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Howdy, I set up a new OrangePi Zero with the Legacy 3.4.113 Ubuntu Xenial. I was able to get wifi working however when I try to do a sudo-apt get update or upgrade it freezes and crashes. I am using a 32gb Samsung Evo. Cpu temp is hovering around 57 C with no load. Any tips besides reinstalling the image?

I was configuring onboard wifi of OPI ZERO, rev. 1.1 with the provided tool armbian-config. On one board it went just OK, on the second it froze, so I manualy powercycled the board. After that the board does not boot. I connected the serial console and here is the output I got: U-Boot SPL 2017.09-armbian (Nov 20 2017 - 02:53:16) DRAM: This is my first time troubling with u-boot, so I have no idea what this means, but it should give me more output. I will try to look, if there is 1.5V at the 1_5V pad.

Hello, I am looking for a dimensional (mechanical) drawing of the OPi Zero. I have found the dwg files at the orangepi website (see attached rar archive) but I am running into issues figuring out what the exact locations are of the holes & headers. Does anyone have a drawing like that? Or maybe an AutoCad wizard can help me with this using the original files.. Thanks! ORANGE_PI-Zero-V1_1_PCB-DWG.rar

Hello guys, I am experiencing such a problem: When I boot my orangepi it starts and it is visible in the router's page view getting IP with dhcp. As soon as I connect over ssh (at least this is the way to trigger it, not sure if it is hapening automatically after a while), the device disappears from the network and it is no more available! I have seen this behaviour happening on 2 different routers. Then I rebooted the device again and in the router config I put the same IP statically linked to the device and I tried to connect over ssh and it worked without disappearing anymore. So it sounds like a bug somewhere using dhcp protocol. Is som…

Hello. I'v recently tried to update by old orange pi zero to latest armbian and it does not boot. Serial console is dead silent. I'v tried different armbian releases, sdcards, but result is the same. However card with old boots perfectly fine. Image orangepizerolts also works, but it has huge overheating problem. I'v tried to flash uboot to spi, but it does not boot either. Sadly old uboot did not worked with latest armbian. Any idea?

Hi everyone, Very green here. Basically I setup 1 of my orange pi a few months back with "Armbian_23.02.3_Orangepizero2_jammy_legacy_4.9.318". I recently bought another pi and wanted to set it up with a newer version. I see bookworm is now the latest. I have tried both CLI and Minimal but whenever I flash those into my micro SD the orange pi never boots up. My router doesnt see the connection, so it cant hand off an IP. I thought maybe it was a bad mini SD or a bad pi. But when I flashed the old jammy image into the same SD, the pi immediately picked up the connection, my router gave it an IP and I was able to log in as a root to the pi. I re…

Hi , I have an orange pi zero . I installed armbian_5.38_Orangepizero_ubuntu_xenial_next_4.14.4 my orangepi zero. when ı use 'sudo nmtui' , it does not see wifi networks. I read many questions and answers about this issue but ı dont solve. I am waiting for your answers.

Hi everyone, I have a problem when work on OPi zero wifi which is running Armbian linux sunxi 4.19.62. I used nmtui to configure wifi connection with static ip. It works fine even rebooting or re-powering up however I tried to power off the router and the result is it has never reconnected again. Next, I plugged in the ethernet cable into RJ45 port, the connection is established. I use sudo ifconfig to show the information, I saw that both the wifi (static) and ethernet are correctly then I can access via ssh or scanning the ip. One again, I continued plugging out the ethernet cable, all connections were disappeared even wifi and connection via ssh is failed. …

One of my orange pi zeros eth seems to be only negotiationg down to 10Mb/s full duplex. Not sure why. Below are examples of a stock nightly build. it only happens on one of the pis. [ 4.177634] sun8i-h3-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: initialized sunXi PIO driver [ 4.181353] sun8i-h3-r-pinctrl 1f02c00.pinctrl: initialized sunXi PIO driver [ 4.348951] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: PTP uses main clock [ 4.349026] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: No regulator found [ 4.349104] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Will use internal PHY [ 4.349331] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Current syscon value is not the default 148000 (expect 58000) [ 4…

Hello, I'm using Armbian Xenial with ethernet on my local network. SSH and PostgreSQL seem to disconnect a lot. This is really frustrating with sshfs when I try to work with files on the Orange Pi Zero as a file server.. I tried setting a keepalive every second and that doesn't help either. I don't see anything in the logs that hints to anything. I have not attempted to use wifi. I did just notice the timezone was wrong, so I'll see tomorrow if that has something to do with it.

In the spec., it was stated that the ethernet in OPi zero is off by default. If I use its Debian server distribution, will it turn on automatically? If not, what do I need to do to turn it on? Thanks.

Hi all, first i want to thank all of you for this great software. Problem: No ethernet on mainline 4.11 kernel. I tracked the problem down to a 'ethernet status = "disabled"' in the dtb for the orange pi zero. How to fix it? I have only very little experience with Device tree. 4.11 is ok for the other OPs, i tested the OP One. Kind regards svollmar

I am trying to use fbtft on the Orange Pi Zero, seems broken. Looks like an issue with the SPI driver itself. My skills are not enough to debug this. I am doing something like this: modprobe fbtft_device custom name=fb_ili9340 gpios=dc:3,reset:0 speed=32000000 busnum=1 rotate=90 The LCD functions but stops updating after a couple of mins. Linux is still running but dmesg shows a crash. Login shows "ARMBIAN 5.31 stable Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 3.4.113-sun8i" root@orangepizero:~# uname -a Linux orangepizero 3.4.113-sun8i #18 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 15 02:16:06 CEST 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux It is not …

Hi I just download "../orangepizero/Debian_jessie_default.7z". When I try to login first time type password 1234 it not ask change it session hang. Below is ssh debug. What is wrong?? ... debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Next authentication method: password root@91.154.12.130's password: < 1234> debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). Authenticated to 91.154.12.130 ([91.154.12.130]:22). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com debug1: Entering interactive session. And nothing hapend after that.

