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I would like to check the authenticity of the Bionic image I downloaded for my Cubieboard 1. However the downloaded .xz file only contains an .img file. The getting started page says all images should be signed. Are the .asc and .sha files typically missing in images for boards without official support?

I'm setting up a new Armbian system from a cold start. I ran armbian-config and used the personal > welcome option to set the MOTD_DISABLE options in /etc/defaults/armbian-motd. It did not do anything to the welcome screen. I asked for the header tips and updates to be excluded. Looking at the resulting /etc/defaults/armbian-motd file : netadmin@ups-monitor:/etc/update-motd.d$ cat /etc/default/armbian-motd # add space-separated list of MOTD script names (without number) to exclude them from MOTD # Example: # MOTD_DISABLE="header tips updates" MOTD_DISABLE="" ONE_WIRE="" # yes = show 1-wire temperature sensor…

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 - Earlier this week ( begin April 2020 ) I found out H5 boards become scarce. I was unable to find the H5 chip at allwinner tech H series section, suppose this will be replaced ? Anyone more info perhaps?

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 …

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…

@w0ndersp00n - I moved this here, not to hijack the Mayan thread Building it, sounds a bit similar to here: https://github.com/armbian/autotests After cloning, Igor runs an initial part of the script. Once it configured itself (and you have adjusted the configuration file) you run the script again. A similar approach could be done for DMS Paperless I guess. I agree, Mayan has business like options. Do you want it for business or private use? Not sure what exactly you mean by web-upload, paperless offers: Currently, there are three options: the consumption directory, IMAP (email), and HTTP POST.

Hi, I would like to set up a Google Drive client and aren't aware of any specific distro's for armbian. Any suggestions? root@helios4:~# grep "BRANCH" /etc/armbian-release BRANCH=legacy root@helios4:~# grep "VERSION" /etc/armbian-release VERSION=20.02.4 Many thanks!

Maybe someone does know the old/historical SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) speech synthesizer for the Commodore 64? Today I did found the github-page with the source-code and compiled it on my Orange Pi R1 - using armbian For compiling the default SDL-version I had to install the 2 additional packages with apt - libsdl1.2-dev - libsdl1.2debian before SAM did compile on armbian. I also did try libsdl2-2.0.0 (and -dev), but this didnt worked well while compiling The souce-code could be found at: https://github.com/s-macke/SAM Hear here, how this OLD speech synthesizer sounds https://www.youtu…

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, 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

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…

___ ____ _ _ _ _ / _ \| _ \(_) | | (_) |_ ___ | | | | |_) | | | | | | __/ _ \ | |_| | __/| | | |___| | || __/ \___/|_| |_| |_____|_|\__\___| Welcome to Ubuntu Bionic with Armbian Linux 4.19.62-sunxi System load: 0.21 0.20 0.15 Up time: 18 min Memory usage: 44 % of 492MB Zram usage: 24 % of 246Mb IP: 192.168.1.71 CPU temp: 44°C Usage of /: 14% of 29G [ General system configuration (beta): armbian-config ] The emboldened line above message appears sometimes on login, but not always. I took it to mean that I needed to do something in armbian-config, but nothing is indicated or s…

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…

Hello! I've just recently gotten a few (okay, several. I might have a problem here.) small single-board computers and I'm thoroughly in love with them. I also purchased a few small LCDs so I could make small independent thing that wouldn't require a huge display - perhaps even portable ones. While I do enjoy using the terminal for practically anything (give me lynx, rtv, byobu and the likes and I'm happy), there are certain advantages in a graphical user interface. But let's face it, the default UIs with modern window managers are... not exactly designed for small, low-res screens. With a 800x480 screen it's plausible to use just a normal WM and be rather fine…

Just got this error at the very end of a build. [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ linux-firmware-git master ] fatal: unable to access 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/': The requested URL returned error: 504 [ .... ] Fetching updates fatal: unable to access 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/': The requested URL returned error: 504 [ .... ] Checking out error: pathspec 'FETCH_HEAD' did not match any file(s) known to git. I checked a very few minutes later and the URL https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ did eventually respond with a…

