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Hi, I use Banana Pro (armbian installed). I have no problem at all after installing Armbian. Previous OS was Raspbian and it was slow for homeserver ops. (I thing GUI was default). Nowadays, looking for a new but fast SBC. I am not interested in any video applications and components and such as Kodi, XMBC, H.265, 1080p, high resolution. I will not use it as desktop. Ä°t will serve only for my home network for DLNA server, DHCP server, Web proxy (like Squid), web filtering (SquidGuard), torrent ops. and web reporting (w/ Apache or any other). Especially web browsing is a little bit slower over Squid and Squidguard. Ä°f this is CPU, memory or any kind source issue, …

This post is to share my successful webcam installation with Armbian and one of my SBC’s (orange pi plus). I’ve used a Logitech C270 which can be purchased from eBay for roughly 20 Euros. Also el-cheapo shops like lightinthebox sell the C270. Benefit of such a cam is that you now have a cable from your SBC to your cam which makes (physical) cam installation easier IMHO. Also IMHO the C270 is a better camera than the famous GC2035, but it is also more expensive. Price / 'bang for the buck' ratio is more or less the same for both camera’s if you ask me. You get what you pay for. Enough talk now: the installation All I did was a fresh Armbian desktop v5.20 …

Hello all, iv'e made some sysbench tests on Pine64, Orange Pi PC2 and Raspberry Pi 3. all three boards are running on aarch64 based OS, for the Pine64 I used Armbian Ubuntu Xenial Server, for the Orange Pi PC2 I used the latest ubuntu image provided by Xunlong and for the Raspberry Pi 3 I used fedora 24 image provided by kraxel the boards: http://s.pictub.club/2016/12/23/sDJQCq.jpg Raspberry Pi 3: [eli@fedora-rpi2 ~]$ uname -a Linux fedora-rpi2 4.9.0-1-main #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 12 09:14:22 UTC 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux [eli@fedora-rpi2 ~]$ for each in 1 2 4; do sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=$each run; done …

I received the BPI M2 Ultra a couple of days ago (thanks to Nora Lee for the board) and worked a while on the BSP to learn and apply some of our changes on the ov5640 driver to be able to use Auto Focus and see if i could get Guvcview working on it. Here are some of my findings: * Working with the BSP is very similar to what we were used to on the Cubieboard A10/A20 era, those who worked with BSP at that time will feel very comfortable. * As usual, the BSP used arm-linux-gnueabi to compile the u-boot and kernel, i think is the Android way, and parses FEX to build a DTB. (Thanks to my old dual-core PC running Lubuntu). * It is hard to know where to change in the …

Hello, its posible to make ArmBian for Jetson TK1 ex. based on tool https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib ? Im use Armbian on Cubieboard and Orange Pi PC. Its great distro ! I have also Jetson TK1, but NVIDIA dosnt support it well. I want use on Jetson TK1 the almost newest kernel ( https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/NVIDIA/Jetson-TK1). Regards Pawel

I purchased 4 new Orange Pi's about a month ago and everything I tried I couldn't get them working as I wanted, something didn't work with most of the images from orange pi . org which led me to your site and 100% success straight off the internet, no problems, everything works perfectly on all 4 OPI's so thanks and keep up the excellent work you made my year.

I have recently stumbled upon an #armbian channel at FreeNode and noticed that there is a small, but growing, Armbian user community gathering there. It doesn’t seem any developers are there, but since the number of participants has already in double digits, it is fair to say that it is at least an unofficial Armbian user channel. In case you are an IRC person, you are hereby kindly invited to join our idle chatter at: irc://freenode.net/#armbian NB: The forums are still the official communication channel and I made sure to include that in the channel’s topic.

