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Figured I'd start a thread dedicated to the Rockchip RK3566 since Pine64 announced the Quartz64 and Chinese suppliers have released the H96 Max RK3566.

Hi, First of all I love the Armbian distro on Orange Pi / H3. It's the best out there and what was missing from the beginning. Awesome job. Quick question: is there any reason why Armbian doesn't have Avahi preinstalled by default ? Of course there's no pb adding it afterward but it would be pretty convenient when working with a headless setup. Just curious, Thanks, Richard

Hi, I have a few questions about the NanoPi R1 system. 1) The (USB > TTL) debug serial port is that 3.3v or 5v? I need to get the correct adapter. 2) Hooking up a serial debug cable is there enough room to close the front plate? 3) Can the system run from eMMc and get software upgraded from the SD-Card? 4) I could not not find clear procedures for this. Am not familiar with OpenWRT. 5) Can the Ethernet port be used to talk to a P.C. running Windows (putty) or would the micro-USB to P.C. be better? 6) I would eventually use WiFi for remote access and updates. 7) Can the NanoPi R1 run Apache WEB server? 8) Can …

How to track changes in armbian packages, especially for dev boards like OPI 3? I know there is Changelog in docs site but it's not really up to date... For example apt reports me now that there are new packages to be updated: linux-dtb-dev-sunxi64 linux-image-dev-sunxi64 linux-u-boot-orangepi3-dev. How can I tracka/see changes made in them?

I'm currently on the hunt for the cheapest decently reliable board to use for building a glusterfs cluster. Requirements are simple: GbE, SATA port, arm64, preferably low power. While helios64 is obviously the way to go for a NAS when it lands, it's totally overkill for a setup like this and I just realized that ODROID HC2 won't fly due to being 32-bit only. Most other 64-bit boards require expansion boards for SATA, which drags up the total cost. Finally I realized that the PC Engines APU boards fit all criteria, and come with what I understand to be performant GX-412TC CPUs. This one, for example, for 86EUR (maybe a bit on the pricey side, but I have…

Use CT A20, I found an annoying bug: battery RTC is discharged to 0.7-0.9V. AXP209 controller not worked to charge battery. Debian OS different versions. How i make to use rtc con CubieTruck? Regards,

I just released a new C library to draw text and graphics on the UC1701 128x64 monochrome LCD. It makes use of my ArmbianIO library to manipulate the GPIO lines: https://github.com/bitbank2/uc1701

Hello, after i tryed a Kernel update on my Hummingboard with Debian Jessie it doesnt start anymore. Kernel updated with apt-get install linux-image-next-cubox linux-headers-next-cubox linux-firmware-image-next-cubox Thats what i get when i start my Hummingboard: and then no signal. I tryed to unbrick my device like dicriped on the homepage "How to unbrick the System?" I used this files: linux-dtb-next-cubox_5.00_armhf.deb linux-firmware-image-next-cubox_5.00_armhf.deb linux-headers-next-cubox_5.00_armhf.deb linux-image-next-cubox_5.00_armhf.deb linux-jessie-root-next-cubox-i_5.00_armhf.deb linux-u-boot-next-cubox-i_5.0…

I would like to install a small mpd server (Music Player Daemon) that would read files from a usb disk, stream webradios and possibly be controlled by ir. What is the most lightweight and cheapest board that would exist and could do that ? The orange pi zero with an extension board or a usb audio card would have been perfect, but I read several posts about the lack of software updates and the never resolved kernel issues. How bad is it really ? And then what else would do the job?

If you've got experience with both SBC please share your thoughts. Pros/Cons. I would like to replace my RPI based HTPC.

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

Hi, I am an enthusiast of this distro. In this moment I would like to install only CLI version. I write here because I don't want to go off topic. I know that there is the compiler: another very big solution that bring me and attach me at this place! But I am very shure that I will not do the job so well AS Armbian definitively is in the images for the supported SBC. So. I can only deactivate the desktop environment interface or I can start to study hard to build my own Great Armbian CLI version. The problem is that I would have the more RAM free is possible to run another layer software as MINERS or Clusters management. Another reason that we could use the CLI version i…

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…

Hi, You know the servers running not for free, the Terabytes of traffic cost as well and all the time spent by the armbian team is a great help to you too, right? So, please login to your PayPal account and throw a couple bucks to the project https://www.armbian.com/donate/ another way to say: Thank You - just better! Thank you in advance PS: I say this as a user, not Moderator - I have private live too :-)

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

Hello, Is it possible to run ESXi-Arm Fling on OrangePI (one, zero, opi 4 etc...) ? ESXi Arm

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…

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.

