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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

I would like to discuss the subject of failure and SBC systems of various brands. I just broke the Nanopi T2 module. I also had a damaged module of orangepi 2 and orange pi RK 3399. You have a lot of boards. Did you happen to be under the influence of overvoltages in the high temperature or period the use of the board broke down ?. Which producer is the worst in this respect?

Today I had a chance to test OV5640 on mainline kernel 4.17.2 and see the status of OV5640 and CSI drivers, thanks to FE work and the author of the driver (help name here...). I tested on NanoPi K1 Plus (H5) to verify the images in very low light conditions, so don't expect good quality. I could take some images using fswebcam and you should expect basic v4l2 functionality already works if not all. I think motion (did not test / had time to test it) can work with current OV5640 on mainline kernel. Grabbing Image is very fast, currently, Image size I can get are 320x240 and 640x480 pixels, above this i get a dark image. I have not looked at the driver source cod…

I know that you have a lot of to do, because there is a lot of new single boards... For considerate for the future support.: Nano pi k1 plus with H5 allwinner cpu. And also renegade single board from libre computers based on Rockchip RK 3328 the same as rock64. Both cpu's are supported in other boards so it will be easer.

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

is it possible to support 1440pi 2k resolution, where it is possible?

Hello all. I've finished my video on the NanoPC-T3+. I forgot to mention a lot of things as always. But it is how it is @IgorWith what I promised. I hope it'll help. Thank you.

Anyone experienced problem with logging in via Tapatalk? Neither "tapatalk linked account" nor standard login+pwd option works for me, see error on screenshot. I'm using Tapatalk app v7.4.2 right now. Maybe tapatalk forum plugin needs to be upgraded?

linuxgizmos Our June 2018 round-up of hacker-friendly single board computers comprises three resources: an overview of recent SBC market trends; this catalog; and a Google docs spreadsheet that tabulates the boards’ key features. I haven't checked the list, well beside sunxi which lists all Allwinner another list.. http://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-116-open-spec-hacker-boards/

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 want to build a project for a USB camera with motion software detection and autonomous power. I have some difficulties to find clear information regarding the consumption of the different Orange Pi boards. And I'm not sure to choose model Zero, I96, Lite, or perhaps another one My project includes: - power bank: already I have one with 20.000 mah (5v/1-2A) - usb camera: I have one camera low resolution, which I believe is better to get a lower consumption - one physical switch: to shutdown gracefully, and avoid the SD corruption before the battery is exhausted I have seen there is some code for the switch in the Zero board, although I ignore i…

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…

Realtek RTD1296, Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Mali T820 MP3 GPU 2G DDR4 SDRAM PCIE 2.0 interface.PCEe 1.1&SDIO 2 SATA interface Mini DP HDMI In/Out Is it planned to support (create an ARMBIAN firmware) this board?

Just as the title says, what would be a good recommendation for a mSATA to USB3 enclosure? I have seen these two that look interesting: https://www.amazon.de/Salcar-Aluminium-Festplattengehäuse-Datenkabel-Silber/dp/B01D9KX9UA https://www.amazon.de/ELUTENG-Externes-Festplatten-Enclosure-Datenkabel/dp/B06XCND4YT Any experience with them? Any other recommendation? @tkaiser any good/bad experience with this kind of enclosures?

(placeholder for a Board Bring Up thread -- now just collecting random nonsense) Board arrived today. Running with ayufan's Debian 9 image (using 1.8/1.4GHz settings for the big.LITTLE cores for whatever reasons instead of 2.0/1.5GHz) I checked for heat dissipation with Pine Inc's huge heatsink first. Huge heatsink combined with thin thermal pad shows really nice thermal values: below 50°C when running cpuburn-a53 on two A53 and two A72 cores in parallel with a fan blowing above the heatsink's surface Board in upright positition still running same cpuburn-a53 task without fan after 20 minutes reports still below 85°C …

I reported the armbian to the linux distrowatch portal. The rankings are raspian and bananian and there is no armbian. www.distrowatch.com sent to .: jsmith@distrowatch.com https://www.armbian.com/ Hello Why this distribution is not in the rankings ? They have existed since 2013 the best linux distribution for single board computers... You rank raspbian and you dont rank armbian ????? best regards RADEK FROM POLAND

