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

I'm trying to setup a server based on an Odroid HC2. I chose Armbian Buster but I'm having problems because arm64 isn't as well-supported as 32-bit. I'm thinking about starting over with Focal but I wanted to double-check first... Is Focal 32-bit? Does it still have/use armbian-config and softy? (I assume so, but just in case those are exclusive to Buster, I thought I'd ask.) Thanks for the guidance!

Hi all, If anyone is interested, I have a Helios64 backup battery pack lying around that I did order back in the day, but never got around to installing/using it. (Have a separate UPS.) From my guess this thing is <6 years old, but again, never seen any charge or discharge. PM me when interested. Groetjes, PS Available for pickup in the San Jose, Bay Area, CA (USA) or can send domestically thru USPS.

TinkerBoard Asus: RockPro64:

On https://forum.armbian.com/guidelines/ there is a typographical error on the second paragraph. "Technical support is spitted" Should read: "Technical support is split"

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

Since yesterday I suffer from very poor performance of forums like very long page loading times. Disabling ipv6 on my devices fixes this. Can somebody confirm this behaviour? If so please state where you are connecting from (country).

I hope you like the upgrade, which was done on urgent notice due to database failure and we started from this morning's backup. We apologise for some deleted posts and users, wrong settings and possible bugs. Since our previous forum was 5-6 years old, upgrade is tremendous but we will try to keep it similar on function level. There was a plan for redesign but this will be done once in the future. Enjoy!

I will be at FOSDEM (Bruxelles, BE) 2018 next week... https://fosdem.org/2018/ If you want to meet up or just drop by, I will be hanging around the Pine64 booth/table in building AW and the SUNXI dinner on saturday as well as the #HSBXL ByteNight party at the Bruxelles hackerspace... So who else is attending?

Are you mainly going to participate live, listen later to recordings or not at all? Any topics that are related, close to single board computer world to recommend? I am still working on my "shopping list", but this is some initial draft from https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/ QA About the joy and tears of testing Embedded Devices https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/testing_embedded_devices/ Interactive debugging inside CI systems https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/debugging_inside_ci/ QAOps - The Latest Trend in QA & Software Delivery https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/qaops/ Software Composition devroom Overvi…

Now the picture is complete, and it's better news than the September note suggested. Three things in Firefox's own code: 1. There's a fallback chain already, and it's three deep. CreateTexture tries zero-copy import first; if that fails it has CreateTextureViaCopyYUV for NV12 and CreateTextureViaCopyP010 for 10-bit. 2. Those fallbacks already use the external-texture machinery — the exact mechanism a whole-frame import needs: aGLContext->fBindTexture(LOCAL_GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL, srcTex); aGLContext->fEGLImageTargetTexture2D(LOCAL_GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL, mEGLImage[aPlane]); So Firefox can bind a dma-buf as an external texture. It just does it …

The picture below is the driving circuit, the output of the FPGA is driven to drive the push-pull converter, Is it right?

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

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

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…

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?

If anyone was thinking about to get some NanoPi - then today could be the right day "2018's Black Friday Is Coming!" http://www.friendlyarm.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;p=5316#p5316 Up to 20 Items with Max Discount of $10+ Only on This Friday! [H3] NanoPi NEO: 256M (DO NOT Include Free Heat Sinks): $7.99 512M(DO NOT Include Free Heat Sinks): $9.99 NanoPi NEO Core-LTS: 256M+4GB: $12.99 512M+8GB: $16.99 NanoPi NEO Air : 512M+8GB: $19.99 NanoPi M1 Plus: 1GB+8GB:$29.99 [H5] NanoPi NEO2: 512M: $14.99 1GB: $24.99 NanoPi NEO Core2: 512M+8G:$19.99 1GB+8GB:$26.99 NanoPi NEO Plus2: 1G+8GB: $32.99 NanoPi K1 Plus: $29.99 NanoPi A64: $14.99 [RK3399] NanoPi NEO…

So I'm working on a generic way to do MMIO GPIO on Armbian and chatting with @diozeroit seems like a wiringPi implementation is a good place to start for ideas. Armbian supports many FriendlyArm boards, so I took a look at https://github.com/friendlyarm/WiringNP. Of course out of the box it fails because it's probing for things found only in its home made OS distros. I found a way to hack the getBoardType function to hard code your board type for Armbian and probably other distros. This will work only on the board you hack it for. Honestly there should have been a way to pass in a parameter to override the detection code. In any event here's the method to use. …