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/…

Hello fellow armbianites, It has been put to me that arm based boards require a DTB file because arm works a bit differently than x86. The difference between an arm and an x86 board, is that x86 is standardised and always has the same form factor. When you plug in a device into an expansion slot or port on your motherboard the new device announces itself. All the addresses are known in advance and hence there is no need for a DTB file. On arm on the other hand board design is not standardised. You can design a PCB whichever way you would like and solder any component onto the board that your heart desires. There is no single way…

Hi, I am looking for a device, which has the following hardware: - 2x wifi adapter - 2x ethernet adapter - CSI connector for camera - 2x USB port or 1x USB and 1x USB-C port I know it would be very hard to find such a device, but an option would be to use one USB port and WiFi dongle instead second build-in WiFi and another USB to connect ethernet dogle into it. And for USB-C I can use use an USB-C-to-USB adapter... So at least I would like to find a device with: - 1x wifi adapter - 1x ethernet adapter - CSI connector for camera - 2x or 3x USB port Any ideas?

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

I have an Odroid HC2 that will be used as a NAS. I plan to run Ubuntu 18.04, which I can get in either Hardkernel or Armbian flavor. Is there a practical difference between them? Is there a reason to choose one over the other?

Hi Experts, I am using opi zero with Armbian Ubuntu Xenial image. Wireless is working fine with DHCP but I am facing following issue. If I run ifconfig wlan0 down followed by ifconfig wlan0 up, my network connectivity is not restored. Can anyone please let me know why it is happening?

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…

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

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I'm sure @tkaiser has something like this already, but for the rest of us ;-) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C34MT32/ This should work, of course you need to power the drive, I've ordered one so I can get a look at those partially hidden headers spots, looks to be a sata power pattern (15 places) May need some solder time to get both headers and (I would guess) the heavy pads are for the various power rails if you want to "spin rust" as I've seen it written. Finding the SATA power socket could prove challenging for the hobbyist, I'll pull up the Molex number for it I stand corrected, my search through the usual channels show …

In case anyone wants to use Netatalk with Armbian, I'd like to let you know how I succeeded. For a long time, I've wanted to run netatalk on a Linux box. Even though it always built, I could never connect/log in. Today I tried building it on Armbian (CubieBoard2 is the host), and it was very easy to get it to work. I basically followed the official HowTo. -But with some modification for the ./configure line. I got an error when using --without-tdb and --without-libevent, so I decided to remove --without-tdb and then do a sudo apt-get install libevent-dev. I also had problems with the spo…

I've been seeding torrents on my CubieBoard2 earlier; in Juli I moved to one of my EspressoBIN boards. I allocated 128GB for the torrents (since it was stated that I needed at least 60GB for Armbian). -But now Armbian seem to take up 123GB on my dedicated transmission partition: $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc13 128G 123G 4.5G 97% /transmission It seems I have 388 completed Armbian files (and no other files). -Does this mean that something went out of control - like files not being deleted - or does it mean that the torrents use this much space now ?

I have wanted 'multi-room networked audio' since years. Sort of like Sonos, except I don't use proprietary stuff. So recently, I finally got it working, and even using strictly F/LOSS tools, which I was pretty happy about! I will mention that I am using Mopidy as source, piping that in to snapserver (snapcast), which synchronize the audio to various devices across the network (each running snapclient) so you have a picture of how it works. Maybe I make separate thread / blog post about that, but here I mention it only as criteria for selecting hardware (as these tools must be supported). Currently I have one old RPi 3 [0] with a HifiBerry AMP2…

Folks, has anyone tried using one of those 5V DIN rail-mounted PSUs (eg Mean Well HDR-XX series) for powering the boards and HDDs? My "server" stack has grown to 10+ boards (many thanks to this forum!) and I am thinking of getting a couple of powerful industry-grade 5V units, but not sure if they provide computer-grade output, especially 12V for HDDs. Any thoughts?

