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Any (un)official news on the subject? I'd like to get a couple for tinkering with, but at FA site they keep reporting 3-4 weeks until they're available again.

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 …

By comparing https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux/blob/sunxi-4.14.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-nanopi-duo2.dts and https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux/blob/sunxi-4.14.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h2-plus-nanopi-duo.dts the only real difference is replacing the crappy XR819 Wi-Fi with RTL8189 (the other change being H2+ being replaced by H3) NanoPi Hero also features RTL8189 Wi-Fi, is limited to Fast Ethernet and has an I2C accessible voltage regulator allowing the board to clock at up to 1368 MHz (at 1.4V VDD_CPUX): https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux/blob/sunxi-4.14.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-nanopi-hero.dts Maybe @mindee is so kind to provide an…

Hi, there is a very intersting board: NanoPi Fire3. It is an Octacore 64 bit SOC. And it needs to have an Armbian installation! Please port it to this board if you can, it seemd to be powerfull. Many thanks!!

http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_K1_Plus RPi 3 form factor like their K2, maximum DRAM (2GB), Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi with onboard aerial provided by RTL8189ETV, still using their own/new eMMC socket. According to schematics and their Github repo a SY8106A voltage regulator is used which is great news since then it's possible to clock the H5 well above 1.3 GHz.

FriendlyARM does introduce the term LTS for SBCs For the following NanoPis the will now promise LTS: - NanoPi NEO Core2-LTS = http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=211 - NanoPi NEO2-LTS = http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=180 - NanoPi NEO Air-LTS = http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=151 This is a quote from their webpage and this products:

Hi Kaiser, Will you review a FriendlyArm M1? @lex

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" !

Hello everybody, I am new to this forum, and stumbled upon Armbian while looking for OS options for the NanoPi M4 board. Great work! The board is running well now, but I do have a few questions: Armbian is WIP, but as NicoD says it's actually very stable. Any idea when it's going to "supported" officially? I did have an issue with the 4.4 kernel, which I worked around. How is your experience with more recent kernels, is it advisable to upgrade? Or will the official image be upgraded from the LibreElec kernel? (Compiling a kernel still seems a little bit daunting to me, although I did it on x86 chips years ago). What timeframe i…

Hi all, unfortunately the USB power port on my Nanopi M4 V2 has broken off and I can't see a way to reattach it securely - it looks like it's just a push fit onto the board on 4 little tabs no solder involved no wonder it eventually fell off. I've heard that it's possible to power the Nano via the GPIO pins - anyone here done that - I'm not to clued up with all things electrical but I can solder ? I'm thinking I could make a cable to connect to the pins

Hi there, I was wondering how to get the audio running on the NanoPI NEO. It has line-out PINs and I read the H3 has SPDIF which should be the correct output. So I found this post: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1891-spdif-output-on-nanopi-m1/and changed my fex . Anyway, that seems to be for the older kernel. What exactly do I need for version 4+? I am using Gentoo and the sources from https://github.com/megous/linux . The modules seem to be different and that's what I got right now: sun4i_i2s 6408 0 sun4i_codec 12657 0 sun4i_spdif 5087 0 snd_soc_core 132869 3 sun4i_codec,sun4i_i2s,sun4i_s…

Hi dear friends I have some nanopi neo core pies I downloaded the following operating system on them and installed it via SD card "h3_eflasher_friendlycore-xenial_4.14_armhf_20210618.img" Some of them do not recognize the eth0 network interface after a few days of operation and give the following error when booting: [FAILED] Failed to start Raise network interfaces. See 'systemctl status networking.service' for details. I checked the status of the networking service, which is as follows: Apr 02 02:52:00 NanoPi-M1-Plus systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces... …