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

Quad Cortex-A7, 512MB DDR3L RAM, 16Mb SPI-NOR, and 8GB eMMC, 3 ports GBe - WiFI is 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac on ath10k (2 stream ath10k WiFi - so it's essentially an AC1300 class device supporting MU-MIMO) It's 12VDC@1.5A cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 26.81 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 Can do close to wirespeed on NAT... Iperf3 numbers Downlink [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 955 MB…

It's *amazing* what you can find reading the Armbian documentation! I dig the shell, even old-school in a virtual terminal or minimal server type setup. Normally that means going through some squinty-eyed hoops to get the Terminus console font installed with larger sizes in the first place on large monitors. Wait - what's this? sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup I did this in a virtual terminal, and allowed setup to pick the right character set for me. Then I blasted the framebuffer with the largest Terminus font size allowed. Perfection! Not a big deal to most, but having this be part of the standard distrib…

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'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).

Hello dear Armbian-experts, first of all - i hope youre all right and everything goes okay in your hometown. i am currently triyng to get started with MQTT-Protocoll. i want to use it with a RaspBerryPi - see here my diagram: …

Today I did want to compile a image, but at the start of creating the image I do get the following messages: [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ u-boot v2019.04 ] fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer [ .... ] Fetching updates fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer [ .... ] Checking out error: pathspec 'FETCH_HEAD' did not match any file(s) known to git. after that lines the compile do work like there is no problem.....

Hi, I'm developing a port (or "platform") for the Godot game engine that targets single board computers and I would really appreciate some feedback. I have already posted on reddit, but I got no replies so far: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_devices/comments/8a3to5/godot_export_template_frt_looking_for_feedback/ I was hoping maybe to have better luck posting here. See the reddit post, but essentially I have an executable that you can test (but you can re-create it yourself if you prefer; everything is open source https://github.com/efornara/frt ): https://sourceforge.net/projects/frt/files/demos/093_214_2d_platfo…

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

Hi, I 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!

Hi, maybe this is a dumb question, but here goes. How does including a signed .asc file in the 7zip archive verify the integrity of the whole archive? I mean, couldn't a bad guy just copy the .asc file into a new archive?

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.

Hi all, I am building an art project, and I love the hardware specs of Orange Pi PC for it. I have a graphical Java app (built in Processing) that runs on a HDMI display, and unsurprisingly it doesn't run well without a GPU. On RPi 3B+/Diet Pi I've got it up around 24 fps using KMS, and I'm happy with that performance, but now I'm porting it to the OPi so I'm kinda starting from scratch again. I am aware of the amazing work going on with Panfrost although I've had issues installing it on my board with Buster Desktop. In general Armbian on Orange Pi PC seems pretty great, amazing even. But I'm only getting about 1 frame every 5 seconds with my Java/Processing a…

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

I just wanted to support you in your move from ROM to Distro. Having up to date kernels, learning to make up to date kernels and absolutley great compile updates are what separate what you've been doing from other projects. I know quite well that it's not easy doing your own funky tech thing, and wish to congratulate you on seeing it through! Best wishes, a fan of your work! -Jake

I just have to share my method to test distros headless with my OdroidN2. The N2 boots eMMC before SD card, so what I did was to flash the SD card with an armbian distro and get it up and running. the SD card always shows up on mmcblk0 and the eMMC on mmcblk1. So it boots from SD when it can't find a bootloader on the eMMC. I can flash any image easily with dd if=image of=/dev/mmcblk1 and just do a reboot, and it will boot the eMMC. Whenever I want to test another image, i can just do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=1M count=1 to make the eMMC unbootable, causing it to start on the SD image on the next reboot. A very …

Hi all, I am working with GSM Module MC60 from Quectel. I am facing a problem with AT commands of the module. When i am trying to close the connection using AT+QICLOSE= server_index,the response i am getting is +CME ERROR 0. The +CME ERROR 0 indicates phone failure error. Can someone please explain what is this phone failure error in GSM modules and when it generally comes. Also if there is a solution to rectify this. Thanks Amit

Hi, I am trying to accommodate a SIM800 GSM module using UART3 of OP Lite. For the beginning, just to send a SMS and later on a MMS with a photo taken from gc2035 camera. This is a source that I made for arduino which works: Serial.print("AT+CMGS="); Serial.print(char(34)); //before and after phone nr a char (") must be sent Serial.print(Phone_nr); Serial.println(char(34)); delay(100); Serial.print(message); delay(100); Serial.println(char(26)); //end of message char I have set FEX for the UART3 but now I am struggling to start this using system commands, such as: echo "AT+CMGS=\r\n" /dev/…