I have a supported build host running, and successfully building and testing kernels for a few targets that I have examples of. I'm looking to extend my repertoire to building complete armbian images. I think I also want to use EXTERNAL and/or EXTERNAL_NEW to configure additional packages into the image. This has led me to this stanza: BUILD_MINIMAL (yes|no): set to “yes” to build bare CLI image suitable for application deployment. This option is not compatible with BUILD_DESKTOP=”yes” and BUILD_EXTERNAL=”yes” I can find no BUILD_EXTERNAL referenced elsewhere, should this be simply EXTERNAL ? or have I missed so…

Hello, I have app (in attachment) from Rasbian and I have problem when I try to install this app on Armbian. Is it possible to run this app on Armbian? root@mps-box-000:/home/username/Downloads# sudo dpkg -i EERaspbian_1.0.1.0.deb (Reading database ... 113955 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack EERaspbian_1.0.1.0.deb ... Unpacking eelinux:armhf (1.0.1.0) over (1.0.1.0) ... Setting up eelinux:armhf (1.0.1.0) ... Job for eelinux.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status eelinux.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. dpkg: error processing package eelinux:armhf (--install):…

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…

Hi, A small discussion started here, but I would like to lift it to here. The question and tests should be. Are there alternatives to Etcher? A must was - standard writing verification. IIRC this was back in the days an option you had to set a 'tick' on Win32 DiskImager.. and so not an option. Before we change anything - proper testing and writing down the steps to achieve a great result is a must. Multiplatform, would be nice, but we can as well recommend 2 or 3 SDcard writing programs. Can you please help to write a table of available programs (you can do a table in the forum, but consider quantity of lines & rows first). And w…

Hi, I have two Opi1 that are taking dust, here in italy we are under quaratine, and I want to do something stupid, like: setup an old OPi1 to be useful. So my first attemp was to try retrorangepi, but 4.3 version is really laggy and kodi is based on matrix alpha and there are so many error with python 3.0 dependancies, I can't even install youtube addon. 4.1 and 4.2 usually works better, but kodi again is the problem, and gamepad as a known problem with deadzone. android beta 7 gives me a lot of error on google play...but don't ask me what error is because it's written in chinese. Now, I think I will never find an OS perfect for me so I was…

Hello, Sometimes, i have following errors on main syslog-ng server : Spoiler 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir1-140-user kernel: 3,996,16878692493,-;mmc0: Card stuck in programming state! mmc_do_erase 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir1-140-user kernel: 3,997,16878692530,-;blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 10335392 op 0x3:(DISCARD) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir1-140-user kernel: 3,998,16878692736,-;mmc_erase: group start error -110, status 0x0 2020-03-07T12:59:50+01:00 s_dev_kernel_kmsg@srv-orangepir…

Hello, can someone tell me: I launched the mpd stream via httpd, the mpc client, when connected from another device there is neither the name of the station, nor the name of the song, nothing, only the start-stop button and volume control. Who can tell what the problem is? I enclose the configuration file mpd.conf: Spoiler music_directory "/home/piro_tex/mnt_microsd" playlist_directory "/home/piro_tex/mpd/playlists" db_file "/home/piro_tex/mpd/tag_cache" log_file "/home/piro_tex/mpd/mpd.log" pid_file "/home/piro_tex/mpd/pid" state_file "/home/piro_tex/mpd/state" …

i have an orangepi plus2e, and i cant find mupen64plus, i can find data and plugins, but i cant find the main package, i tried installing other packages wich might contain it but no luck. are there other repos to add? or do i have to compile it?