Hello, I'm trying to use Armbian with a Nanopi NEO Core (Allwinner H3) mounted on its Mini Shield. I was able to use the CAN controller MCP2518FD through SPI1 and CS1. Now I need to use, always on the same SPI1, the demo board TPM SLB 9670 TPM2.0 that I have already verified on a Raspberry Pi. I found the tpm_tis_spi Kernel module by compiling Armbian Bionic 5.4.37, but I was unable to locate the DTB overlay needed to set-up the following pins: SPI1 MOSI SPI1 MISO SPI1 CLK SPI1 CS IRQ (from SLB9670's demo board to Nanopi NEO Core) RESET (from Nanopi NEO Core to SLB9670's demo board) Can anyone help me? Thanks i…

I started this journey with DietPi on a nanopi r4s. I asked about it on the DietPi forum, and they basically said "Our distro is a bunch of scripts on top of Armbian. We can't really help you with a kernel problem." So I reimaged with Armbian and I'm here now. Background with DietPi: When I first boot the DietPi image, the LAN port works. This is on kernel 5.10.63. Then as soon as I log into it via ssh on the IP address acquired by the LAN port, it proceeds to auto-upgrade software, including the kernel, which goes to 5.15.25. During the upgrade, I got messages saying a bunch of firmware for the r8169 driver was not there. Installing armbian-firmware-full…

hi all i had armbian build running with 'dev' kernel (4.9.0) and armbian 5.24 which worked PERFECT over a month. decided 2 days ago to build from scratch, armbian build system pulled all latest updates and i got 5.24 with kernel 4.9.3 (2 days ago) and 4.9.4 today. None of those would boot properly (ie. can not ping/access the board). I also tried downloading nightly build and that one is not working any more. Iknow these builds are not supported but since it worked very well i think something got broken either in kernel or uboot or in armbian so might be worth a look. tx in advance !

hi all Wanna know whats the best option for a NAS and torrentbox. I have a 200/200 connection, so something that can handle that, with lower consumption, and that can handle a lot torrent/connections Thanks.

I want to turn my Banana PI into a NAS. Since SSDs are still too small (or much too expensive for my purpose) I need to use a standard 3,5 HD and those will need that much power (on spin-on at least) that I can't use the Banana SATA to power up the HD, right? Can those people that use banana pi et al. as NAS tell me what kind of external power supply they use with what type of connector? If you can recommend low-power HDs I'd like to hear that too. Are there power supplys that can safely feed the Banana pi itself and the HD? Preferably without soldering the connectors?

You may want to try this if your orangepi zero plus with NAS IO expansion combination is running too hot, with Nanopi neo 2 it runs a bit cooler (~ 65 vs 70 in full load). Not sure if it is because of the slower CPU speed or the more exposed heat sink.

I have a NAS which can support iSCSI, NFS, or NBD. I have several years of experience using iSCSI on x86, but I was wondering if anyone is using it on these ARM boards. I'm also looking at NBD, because it is supposedly lower overhead than iSCSI. Is anyone currently using NBD on their SBC? I've heard NBD doesn't handle connectivity issues as well as iSCSI, so it's not wise to use for data you care about. However, providers such as Scaleway are using NBD as the rootfs for their ARM servers (not saying this is good or bad, just saying it). I am thinking specifically of having the SBC be the client, not the server. However anyone who can pr…

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…

Hello there, This is my first post after just joining this discussion, so please forgive me and provide kind assistance if I have posted to the wrong subsection! As a new member in this forum and wish to share and gain some knowledge. I am looking forward to create my own discussion to resolve my query and gain some knowledge though I have taken part in various discussion which is definitely helped me a lot. Also in what category should be taken depends on what factors? Thankyou in advance.

