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So, For a project I'm looking into a logger/monitor SBC attached to an automotive device with CAN bus to solve customer issues more easily. I rather not fuzz around with (deeply) embedded stuff and keep options open (e.g. wireless connectivity/sensors). Like the old and trusty H3, preferably low-voltage, cheap and stable, no AI required or Armbian support. Any recommendations?

Hello, currently I have a rasperry pi zero w with raspbian and I installed kodi on it. Playback is fine (hardware acceleration is supported), the menus are responsive but most addons are sluggish (to say the least). I saw various threads about kodi on armbian (e.g. this and this) and all say that the problem is lack of support of hw acceleration. I assume the more powerful cpu would help with the addons but, unless something has changed, without hw acceleration it makes no sense to even try. Is the situation the same now or has it improved? Maybe I should just get a raspberry pi 3b+? (it should be far more powerful than the pi zero, right?…

I would like to announce that I am getting started on an armbian-derived project, Armbian-NG. This is not a fork of Armbian, nor a rewrite, it's a derived project that piggyback's on the excellent work by Igor and the entire armbian development team. I think of Armbian-NG as armbian's little clumsy brother, who is just learning to walk but has great potential. In as few words as possible, Armbian-NG will be a Python (set of) script(s) that runs natively on Aarch64 (64-bit ARM) hardware (running Ubuntu 18.04 or later) to build Armbian images. More details can be found here: https://github.com/AndrewBCN/Armbian-NG As with armbian, anybody is welcome to con…

My list of arm boards was too long to make it a tasteful signature so here's some highlights: My List of geek Stuff 3xOpi Plus2e - hashi cluster servers Opi Prime - main work area (screen, ssh vim, git) OrangePiOne plus - hashi cluster worker Le Potato - tester Atomic PI - desktop Tritium-h5 - tester Opi PC2 - tester Opi3 - tester Espressobin - tester Helios 4 - 2ndary NAS Orange Pi R1 - tuyaconvert Opi Lite - retrorangepi R69 retrorange pi Opi One - root cause of my SBC and Armbian addiction Frankendell i7-2600 - garage computer and build box Dual Xeon E5-2650 v3 …

Hello, There is a software I ported to armhf (32bits), running very well on a Raspberry Pi3 (probably Pi 2 will do it) and I'd like to know where I could post to obtain feedback for other arm machines ? I can provide it under .deb form, or as pre-installed in a .tar.gz or whatever on demand Thanks in advance for redirecting me if I'm on the wrong place. -- ericb

Thanks, maintainers!! o/

These days i did install on some devices debian buster (via armbian-build-system generated). On the Orange Pi One this did work also fine with the cpu-temperature (showing via armbianmonitor -m) On a Orange Pi PC2 and a NanoPi K1 Plus this doesnt work. First I did think this is a problem of the dev-image with debian buster where /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp doesnt show an output via cat or more - but its filesize does show a 4096 bytes size (also on a working device - and also rights 444 = rrr for the file): -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 10:47 temp BUT NOW after a apt update & apt upgrade I also got thi…

Recently, a new SBC, the Rock Pi S by Radxa, was launched. Here's it's wiki page: https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS It's a 4 core A35 design. I'm debating getting one, but I can't find any information anywhere as to whether or not it's supported on Linux, or Armbian. Of course, if it's not listed in the download section it's not supported, but there's a difference between, "I need to add 100 lines of code and it will work." to "Geez, I need to redesign most of the Linux kernel after pulling my hair out." I did search the sunxi wiki and the local armbian wiki without success. Anyone know anything? Thanks!

Does anybody have a solution how to charge battery with more conservative voltage range? I'm using battery backup for my CubieTruck boards to survive power outages for several years. And as one of the batteries recently blew up (and also killed the backup HDD next to it) I try to find a way to charge the battery in a range that preserves health of it. When searching for a long-term-save voltage range of LiPo batteries you get something like: use only half of capacity, much below 4V, never deep charge, ... Default setting for the AXP209 charge controller is to charge to 4,2V, and emergency shutdown is at 2,9V. These ranges are much too broad and may damage…

Hi , When i was know have the new test image Armbian 5.24 desktop image (beta) support HDMI and DVI , but i can't know how to setting about vga form /boot/armbianEnv.txt could you help me how to edit this file ? my resolution is 1024x768 Thank ! https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib.docs/blob/master/docs/board_details/pine64.md

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

Proposition for support consideration. Khadas VIM based Amlogic S905X and Khadas VIM 2 based Amlogic S912. Thanks

On https://forum.armbian.com/guidelines/ there is a typographical error on the second paragraph. "Technical support is spitted" Should read: "Technical support is split"

Looking to purchase a tablet with Android to run Armbian Desktop on. Any suggestions? Looking at the FreakTab forum and see a bunch of tablets listed but no subtopics of removal of Android. Here I was able to install Ubuntu just fine on my Intel based Pipo X7.