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

Hi I actually have an old Odroid C2 with Armbian and it's running quite good for pi hole and plex streaming (usb attached hdd) I'd like to replace the board with a new SBC but I can't seem to find the right one for me. I need - armbian good support - 2+GB ram - fast cpu - Gigabit Ethernet - eMMC support could be nice for fast OS - it will run headless - docker support - USB 3 support could be nice, otherwise USB 2 is ok I think it's all. There are a lot of SBC manufacturer and models (orange pi, banana pi, Raspberry pi, nano pi,...) and I can't really understand what is better for me Thank…

First A55 chip, maybe not for SBC, but who knows :-))) https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/05/18/spreadtrum-sc9863-octa-core-cortex-a55-processor-is-made-for-lte-smartphones/

Need a little help. What board do you guys recommend for multi-room audio? What a need: - Something small like OPI zero or a bit bigger (that's the space i have inside the wall) - I2S for connecting a DAC - Onboard WiFi - Maybe a Micro and onboad flash I have an OPI Zero but it has no I2S The only ones that i know are C.H.I.P and and nanopi Air

This seems to be a interesting project for some of the SBCs which are supported ba armbian. Maybe its - in some parts - also a "inspiration" for armbian? Shedbuilt A rickety GNU/Linux Distribution for ARM Devices Long-story short You can build an entire operating system capable of communicating over the Internet, playing games, and robots, from scratch on a computer that costs less than a well-optioned burrito. Here's an admittedly over-the-top and entertainment-focused video that demonstrates what Shedbuilt is caple of on sub-$10 devices, using only open-source software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS9DArYH6WI …

Hi, will there be support for Orange pi 4G-IOT? Thanks

When will it be avalaible make your own armbian on ubuntu 18.04? I have just upgraded from 16.04. When will it be avalaible to build armbian for bionic 18.04 for Allwinner H3 H5 A64 CPU?

Hi there, I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M) fleet. I'm open to your suggestions. Things I do **not** like about NanoPi: * Unreliable Ethernet. A network interface is flipping all the time Up/Down. * 512 MB is not enough for a tor relay * Hardware watchdog does not work reliably. It works in synthetic tests but sometimes a board just freezes. Things I like about NanoPi: * Armbian support * Price * Size/form factor * Performance * Heat dissipation * Ethernet tap My use cases: * Tor router * Home DNS server * Monitoring server Prometheus for my SBCs and network equipment.

Hi all. I've finished my review video about the Banana Pi M2 Zero. I talk about Armbian a bit. If anyone has got tips and tricks to improve my videos, please let me know. Like : Could I use the same version of 7zip on 32-bit and 64-bit environments? Thank you for all the help. Here's my video. Greetings.

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…

Brovo for a new look www page. Good job... Excellent

Hi there Board! o/ This is me again tapping from your infinite wisdom. I will be emptying my pockets in the Canada trip and another item that I have in my shopping list is a Oscilloscope. And I'm flirting witha Rigol 1054Z (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012938E76/) Far from being a Engineer (my major was in chemistry, heh), but some times I do feel the need to check out some waveforms. And I like bench stuffs - I'm not considering some software-defined oscilloscope that would do the same for half the price. Because I'm cranky :-P What's your opinion? I aim to stay behind the USD450 bar. Eager to …

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

Hi all o/ I'll be travelling to Canada in a couple of weeks (anyone visiting OpenStack summit in Vancouver?) and I was preparing my shopping cart. To my dismay, Tinker Board is off stock in both US and Canada resellers; I can only find rip-off prices from Marketplace and eBay! Does anyone here knows a reputable vendor where I could buy it sub-USD60? Appreciate any hints!

Thanks, maintainers!! o/

I just received a couple of these inexpensive LCD displays ($1.82 each shipped). They are very low power and look good. I've got them working on Arduino and will now be converting the code to Linux. If anyone is interested in these, let me know. I'll edit this post to add the github link when it's ready.