Fun stuff - and something that's kept me offline/busy for the last few weeks... # uname -a Linux blaster 3.4.0 #1 PREEMPT Wed May 13 14:43:07 PDT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux # cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 586.13 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls CPU implementer : 0x51 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x1 CPU part : 0x00f CPU revision : 2 Hint - it's old enough not to have a device-tree... actually, in CPU years, it's old enough to vote/drink, and in dog-years, it's probably dead. I'll sent $20USD and a possible job offer…

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

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

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

can someone tell me how to install this version of retropie on the emmc? http://www.nintendont.it/download/nintendont-retropie-sunvell-r69-v1-2-0-beta/

Can anyone recomend any displays to be used with these boards? Current options i have are "modified keychain / photoframe" attached to usb bus and or standard HDMI devices im thinking along the lines of an LVDS displayor something driven from the GPIO pins, has anyone any experience with this or am i alone in the dark? Links would be good as this may also benefit others. EDIT : scratch that for the Opi-One, its a camera connector.. will stick with the hacked photoframe idea

Hello! Use case is mostly about turning the kitchen TV into a kitchen PC, with main purpose displaying some market charts while I'm cooking (doing this on a phone is a pain in the eyes). Someone might try eventually to browse facebooks or download movies on that TV, but that's not important. Software displaying such charts available for Linux and ARM is mostly Java platforms (I believe Java is architecture-independent, the applications at least, but I might be wrong), using 300-800 MB RAM and 10-30% on a low-end x86 CPU. The Orange Pi+ 2E seems like the best thing for such hobo desktop purpose, mostly because people's support for it, but the H5 SoC advertis…

Hi after check every where no find a good news i install mysql-server and mysql-client not problem for installation but after the first reboot the service not start again apparmor is down because => AppArmor not available as kernel LSM i put in /boot => boot.cmd => apparmor=1 security=apparmor no more up service so no have more idea thank's Xavier

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…

Hi, i need a gpio to trigger a key stroke. I had an raspberry pi zero and this worked for setting up an gpio to trigger a key stroke. For some reason I am not able to port this to my orangepi 3 lts H6 board. I think there is some confusion because there are two pin-controller? Do I have to set the right one anywhere? I thought the setting will be listed here like the raspberry did root@orangepi3-lts:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip1: GPIOs 0-255, parent: platform/300b000.pinctrl, 300b000.pinctrl: gpio-79 ( |usb0_id_det ) in hi gpio-102 ( |gmac-3v3 ) o…

Sorry to ask, does anyone have a howto make a h6 board (orange pi 3 lts) work with 264 hw DECODE? All howtos i can find uses old mainline not available to the LTS version Im trying to use VLC and MPV but no hwdec is working.. there is a custom launch parameter? Thank you in advance

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

Ok, since moving from lighttpd to apache I have managed to get everything configured and working happily on my little server (Odroid HC1) So, I'd like to back up the sata drive that contains the root file system and the user data. I'm looking for advice on the best way of doing this? It will be backed up initially to another USB external 2.5" drive, then perhaps just the user data to a cloud service (not sure yet). Also, I should probably back up the microSD card to right? Ideally, along with protecting my user data I am aiming to be able to get the server back up and running in the case that I do something wrong with a future update or install or conf…

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

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Hy I did not know where this would fit so I started the topic in the Free section Since there are a lot of problems with the wireless module on this board I searched for another more elegant solution than a usb pluged in wifi module I found this module on alibaba: USB Interface 2.4G&5.8G WiFi Module WL-UM01EBS-5572-V1.0 IEEE 802.11A/B/G/N Main Chip : MT5572 Module Name : WL-UM01EBS-5572-V1.0 Size : 27*17.7 Interface : USB2.0 Package : 6Pin WiFi Standards : IEEE 802.11A/B/G/N Operating Voltage : 3V3 Frequency : 2.4G and 5.8G(2T2R) Do not know about the pins (if they fit) but I'm thinking about replacing the RTL8192CU module with this one (i do have a sold…

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

Hi there, Has anyone tried openRGB with armbian? I found a few references to Raspberry Pi and openRGB, but nothing really usable. I would like to build a Kubernetes cluster and use an RGB fan to display the status of the cluster (and of course try to cool it down). Thanks.