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 …

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

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

Hi Guys, Just wanted to say I was able to get an Orange Pi Zero installed headless yesterday with Armbian Jessie. Thanks for all the work that made that possible! https://twitter.com/3BX/status/805618612899692544 After install I was able to SSH to it. The KEY aspect (besides the OS itself) was getting Startup Disk Creator for Ubuntu 0. Download and extract Armbian! (it all starts here) 1. Install Start Up Disk Creator on Ubuntu 16.04 (linux) system 2. Put MicroSD in USB MicroSD adapter 3. Connect USB with installed MicroSD to Ubuntu (linux) system 4. Create file system for orange pi zero on MicroSD 5. Insert MicroSD, Power orange pi zero, connect…

I have an Orange Pi PC2 and burned a SD Card with Armbian for it. The device boots to a Login window wit a single input field. OK the docs say the root password is 1234 so likely 'root' is what I enter into the login field. I enter that, I then get a password prompt to I enter 1234 and press enter. I then get 'Login incorrect or forbidden by policy' !! Can anyone give me a clue?

i have test this device and i can say wifi can work fine without delays i use kernel + firmware from armbian + enveroment from openwrt load manually wifi modules only!!!! xradio_wlan root@MusicBox:~# lsmod mac80211 358445 1 xradio_wlan xradio_wlan 210530 0 i have normal ping at any time !!! 64 bytes from oc2 (10.20.20.2): icmp_req=559 ttl=64 time=1.15 ms 64 bytes from oc2 (10.20.20.2): icmp_req=560 ttl=64 time=1.34 ms 64 bytes from oc2 (10.20.20.2): icmp_req=561 ttl=64 time=1.41 ms 64 bytes from oc2 (10.20.20.2): icmp_req=562 ttl=64 time=1.39 ms 64 bytes from oc2 (10.20.20.2): icmp_req=563 ttl=64 time=1.86 ms

I want install a free c++ IDE in my orange pi plus 2. i don't want install netbeans or escape because very complex and not simple in use and debug and create run able file. my friend told me code blocks are simple use and advanced and have debug and compiler. how can install code blocks IDE ???

Hi, Orange Pi Lite has two USB2.0 ports. I attached 3.5" 5400rpm HDDs in each ports through SATA adaptors. Both HDDs have truecrypted_file.tc respectively. Mounted both .tc files with $ cryptsetup --type tcrypt ******** And $ cp HDD1/big_files HDD2/directory Then chked file copying speed only to have 6.5MB/s in average. Is it normal? Thank you in advance~! ^^

First and foremost, I appreciate everything I've seen come from Armbian, back from when it was being "hosted on an OrangePi" to update after update of newly released boards to expanding to include this Forum. Thanks, Igor and other contributors. What you're doing is awesome. Anyways, I'm starting to find the Forum to be kind of hard to navigate, threads are pretty jumbled and topics kind of globbed together. I was just wondering why that is, if there's plans to smooth out those edges, etc..? Or is it just me? Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have a medium to go to than nothing at all. Just looking for a little insight into the plans for the look and functionality of thi…

Is possible, in future release, to switch from .7z to another format directly compatible with Etcher? Like .zip, .gz, .bz2 or .xz Thanks

Hello, would it be possible to integrate WPS on boot by default on SD Card images proposed for download. This would ease the setup, especially on small devices without RJ45 plug ! Thanks.

I've seen TKaiser make reference to different SOC's as good, bad, etc. and was wondering if there is any info available on the forum about the different SOC's. The good, the bad, the ugly, etc. would be really good. I've gotten several boards, but later I found the armbian site, and the forum where I've seen bad comments about different SOC's. I might be looking for a new board to play with in the future, and knowing which SOC is good, or bad would be really nice to know before starting the research on the next pi like device.

Hi, I am completely newbie here, so apologize if my question is stupid... I am planning to buy a board to build a wireless print server. what I need my board to have is wireless connection and a Linux distribution capable of running cups, and a USB port. I think Orange Pi Zero fits my needs with a good price, BUT it does not come with any video output option built-in. My question is: if I buy Orange Pi Zero, and "burn" the armbian OS to SD card using my laptop, would I be able to configure ethernet and/or wifi network from my laptop, changing the network configuration files inside the SD card, and then boot the Pi board and have it connected to my network with…

Hi, Can anybody recommend me a consultant / company? I know of - orange pi - banana pi - friendly arm - etc already, but thinking other more general design outfits many thanks

https://evilshit.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/how-to-compile-truecrypt-from-source/ Failed in required package installations, especially wxWidgets. Thank you in advanced for any kind hand!

