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Hello. I've been playing with several low-cost SBCs for a couple of weeks now and I'm totally hooked on these incredible little things. Most of my boards are Orange Pi's simply because of the low cost (but I do have ODROID XU4 and a couple RPis too). Somehow one of my favorites seem to be the little OPi Zero (H2+), I'm using it as a "shell account" for if and when I need access to linux command line (most of my "big machines" are Win-based). However the Zero's POE implementation is... kinda non-existant really. You can read more about it elsewhere, let's just say it isn't usable without additional hardware. For my purposes, the OPiZero H2+ is powe…

I made a funny project for trying to use the ARM single board as the USB disk or cdrom. I did a lot of optimizations for the size and speed. Releases: https://github.com/usboot/USBootPi/releases USBootPi supports NanoPi M1. It also supports OrangePi One/PC but we need more USB cables(one for power, another one for OTG). Sorry, there is no the English readme now.

I have been having some long running, on and off discussion with @lanefu in IRC (and elsewhere), because I know this is his area of expertise. However he is busy, and I can appreciate he might not want to spend his free time talking about stuff he gets paid to do M-F. Then I also realized, certainly I am not the only one interested in Armbian in order to be doing such things. So I thought I would make a thread about this, instead, to open the discussion to a larger group people here in the broader community. I have my own thoughts, concerns, things I want to do, and have already done, but I thought I would make a more general thread where like …

I'm having some success installing Debian on Raspberry Pi 3B+ and thought I'd proceed with making an Armbian build in order to have equivalent environments with other boards in my cluster. Is there any process/channel for this or should I just make a PR on the repo? What are some particular prerequisites I should be aware of that might block it from merging? I am very aware of armbian's stance on Raspberry Pi, and I understand you do not want to support it officially (if nothing else because you'd have difficulty handling the incoming clueless users), but I think there are a lot in the intended armbian audience who have Raspis lying around who would be ha…

So, what do you think of the new Raspbery Pi Zero Wireless? How will other competitors respond? An OrangePi Zero with Bluetooth would trounce this board, or a Nanopi could do, just gotta hit at or below the same price point.

Using systemd-networkd for network management on a small cluster of orangepi r1's and an orangepi zero. All are connected to a single TP-Link 8 port gigabit switch. Version of systemd-networkd is what is shipping in the current armbian buster image networkctl --version systemd 241 (241) +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid All four devices are configured to emit lldp and to monitor lldp. All devices are emitting lldp, seen here from one of the four devices. netadmin@probe1:~$ tshark…

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 bought a Firefly RK3399 about a year ago. Since then I have moved to Friendly NanoPC T4. I bought a second NanoPC T4 because my first machine running Armbian Bionic 18.04.4 has been working very well. I have been anti X86 and decided ARM was more interesting. Now to compile I need Armbian Build. So I bought a $100 HP 15 Laptop, a basic 4GB / 500GB Sata machine running Focal / Ubuntu 20.04. OK I have since reevaluated my situation and see more AMD machines in my future. I was able to run Armbian 20.05 on the HP and that impressively gave me a working Ubuntu Focal on my NanoPC. Except it is unoptimized and creaky. not really a working desktop…

I am not a big fan of btrfs in general. But rather than shit up other people's threads where they mention it, I decided to create my own here where I can lay out my arguments, and then I can link to it instead and people can read it if they want. Some people are not going to like to hear this, so I will back it up by saying I have done fair amount of research into these advanced file systems over the last several years. It is a topic of great interest for me. At the same time, I view all knowledge as provisional, and maybe some things changed in the meantime, so discussion and factual corrections are welcomed. I will also try and spare the reade…

@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 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.

Hello, I'm currently running Gentoo on my BananaPIs (M1). I'm using one as graphical Dashboard using DirectFB. Unfortunately, DirectFB is deprecated, not anymore supported and facing some compilation issue. Time to change. I tried with SDL configured with KMS but it's crashing. I don't want to install X because it will take ages to compile without any garanty it will work at the end. So ... probably the time to change. So, is DirectFB still supported on Armbian ? If not, is SDL2 working without X support. If not, with X support ? And if so, is X accelerated ? Thanks Laurent

Downloaded the latest build Armbian_25.2.1_Orangepi5_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_minimal.img Cloned the git repo for rtl88x2bu Built the new module with cd /usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx/arch/ ln -s arm64 aarch64 cd /rtl88x2bu make KVER=6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx -j8 make KVER=6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx install modprobe 88x2bu.ko Looked at dmesg, and I see that it gives a message that the kernel is tainted and the module will not load. No working wifi. This same procedure worked fine with the 6.1.75 kernel of a previous release.

