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Yes - I'm here flailing about for clues (like person who can't swim in deep end of pool :-) ). I know, this is more of an Orange Pi/ I2C_sunxi thing, but OPI and Armbian go together, so... I have an oscilloscope that shows I2C-0 putting out clock bits with my LDC1314's '2A' address data just fine - up to the ninth clock. On the ninth clock - which follows clocks for bits 6,5,4,3,2,1,0,R/W - and should be where the slave responds with the ACK/NACK bit, the SDA line goes to 1/2Vcc - like the master is fighting the slave. It's like the device is trying its best to pull it low for an ACK, but the Master (OPI pin PA12) is not letting go. I have a pictur…

Hi. Any suggestions on how I can setup a kiosk, using as little resources as possible? I want a couple of icons, that can launch some apps, that's it. Regards, Morten

Short: NCP - NextCloudPi - is not installable via armbian-config , log reporting that "Debian Buster is not supported" Tested on: Armbian_5.89_Rk3328-tv_Debian_buster_default_4.4.154_20190628.img on A5V / H96Max ( RK3328,4GB DDR3, 32GB Flash ) Armbian_5.91_Aml-s905_Debian_buster_default_5.1.0_20190708.img on mecool M8S PRO W ( S905w, 3GB DDR3, 16GB Flash ) Appeared: After Buster went stable, installs of NCP fail with message "Debian Buster is not supported" Can this be addressed by the Armbian community? Is the error with NCP provided components? How can this issue be addressed as to make NCP install…

Hi there, I am currently trying to have a solution based on Hx SoCs to encode raw 1080p video on the fly (at smaller resolutions). For the time being, I have: OrangePi Zero 1.4 OrangePi Zero 1.5 OrangePi One OrangePi PC (waiting for it) OrangePi OnePlus The Zero has a heating problem, for sure, the One seems to be better at handling the load. As for the OnePlus and PC, I haven't tried them yet. What I would like to find is a board with eMMC (so that I don't have to change the SDCard regularly), with a good heatsink. I just need an RJ45 plug, power, and I'm good to go. I don't need CSI, video output or anything el…

I have a need for a low-cost machine for my daughter. I could buy a Raspberry pi and run Ubuntu on it, but I have a few Amlogic boards at hand, and for the most part they work perfectly with Armbian (OK I know they are not a supported board, and I don't run an official build). My concern, though, is that lack of hardware support (audio, video decoding) which makes low-profile hardware quite sluggish to use in the daily life. My point is that I am tired of seeing perfectly usable (in theory) electronic products to to landfill (and create an environmental disaster) just because software is falling short. Not even software in fact, bu…

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

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

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

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

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

As the link below. http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5575378759&campid=5338273189&customid=&icep_item=382617850793&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229508&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg&toolid=11111

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

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

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

Hi there, I bought a few months ago a H616 based TV Box, and made the same kind of mistakes this week. I bought an OrangePi Zero2, also sporting a H616. I bought the TVBox because at that time: "wow, an undocumented AllWinnner SoC!", how stupid is that? I bought the Zero2 because CNX software gave a few hints about the SoC features, like the fact the G31 GPU is a Bitfrost GPU, meaning it supports Vulkan, and down the line, it could potentially be supported by Panfrost open-source graphics driver. I'm still dreaming of an Armbian based video encoding SBC, and this SoC (like so many others on the paper) looks promising: Video D…

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

Hi. I have a Banana PI M1+, and I'm building my custom kernel on a VirtualBOX VM with Ubuntu Server 16.04 because I want to enable other frequencies (until 1152000) and I want to modify the voltage according to the table found here https://linux-sunxi.org/A20 I'm having this error compiling my own kernel ¦ dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-firmware-image-4.9.10-sunxi' in '../linux-firmware-image-4.9.10-sunxi_5.26_a ¦ ¦ dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-headers-4.9.10-sunxi' in '../linux-headers-4.9.10-sunxi_5.26_armhf.deb'. ¦ ¦ dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-libc-dev' in '../linux-libc-dev_5.26_armhf.deb'. ¦ ¦ dpkg…

All, I am looking for a 7 - 10" TFT display with SPI connection, and with touchscreen preferably via I2C, for a project of mine. I want to use the display to show just a static HTML page, without any window manager etc. Pretty basic principle I think. Looking at the website of www.buydisplay.com I see a few options with regards to the controllers used. The main options are: - RA8875 - RA8876 - SSD1963 I can find online references to the RA8875 being supported by fbtft, but there is also a statement on the github page of fbtft that there will be no more development of fbtft ... Before pulling the trigger on a display, I would real…