As the title says, when I go to http://armbian.comI see the default Nginx page (Welcome to nginx on Debian). The https site works (https://armbian.com).

I bought DS1307 RTC but it is 5V so it can't be connected to the Pi. I know it can be modified to use 3.3V by removing 2 resistors. This sensor is different than the adafruit kit so I am not sure which resistors to remove. It also has 2 sets of pins. What are the extra pins for and which should I use and which pins do I remove? Here is the image of the RTC: Here you can see the datasheet for the DS1307 RTC.

I know is a hard-work, maybe due to the "avalanche" of new boards. But I find a little mess in the filter to select boards in the Donwload page based on the availability of OS images. For example Orange Pi One http://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-one/ doesn't have Mainline OS but it's appear in the filtered list. Thanks in advance.

Hi there can it be possible to use Armbian in a electronic embedded products since GPLV3 keep necessary opensourcing in the source code can you confirm that this is GPLV3 which rules armbian and 'tivoisation' is not possible with armbian Best regards

Hey, just wondering if this is a common issue, I've put a fresh copy of Armbian 5.20 (legacy kernel) on my new Evo Plus 64GB and updated it to 5.23 on my Orange Pi PC, but it seems I'm getting only 742KB/s 4k random write speeds (I thought it'd be around 2MB/s) and 5 to 10MB/s sequential write speed. Is this normal, and if so is there a better card to buy that'll give me more Random IO & saturate the write speeds of the bus on the Opi PC? The results from testing /dev/mmcblk0p1 (ext4): Data OK: 55.34 GB (116061392 sectors) Data LOST: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Average writing speed: 10.05 MB/s Average reading speed: 20.35 MB/s …

Hi, a few months ago I have build a USB to UART "multiplexer" device, to monitor my multiple Orange Pi PC's using only one USB connection to a separate Host [1]. You can connect up to 8 hosts to the device simultaneous. And you can switch between the different inputs. Only one USB connection is needed to your host you want to use as master. A commandline tool is available to control the device. Its also possible to send data through the device to the connected hosts. It works like a normal USB to serial adapter. It is not possible to read the incoming data from all connected hosts simultaneous. I am use it to log the boot process of my cluster nodes [2]…

Hi All, time ti work and play with Pii also, at time i am using Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, what Image to use to get started over? Regards && thx

I would like to consolidate some of my devices into a singular device. I am having trouble coming up with a system which could work. currently my cubietruck crashes all the time, so much that it is now on a 2 hour reboot cycle and still manages to crash. I assume it's a power issue with the 3.5 harddrive. Could also be 3Terbyte drive is too much? Also 60mb/s is a bit slow. I have an asus rt-ac87u which does 802.11ac mimo wireless, but I do not like it's operating system. Also the wireless has issues. So, basically looking for something that can support 802.11ac mimo wireless(extra power?) ethernet ports 4-5 sata drive. I have been starting to look at…

Hello! Sorry for too high-level description, I'm not an experienced embedded engineer, just an enthusiast. I'm going to try to run a project to build an affordable home video recorder/player and I need a brief insight on the current ones available. I'm currently using A20 and I'm looking for a possible more powerful solutions. Requirements: - At least twice powerful computing power comparing to A20 - Video chip with hardware acceleration support in Linux (not planning to use Android) - SATA with at least 40 Megabytes per second throughput (NOT crappy usb<->sata built-in adapters) - Network stack with at least 300Mbps bandwidth that does NOT affect C…

Hi there armbian seems a very powerful distribution for arm. But i am not sure that we can use it for eletronic devices . GPL V3 licence does not allow manufacturer to do locked devices GPL V3 seems used by armbian does any body a has a feeling about this ? best regards

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

My Samsung EVO 16 Gb SD card is dead. But in place of reporting errors, becoming inaccessible or anything, it just refuse to update content without reporting error. So I was able to flash an install image for my nanopi, verify that it contained a fs with an armbian distribution (because it was the previous content) and try to boot/install. I lost a huge amount of time to understand what was wrong : I tried to boot and FA neo board with a BPIm2+ uboot and kernel. I don't even know is the board has survived ...