So i came across this mysterious vpn/network box thingy and it was suspiciously looking like an orange pi zero with a fancy case and some nice gui frontend. To nobody's surprise, digging at the firmware image, it confirms my suspecion. It uses armbian!... Looking at their github page, absolutely no mention of either armbian or sunxi team (even though their project would not exist without them). Is armbian/sunxi team aware of this?

Hi people. My ubuntu machine serves as a samba and openvpn servers. Sometimes it hangs and I'm unable to connect using ssh/openvpn. I've been searching the logs syslog and dmesg, but I'm stil unable to find the cause. Could you point where I should search for the problem? Or help me to troubleshoot and find the problem? Thanks in advance

Strangely I am unable to view my message on this forum now.

Hi. Around a month ago, my Rock 3A arrived and I got to playing with it. I noticed that there was a community build configuration for it, so I set up an Armbian build environment and got to building it. The image built without error and before I knew it my device had booted. However, since then, a few changes have been made to the Rock 3A (including receiving a proper Armbian maintainer), and now it seems to be completely broken. This issue seems to be reproducible, with people both being able to boot the board with old images as well as not being able to boot with fresh images. There seems to be some work happening towards fixing u-boot (which seems to be …

Hi Experts, I am using Armbian Ubuntu Xenial image on Orange Pi Zero. Board boots fine every time when serial console is connected without pressing any key. However booting stuck most of the time at (Loading, please wait...) when no serial console is connected. We have to connect serial console and press enter every time it gets stuck and then booting proceeds further as usual. Any idea what might be wrong. Logs when serial console is connected and not key is pressed during boot U-Boot SPL 2017.01-armbian (Feb 02 2017 - 03:04:34) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.01-armbian (Feb 02 2017 - 03:04:34 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner …

I am evaluating the RK3399 (boards) to use as a multipurpose server. One of the use cases is to periodically build a patched Linux kernel. Does anybody know how long it takes to build the kernel on a generic RK3399 board? Thanks.

This is rather a general question and thus I post here. If not, I am hoping any mod here will kindly move it to a more proper sub forum. I am wondering if ARMbian does support any Android devices based on an MT6582 (4-core 1.3 GHz) CPU. This CPU is mainly used on either an Android smartphone or tablet/phablet. I sure would like to try ARMbian on my tablet with an MT6582 CPU. Anyone?

Hi I want an ups for my Hc 2 - Have seen the link: https://magazine.odroid.com/article/aff ... 00-uptime/ But the likelihood I can make it is small I am not good at soldering. - Are there any who can give advice on an ups I can put on the 220V side? And then I would like to support the possibility of closing the box via usb / linux in case of power failure. Someone who has experience with a UPS that supports this in armbian debian stetch?

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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?

I'm pretty disillusioned. No system for the rockpi meets all my expectations. But TwisterOS comes very close. Even though I don't play computer games, I like the desktop and also the gimmick with the circles. Most of all I like that I can run Kodi and firefox from the same login. This is exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately the hardware PWM does not work under TwisterOS. Neither via overlay, nor with manually changed dtb file. I discovered that TwisterOS and LE use the same kernel version. Under LE my driver works, so I would like to try copying the kernel from LE to TwisterOS. Now both systems boot completely different. What do I need to…

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 ?

Могу ли я скачать образ Debian Stretch где-нибудь? Cubieboard 1. А10 Извините за мой английский! Translation Can I download a Debian Stretch image somewhere? Cubieboard 1. A10 Sorry for my English!

