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I just picked up a USB-C hub, it has 3 USB 3.0 ports, 2 SD card slots (standard and micro), a DVI and a GbE ethernet. Using it with my NanoPC T4, and a test with the Renegade Elite (not Armbian) both showed an odd behavior with the GbE, the driver loads, but then claims it doesn't recognize the device after reading it's firmware. Does anyone else have an adapter based on this chip? My cell phone recognized it and used it right away [ 2186.114873] r8152 7-1.4:1.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unknown version 0x6010 [ 2186.114896] r8152 7-1.4:1.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unknown Device ok, found a rejected patch, so some digging shoul…

Hi, professionals! I want to control an Armbian Linux system from my remote desktop. I installed the following servers one after another: vino, xrdp, vnc4. But the connection didn't work out. I cannot connect to the Armbian board from a remote Windows machine. If you don't mind, please share your successful experience. Thanks in advance.

Relatively random topic, however who here has one/uses one? I just picked up a Sain Smart Genmitsu Pro, 3018 size. I actually got it working with my NanoPi K2 first, because why not? And bCNC seems like quite a nice program, I assume when I move this to my shop it will be sporting a 7" touchscreen and a stable board.

Hey all, wasn't sure where to post this so I figured here is fine. I was wonderng: Is there a repository of older armbian releases? Specifically: Tinkerboard S Armbian Bionic 4.19.y Desktop Kernel. For the past couple months I've been developing on my ASUS Tinkerboard S running the Armbian Bionic 4.19.y Desktop release. However, sometime recently, the updated 4.4.y release came out for Armbian Bionic Desktop. I tried it, and it turns out one of the updates actually break a decent part of my system I had working (partly due to the lack nodm on the system now, which was warned). I'll update my system eventually, but it's not really worth it for the …

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 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…

We have community member in France who needed an RPI3 for $dayjob. They found one and dont need one. But it turns out @NicoDhas some RPIs for sale and more. Help support Nicod and channel by purchasing all the crap in his office so he can clean up his camera angles ! 😂😂😂

Hi, is there a way to automate how the nand-sata-install works - for example, if my image is on an SD card and I want to flash my emmc card on boot - can that be automated somehow? I tried looking at the documentation, but no luck. Thank you!

Hi all, I'm currently in the hunt for documentation covering the BananaPi M1 boards physical dimensions (including mounting holes). Unfortunately my GoggleFu fails to find it and I now reach out to this excellent community for assistants. Could someone please point me in the right direction.... Help me Armbian Ben Kenobi, You are my only hope....

Hola, tenia mi tv box como consola arcade con una microsd externa, despues me deshice dela memoria y utilice el tv box normal, pero a la semana se quedaba congelado en el logo de tx3 mini, despues intente instalarle un firmware por medio de una microsd, pero solo se quedo en pantalla verde, retiro la microsd y lo enchufo a la corriente electrica y no da imagen, solo enciende una luz roja en el aparato, ayuda porfavor. CS_905W_TX_2C_N_V1.6 2GB Y 16GB

Out of interest, does anyone know if there's a SLIP package in existance still? I have an antique Apple IIgs which is having trouble with PPP and want to try it on SLIP which it used to do fairly happily. But I can't find any reference to one, just looking for confirmation though. Regards, A

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?

Sorry, I just got information from the seller --- this box is a Rockchip RK3229, so please disregard my post. :/

Did anything happen to the discord server? I can no longer access it nor does this join server link work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I need help creating the Armbian image file, I downloaded the desktop version for the Banana Pi M2+ when I unzip the file I get a .raw image which my win32diskimager does not see. Im used to creating files .img onto the SD card but I don't know how to deal with a .raw file. what am I missing? Thank you in advanced.

If "we" are a company (and especially if this is some commercial product), perhaps consider hiring someone to do this development for you? Someone who do know what they are doing? There are certainly a few people around here meeting that description...