Hello guys, I'd like to use a MCP23017 IO Expander with a Banana PI, based on this tutorial. but I get stuck at the beginning My problem is that I can't see the device. Could you help me please how to go ahead? Thanks! root@bananapipro:~# ls /dev/i2c* /dev/i2c-0 /dev/i2c-1 root@bananapipro:~# i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- …

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

Hi there. Is there someone who can guide me with linux driver porting? I have old LCD panel for my bananapi like described here: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/lcd-module-dsi-rgb-with-touch-and-s070swv20hg-dc16-lcd-panel-mainline-kernel/11172 but i can not make it work with linux. Old bananian has this driver and it is working. I would like to try to port it to mainline but i don't know how to start. I'm skilled user of linux, for few past years i've been using gentoo so i know what is kernel and how to tweak or compile it. I know C on decent level so i think i could made it but i have no clue how to track working driver down and how to port it from 3.4 k…

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…

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

I followed the steps outlined in the instructions, and they worked very well for me with (10 ISPs) 4G dongles using PPP connections. TV Box Model tested: MXQ Pro 4K, 5G (H3 Allwinner), ISO: Sunvell 69. I started with Debian 10 and later upgraded to Debian 11. I also use a second USB 3.0 LAN card, as well as the dongles connected through a USB hub with an independent power supply. For more information, you can check the following resources: Installing the Perl dependencies took some time. Net-ISP-Balance Documentation https://lstein.github.io/Net-ISP-Balance/ Net-ISP-Balance GitHub Repository https://github.com/lste…

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…

All the information you can think of on an easy and simple webgui https://github.com/netdata/netdata Even has a really simple script to download all deps and compile the program for you https://github.com/netdata/netdata#quick-start Just thought you folks might be interested...if it's linux...this will work on it

I just recently came across netdata. Have you all seen it before... it's pretty great.... its kind of like a free version of datadog. I was wondering if there would be interest in replacing the armbianmonitor -r rpimontor with it.. or augmenting as another install option

Hello, [sorry if this is in the wrong forum category] I am a new user and have got my OPi zero running up until the console (starting message), via ethernet. I have used a router with IP 192.168.4.1 as DHCP server, which is not connected to internet. The routing table is accordingly similar to [1] Wifi is not yet set up. When I want to, it should connect to a different AP/router (say operating as 192.168.1.1 seen over wlan0), and therefore also the routes have to be adjusted. My question is: can I delete the default route in [1] while still retaining connection to the Pi via Ethernet? (from the PC which is on the 192…

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

I copied the system from http://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pcto a 8GB SD and installed it in OrangePi PC, which works OK withe some other distros. - No connection with SSH - No visual (The card HDMI might be broken. No visual with Raspbian either) - The LED lights up abt. 10sec after power-on on the board as well as the LEDs by RJ45 connector Tested with bot Jessie and Trusty. I inserted the Trusty card to my Linux Mint 17.3 laptop and edited /etc/network/interface.default. There is only local, no eth0. I wrote static address mantra there and tested, but no go. Fdisk told there is only one partition on the card starting from 2048. - Checked with ping and "nm…

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.

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, so moderators, please feel free to move my post. I'm involved in getting some new development boards onto the market and we've based our software as so many others, on Armbian. What would be needed to get official support from Armbian? We're currently on a mix of Armbian with Ubuntu 18.04 and kernel 4.18.x. A bit of information about the hardware can be found here https://project-x.com.tw/ We haven't opened up our git as yet, but it'll be done soon. I understand that there might be quite a few things we have to do, but we're willing to do it and will provide hardware to developers as …

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.

Thanks, maintainers!! o/

Hi folks, this is my first thread here, I just recently came aboard since I found that Armbian is the better solution for my Odroi-HC4 therefore I won't insist on checking for info and solution on the Odroid Forum. I am not very satisfied with Hardkernel, they produce excellent board with very poor OS support, looks like such critical aspect is left on the shoulder of a couple of great dudes but is not same as having a community behind; also board as the RPI demonstrated that a great OS support is better than having the most powerful hardware, is the same lesson learned by Rock64 even though I won't user Manjaro not even under torture... 😜 …

Hi Armbian folks, I’m new to the forum and joined today (07:42 PM CEST, July 20, 2025). I’ve recently started playing around with single-board computers, like an Orange Pi 5 I set up with Armbian a while back—it’s been a fun challenge! I’m based in Poland and enjoy tinkering with tech in my spare time. I’d love to hear what brings you all here—any cool hobbies or projects you’re working on? I’m thinking of trying something simple like a media server or smart home setup, but I’m open to ideas. What do you enjoy doing with your SBCs or other gear? Looking forward to chatting with you!