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)

This is my first impression with the ov8865, a 8MP sensor running on kernel 3.4.39 (linux-sunxi). I am running Banana Pi - M3 with the dual camera extension on Ubuntu Xenial rootfs and with the stock driver. The driver have not been touched because information is scarce and i asked @lvmc for some datasheet. This sensor is a 4 lane CSI2 (MIPI) that has a good performance at high resolution. I am able to get 30 FPS on all available win sizes. I have ran a small v4l2 application to have some benchmarks but guvcview with some minor update is able to display video from the sensor just as we have for the ov5640: TEST 0 ( 3264 x 2448 ) ---- cap parameters ----- width: 3…

hi all i had armbian build running with 'dev' kernel (4.9.0) and armbian 5.24 which worked PERFECT over a month. decided 2 days ago to build from scratch, armbian build system pulled all latest updates and i got 5.24 with kernel 4.9.3 (2 days ago) and 4.9.4 today. None of those would boot properly (ie. can not ping/access the board). I also tried downloading nightly build and that one is not working any more. Iknow these builds are not supported but since it worked very well i think something got broken either in kernel or uboot or in armbian so might be worth a look. tx in advance !

I am a miner. I am building a OrangePi Zero plus cluster and Armbian is the more perfect OS distro I ever tested. I tryed all OrangePi images and other way of install. This is the best! Have you an idea if the Armbian images will implement the graphic Driver?

Hi all o/ I'll be travelling to Canada in a couple of weeks (anyone visiting OpenStack summit in Vancouver?) and I was preparing my shopping cart. To my dismay, Tinker Board is off stock in both US and Canada resellers; I can only find rip-off prices from Marketplace and eBay! Does anyone here knows a reputable vendor where I could buy it sub-USD60? Appreciate any hints!

I wonder how much ram is consumed by kernel, system services and tmpfs on a typical armbian system? Rockchip rk3308G has 64MB ram packaged in cpu. A dirty cheap 4 layer board could have a cpu, a few discrete power chips, a mmc card slot, and a wifi/bt module, with a bunch of low speed io and two usb 2.0 port, one host and one otg. The cpu is quad core cortex A35, powerful and power efficient, compared to Pi Zero W or BBB. Does that sound interesting for an iot node? Or it is too crippled to do anything useful? I hope python or node.js could run on such a board, but for node, the memory usage should be very careful. Any suggestions?

Hello, after I've read the NAS topic ( http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi_devices_as_NAS) and the importance of random I/O performance in the SD card made by tkaiser. I'm here to ask what board can you advise for: During day-time: stream box w/ kodi (resolution 1080) if possible without laggy use During night: running daemon of torrent e.g Trasmission (or NAS server) Never happen that both activities are made in same time. I think that for night-time use it would be recommend use a internal hard disk attached to a SATA port. I don't need high performance of trasmitting data because internet speed here is only ADSL 12Mbps download and 0.8Mbps Upload. The only thing is not …

I've liked the idea of having a little message board that was off the www and only accessible with wireless devices from the neighbors. It would be fine if the wireless were handled by a router and then use an adapter from Gigabit-to-USB port on an H3 device. I was wondering if anyone's tried that or has a favorite home cloud they'd recommend? There are various turnkey LAMP servers that could be installed to Armbian but it's a jungle out there. Messaging, message board, file sharing (or at least a repository), and maybe some kind of camera sharing. The camera sharing is because this is sometimes a dangerous neighborhood, and it'd be a big luxury if one neig…

Hello, I want to test Armbian Buster with OMV on my Bananapi M2U / Berry but it´s not stable and I can´t install OMV. So I want to install Stretch minimal again but I can´t find the image. Can someone tell me please, where I can download the Armbian Stretch minimal Image for Bananapi M2U / Berry? Thank You!

The update from the "armbian.com/beta" repository has not been working for quite some time now. Repositories are broken, sizes in InRelease do not match sizes in subbranches. Mirror synchronization has been going on for about a week now?!

Hi everyone, I'm running a small application on an Armbian-based SBC and need a reliable SMTP Service Provider for sending notifications and transactional emails. I've been comparing a few options, including iDealSMTP, Mailgun, and SMTP2GO. For those hosting services on Armbian devices, which provider has worked best in terms of deliverability and ease of configuration? Any tips or experiences would be appreciated. Thanks!

