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

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

Hi there, can someone comment on usually how long it takes to build an image? I know there are several factors at play - but what are some times people have gotten in making an SD card image with a clean build. Just trying to set expectations - I am on a quad core 1.5GZ machine with 8 gigs of ram on SSD. Thanks

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

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. …

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…

Hey there, most of you probably already know about the Armbian IRC channel that came back to live a while ago. If not pause reading here and check out this topic and resume here after done: Hey, you found your way back. Nice. As stated I want to give away IRC bouncers for whoever likes to have one. It is not bound to Freenode (although it will come pre-configured for #armbian and I would appreciate to see you hang around there ). You are free to connect any IRC network you want as long as it is IPv6 capable. You don't know what a bouncer is? Pause reading and check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_(software) A…

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.

Hi, I added an USB3.0 adapter to my rockpi4a , which results in: " enx000ec667f0a2 " ( eth1 ) Since NetworkManager is being used I tried to update this name using : " nmcli c modify armbian connection.interface-name "eth1" " But alas that does not seem to be picked up while nmconnection config file has been updated: cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/armbian.nmconnection [connection] id=armbian uuid=8f61a97c-d0f1-4cb2-be4a-3fe2b4c08e7c type=ethernet interface-name=eth1 <snip snip> Ideally this could be changed in armbian-config, but I realise this is a low-low rockpi-4…

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

Hi there can it be possible to use Armbian in a electronic embedded products since GPLV3 keep necessary opensourcing in the source code can you confirm that this is GPLV3 which rules armbian and 'tivoisation' is not possible with armbian Best regards

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…

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? ☺

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'…

Should this site be public? http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/stats.html

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.

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

Hi there, Yesterday, I asked this question on Twitter, but did not get lots of answers. I know I could get an aarch64 workstation, run a 64 bits kernel on it and a 32 bits userspace on top of it, but where is the fun? One year ago or so, I built an armv7 Docker image for me, and I realized only this week that it had been downloaded more than 2 million times. What a pleasant surprise. I launched the build once again to get everything updated, but I discovered the armv7 CI/CD services I used to run my builds on were ... gone. I then switched back to my Orange Pi Zero "farm" to get the images built, but it takes ages, and you know how reliable the SDCar…

Hello Igor! I am using your excellent ARM- based DEBIAN distribution on all of my 3 cubietrucks and I am very pleased with ist. At this time i would like to express my deepest gratitude to you and all fellow users and supporters of ARMBIAN. Recently i discovered a new INTEL based platform: INTEL Compute Stick e.g. STK1A32SC, STK2MV64CC or STK2M364CC all without any OS. Most of them are not yet available (in Germany), however they will be available - hopefully - within the next three months - or so. These Compu Sticks getting so powerful - including Core 5 M processor, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, 64 GB eMMMC and a slot for microsd (up to 200 GB), WLAN AC, BT 4.2, 3 x…

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

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

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 just released a new C library for communicating with those inexpensive 4-digit 7-segment LED displays: https://github.com/bitbank2/tm1637 They can run on 3.3V or 5V and draw between 1 and 15mA depending on the brightness setting. I purchased mine from an AliExpress vendor for 68 cents each with free shipping. They use a custom 2-wire communications protocol and must be "bit-banged" from 2 GPIO pins. In my demo, I assign pins 38 and 40 on my Orange Pi Lite.

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

Hi all, does anyone know how to boot from a locgical volume? the volume group is located on a mbr-parted partition (/dev/sda5) Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00002074 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 499711 497664 243M 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 501758 976771071 976269314 465.5G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 501760 976771071 976269312 465.5G 8e Linux LVM I dont'…

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

Maybe someone here knows the 8-Bit Guy and the project of his Dream-Computer - the Commander X16 You could see the actual state of the real hardware at YT-Video from the 8-Bit Guy: (Building my Dream Computer - Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-6Cjzzg8s Since the hardware isnt ready/completed yet there is a Emulator which uses SDL2 and can be compiled now (since r30) also on Linux ARM Github-page of the emulator: https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/releases Source: https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/archive/r30.zip or https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-e…