Bootlin has released the new blobs (32&64 bit, X11/fbdev/Wayland, r6p2/r8p1). https://bootlin.com/blog/more-opengl-binaries-for-the-mali-support-on-allwinner-platforms-with-mainline-linux/ https://github.com/free-electrons/mali-blobs

Hi everyone, I'm looking at a project to provide a Media Server in a small bar to the customers along with an Intranet webserver and Wireless Internet gateway. I want the internal LAN consisting of my Desktop PC and the new SBC server to be running GbE and for the SBC to be serving data from a 2.5" 250Gb SATA drive directly rather than over a USB bridge. This has led me to a choice of a Cubie board or Banana Pi connected to a GbE switch or alternatively I could simply get the Banana router board and avoid the extra switch device. (I'm leaning towards the router board as it will be less devices and therefore consume less power, unless there is a major disadvantage …

as Info: differences to V1.0 : http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO2#Hardware_Change_List - NanoPi NEO V1.1 1711's Audio connector is a 2.54mm 4Pin-header - NanoPi NEO V1.1 1711's Ethernet port is a pin connector. - NanoPi NEO V1.1 1711 has a CVBS output which V1.0 doesn't have - NanoPi NEO V1.1 1711 has two more mounting holes of 1.7 mm in diameter - NanoPi NEO V1.1 1711 has 1.1V/1.3V GPIO voltage regulation and - Popup TF Card Slot and maybe a 1GB RAM option - which will double the cost of the board

Odroid has announced it`s new board. The Odroid H2. Not what I expected it to be. But it does seem nice, but pricy. https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=32536 Specs - 2.3Ghz Quad-core processor J4105 (14nm) with 4MiB Cache - Dual-channel Memory DDR4-PC19200 (2400MT/s) - Total 32GiB RAM Space with two SO-DIMM slots - 4 x PCIe 2.0 for one NVMe storage - 2 x Gbit Ethernet ports - 2 x SATA 3.0 - SSE4.2 accelerator (SMM, FPU, NX, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES) - Graphics UHD Graphics (Gen9.5) 600 (GT1) 700Mhz - HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2 multiple video outputs

Leak from Xunlung lab: Kernel 3.10.x Some info about H5: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/04/15/allwinner-h-series-ott-soc-roadmap-adds-h5-and-h2-processors/

https://shop.allnetchina.cn/blogs/news/the-new-rock-3-model-a-co-developed-by-radxa-and-rockchip I wanted to use this beautiful board with virtual box and a quectel modem, to make a LTE router, can anyone tell me if armbian will be compatible?

Hi everyone, we have a new forum set up at orangepi.club now, since the original one runs as if it was run on a OPi One while compiling 5 kernels at the same time, and its mostly broken too (login for example) The new forum is not supposed to be a replacement for this forum, just a place to have a general chat about all systems, not only Armbian. I hope its a good place to post it. Also, if you are a creator of a distro, you can be a moderator for the distribution category. I am not a part of the administration, i am just telling you guys about it, so we get people to know this forum and actually use it, because its better. -moondeck

Hi all! I'm new on armbian and my first (second, because the first is rasperry p3 but it runs hassio) is orange pi 3. I would like to know about gpio, but i cannot write on thread of orange pi 3. Maybe, because i'm not a programmer, but i try to ask in some case. Tnx and sorry for bad english!