Leak from Xunlung lab: Kernel 3.10.x Some info about H5: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/04/15/allwinner-h-series-ott-soc-roadmap-adds-h5-and-h2-processors/

Hi, How i can find information for set the fex file, kernel, etc. etc. for use the spi in userspace? root@orangepipc:~# uname -a Linux orangepipc 4.10.0-sun8i #5 SMP Tue Feb 14 02:53:01 CET 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@orangepipc:~# lsmod Module Size Used by sun4i_codec 28243 3 rt2800usb 16226 0 sun8i_codec_analog 13766 1 rt2800lib 57122 1 rt2800usb snd_soc_core 115473 2 sun4i_codec,sun8i_codec_analog snd_pcm_dmaengine 4221 1 snd_soc_core rt2x00usb 9245 1 rt2800usb rt2x00lib 34437 3 rt2800lib,rt2800usb,rt2x00usb mac80211 324953 3…

So i've installed a bigger battery on my cheap A33 tablet. Previously it had a 1700mAh battery (rated for 3000mAh actually) for a 2x1700mAh setup. It works fine and actually works for longer, but the battery percentage is not correct anymore, since it now drops to 5% and stays there for some time until it completely discharges. Does need a special calibration (pmic is AXP223) or will a simple charge/discharge calibrate things ?

1. screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 - no such file or device 2. dmesg | grep -i tty [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled [ 0.676317] 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A 3. user added to dialout 4. minicom -s added /dev/ttyUSB0 in serial port settings 5. lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:134a Hewlett-Packard Optical Mouse Bus 003 Device 0…

Been waiting for sometime, couple of months but glad that you guys had made it happened. I basically just leave my boards aside until armbian is ready. Thank you. Just wonder would there be os for tinkerboard as well in future?

I started this journey with DietPi on a nanopi r4s. I asked about it on the DietPi forum, and they basically said "Our distro is a bunch of scripts on top of Armbian. We can't really help you with a kernel problem." So I reimaged with Armbian and I'm here now. Background with DietPi: When I first boot the DietPi image, the LAN port works. This is on kernel 5.10.63. Then as soon as I log into it via ssh on the IP address acquired by the LAN port, it proceeds to auto-upgrade software, including the kernel, which goes to 5.15.25. During the upgrade, I got messages saying a bunch of firmware for the r8169 driver was not there. Installing armbian-firmware-full…

Hello everyone! I'm compiling firmware for orangepizero3，then you want to customize the bootlogo. I tried to replace my bootlogo with armbian-logo-png in xx, but the compiled firmware did not change, so I would like to ask you how to modify it My compile command:./compile.sh BOARD=orangepizero3 BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED='browsers multimedia' DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm PLYMOUTH=yes build

Hi! Does HIFIBERRY DIGI + PRO support for armbian ?I want used this board with banana pi bpi-m1

Relatively random topic, however who here has one/uses one? I just picked up a Sain Smart Genmitsu Pro, 3018 size. I actually got it working with my NanoPi K2 first, because why not? And bCNC seems like quite a nice program, I assume when I move this to my shop it will be sporting a 7" touchscreen and a stable board.

Hi. I'm using armbian 24.05 Ubuntu jammy xfce 30. I've downloaded Arduino ide 1.8 for arm32 Linux. I replaced original Arduino due bossac with custom bossac for udoo in Arduino due Tools in order to make ide see atmel sam3xe on udoo, but bossac didn't find it. I've tried super user access and chmod on bossac and on ttyxmc (internal Arduino due programming seirla port) With old armbian build it worked, but now not. Cheers

I followed the steps outlined in the instructions, and they worked very well for me with (10 ISPs) 4G dongles using PPP connections. TV Box Model tested: MXQ Pro 4K, 5G (H3 Allwinner), ISO: Sunvell 69. I started with Debian 10 and later upgraded to Debian 11. I also use a second USB 3.0 LAN card, as well as the dongles connected through a USB hub with an independent power supply. For more information, you can check the following resources: Installing the Perl dependencies took some time. Net-ISP-Balance Documentation https://lstein.github.io/Net-ISP-Balance/ Net-ISP-Balance GitHub Repository https://github.com/lste…

In this topic I'll share information from Wi-Fi modules found in SBCs, and their compatibility with WPA3 standard. WPA3-Personal Only (not Transitional or Compatible) Wi-Fi 5 (ac), 6 (ax), 7 (be) on 2.4 and 5 GHz: Authentication and Key Management (AKM): WPA3-SAE with SHA256 (AKM:8, AKM:9 FT), optionally WPA3-SAE with a variable hash algorithm depending on Diffie-Hellman (DH) group SHA-256, SHA-384, or SHA-512 (AKM:24, AKM:25 FT) Key derivation methods: Hunting and Pecking (HnP) or Hash-to-Element (H2E) Pairwise cipher (PTK): CCMP-128, optionally GCMP-256, others possible but not TKIP Group data cipher (GTK): CCMP-128, opt…