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…

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?

Banana Pi BPI-F2S is the first board with Banana Pi team and SunPlus, this is a industrial-grade board. use Plus1(sp7021) design. this is a industrial-grade board. SunPlus sp7021 is a revolutionary SoC that has the power of a Linux-grade chip and the integration simplicity of a microcontroller.it with ARM Cortex-A7 Quad core,ARM926 real-time core,8051 low-power core Conceived by Sunplus Technology in collaboration with Tibbo Technology, PLUS1 takes all the sophisticated elements typically found in modern industrial-grade embedded Linux chips, adds a plethora of features targeting IoT and industrial control applications, and delivers the result…

Dear all, As said elsewhere, I'm interested in distributed scientific computing, namely BOINC, and more specifically the Einstein@Home project: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://einsteinathome.org/fr/home ARM platforms seem to be a good choice for that purpose IMHO. Even though they lack the raw power of x86_64, at least they don't use a lot of energy and don't need active cooling most of the time (I can't stand the noise of a fan ). At the moment I'm running BOINC on two ARM nodes: a Raspberry PI 3 (Raspbian) and a NanoPi M1 (Armbian). Both are quite dated now and don't allow me to contribute much to this project. …

Hi, I have been studying Armbian's build script, and I have managed to extrapolate a standalone u-boot build process for my NanoPC-T4 by cherry-picking the relevant commands / patches from the builder repo: https://github.com/tmountain/u-boot-nanopct4 This works well, and it opens the door for additional flexibility for those who need it regarding making the most of their hardware. That said, it raises a few questions. 1) My NanoPC-T4 will not boot without the Armbian patches. The vanilla u-boot does not work out of the box. I reported this issue here, but I'm wondering if the Armbian folks ever try to get patches back into …

Since my current board (Cubieboard 2) has been kicked out of the game, it's time to move on to a new one. Is there any chance to see an Armbian version for the Banana Pi R2 someday? This board is winner for me because of the Dual SATA feature (the router, not so much). If there are no plans for this board, please tell me for how long you'll support the Cubietruck, since it's my second choice. Thx in advance...

Good day everyone. I'm looking for your recommendations on a not too expensive ARMs powered board. - Preferably 16 or more cores (big.LITTLE mix is fine) - Cortex-A53/A55 or better. - 16GB of RAM or higher - NMVe support - Support for mounting several boards on U1 shallow spaces (depth of 25cm [10 inches] or less) - Support for booting Armbian and CentOS/Fedora Main purpose - system development (Linux, Java, Scala, Go, RUST), Kubernetes, database and overall platform tinkering. The Bamboo Systems - PANDA B1000N looks really nice, but I'm not sure it is in the modestly priced range - unless thinking that paying upfront for the…

Hi all . Before i buy Orange Pi 3 ( 64-bit 1.8GHZ ARM Cortex™-A53 , 2GB RAM ) , i want to know: Is it posible to use this PC + Armbian as desktop PC ? I want to use 1. Firefox Browser 2. YouTube 720p60 or FullHD ( Desktop version ) 3. Having ability to watch something with videoplayer. Videoplayer need to have support of large variants of codecs. 4. Listen music. And also online radio ( this can be done via audacious ) I had expirience in using Raspbian. quick search on this forum return small amount of useful information. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I want to build myself a tiny nas. I want to run both Nextcloud and gitea (git server) on it. Which would you prefer? #### ODroid HC1 - Board with power supply = 54,50$ - Case = 4,00$ - Shipping = 17,40$ - Total = 75.90$ Total with german customs fees = 72,85€ #### Rock64 2GB - Board = 34.95$ - Power Supply = 6,99$ - JMS578 USB-to-SATA Cable= 9,99$ - Shipping = 11.99$ - Total = 63.92$ Total with german customs fees = 61,83 € For help i would be grateful. Sincerely, cyagon

Hi there, I'm, the maintainer of the Java library diozero and am looking to test the library on Armbian. I have quite a few devices but am looking to test with a TinkerBoard and Odroid C2. The library includes support for GPIO, I2C, SPI and serial. It includes very high performance memory mapped GPIO control (~10MHz) as well as sysfs and more recently GPIO character device. I've test the GPIO character device code on the Raspberry Pi and just looking at adding support for Armbian. I'm seeing gpioinfo doesn't include GPIO names which I see on the Raspberry Pi (everything is "unnamed") - is there anyway to fix that?