For this question the assumption is that a board actually has a maintainer and I think the answer given will be useful for anyone else with the same or similar question. May end up being a candidate for some FAQ list. Question is.... If a board has a maintainer and the user builds the image themselves using the recommended default kernel/compilation option, why is there no support for the built image? Rationale behind the question is if the user decides to change the kernel build options then there would bo no doubt that the user will be on their own with no support, but if the kernel is built with the default hard built options then there ha…

At first I compiled today armbian buster dev with kernel 5.10.10 and had no chance to connect eth0 nor wlan0 to my network Only a USB-Ethernet did connect instantly via DHCP. I did try to go back to kernel 5.9.1 via armbin-config, because with older installations with kernel 5.9.1 (up to 5.9.5) it did work, but also cant connect via onboard ports But onboard ethernet get a link and did show the right speed and wlan0 is also displaying the available WiFi networks. Next try was to build the armbian buster current (which gave me also kernel 5.10.10) and it also doesnt connect with onboard devices (here not via Network-Manager nor /e…

Just a tip for something that has helped me from getting a heart-attack over the many years of online discourse.... Back in the day (ugh-really?) there were only TWO rules for participation in the store-and-forward Fidonet system: 1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. 2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. Breaking *either* rule, got you kicked out. Strangely enough, rule #2 was broken more often than #1. And it helps you grow a skin, no matter what is said. Most importantly, it keeps you hacking, and not getting a heart-attack. For Devs, maybe the OpenBSD philosophy can cut through some of the angst: …

So I built some fresh Armbian images with dev kernels, and setup ubuntu mate and ran them on my tritium h5, and my le potato... and like I've got slack running in chromium n stuff, and desktop switching is pretty decent... and that's without acceleration.. just good 'ole brute force. Basically my mind is blown that its usable and I'm going to retire my c2d dell desktop that's on my KVM and finally use an ARM SBC as a desktop!

Hi Armbian fans and developers, I want to introduce ARM single board computers into one traditional organization with corporate IT that doesn't like changes. I already know what I get from the security team if I ask to deploy Armbian that is build by a relatively small number or volunteers. Security team is OK with Debian (that is not run by commercial company) but they won't be happy with Armbian regardless my recommendation even that I personally trust the Armbian team. The solution is to build the image from source and luckily that can be done thanks to the amazing https://github.com/armbian/build. I've just tried to build image for OrangePi Zero and it…

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

Stumbled across while digging through Github. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat Its like code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } cat but has syntax highlight and other cool stuff. Nicely they provide arm and arm64 binaries for lazy people

Hello, In my work I have 3 or 4 old PanaBoard-ES's which are waiting for purpose to live. https://eu.mouser.com/new/pandaboardorg/pandaboardES/ Is there any way that I can somehow install armbian? I don't want windows and stuff - mainly I'm interested to use it as some kind of servers (i.e. play with Home Assistant). Could someone show me the way? Where to start? Br, Marek

A case for "Sticky" Subjects I see a need for "Sticky" Subjects, or a board category for some appropriate discussions: WishBoard support: Let user's provide both a wish list of boards they would like to support, and what they might be willing to do get support for a board. Let me start that on out: How about a NVIDIA Jetson TX1? The drivers are avialable, there is probably good support for getting it off the line, and I would be willing to try to get someone a dev board to work with: http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tx1-module.html Publicity Support: Publicity for armbian means awareness and donations. Let's not forget there must be manufacturer'…

Out of interest, does anyone know if there's a SLIP package in existance still? I have an antique Apple IIgs which is having trouble with PPP and want to try it on SLIP which it used to do fairly happily. But I can't find any reference to one, just looking for confirmation though. Regards, A

@JMCC I'm trying to recreate some of this setup for the Rock Pi 4B running Balena OS (based on Debian Buster) and not getting very far. All I need is for Chromium to recognize the GPU for acceleration. I downloaded the .deb files and tried them, but I killed the OS. I'm willing to hire you to do it. Or anyone else if they understand what to do.