Congratulation Igor for your new website design and layout! You have done a very good and excellent job, it is very clearly arranged and very descriptive! Many others should have a look and make some correctionbs to their website, because many show a very cumbersome design and are vey strange and difficult to mameuver! 5 Thumbs UP! Regards, Ireng

I just open-sourced some code to replace fbtft and fbcp. It uses dirty-tiles to try to minimize the writes to the SPI LCD and improve the framerate. I'm working with some of the guys at sudomod to get it working on Lakka builds too. You can download it here: https://github.com/bitbank2/BB-CP

Hello i wanted to use tv box like hardware firewall like pfsense but found out that arm system is built for specific hardware so i thought i could install linux plus snort / suricata . the only dist that works on this box is armbian but using only firefox uses a lot of resources. my box is mxq pro 4k amilogic s905x now questions: 1.It is possible to modify / uninstall unnecessary things (programs / desktop environment theoretically everything can be installed and config from cmd / bash) in the future could create a web guide for more user-friendliness and transfer some of the load to another pc. 2. Could you tell me in short how the process of…

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

Hi there, is it possible to change screen resolution of the screen without changing/replacing script.bin and rebooting? could we just avoid rebooting and somehow force linux to change resolution?

First post here... apologies in advance for any questions that might sound dumb. My plan: buy Android TV boxes and install Armbian to run browsers and remote control using AnyDesk. I chose Android TV boxes - everything is complete and contained in a small box + very cheap. For £35 for example, I can get with power supply - with 2GB RAM - not sure about processor though. - Should I consider other options? Like Orange Pi? I've got a 3rd generation Raspberry Pi - that is so poor for speed, chokes on one or 2 browser tabs. (I haven't tried Armbian - I will be doing shortly.) - Need recommended hardware. Whether it's an…

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

hi, since two weeks i fail to install nexctloud 12 on armbian at an bananapi 1. may be one mistake seems to be, there is no php 7 for armbian? the second mistake: i get no LogIn to mariasql, because of password problems. If somebody would give me a hint on an tutorial to nstall nextcloud 12 on armbian for bananapi 1, may be i find my mistakes. may be there is no such tutorial ? I wasn't able to find ist via google. I am a "starter/beginner" with armbian, but medium knowledge on windows

Hi, How i can find information for set the fex file, kernel, etc. etc. for use the spi in userspace? root@orangepipc:~# uname -a Linux orangepipc 4.10.0-sun8i #5 SMP Tue Feb 14 02:53:01 CET 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@orangepipc:~# lsmod Module Size Used by sun4i_codec 28243 3 rt2800usb 16226 0 sun8i_codec_analog 13766 1 rt2800lib 57122 1 rt2800usb snd_soc_core 115473 2 sun4i_codec,sun8i_codec_analog snd_pcm_dmaengine 4221 1 snd_soc_core rt2x00usb 9245 1 rt2800usb rt2x00lib 34437 3 rt2800lib,rt2800usb,rt2x00usb mac80211 324953 3…

Greetings, colleagues! When I connect a Wi-Fi USB adapter, the system assigns it a terrible interface name! I'm used to the fact that a well-bred Linux gives them names like wlan0, wlan1, etc... Armbian gives the name according to the following scheme: "wlx<MAC-ADDRESS>"! It is very uncomfortable! How I can persuade him to give names according to the traditional scheme? I am grateful for the answers on the essence of the question, Ogogon.

Hi, I use Banana Pro (armbian installed). I have no problem at all after installing Armbian. Previous OS was Raspbian and it was slow for homeserver ops. (I thing GUI was default). Nowadays, looking for a new but fast SBC. I am not interested in any video applications and components and such as Kodi, XMBC, H.265, 1080p, high resolution. I will not use it as desktop. Ä°t will serve only for my home network for DLNA server, DHCP server, Web proxy (like Squid), web filtering (SquidGuard), torrent ops. and web reporting (w/ Apache or any other). Especially web browsing is a little bit slower over Squid and Squidguard. Ä°f this is CPU, memory or any kind source issue, …