I think this is probably something for Thomas, but it's a general question. I'm totally confused (old too which doesn't help) as to which board to get for different jobs. I have an RPi B (256) running. Dietpi as a DLNA and samba sever. Slow but effective. An RPi 3 for general work and tinkering since it's supported quite well and a Orange PI PC which is how I got here... Wow, what a great piece of work you have all done. Igor and Thomas I salute you both! Your knowledge and explanations make me sit in awe. Last time I soldered something in anger it was a quad CMOS NAND and it wasn't cheap either! So, is there a general (noobs) guide to which boards are good for "…

Some SBCs did get Bionic Beaver as testing or Dev-version.... like the Odroid C2 with Desktop but I was surprised about the CubieBoard1 and the Orange Pi Zero Had to install and test it Short question: the Bionic Beaver doenst seem to be in the Build-System: https://github.com/armbian/build Or didnt I missed it? Could this thread be a starting point for informations if another boards do get a bionic test/dev/(stable) build? Or will there be another new 18.04 Bionic Beaver armibian-Build-System in the future? Greetings from my Orange Pi Zero: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.44.18051…

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

Hi there, I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M) fleet. I'm open to your suggestions. Things I do **not** like about NanoPi: * Unreliable Ethernet. A network interface is flipping all the time Up/Down. * 512 MB is not enough for a tor relay * Hardware watchdog does not work reliably. It works in synthetic tests but sometimes a board just freezes. Things I like about NanoPi: * Armbian support * Price * Size/form factor * Performance * Heat dissipation * Ethernet tap My use cases: * Tor router * Home DNS server * Monitoring server Prometheus for my SBCs and network equipment.

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

I’ve been rocking a Solidrun clearfog base with Armbian for ~10 years now as my home router and was very happy with it until a few months ago when the newer software updates began to break it. I think the software support is beginning to rot due to not many users and thus no push to maintain it. I figure it’s time to start looking for a replacement. I have a Rock 5 ITX that could do it but I’ve been trying to keep it on the vendor kernel so it can transcode in hardware for Jellyfin - but that vendor kernel has issues reliably detecting the SATA controllers - and I don’t want to have to reboot my router multiple times to get the hardware to work after applying …

Hello, I'm try to setup my OPiZero as mediaplyer, and I need to use it sometimes as WiFi Client - Managed mode and sometimes as WiFi AP - Master mode. Scenario 1 Work in "dual mode", I mean, when my wifi network within reach, then OPiZ start as "client", and connect to my preferred wifi network when wifi network not in range, it start as AP+DHCP (hostapd and dnsmasq) Scenario 2 Switched mode, Make any push button on gpio, and then make scripts "to do the job" .. disconnect from wifi, stop wpa_supplicant, run hostapd an dnsmasq. Has anybody something like "scenrio1" or "scenario2" .. ?? (or my …

5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users Rockchip RK3566, RK3588, RV1109 SoC’s Coming in 2020 Very interesting is the 4G LTE module if completely opensource and android-free, but no info at the moment...

Hi, Updated to 5.70 next on Opi pc and after 2 days I cant login via ssh and i get: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Some times ssh login just hangs. As I am not near the machine, is there any way to remotely reboot the Opi pc without ssh access? ps: I am sure that the machine is working as wireguard is working fine and I can ping the machine as well as telnet port 22!

*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.

Have smbody bought / tried have experiencies with this new board / advanced model of cubietruck ? If you are interested check next link bellow: http://dl.cubieboard.org/model/Cubietruck-plus/

Hello, I'm using a BananaPi M1 board long time with armbian. Most of the other BananaPi boards are no longer supported with armbian. Which board will have the best change to armbian lts? I only need a board with 1GB RAM, 2 x USB, 1 x Gigabit Net, SATA for small home server settings. Any hint?

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.

In general I want to know, how many arm mainboards is it required to order and the manufacturer starts negotiating about specifications you want to get modified? I do not say at the same price. If I tell the manufacturer of the orange pi one, I want the arm mainboard but it must have 4gb ram and usb mini b connectors at what volume number does the manufacturer start listening? 50000 mainboards? Thank you.

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~! ^^

not sure this is the right place to post this got one of these really cheap last year $10nzd in a mall on clearance was wanting to know if there was any linux os out there i could install on this ?

Hi, I’m thinking about going all arm, what’s the fastest arm board that’s currently available and well supported by armbian? I don’t really play games, my main activities are email, web browsing and c++ development. Thanks!

Hi everyone! I'm obviously new here, and I simply wanted to give my profile a picture, but failed to find that option in the "profile > account settings". I assume it's easy, and to be honest I like to take the time to ask a real person here. Is there an option to upload an avatar image? Thank you!