In my browsing I have just stumbled across this... https://tibbo.com/store/plus1.html Basic rundown Here are the key characteristics of the SP7021, the first member of the new PLUS1 line: Easy-to-use LQFP package. Quad-core 1GHz Cortex-A7 CPU, plus A926 and 8051 cores. Single 3.3V power*. Integrated 128MB or 512MB DDR3 DRAM. Eight 8-bit 5V-tolerant IO ports, plus one high-current port. Flexible Peripheral Multiplexing (PinMux). Dual PinMuxable Ethernet MACs. Four PinMuxable Enhanced UARTs, plus one console UART. Industrial operating temperature range: -40C ~ +85C. Low EMI simplifi…

This "motd" fragment has a bug/inconsistency. # any changes will be lost on board support package update THIS_SCRIPT="armbian-config" MOTD_DISABLE="" /etc/defaults/armbian-motd has : # add space-separated list of MOTD script names (without number) to exclude them from MOTD # Example: # MOTD_DISABLE="header tips updates" This works correctly for the other "motd" fragments which contain, for instance : THIS_SCRIPT="sysinfo" MOTD_DISABLE="" but fails to disable 41-armbian-config unless the MOTD_DISABLE string includes armbian-config. I've verified that nothing untoward happens if you change 41-armbian-config to …

I've installed a wireless alarm system, but I want to use all my old wired stuff from my original alarm system. I started down the road of using an ESP8266, but GPIO.INT was flaky and GPIO pins limited, so I ordered a MCP23017 and figured Why not just do everything with one NanoPi Duo? I have a few of them and they are made for breadboard prototyping. Plus with the built in Ethernet I can have wired primary and wireless backup networking. I even rolled my own Ethernet adapter since the breakout adapters cost $5+. If you have already done this and have any wisdom to share I'd like to hear it. No turning back now!

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…

Hi, i own a Libre Computer Le Potato (AML-S905X-CC) board and i would like to compile my own customized kernel to try patches for bug fixing and experimenting unstable "features", like lima driver. The problem is that i currently use this board as daily driver and i would like the possibility to have a backup kernel (a stable one) in case something goes wrong. So the question is: it is possible to have multiple installed kernel and decide which one boot (like GRUB behaviour) using the uboot bootloader? If it is impossible, i'm sorry for the stupid question. I don't know how exactly the boot sequence works, from a low level point of view. Thanks a …

Whats your favorite little heat sink for the Allwinner SoCs... LibreComputer's doesn't count.

I heard about this today. https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift sounds pretty neat..

Dear Armbian community, I like to use the RTC connector of the Nanopi R1 and i'm using an CR2032 3Volt/220mAH battery. However i can't find any documentation of the right syntax, neither on the wiki page of friendlyarm or somewhere else. I tried: The syntax of the Nanopi Fire 3 (6.16: http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_Fire3) Syntax of odroid boards (N2 and XU4) "default rtcwake" commands in armbian. I enabled all I2C pins in ''armbian-config'' Probably i need some rtc driver?? I'm using the Nanopi R1 one for an IoT GNSS logging project and i like to poweroff the board a…

Hi there, I am about to use an OrangePi Zero to handle the temperature and display some information on a custom contraption related to network. The problem I have is that this contraption will be powered on and powered off at will, without notice. So... I guess that after some time, the Zero running Armbian won't be that happy about being shut off brutally. I have seen some setups with supercapacitors for Raspberry Pis, but has anyone in here tried something similar with the OrangePi Zero? Or anything else that would delay the power loss, so that the board can shutdown properly? I made searches about supercapacitors with Armbian, but only found some…

I was using OPI3 as my home automation server for many months, very stable for me with Armbian. But now I've migrated to more powerful machine and my OPI3 got nothing to do So I'm thinking about connecting it to my TV and use as light linux desktop: web browser mainly. Does anyone use OPI3 2GB RAM like that? Is it powerful enough to handle browsing with 10 tabs for example? Or I should go for some cheap RK3399+4GB RAM (under $50) instead? What's your experience?

What you guys think of the Unisoc SC9863A ? 8 cores arm with integrated LTE modem, getting mainline support. This unisoc look like a company like mediatek... But the point is, the the modem is opensource or uses a blob ?