Hello all. I'm looking into enlarging my SBC collection. I'm mainly looking for a board that is power efficient, has got a fast cpu, and at least 2GB of RAM. This for 1080p video rendering with powerbanks, so power efficiency is very important. I'm now looking into the NanoPC-T3+ since it's an Octa core with 2GB of ram. (or the BPi M3?) Does anyone have got experience with this board in LINUX? I see there's an Armbian in testing. How far is this? Is there hardware video acceleration? Does the cpu perform as promised? What is the power consumption on it? I bought the Khadas Vim2 Max for this. But it doesn't perform well at all. It should replace my Odroid…

Someone sent a week ago a couple of 2.8" TFT Display ili9341 and asked me to wire it to an H5 and make it work. I had some experience with the ST7789S with Nanopi NEO plus2 and that worked out of the box so i decided to use Nanopi NEO2 as a test bed and used the same wiring scheme. I have managed to wire it and although the FB is created and no error at all but the display is blank (black with no backlight enabled). The frame buffer is filled with information but not displayed. here is the wiring (NEO2): NanoPi Display 19 SPI_MOSI 21 SPI_MISO 23 SPI_CLK 22 LCD_D/C 24 LCD_CS 7 LCD_RESET 11 LED_EN GND VCC (3v3) Kernel 4.…

Hi, I want to build cluster with ubuntu for my bioinformatics calculations and maybe for webserver. I didn't do anything like that earlier, so I want you all to be kind xD Here is what i have: > 5x orange pi one plus (every opi with heatsinks) > NAS expansion (for disk minissd or HDD) > tp-link switch with 8 ports (tp-link tl-sf1008d, im afraid it will be to slow for this, but i can change it later) > AC DC Power Adapter 5V / 10A Charger Transformer ( for Opi's) - with splitter > 2 port usb charger for NAS and switch (cause of i cant find power supply for all of opis with switch and NAS - im bad at electronics) > ethernet cab…

Yes. Cubieboard 1 I am doing various testings on OS level to find bugs related to last changes and I wanted to see how current latest Armbian assembly works on an older, officially unsupported, board, which we usually don't use any more. Especially not for a desktop replacement. It's more like a joke but let's look how a single core single board computer from 2012 actually performs: Armbianmonitor: http://ix.io/18QM Booting full featured XFCE desktop: (real-time) Spoiler Writing and printing a document (slow typing due to crippled keyboard) Spoiler …

Hi, Why not Armbian image for Banana Pi M2U?

Hi all. I've seen a lot of questions here about what sbc to buy. So why not put a few links here to my videos about SBC's. The first is my latest video about the desktop experience with the Odroid XU4. This video is about the Rock64(with Armbian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oX7TabSROw This about the Rasp 3b+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbapdFXpqE&t=2s Khadas VIM2 MAX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ue7mmpVoU&t=188s Asus Tinker Board + Odroid C2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT17hiELHLE I also can use the views. Thank you. Have a nice day.

Hi, I have a strange problem, here is my network Ip sec VPN (from Android) | 192.168.100.0/24 | 192.168.10.0/24 Internet======Optic fiber router====>dmz====>Mikrotik router |192.168.10.0/24 LAN Pc's -- | -- cubietruck (wg0) =====> remote lan 10.0.0.0/16 …

I just need the ethernet connector. Does anyone know the pin connections to this? It's not marked. The double USB from orange pi zero IO expansion works fine but the audio out is a bit noisy. I had to use a separate audio port. This is one of the few boards with double SPIs and they both work fine. Thanks for the easy user overlay customization support. This is my $7.99 256mb neo core, note there is a chip missing (3rd picture). Starting up in X is slower - it waits for a second or two each time - don't know why, any ideas? It cannot be the swap as I monitored the swap and its only using 125mb. I have the system on the USB …

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 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)…

You can't read every interesting news blog, annotation etc. about stuff related to tech, linux whatever is in this field. Open a new thread for all those stuff you might share with others here ends that also nobody reads it cause it's spread though various threads. So why not share them all in one thread? Idea: Share a link to the article in this thread with a short teaser what the article is about and maybe some opinions why you like the article. It should not be 'post link only without any description what the article is about'. So, I'll start with the first one (not that recent, but I think it's still worth to read): http://kroah.com…

Seems that hardware accelerated Videodecoding & GPU usage is the new 'hot topic' at the moment. A lot of this stuff is discussed in various topics and threads and subforums here. As nice at it is to bring this topics up, it's hard to follow them across the forum and when those questions come up from users you have to link the to a bunch of topics which they probably don't read cause it's simply to much to read (I now that this is a shitty argument, but reading is boring for most people in those days.. ). So why does it make sense to open another thread targeting this topic? This should summarize the things that work, no suggestions what could work, should work,…

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.