Use case: simple NAS Boards to consider: anything with at least UASP, better yet, USB 3.0 or SATA. But stability (under heavy disk I/O and load average) matters over speed! Also, Gigabit Ethernet is a must. For all the SBC's which are listed as Supported, to what degree can I trust that I won't get kernel freezes, or filesystem errors, when disk I/O gets thick and furious? I completely understand if the disk I/O slows down to a crawl, as the load average gets high, but I'm wanting to feel assured that a board marked as Supported won't "flake out" on me, potentially destroying all my files, should I decide to use it for a simple NAS. Here is…

Hello. I want to do HDMI-in to CSI with ADV7611. But have problems with DT overlay. I'm a newbie. I can build img with activated module adv7611 in menuconfig. And apply "armbian-add-overlay adv7611.dts". But /dev/video device did not appear. Can someone suggest in the H5 device tree? I found the AnalogDevice forum, where it says that need to use a bridge. As I understood this bridge is implemented as camera@1cb0000 ? https://ez.analog.com Thanks! Board: OrangePi zero plus2 H5 Linux 4.19.21-sunxi64 #5.76 armbianmonitor -u : http://ix.io/1ydH scheme: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eT7e76SpUhAEcup6RZTLhV4o1U…

Even applying thermal patch cpu temperature stays at 80+C which initiates core shutdown. Currently I am on armbian 5.04 and ambient temperature is 33C which may go upto 45. I am working on video streams with OP that consumes lots of CPU and other resource which triggers temperature. Planning to stream from moving vehicle (OP will be fitted in moving vehicle). Please help/guide me to select heat sink which should accept some vibrations and jerks from vehicle. Note : OP don't have provision like screw hole or attachment for heat sink. Thanks, Yogesh

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…

I find this forum very interesting. There's a lot of useful information here.

Dear community, I'm trying to build Armbian for radxa E25. I'm using the repository provided in this merge request: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4718 So I pulled https://github.com/krachlatte/radxa-e25 and launched compilation using ./compile.sh BOARD=radxa-e25 RELEASE=jammy BRANCH=edge KERNEL_ONLY=yes But compilation failed with: OBJCOPY u-boot-nodtb.bin start=$(ccache aarch64-none-linux-gnu-nm u-boot | grep __rel_dyn_start | cut -f 1 -d ' '); end=$(ccache aarch64-none-linux-gnu-nm u-boot | grep __rel_dyn_end | cut -f 1 -d ' '); tools/relocate-rela u-boot-nodtb.bin 0x00a00000 $start $end ./"arch/arm/mach-rockc…

Hi. I want to experiment building own WiFi-router so it definitely need stable Ethernet and WiFi. Next I want build something like home automation withing this board, so I think it should have a 2GB ram and A53 cores(64bit+performant). Think Sata is not important yet. Maybe way later I will try casting something to tv via WiFi(not HDMI). Of course I'm looking at OPi win plus/prime or Nanopi k2. They are very cheap, but are they of enough quality? Or I should choose something else?

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

I want to make myself home NAS .... and looking for A20 board I found "Banana Pi M1+" $40 and "Banana Pro"$49 but I can not chose which is better ... , yes they have $9 difference in price ... but other seems the same , or there is other boards which I did not notice ? can you help me to chose what is better for home NAS (probably will install armbian and openvault ...) ? or other board suggestion in this price range I was looking for A20 because of SATA port ... yes there are other board with USB3 but they are in other price range than you in advance for your suggestions

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

I have IQAir AirVision pro and i'm try to reverse engineer it it uses uboot sunxi (allwinner) was following this video according to video i need to know where flash chip is mapped in to memory then use md print whole firmware then used https://github.com/nmatt0/firmwaretools/blob/master/parse-uboot-dump.py to convert to firmware as he used bdinfo to get address (which is not present), what i do? Is there any way through which i can extract frimware from device? (like using FEL Mode) also found https://github.com/zador-blood-stained/h3-fel-mass-storage is it possible do same on Allwinner A33 logs…

Hardware: 1 - NEO-8M GPS Satellite Positioning Module for Arduino STM32 C51 $7.49 USD on Ebay. NOTE it is using TTL output. Validated USB GPS connection to work fine. 2 - Uxcell a14041500ux1216 MAX232CSE Transfer Chip RS232 to TTL Converter Module COM Serial Board for $7.37 USD (Amazon) I connected PPS pin to Pin #1 on RS-232 interface. Using Linux connected USB port and RS-232 port to laptop. I see GPS chit chat fine on two serial intefaces. Using this for a new PFSense box QOTOM Mini PC. Transport ==> USB power coming from QOTOM Mini PC and RS-232 comin…