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

Since i got my cubietruck i always wanted a case for it, this is only some renderings from fusion360 but i hope to have this laser cut by the end of next week. will post the dxf files as soon as i verify measurements are good. Should fit a 2.5inch HDD clearance should be good for any HDD height and a 40mm fan to keep everything cool. https://plus.google.com/+VladConut/posts/83DE48BfaeV?pid=6253694765056043538&oid=107327773320252263907

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... …

I stopped tinkering for a while but https://magicmirror.builders/ perked my interest and been grinning at such a simple project and generally think its really great. I think they have made some odd options as the server and electron browser have been lumped together which is a really strange choice for absolutely no advantage. The server does need restarts and would seem far more often than you would expect and the use of electron means armv7l only which is a shame for the 0/1 owners. You can install using chromium and you certainly don't need the load of a desktop?! Dunno been wondering. I wanted to use a zero as love that tiny footprint and price and there are…

Hi, Idea is to run a wireguard server having two ethernet devices, therefore added an USB3 adapter "ASIX AX88179" to my rockpi4a. I like to allow incoming traffic, incl SSH, on "eth1". Instead, outgoing, on eth0 ( RTL8211E ) I wrote following ( preps, nmcli, iptables ) up - but perhaps there is an easier approach and I am sure I am missing other (routing) stuff, for sure the forwarding part. Anyway perhaps there is one to guide me a bit, TiA! 1/ preparations apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt -y install firmware-realtek nano /boot/armbianEnv.txt # add extraargs=n…

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

So, I'm working on the new armbian-config and I need to test cpufreq on a real board as VMs don't support this. I was surprised a lot of my older boards are not supported. C1, Duo, M1, etc. They all seemed to get killed off. I don't mind building my own Jammy, but does anyone know why these were killed off? I'm going to use my Neo Plus2 which is supported.

Which section on this forum is for Lemaker Banana Pro SBCs? I think it's the Allwinner A20 forum, but right now I'm not sure as the Banana Pro is not in the list for this section?

how do opi become wisp, Thanks before

ok i successfully installed the os, i'll come back later with more feedback. at the moment everything seems to work but this: some midi devices are just ignored when some are working (i guess it must be driver related) because i think the midi device that isn't working is so old (pre 2000 i believe) i dont think midi device was class compliant at time time (i.e.: i need a driver on OS X for it) that is ok, my nice yamaha keyboard and my drums works. nice.... bluetooth support seems to be broken, i can list devices, but not connect to them. i havent tested with my ad2p compatible devices yet. the devices are: microsoft 6000 bluetooth keyboard and a …

We will be handing out a few armbain mugs at the Ohio Linux Fest (while supplies last). Come see us at the Linux Podcasters Corner! TJoe(h^);

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/

Java U8g2 is a high performance library based on U8g2: Library for monochrome displays, version 2. Rather than try to code the JNI by hand I used HawtJNI to generate the JNI wrappers. I also used some custom code to generate the setup methods and font constants. final var u8g2 = U8g2.initU8g2(); // Change this to your actual display U8g2.setupSsd1306I2c128x64NonameF(u8g2, U8G2_R0, u8x8_byte_arm_linux_hw_i2c, u8x8_arm_linux_gpio_and_delay); U8g2.initDisplay(u8g2); logger.debug(String.format("Size %d x %d, draw color %d", U8g2.getDisplayWidth(u8g2), U8g2.getDisplayHeight(u8g2), U8g2. getDrawColor(u8g2))); U8g2.setPowerSave(u8g2, 0); U8g2.clearBuffer(u8g2);…

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

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

Is everybody being hit with custom & handling charges via royal mail? Added a total of £11.72 to my OrangePi H3 plus2 £3.72 customs and £8.00 handling charge. Its no bother as just curiosity with Smaller format boards but just wondering is this a Brexit shape of things to come?