Orange Pi has a form to fill out to submit your projects. Has anyone submitted any? Where are lists of them located? http://www.orangepi.org/News/info_a3e7799eff76ca475becaa462a9697a.html

I'm looking at the NanoPi R1S, R1, or Orange Pi R1 as a simple bridge device for Zerotier. They all seem to have some limitations that likely mean ~100Mbps either from the 100M ports or the R1S' USB2 connected port so that's fine. I'm most drawn to the R1S for price and included case. Questions are: 1) Are these the only decent <=$30 devices for this task? 2) Is one of these known to be more stable/reliable? 3) Is there a likely software support issue with any of them? The deployment model is pretty simple. Plug WAN in to and DHCP port, have the firewall locked down tight, and bridge a ZT network into the LAN port.

howdy community, I am very keen on installing motioneye on my orangepi PC - Question: can i try Orange Pi PC Beta image with Xenial and mainline kernel with the Orange Pi One and Lite. i have heard that Motioneye (not os) works very well with Orange Pi PC when installed on top of Armbian-OS. It is told to be great for multiple network cameras as they are cheap and can run 2 cameras per SBC comfortably. i got 2 orange pi pc How should i go ahead: - installing ffmpeg. Otherwise it was the raspbian instructions on armbian. - Did anybody get armbian up and going properly before installing motioneye? btw: which camer…

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'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…

I split this off to it's own topic, as it became more about Librem 5 which was offtopic from the original discussion. Being someone aware of Libreboot for some years now, I was never a fan of Purism and the BS they pulled with their laptops, which meant either: they knew fully libre firmware was not possible, and lied (or) they really wanted to do as stated, but ran face first into a wall due to lack of knowledge / research beforehand (about Intel IME issues) And so, back then I never really paid much attention to them, thinking (like you do) that they were just another company "cashing in" as you say, and everything from them is all …

So this guy made a simple yet brilliant inquiry into his thoughts on how to hack the at&t restrictions. I hope theres a status update soon cause, Id love to know how his progress has gone so far. https://ltehacks.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=783

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...

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'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…

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!

Cross-posted from here... At FOSDEM 2020, in roughly a few days (at 2pm, Sunday 2nd of Feb, Brussels time), there will be a livestreamed explanation given of the “FOSDEM Video Box” HDMI capturing devices. They use almost 60 of these ARM-based devices during the FOSDEM conference to capture both the video output of all presenters laptops, and the video and audio of the camera filming of the presenter. Serious video hackery accomplishes this. I would encourage anyone interested to check out the bio of Luc Verhaegen, one of the presenters. Using these "Video Boxes", FOSDEM inexpensively streams 720p videos of all 800+ presentations! This is a small m…

Where are the Odroid C1 images? This page is empty: https://dl.armbian.com/odroidc1/archive/ What is/was the latest stable Debian? I don't need Desktop but sound should work over HDMI. Its to bad the C1 has no support anymore. Seems to be the only board that does up to 384kHz Audio.

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 …

Plan to clean up this a bit later, but I thought for now I'd lay the topic down for the forum to address. Topic: USB 3.1 Type-C (thunderbolt 3) as a multi port usb HUB Regards: (newer phones, laptops, sbc, routers etc?) Armbian / u-boot capable devices that currently can be powered by a type-c 3.1 Reason: ? Any thoughts on what someone would like to do with one of these? Reply with thoughts please! My thoughts: Armbian / and or Openwrt + the 8in1 adapters = OTG FTW Use Armbian core or friendlylywrt to plug n play managed "smart" scripts. Diy, router / switch managed or one script m…

I've posted in the Armbian forums in the past about Kerberos.io video surveillance software. For some reasons it was (at the time) not always that easy or impossible to compile or get it up and running. But: Times have changed (for the good this time!) and I've tried it again on a H3 1GB memory OrangePi plus with kernel 5.4 using a *FRESH and CLEAN* Ubuntu Bionic Server image. I was able to get the Kerberos software 2.8.0 up and running straight away, just by *EXACT* following the instructions on the website of Kerberos.io (Generic installation Instructions page). It takes some time to compile ffmpeg and the machinery module, but it is certainly worth the eff…

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

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

Hi, Please excuse me if this question has been brought up before, but I recently got a couple of Orange Pi 4G IOT boards, and I find the instructions for flashing Ubuntu lacking. So I wonder, does armbian work on this particular board? It would be awesome if I could flash it with armbian, and install the drivers for the modem later (as long as wifi works ofcourse so I can actually connect to it).