Hello All, I was wondering if I could get some help with this project https://github.com/jhdewitt/sltk This is a tool to do structured light 3d scans with a webcam and a projector. Currently the only way that I found to do this is with $1000+ commercial scanner. John De Witt is just a single developer and I am just a tester with limited skills. I currently have the tools compiling now on a s905x box with Armbian on it. I have compiled the tools but i am struggling with helping on the coding part and relaying information effectively and getting them to run properly on other hardware. This tool would bring structur…

@nicod I saw it on the other thread. It’s worthy of its own post. That rig captures the essence of what makes hacking on SBCs so great. Lane Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hello Armbian Forum! I hope you are all well. It's been more than 5 years since I last visited here, a lot of things has changed in my life since then. I saw my posts complaining about apt speed, that I could get 200kbps speed, now I am building +200gbps infrastructures for tens of thousands of servers. I felt a little bit of nostalgia visiting this forum because of that. And here I am, just I wanted to say hi! I hope you all also had a great time in the last 5 years just like me.

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

I have several cheap USB to barrel plug (to fit OrangePis, 4.0 x 1.7) adapters here and some seem to start failing. o cut a long story short, does anybody have recommendations on what product to buy to get such a cable with better quality?

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I never know what to get anyone. If I'm being honest I have more than a little disdain for how commercialized the holidays have become nowadays. We were not raised in a materialistic way growing up. A lot of gifts were socks and other actually useful things like that (which I only appreciate now as I get older ). Anyway... So when some of the guys shared some pictures of themselves with some Armbian swag in IRC a while back, a little light bulb went off in my head. So this morning, I went nuts and spent > 400 USD sending everyone in my family some Armbian swag. I figure, it's a good way to get the word out there to friends and family ab…

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

Hello , I am running home hosting server with several sites (4-5 sites) which have summary 3-4 k visitors now they are running on P4 server with 3gh HT processor , 3GB ram .... ispconfig3 - nginx(instead of apache) , php, mysql ... but I am thinking of replacement ...first I was thinking to get "thin client" ... but now I am thinking of arm board .... but which one to chose ? may be ODroid XU4 ? with usb3-sata adapter ...? may be running 2 boards(servers) and dividing mysql from web server please give me advice

spent most of today trying to get a USB-wifi adapter working on my OrangePiOne... connman_ctl wpa_supplicant (with and without wpa_cli), iw... you name it, I've probably tried it. Then, when restarting for the umpteenth time, in a rare moment of diminished stupidity, I actually read the "message of the (every) day" which is shown when you login successfully, It mentioned 'armbian-config' ... which i decided to give a try... Five minutes later I had working wifi - which works again after a restart without further configuration! So, a note to myself: be sure to RTFM (= Read the Fabulous Message of the day)! At least this was on my home pr…

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hi there, i'm newbie How user (root) auto login when opi reboot?

Hi! Are there any ways to donate Turkish Lira? I've been using this operating system for a year now. I would want to support Armbian a little bit (around 5-10TL) occasionally. I know that it is not a big money but I'm a student And I believe that support is support.

Well i just installed QEMU and do anyone here know how to open it? the only way i know are through the command line(from the tutorial) but i want to open the GUI and also does anyone know how to recompile the boot.scr and boot.txt files on windows? i got an error on geany and there are no arm version of notepadqq and snap version of notepad++ so ican't even open scr files well, lets just say that i gave up on recompiling boot.cmd & scr because it crashes every time i touch those files. btw my device are an orange pi pc2 and i want to modify my boot files because i have a 1366*768 monitor that only has vga an…

armbian uses mainline kernel for many boards, but it has dts files that mainline linux doesn't. Where are dts files? Why does mainline linux lack many of dts files that armbian has? The same questions are asked about mainline u-boot, too.

(Please moderator feel free to move this topic whatever you think that Hi, I'm running Rosetta@home in a TV box, MXQ4K with Amlogic 905x is a 2GB RAM unit. When I start boinc, sometime I have tasks and other times I have this message? boinc-client 25-Mar-2021 11:22:31 [Rosetta@home] Rosetta needs 1716.61 MB RAM but only 1654.12 MB is available for use. Is there anyway to shave 64GB of RAM? Is correct to have 1,7GB in a 2GB unit? Is this RAM dedicated to the GPU? In this case. How I can reduce the amount of dedicated RAM? I paste the armbianmonitor -U dump: Spoiler 1 2 ### Acti…

I am evaluating the RK3399 (boards) to use as a multipurpose server. One of the use cases is to periodically build a patched Linux kernel. Does anybody know how long it takes to build the kernel on a generic RK3399 board? Thanks.