Hi All, I wonder if anyone ever succeeded in getting the USB 2.0 port of this board work properly. I'd like to (try to) use it as a *very* low cost ADS-B receiver using an external RTL-SDR dongle, but despite the fact that the port is claimed to be a 2.0 (and recognized by the OS as a 2.0 Hub) when I attach the dongle (which is a high speed 2.0) no driver are loaded and is instead recognized as a full speed device, therefore the RTL-SDR library stops working with transfer errors, since it needs the 480M transfer speed of the 2.0 port and is unable to work with the 12M speed of the "full" standard. Here is my dmesg | grep usb …

I just build the build the driver for my RTL8188FTV that supported by rtl8188fu. It works as wifi hot spot but has some problems with nmcli . I share what is done and I hope it be useful for others. 0. Install dkms , make and git: apt install dkms make git 1. Remove any existing source and dkms config for module : dkms remove rtl8188fu/1.0 --all rm -f /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188fufw.bin rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8188fu.conf rm -r /var/lib/dkms/rtl8188fu 2. Get current kernel version and install matching headers: uname -a My results are: Linux orangepipc 5.10.21-s…

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After working with sysfs and libgpiod as cross platform solutions I was wondering if there was a faster way using /dev/mem or mmio? I know this gets more bare metal and SBC specific, but for some things you may want absolute speed. https://opensource.com/life/16/4/bulldog-gpio-library for instance claims 1 MHz GPIO writes in Java. However it only supports 3 SBCs as you can see from https://github.com/SilverThings/bulldog. Is there a more generic way to do this and not lose performance? Using my generated JNA wrappers for libgpiod I get about 2K writes per second. In Python I think it's about 70K using libgpiod Python bindings. I realize you may not always need 1 MHz GPIO …

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 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 …

I have fell in love with orange pi boards lately. One thing I want to know is about the orange pi zero, orange pi one and orange pi lite. Are they equal in speed for headless operation or is H3 better in speed than H2+ ??

Hi all, First let me thank you for your work. Armbian is fantastic. Thank you. I’m surprised that nobody has asked this question or at least I’m unable to find it on the forum / in docs. My understanding is: 1. Debian x86 Linux kernel is same on all devices since regardless if it is laptop or server, it has BIOS or UEFI that will ”tell” the kernel what hardware, what buses, what addresses, etc. it has… 2. ARM boards don’t have BIOS and therefore Linux Kernel is different for every board. I checked that on my Orange Pi Zero by default the /etc/apt/source.list and /etc/apt/source.list.d/ are default Debian repos and one…

Was looking through Twitter and saw that a message can appear stating that Jammy LTS may be unsupported userspace? I'm presently (with preset kernel build options used and no customisations) Armbian 22.05.0-trunk Focal with Linux 5.15.32-sunxi Apparently my build is on 20.04 LTS? ~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS" What would be any advantages and/consequences if someone invokes do-release-upgrade on or after the 21st of April on their SoC board? Reference to article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220406214352/https://www.techrepublic.com…

Hello, I am wondering if someday tutorials will be made available for ones who like the idea of using single board computers for projects, but have not learned to write their own code. Raspberry has an overabundance of people sharing what they have created [this for example https://tutorials-raspberrypi.com/setup-raspberry-pi-node-js-webserver-control-gpios/] I have made use of what I have searched and found to make my website again [my site], but at least for the computer hosting my relay interface I want to use better boards with more RAM. Should I learn to write some code and get the satisfaction of making it work by myself or should I wait for a future…

Hi! First of all I want to thank the people behind this project, you are doing an excellent job. Second, I am new, like very new to this world of SBCs and Linux, decided to experiment new things while being furloughed from my job, as airline pilot in North America. I bought a Rockpi 4C and at first I installed the image from Radxa and joined their forum, and bumped into an post from Igor in which he suggested to try Armbian because things were more easier, and boy was he right about that?! Yes I flashed Armbian Focal (CLI) to my emmc and armbian-config really does the job.. it makes your like way to easier. The image I flashed was the 20.11.6 Focal…

Hi all! I'm new to Armbian so share my experience in this section. After several failures I managed to find an image that boots on my Banana Pi M2+ (Armbian_5.34.171121_Bananapim2plus_Debian_stretch_next_4.13.14_desktop). Everything worked nicely from the box, thanks all developers for a great job (but indeed, huge penguin looks a bit frightening on 55" TV). While setting up WiFi I found that the board doesn't "see" my AP (while all neighbours' were there). After playing with AP's settings i figured out that it's not visible if Control Channel is set to 13. When I disabled autoselection of channel 13 on the AP, the board was able to conn…