Hi, I’m working on enabling I²S audio output using a PCM5102 DAC on an Orange Pi Zero 2W (SoC: Allwinner H618) running Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.334_trixie_current_6.12.47_minimal. Despite several tests and rebuild attempts, I haven’t been able to obtain any sound output from the I²S interface. Below is a summary of what has been done so far. Hardware setup Board: Orange Pi Zero 2W SoC: Allwinner H618 DAC: PCM5102 (I²S input, analog stereo output) Connections: I2S0 → used for DAC (pins LRCK, BCLK, DIN, GND, 3.3V) Confirmed pin mappings according to H618 documentation and available DTS files. OS Image: Armb…

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

I am a little bit frustrated. I downloaded for my new boards, opi one and opi-pc, the newest armbian, wrote to SD put it in and powered ... nothing happens, RJ45 LEDs are on, but not the boot LEDs, and of course it does not boot. Tried with other files from the opi web page and the same SD-card, it is booting ... Any ideas? BR Pulpataro

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

Hello. I'm an happy armbian loaded Opi Plus 2E and Opi Pc Plus user and i want to thanks a lot the armbian community for their hard work on H3 devices. I use Plus 2E it as a seedbox/NAS with two 2.5" btrfs Raid1 1gb usb hdd, I must say that i love that little board. But, a friend of me wanted to buy one and told me that it was unavailable for now . Do you think it's temporary out of stock or we can consider it a discontinued board ?

Hello, I've installed Igor's newest ubuntu trusty image. When the desktop came up, i realized i don't have mouse pointer. I tried several way to get it back, but with no sucess. Can someone help me, how to magic back the pointer? Thanks, Sp0T

I just updated my LCD library to make use of ArmbianIO. Now you can easily talk to those inexpensive LCDs from your ARM SBC. You can find the code here: https://github.com/bitbank2/nokia5110

Noobie interested in learning the simple basics of how single board computers are built? While I have a Orange Pi, have bought a cheap China made Ardunio, with header and USB cable with delivery for under 3 quid ( mad how they do these pieces 😀) and just starting to learn as a maker. I want to learn more basics about how these SBC board work, are built, but I am not technically trained. Years ago I could put a Windows machine together from boards, parts and install operating system. So does anyone know a good forum to ask questions and read up on SBC boards in easy to understand English language. I would love to know how they design the GPIO and connec…

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.

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…

Hello! I have the NXP i.MX7Dual developer board for Android Things (ARM Cortex-A7 + M4, 512MB DDR3L, 4GB eMMC flash; you can find the reference guide here). Is it possible to run Armbian on it?

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

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

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.

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…

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.

Hi guys. Ive seen this forum from time to time in search results. And now i finally registered to ask a question. Im looking for very cheap (under 80$), extreemely powersavvy pc with AES support. This machine will work in my home 24/7 as OpenVPN server only (no other stuff). I pay the bills myself so energy is my main concern. I already own 3 pc's , 2 monitors, 2 smartphones, and 3 network devices and this time this new machine needs to be almost unnoticable in my energy bills. At first I was thinking about Raspberry Pi 3 or RPi 3 + but i found that its bottleneck is gigabit NIC which is poorly implemented. In the other hand AFAIK ODROID C2 has si…

Dear Armbians I have an Odroid C4 in use in a DC with 100 MBits synchronous network connection. As I use it as dedicated networking device, bound to the internet over ethernet connection, I would like to disable the drivers for Wifi, HDMI and Bluetooth permanently. They are not necessary in my case. What would be the safest way to do this?

Somebody knows how much current at 5 volts the USB3 connectors of the Odroid C4 can deliver? The board itself is powered with 12 volts. From the schematics I could find two JW7111S switches for up to 2.4 amps. But the page seems to be a duplicate siince they have the same page number.