Hi, I was just in the armbian matrix channel asking about FLOSS SBCs, SBCs which can be booted / operated without blobs or with as few blobs as possible. I am not one of those purist Stallmanite zealots who refuse to touch anything which i deem imperfect in the freedom department. Instead I am just trying to be practical and figure out whats the best options for SBCs which respect users. SBCs whose security/integrity is verifiable and doesn't hinge on appeals to authority, like "just trust our secret sauce, it will be fine". I want to know about any projects from the past, things that are in progress, and hear experiences from folks who are interested in open s…

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

Hi all, The downloads are down, your nginx (in http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/) goes down... Please fix when you can or post me if is possible some alternative link to download the armbian for bpi-m2. Thanks

Hi! I'm using Banana PI and latest Armbian_5.00_Bananapi_Debian_jessie_3.4.110. SInce it came without xservert and fact that I like to only use board in "kiosk" mode, I should execute only couple of application which use xserver. One is matchbox-keyboad and other is pyQT application. So.... Using apt-cache search xfce I got list of packages for xfce desktop. So I presume i have to install at least: xfce4 - Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment xfconf - utilities for managing settings in Xfce xfwm4 - window manager of the Xfce project xfe - lightweight file manager for X11 Since I'm newbee in linux I'd like to know what I have to ins…

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

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

uptodated today, jammy on bpi-m5 running 3d printer with klipper etc. With snapd frozen, so is firefox. possible fix? passwd f-u, I am that other contributing member but finally got it reset.

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.

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.

I must admit I don't really know what to do with my sbc's. After getting them set up there is nothing more I could think of to use them for. I guess part of the fun is in getting them set up, and to run them cool during native kernel builds. Just so it's not a complete waste of money, I spent more (though not a lot) to add dual screens to some of them. Any ideas what else I could use them for? I already have music players (a lot of them, DACs), NAS, home control, security camera, what else do you use them for? I haven't left any of them outside in the sun yet to try out solar power. So, I added dual screens to these ones (left to right, counter clockwise)…

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

I'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…

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

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

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 !

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 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.

Hello everyone, I ask the help of you to identify which card is this. To download the correct image. Thank you

Official website is online one hour ago lattepanda http://www.lattepanda.com/ i'll be excited to know about this board and its support if someone did a review for it

What's the diff? For the newcomer, is there an explanation of the differences between these distro variants? I'm looking for a lightweight desktop environment for a media server on an Odroid N2+. I have more experience with Debian over Ubuntu Jon

I did something wrong,that is why both of my SD cards are not good. Is a possibility to fix them? Another important question: Exist a SD card with installed Armbian, especial for people with less technical knowledge_they can insert the Sd card,and it works_!

Wow! I read already on other sites that this armbian community has some weird views about what's allowed and what information will be depublished or simply that they are 'famous' for censorship. I actually run directly in it as my thread was directly deleted and just later on - after complaints - released with a deleted link. But why then get's my thread just locked now after 15 replies and not directly deleted? Or why does have one person in this forum the right to tell what's interesting for the community or not? Funny (or sad?) enough that even in the first link in my the thread you can read about the armbian moderators …

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

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Odroid has announced it`s new board. The Odroid H2. Not what I expected it to be. But it does seem nice, but pricy. https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=32536 Specs - 2.3Ghz Quad-core processor J4105 (14nm) with 4MiB Cache - Dual-channel Memory DDR4-PC19200 (2400MT/s) - Total 32GiB RAM Space with two SO-DIMM slots - 4 x PCIe 2.0 for one NVMe storage - 2 x Gbit Ethernet ports - 2 x SATA 3.0 - SSE4.2 accelerator (SMM, FPU, NX, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES) - Graphics UHD Graphics (Gen9.5) 600 (GT1) 700Mhz - HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2 multiple video outputs

Hey all, I'm having a hard time choosing a board for my next SBC project. I've decided on the orange pi zero form factor unless someone can persuade me otherwise. Basically my options and reasons are as follows: Orange Pi Zero 512MB - H2+ - cheaper, half the cost of the others. - fast Ethernet on board. Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 - Better mainline support than H5 - smaller vertically than Pi Zero - hdmi - emmc on board Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 - faster dram speed (can't remember where I read that) - emmc on board - same small vertical size - seems more power hungry /sensi…

HI, sorry if I bother the community so much. Is there a way (I'm sure that is) to setup armbian without DE and without eth connection? I've noticed that I need wired connection to launch armbian-config. Can I do the same with a wifi USB stick? How? If I want to use armbian as wireless AP, do I need to install the DE? Can you guide me? Thank you in advance