I'd like to migrate from SD card Samsung Evo+ to something more durable (I'm running home assistant automation on OPI PC now, mariadb, influx, etc, many writes per minute). I think that I have only two options: go with SBC with EMMC or just buy cheap 32/64 GB SSD with USB adapter. What do you think, which option gives me better durability? Can I assume that EMMC is really durable comparing to SD card? Is USB 2.0 adapter as fast as EMMC?

As Caution-Information: Today I updated a NanoPi Neo 2 v1.1 with armbian bullseye bleeding edge-kernel-setting via apt update/upgrade from Kernel 5.19.16 to 6.0.10 (also from armbian 22.08 to armbian 22.11.1) and had a no-boot after restart serial-TTL-Log after reboot: Spoiler U-Boot 2021.10-armbian (Aug 04 2022 - 13:33:04 +0300) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H5 (SUN50I) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO 2 DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial NanoPi NEO2 v1.1 detected Net: phy inter…

Hello, I wanted to "build" some kind of Libre Safebox and Libre Router (meaning as libre as possible, of course in this case). I searched around but I still didn't find anything really fully assembled (a part for the Project Turris router, but I was hoping in something more versatile, that isn't necessarily restricted to being a router), so I decide to, if possible, find/assemble a more custom solution by myself. It doesn't have to be anything particularly performing, just that it can handle 720p videos and resolutions smoothly enough, that it can be used to surf the internet even with several open tabs and maybe some basic office things. The most important thing is that…

Hi, I'm missing a feature on the armbian download page, that I think was existing on an older version of this website. Let's say: I'm looking for a board, that is: - Supported - Has a SATA Connector - Supports Wireguard - Supports Docker How can I do that? Despite of browsing through every board. Thanks for your feedback. Regards

I was able to build the property file for the NanoPi M1 in about 20 minutes, so now basically you can do ~2 MHz GPIO square wave on all Allwinner and S905 CPUs (you listening @TonyMac32?) without any special code or adapters. All other libraries require one off code to support GPIO register access thus they only support limited boards. In my mind this is the holy grail for cross platform GPIO performance. I plan on going through some more diverse boards, but I'm happy with the results so far. Since only one core is utilized you'll average 25% CPU utilization on quad core systems. That may be another goal using two threads to improve performance further. I have currently m…

Hello everyone. I have a REMIX MINI with 2GB Ram and 16 Rom. I am trying to boot with microSD with Armbian_22.08.1_Pine64_jammy_current_5.15.63_xfce_desktop.img.xz image. I paste it with Balena and then paste TOC0 wget https://github.com/ssvb/sunxi-tools/raw/toc0/bin/fel-sdboot.toc0 dd if=fel-sdboot.toc0 of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=8 But I can't. Any idea? I managed to connect the device in fastboot mode to the PC, this is what I see? Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1f3a:1010 Allwinner Technology Android Device in fastboot mode. Can I do some backup from console with sunxi-tools or enter the device? Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator…

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" !

I have this cheap bluetooth multimedia controller with 5 keys (play, prev, next, vol up, vol down). It's all connected and key presses are recognised: [root] [~] # showkey kb mode was UNICODE [ if you are trying this under X, it might not work since the X server is also reading /dev/console ] press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)... keycode 164 press keycode 164 release How do I go from here? How do I make this 164 key press to run "mpc toggle" command? It's an Orange Pi PC+ and Armbian 5.90. This is a console-only machine. No any X window system (most of the keybind solutions I've found were X related).

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

Hi, I'm planning on buying Orange Pi Zero and before I do that, I want to make sure I won't regret anything after buying it. I'm planning on using the pi zero as a wireless router with its built-in wifi, but I read on some posts that the driver XR819 itself has some issues, like heating up the board or high ping. So please suggest me which distro I should use for the pi zero that has no wifi issues. Thank you.

Hi, I'm looking a newer armbian iso image which contains those futures. Is there any link? I'm going to test on Turing RK1 (RK3588) machine. Regards.