Dự đoán KQXSMB 11/1/2019 mơ thấy ông Bụt trong truyện cổ tích và những con số may mắn? Ông Bụt là ai? Chắc tuổi thơ ai cũng đã nghe những câu chuyện về nhân vật này chỉ xuất hiện trong truyện cổ tích. Ông chính là người giúp ta có những giấc ngủ ngon, ông cũng chính là người cho ta những kỷ niệm đẹp về những câu truyện cổ tích, ông chính là vị thần may mắn của những đứa nhỏ mà những đứa nhỏ luôn nghĩ đến sẽ được gặp ông và ông giúp đỡ. Tuy ông không có thật nhưng trong suy nghĩ của những đứa nhỏ ông luôn có thật và chúng luôn mong có cơ hội được gặp ông. Ông Bụt xuất hiện qua những lời …

Hello! Firstly, I would like to thank the Armbian devs for their awesome work, without it a lot of my boards would have such a poor support... I am currently doing a school project which involves embedded pentesting, using a drone. I am looking for: the cheapest (we have a limited budget) the most powerful (to use some tools such as password cracking) the most energy efficient (it will running on powerbank/batteries) the lightest and the smallest (to be embedded in a drone) it has to have full size USB ports/OTG/headers (to connect an external powerful WiFi adapter) and if possible, has to have WiFi embedded (we might control …

Hello, I would like to replace the ribbon of the orangepi camera which is damaged. What are the technical characteristics of the ribbon or better, where can we buy it? Thx

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

For those interested I made some improvements in the GLES display backend of uae4arm: https://github.com/Chips-fr/uae4arm-rpi I tested it on Armbian on my orange Pi Pc+ (H3), was able to get 50fps for some games. The only remaining issue is that vsync is not activated and tearing occurs. Does anyone know how to solve this ? Feel free to try on others boards...

I don't know if this the right place to post this question. I am looking for a board that fits what I need. I have been looking and could not find everything I need in one board. I thought of asking here maybe someone can suggest something. So here are the specifications I am looking for: 1- CPU: has a crypto engine/ Security system. Almost all Allwinner Axx and Hx have crypto engines. 2- wireless connectivity Has all or most of the following: WiFi 2.4G, 5GHz and 3G/4G Module if possible. 3- Network connectivity: Has 1000 Mbps Ethernet. 4- USB : At least one A-type USB. Thanks

Hello, I am wondering if someday tutorials will be made available for ones who like the idea of using single board computers for projects, but have not learned to write their own code. Raspberry has an overabundance of people sharing what they have created [this for example https://tutorials-raspberrypi.com/setup-raspberry-pi-node-js-webserver-control-gpios/] I have made use of what I have searched and found to make my website again [my site], but at least for the computer hosting my relay interface I want to use better boards with more RAM. Should I learn to write some code and get the satisfaction of making it work by myself or should I wait for a future…

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:

I've done some load testing of my first prototype power "mezzanine" board (can't say "hat") The voltage drop of powering the RPi touchscreen off of the GPIO while the tinker is on micro-USB is insane, I was reading 3.9 Volts on the USB ports when I ran minerd --benchmark. I may have finally worn out the Micro-USB connector... This is a project for learning the ins and outs of kicad and get an idea of the capabilities of the PCB houses I have reasonably fast access to (Chinese ones unfortunately always get stuck in customs for a week or more on top of the normal shipping and fab times, so the cost savings is lost in time) I have some more interesting thing…

Hi guys! Thought I'd let you know about a new board that I've just released - called the mmBoard. Has all the features that SBC hackers have been wanting, plus more. https://www.mickmake.com/post/announcing-the-mmboard-a-mickmake-sbc-with-all-the-goodies Let me know if there's any questions about it. Would be happy to answer them.

Xunlong released Android 7 images 2 weeks ago and it didn't include a one for opi+2 which is still the same. I am still waiting for an image and I wonder if there ever be an image or not. Does anyone have any information about this?