Hi everybody, I'm trying to install the Armbian_5.25_Lamobo-r1_Debian_jessie_next_4.9.7.img image (or Armbian_5.24_Lamobo-r1_Debian_jessie_4.8.15.img) on my Samsung SD Card EVO+ 32GB (link to amazon) My BPI-R1 starts properly and I can connect via SSH, this is the result of armbianmonitor -u: http://sprunge.us/PLgf When I try to upgrade the system (after apt-get update) the filesystem becomes read-only, see the attached file. Part of kern.log: Mar 3 16:23:22 localhost kernel: [ 296.721494] mmc0: Card stuck in programming state! mmc_do_erase Mar 3 16:23:23 localhost kernel: [ 297.521488] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: fatal err update clk timeout…

Hi all, got a hummingboard i4-pro installed with armbian debian vanilla. After apt-get update && apt-get upgrade system won't come up again. Anybody else? How to activate hdmi output for debugging? Am I the only one? Even more: Got a BlueBeach mini PCI-e SATA 2-ports controller, recognized as: 01:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 1060 but my attached harddrive (2,5", separate psu) will not be assigned as /dev/sdX Any idea where to start to troubleshoot? Thanks a lot guys

This is my first impression with the ov8865, a 8MP sensor running on kernel 3.4.39 (linux-sunxi). I am running Banana Pi - M3 with the dual camera extension on Ubuntu Xenial rootfs and with the stock driver. The driver have not been touched because information is scarce and i asked @lvmc for some datasheet. This sensor is a 4 lane CSI2 (MIPI) that has a good performance at high resolution. I am able to get 30 FPS on all available win sizes. I have ran a small v4l2 application to have some benchmarks but guvcview with some minor update is able to display video from the sensor just as we have for the ov5640: TEST 0 ( 3264 x 2448 ) ---- cap parameters ----- width: 3…

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

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…

I recently came by a NanoPi M2, (1gb DDR) http://nanopi.io/nanopi-m2.html http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=107 its still in its box with case etc. If you are interested in supporting or just seeing if armbian works on it let me know. Pointers towards which base build to start with etc would be beneficial! I got the board but im no "developer" !

Hi there, I'm currently working on cross compiling libva-v4l2-request to test the VPU on the Allwinner V3s. I cloned the master branch from Github and told autoreconf to cross compile, but however it keeps looking for the wrong libva and libdrm libraries. Also everything with arm-linux-gnueabi fails somehow. I hope someone can help me with that. user@workpad:~/workspace/allwinnerV3s/libva-v4l2-request$ ./autogen.sh --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-linux-gnu autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy l…

I found it quite interesting the Banana PI M3, however the block diagrams seems to show the SATA interface is connected to the USB bus. Has someone the experience of using it?

Just a quick note to help other users that may have the same problem: Recently I've added the 2 USB expansion board to my Orange Pi Zero running Armbian. As the new USB ports did not get listed by lsusb, I've looked into /boot/armbianEnv.txt: It started with samba configuration (?) and a bunch of NUL characters (!). I assume it was corrupted by some wrong power outage. Anyway, recovering the armbianEnv.txt file from original armbian image solved the issue. For reference, this is my current WORKING armbianEnv.txt file contents: verbosity=1 logo=disabled console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix…

I know is a hard-work, maybe due to the "avalanche" of new boards. But I find a little mess in the filter to select boards in the Donwload page based on the availability of OS images. For example Orange Pi One http://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-one/ doesn't have Mainline OS but it's appear in the filtered list. Thanks in advance.

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

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

Hello everybody. I'm a newcomer here. I tried several times (6 or 7) to use the "Search" function, typing either "OBS" or "OBS Studio", but the page crashed everytime, prompting me to wait 30 seconds (in vain). So I'm considering buying an Odroid N2+ and installing Armbian on it. As said in the title, I'd like to use OBS Studio on it, but would like to know if someone already installed it - and could use it of course -, just to spare time. Maybe it's already been discussed somewhere here, but as I said, the "Search" function doesn't work for me. Thanks in advance.