Hi. I am developing an automation system and using raspberry pi 3 as server. But i dont want to use micro sd cards. So i bought an orange pi plus 2. But i dont know how can i use the 16gb memory of device. I am kinda new on linux. I need help with that. Have a nice day.

https://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/wOi2h%2FyA2aQMRnrr%2BfGNYA for the png and ans files. and to view it: http://imgur.com/aA4LVrP by me. =) tell me what you guys think.

my orange pi plus is operational thanks to you guys whats working: gc2035 and guvcview-h3 smtube compiled by me for perfect youtube 1080p playback (even fullscreen) bluetooth ad2p works, i connect a creative muvo 10 on it, wow. yamaha portable grand midi usb keyboard works, in lmms and my novation drums pads too (yay) shut off console output have a bootlogo (soon a real boatload animation or a video with omx) well thanks everyone only thing interface is greyed in guvcview and i load manually gc2035 camera driver and vie_v4l2 thanks again tkraiser, igor jean-philippe

First of all forgive my English, I do not speak the language and certainly make mistakes. use google translator to write;-) I have the Orange Pi + 2e and I installed "Debian Jessie," but I can not run the wifi that is integrated, I am new to linux, so everything costs me more. According to the specifications https://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_Plus_2E the wifi chip is Realtek RTL8189FTV Would appreciate some help, thank you very much.

ok i successfully installed the os, i'll come back later with more feedback. at the moment everything seems to work but this: some midi devices are just ignored when some are working (i guess it must be driver related) because i think the midi device that isn't working is so old (pre 2000 i believe) i dont think midi device was class compliant at time time (i.e.: i need a driver on OS X for it) that is ok, my nice yamaha keyboard and my drums works. nice.... bluetooth support seems to be broken, i can list devices, but not connect to them. i havent tested with my ad2p compatible devices yet. the devices are: microsoft 6000 bluetooth keyboard and a …

Hi all, I'm currently in the hunt for documentation covering the BananaPi M1 boards physical dimensions (including mounting holes). Unfortunately my GoggleFu fails to find it and I now reach out to this excellent community for assistants. Could someone please point me in the right direction.... Help me Armbian Ben Kenobi, You are my only hope....

Hi all, This is my first post after reading all the good work this community has done. My goal is to create a cheap cluster of ARM boards. I started with the RPI3 but that's getting expensive real quick and the board isn't that good performance wise. So I started looking for different, cheaper boards but it still wouldn't be cheap enough if you plan to run 30-40 of them. So I started looking at older Smartphones with OpenCL support and came to the Samsung Galaxy S4 (The Exynos version). It is an older phone but once was one of Samsungs flagships and still offers good performance for what I want. I know the Exynos 5410 was used on the Odroid XU, so in my opinio…

Just wanted to point out that a new aluminum case is available for the Odroid-C2 that not only looks cool, but keeps your Odroid from throttling due to heat. Fourdee over at DietPi did a really nice review of the case - http://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=730 What do you guys think?

As I do not have any Intel based system, and I'd like to buid Armbian, my options are fairly limited. I have a PowerBook G4, but I can't build the Linaro toolchain there, because it requires autogen, which needs guile, which won't build due to undefined symbols. However, the Linaro toolchain builds on my Cubieboard2. I've read a little about how to build Armbian, and to me it looks a bit complicated (I'm used to building stuff myself, I've just never built an entire Linux system before). -So why is it necessary (or recommended) to use a virtual machine for building ? -Is it just to get a "clean system" before building, does it have to do with "cleanup" after…

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…

We will be handing out a few armbain mugs at the Ohio Linux Fest (while supplies last). Come see us at the Linux Podcasters Corner! TJoe(h^);

Hello! I ordered RTL8188E usb wifi dongle and could not get it to work. I already try few methods that google throw at me. So far without success. Can someone point me to step by step instructions that would help me? I am using USB wifi RTL8188E dongle + OrangePi One /w Armbian. lsusb shows "0179 Realtek coorportation" ifconfig do shows only eth0 and no wifi. Can someone explain me, what I need to do, to use wifi with this wonderful arm PC? P.S. I am not very good at Debian or any other linux distro.