Hi All, I am looking for the steps to build custom Linux preferably OpenWrt distro (otherwise Ubuntu or any other distro should be fine at this moment) for Orange Pi R1 H3. I searched it in https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Community maintained&tx_maker=xunlong for the same. But did find anything for Pi R1 H3 board. Thanks in advance for helping me... Warm regards, Manoj

Hey all! Just signed up. I had been thinking of converting an older T.V. box and was hoping I could do it with Debian. Debian has been my preferred OS for some time now. I have never dealt with these boxes or arm for that matter. It looks like it may be possible to install armbian on this box and I started reading some of the documentation. What I would like to ask before I go down the rabbit hole is, based only on the specs below, if it looks possible? Would it be a good candidate for armbian or would there be too much non-cpu bits that surely won't work. If you folks thinks it's a capable box then I will put on my boots and get into it. Just an honest opinion. Also…

Hello! I have old Banana Pi M2 board, and it's freezes sometime. I trying change sd cards, power adapter, but this actions helps for month, maybe two. I use it as http-server ( apache2 ) and want more stable work. I use Armbian as OS: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.69 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.13-sunxi $ uname -a Linux bananapim2 4.19.13-sunxi #5.69 SMP Wed Jan 9 16:26:48 CET 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux Can anybody help me ?

It seems that the actual install routine of Pihole doenst detect buster with kernel 5.8 correctly. At "my" normal install command "curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash" I did get [✗] Unsupported OS detected: Armbian 20.08.0-trunk Buster https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequesites/#supported-operating-systems e.g: If you are seeing this message on a fresh install, you can run: 'curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true sudo -E bash' If you are seeing this message after having run pihole -up: 'PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true sudo -E pihole -r' (In this case, your previous run o…

Yesterday 1 of my 3 NanoPi Neo2 didnt boot complete anymore. Because I had i the last time - I thought that the internal 2.5" HDD has died and couldnt mounted anymore from /etc/fstab Today I checked the 2.5" HDD externally and its fine So I connected a TTL-RS232 for the boot-output and did get: Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. done. Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did …

Hello guys! As I'm trying to build a retrogaming handheld device, I stumbled about a problem concerning the framerate of my LCD display(ili9341). I'm using SPI to communicate with it and I have a hard time getting it to run >25FPS. As a solution I found 2 github repositories which also deal with the given problem. The first thing I tried was BB-CP from bitbank (https://github.com/bitbank2/BB-CP). Everything works pretty well but I can't get it to work in 16bit mode and in 32bit mode I can't get over 18FPS. Whenever I switch the Framebuffer depth to 16bit my screen goes full ham and shows a.) complete wrong colors or b.) just random colored stripes, rectangles or dots…

Hi I'm a newbie on armbian (below my boot & some informations). J have install xfce and the image corresponding to my board. WIFI don't runs fine, i have tried commands I know. Thank's for help Fred Spoiler login as: root root@192.168.0.154's password: ____ ____ _ __ __ ____ _ _ | __ ) __ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ | _ \(_) | \/ |___ \| | | | | _ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` | | |_) | | | |\/| | __) | | | | | |_) | (_| | | | | (_| | | | | (_| | | __/| | | | | |/ __/| |_| | |____/ \__,_|_| |_|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_| |_| |_| |_| |_|_____|\___/ Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.83 stable De…

Hello, When I log in to my Orange Pi One, I see two temperature fields. One is "CPU temp", the other is "storage temp"? I understand the "CPU temp", but what is "storage temp"? Thanks

Hi there, i just noticed that the link which should explain how to enter Maskrom Mode on the Tinkerboard S https://www.armbian.com/tinkerboard/ does not point to the Wiki but to a site for an online Casino. Seems that tinkerboarding.co.uk does not exist anymore. Maybe someone could remotve that link.

Alpine is not nearly as feature rich as many other distro's, I mainly see it deployed in containers using Docker... https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.9.0-released.html They do have a very good wiki article on how to onboard ARM SoC's including some good stuff on u-Boot (that might be useful for folks working to onboard a new board into Armbian) https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/DIY_Fully_working_Alpine_Linux_for_Allwinner_and_Other_ARM_SOCs

Noob question - Forgive me here, I'm quite new to u-boot. I made a change in my /boot/armbianENV.txt and my Tinkerboard won't boot. I know exactly what to fix, except I'm not accustomed to not being able to find the file. I've mounted the SD Card on another Linux OS and can see/mount all my partitions, I have them mounted but none of the /boot directories are what is typically there when armbian is booted. I'm assuming u-boot is an image and /boot gets dynamically created. Done some searching but not making much sense of what I'm seeing. How/Where do I find the /boot/armbianENV.txt file with the SD Card mounted to another machine? Thanks in advance.