So i've installed a bigger battery on my cheap A33 tablet. Previously it had a 1700mAh battery (rated for 3000mAh actually) for a 2x1700mAh setup. It works fine and actually works for longer, but the battery percentage is not correct anymore, since it now drops to 5% and stays there for some time until it completely discharges. Does need a special calibration (pmic is AXP223) or will a simple charge/discharge calibrate things ?

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

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

Armbian noob here. I am looking for some guidance from the Armbian experts. I am familier with Debian 8 and 9 on x86/adm64 architectures as well as Raspbian on RPi's. Been using Linux off and on for 15 years. Just purchased some Rock64 boards and plan on using them for NextcloudPi, PiVPN, and PiHole. I just saw that Armbian has released a nightly of Debian Stretch for the Rock64. I have downloaded it and gotten it installed. Ran apt-get upgrade/apt-get update and all went well. Does this Armbian image have all the "standard" packages and utilities installed? Are their any other general packages/app that I need for a general server image? An…

Today I received this two devices and started to play with i2c. I am new to i2c but I already figured out how to talk to each device alone but i want to use a single bus for both devices. The problem is when i connect both i can only see one device. Can someone point what is wrong with the way i am wiring it? The devices: The Matrix: sudo i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -…

Nothing like a good weekend challenge to occupy my inner nerd. I love this web interface NODE JS along with this relay plate RELAY PLATE and have it working with Raspberry PI3, but now I want to take advantage of the additional ram I have with Rock64. The process did not go without a hitch. I list the latest version of NPM in my machine and the web interface is working. I don't think the relays are getting triggered even though I painstakingly crossed the power pinouts and the gpio pinouts. Not sure if this can be adapted or if it has been done before. I am good at following those that know more than me, but do not consider myself knowledgeable enough to blaze new trails.…

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

Hi, I have a question regarding standard DNS server entry in resolv.conf: The Google DNS 8.8.8.8 is at the top followed by the one supplied by my DHCP service. That way the Google server will be queried first, which I think is wrong, considering privacy implications. Why is it hardcoded anyway? As I understand it, it comes from /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head? this should not include anything. Would be nice If somebody could clarify why it is implemented that way. Thanx

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

Since I've a pile of these boards lying about, and really prefer a proper case to a plastic one, I have one particular one that stood out to me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079CF5FNX/ The case is aluminum, with machined end blocks and a perforated top. This would be my recommendation for any hot board like the Tinker Board, and to be honest the one I bought is quite nicely put together, with a somewhat industrial feel. Does anyone else have a favorite? I'm not really talking about those zebra cases or open-air acrylic/standoff sandwiches.

As I recently wrote I started to use the desktop with armbian. Two obvious missing things puzzle me, but that maybe as not many are using it: xserver restart (ctrl + alt+ backspace) key kombination is missing disabled by default, go to >settings>session & startup>autostart and add: "setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" can this be added into a config file of XFCE as a standard? The other options that are available for setxkbmap "-option X" are determined by /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst Text Editior - the only text editor available... LibreOffice Lubuntu - leafpad Geany serves both light weight Editor with an Integrated…

Hello, for bypass the fu***g loopback blocking from my internet box I need to build a DNS server. I make some test with a OPI pc plus, it works (sofware). but it looks like that the internet connection is slower using this dns server. It due to the only 100mb network kard from my opi? if this is the case what do you suggest to use for boad for this application thanks in advance for your remarks

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.

i know you guys cant support every board thats outthere and it has been a wonderful ride with my cubieboard, few hickups in general armbian was the only reason i didnt bin that board when i got it just a little bit sad so see it go from supported devices but still i get it. its time to move on for newer and better boards. and with that said do you guys and a good suggestion for a replacement board that has a sata connection etc and thats gonna have a good timeline for support by Armbian ?

I just released a simple library for the MAX7219 LED matrix controller. It allows controlling any number of cascaded controllers in a very simple way. I tested it on an Orange Pi Lite. Even though it says it needs 5V, I ran the board @ 3.3v, it worked fine and didn't require any 3.3v->5v level converters. Here's the code: https://github.com/bitbank2/MAX7219 And a video of it in action: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iO66bsy6Wk13lT1y2

Hi, UPDATE 26 of May 2018: minor text for better reading, Document section added tools, repository idea SITUATION: In our "day to day" exchange on Armbian we are probably to close to look at it the way it looks for a firsttime visitor. Many members of the community have seen that as well and wrote about it in the Forum - but they didn't come up with a solution. Now, neither do I have a solution nor do I have nice document, but I think we need to set some standard pillars of FOSS projects in order to overcome some of our well known problems. For the ones who joined armbian a while ago (me for example May 2015) have read about missing dev…

Hey Friends, I want to make a board allwinner R40 chipset. So i want to know let assume if made a board then to work its with HDMI, DDR, ROM, USB Ports etc then any extra what kind of drivers needed. ITS my First plz help to collect some information regarding this. Thanx buddies.