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…

Now I paid attention to the numbers of visitors I have never seen such an influx of guests .... 14 Members, 0 Anonymous, 1208 Guests (See full list)

hey, I'm having some trouble with my ssh connection to an armbian based server. It feels like a heavy lag within the filesystem, sometimes it takes up to 20 seconds to open a file with vim or use cd with tab-completion. But it is not always there, it feels more like some heavy write operation occurs spontaneously. I start digging but I have no clue why this happens. But at least I found the most disk I/O processes which are influxdb and mysql. [16:54|root@odroidhc1 ~]# cat /syscat /sys/fs/ext4/mmcblk0p1/session_write_kbytes 118811040 [16:55|root@odroidhc1 ~]# uptime 16:56:03 up 10 days, 3:53, 3 users, load average: 0,87, 0,64, 0,59 [17:15|ro…

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.

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).

Hi there, I'm trying to better understand GPIO (in general) and to use what's available on the OrangePi Zero with Armbian. For the time being, I managed to get an I2C screen to work. Now, I'm about to try InfraRed (before using SPI). I already have the OrangePi extension hat (somewhere in the office), but it won't be really handy, as the IR receiver could be a feet away from the board, so I thought of using a general purpose IR receiver. I know there is a module pack listed on OrangePi store, but I'd like to get just the IR part... Is there a schema somewhere that lists the kind of circuit and part I should get? I was not able for the time being to …

This is my first day trying Armbian on my Firefly Renegade. But the web browsers do not work under the main user, only if I log in as root. Other distros that I have used only let the less privileged users run a browser. Was this intentiional on your part ?

Wherever you are around the world I wish you all a happy new year! May 2020 bring all the best for you, your family and your friends. Don't party too hard

Hello, is there something like a VirtualBox that can emulate a BP(M1) hardware, that can run Armbian inside? I'm looking for a way to set up a new Armbian system for a BPM1, without having to shut down the running one longer than absolutely necessary. I have done this before with Linux servers: I installed and configured a hole server inside a VirtualBox alongside my normal computer work, then I copied the image to the real disk and swapped the disks, with a downtime of only about 5 minutes. So I was wondering if this was possible with the BananaPi as 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…

(Note: this is a cross-post from here). For those unfamiliar with Festivus, it’s that festive time of year when you get your chance to Air your Grievances, and be heard (or ignored, as the case may be). Please, everyone, save up your Grievances for the next 2-3 days, then Air them! It would be sort of like when Lunduke does his “Linux Sucks” speeches, but we all get to have our say. For example, are there particular ARM board vendors that have made your life particularly difficult? You can have long-winded rants, ideally caffeine fueled, but please, edit them into a coherent essay-like format, before posting. Diagrams, meme-pictur…

Hi, I've been using a lot redsocks with iptables to be able to stream to YouTube since last June on an X86 Ubuntu machine. I have a set of iptables rules that work for me on this machine. I imported them on my OrangePi One running Armbian Linux orangepione 5.4.2-sunxi #19.11.4.352 SMP Wed Dec 18 00:58:18 CET 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux. Unfortunately, it did not work, maybe because of the news nftables. So I chose to use the legacy iptables Spoiler update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy update-alternatives --set ip6tables /usr/sbin/ip6tables-legacy update-alternatives --set arptables /usr/sbin/arptables-legacy update-…

Is there any? Intended use: LUKS.

Hi, I just had a huge boost on my Internet speed (1Gbs down / 600Mbps up), it's a good thing but it showed that many of my SBC that are running 24/7 are not ready to handle such high bandwidth. In each case running a curl outputting to /dev/null -> I almost top out the Gigabit interface -> 99Mo/s. When I test download speed (while saving on disk) : * Old Banana pi running kernel 4.14.18-sunxi (armbian of course but not updated with stretch) with an Kingston SSD on the SATA port -> cannot go over 12~14Mo/s (Mo/s not Mb/s) * Orange Pi +2E running 4.19.62-sunxi (armbian with ubuntu Bionic) with a Sandisk SSD on usb2 wi…