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

Hi, tell me please how to properly enable RUART (S-UART) on Orange Pi 3. The Armbian Bionic build (kernel 5.1) is installed, RUART (S-UART) is enabled via raspbian-config, but does not work. What are the options? Required to connect the UART device. UART 3 is working, RUART (S-UART) does not work. Image: Pin (08, 10)

Today I would give my original Banana Pi (A20 / 1GB Ram) a new life/work and installed for testing armbian Bionic dev with kernel 4.17 (for not trashing my normal Pihole - a OPi PC2 with armbian stretch) After installing armbian bionic I did try to install Pihole via curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash but it "crashes" while starting dnsmaq - because it seems to collide with resolved at Port 53 see as reference : https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/2179 After this reference I did edit /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and inserted DNSStubListener=no as a active line. Spoiler # This file is part…

Is everybody being hit with custom & handling charges via royal mail? Added a total of £11.72 to my OrangePi H3 plus2 £3.72 customs and £8.00 handling charge. Its no bother as just curiosity with Smaller format boards but just wondering is this a Brexit shape of things to come?

I have various boards running Armbian and all have the very useful banner on login _ _ ____ _ _ _ ____ | \ | | __ _ _ __ ___ | _ \(_) | \ | | ___ ___ |___ \ | \| |/ _` | '_ \ / _ \| |_) | | | \| |/ _ \/ _ \ __) | | |\ | (_| | | | | (_) | __/| | | |\ | __/ (_) | / __/ |_| \_|\__,_|_| |_|\___/|_| |_| |_| \_|\___|\___/ |_____| Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.73 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.20-sunxi64 However uname -a Linux npi-neo2 4.19.20-sunxi64 #5.75 SMP Fri Feb 8 10:29:25 CET 2019 aarch64 GNU/Linux A minor thing but it confused me slightly as I did a firmwar…

Hi, What is difference between " Server " and " Desktop"?

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

I have an orange pi PC that I use as a simple NAS (NFS, smb, iscsi) and for openVPN occasionally but want something new with GbE. What is the best upgrade that will give me 2 or more usb ports, GbE and a faster processor? With decent software support ()? I don't need HDMI or wifi but it would be a plus 512MB-1GB RAM opi zero plus? opi PC 2? Around $20 shipped ideally

Hi. I use Armbian 22.05 Jammy Kernel 5.17 on my rock 3a. The blinking blue is very annoying. How can i stop this LED?

Grabbed the latest Jammy download for NanoPi Neo 2 - https://redirect.armbian.com/nanopineo2/Jammy_current Have to ask - why servers preinstalled and default configured? I found NFS/rpcbind and OpenVPN preinstalled on the image - this is a security risk that can be easily avoided.

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

Hi! It seems http://www.cubieforums.com/ is dead (can't sign up), so may I ask here. Is anybody tried to install Android TV on a CubieTruck? I have armbian booting from Sd Card, so I want to have similar SD Card (128Gb), but with Android TV. So - is this possible? What version of Android TV we can use? links appreciated!

rock64 rk3328 orange pi one Can the rock64 rk3328 run several programs simultaneously? Browse internet with little latency? When I tested orange pi one youtube would stutter. Thank you.

Hi, can we use multiarch support on the ubuntu desktop? Is the debian server release supporting multiarch? I receive: N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://apt.armbian.com xenial InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386' N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'xenial-utils/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://apt.armbian.com xenial InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386' N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'xenial-desktop/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://apt.armbian.com xenial InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386' E: Failed to fetch http://p…

Hi, from armbian-config I can install several programs, e.g. softether VPN Server. The version installed is rather old now (nevertheless it is still working). Is there an update for the armbian-config installable software or do I have to update it myself (in case of softether: download & compile, not via apt-get)? Thanks for any help! Steve

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

https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ hello. when assembling the kernel on Ubuntu Hirsute 21.04. x amd64 with the help of Armbian, these errors come out [error] ERROR IN FUNCTION CREATE_ROOTFS_CACHE [DEBOOTSTRAP] [error] ERROR IN FUNCTION UNMOUNT_ON EXIT [ IMAGE_HELPER.SH:82 ] [error] detootstrap-ng was terminated help

Hi, is possible to setup overlayf on Amrbian? I'm using Orange Pi Zero. I found only this https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/#how-to-freeze-your-filesystem-outdated and docs is outdated. On Rapsbian I can enable overlayfs directly from raspi-config. Is there any way how to do the same on Armbian? Thanks for help.