Hello, I want to build myself a tiny nas. I want to run both Nextcloud and gitea (git server) on it. Which would you prefer? #### ODroid HC1 - Board with power supply = 54,50$ - Case = 4,00$ - Shipping = 17,40$ - Total = 75.90$ Total with german customs fees = 72,85€ #### Rock64 2GB - Board = 34.95$ - Power Supply = 6,99$ - JMS578 USB-to-SATA Cable= 9,99$ - Shipping = 11.99$ - Total = 63.92$ Total with german customs fees = 61,83 € For help i would be grateful. Sincerely, cyagon

Since my current board (Cubieboard 2) has been kicked out of the game, it's time to move on to a new one. Is there any chance to see an Armbian version for the Banana Pi R2 someday? This board is winner for me because of the Dual SATA feature (the router, not so much). If there are no plans for this board, please tell me for how long you'll support the Cubietruck, since it's my second choice. Thx in advance...

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…

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

The nice dashboard screenshot above is used by @Fourdee to explain why DietPi is superiour to Armbian: 'With #DietPi, logs and DietPi scripts are mounted to RAM , this reduces SD card write operations vastly' -- while I don't understand the purpose to 'mount scripts to RAM' of course the idea to cache logs into RAM is great! That's why Armbian does it since 2014 already. While the above 'proof' is somewhat questionable (watching a 5 min period in a dashboard and once there's activity in one graph taking a screenshot with numbers without meaning) let's look into what makes DietPi that superiour compared to Armbian since it's always a great idea to improve even …

Is there a way to dual RK3399 on one board?

Just for the record: Banana people work on another MediaTek based board: https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-files/commit/a3c53c233fd2059a43763a78b13ca1c5fd0b0f50 SoC is a MT7622A (dual core ARM Cortex A53 processor with some 'dedicated network accelerator', RAID/XOR engine, SATA and PCIe 2.0), latest bootloader commit suggests that the board will be equipped with 802.11ac (AC2600) Wi-Fi.

I would like to install a small mpd server (Music Player Daemon) that would read files from a usb disk, stream webradios and possibly be controlled by ir. What is the most lightweight and cheapest board that would exist and could do that ? The orange pi zero with an extension board or a usb audio card would have been perfect, but I read several posts about the lack of software updates and the never resolved kernel issues. How bad is it really ? And then what else would do the job?

I just released a new C library to draw text and graphics on the UC1701 128x64 monochrome LCD. It makes use of my ArmbianIO library to manipulate the GPIO lines: https://github.com/bitbank2/uc1701

Hi, I own a cubitruck since years and since month armbian is installed on it. Now I have just ordered a cubieboard 5. Will armbian also working on thso device ?? AllWinner SOC H8，ARM® CortexTM-A7 Octa-Core，PowerVR SGX544 GPU bei bis zu 700 MHz (I know, that there was the same question, but it was two years ago and I hope there armian will support now)

Did anybody ever successfully start a image like that start in virt-manager or how to boot that anyway?

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

Yesterday I did get a new little Bluetooth-Speaker, but without AUX - I rechecked some Bluetooth-Commands. But could never connect, because the Pi missed the protocol A2DP - which was only available with PulseAudio as Bluetooth-Module So I used my 2nd OrangePi One with USB-Bluetooth-Dongle and mainline-kernel for this challenge: ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.18-sunxi Linux opi-one-main 4.14.18-sunxi #24 SMP Fri Feb 9 16:24:32 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux I like ALSA more than PulseAudio - I searched for ALSA and Bluetooth-Audio - and did found no good news about Audio and Bluetooth while using ALSA. At the second sea…