The device gets unbearably hot as soon as it gets turned on, after ~30 seconds the Ethernet ports start to flash and the red light flashes for ~.5 of a second. I'm assuming it's toast, right?

I'm looking at GPIOs and I'm not sure - can I buy an "old" (26 pin) Raspberry Pi gpio adapter-breadboard-cable package (like this one) and use it on Orange Pi Zero GPIOs as on Raspberry Pi GPIOs?

kernel: "Linux orangepizero 4.13.16-sunxi #20 SMP Fri Nov 24 19:50:07 CET 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux". I have tried this document, http://opi-gpio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api-documentation.html#pull-up-pull-down-resistors I am using pin 7 (GPIO 6) and INPUT mode, but it not working, however I got push signal, but I have not push it, why? The following is my python code. import OPi.GPIO as GPIO import time channel = 7 GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) GPIO.setup(7, GPIO.IN) while True: time.sleep(0.5) print GPIO.input(channel)

Dear All, I am beginner to linux and Opi Zero. I have written some programs on OPI Zero with WiringOP-Zero library. I got all of them working. Right now I am stuck on graphic library. I need to make a graphic library based program. I am going to draw some vertex data and update them according to received data on serial port. I don't have any idea where to start. I used C# and XNA in the past. I know something about game programming. ( Please note, I did not make a game, I made a program which draws some information visually on screen with XNA framework) Could you please suggest me, Where should I start? I have two board. I…

Hi, I'm running Armbian Stretch with the 4.14.y kernel on my Orange Pi Zero, as a headless Samba server. Does anyone have a link to a tutorial on how i can add a GPIO button to run the shutdown command, so I don't have to SSH into it every time I want to shut the thing down? thanks.

Hi, im trying to get Armbian for Orange Pi Zero (512). I only have ethernet with a router to SSH. No serial to USB. - If I try the stable Ubuntu version It powers on with solid Green LED. - ~1min later Red LED starts blinking (pulse-pulse-stop) in a cycle and nothing happens. There is no discovered device on local net. So i cannot SSH. - If I try debian stable release device is shown on net as orangepi.home. or something like that but if I try ti SSH -> timeout error. Ping doesn't work at all. I have tried other distros like Pulpstone and OpenWRT which work loke a charm but not Debian based. I tried redownload…

any setting to put opizero h2 in promiscuous mode to record wifi packets?

Hello, I love armbian and I know the gpio is working on the directory /sys/class/gpio/gpio(number) but I really need to use armbian + the gpio module gpio-sunxi modprobe gpio-sunxi ls /sys/class/gpio_sw/ normal_led PA10 PA13 PA18 PA20 PA6 PA9 PC2 PC7 PG7 PL10 PA0 PA11 PA14 PA19 PA21 PA7 PC0 PC3 PD14 PG8 standby_led PA1 PA12 PA15 PA2 PA3 PA8 PC1 PC4 PG6 PG9 echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio_sw/standby_led/data echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio_sw/standby_led/data is it possible to active this module with kernel 3 or 4, if yes where is possible to enable it ? in the …

Hi, Over the last couple of weeks, I have been trying to get Pi-hole working (and more importantly, stable) on the Orange Pi (along with the relevant Orange Pi zero H2+ ARMbian OS) without success. I realize that I am using "Tested" but as yet not marked "Stable" code, however I'm hoping this can help somebody here perhaps in terms of developing a stable OS for these little boards. I have rebuilt the SD card from scratch several time now. The SD card is of reputable make (Sandisk) and in fact I have tried two different cards, just in case this was a card issue. I'm using a reliable power supply, which I have verified by continuously monitoring it with my …

I installed the pyA20 library for controlling GPIO, but I can't get the internal pullup resistor to work anymore. I managed to get it working before, but after playing around with other things, it stopped working. I have a very simple circuit going on, with just a light switch and I'm trying to read the light switch using the internal pull-up resistor. I managed to get it working for a few days, but that's it. I gave up and decided to solder on my own 10K pull-up resistor from the input pin to 3.3V. To my surprise, the results were the same, the input pin floated. Everything works fine with an Arduino. This is all very strange and I hope someone can help me. I'm runn…

I had bought 3 Orange Pi Zero h2+ cpu (1x256mb ram and 2x 512mb ram) I'had tried Armbian Debian and Ubuntu based, but nothing changed or solved, i'had also tried DietPi(a debian base as armbian), but the kernel still the same: root@192.168.1.181's password: ___ ____ _ _____ / _ \ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ ___ | _ \(_) |__ /___ _ __ ___ | | | | '__/ _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _ \ | |_) | | / // _ \ '__/ _ \ | |_| | | | (_| | | | | (_| | __/ | __/| | / /| __/ | | (_) | \___/|_| \__,_|_| |_|\__, |\___| |_| |_| /____\___|_| \___/ |___/ Welcome to ARM…