Hi, I hope that posting a link like this is allowed. If not, sorry. An article on CNX-Software on a promo for the Orange Pi One for $3.69 (shipped) on Everbuying.net http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/09/19/orange-pi-one-development-board-sells-for-3-69-shipped-promo/

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)

Hi All, Which SOC gives best performance today for SATA I/O? According to the Sunxi wiki: http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi_devices_as_NAS "Since not every A20 based sunxi device uses GMAC networking (or even Ethernet at all) the following devices are the best choices: A20-OLinuXino-Lime2, Banana Pi, Banana Pro or Banana Pi M1+, Cubietruck, Hummingbird A20, Lamobo R1, Orange Pi, Orange Pi Mini or pcDuino3 Nano (Lite)." I've actually got a cubietruck+ here (that uses a terrible USB to sata bridge) but it's a terrible choice. Hoping you guys (or tkaiser ) can steer me in the right direction. I could run out and order a banana pro, but I feel like A20 has been around a whi…

I am trying to use a DHT21 with a Lamobo R1 aka Banana PI R1 to read temperature and humidity, with Armbian/Jessie and a 4.5.2 kernel. A Lamobo R1 is basically an A20 board raspberry pi compatible, with an inverted compatible raspberry pi v2 bus. I have setup it up in GPIO5, raspberry pin compatible 24, WirinPi 5, physical pin 18, according to a table here, plus the GND and +5V pins. I tried to read the temperature and humidity with and without the recommended resistor. While the temperature is reading fine, and is also corroborated by a DS18b20 sensor connected to GPIO2, which indicates the setup is fine, the humidity is always at 99.9%. I have installed the WiringPi…

*editing because i didn't see the documentation* Proper security practices should result in the page that tells you what key to download being https, instead of http where anyone could theoretically easily modify the key ID and thus your download would appear to verify fine. Its 2016 guys, pretty much any server cpu comes with crypt acceleration it isn't that resource intensive.

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hi all . i got a old pandaboard only $20 by auction . i expirienced RS232C conection to install freebsd & arch (fail to install openbsd ) . RS232C is impressive to me . i guess that the armbian developers usually use rs232c . is it right ? if you have some interrest , please see http://akita-arm.blogspot.jp/2016/08/pandaboard-openbsd.html . two green palates is the thing on which we use kitchin knife on . it is easylly cut by scissors and holed out by electric drill and cheap only $1 . ------ thanks

Hello Armbians, I am a newbie here so maybe this topic has been already discussed, if so just point me to it. Thank you. I have several TP Link routers (MR-3020, MR3420) that I would like to play with, especially usin serial connection. Since I am also a newbie in this area too I would like to know if it is possible to use Orange Pi Pc board or any other Orange board to connect to those routers separately without buying those little usb to uart ttl adapters. And if it is possible, which pins from Orange board to use, those 3 TTL pins or the others from the GPIO row. Thank you

Hi, Just joined to say thanks to all to those that are involved in the development of Armbian. I recently bought an Orange Pi PC after reading the internet full of people bitching about non-booting devices, HDMI issues, overheating and general crapness. Decided to buy a Orange Pi PC nonetheless, found an old crap micro SD card, burnt Armbian (the internet has made it clear to not bother with the crap on the official Orange Pi website!) onto it and the thing booted without any issues! Typing this message from it as we speak in Iceweasel! The thing only cost me 9 quid, so decided to donate what I would have wasted in cash on a Raspberry Pi 3 (which is anything b…