I don't know where to write it, but if there is someone looking for MC1 at discount price, there is a big sale going on. I took 5 of them to build a h.264 encoding farm.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/12/08/rock-pi-sata-hat-targets-rock-pi-4-raspberry-pi-4-nas/ Nice hardware for NAS on usb3.0 only board. It looks like perfect hardware for ultimate 12-bay RK3399 nas experience if combined with proper hardware Sent from my Redmi 4X using Tapatalk

Good day/night, I have 3 main questions. I have the following; https://www.androidpolice.com/2015/12/19/jide-remix-mini-android-desktop-pc-review-interesting-software-let-down-by-bargain-bin-hardware/ https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=44_567&item_id=092497 Which version of "Armbian" should I download for these 2 devices? As well I was wondering if there is a generic x86/x86_64 version of Armbian for download? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi there, I was wondering if there is a GPIO generic Python library somewhere for Armbian? I think I remember that the pins are not always announced the same way on Armbian and on OrangePi distros. I have seen this effort by @chwe, but is there anything else? Thanks.

I'm new. Are there generic images for a soc ? like the rk3399, to test for example on the orange pi 4 ? Is it so painfull to install regular debian ? (the debian documentation is painfull to read, for sure).

Ubuntu LTS 20.04 will probably have XFCE 4.14, which is based on GTK3. I have XFce 4.14 installed on an x86 Arch Linux machine. Unfortunately, the GUI is heavy. Requires memory resources and a good graphics card. I have a question. In connection with the upcoming 20.04 release, would it not be better to Armbian switch to LXQT as the basic GIU. It is lighter and faster. thanks

Hello, I'm using Armbian (kernel version 5.0.21-sunxi) on an Olimex a13 SOM. I'm trying to implement wiegand interface on GPIO pins, that means that I have to fire interrupts on 50uS pulses. I solved my problem with writing down a driver capturing edge triggered inputs. So, with some readers (200uS pulses, 1.5ms between pulses) i can get all data, but with other readers (e.g. 100uS pulse, 500uS between pulses) I miss some interrupts (e.g. I have a wiegand42 reader and sometimes I get 41 interrupts, sometimes I get 39 or 36). I read that kernel fires new interrupt only when the previous interrupt function has returned, so I tested it with just addi…

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

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

Hi 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 do not wish to make this too political. But I do often get the question if we can trust all the images from board makers security wise. I personally try many images. I only use Hardkernel images on my Odroids. On my NVIDIA Jetson Nano I of course use the image from NVIDIA since it's got all the goodies. But on all other boards I use Armbian. Either official Armbian, or Balbes Armbian. I wanted to hear your thought about this.

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 …

at https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=274 is the "new" NanoPi R1S (available as H3 or H5) and they stated armbian-support in the OS-Section. Is that original or FriendlyElec-armbian? Because the R1S doenst seem to use the AMPAK WiFi/Bluetooth as the NPi R1, but a Realtek module?

Hey everyone, I flashed an SD card using Etcher and the latest armbian image for Orange Pi PC. I am using a Samsung 2A usb power supply + the official usb power cord. I'm not getting any output on the HDMI. Is this something I have to SSH to first? I removed a USB WiFi adapter and it seemed to work. I don't know why or how that could've caused an issue (since a different WiFi adapter seems to work just fine), but whatever, it works.19.99 euros to dollars

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…

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 …

BPi M1 A20 with kernel 5.3.7/5.3.8 there are some problems using the onboard-analog-audio mpg123/espeak is freezing and cant write to the analog-audio via alsa. A USB-Audio-dongle does work fine. (also EOS devices like PCDuino A10 and Lime A10 have audio sync-problems with kernel 5.3 (but do work) - but its "OK" they are EOS) The BPi M1 A20 has no problem with the analog-codec while using kernel 4.19.81-sunxi analog-codec seems to be always active, because if enabled as overlay or not the analog-soundcard s shown: aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: sun4icodec [sun4i-codec], device 0: CDC PCM C…

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…

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…

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+ ??