Hey there. I used to run an Octoprint server on my Orange Pi Zero H2+ installed over armbian, which got swapped with a raspberry pi for unimportant reasons. I wanted to switch back, but for all of the armbian builds listed here for Orange Pi Zero, I am just getting a green light on the board and some blinking of the orange indicator only from the Ethernet Jack. Is this expected? This is happening with multiple SD-cards an two Orange Pi Zeros. All of the OS images from http://www.orangepi.org/ seem to work just fine, as well as an old "debian_server_for_orangepizero_v0_9_2.img" I found, so I'm going that route for now. But I can't image this is expecte…

Hey Everyone , I AM completely new using armbian distribution it's interesting but I do have some question : 1- In Armbian-config > network > wlan > Bt Support (what does that mean ? I can transmit Bluetooth signals over 2.4ghz wifi ?) or in this case I should purchase external USB dongle ? 2- First I tried to check the soundcard and the micro I can use aplay to play wav songs . but for both aplay -l and arecord -l it shows up **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Codec [H3 Audio Codec], device 0: CDC PCM Codec-0 [] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Codec [H3…

Hi, Firstly my thanks to the team for an outstanding job on ARMbian. I'm relatively new to this particular flavour, using it on my Orange Pi H2+ board with a few different builds under my belt now. Recently I have been having some troubles getting Pi-hole to work on the little Orange Pi board. Twice I have had it up and running perfectly, with full DNS and DHCP control of my home network, accommodating about 10 devices. However after about 6 - 12 hours of operation, they ceased to function. First time around I was not home to witness it, but when I returned later, the Allwinner chip was running pretty warm (around 60 degrees C core temp) and non-responsive, even to s…

Looking to use this in a production assembly (months away...) While testing, have found that g_multi does not work. g_serial and g_mass_storage work fine... How do we get this added to the list of items to be fixed?

I did manage to use the rmbian_5.27_Orangepizeroplus2-h5_Debian_jessie_dev_4.11.0.img.xz image and things boot fine. I also get pretty console on hdmi. But no network, and I don't have a way to get the keyboard on. Any suggestions on what kind of an adapter I need to get power AND usb keyboard to the thing (since there are no extra ports on it)? Or is it serial? Good recommendation on proper 'converter". I did modify the initial armbian_first_boot to enable wifi with proper ssid / password, and even enabled static, but no dice. Thomas

Hi Guys! I am experimenting with an Orange PI Zero H5 and have noticed that there is no CEC support in Armbian Is it something that is worked on and i should expect it to be present in the H5 Armbian builds anytime soon ? I have found some guides with Kernel Patches etc but i am a Linux noob and it's a nuclear physics for me atm. Anyone can clear that out for me ?

Hello everybody and sorry to be sooo stupid. I used to play with Orange Pi Zero H2+ and there was RJ45: it allowed me to connect it via the LAN. Now, with the H5 version, there is no RJ45 connector. And there is no USB port. So how to gain access to this card to start configuration etc... ? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have an Orange Pi Zero (256MB) board. I downloaded the prebuilt image named as "Armbian_5.25_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113.img" and used it without a problem. Then I cloned the project from github and cross compiled on an Ubuntu 16.04 computer (4.4.0-31-generic kernel) by using the "compile.sh" script. It created an image named as "Armbian_5.27_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113.img". But this image halts after printing "ion_reserve_common: ion reserve: [0x47e00000, 0x50000000]!". You may find the log at the end of this post. I compiled the same project (5.27) with development kernel. It created the image name…

I know this is a well known topic but since I didn't find an issue like the one I'm having I felt the need of explaining it. I recently bought an Orange Pi Zero board + extension board with AV, micro and 2 additional USB + case. During the 3 days I've been testing it I've been having a lot of issues related maybe to the heat (or maybe not). I have built a streaming media server called Mopidy, which is pretty cool but at certain times it completely hangs when I'm reproducing audio (by the way, I'm using only stable Debian / Ubuntu because kernel 4.11 isn't detecting the soundcard for some reason). It sometimes takes 1 hour to get stuck, …

hi every body! in last two days, i have been trying to make my orange pi zero board to hotspot device. i follow instruction at armbian documentation and it's work fine. but i want more than a simple bridge network. in order to use nginx to show my website to connected devices, i need to set ip to connected devices. i used both of isc-dhcp-server and dnsmesq, but it failed every time a device want to connect to board. dnsmasq config: interface=lo,wlan0 no-dhcp-interface=lo dhcp-range=192.168.8.20,192.168.8.254,255.255.255.0,12h interface config auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static hostapd /etc…

Hello. I have installed debian based armbian with mainline kernel to my orange pi zero. And it seems like there is no i2c adapter present. As far I know it should work in mainline. Does anyone have a clue?

Hello folks, Been working on making I2S dacs work on the Orange Pi Zero, after reading on a few pages i got crazy and almost gave up and then i did some playaround and managed to make it work! And this is how i did! I am using examples from the topic here, as it was well written until i had to figure things out myself because of that stupid wifi_enable on PA20 which also is the data out on the OPI zero Thread: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/759-i2s-on-orange-pi-h3/ First up it requires a bit of soldering, removing the R69 and adding a small wire is required to access the DIN(data in) or so called PA20. What i did was just simply adding a header so i can …

I would use the opi as ir transmitter for AC. Does anybody know if it is possible? Thanks

I can't seem to get the Orange Pi Zero working as a USB gadget (libcomposite) to emulate a keyboard. Here's the script I'm using to test: #!/bin/bash cd /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget mkdir g1 cd g1 echo "0x1d6b" > idVendor echo "0x0104" > idProduct mkdir strings/0x409 echo "1234567890" > strings/0x409/serialnumber echo "0x1d6b" > strings/0x409/manufacturer echo "0x0104" > strings/0x409/product mkdir functions/hid.usb0 echo 1 > functions/hid.usb0/protocol echo 1 > functions/hid.usb0/subclass echo 8 > functions/hid.usb0/report_length /bin/echo -ne \\x05\\x01\\x09\\x06\\xa1\\x01\\x05\\x07\\x19\\xe0\\x29\\xe7\\x15\\x00\\x25\\x01\\x75\\x01\\x95\\x08…