A useful overview... Seems updated regularly... https://ssd.borecraft.com/SSD_Buying_Guide.pdf

I bought few Geobooks 1E and all had regardless distro same issue. Random hangups immediately or few minutes after boot finished or after few days of run or hours. On Armbian distro after trying some other things I enabled kernel messages in sysctl.conf. And then I got something like, luckily immediately when login prompt appeared, : rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to dequeue 4088 skb Tx queue 5, .... when laptop stopped responding to keyboard immediately afterwards. After some research I found solution, plugged USB lan adapter, disabled wifi otherwise it would knocked system down a did these next steps to replace wifi driver and hopefully af…

Hi to all, I have a OPi One and I just have a question: I'd like to use it as mediacenter but als like retroconsole. So, my doubt is: 1. do I need to have 2 sd card one with openelec and one with retropie? Or can I have one that do both? I don't know maybe openelec can execute retroarch with lakka gui? I know that I could use armbian with kodi and retroarch installed, but I try to find something that is confortable to use with a tv. 2. this question is related to the previous one: Opi1 has 1 usb port, can I use a normal usb hub or I need to use an hub that has external power? I plan to attach 1 hdd, a wifi key and a bt key. 3. where I could find a list of su…

Hi everybody! I'm new on Linux and I have a problem. I burned the Armbian OS on an SD card for a OrangePi PC and I created an User name [dp] and a Password. When I login, instead to see the Desktop image, Armbian seems to wait for a command or something. The OS displays the following text: dp@orangepipc: ~$_ What should I type now to see the Desktop? Anyone want to help me?

Hello all And firstly I would like to congratulate you and thank you for a cracking little distro. I recently purchased an OrangePi-One amid all the hype of the Pi-Zero to give the Opi a try out. after having tried the images available on the manufacturers site and learning there shortcomings I resolved to build my own image. I was pointed to your site by a member over at http://forum.doozan.com and I must say I am blown away by what you have achieved and distribute!!! You have saved me the pain of building my own OS by applying all the relevant patches. I will be testing your images out for my own needs and should I be able to make any contribution over and abov…

hello everyone would like to buy a sbc and i dont know which would be better, need some sugestions done some research, and the best seem to be the orange pi stuff, judging by stability, community, connectivity and price heard bad stuff about banana pi, which i was looking to get initially, and pine64 i plan to use it as a minipc/server im using linux on all my other pc's (x86) what board you think is better? it is important to me to have working drivers (video/wifi), not necessarely binary blobs, even opensource (i am very satisfied with the state of open source video drivers on x86) please share your experiences

Hi, I installed armbian on my "Orange Pi Plus 2 E" With EMMC. I want to undo EMMC. how? i don't know. Can someone help me please Thanks

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

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!

https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ hello. when assembling the kernel on Ubuntu Hirsute 21.04. x amd64 with the help of Armbian, these errors come out [error] ERROR IN FUNCTION CREATE_ROOTFS_CACHE [DEBOOTSTRAP] [error] ERROR IN FUNCTION UNMOUNT_ON EXIT [ IMAGE_HELPER.SH:82 ] [error] detootstrap-ng was terminated help

Helo, I would like to delete my account here, but I didn't find any links / buttons / whatever either in profile nor in account settings. How can I do this? Thanks & kind regards.

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

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

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, Why not Armbian image for Banana Pi M2U?

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 ?

As some might imagine, you can buy a bunch of different ribbon cables on Aliexpress. Different pitches, pins, etc... I could just buy the camera module but I would like an extended cable for my uses, just to be safe. It looks like the one it comes with is prolly only 6 inches. I can't quite discern from the product listings the type of ribbon cable used for OPi cameras and I'd like to know so that I can bundle it with my next purchase. So, if anyone who has one, can provide pictures (with something reliable to scale) or details, it would be much appreciated. If I find an extension option that proves to work, I'll post it here. Searching for O…

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

Just to have some sort of comparison to x86 based SBC I benchmarked my UP Board (lying in the drawer for years) right now: As can be seen the Intel Atom x5-Z8300 CPU will be outperformed by an RK3399 or even an el cheapo NanoPi Fire3 pretty easily: https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Results.md Onboard eMMC performance (16GB on my model) also not that impressive (random IO ok, but sequential write performance below SD card level at just ~20 MB/s): Internal 32 GB eMMC random random kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write 102400 4…

I was informed about Armbian today, and so far from what I am reading it looks very promising. I was on the Armbian configuration utility doc page: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/ But it says nothing on how to start it. whats the command for it ?