The Cedrus HW encoder is working on A64 (POC). FFmpeg 2.8.6 with cedrus264 can be found for testing here: https://github.com/avafinger/ffmpeg_cedrus264_A64 It was tested on Pine64+ (1GB) and OV5640. Output: VDPAU SUNXI] VE version 0x1689 opened. Output #0, h264, to 'test.h264': Metadata: encoder : Lavf56.40.101 Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (cedrus264), nv12, 1024x768, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbn, 15 tbc Metadata: encoder : Lavc56.60.100 cedrus264 Stream mapping: Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo (native) -> h264 (cedrus264)) Press [q] to stop, [?] for help frame= 12 fps=0.0 q=-0.0 size= 89kB time=00:00:00.80 bitr…

Hi, my Cubieboard 1 was burned, so I'm looking for next board. What I need: - ownCloud (newer had yet); - MPD; - spdif; - SATA (alternatively via USB?); - maybe simple www server. I don't need video , but I would like to connect some extra modules, like nRF24L01 radio via SPI or alphanumeric LCD via IIC etc. Odroid C2 is powerful, but without SPI, SATA and audio outputs. So maybe C1+? A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 is OK, but Allwinner again... What else? And the most important thing: Armbian:)

I have managed to build FFmpeg with Cedrus on Armbian and it seems working. It would be nice to see some benchs and how would be the best use for this AW Encoder. I have not much experience with FFmpeg. You can test it: https://github.com/avafinger/ffmpeg_cedrus264_H3 To grab video stream from the CMOS camera: sudo ./ffmpeg -f v4l2 -channel 0 -video_size 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -pix_fmt nv12 -r 30 -b:v 64k -c:v cedrus264 test.mp4

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/

I noticed in last raspberry pi geek (DE) in board comparison use Armbian as prefer os for cubieboard https://www.oboom.com/82BRP4U9/eere416.pdf

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…

error: mount: special device /dev/mmcblk01/ does not exist mounting 8gb sd card cubieboard 1 command : mount /dev/mmcblk01/ /media/

Hello. Browsing through my email i note something from long forgotten, useless http://forum.banana-pi.org. It's about some new images they "release" like: BPI-R1 new image:raspbian-jessie-bpi-m1-m1p-r1.img 2016-07-13 BPI-R1 new image:ubuntu-mate-16.04-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi-bpi-m1-m1p-r1-sd-emmc 2016-07-21 or BPI-R1 new image: Kanux-Beta-3.3.0-preview-bpi-m1-m1p-r1.img 2016-07-15 There is a note - "kernel 3.4.112 (based on armbian's build)", so hem, congratulations i guess. Looks like you guys are official support for team bpi now .

plz help me out with HP1112 printter. Dmesg detects it as a printer. I have also install HPLIP but the hp tool doesnt detect it .The auto detect driver utility detects my system to be missing in libsnmp-dev, libtool, sane-utils,python-reportlab .But it doesnt get installed by itself . Can someone help me out what do to do ? I need to print some study materials . after checking this above missing stuffs , they are already here in my system.

For those of you following my saga.... Here is the preview of Pine64+ with OV5640. Driver needs some work, but i have something working. Xenial LTS - kernel 3.10.102 - aarch64 Guvcview window res: 2592x1936 window res: 1280x720 window res: 640x480 fswebcam 640x480 1280x720

Since when xunlong started selling boards on gearbest? Anyone bought from here before? http://www.gearbest.com/boards-shields/pp_314651.html

I am a little bit frustrated. I downloaded for my new boards, opi one and opi-pc, the newest armbian, wrote to SD put it in and powered ... nothing happens, RJ45 LEDs are on, but not the boot LEDs, and of course it does not boot. Tried with other files from the opi web page and the same SD-card, it is booting ... Any ideas? BR Pulpataro

I recently came by a NanoPi M2, (1gb DDR) http://nanopi.io/nanopi-m2.html http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=107 its still in its box with case etc. If you are interested in supporting or just seeing if armbian works on it let me know. Pointers towards which base build to start with etc would be beneficial! I got the board but im no "developer" !