Hey everybody. I'm quite new to allwinner, my first experience was with the A13 (sun4i) from olimex. I wrote a kernel driver for the sunxi kernel, which uses the spi and some GPIO. It talks to an SPI RF chip and works just fine. I want to port my kernel driver for the Orange Pi Zero, but have some issues. My main question is: how do i access the fex file, how do i manipulate the gpio and spi ? In the sun4i there are helper functions in the arch/arm/mach-sun4i/sys_config.c file. #define PIN_DIR(handler,dir) gpio_set_one_pin_io_status(handler, dir, NULL) #define PIN_SET(handler,val) gpio_write_one_pin_value(handler, val, NULL) #define PIN_GET(handler) gpio_rea…

Hello, I have orange pi zero with armbian and i need to upgrade kernel to version 4.x how to do it? ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 3.4.113-sun8i is it possible at all?

I have certain problem when using ssh on my Orange Pi zero. When I am connected through on-board wifi module the ssh panel have a lot of lag when I am writting commands. However I am not experiencing the same problem when I am connecting through ethernet. I can't understand if that's a case of bad connection as I have the same behaviour even if I put my pi next to my router. I know that the on-board wifi module is not the best but it seems that its unusable. Anyone has any relative problem? Is there any solution or its just hardware based and I need an external wifi dongle?

Hi, I bought a 3.5 inch RPi LCD display from here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32965280840.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.2a474c4dxALiQy I connected the display straight to my Orange Pi zero board. The slot on the Orange Pi Zero is flipped compared to RPi so the LCD display goes outside the board. I guess that is the right way to connect. Anyway, when I power on the board I can see illuminated screen. The problem is that everything I have tried to configure the LCD was unsuccessful. I am trying with the Armbian image mentioned in this web site: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3773 (Armbian_5.35_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_x…

hey guys, led folder is missing from /sys/class/ and even in /sys/class/gpio_sw/ led is included in fex file. can anyone tell how does linux load configuration from fex to orange pi ?

I have a Adafruit PN532 connected over UART to the orange Pi Zero on UART1(p8/10) i added the uart overlays to armbianEnv.txt and edited the libnfc.conf to include device.connstring = "pn532_uart:/dev/ttyS1" #device.connstring = "pn532_uart:/dev/ttyS1:9600". I commented included a fixed lower baudrate to test if it might have been the problem. To thest the theory i connected a arduino due to the same serial port to print somting to see if there was any communication but nothing went through the python code i used was simple : import serial ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS1') print(ser.name) ser.write(b'hello') ser.close() the Arduino sc…

Hello, I'm trying to install Armbian to my Orange Pi Zero. I tried stable (5.30), dev (5.30 and old (5.24 from January 2017) versions of Debian and stable version (5.30) of Ubuntu. They all have the same problem. I log in from ssh using root/1234. Then I get prompted for password change. I enter the old password, new password twice, then I get logged out without any error message. When I try to login again, the password is unchanged and same prompt screen. I tried to write the images to my sdcard using dd, gnome disks, etcher. dd was not working at all, but the others have the problem I mention above. I was worried if my sdcard is not s…

I got an Orange Pi zero with expansion board and tried many images , the original ones, h3droid and armbian legacy...by the way, all the systems show the image in a looping on my tv(rolling from bottom to top). Is there something to fix it or any reason that can cause it?

I have a new OPIz running ARMBIAN 5.70 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i with Pihole version 4.1 (latest). The Opi is connected only with eth0 with a static IP address. Its running a 32G sandisk Ultra (class 10) with a verified image using Etcher. The CPU is running at around 59c. It's unusable because the OPi keeps losing connectivity. Usually about every 12-24 hours but more frequently at times (sometimes two or three times an hour). So no ping, no ssh, no telnet. Ive implemented some scripts on the OPi to try and track down what's happening. But the first thing I notice is syslog gets cleared and/or has large gaps in it. …

Hi Team I have two brand new Orange PI Zero LTS. Is this supported with the normal Zero download? Thanks

As stated in the topic the new Orange Pi Zero LTS reports incorrect system temps (likely due to 16bit overflow if I were to guess): ~$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp -2178 Model Purchased: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000070093365.html

Hello. I have a problem with Orange Pi Zero LTS. I also have an expansion board and the required 3.5-jack cable. I have read many different forums and sites where people have described problems with video signal output. Often there are solutions such as: 1. Editing the file /boot/script.bin But this file does not exist. 2. They also talk about the launch of "tv". You need to add an entry to /etc/modules. But that doesn't work either, since ./tvout doesn't exist. As I understand it, in new versions there is no TV support, but there is no way to download old versions either. The latest version that can be downloaded is 5.59,…

First, I have installed latest Armbian 23.8 Bookworm CLI, boot works fine, I can login Then, I have installed wireguard. As a dependency, wireguard install linux-image-6.1.0-12-rt-armmp After reboot device is unavailable in network (orange LAN LED blinking while green does not, I assume ethternet broken with this kernel)

Hello does someone have the working configuration enabling the onewire master bus on the mainline version ? I have tried to gather the information from several posts adding the missing configuration on the devicetree but as there is no real step by step guide and the kernel wiki entry makes no sense for the zero`s pins. Overlay or straight settings into the boot configuration.