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

Ahoy! I'm looking for a cheap SBC with mainline kernel support (so hopefully Armbian support too) and a stereo line-level input and output. I'd like to also have atleast an ARMv7 or later instruction set (need Neon instructions) and atleast 512 megs of RAM (but 1 or 2 gigs would be nice; and I could survive with 256MB if I work really hard). My use-case is that I intend to pair this up with a cheap mixer and run a few audio plugins via Ardour. Most plugins I use (generally stuff from the Guitarix project) depend on the ARM Neon instructions. The ModDevices project seems to be based off an ARMv7 instruction set based 1GB board so it's kinda sorta my…

I just received this sample sent by Nora Lee (Foxconn). I have put here the H3 and H5 side by side. I have been told it is pin to pin compatible so basically same pinctrl config would work, right? Let's find out, will try to build an Image with legacy and mainline and check out what we have here. Hey, don't expect a technical overview here.

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

So I see lots of comments re how bad the A64 and H5 SBCs are. Is anyone having good luck with any ARMv8 system? I will note that I had decent stability using the Odroid C2 with Hardkernel's own images, which run 64-bit mode. But maybe something better has emerged?

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

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

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

Heads up. Here is this HDMI to USB 2.0 capture card, 1080p@30. Very useful for posting captures, or using your laptop as an improvised HDMI monitor. It can be get for $5, shipping form the EU, USA and Russia. Here is the link: https://aliexpress.com/item/4001019746564.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.613263c0C55RA2 It got very good reviews (unless the device looks identical on the outside but has different internals):

Hello guys, After seeing a friend bought and tried a Raspberry Pi 5 device, I am very excited about what can be done with such a small single-board computer. So now I'm interested in getting a suitable single-board computer to buy. What SBC is suitable to buy if I want to use virtualization sofware such as VMware ESXi for ARM? Running multiple OS at once, is my mainly use. Getting used to Intel CPU & Windows and now I want to switch to ARM and Linux environment. Thanks in advanced.

Hi Scrolling through the forum I realized how old this SBC is that I purchased but I had no choice since basically all other options are out of stock in my country with lead-times past this year... I am looking for someone that can assist me. I replaced a failed Raspberry Pi 4 with this Banana Pi bpi-m4 board thinking that it would perform and work as a like-for-like replacement. Unfortunately, it is not the case but I am stuck with it. Is there anyone that can assist me to build a 64bit Armbian image? I enjoy Armbian on an Odroid XU4 but the generic and existing Banana Pi images does not work on the bpi-m4. Sadly my software engineering skill…

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've just signed up to this forum. I can create new threads yet I cannot reply to others posts under both FF and Chrome. I don't see a reply button on any thread after signing in, nor do I see a FAQ for this forum that may deal with such questions. Am I being blind? EDIT I can't even reply to my own (this) thread.

I appily donated and started to study this distro. I am learning what it is and what it could do for me as micro server. Especially am uninstalling and purging software. For example there is Thunderbird into my orange Pi Armbian. I need to purge it. I need to purge Libre office. If I give: sudo apt-get remove (or purge) thunderbird, the terminal says that the app doesn't exists. Please can I uninstall software via other ways? Thanks.

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

Hi everyone, I'm building a micro server based on orange pi prime and armbian, after reading a lot about sd card wear out, I started thinking how could I improve that in my project. For my project it is ok, if data would be physically written to card, every 1 minute instead of on every commit. Now, what I can't find: is there a way to generally configure such memory buffering for a filesystem, so that I don't have to configure this for a database engine?

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!