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

I have no access to network line atm, I want to send someone an android with the server app in it to keep it plugged in and connected to your wifi and screen off, just you have to forward a router port, I offer $10/month or you decide, and ill let you limit its bandwidth with a setting, and after were done you can keep the android. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ looking for 2 different armbian users from 2 different locations to host. I currently have: 0 of 2 hosts

I have Cubietruck plus H8, downloaded Armbian_5.51_Cubietruckplus_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.17.4.img and wrote it to 32 Gb SD card. It booted normally. I wrote it under Windows and Paragon partition manager showed 2 partitions on the card - about 900 Mb or some looks like this and remained 32Gb-900Mb free space. But under booted Armbian there is only 1 partition for all capacity, mounted as root. I want to divide the one partition to root, home and for database files, for example 10 Gb for root, 5 Gb for home and 15Gb for database files. After I did it by Paragon partition manager, booting couldn' t make at all. That is the device is powered on sh…

One month ago I got on my OPi Zero Plus2 H5 only up to 816Mhz with armbian. In the past I got on this device up to 1.1GHz (1080000 cpufreq) with older armbian builds. @5kft Told me thats because frequencys greater than 816Mhz require 1.2v and the OPi Zero Plus2 H5 isnt/couldnt switch(ing) and would only run at 1.1v. So it seems the cpu-table is now more conservative than before. Yesterday I did see the same behaviour and my "older" non-LTS NanoPi Neo2 (H5 also). Because in September I edited the cpu-table less conservative for the OPi Zero Plus2 H5 I did test this also on the non-LTS NanoPi Neo2 and it worked like on the OPi Zero…

Just a simple little question - I've moved my system to SATA, but there are still full OS on the SD Card: ~# ls /media/mmcboot/ bin boot dev etc home lib lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin selinux srv sys tmp usr var I would like to remove unused stuff to make some space.

On newer armbian-build it seems that the codec-analog is disabled by default I activated analog-codec in armbian-config ==> System ==> Hardware like in older builds. aplay -l did show the device, but could play. So I did decompile the .dtb with: dtc -I dtb -O dts /boot/dtb/sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-r1.dtb -o /boot/dtb/sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-r1.dts Edited the allwinner,sun8i-h3-codec status from disabled to okay: codec@1c22c00 { #sound-dai-cells = < 0x00 >; compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-codec"; reg = < 0x1c22c00 0x400 >; …

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?

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Hi guys, I guess some might have heard that we (Kobol Team) were spinning a new project to succeed to Helios4. Here it is... Helios64 We didn't have to look too far for the board name since in essence the goal was to redesign from scratch Helios4 with a 64-bit SoC and try to improve every key features that made Helios4 a very targeted board for NAS setup. Right now we are at the prototyping test phase, hopefully in a 2 month time will have dozen of Eval boards to send around for evaluation and review... and if all goes well first batch should be available for order in Feb / March 2020. Happy to answer an…

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ Free software is software you may use, share, modify and redistribute. Replicant has decided to investigate if they can port a replicant version to the phone. Replicant has said, they know of no phone better about free software. All modems on the market require non free software. Same about the modem in the pinephone. A downside of the pinephone is the wifi card, 8723cs, because it requires non free firmware software. On pinephone's irc I was told, they went for the 8723cs because pinephone could find no viable free software supported sdio wifi card. Is it the case, there…

Hi, I'm looking for a tiny board with eth and wireless. My first choice is Orange Pi Zero but I'm worried about thermal issue. Any cheap alternative?

A while ago I did create a armbian-package-information for at the motd of the login: Now the line for the kernel does show 2 versions because there are "Version:" and "Config -Version:" root@npi-neo2-24(192.168.6.24):~# dpkg -s linux-image-$BRANCH-$LINUXFAMILY|grep Version Version: 5.96 Config-Version: 5.96 root@npi-neo2-24(192.168.6.24):~# dpkg -s linux-image-$BRANCH-$LINUXFAMILY|grep Version|cut -f 2 -d ' ' 5.96 5.96 So I had to find another way/command to get the information once I did go back from "dpkg -s" to "dpkg -l" and greped there the version-info: root@npi-neo2-24(192.168.6.24):~# dpkg -l | awk -v env_var="linux-image-$BRANCH-$LINU…