Greetings, I have scoured every source I could find, but could only find images that hinted at it. I need 1) to know the pinout of the 4-pin debug usart port on the NanoPC T4, and possibly 2) to find a good alternative to PuTTY that can handle the high(?) bit-rate I see in dmesg output (under Armbian debian Stretch). I've tried those implied by the images, and though my Windows 7 PC sees a new COM port (and the driver installed clean) for my new DTECH USB to TTL Serial 3.3V Adapter Cable (TX RX Signal with 4 Pin 0.1 inch Pitch Female Socket PL2303 Prolific Chip for Windows 10 8 7 XP Vista (6ft, Black)), I'm unable to access it v…

TRS-80 EDIT: After post was approved, they came back some weeks later and edited the content and replaced whole post with spam, which I have removed. I am leaving the post up though, as already other new users (searching for answer to same problem) found it helpful. How ironic.

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

Why dont you provide support to the Banana pi single boards ? Many of them very interesting. Support is also very weak and short. I know that the last 2 boards from bananpi were based on mediatek and realtek CPU. ( R2 W2 ) They was specialized single boards as router and storage NAS board. why not to try?

I run Armbian on a SanDisk 64GB micro SD card -- using it on Asus TB. Most of the SD card is free space and while I want to keep Armbian as is for the TB, I want to create a multi-OS folder for music and photos. I.e. to use on Android phone, Win PC, Linux Mint computer, etc. Are there any Armbian drawbacks to creating/having such a folder? If not, should I use Armbian to create the empty folder (henceforth, it will be filled with files from multiple devices)? Is there a "best" location to create this generic folder within the Ambian OS card--i.e., as a sub-folder of a default Armbian directory?

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

Hello, how are you doing? I bring here on the forum my simple contribution to the ARM community, it is slackware-current and Armbian for TVBox mxq4k, Sunvell R69, opengl activated in Mali400. Any doubts I am available https://www.slackwaretvbox.com.br/

I can’t get the result of a button click. The button is connected to the PD15 contact. echo 9 > /sys/class/gpio/export (gpio9?) cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio9/value every result: 0 Tell me what the problem is. I also have https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/WiringOP installed, which shows: gpio -v gpio version: 2.46 Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Gordon Henderson This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type: gpio -warranty * Device tree is enabled. * -> OrangePi 3 gpio readall (what Orange Pi RK3399?) +------+-----+----------+------+---+OrangePi RK3399---+---+------+---------+-----+--+ | GPIO | …

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

I'm considering buying one of these boards for a small home server running Freedombox, which is a Debian-based distribution which is designed to make it easier to set up a home server for a number of uses, including media, contacts, calendars, XMPP and SIP. Has anyone tried installing either Freedombox or Debian on this board?

hi all! my problem is simple! Is there a way for measuring or know, input impedance of Microphone input pin (MICIN1) ? in case C.H.I.P , but because it's prossesor is Allwinner A13(=R8), it must be same. thanks in advance

Hi, I decided to sell my Helios64 full bundle: - Helios64 box (case, board, UPS) - 5 3.5" HDD trays (+ screws) - 2 PSU (the original one and an additional compatible Synology one I bought because I saw some posts where people reported a broken PSU) It served me well during 2 years, however the lack of official support and missing features are showstoppers for me, and I recently replaced it with a custom x86 build. I am sure people here would be interested in it. The Helios64 works perfectly and is in very good shape, it was off the most of the time, I only started it when I needed to make a backup. The board is untouched (I di…

hi dear community i have a system runningv on banana pi and i want to update this see what is currently running martin@bananapi:~$ l^C martin@bananapi:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic martin@bananapi:~$ look forward to hear from you by the way - how to find out which banana pi am on !?

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

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I have an ASUS Tinkerboard and I have been using Armbian 18.04, but I would like to know if there is a way to install the Ubuntu-Mate desktop? I tried the following after a fresh install of Armbian 18.04 and before I did anything else. I did not install any desktop from armbian-config. sudo apt update sudo apt install tasksel sudo apt install ubunutu-mate-desktop And while this looked promising and went through the motions (and it took forever), in the end it did not work. I only had the command prompt. Again I did not run anything from armbian-config yet. Thoughts on how to make this work? I assume it is possible. Thanks.