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After reading about the actual 2018 performance test of @tkaiser and reading about the manfid and oemid of SD-Cards I did found out that my "SONY Class 10" card is a fake - also because armbian told me at the first login that the card is to slow: Attention: Your SD card seems to be very slow. Please check performance using armbianmonitor -c While searching for manfid/oemid I did read about a Android-App which can identify SD-Cards using manfid/oemid: SD Insight. Doenst work not on all Android >=7.0 devices (because of a change in 7.0) but on devices <7.0 On the webpage they are using a smartphone - but SD Insight work fine on a And…

Guys, is this ever happening? Jessie on C1+ doesn't work good enough, throws kernel panics and so on. Is Stretch still happening?

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.

Hello, I spent many hours looking for any working solution how to access my Armbian desktop behind NAT and router with not static IP address over Internet. But I failed at all. In the course of my research I tried VNC Connect by RealVNC, TeamViever, AnyDesk and Google Chrome Remote Desktop. And found neither one working on Armbian. The first tree in the list got installed, but not worked. Maybe because all these were built for Rapsbian, not Armbian. The last one did not get installed at all. No idea why. May be because I had to install it into the Chromium browser, not the Chrome as Chrome is not available for armhf. May be it is not ready for armhf yet. …

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Recently, nothing is happening on the SBC market. Libre Computer seems to be in a bad financial condition after having failed with La frite and the kickstarter campaign. Projects on SBC on cpu amlogic S912 and S922 are dead and it is not known if they will see the light of day. Pine is busy with its smartphone and probably nothing new will not be released yet. Xunlong who lives not from sales but from subsidies from the Chinese government is also silent. Expected allwinner processors from the new A100, A200 series are just under design. Only khadas released VIM3L from the S905X3 cpu. They even have a linux image already on this board. It can be downloaded from the khadas …

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…

Hi all. I've always been using the OPi+ as NAS. That gets me up to 13MB/s. More than enough for me. All that is on it are backups, movies and mp3's. It's only got 100Mbps ethernet. And the attached storage devices can't do a lot more either. A USB2 external HDD and a 2.5" HDD. I once tried the same with my OPi+2 and didn't see any changes in network transfer rates. Didn't mind, because I was happy with it. Now I've got the Odroid HC4. Both sata HDDs get +100MB/s read and write. But my network transfer speed is again 13MB/s. I'm using a Gbit router with 5Ghz wifi and the 5Ghz wifi on M4V2. Also OMV on Buster mainline on the HC4 with smb share. For…

Hello Friends, Is anyone aware of jtag support on orangepi 2g/3g/4g iot boards. Looking at the schematics, i could find the tms/tdi etc pins (for 2g/3g/4g iot), but they seem to be not connected to any gpio or other headers. Kindly correct me if wrong. I know these have UART, but am specifically looking for some jtag access. Thanks Tarkshya

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

Hi, I am trying to use a tinker board S as a Logitech Media Server for my multi room installation. The server runs well when streaming radio for a whole day or more. As soon as I start to stream music from the attached USB drive it stops after a few minutes for some seconds continuous then and stops again. After a few of this itterations it stops completely. I tryed to install all available server-OS. At the moment I run BIONIC. I looked in the LMS logs but found noothing. As I am new too this kind of topics I do not know how to find the issue. Can you point me in the right direction?

During spring cleaning I found Nokia 128Mb SD card and I could not resist to make the standard test ... which took around one hour to finish I expect worse. Spoiler Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 Output is in kBytes/sec Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds. Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes. Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes. File stride size set to 17 * record size. random random kB reclen write rewrite read reread…

Congratulations. Armbian is adedd to the distrowatch list. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=armbian Already 2 years ago I submitted you to the list but then they refused to listen to me, despite the fact that RaspbianOS was placed a long time ago. I think that this will further influence the popularity of the venture.

If running debian is the rk3288 or rk3328 fastest? Thanks.

Is there any? Intended use: LUKS.