I just did an apt-get update on the mainline version of armbian and now the machine won't boot. I'l looking at the uboot output and it appears not to load the full kernel in and boot it. The strange thing is it seems to hang, but when I unplug the power, the kernel load info shows up on the serial output. U-Boot SPL 2017.03-armbian (Mar 15 2017 - 06:57) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.03-armbian (Mar 15 2017 - 06:571 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwier H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC0 *** Warning - bad CRC, usig default environment r serialial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1…

Hello, I want to provide support for IR infrared remote Shield V1.0 for orange pi zero and I need some help to know how to proceed. http://www.ebay.com/itm/IR-infrared-remote-Shield-V1-0-expansion-Transceivers-Module-for-Raspberry-pi-B-/291205297766 Signal RPi_connector(P4)Button1 -> Pin13Button2 -> Pin15IR_IN -> Pin11IR_OUT -> Pin12 Hardware Details: Hardware: Orange Pi Zero 512 IR Remote shield v1.0 connected to 2x13 Header OS: Armbian Mainline (Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.11.7), This is mandatory for me as I want docker support. I have started reading Device Tree overl…

Hi. Kernel version : 4.11.7-sun8i My trouble is that clk is weird in using spidev. This is a oscilograph when i send a command with spi. First line is CLK and second line is CS0. My slave chip can not receive commands. and I think it due to this weird CLK. CS seems affect CLK. I just want to use spi with CS keeping active-low. But, following code setting mode of spi occured an error. "invalid argument exception" mode = SPI_MODE_1 | SPI_NO_CS; if (ioctl(file,SPI_IOC_WR_MODE32,&mode)<0){ perror("can't set spi mode"); return; } this work properly. mode = SPI_MODE_1; if …

Had some free time to toy around with Orange Pi Zero Used a image "Armbian_5.26_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0.img" build with 'compile.sh BRANCH=dev BOARD=orangepizero KERNEL_ONLY=no PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain RELEASE=xenial BUILD_DESKTOP=no' - which should not do anything special ? 1) First steps - run upgrades and normal tweaking (changed hostname, disabled ipv6, changed ntp, changed time-zone, generated correct locale) 2) Ensure that WLAN0 is working as client - using 'nmtui' created a new connection to my desktop WLAN router - disabled auto connect from eth0 - reboot with serial connection - run example speedtest-cli to see that the driver do wo…

Hi, is it possible to run xfce4 on mainline on a Orange Pi Zero? I'm doing it with jessie legacy (I need to have a mumble client running, accessing it with X11vnc) but I wanted to upgrade. I've tried the same setup but without any luck. apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg apt-get install --no-install-recommends xinit apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-terminal tango-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme lightdm lightdm fails to start on boot and startx tells me: Fatal server error: (EE) no screens found(EE) Have somebody done it and can it be done easily?

Hello, I know this is not very Armbian related but no idea where to ask and maybe someone is able to help (because of lack of documentation). I would like to connect this microphone to OPi Zero gpio. It has:1 5V2 GND3 USB-DM24 USB-DP25 USB-DM36 USB-DP37 LINEOUTR8 LINEOUTL9 TV-OUT10 MIC-BIAS11 MIC1P12 MIC1N13 CIR-RX I would like to connect this microphone (picture) to gpio, if I understand it correctly, I need to use MIC-BIAS, MIC1P, MIC1N. But this microphone has just two pins. How should I connect it to gpio please? And what should I activate in Armbian to be able to record from this microphone? (probably alsa, set device, which software to use for r…

Orange Pi Zero NAS Expansion Board with SATA, mSATA using internal HUB USB with UASP capable chip, 2x USB and AV Port more info in this cnx-software post: http://www.cnx-software.com/2017/01/19/orange-pi-zero-nas-expansion-board-with-sata-usb-and-av-port-sells-for-10-shipped/ I want to share this new expansion board to read some interesting feedback here.

Hello, I've recently purchased an Orange Pi Zero and have Armbian 5.25 (Linux version 3.4.113-sun8i). My problem is that the network fails after some time (sometimes couple of minutes but half an hour at most). I'm not able to ping it at all. I've checked the logs in /var/log and can't find what is wrong, at least to my knowledge. Here is the boot log http://sprunge.us/gRjf, so if anyone has any idea please share. Other logs are uploaded as well orange_pi_zero_logs.7z

Hi, first of all thanks a lot for every contributor, this is a great project, I'm an absolute fan! I'm running Armbian on an orange pi 2, everything works fine for a while. I'm running a homegrown python script with flask, this one works too. But after ~1-x hours, I can't connect anymore to my web service. This could be my problem, but in fact, neither SSH works. So I found these things, my script tells me this: ---------------------------------------- Exception happened during processing of request from ('192.168.0.158', 59734) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 290, in …

Hi all! I have browsing the forum quite while but I did not a solution for my problem. I have bought the OP Zero from DX.com and it came with an expansion board which has two additional USB ports, a 3.5 mm AV socket and a built in microphone. And now I would like to use the audio socket as audio output and I want to use its microphone as well. But I headed some problems and I cannot use its audio features . I am using this kernel: Armbian_5.24_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.9.4 I think there is no audio driver installed on this system. here are some other debug info: aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found... arecord: device_list:268: no soundc…

Hi, I'm a noob with this mini Pc's, but I think that I don't have doing anything wrong. My Orange Pi Zero no boot, no led power, only leds of ethernet, but the power leds (green and red) don't work, I tried with 2 microsd, and 2 systems too, but same problem, no reaction. Any solution please? Thanks.