Hey all, Selling my Helios64 as I've recently upgraded my server if anyone is looking. Fully built, original condition with all drive bays and screws. Sadly no original packaging, seem to have discarded that for some reason and it has been sitting in direct sunlight so has a slither of fading on the top but still working away fine up until a few days ago. Drop me a PM if you're interested or are looking to get some pics. Given it's size and weight I'd only be looking to ship this within the UK, possibly mainland Europe at a push. Thanks

need a case for the Opi? 3D printer case. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5361375

Hello friends. I'm trying to get TeamViewer without graphical user interface to work on my Orange Pi Lite and I need a framebuffer console working on it. The instructions say it needs the /dev/fb0 folder, which I don't have. So, I need help to activate a framebuffer console and I have no idea how to start.

Hi there, I'm looking for a USB power supply that would be mounted into a rack, so that I can power up quite a few boards at the same time. These boards would also be in the same rack. I found a big rackable USB hub, but that's not what I am looking for, and 2.4A max per slot may be too weak for some of the boards. I could hosts several smaller USB hubs too, but that does not sound really enticing. My other option is to make it by myself with salvaged server power supplies, a patch panel, bits and bobs, but it will take longer... Would you have any recommendation? Thanks.

"Language Support Setting" not exist on Menu of Debian(Armbian_5.69_Orangepipcplus_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.13)

Suppose that you have a bunch of dtb/dts files that are known good (like from Linux kernel source). Suppose that you have a dtb file that you ripped out of some new device and probably no source code. This tool will allow to dump all of the parameters (nodes) out of the dtb file and compare it with all of the other ones that you have in a spreadsheet so that you can visualise the differences. See https://github.com/dieselnutjob/dts2tsv

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?

This could be old news, but my plex update today threw a message out on the console (apt upgrade) that official armv7 and armv8 packages are available. This should be a pretty solid performance boost for most of us I would imagine, the old packages were fro armel NAS boxes. Testing it out on my XU4.

Looking to find out why the Orange Pi OS Build isn't finding this file. Tried on two separate Linux 18.04 OS and neither has this file. When running Build_OrangePi.sh, right after entering the initial password, it drops out and claims the file lib32z1-dev not locate able. The only thing I can think is I need to install the SDK to build the OrangePi OS for this? Trying to do this from the Orange Pi Git Hub. https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/OrangePi_Build Thanks for any help.

What if there was a pay per use ($5 to $10) build server for building a custom armbian image, including the ability to select: which distro which kernel which kernel modules a choice of server, desktop and server with qtEmbedded (for single UI devices with no windowing) a selection of common software packages (VLC, OpenCV) to be cross compiled the ability to upload an image and cross compile new software against it It could be a web based UI calling the armbian build script, with the best toolchain already installed, and dependencies set to be pulled i automatically (so hard to set up on a case to case basis). Just an idea I had, and it could be a nice new revenue…

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

I've been doing some armbian graphics work and tried to track down a brand guide. If I remember correctly, I found some information at Github (fonts, logo, colors?), that was going in that direction. I documented what I found while doing some youtube graphics (see attached). I'm interested in making sure I've got the correct color values and other versions of penguins that people have done (Miike & NicoD penguins featured in attachment). _brand_guide_202206_abridged.pdf

Hello! I have Ambian Bullseye running on an Orange Pi Pus 2E. On my Linux-Notebook with Manjaro I can easily complete hostnames using TAB. This does not work on Armbian. Is there a package I need to install? Or a configuration I need to change? Thank you!

My MXQ Pro died and I'm looking for a cheap replacement with onboard wifi. My requirement is to run a desktop app (WSJT-X) on a headless device with tightvnc server to my android tablet. WSJT-X uses a soundcard, so I need at least one USB port. Not sure if I can do this but I'd also like the new sbc to be the hotspot that my tablet connects to. In the past I've used a cell phone as a hotspot with the MXQ and tablet connecting to it. It would be nice to remove the cell phone from the equation. Thanks.

For the last few years I have been working on some hardware projects based on ARM SBCs. Every board I work with seems to have different kernel/overlay/GPIO/etc issues. So my question is - Which SBC, or chipset, has most complete and stable Armbian support? In other words if you had to pick a board to go into battle to run Armbian, without knowing any specific requirements, which SBC would it be?

