq seems still to be broken: '/cpu…

Most of us probably do some electronics along with the small computers, I've been part of "what does you desktop look like?" threads (terrible, by the way), thought I'd put up (the electronics part of) my workbench: I wasn't about to lie and clean it up before hand...

This should be a thread where we every one is invited to improve the 'Support over Forum' situation (there was some discussion about it in the nightly & tkaisers support propsal thread). Threads like this one showed clearly that a lot of good supporters and problem solvers gets more and more frustrated about the situation. Being new as moderator on this board, I have some questions: What do you (as a good problem solver) expect should a moderator do, to avoid situations like this? Should moderators keep the development threads as clean as possible as long as images for those boards are in experimental stage? (throw out every: i'm also interessted in gettin…

Ex: I'm still smitten with the opi 2e. It's so perfect for playing with docker clustering. I use the onboard emmc for /var/lib/docker Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hi, I am working on a project based on raspberry pi and sensors, I am using sensors to get data and I am using an ADS1115(datasheet) ADC to convert sensor analog data to digital. I am concerned about the ESD for raspberry pi so i have used a metal case for this project. Also, I am using a MEANWELL Net 35-b power supply . Question: I read on a blog that the simplest way to have ESD protection is to use a metal case and connect the metal case to the ground of the power supply also ground of raspberry pi and power supply are connected. Is this the correct way to protect circuit and raspberry pi?

I have a NAS which can support iSCSI, NFS, or NBD. I have several years of experience using iSCSI on x86, but I was wondering if anyone is using it on these ARM boards. I'm also looking at NBD, because it is supposedly lower overhead than iSCSI. Is anyone currently using NBD on their SBC? I've heard NBD doesn't handle connectivity issues as well as iSCSI, so it's not wise to use for data you care about. However, providers such as Scaleway are using NBD as the rootfs for their ARM servers (not saying this is good or bad, just saying it). I am thinking specifically of having the SBC be the client, not the server. However anyone who can pr…

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