Is possible, in future release, to switch from .7z to another format directly compatible with Etcher? Like .zip, .gz, .bz2 or .xz Thanks

Try the apk on your Linux/android to see if your hardware supports Bluetooth: http://www.skyizo.com/Bluetooth_Support.apk

I am using orange pc + and running fw ubuntu 14.04.3 server. Currently I have add multicore r81 application and failed 2 lines on! Look forward to help to fix the problem.

Hi all, I'm interested in developing and selling a product containing an Orange Pi or Raspberry Pi with embedded software protected by Intellectual Property. I would like it to be as hard as possible for a customer/hacker to get root access or steal software or data out of it. I found the OrangePi to have an 8GB eMMC which would be enough for both OS and our data and probably would be more secure than SD. I'm aware of how to secure network and application layers, but how to secure the device from a customer/hacker who bought the device and thus have physical access to it? I would like to prevent or make it very hard for him to read the eMMc memory or g…

I have an orange pi plus 2e running 24/7 as a file server, torrent box, plex server, pi-hole etc. It has been running fine for the first few months I have gotten it. Recently the usb HDD that is connected to it started disconnecting often during heavy loads ( downloading torrents) or sometimes randomly. I assumed that it was the usb power adapter fault ( I used a samsung 5a 2v power adapter ) and I replaced it with an identical one. However the problem still persist. Could it be the usb to barrel plug cable that is sold from aliexpress be at fault?

Hi everyone, I’m working on an RK3568-based platform (Yocto build, Rockchip BSP) and I’ve reached a blocker regarding OP-TEE / Trusted Application (TA) development. Anyone knows how to get RK3568 + Linux + OP-TEE source/build path Rockchip vendor SDK with RK3568 OP-TEE source a repo showing rk3568 + optee_os + TA dev kit for Linux

Hi, I wonder if there exists one method to make the end user a friendly way to access the web server. So I have Armbian with hotspot enabled, if I want to look at specific web page running on the board, I have to know the IP of the wlan0 and specific port of the web server. For example in google chrome I have to insert: http://172.24.1.1:3000 This is very difficult for end user, who has minimal knowledge. Is there any way, that for example you log on the hotspot, then open google chrome and start browse for any arbitrary page (let's say www.google.com) at port 80 and then it's automatically redirected to port 3000, except for all other web servers on the same…

Hello everyone, I wanna build a working android image for the orange pi lite 2. I'm using the sdk orange pi provides for the lite 2 in there download section. (http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/OrangePi%20Lite2/2018-01-11/745c41cc4f26ba6afefb8ed9379885c0.html). Following the manual (http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/OrangePi%20Lite2/2018-11-23/3d160d7a6fdc70309a05e0ba2947baf8.html) I was able to build a bare metal image for H6 Boards which is working quite well. But the wifi is not working. Now I want to make wifi work and need some help from you guys. How can I add the driver to android and make it showing wifi networks in settings …

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

I have been searching the net for a display similar to this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-7-inch-LVDS-LCD-Module-7-Touch-Screen-F-Raspberry-Pi-Car-GPS/1553371_32315435767.html . Unfortunately the original from the link is not available anymore and I am unable to find a good replacement. Does anyone have a good alternative they are using? Size wise a 7" or 10" (or even up to 12" :-) ) will do the job.. Thanks!