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A brief internet search revealed that Invision board software is supposed to accept bbcode. I wish there was a way to preview this, but it does not appear to be so. Since I prefer to edit my post in Emacs using bbcode mode before posting (I just lost a big post I was working on due to an errant keypress) I hope that it is alright I am testing this functionality. Feel free to delete this once it has been posted... unless somehow you feel it is useful? Well, here goes... Size 150 Size 200 bold italic underline link to google A paragraph. Another paragraph.

Good day all According to the specsheet RASBIAN OS is supported by Opi. This does not seem to be the case. If there is some special way to have thr Opi run RASBIAN please let me know The Armbian OS does not allow me to install libnl-dev for a very specific project. Thank you in advance

Hello, I'm testing mpv with RKMPP hardware acceleration on legacy 4.4 rockchip kernel. This is what I put in /etc/mpv/mpv.conf: vo=gpu hwdec=rkmpp gpu-api=opengl gpu-context=drm opengl-es=yes If works perfectly fine with low cpu usage BUT only if I launch it from command line either from a virtual terminal or an X11 emulated terminal. In case I launch it double clicking on a video from X11 xfce, mpv starts playing video but then completely forgets of the keyboard. No matter what key I hit, it does not respond, I can't even close and I'm forced to kill the process from a ssh session. Using CTRL + ALT + n combinations, I can see the various virt…

hello everyone would like to buy a sbc and i dont know which would be better, need some sugestions done some research, and the best seem to be the orange pi stuff, judging by stability, community, connectivity and price heard bad stuff about banana pi, which i was looking to get initially, and pine64 i plan to use it as a minipc/server im using linux on all my other pc's (x86) what board you think is better? it is important to me to have working drivers (video/wifi), not necessarely binary blobs, even opensource (i am very satisfied with the state of open source video drivers on x86) please share your experiences

https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW6-6N_EtrY The goal is to release open source technical blue prints of an 802.11 wifi card. Ready for manufacturing. Hiring people for the task would be about 400000usd. At the present time such funds are not at hand. Openwifi got a nlnet.nl grant. Next move is to build a fpga wifi card device. Please comment if you think there will be a market for such a device? Which price should it have? Should a crowd funding get started, do you know companies willing to join a double up crowd funding? Thank you.

To monitor and restart boards, we could use the FOSS Android app RasPi Check. However, Armbian needs to reply to all requests from the app (with a valid or dummy value). I looked into it a while back. Perhaps there are more people interested in it from the Armbian community. Let me know if you want to work on this too.

We have community member in France who needed an RPI3 for $dayjob. They found one and dont need one. But it turns out @NicoDhas some RPIs for sale and more. Help support Nicod and channel by purchasing all the crap in his office so he can clean up his camera angles ! 😂😂😂

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

I have zyxel NSA325v2 nas right now, with custom OS (Debian Buster) which is based on single core armv5 cpu. It handles 2 wd red HDDs quite nice, just as RAID 1 volume (mdadm). But when I installed OMV 5 his "horsepower" was...well, nonexistent [emoji2955] Simple file upload via samba takes about 80% of cpu at load ~2.0, downloading at load 1.5 and iperf indicates about 650-700Mbps speed. So I started to wonder - as an user of a few OPIs - if it would be possible to upgrade my NAS in very cheap manner [emoji16] Let's say at $50 max. Does any setup - beside USB-to-SATA card - comes to your mind? Any real SATA sbc at this price is available at all? Or sbc + pci-to-sata c…

It look like we have first glimpse on rk3588 performance https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16426661 Additionally on radxa forum there is some news from one of product manager that more news about this chip and/or boards should be out on 16th of December - on/after RockChip Developer Conference

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

Selling a fully working Helios64 NAS from Kobol. It has been running continuously since purchase without any issues. Includes 4x Western Digital Red 4TB HDDs (16TB total), all in good health and used only in this setup. All original parts are included: case, power supply, cables, and accessories. Note: the 1GbE Ethernet fix has not been applied. Selling because I recently upgraded to a new NAS. Located in the Netherlands. Pickup possible or shipping within the EU. Contact me for pricing or questions.