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…

Hi all! I'm happily using Armbian on Cubieboard2 working as home server (samba, 4(!) LXC containers with Deluge, tor, owncloud and some other small apps) + VPN client. Pretty happy with it, especially for internal SATA. Recently found that Cubietech releases Cubieboard6 on S-500 CPU with same form-factor and SATA. That means, that all casing/housing can stay intact. LXC containers also can be migrated since CPU is still ARMv7. But at the same time found somewhere on this forum, that board is not really good quality... Cannot argue or agree with this since I don't have a board and it looks costly. So my question - what is advis…

I have an OrangePi Prime with 2 GB RAM. I'm running a server-like node.js app that does constant writes to .json files and text log files. Let's call it "database storage". The app is not otherwise RAM intensive, can run fine on 512 MB boards. I'm thinking of putting all my RAM to use and move the database storage to a RAM disk made with Zram. Do you see any potential problems and interference with the way Zram is configured for this board?

Hi everyone, I got my OrangePi Zero 2W to work with MAX98357A board, the violet one, but I can only hear one channel. I didn't modify ALSA much, just focused on DTS: ... fragment@1 { target-path = "/soc"; __overlay__ { ahub0_plat: ahub0_plat { #sound-dai-cells = <0>; compatible = "allwinner,sunxi-snd-plat-ahub"; apb_num = <2>; /* for dma port 5 */ dmas = <&dma 5>, <&dma 5>; dma-names = "tx", "rx"; playback_cma = <128>; capture_cma = <128>; tx_fifo_size = <128>; rx_fifo_size = <128>; tdm_num = …

Hello All. I am fairly new in Embedded Linux and in this forum. I need to develop a small size IoT ARM Quad Core Board. I like to have some advise on my project's proper development path. First let me share my target needs of the project: -1. ARM CPU (run Linux) - I think for my project, Quad-Core is more than enough -2. RAM 1GB/2GB -3. eMMC 16GB for OS Boot -4. SD Card for file storage (up-to 512GB) -5. Two USB2.0 (One Host Mode and One Device Mode) and one USB3.0 (Only Host Mode is Ok. Its for faster file transfer to connected external Portable HDD) -6. Capacitive Touchscreen 3.5 Inch (as we will run some Python based…

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 …

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?

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?

Hi there, with the global lockdown, I had to move my "lab" at home... and I have trouble with the infamous WAF. So I moved almost everything in the attic, and would have loved to pull an Ethernet cable from my ISP box to the "lab" Wi-Fi router, but it's not significant other's compatible. As strange as it may seem, the Wi-Fi signal coming from the ISP box is really strong in the attic, so I thought of redirecting the Wi-Fi to the 24 ports switch thanks to a SBC. I don't want the SBC to act as a router, I want to use the router which is in my ISP box, so that I can still interact easily with the machines in the attic wherever I may be in the house. I…

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

Hi everybody! I'm new on Linux and I have a problem. I burned the Armbian OS on an SD card for a OrangePi PC and I created an User name [dp] and a Password. When I login, instead to see the Desktop image, Armbian seems to wait for a command or something. The OS displays the following text: dp@orangepipc: ~$_ What should I type now to see the Desktop? Anyone want to help me?

Great page, great work ! It would be nice if there were a note, wether a downloadable packet contains GUI. Better still, if there were a list (dpkg -l) of installed packets. I'm looking for a minimal packet like minibian for RasPi for OrangePi PC.

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?

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

Hey, we made a tool that allows us to configure the wireless connection of a headless systems using just a smartphone. The reason was that we often ended up in situations where we prepared a headless system with our full stack (see https://nymea.io) and handed it over to someone else to just it in their WLAN. The target group are end users which are not able to use a console. In an attempt to return something to the community we've created a standalone tool for this to share it with others, BerryLan. At the moment it requires to add the nymeas debian repository and install nymea-networkmanager. You can find all the details about it on https://berrylan.app. I…

I'm running Armbian from a emmc 16GB card. When I use the web browser the mouse constantly flickers, is there any way to get this to stop? Is there a graphics driver I should have enabled? When I select Additional Hardware Drivers none show up, so maybe there isnt a GPU accelerated driver available. Also switching between desktops feels sluggish. Maybe Im expecting too much performance from a $50 SBC. Thanks for your help & time in making this distribution. Im just looking to make the best user experience possible.

Hi everyone, I am a LINUX beginner. and I have a NanoPi M4V2, and want to build a mini NAS with OpenMediaVault 5 under Armbian (OMV5 can only run in Armbiam/Debian, not available in Ubuntu) The M4V2 has a SATA hat, and it can support up to 4 hard drives (2.5 inches size), so the SATA hat is powered separately, and I guess this is why it always gets overheat This is what it looks like. There is a 12V fan interface (2pin) on this SATA hat, just right biside the power button. And I found that there are already some solution in the forum of armbian.com, all kinds of scripts, some can drive the Fan according to the CPU's temperature, or even …

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…

What does determine the software available in softy, found in armbian-config? I easily installed NextCloudPi (ncp) using softy on a Buster based image for the OrangePi4. However it lacked an up to date python version needed for Home Assistant. I reinstalled Armbian using the Focal based image. Sadly softy did not list ncp as an option anymore. So I am a bit puzzled what software to expect from softy. The documentation ( https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/#software ) did not mention anything about availability.