Hi, Installed ARMBIAN 5.60 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.70-sunxi and got surprise: aplay: device_list:270: no soundcards found... Tried to fix with armbian-config -> System -> Hardware -> but it shows empty fields or blinks and returns to main System menu

Hello, today I try to recompile armbian and produce some image which can be fited into nor flash. I would like to fit uboot, dtb and kernel into Winbond W25Q128FVSSIG and rootfs into sdcard. So I found some instruction in which I need to modify first kernel and dts (ref. http://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_Zerochapter SPI NOR flash). For Armbian it is quit difficult, when I issue ./compile.sh than everything regarding to Uboot is cleared. First what I need to do is modify sun8i-h3-orangepi-one.dts with following content &spi0 { status = "okay"; flash: m25p80@0 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; …

Apologies if this is documented/reported somewhere else, but I can't see anything on a quick forum search. I received two Orange Pi Zeros this morning, and eagerly downloaded the Orange Pi Zero flavour of Armbian (Xenial Legacy) and loaded it up on a good 8GB microSD. I then started using it, updating it, and suddenly realised that it only had a 1.4GB partition when it failed to finish updating due to insufficient space. I thought since I'd had some issues logging into it that I might have interrupted the first boot resize, so I re-imaged it, and loaded it up, left if five minutes, and then logged. No cigar... says it is still 1.4GB (1.4GB size, 1.2GB used, 2…

Hi I would like to communicate whith an arduino(as receiver) with RF 433. On a first thought I wanted to use rc-switch lib, do you know if there is a way to use it with the PI zero(transmitter) once I have installed the wiring pi zero? if not what would be my best choice as library for OPIZ (and arduino as receiver)? As MCU are better choices to drive hardware part, would it be a good idea to interface OPIZ with a ATMEGA328 as a SPI slave which one would drive the 433 RF emitter with the rc-switch lib above? This would be the overkill situation as I'm new to SPI (and OPIZ). thx

Hello guys, soon I will receive this nice toy (512MB) and I want to be prepared for my project: a domestic vpn server (using pptp) serving 1 o 2 guests at most. For this project I just need the RJ45 socket thus I would like to switch off as much as possible (e.g. GPU, on board wifi and others if there). Someone can point me to some resources or list what I can do to accomplish this? P.S. I know that pptp is not as secure as IPSec (and maybe IPSec is heavier for such device) but for the purpose of my project it is enough. Thanks a lot Gianni

Hi All , i just tried stretch and buster there is a problem with PA10 configured "IN" problem seems to be on kernel > 4 old method for GPIO works perfectly , i have read that FEX is no longer availlable on 4.X kernel . PA10 il also used by SPI ( pin 1) . SPI is not enable on /boot/ArmbianEnv.txt. this script works perfectly on 3.x kernel but crashed GPIO 10 and GPIO 7 on 4.x kernel , when PA10 configured in "INPUT" and receive a +3.3V it crashed and seems to stay up indefinitively nothink on logs , PA7 can't become up in OUT mode i think there is a problem with SPI and GPIO on 4.X kernel I can't change GPIO pin on my pr…

When I try to read the input on PA19 immediately goes to "1" even though there is no voltage being sent to the pin. Example: #!/usr/local/bin/python from pyA20.gpio import gpio from pyA20.gpio import port pin_to_circuit = port.PA19 gpio.init() gpio.setcfg(pin_to_circuit, gpio.OUTPUT) gpio.output(pin_to_circuit, 0) gpio.setcfg(pin_to_circuit, gpio.INPUT) print(gpio.input(pin_to_circuit)) I don't understand why this would put "1" with nothing even connected to the PA19 pin? Are there some settings I need to change to get PA19 working as a normal GPIO pin?

Hello. When my orange pi zero is booted, Pin16,18(PA19,PA18) seems to record high value(3.3v) I want the pins to stay low. In the dtb file, PA18 and PA19 are assigned to i2c1 and i2s0. But in the /boot/armbianEnv.txt file those overlays are not enabled. Can someone please help me how to keep ping 16 and 18 low at t he boot time? Image used: ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS 4.14.18-sunxi Thank You.

I'm trying, with no success, to make a 3,5 inch tft lcd screen function with an orange pi zero plus (h5) via SPI. I will love if someone could help me diagnose the reason why I'm failing in doing so. The screen in question is a WaveShare knockoff -> link (the pinout can be found at the bottom of the page.) I'm running Armbian buster 5.92 with the kernel 4.19.63 and all packages upgraded. I also have a working serial connection (using the UART pins located next to Ethernet jack on the board) and am using the 'screen' program to communicate with the device. When connecting the screen and turning on the board the leds on the screen turn…

I've got an Orange Pi Zero Plus running Armbian Bionic. I'm trying to add a virtual wifi interface so I can create a wifi hotspot so I can connect to it easily on remote networks. iw list shows that the adapter *should* be capable of adding an additional interface. This works on other Orange Pi boards I've got but not this one. Any ideas? root@opizero:~# iw list Wiphy phy0 max # scan SSIDs: 9 max scan IEs length: 2304 bytes max # sched scan SSIDs: 0 max # match sets: 0 max # scan plans: 1 max scan plan interval: -1 max scan plan iterations: 0 Retry short limit: 7 Retry long limit: 4 Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m) Supported Ciphers: * WEP40 (00-0…

Hi guys, In order to increase the CPU frequency on my Orange Pi Zero Plus I need to run the 4.17y kernel: I downloaded the prebuilt image from armbian which only includes the 4.14y kernel. Is there any way to download the newer 4.17y kernel, rather than having to build Armbian from scratch? Sorry if this is a newbie question but I'm not a linux expert. I appreciate any help in advance