Hi, I was checking the Rock Pi 4C, because of it’s dual display capabilities (I have two monitors and will like to use them in extended mode) But according to this: https://shop.allnetchina.cn/collections/frontpage/products/rock-pi-4c-board-only-2-4-5ghz-wlan-bluetooth-5-0 a mini DP to HDMI is not supported, both of my monitors are HDMI only. I thought that the conversion was merely hardware. Could someone explain this or give me a recommendation for an ARM board supporting multiple (hdmi) displays? Thanks

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 I am trying to connect AWS with MQTT server in teraterm using AT commands , I have entered certificates and checked the certificates after entering and after that , i have given my client ID and respected MQTT url after entering am getting this error "Open Session failed "log.txt. what am i missing this please give suggestions

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

Hi Everyone. I'm having trouble updating to TLS 1.2 on my pcDuino 3 and cannot connect to any website other than Google.com or pinging 8.8.8.8 See attached return from my terminal when attempting to run "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade openssl" Seems http://www.wiimu.com from what I can tell is a server from a company called LinkSprite. I think the company has disbanded and no longer offers any services… Also seems LinkSprite was lead/CEO by a guy named Jingfeng Liu who is the creator of pcDuino. Also Link Sprite does not monitor their forums nor respond to queries of any sort. There’s got to b…

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

I just released the source code to a very simple weather monitoring app. I wrote it to run on my Orange Pi Zero and make use of a few environmental sensors (Bosch BME280 and AMS CCS811), along with a SSD1306 OLED. It records the data every ten seconds into a CSV text file. https://github.com/bitbank2/weather_mon It's just a simple idea that I had to monitor the conditions overnight in my kids' bedroom since our place doesn't heat/cool evenly.

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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…

In general I want to know, how many arm mainboards is it required to order and the manufacturer starts negotiating about specifications you want to get modified? I do not say at the same price. If I tell the manufacturer of the orange pi one, I want the arm mainboard but it must have 4gb ram and usb mini b connectors at what volume number does the manufacturer start listening? 50000 mainboards? Thank you.

https://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/wOi2h%2FyA2aQMRnrr%2BfGNYA for the png and ans files. and to view it: http://imgur.com/aA4LVrP by me. =) tell me what you guys think.

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.

What do you think about SBCs as the preferred platform to handle encrypted/sensitive/classified data? The threat model would be for frequent travelers, against things like evil maid attacks on laptops left in a hotel room or while the laptop is separated from you during travel. The sensitive data would be kept on an encrypted portable hard drive. It would be decrypted and mounted by the SBC, which only allows login via SSH from your laptop's public key. SBCs have a number of benefits over desktops and laptops, namely: Its hardware is plainly inspectable and difficult to tamper with. Unlike desktops or laptops which are vulnerable to evil ma…

Good day all According to the specsheet RASBIAN OS is supported by Opi. This does not seem to be the case. If there is some special way to have thr Opi run RASBIAN please let me know The Armbian OS does not allow me to install libnl-dev for a very specific project. Thank you in advance

i want to dive into the creating of file-systems on Linux. so i have some ideas: can you give me some hints on these steps. can i break all down and say so: - in order to do the very first steps in creating a file system ... basically, I'm trying to do the following steps: - create a disk image of about 500MB; - create a GPT; - create a FAT32 partition in the first 300MB(I'll call it UEFI); - create a FAT32 partition in the remaining bytes(I'll call it SYSTEM); - create the following subdirectory in the UEFI partition: /EFI/BOOT/; that said we have the following things: Layouting a disk image and copyin…

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

Is there a good resource for what's currently being developed by the major SBC manufacturers? I am curious about what is being developed and when it is coming out. I'm thinking about expanding my cluster by another 10 or 20 nodes but I don't want to invest now if something great is going to be released soon. I am most interested in FriendlyARM and OrangePi boards as they seem to have a good performance/value ratio around the $35 price point but I am interested in what all major manufacturers are doing. Is there anywhere to read about development? Or is anyone here privy to what's next for low cost ARM based SBCs?