I was thinking about buying small handheld with keyboard that could be used for small linux terminal, for some quick administrative & diagnostic work (login here, login there, put some commands, see webpage for help, etc). Something inexpensive with small qwerty keyboard. Something like PocketCHIP or this DYI on RPI http://www.3ders.org/articles/20170409-zero-terminal-raspberry-pi-device-is-a-diy-handheld-linux-pc-in-a-3d-printed-case.html Has anyone found or did such a thing? I wonder if I could use OPI/NanoPi/similar with 5-7 inch LCD (3:2 screen would be best IMHO), keyboard and LiPo battery from mobile, put it into 3-D printed case and run Armbian Desktop

Hello Armbian community, Here is a project of adjusting the Kobol Helios4 case for a Raspberry Pi 3B and either 2.5" or 3.5" HDD, as well as a 92mm FAN and a USB hub. This is my first SketchUp project (I've used the 2016 trial version). The Raspberry Pi will be screwed in the bottom and powered through the micro usb. That's why I've left more room on that side. We can fit either 4x2.5" or 3x3.5" at any "deep" level. I've left room for a USB hub because I want to reuse my existing spare one. We can maybe come with a better idea, more universal (eg. dual output 12v and 5v of at least 90w, or a Molex fanless PSU unit. The latter would b…

Hi, I want to build cluster with ubuntu for my bioinformatics calculations and maybe for webserver. I didn't do anything like that earlier, so I want you all to be kind xD Here is what i have: > 5x orange pi one plus (every opi with heatsinks) > NAS expansion (for disk minissd or HDD) > tp-link switch with 8 ports (tp-link tl-sf1008d, im afraid it will be to slow for this, but i can change it later) > AC DC Power Adapter 5V / 10A Charger Transformer ( for Opi's) - with splitter > 2 port usb charger for NAS and switch (cause of i cant find power supply for all of opis with switch and NAS - im bad at electronics) > ethernet cab…

Do you guys have any developer documentation? It seems like you could use help mainlining things, but it is hard to tell where to start

As much as I love Armbian, I'm also interested in the Tinycore project - not as competition, but as a slightly different discipline with a different outlook. Rather than merely reproduce what can be found at the project site, I'll run over a few quick concepts. Maybe you'll find it interesting as well. In a nutshell - what makes it tiny is that it is basically a kernel, which then relies upon Busybox for the shell/file/unix utilities, including init. You add on as much or little as you like, although there is the total basic commandline / shell offering, or lightweight Xvesa gui desktop to get started. If you want a full blown X11 setup, you ca…

HI, what do you (Igor) think about supporting e.g. the following devices from Rikomagic with your nicely developped DEBIAN image: http://www.rikomagic.com/en/product/showpro_id_59_pid_19.html CPU: RK3288 Quad Core http://www.rikomagic.com/en/product/showpro_id_70_pid_22.html CPU: Allwinner A80 Octa Core Regards, Ireng

Hi Experts, Setup: Ubuntu Xenial image on Orange Pi Zero Target boots fine and WiFi working stable. If I remove xradio_wlan module (rmmod xradio_wlan) target start rebooting (shutdown followed by reboot) automatically within 2 minutes and no information is captured in syslog to indicate the reason of reboot. I understand that something is dependent on wlan that is causing system to shutdown. I am looking for help to identify what causes shutdown. Can you provide some pointers which log/service should I look at? Thank you in advance

Hello, If I compile the mainline kernel after a make -j2 Bananapi_defconfig Will I get a suitable kernel or am I obliged to use ARMbian build script ? The question behind is, I'm testing Arch on several (unsupported) SBCs at customers requests, and on the BananaPI-M1, the HDMI is not working, on the OrangePI PC2, both the network and eMMC don't work. Obviously, everything is perfectly working on my ARMbian boxes 😄 Thanks

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

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 received a couple of these inexpensive LCD displays ($1.82 each shipped). They are very low power and look good. I've got them working on Arduino and will now be converting the code to Linux. If anyone is interested in these, let me know. I'll edit this post to add the github link when it's ready.

Just received my H616 OpiZero2... Since there is no Armiban -- I tried "Xunglong" version of Ubuntu Focal. Motd from Armbian armbian-config magically transferred into orangepi-config. Same to armbianmonitor, which is now .. guess - orangepimonitor. Also armbianEnv.txt now orangepiEnv.txt in /boot. Looks like "good global search and replace job" was done. I'm not a lawyer, neither too much aware of opensource licenses... But I guess there SHOULD be a reference to original Armbian sources ? May be Armbian "stakeholders" are aware of this, may be not. Just for your information.