Hello, I am trying to activate and use canbus on the BananaPi M4. Since the BananaPi M4 is released half a year ago, it seems like never anybody tried this or just don't needed any help. I am googleing for days now to find any solution and get canbus to work. Hardware: BananaPi M4 System: armbian for BananaPi M4 (Debian 10 Buster Lite) Kernel: 4.9.119-BPI-M4-Kernel I want to use it over SPI like on an raspberrypi 3 there I done the following: Added to the /boot/config.txt dtoverlay=mcp2515-can0,oscillator=16000000,interrupt=6 dtoverlay=spi-bcm2835-overlay After an reboot I activated the…

We have some really cool new Armbian Backgrounds. Soon they will be rendered in high resolution. Which one is your favorite? Please vote in the poll! See Gallery Here or links to individual items within poll.

root@bpzm2lan:~# iw reg get global country BG: DFS-ETSI (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A) (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), AUTO-BW (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW (5490 - 5710 @ 160), (N/A, 27), (0 ms), DFS (5725 - 5875 @ 80), (N/A, 14), (N/A) (57000 - 66000 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR When AP is set to chanels 1-11 there is no problem conectin BPi to it. Chanels 12 nad 13 are invisible for the BPi. Other devices are conecting without a problem when AP is set to 12 or 13. root@bpzm2lan:~# cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=bananapim2zero BOARD_NAME="Ban…

https://www.electronics-lab.com/shenzhen-lc-technologys-cherry-pi-pc-v7-is-a-replica-of-orange-pi-pc/ http://linuxgizmos.com/allwinner-h3-based-cherry-pi-pc-rolls-as-orange-pi-pc-lookalike/ Works with Armbian images to Orange Pi PC ( Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 -XFCE 4.12 4.14 GUI ( Debian not tested ) You have to up down CPU frequencies from 1400MHZ to 1296MHZ Best regards

hello dear fellows, first of all: i am so glad to be here at this great place - this forum is so a great place - and i have gotten so much help here - and you all encouraged me ever and ever to a. think over my plans b. re-design my plans c. re-work the concepts. d. and to go ahead - thanks for encouraging me. - this is a awesome place. hope youre all right and everything goes well at your hometown. Hopefully youre well. Currently i work on a little SBC (Banana-Pi) project. I want to learn Python, and want to do this with some SBC (with Banana Pi and and also arduino-projects. …

I'd like to choose an SBC -- running Armbian of course -- for the purpose of processing audio via GStreamer UDP packets. My requirements: -- Half duplex. Must support input (take audio and covert to UDP) and output (decode UDP and generate analog audio) but it is not necessary to handle bidirectional streams simultaneously. One direction at a time is sufficient. -- Process audio with good but not great quality. 16 bit/44.1 kHz is the target bit rate/sample rate. -- First choice of I/O are two 3.5mm jacks on the coastline, one for input and the other for output. -- Second choice of I/O are via GPIO pins. -- I'd rather not use HDMI f…

How to install ElasticSearch under armbian, I tried to install it via docker, but neither ElasticSearch nor kibana started properly.

I am in the middle of porting a proof of concept app from Raspberry Pi/Raspbian to its (hopefully) permanent home on Orange Pi PC/Armbian, and I am really loving the new environment. Now I need to get my non-standard HDMI display working. It's a 800x800 circular display from China that works fine on my Raspberry Pi once I figured out what the HDMI timings were (they weren't even on the data sheet!). As I learned when configuring the RPi the display does not report its resolution correctly, so it won't work out of the box, but in Raspbian you have the option to force the system to use your custom configuration defined in the config.txt file. I have …

I seem to be running around in circles trying to make a decision about a new SBC to add to the herd. The job is currently being done by an OrangePi PC (H3, 1Gb), and is mostly about generating static web sites, which means rendering static HTML/json/js files and uploading them via SCP to a cheap shared hosting provider (the orange pi does not do the actual hosting). This means daily downloading of data from the web (a few hundred MB) and crunching this data to use it for the site. Currently it downloads my country's official covid cases data and generates per-city-daily-cases-per-capita with rolling averages in HTML graphs, this allows easier compa…

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

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

Hi I am trying to connect AWS with MQTT server in teraterm using AT commands , I have entered certificates and checked the certificates after entering and after that , i have given my client ID and respected MQTT url after entering am getting this error "Open Session failed "log.txt. what am i missing this please give suggestions