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

For those of you running a large SBC cluster - what is your solution for powering your boards. I currently have a cluster of 18 boards that I am powering with several multiport usb chargers. My setup does work well but I am looking for alternative solutions. I'm thinking of expanding my cluster to 50 or more boards and I don't like the prospect of purchasing so many of these multiport chargers as they're a little bit expensive. And I also don't know about the long term reliability of my current setup as I have only been going for about 2 months now. I would love to hear about and see other people's SBC cluster powering solutions. EDIT: …

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!!

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

I have 40 huge Chinees tablets for product configuration but the company wont react anymore. Tablets/ half pc Currently runs on Android 7 on the device is it possible to have LAN connection, 3x USB, Simcard slot, SD reader on and off button. And have 1080p touchscreen. What are the he possibilities can it run on windows, chrome os newer versions of Android ?

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

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

Goodmorning, i would like to ask if someone have ever tried to use musl libc with Armbian. From some research appear that using it instead of glibc make programs consume a lot less ram and less space on disk. I never tried personally, but i'm curious about that because it could be especially useful for single board computer with less than 2gb of ram (like mine ). Since, from what i know, programs do not statically link to glibc, but dynamically link to a generic libc at runtime, could be possible to use musl as drop in replacement for libc, without rebuild everything? From what i know there could be some incompatibilities because glibc does not fully respect the…

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

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

Hi, I hope that posting a link like this is allowed. If not, sorry. An article on CNX-Software on a promo for the Orange Pi One for $3.69 (shipped) on Everbuying.net http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/09/19/orange-pi-one-development-board-sells-for-3-69-shipped-promo/

There are many people who tend to use old phone chargers on there systems and wonder why things become problematic after a good while of usage. My recommendations to people who have this issue are the following 1 - if you are a *SERIOUS* modder or electronics engineer you will know all about bench power supplies and there benefits. 2 - for others who aren't in this category. I would like to share with you my preferred method to deliver power to dev boards. I utilse these shown in the link below. I have found these type to be incredibly stable after 18 months of running one nonstop on a live system i can happily describe them as rock solid and superbly over…

Hello, I have been messing around with a few orange pi's. Mainly to run an IoT device and manage it with snap's and ubuntu core. However it seems that wifi isn't working inside the ubuntu core image that is on the download page : http : / / www.orangepi.org / downloadresources / ip link lists: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: sit0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0 3: ip6tnl0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1452 qdisc noop stat…

When launching ddd in Armbian 4.5.1, the prompt isn't set properly and the terminal operation inside ddd isn't right. Launching gdb by itself works OK. When I try to load my executable for debugging, I get You can't do that when your target is `None' When I exit ddd, it complains that gdb is still busy. Anyone else seeing this? Why would ddd running natively under Armbian need to know its target when it doesn't need that anywhere else where its used natively? Chris

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

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

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…

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

Hello!! I need help with the Printer gadget i have a Beaglebone Black and Bixolon 350plus thermal printer. I need to Capture the output and send the captured output onwards to the printer. I m not sure how this is working and i dont know am i on the right track to solve this problem. I have enabled the CONFIG_FS and usb gadgets and when i load the g_printer with modprobe g_printer everything seems ok, the Beaglebone is connected to my pc( ubuntu 16.04) on my pc apperars that i have connected linux g_printer and it asks me to install ther drivers. And this is the output of lsusub Bus 003 Device 009: ID 0525:a4a8 Netchip Technology, Inc. Linux-USB …

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 all . i got a old pandaboard only $20 by auction . i expirienced RS232C conection to install freebsd & arch (fail to install openbsd ) . RS232C is impressive to me . i guess that the armbian developers usually use rs232c . is it right ? if you have some interrest , please see http://akita-arm.blogspot.jp/2016/08/pandaboard-openbsd.html . two green palates is the thing on which we use kitchin knife on . it is easylly cut by scissors and holed out by electric drill and cheap only $1 . ------ thanks