Wie schnell ist Die Lan-Geschwindigkeit wirklich ??? Es laufen soviel Müden im Netz herum Bei mir: Armbian auf die Banane 10 MB/s von der Banane 23 MB/s Bananian auf die Banane 10 MB/s von der Banane 18 MB/s beide mit Openmediavault mit NTFS, manche wollen NTFS nicht aber das ist meine Sache. Es ist die rede von 30 MB/s bis 200 MB/s, ich halte die angaben für Falsch.

Hi Is it possible install Armbian to any kind of smartphones, for example based on MTK6580 CPU

@Igor @zador.blood.stained @tkaiser + any other mods, devs and users. I'll try and keep this brief and to the point but I probably won't succeed. Donations and campaigns We ever thought about doing a kickstarter or indiegogo campaign for donations? I'm not sure of the exact differences between them but I know you can do campaigns for non profit means and donations. ie: Employing more devs, buying boards with donations, etc... w/e it is you guys might need. I'd be willing to set up the campaign with basics like pictures, description outline and what not with some more input. Then hand the 'keys' to the profile over to Igor or whoever, for financia…

Hi all. I've discovered Vivaldi Browser for arm. A fork of Chromium. There is a armhf version and a arm64 version. Youtube playback with this is a lot better. I've tested it on the NanoPi M4. The same video in Chromium had 2/3 dropped frames. (10 frames/s) 1080p video With Vivaldi browser you get 1/3 dropped frames. (20 frames/s) A lot better experience. Here you can download it. https://vivaldi.com/nl/blog/snapshots/vivaldi-1-15-rc-2/ Here the source where I found it. From Meveric @ Odroid. Also explanation of how to install. No wget, and change filename to the file you've downloaded for gdebi. Or use gdebi package installer.(not tested) https://f…

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

Hi Guys, Most of us have powerfull (compared to Pi's) unused phones on the shelfs just because we got a new one or for other reasons. I have (a not so old) samsung S7 edge with broken screen siting on my shelf that I would love to use as server for my home automation projects. There are many options to keep android and run some Linux Distributions in chroot but it is still somehow limited. Since most of phone use ARM architecture I was wondering if there is already anything or interest in creating Armbian port for unused phones. My S7 edge runs a samsung exynos arm SOC. Thanks, Diogo

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.

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

I am running on fedora as can be seen here. Fedora is not device-specific, only architecture-specific. If you want to experiment, drop in a distro-boot capable u-boot for your device in the firmware area and you should be good enough to go. I have never tested my image on a different device so YMMV.

First of all forgive my English, I do not speak the language and certainly make mistakes. use google translator to write;-) I have the Orange Pi + 2e and I installed "Debian Jessie," but I can not run the wifi that is integrated, I am new to linux, so everything costs me more. According to the specifications https://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_Plus_2E the wifi chip is Realtek RTL8189FTV Would appreciate some help, thank you very much.

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

Hi. Around a month ago, my Rock 3A arrived and I got to playing with it. I noticed that there was a community build configuration for it, so I set up an Armbian build environment and got to building it. The image built without error and before I knew it my device had booted. However, since then, a few changes have been made to the Rock 3A (including receiving a proper Armbian maintainer), and now it seems to be completely broken. This issue seems to be reproducible, with people both being able to boot the board with old images as well as not being able to boot with fresh images. There seems to be some work happening towards fixing u-boot (which seems to be …

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…

Hello, I'm following my investigation in order to have a SBC that can use armbian to deploy it in schools with the Primtux OS in order to make DIY activites ,more details here : A user tell me about a Banana Pi SBC, thanks a lot to him. I'm trying to add http://www.banana-pi.org/m2plus.html to the benchmark tool : https://mutualiser-les-comparatifs.les-cercles-vertueux.org/comparatif-des-nano-ordinateurs-monocarte Here is my first questions : Banana Pi M2+ could have H2+, H3, H5 processor. 1) What is the most adapted for my needs ? My needs are : The most usable on VGA old screen that have schools or that people can give…

The minimal (Bookworm) torrent of Orange Pi PC2 was only shared by one source when I added it today, and that source is only at 71%. Not sure if this is another person also trying to download and the original source no longer shared, or if this is the original source and it is broken. I can ofc download the file via https, but felt I wanted to let you know.