I want to make myself home NAS .... and looking for A20 board I found "Banana Pi M1+" $40 and "Banana Pro"$49 but I can not chose which is better ... , yes they have $9 difference in price ... but other seems the same , or there is other boards which I did not notice ? can you help me to chose what is better for home NAS (probably will install armbian and openvault ...) ? or other board suggestion in this price range I was looking for A20 because of SATA port ... yes there are other board with USB3 but they are in other price range than you in advance for your suggestions

Hi devs, i'm looking for informations about the needed certifications to be able to sell a board in EU (with enclosure). I know that many board have ce/fcc certifications, and others not, but the question is: 1) when i compose the product with an hypothetical fcc/ce board + an enclosure (let's suppose an fcc/ce enclosure, if it exists) + other CE/FCC modules i need to obtain a new certification!!?? 2) there are enclosure fcc/ce approved for orange pi (or if not) for some boards? 3) is the orangepi fcc/ce certified (seems no...), expecially the zero? 4) if is mandatory that the board and the enclosure must be certified together, the…

Hey guys, I am thinking to build a wireless router from a single board computer, so my requirement is that the chosen board to support Linux to have at least one Gigabit port and also to have a PCIe port to connect an external WiFi card and antennas and eventually attach one or more SSDs. So far I looked on the Internet and I am wondering which is a better board for this project Rockpro64, Banana PI BPI-R2 or the EspressoBin. The advantages of the EspressoBin are: it has built-in networking switch with one dedicated WAN and two LAN interfaces all 1Gbps dedicated SATA interface miniPCIe slot for wireless cards stable Armbian support …

https://shop.allnetchina.cn/blogs/news/the-new-rock-3-model-a-co-developed-by-radxa-and-rockchip I wanted to use this beautiful board with virtual box and a quectel modem, to make a LTE router, can anyone tell me if armbian will be compatible?

Hi there, Yesterday, I asked this question on Twitter, but did not get lots of answers. I know I could get an aarch64 workstation, run a 64 bits kernel on it and a 32 bits userspace on top of it, but where is the fun? One year ago or so, I built an armv7 Docker image for me, and I realized only this week that it had been downloaded more than 2 million times. What a pleasant surprise. I launched the build once again to get everything updated, but I discovered the armv7 CI/CD services I used to run my builds on were ... gone. I then switched back to my Orange Pi Zero "farm" to get the images built, but it takes ages, and you know how reliable the SDCar…

Congratulation Igor for your new website design and layout! You have done a very good and excellent job, it is very clearly arranged and very descriptive! Many others should have a look and make some correctionbs to their website, because many show a very cumbersome design and are vey strange and difficult to mameuver! 5 Thumbs UP! Regards, Ireng

So first I want to change my Armbian STB IP settings to Static with the command source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* #Network is managed by Network manager #auto lo #iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.10.10.10 subnetmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.10.10.1 broadcast 10.10.10.255 hwaddess ether MAC Address and i save the setting when i reboot the config i cant access the IP address in SSH nor CasaOS Web UI. i need help

Hi, I am running openwrt on allwinner h3 boards with usb dongle. i found after some time, board is restarting. problem is out of memory because of skbuff_head_cache i can see in /proc/slabinfo.. skbuff_fclone_cache 0 0 448 18 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 skbuff_head_cache 326740 326768 256 16 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 20423 20423 0 Help me

Xunlong released Android 7 images 2 weeks ago and it didn't include a one for opi+2 which is still the same. I am still waiting for an image and I wonder if there ever be an image or not. Does anyone have any information about this?

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I am very new to Armbian. I have been running it on a NanoPi R1 for 1 week and all is well, but I am now trying to understand how I will maintain it. I started with the Armbian Buster download, which I wrote to SD card then transferred to emmc. This was easy and completely problem free. I have installed various packages to set up some services and again - all was easy. I am running: BOARD=nanopi-r1 BOARD_NAME="NanoPi R1" BOARDFAMILY=sun8i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=76ac54aa VERSION=5.90 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm …

Hi all. How many years people can count on support of 32 bit mini PC? (OS + repository ) For example Orange Pi: Allwinner H2+ Quad-core Cortex-A7 Is it worth to buy 64 bit ARM ? I wanna use 1 device more than 10 years. I know about 2038 year. And I dont want to buy devices which support stops after 2 or 3 years. Please give me a link if this has been discussed. Thanks in advance.