Hi all. How many years people can count on support of 32 bit mini PC? (OS + repository ) For example Orange Pi: Allwinner H2+ Quad-core Cortex-A7 Is it worth to buy 64 bit ARM ? I wanna use 1 device more than 10 years. I know about 2038 year. And I dont want to buy devices which support stops after 2 or 3 years. Please give me a link if this has been discussed. Thanks in advance.

With script "nand-sata-install" I moved root "/" to hdd on the filesystem "btrfs" and the "Boot" partition stayed on "SD" card. Questions: 1. How can I to "wrap" it in subvolumes so that I can use btrfs snapshots? 2. It is possible to move the "Boot" to "HDD" too? PS -my orange pi 3 has no emmc

Hi all, I've a minimal LINUX on a ARM board here (COREELEC on an ODROID N2). It does not use any 'apt--' based software control system. ( I do not know how its actually called ...) I would like to add all the tools of ARMBIAN and its rich software kingdom into this minimal LINUX. COREELEC does not know about 'apt' by purpose and thats' fair enough and respected. And there are lots of reason to discuss why to do so or not. But that is beyond the scope of this thread. Any hint would be helpfull. Thanks Gerry

There is an opensource wm that I'd like to use with Armbian. I have compiled and installed it, but would like to have it as a package. I have forked a repo that makes a .deb of this wm and built it with Shippable (so aarch64). I don't have any Debian mirror to host it... so... What is the standard way to build a package for Armbian? There are also other libraries/tools (like pacman, libarchive) that I have compiled (because I could not find them)... Thanks.

Hi. Firstly, is anyone working on building Armbian for the Quartz64? If no one else is I would love to give it a try. What I already have:- A Quartz64 running slarm64 (or the default manjaro) Kernel source for above and a dtb file. A build environment that seems to work (I just built an image for Rock 3a on it). Can anyone give me some ideas on how I clone an existing device in the build environment and start modifying it so that it can build something new? I notice that the legacy kernel that it produced for the Rock 3a is version 4.19.193 which looks good for the Quartz64 as well. The advantage of this older …

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?

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Hey all, I am having a problem in finding the proper instructions for Armbian and Open VPN to configure. Does anyone have any resources or instructions? Willing to install a new distro if theres more support. Just to let you know, I use Ivacy VPN as a Client. Thanks!

I'm running Armbian on my ARM-based single-board computer, and I would like to create a bootable live image from my current installation. This way, I can use the image to boot other devices with the same configuration, software, and customizations that I've set up on my current system. I've looked through the Armbian documentation, but I couldn't find a straightforward guide on how to accomplish this task. Can someone please provide step-by-step instructions on how to create a bootable live image from my current Armbian installation? Ideally, I'd like to be able to create an image file (e.g., .img or .iso) that I can write to a USB drive or an SD card, making it…

As a beginner in the system I intend to do is how to start the construction of a Wifi Vending Machine operated by coinslot call in philippines is PESO WIFI. Maybe someone is working on it these are samples of the appearance between client and admin side. Client Portal: Admin side:

Hello everyone! I'm compiling firmware for orangepizero3，then you want to customize the bootlogo. I tried to replace my bootlogo with armbian-logo-png in xx, but the compiled firmware did not change, so I would like to ask you how to modify it My compile command:./compile.sh BOARD=orangepizero3 BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED='browsers multimedia' DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm PLYMOUTH=yes build

Hello, can anybody know how to disable wifi module in armbian?

hello dear Armbian-experts, How to do a command line test of a connection remotely well - there are several ways to test the DB connection remotely, while the access of the MySQL server from another Linux® server. See - for example the following - that uses 44.55.22.11 as the IP address of the MySQL server: # mysql -u fooUser -p -h 44.55.22.11 Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 17 Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> _ some musings: When you set up a remote user, consider…

Hi,after search around the internet i found out that is nearly impossible to enable I2s interface with new armbian kernel so searching a little bit more i found another solution that i have to rebuilt another armbian kernel by my own to enable but i don't know how. So I'm writing this to ask every pro member in this forum to show me the way or guide me to make the i2s interface success. Thanks all for reading this. P/s sorry for my bad English

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)

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