I just received 3 of the Zero Plus boards and am trying to verify they at least basically work. I'm new to Armbian & Orange Pi but have been using Raspbian & Raspberry Pi's for years. I've downloaded Armbian for the OP Zero (Armbian_5.38_Orangepizero_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.14.img), verified the gpg signature and the sha256 checksum and used Etcher v. 1.4.4 on a 2017 iMac, macOS Sierra, to burn SD cards. After burning, macOS claims "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." Maybe that's normal for Armbian? diskutil list shows: /dev/disk8 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE …

I have Orange Pi Zero Plus (H5 CPU) and Huawei E303 HiLink USB modem. The modem doesn't have any enabled interfaces such as CD-ROM, SD CARD, and other unusuable stuff except RNDIS interface (I want to believe that AT commands really disables it). When Armbian is started, connected to USB modes normally starts and system has new network interface and all works fine. When I try to power on board with connected modem, Armbian doesn't start, onboard LED doesn't light, modem starts normally and indicate normal link (blue LED lights). Here is log when modem hot-plugged: Spoiler Mar 18 04:17:04 localhost kernel: [ 9.033246] usb 3-1: new high-speed…

This is not to demand the devs to make the board work, I know your quite hang up on maintaining Armbian and the massive collection of boards. But I searched the forum to see if I could find it, and didn't find anything. So yeah well here is the thread about this board, in case others do a forum search. The board looks promising, but it would have been great with emmc on it, somehow they just cant get it right with these boards And if or when you need something testet, I'll be happy to help. Orange PI Zero Plus (H5) 512MB CPU: H5 Quad-core 64-bit Cortex-A53 GPU: Hexa-core Mali450 OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1/1.0 RAM: 512MB DDR3 (shared with GPU) Onboard W…

I had a rather crazy idea (in my opinion) of trying to hook up a bluray drive to an Orange Pi Zero Plus that i have a spare of, then possibly set that up as an iscsi target with LiO to create a network attached BD drive. However, I'm already stuck even getting the BD drive to work with the OPi in the first place. I have the optical drive hooked to an externally powered USB 2.0 to ATA bridge (has a SATA port on it as well, this hardware config was tested in windows and worked great) and that's plugged into the single USB port on the board. The problem i seem to be having (not entirely sure I'm correct, very new at this) is that sr_mod is not enabled or present. T…

Orange Pi Zero Plus (H5 / 1000M ethernet ) Is a working Armbian system ? ..... It's probably new :-)

Hi. I am trying to perform pairing with the Bluetooth Low Energy device using the bluepy library. This library uses the MGMT for ble. The command 0x0019 (MGMT_OP_PAIR_DEVICE) returns success status (0x00). But using the sniffer I didn't found pairing request packet. Then I tried to perform pairing using btmgmt tool with the same result (not paired, but success is returned). Then I tried to use Bluetooth manager. User interface added the device and pairing returned success. But during the pairing my device wasn't indicate successful pairing. I still can't to read characteristics with no mitm protection. Which means that device is not paired. …

Did they improve the wifi on the orange pi zero plus 2, or does the wifi have the same problems as the orange pi zero?

Hello to everyone! I am trying to configure dual boot using u-boot. But I've got some misunderstandings, maybe someone will help me with that problem. When I'm booting from SD card everything works fine: rootdev=/dev/mmcblk0p1 (armbianEnv.txt) or rootdev=UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX in both cases. When I'm booting form eMMC something goes wrong: I can not set rootdev=/dev/mmcblk1p1 cause in this case I've only error message: But if I'm setting as rootdev=UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX everything works fine. Maybe it is bad way to use /dev/..., but I need it. So, I tried a lot …

It seems that the latest Nano Pi Neo Air Boards and the relatively new Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 both use a modified version of the AP6212 WiFi+Bluetooth module, which is physically labelled as AP6212A. This new module apparently requires different drivers to operate. From my own experience, I was unable to get the internal WiFi module to work on a Nano Pi Neo Air (with AP6212A) using any of the Armbian distributions. However, I was able to get WiFi to work on that board with the Friendly Arm distribution at from https://www.mediafire.com/folder/sr5d0qpz774cs/NanoPi-NEO_Air#oc15bwqbuxgxe. I just received a second Nano Pi Neo Air from a different vendor, and this …

Funnily with Zero Plus 2 a silent downgrade to H3 happened (I would assume that's related to Xunlong's software guy Buddy not being able to resolve voltage regulation issues with Allwinner's BSP and H5): http://www.cnx-software.com/2017/03/17/18-9-orange-pi-zero-plus-2-board-allwinner-h3-wifi-bluetooth-le-hdmi-and-8gb-emmc-flash/

A couple of weeks ago I took delivery of an Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H3 it has the form factor I wanted, eMMC support and HDMI which implied I could run a desktop; the H3 was also the variant that seemed to have the best support. Since then I have been trying to get a stable usable desktop environment working. I tried the latest version of Armbian legacy server specifically for this board and that works fine as far as the server version goes so then I tried to add a basic desktop but that didn't work the xOrg driver said there were no screens present and everything I tried after going to Google University failed. Then I tried a couple of distros from the Orange Pi website b…

Hi, I am new to Orange Pi, Armbian and this forum. Done lots of Raspberry Pi and other Linux stuff. Can someone tell me if the Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H3 & H5 boards are supported by armbian? They are available on Aliexpress here(H3) and here(H5). They are not listed on the download page, but are listed in this post. Also, if they are supported, is it better choosing the H3 or H5 variant? Seems to me like the H3 might have better software support, and might be the better choice.