Hi, Not sure where to post this so apologies if this is the wrong place. I currently have a .me.uk email domain and I can confirm addresses if I change them. However I am in the process of migrating to a .email domain and the confirmation emails never arrive. I am running into minor issues with this domain so this is not unique to Armbian forums. The vast majority of sites work ok but a rare few claim my email address is invalid or (as with the armbian forum) I never receive anything. The only way I have been able to post this was to change my email back to .me.uk and confirm via that. Is it possible to check if the softw…

I have a Forlinx OKA40i-C development board that has an arm R40 as its Soc. I use the latest Linux kernel (5.14.2 that contains "lima" for mali400 GPU ) and the latest Debian (11 aka bullseye that contains mesa project). but when I want to use GPU, like run the "kmscube" command I encounter this error DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Cannot allocate memory if you know anybody that can help me with this problem, please please introduce him/her to me. ps. I checked the #linux-sunxi channel that you suggested, nobody help me. I desperately need your help.

Any (un)official news on the subject? I'd like to get a couple for tinkering with, but at FA site they keep reporting 3-4 weeks until they're available again.

I have Cubieboard plus (Cubieboard 5) . But there is not available any workig links of latest Armbian based on Ubuntu 18.04 with Kernel 5.x Can anybody point to such links or can anybody build such image for the device ? I am newbie in image building. At the time I use Armbian_5.51_Cubietruckplus_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.17.4 what I could find but onboard Wi-fi is disabled and I can not still enable it. It work well in Android.

I am using my personal laptop for my work, but recently, they have degraded a lot. In the past I bought a computer with an HHD drive, because the price was cheaper. Now I need to upgrade to an SSD computer, because the laptop is running very slow. So is it possible to change the HHD drive to an SSD? If so, how many GB SSD is reasonable? Please give me some advice. thanks all

Hi Igor, I'm fresh owner of CB5 (CT2+) board and I'm interesting about your opinion regarding this board. I hope that in near future you will start new branch of Armbian for H8. At this moment, best option for me is still using CT as a production appliance but maybe CT+ will be faster... (instead SATA USB bridge access of course).

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?

I wrote a blog post about speeding up drawing on the SSD1306 display by bit-banging the I2C protocol. The code is for Arduino, but it has useful info about my iterative process of optimizing code that some of you may find interesting: https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2018/05/fast-ssd1306-oled-drawing-with-i2c-bit.html

dear community i am so glad to be here on this great forum - this is a great place. i have installed Armbian on a. banana pi b. orange-pi and futhermore i will try to install it on Udoo Quad at the moment i am workin on a new plan: i am planning a Wi-Fi controlled rc-car using Arduino UNO, ESP8266 Websockets or UDP the question that arises here. how would you decide? i want to create an Arduino project about a Wi-Fi controlled (ESP8266) RC car using. - with a tight budget you can’t really buy everything you need at once. what is needed: An Arduino UNO An ESP8266 An L298N motor driv…

I dont know if it real (but for me it feels like) that updating packaged (fetching/reading the list) takes much longer than on stretch or a bionic version. (also on buster creating locales via armbian-config - I use de,gb and us - does take longer to generate) While do a apt update I did see that buster do get package/content lists will come for armhf and aarm64 - is that OK or to much? Get:8 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian buster/main arm64 Packages [7728 kB] Get:9 https://apt.armbian.com buster/main armhf Packages [69.6 kB] Get:10 https://apt.armbian.com buster/main arm64 Packages [67.4 kB] Get:11 https://apt.armbian.…

Hi, i'm using a Raspad tablet-like device with a aml-s905x-cc inside and i'm experimenting some mobile interface that i can use with the touchscreen, but also with mouse and keyboard. I'm simply curious about convergence desktop designs and mobile desktop environments. The obvious choice would be GNOME, but it is very heavy, both on memory and cpu usage and my board with only 2GB of ram cannot handle it if combined with other heavy programs. I knew that Librem was developing a desktop environment for their Librem 5 linux phone. Since they focus on opensource software i thought if i can install their desktop environment on my tablet to try it and.... yes, it is possib…