On my journey to finding the best solution for cross SBC/cross language GPIO support I went through the same issues as Python by the C side author did it seems and landed on CFFI. This is faster than ctypes and seem more natural to program with. ctypesgen (the code generator) doen't really support Python 3, so I've hit a dead end there. It seems like JNA is still the best choice for Java bindings, so I'm sticking with that for now. In any event I threw together a button press app that uses CFFI and libgrpiod. I'll be updating my bindings project to support this soon. libgpiod version 1.1.devel Name: gpiochip1, label: 1f02c00.pinctrl, lines: 32 Press button…

Hi Forum, can I completely backup and restore Armbian boot/root/data partitions with tar (or something similar) and dates, rights, everything is saved and restored and the system boots? I've used Clonezilla up to now, to backup the sd-cards but some say is not needed and runs only on pcs. I would like to backup the sd-cards of one pi with one other.

Hi everyone. I'm starting a project to learn about Big Data processing. Roughly, I'll be following the example set by Michael at http://diybigdata.net/odroid-xu4-cluster/ . From other posts he has made, some extra RAM could be useful, so I am interested in the 4GB ROCK64. My basic configuration will be ROCK64/64Gb eMMC/Pine USB3-SATA cable/HDD. I'm looking to buy 4 of these to start the project and do my development and testing before adding extra nodes to the cluster. It seems that the Pine USB-SATA cable performs well, but the SD card reader does not. I'd like to configure remote power cycling using GPIO from a monitoring SBC and a re…

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

On January 31st I decided to order two EspressoBIN boards with 2GB RAM each. What made me take the final decision was that the pfSense developers got pfSense running on the board (it's still in alpha, but it very much adds value to the board). In addition, Armbian's compatibility page (see the download page) lists two devices that I'm interested in: The USB3-to-Gbit Ethernet adapter. The Mini-PCIe-to-4-SATA-ports card. Note: This card will not be able to reach the full 6Gbit for SATA, but around 5Gbit, which is still quite good. And last but not least; Armbian of course needs some testers on this platform. Here are the t…

Free Electrons (now Bootlin ;/) have launched a Kickstarter to get the work on the Allwinner VPU (Video Processing Unit) off the ground again... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-official-linux-kernel

Hi Experts, Setup: Ubuntu Xenial image on Orange Pi Zero Target boots fine and WiFi working stable. If I remove xradio_wlan module (rmmod xradio_wlan) target start rebooting (shutdown followed by reboot) automatically within 2 minutes and no information is captured in syslog to indicate the reason of reboot. I understand that something is dependent on wlan that is causing system to shutdown. I am looking for help to identify what causes shutdown. Can you provide some pointers which log/service should I look at? Thank you in advance

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

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

I have deleted this project please see https://github.com/sgjava/userspaceio as it covers I2C, SPI and serial in addition to the new GPIOD. I posted instructions over in the H2/H3 forum, but my build project for libgpiod should work on any Armbian mainline distribution, so I'm posting a link here to my Github site. The install is scripted and comes with the ability to generate Python and Java bindings. libgpiod replaces the deprecated sysfs since kernel 4.8. libgpiod-extra project aims to make cross platform/cross language GPIO development a reality. No more one off hacked up Wiring Pi or RPi.GPIO for each SBC. I need help testing across multiple S…

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!!

Hey all, I'm having a hard time choosing a board for my next SBC project. I've decided on the orange pi zero form factor unless someone can persuade me otherwise. Basically my options and reasons are as follows: Orange Pi Zero 512MB - H2+ - cheaper, half the cost of the others. - fast Ethernet on board. Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 - Better mainline support than H5 - smaller vertically than Pi Zero - hdmi - emmc on board Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 - faster dram speed (can't remember where I read that) - emmc on board - same small vertical size - seems more power hungry /sensi…

Hi there, I'm going to run a full bitcoin node on ARM board so on the first sight requirements are: 1) it is in stock now 2) 2 Gb RAM 3) CPU performance and Stability under high load 4) USB 2.0 (or better) for an external storage 5) ethernet on board as for now my short list is 1) Odroid XU4 or HC1 (C1 was used for bitnodes as far as I know) 2) ASUS Tinker 3) Orange Pi Prime (?) 4) NanoPi K2 5) Rock64 (4Gb) I'm not sure about OPI Prime b/c I've found some reports on the forum about stability issues. Also it is sold out at the moment. I'm open for your suggestions and th…

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…