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

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

Hello, I migrated my dashboard project from a BananaPro under "Buster" to a BananaPI under "Bullseye", image took from the website, verified and up to date as per Armbian-config. The source code of my project is exactly the same as well a the compilation procedure, and the used Makefile is : cc=cc opts=-Wall -fPIC $(shell pkg-config --cflags lua5.1 ) $(shell pkg-config --libs lua5.1 ) -DDRMC_WITH_FB -DUSE_DRMCAIRO $(shell pkg-config --cflags libdrm cairo freetype2 ) -DKMS_MISSING $(shell pkg-config --libs libdrm cairo freetype2 ) -DPLUGIN_DIR='"/home/laurent/Projets/Selene"' -L/home/laurent/Projets/Selene -L/home/laurent/Projets/…

Hi all, I have a Rpi 3B+ where I am running Pihole with Unbound. As a secondary DNS, I am planning to use an Odroid HC1 which will also be running other stuff. Today I installed Armbian_20.05.7_Odroidxu4_buster_current_5.4.50_minimal.img and started the installation of Pihole, which went through just fine. Then I attempted to install Unbound, but got an error message. The command I run was: sudo apt install unbound -y And this is what was returned: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libevent-2.1-6 libpython3.7 libunbound8 unbound-anchor Su…

Hey, just wondering if this is a common issue, I've put a fresh copy of Armbian 5.20 (legacy kernel) on my new Evo Plus 64GB and updated it to 5.23 on my Orange Pi PC, but it seems I'm getting only 742KB/s 4k random write speeds (I thought it'd be around 2MB/s) and 5 to 10MB/s sequential write speed. Is this normal, and if so is there a better card to buy that'll give me more Random IO & saturate the write speeds of the bus on the Opi PC? The results from testing /dev/mmcblk0p1 (ext4): Data OK: 55.34 GB (116061392 sectors) Data LOST: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Average writing speed: 10.05 MB/s Average reading speed: 20.35 MB/s …

Today's project is trying to get my game emulator to run on the NanoPi NEO Core board. Lots of exposed I/O, but I'm getting random hangs and some odd behavior with the latest Armbian. In the photo is a ILI9342 (landscape version) 2.3" display and some ugly protoboards I created to allow reliable wiring + sockets for the Core board. I just updated my SPI_LCD project to include support for both the ILI9342 and the Core board's strange header: https://github.com/bitbank2/SPI_LCD I had to wire the USB-A socket to the header because the OTG port is not properly enabled (in the available Armbian build). If I spent some time messing with it, there's probably a bunch …

Today I gave OpenMediaVault another try - because 2 of my "very" old NAS-Boxes (normally sitting on a cupboard) only support SMB v1 and I dont know how long my Synology DS109 will live. Yes - I got 2 NanoPi Neo2 with NAS-Case, but for a test-ride I compiles stretch for the Cubieboard A10 (because of the SATA-Port). While installing OpenMediaVault vis softys in armbin-config the install-script has to install the OMV Keyring. The packages where downloaded 100% and then softys came to to line with the keyring and did break the "install-screen". I did see any action from the Cubieboard After a while I did press Ctrl-C and did reboot and tried to install …

Hi, Orange Pi Lite has two USB2.0 ports. I attached 3.5" 5400rpm HDDs in each ports through SATA adaptors. Both HDDs have truecrypted_file.tc respectively. Mounted both .tc files with $ cryptsetup --type tcrypt ******** And $ cp HDD1/big_files HDD2/directory Then chked file copying speed only to have 6.5MB/s in average. Is it normal? Thank you in advance~! ^^

I've had this going for quite some time now regarding Rockchip RK3588 boards, specifically for me, the somewhat PC-alike Firefly ITX-3588J, and trying to see if it is possible to create or refine the various software out there so that it could be made to work like a PC, e.g. with EFI booting off USB sticks, GRUB, etc. for loading an OS without needing an external computer. This has been tried on and off over the past year, without much luck owing to how incomplete the software for this board type is. However, it seems that in the most recent versions of mainline U-Boot (i.e. U-Boot 2023) at least, there's enough RK3588 support to get it up and running, and I have my machi…