Hello Everyone! I faced with some problems with csi driver on mainline kernel. The study of the Internet did not give any result. Probably someone already done the same things, and could answer on couple of my questions? My configuration: custom board based on A20 SoC (quite similar with Olimex Lime2), armbian-buster-desktop 20.05.0, Linux Kernel 5.4.41, and OV5640 CSI camera connected to CSI0 in parallel 8bit mode. My questions are: 1) Can anyone confirm that the sun4i_csi module in Mainline kernel works (with any CSI camera)? 2) Does the sun4i_csi module work with CSI1 port too? 3) If someone already run OV5640 via CSI on A20 SoC, what is the maximum fps can…

Hi guys! so, i've noted a major difference between the friendlyarm rk3399 sbcs and the other models, ant that's bc the friendly arm rk3399s run at 1866 mhz while the other models run at 1600 mhz. that means 100 glmark2 points less, for example.I would like to know how to use this bootloader instead, and even then, how to even go further. I overclocked my rockpro64 to 2.2 ghz for the big cores and 1.8 for the low power cores. Its interesting how much performance we can get with this cosmetic changes. obviously,its at my own risk. the rockpro64 was tested at higher frequencies than 1866 mhz, so I would expect at least that armbian should b…

Dave Jones of EEVBLOG fame is building his 'cluster' of Orange Pi's to run the SETI@home project. Disappointed by the offer of the built images of the Orange Pi producer, he turns (successfully) to Armbian to run a clean Jessie image on his machines.

Hey guys, I just compiled and installed v5.56 (Armbian_5.56_Orangepilite2_Debian_stretch_next_4.17.14.img) and am really pleased to see USB3 working now! Thank you very much! So, what is needed to bring the AP6255 SDIO Adapter to live?

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…

Hello ! I just finished modifying the Rockchip U-Boot bootloader to make it possible to boot Android OS from NVMe SSD. If anyone needs this, here is the complete tutorial: https://github.com/MarusGradinaru/NanoPi-M5-Android-NVMe

The nice dashboard screenshot above is used by @Fourdee to explain why DietPi is superiour to Armbian: 'With #DietPi, logs and DietPi scripts are mounted to RAM , this reduces SD card write operations vastly' -- while I don't understand the purpose to 'mount scripts to RAM' of course the idea to cache logs into RAM is great! That's why Armbian does it since 2014 already. While the above 'proof' is somewhat questionable (watching a 5 min period in a dashboard and once there's activity in one graph taking a screenshot with numbers without meaning) let's look into what makes DietPi that superiour compared to Armbian since it's always a great idea to improve even …

Hello, I migrated my dashboard project from a BananaPro under "Buster" to a BananaPI under "Bullseye", image took from the website, verified and up to date as per Armbian-config. The source code of my project is exactly the same as well a the compilation procedure, and the used Makefile is : cc=cc opts=-Wall -fPIC $(shell pkg-config --cflags lua5.1 ) $(shell pkg-config --libs lua5.1 ) -DDRMC_WITH_FB -DUSE_DRMCAIRO $(shell pkg-config --cflags libdrm cairo freetype2 ) -DKMS_MISSING $(shell pkg-config --libs libdrm cairo freetype2 ) -DPLUGIN_DIR='"/home/laurent/Projets/Selene"' -L/home/laurent/Projets/Selene -L/home/laurent/Projets/…

TinkerBoard Asus: RockPro64:

Banana Pi BPI-M5 Pro adopts the second-generation 8nm high-performance AIOT platform Rockchip RK3576, with a 6 TOPS computing power NPU and support for up to 32GB of large memory. It supports 8K video encoding and decoding, offers rich interfaces including dual gigabit Ethernet ports, WiFi 6 & BT5, and various video outputs. Compatible with multiple operating systems, it is suitable for ARM-based PCs, edge computing devices, personal mobile internet devices, and other digital multimedia applications. Key Parameter SoC: Rockchip RK3576 CPU: Integrated with four Cortex-A72 cores @ 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores @ 1.8GHz, along with a…

Hi, maybe this is a dumb question, but here goes. How does including a signed .asc file in the 7zip archive verify the integrity of the whole archive? I mean, couldn't a bad guy just copy the .asc file into a new archive?