Hi, I have some Siemens s7-1200 plc 's at a remote site and I need a client application to read (only) from the plc registers (Mostly DB200) and tiger an alarm that will send an email. For the moment I use an ewon router for remote communication and also read from the registers, tiger alarms and send emails. I know that Snap7 is working on ARM (e.g. cubietruck) with Siemens s7-1200 plc 's, so If someone is able write an application (at a logical cost) i would be interested to pay for it. I prefer the application to be compatible with amrbian on olinuxino. Set up of armbian with watchdog and smtp server would be also appreciated.

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?

Is there any official way to report typos and broken links on www.armbian.com ? I see that link to H3 FAQ is broken: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/documentation/H3_mini_faq.md Should be: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/documentation/main-03-H3_mini_faq.md Don't know if this is known issue.

Are new accounts working properly on this forum? I created a new account many hours ago but received no validation email. I resent it several times but haven't received anything. I can do less with an unvalidated account than I can signed out! Thanks for any help.

I just got the Guvcview working on the Pine64+ with a 5MP camera. Have a look here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7A7OPBC-aN7cFlBeEpnM3FIeE0 Some consideration: 640x480 -> 30 FPS 1280x720 -> 18 FPS

Here is the Guvcview for Orange PI (H3) if you want to watch your CMOS camera in action. Current version is 2.0.2.1. You can try to build it from source (https://github.com/avafinger/guvcview) or wait for the DEB packages if you find it useful.

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…

Hi all, Currently I have old BananaPI but it is not enough for me now (Owncloud is very slow) Please help me found new board. I need: *fast proc *at least 2GB ram *gigabits ethernet *nativ Sata or USB3 *I don't need wifi or bluetooth *good armbian support I want to use this server with: Owncloud, openvpn, deluge-torrent, rpi-monitor, minidlna, samba

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

Q1) There is a way to install latest kernel and latest Ubuntu in cubieboard 1 Q2) How to make image file?Please see Reason for reason Q3) How to install mediatek mt7601u? nand install Q4) how to install Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 Webcam?This is for camera server

in the last two days trying to down a file i get hit with some kind of take over my brower telling me to install some thing after i hit the down loads link not the down load it wants me to let me clear that right up on your site the PI files download link, i know better then click on that junk when popups like that happen it to the point i can't do anything but reboot the PC , i normally just read and learn and don't say a thing .. it's getting annoying not sure if anyone gets it or you all are a ware of some jerk trying to high jack my PC or anyone and only at that link .so far .

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.

Hi all, got a hummingboard i4-pro installed with armbian debian vanilla. After apt-get update && apt-get upgrade system won't come up again. Anybody else? How to activate hdmi output for debugging? Am I the only one? Even more: Got a BlueBeach mini PCI-e SATA 2-ports controller, recognized as: 01:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 1060 but my attached harddrive (2,5", separate psu) will not be assigned as /dev/sdX Any idea where to start to troubleshoot? Thanks a lot guys

Unix/MacOS tools to write images to SD cards: the usual dd dc3dd & dcfldd are improved forks of dd dcfldd has also a nice "on the fly" hashing mechanism (so to avoid complex md5 or sha*) but it has many options so it is a bit complicated to use (see). I am often using dc3dd on Debian like systems because you can see realtime the % of the processing and you may leave dc3dd to manage buffering & doing the hashing on the fly: sudo apt-get install dc3dd sudo dc3dd if=Image.bin of=/dev/sdX sudo dc3dd verb=on hash=md5 if=Image.bin of=/dev/sdX hof=sdX_output.md5 Prior to dc3dd, I was using "pv" (but "pv" has some delayed display because it is linked to the pip…

Hello guys, I'd like to use a MCP23017 IO Expander with a Banana PI, based on this tutorial. but I get stuck at the beginning My problem is that I can't see the device. Could you help me please how to go ahead? Thanks! root@bananapipro:~# ls /dev/i2c* /dev/i2c-0 /dev/i2c-1 root@bananapipro:~# i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- …

Hi, I created an Armbian article on Wikipedia. It's just a basic entry. Please help improving it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armbian Thanks!