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 …

Hi every body I work with armbian on OPI & BPI fine but I'm looking for an improvment. First I install OS on SD, etc... but with limitations of R/W nb & sensibility if power disappears. I set a boot os SD and after switch on SSD connected on USB by moving directory and after discover a scipt whic do all automatically (thank's armbian). But customer calls me server don't restarts. I go on site (waste of time) burn a new SD etc.... and install a little eaton ups to prevent new failure. The server hosts a little bootstrap webserver, specific application server, cron scripts and nothing else. I need WIFI AP / Eth Gb & SSD and nothing else. I 'm searching for …

Hello. Is there any way to convert iptv from my internet provider from MPEG flow to HLS "on the fly" to my local network? I want to use some sbc for that mission.

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I've been considering some options for experiments with electronic wind instruments and synthesizers, such as ZynAddSubFx, Fluidsynth. I've seen project Zynthian and they are running it on a Raspberry Pi 3, so that should be a safe choice, right? Although I'm not sure if they are using some mainstream Debian or something heavily adjusted. Also, for a wind instrument I hoped to find something smaller so I can even build it into the instrument itself; although I don't have my hopes high on that - I'm not sure if I'll find an SBC with enough power. I happen to be one of lucky (or not) backers of NextThingCo C.H.I.P. (now mostly out-of-busi…

Hello! Firstly, I would like to thank the Armbian devs for their awesome work, without it a lot of my boards would have such a poor support... I am currently doing a school project which involves embedded pentesting, using a drone. I am looking for: the cheapest (we have a limited budget) the most powerful (to use some tools such as password cracking) the most energy efficient (it will running on powerbank/batteries) the lightest and the smallest (to be embedded in a drone) it has to have full size USB ports/OTG/headers (to connect an external powerful WiFi adapter) and if possible, has to have WiFi embedded (we might control …

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

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.

Hi I actually have an old Odroid C2 with Armbian and it's running quite good for pi hole and plex streaming (usb attached hdd) I'd like to replace the board with a new SBC but I can't seem to find the right one for me. I need - armbian good support - 2+GB ram - fast cpu - Gigabit Ethernet - eMMC support could be nice for fast OS - it will run headless - docker support - USB 3 support could be nice, otherwise USB 2 is ok I think it's all. There are a lot of SBC manufacturer and models (orange pi, banana pi, Raspberry pi, nano pi,...) and I can't really understand what is better for me Thank…

Hi, I would like to make a portable mini pc. I was a windows person but I rather like linux(armbian) now. Yes a noob for linux. At the moment I have an Asus Tinkerboard S and am using Armbian Stretch. Please, what 5" capacitive screen will work smoothly with the current setup? Thanks AD

Hi all, I want to isolate Nextcloud on my BananaPro with a virtual machine. (Background: I want to open the port in the router to sync with Nextcloud from the internet. To protect my other data (NAS with OMV, Smart Home with fhem) Nextcloud should run isolated by a virtual machine or in a Docker container.) I have found a lot of information about Docker in this forum, but not about virtual machines. Is, perhaps, "Own your bits" a good solution? Currently running Debian Stretch with Armbian Linux 4.19.62-sunxi on Banana Pro. It is a headless server without desktop, so the virtual machine has to be installed and configured only with CLI. Inside th…

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.

Hello, I'm going to industrialize a project using currently the Olimex Lime2. This board is great and have exactly what I need, among others, battery charger and SATA capability. However I figured out that I can not use this board as there is no CE compliance and thus can not be sold as a product. I'm looking for the fellowing specifications : Run on battery for around 5-6 hours, so the board needs a battery charger Good computation >= 1Gz at least 2 cores Large RAM >= 2GB SATA connectivity: We need to load large amount of data, between 250Go and 1To, so a SSD driver connected to a SATA port is required Good…

Bootlin has released the new blobs (32&64 bit, X11/fbdev/Wayland, r6p2/r8p1). https://bootlin.com/blog/more-opengl-binaries-for-the-mali-support-on-allwinner-platforms-with-mainline-linux/ https://github.com/free-electrons/mali-blobs