Hi Experts, I am using Armbian on Orange Pi Zero and image is working fine and we can access armbian console withe the three pins next to ethernet port. However we see that there are Rx, Tx pin on 26 pin header compatible to Raspberry pi. When we connect the console to the GND/Rx/Tx on 26 pin header we do not get console so my understanding is that there is a dedicated serial port for console that can be accessed from GND/Rx/Tx next to ethernet port and Serial port on Tx/Rx pins on 26 pin header is different. We need extra serial port to connect our UART based peripheral. So I am wondering if I can use the Rx/Tx/GND on 26 pin header, if yes how do I use them …

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?

should we move this to one to: https://forum.armbian.com/forum/31-sd-card-and-power-supply/ as a pinned thread? Actually I think it should be 'saved' somewhere due to it explains the reasons and opinions why Armbian recommends to use Etcher and I think it would fit best there. It might be good to have this somewhere where it doesn't get lost due to new threads showing up. only recommend a tool which validates the Image after burning.. And at the moment, only etcher seems to do this.

Hi there, I'm currently working on cross compiling libva-v4l2-request to test the VPU on the Allwinner V3s. I cloned the master branch from Github and told autoreconf to cross compile, but however it keeps looking for the wrong libva and libdrm libraries. Also everything with arm-linux-gnueabi fails somehow. I hope someone can help me with that. user@workpad:~/workspace/allwinnerV3s/libva-v4l2-request$ ./autogen.sh --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-linux-gnu autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy l…

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/11857-free-software-supported-wifi-card-phone-usable-esp8089-esp8266-esp32/ It says, that adding an usb ar9271 wifi card to a pinephone is not feasible because the wifi card uses to much power. How much power is acceptable for an usb ar9271 wifi card to use? I do not have extended equipment. I made the following arrangement. One pc. Connected an usb power meter. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61fKDfC3pgL._AC_SL1000_.jpg Connected an usb ar9271 wifi card to the usb power meter. Started an youtube video. After that downloaded an ubuntu image. Distance to router abo…

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…

I just have to share my method to test distros headless with my OdroidN2. The N2 boots eMMC before SD card, so what I did was to flash the SD card with an armbian distro and get it up and running. the SD card always shows up on mmcblk0 and the eMMC on mmcblk1. So it boots from SD when it can't find a bootloader on the eMMC. I can flash any image easily with dd if=image of=/dev/mmcblk1 and just do a reboot, and it will boot the eMMC. Whenever I want to test another image, i can just do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=1M count=1 to make the eMMC unbootable, causing it to start on the SD image on the next reboot. A very …

Hello all, I was wondering if it is possible to run some sort of script when the power button on the Orange Pi PC is pressed? I was thinking I could use this to run a safe shutdown script of some kind, rather than having to SSH in every time. I've tried looking into the GPIOs but I could never get the button to show up in the list of available inputs. Any advice? Thanks for any input.

Hi everyone, we have a new forum set up at orangepi.club now, since the original one runs as if it was run on a OPi One while compiling 5 kernels at the same time, and its mostly broken too (login for example) The new forum is not supposed to be a replacement for this forum, just a place to have a general chat about all systems, not only Armbian. I hope its a good place to post it. Also, if you are a creator of a distro, you can be a moderator for the distribution category. I am not a part of the administration, i am just telling you guys about it, so we get people to know this forum and actually use it, because its better. -moondeck

I just installed Armbian_5.65_Orangepione_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.14.78.img on my orange pi one but there is no linux-source of 4.14.78 via apt so where to get the missing kernel ? or armbian's kernel is just the kernel from kernel.org? thanks

I've just signed up to this forum. I can create new threads yet I cannot reply to others posts under both FF and Chrome. I don't see a reply button on any thread after signing in, nor do I see a FAQ for this forum that may deal with such questions. Am I being blind? EDIT I can't even reply to my own (this) thread.

https://www.eevblog.com/2016/05/24/eevblog-883-orange-pi-one-vs-raspberry-pi-2/

Hi there Board! o/ This is me again tapping from your infinite wisdom. I will be emptying my pockets in the Canada trip and another item that I have in my shopping list is a Oscilloscope. And I'm flirting witha Rigol 1054Z (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012938E76/) Far from being a Engineer (my major was in chemistry, heh), but some times I do feel the need to check out some waveforms. And I like bench stuffs - I'm not considering some software-defined oscilloscope that would do the same for half the price. Because I'm cranky :-P What's your opinion? I aim to stay behind the USD450 bar. Eager to …

Flash is dead. It is abandoned by its maker.

Anyone know how to fix this. A known problem sometimes. Only been able to find a fix for Windows.