So the question is "why does disconnecting and reconnecting power cause a shutdown SBC to boot?" If I have an SBC and I shut it down (e.g. using "shutdown now") then it enters an inactive state. However, I haven't done anything with the power supply - the board is still powered. So what changes in the state of the board as a result of cycling the power? If nothing changed then it would continue in the same inactive state as before? But instead, it boots up when power is restored. I'm guessing the answer varies by board. On the Raspberry Pi it seems that on doing a shutdown the shutdown process writes a volatile magic number that can be read by the …

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 …

Hello Armbians, I am a newbie here so maybe this topic has been already discussed, if so just point me to it. Thank you. I have several TP Link routers (MR-3020, MR3420) that I would like to play with, especially usin serial connection. Since I am also a newbie in this area too I would like to know if it is possible to use Orange Pi Pc board or any other Orange board to connect to those routers separately without buying those little usb to uart ttl adapters. And if it is possible, which pins from Orange board to use, those 3 TTL pins or the others from the GPIO row. Thank you

Overpriced but absolutely gorgeous. GPD Pocket Mini Laptop I would love an ARM mini netbook with the same form factor (no trackpad) although only a 40-50% price cut could make it interesting to my pockets.

Igor, Like the new direction... you have the best image for all boards, and I like how you're formalizing it. One thing I noticed, you don't have any SSL during account creation and login. Granted this isn't a bank, but it would be nice if you enabled SSL during login and account creation. Especially these days with all the security breaches we have. Cheers.

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…

Hi - I flashed a new nanopineo2 with debian9 ( Armbian_5.44.180510_Nanopineo2_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.40 ) and set this to stable build before updating to latest "stable". Next step after reboot is to configure my static network ( eth0 ), but here things tend to be a bit different than previous flash ? Previously in advanced I edited /etc/network/interfaces to add my DNS-servers but in this build it seems " Network is managed by NetworkManager " so I instea I used " nmtui " to set these for "Wired Connection 1". Unfortunately I still see in /etc/resolv.conf : " nameserver 8.8.8.8 " first before my entries. I like to get rid of this nameserver but I am unable to…

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

Just in time for FOSDEM some more infos on the new Pine64 H6 and RK3399 boards are available now... https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5614

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…

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

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

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?

Hello. Browsing through my email i note something from long forgotten, useless http://forum.banana-pi.org. It's about some new images they "release" like: BPI-R1 new image:raspbian-jessie-bpi-m1-m1p-r1.img 2016-07-13 BPI-R1 new image:ubuntu-mate-16.04-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi-bpi-m1-m1p-r1-sd-emmc 2016-07-21 or BPI-R1 new image: Kanux-Beta-3.3.0-preview-bpi-m1-m1p-r1.img 2016-07-15 There is a note - "kernel 3.4.112 (based on armbian's build)", so hem, congratulations i guess. Looks like you guys are official support for team bpi now .

Dunno if there are many people using OSMC (Kodi/XBMC Distro) but me and another guy has been tweaking it and managed to get Emulationstation installed along side Kodi then i wanted my old wiimotes for gaming so i started to work on a little script thats gonna be awesome once im completely done with it.

Hi, everyone. I'm looking for board which can be used for playing video in kiosk mode, therefore it must have video hardware acceleration available. I've looked through supported devices and created short-list: A20-based: Olimex Lime 2 and its modifications BananaPi/BananaPi Pro Cubietruck H3-based: OrangePi PC/Plus/+2E and other similar modifications (have one, is overheating common problem for them?) Rockchip-based: MiQi Tinkerboard S A64-based (with original/legacy kernel): Pine64/Rock64/Sopine A64 OrangePi Win/Plus + Hummingboards Am I right that these boards are a…

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.