Hello, I just use the Zero Plus 2 H3 with extension, using Armbian 5.83 but failed to get the combo to play the sound I use the command aplay -l but return no sound card found How to install driver for sound in this board?

I configured my opi to work as a composite usb gadget (mouse and rndis). Everything works, but the actual refresh rate of the mouse was 250 Hz. I tried to configure bInterval, which is responsible for the device update frequency, this could only be done by rebuilding the kernel with bInterval changes in the high-speed descriptor structures from 4 to 1 in the file drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c. It had an effect. But the frequency only rose to 500 Hz. I tried to find what could limit this, I looked in drivers/usb/dwc2/gadget.c and also in composite.c but I couldn’t find anything. Now I don’t know where to look next or i missed sth.. drivers/usb/gadget/func…

The last time I've used this board was around December 2019. Building images or downloaded from Armbian.com and burning them on a SD card worked fine. Now i'm struggling to get it to boot from SD. Tried these images: https://redirect.armbian.com/orangepizeroplus2-h5/Buster_current https://redirect.armbian.com/orangepizeroplus2-h5/Focal_current Also build my own image (to include some extra modules) Armbian_20.08.0-trunk_Orangepizeroplus2-h5_bionic_current_5.7.12 All of them won't get passed "Starting kernel" Serial log: U-Boot SPL 2020.04-armbian (Aug 05 2020 - 07:58:29 +0200) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying …

Any advice for building for the H5 flavor of the Zero Plus? I am not new to kernal compiling or embedded systems dev but am rather new to compiling linux kernals FOR embedded systems. Currently using the H5 image from here: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-2-h5/ but there is no easy option to target this board when building from source.

Greetings, can the NAS HAT for the Zero work on the Zero Plus2 H5? I have the Zero HAT, which connects to the Plus2 board, but when I connect a usb keyboard, it does not power it. Although a usb mouse lights up. I can't test the mouse fully because I'm using ubuntu server on the Plus2 which has no GUI. So again, is the problem that the Plus NAS HAT does not work on the Plus2? I see that there is a NAS HAT for the Plus2 with the same connectors that the Plus HAT has but it's smaller. Thanks in advance iomari

After trying the ESP32, CHIP and CHIP PRO, I now have the OPI Zero+2 H5 and after much research (the Armbian forums) and testing, was unable to get USB OTG and Bluetooth working. I'm particularly interested in Bluetooth Low Energy and WIFI. WIFI worked great, simply using nmtui, worked first time. Thanks for solving the AP6212A WIFI firmware issues. However, do I understand correctly the USB OTG (I want to connect the OPI Z+2H5 micro USB to a USB hub to connect a mouse and keyboard) is not working yet? Similarly, is the AP6212A bluetooth driver/firmware being worked on at the moment? In addition, I'm waiting for some cameras to be delivered, my next project being the CSI …

Hello, Just received this board and I can't get it to turn on if the SD card is present. I've tried several cards and I know them to be good (Samsung Evo 32GB). Any ideas?

I understand I'm working with an experimental build...just breaking stuff to learn... Is Xwindows a complete no-go on the current Xenial build? What have you done to get X to load? I installed using the following commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade {at this point I had to do some finagling to get wlan0 to work again...thanks again @martinayotte!} sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-core sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg sudo aptitude install xorg openbox sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop After the install, I ran "startx" and it bombed. xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xin…

I tried to build the armbian on my Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 to work on my astro project. I'm planning to connect the board to the camera module, which I'd assemble with a small scope (120mm focal length), and with a small TFT screen to make it a electronic finder scope. When I build and install the stretch server I've encounter several instability. There were some random crashes and finally I was able to get it stable. I'd like to share it here in case anyone is encountering the same. Here's the info: First I was experiencing random crashes and the exception message shows there's a problem at the high resolution timer. I simply disable the hr timer …

I have perfectly equal Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H3 boards in their original case - booting from eMMC. Test conditions are: WiFi Hotspot enabled, HDMI off, CPU idle, CPU governor: performance, CPU freq. 240MHz - 1.1 GHz, kernel 4.14.84 Xiaomi Mi5 Charger as psu, 2.4A usb cable armbianmonitor gives me a temp of ~50°C on one board (idle@1.1GHz) and a temp of 65°C on the other board (same conditions, CPU starts throttling here to ~960 MHz). The temp gets so high, that after an apt-get update/upgrade and reboot the opizero plus2 would not boot with an error msg that the temp is too high. The temp seems to be correct more or less, since …

HI! Does anyone have experience with WiFI on Orange Pi Zero Plus 2? I tried to use image Armbian Legacy 3.4.113 for NanoPi NEO Air, (hardware is same H3, wifi AP6212) without success. No any wlanX interface. Thank you for your help!

After recent upgrade of Debian Buster stable on Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 leds entries disappeared from class directory: Could anybody provide some guidance on how to get them back?

I'm trying to set up an OPi Zero Plus 2 with Armbian Buster. As the board has no soldered USB connectors and mine is still in the mail, I was forced to do all this via the serial console via the three pins on the board. (So no nano or nmtui or anything that has an interface.) I run into a problem where a) I couldn't join my WiFi network and b) NetworkManager refused to believe I don't want to use IPv6. So I had to disable NetworkManager and go the wpa_supplicant route. So now I'm in the position that I got everything to work BUT I have to *manually* enable wpa_supplicant and then issue ifdown and ifup - all via the serial console - at every boot be…