Hi I want an ups for my Hc 2 - Have seen the link: https://magazine.odroid.com/article/aff ... 00-uptime/ But the likelihood I can make it is small I am not good at soldering. - Are there any who can give advice on an ups I can put on the 220V side? And then I would like to support the possibility of closing the box via usb / linux in case of power failure. Someone who has experience with a UPS that supports this in armbian debian stetch?

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

I have an odroid xu4 and want to thank you for the great work ... _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| v25.2.2 for Odroid XU4 running Armbian Linux 6.6.75-current-odroidxu4 Packages: Debian stable (bookworm) IP addresses: (LAN) IPv4: 192.168.178.24 IPv6: fd0b:5278:d32e:0:1d4d:933a:afcc:c02 (WAN) 188.136.105.135 Performance: Load: 1% Up time: 27 days 5:26 Memory usage: 4% of 1.94G CPU temp: 47°C Usage of /: 5% of 29G storage/: 3% of 234G Tips: Support our crowdfunding project https://forum.armbian.com…

I'm running Armbian from a emmc 16GB card. When I use the web browser the mouse constantly flickers, is there any way to get this to stop? Is there a graphics driver I should have enabled? When I select Additional Hardware Drivers none show up, so maybe there isnt a GPU accelerated driver available. Also switching between desktops feels sluggish. Maybe Im expecting too much performance from a $50 SBC. Thanks for your help & time in making this distribution. Im just looking to make the best user experience possible.

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!

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)

boa noite gostaria de saber de voces do forum,quando se atualiza um firmware(software) de uma boxtv ,a versão desse firmware que vai ser atualizado vai substituir tambem o OS(system operacional) da boxtv? porque atualizar ? quando se atualiza uma versão essa atualização vai tambem atualizar o kernel e o file system? obrigado pela atenção um abraço a todos....

<prompt> "Talk to me about it." <claude> Good question, because the honest answer has layers, and most of the "8K" in the ads lives in only one of them. What's real: the decoder. The RK3588's video engine (RKVDEC2) really does decode 8K: HEVC and VP9 at 8K@60, H.264 and AV1 at 8K@30, in silicon. That's not marketing. It's the same block Deep Ink talks to for our 4K HDR work, and 8K is just more macroblocks through the same pipe. So "8K video decoding" is a true statement about the chip. Where it thins out: the display. The VOP2 display controller's big port (VP0) tops out at 8K@30 or 4K@120, and here's the nugget: those are the same number. …

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…

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…

Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level [ 1.784418] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=5370 [ 1.791161] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 1.798300] usb 2-1: Product: 802.11 n WLAN [ 1.802478] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Ralink [ 1.806486] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 1.0 [ 1.812060] random: procd urandom read with 27 bits of entropy available Segmentation fault [ 4.923551] procd: - early - [ 4.926494] procd: - watchdog - [ 5.629634] procd: - ubus - [ 5.685167] procd: - init - Please press Enter…

Hi all, first of all thanks Igor for this great distro, but is for say that i succesfully passed from my old Armbian based on debian wheezy, to a new Armbian but based on devuan that is a fork of Debian without systemd, so if you don't like systemd now you have a choice.

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 …

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

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

___ ____ _ _ _ _ / _ \| _ \(_) | | (_) |_ ___ | | | | |_) | | | | | | __/ _ \ | |_| | __/| | | |___| | || __/ \___/|_| |_| |_____|_|\__\___| 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…

Hello all, I was wondering if it is possible to run some sort of script when the power button on the Orange Pi PC is pressed? I was thinking I could use this to run a safe shutdown script of some kind, rather than having to SSH in every time. I've tried looking into the GPIOs but I could never get the button to show up in the list of available inputs. Any advice? Thanks for any input.

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.

Does anyone here have this board yet? Orange Pi Prime Development Board H5 Quad-core, 2 gig ram

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

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

Has anyone heard any news on where and when this is available ? some of the AliExpress stores just appears to be sold out of the 32gb ram version.

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