Hello, Wanted to know if the new orange pc plus pi is supported by armbian??? sorry for my bad english

Hi, This is new to me and probably to you too. If you look a little bit around in this Forum you will find that RPi-Monitor is a well known tool and can be adjusted to your SoC. Now I found this project on Github RPi-MonitorWatcher Raspberry Pi Monitor Watcher is an Android application to view the status of your Raspberry Pis. It uses the API provided by Raspberry Pi Monitor. Someone might now think "my mobile has a browser" what do I need this for. Because you can I cannot find an .apk if you are smarter than me and know what I have to do to get this I would be grateful. Cheers Tido

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

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.

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.

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

Hello, I just bought a CubieTruck Plus and I'm looking for ARMBIAN release. What should I take? It must compile a new version? Thank you for your answers.

I just updated the fswebcam code on github so you are able to set Exposure, Vflip and Hflip contols using command line if you don't want to mess with kernel side. Grab the code: git clone https://github.com/avafinger/fswebcam cd fswebcam ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-v4l1 --enable-32bit-buffer make sudo make install Some command line samples: fswebcam --Vflip 1 -r 1600x1200 -p YUV420P - > cam1600x1200_2.jpg fswebcam --Hflip 1 -r 800x600 -p YUV420P - > cam800x600_1.jpg fswebcam --exposure 4 -r 640x480 -p YUV420P - > cam640x480_1.jpg Exposure = [-4 to 4] Vflip = [0,1] - Flip image Vertically Hflip = [0,1] - Filp image Horizontally Enjoy

I have this idea that I was researching on for a while. There are 5" FullHD LCD panels available on aliexpress for phones (HTC Drod DNA, HTC M7 etc.) as low as 15$, I thought about driving them with a controller board for interfacing HDMI (opi) <> MIPI DSI (lcd) but couldn't find that much about it. There are DIY Oculus DK1 kits on ali selling for 240$ that includes these boards and a LCD, and there is a hackaday project that sells for 99$ only board. Any thoughts about a cheaper solution? Hackaday project (99$): http://hackaday.io/project/364-mipi-dsi-display-shieldhdmi-adapter Thanks

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/09/allwinners_allloser_custom_kernel_has_a_nasty_root_backdoor/ so congrats

Hi Is it possible install Armbian to any kind of smartphones, for example based on MTK6580 CPU

I need help creating the Armbian image file, I downloaded the desktop version for the Banana Pi M2+ when I unzip the file I get a .raw image which my win32diskimager does not see. Im used to creating files .img onto the SD card but I don't know how to deal with a .raw file. what am I missing? Thank you in advanced.

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.

Hi Igor, The picture for the pcduino2 is the pcduino1 not 2. pcduino2 For the pcduino3 (not nano), which model? B or (A or C) ? it's not the same (ethernet 100M for A and C, 1G for Link for the picture pcduino3A pcduino3B pcduino3C Best regards

Another flavour of Arm Linux. FatdogArm is a port of Fatdog64 to the ARM platform. Currently in Beta release, it is based on Fatdog64 and thus shares much of Fatdog64 features. Like Fatdog64, FatdogArm is intended for desktop-style operations but on the lower-cost ARM-based systems. FatdogArm currently was originally built on A10/Mele A1000 hardware, although it can be easilyadapted for other platforms. These days, FatdogArm is known to run is A20/Cubieboard, Odroid-U2, Odroid-U3, OLPC XO-1.75, OLPC XO-4 Touch, Pandora, Cubox-i i2, Cubox-i i4pro, and Google Nexus7 2012. The porting process of FatdogArm (for Alpha version) is described in details here. FatdogArm fea…

Being a Windows and Android casual user these days, the days of plugging a motherboard, soundcard, graphics card, installing eide drives is in my long ago past. I want to learn Linux basics and just found a site called.Linux Survival http://linuxsurvival.com Anyone recommend any other good places to learn Linux from and focused at the casual home user? ☺