Allwinner sunxi

Hi there, my BananaPi won't boot after a (maybe failed) apt-get update. Is there anything i could try to make it work again? While apt-get upgrade was running, I saw (iirc) in the log that the kernel directory (?) isn't empty (?). This message stayed there for quite a long time but the update process ended without any error messages. Thank you.

Hello, I installed 2022-09-27-Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_jammy_edge_lubuntu_5.19.6-qt5-swap-bpi-p2z-10804MB.img on my Banana Pi Zero and it works great! I run sudo apt update , sudo apt upgrade ... Hours later, time to reboot. The board reboots and crashes.. See pic. Hmmm can't attach pics for some reason. First error I see on the screen says Failed to load '/boot/dtb/sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-p2-zero.dtb libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC No FDT memory address configured. Please configure the FDT address via "fdt addr <address>" command. Aborting! Then a bunch of other errors …

It boots but does not recognize USB keyboard input. Not possible to login.

I am running a headless Bananapipro server that acts as an AP. Recently I found that its WiFi net was gone. In the log I found a crash of brcm: Dec 19 02:40:14 localhost kernel: [3919907.052132] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fw_crashed: Firmware has halted or crashed Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908.004319] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: bus is down. we have nothing to do. Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908.004360] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: bus is down. we have nothing to do. Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908.004372] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_stop_ap: SET SSID error (-5) Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908…

Hello Igor! Please help. What am I doing wrong? My device: LeMaker BananaPiPro (black board with yellow GPIO). http://www.armbian.com/banana-pi-pro/ Your build: Debian jessie Legacy Kernel 3.4.109 uname -a Linux bananapi 3.4.109-banana #5 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 30 14:20:25 CEST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux I need the following: 1. Install light gui (i were install xfce4 (+goodies) + lightdm) 2. Internet browser (i use iceweasel) 3. On-line film and serials from internet 4. Sound from HDMI (bananapipro connect to my tv) The items 1, 2 and 4 - No problem. The item 3 - Very poor quality video. What has been done: http://linux-sunxi.org/Mali_binary_driver http://wiki.lemaker.or…

Hello, I've been working with my Banana Pro since years with Bananian. Last days I formatted the SD and installed Armbian (debian), to be used in headless mode. Installation and system setup worked as expected, I modified eth0 setup for static IP and it went fine after reboot. A strange problem appeared when I installed transmission-daemon, minidlna and samba packages. All working fine before reboot, but thereafter any network interface is disappeared, network-manager can't execute fine, remains running for several seconds then something crashes. If I configure eth0 manually network works, so no hardware problem. I'm sure the board work…

Greetings all! I'm working to get my BananaPro (LeMaker board) up and running with Armbian 5 (Armbian_5.04_Bananapipro_Debian_jessie_4.4.3.raw) just downloaded to a fresh SD card. The radio is discovered and appears to be at least tolerated by the drivers. I've modified and recompiled as directed, the boot.cmd as such to point to the bananapro.dtb file directly: setenv bootargs "console=tty1 root=/dev/sda1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1920x1080p60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=1" #-----------------------------…

Hello, at first I want to thank you for your great work Igor 2 Days ago I installed the new version 5.00 Vanilla Kernel armbian for BananaPro on my SD card. And I was so glad to finally see a working wifi for BananaPro with mainline kernel. Today I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Ever since there is no more a wlan0 interface. Have tried ifconfig and iwconfig. It seems to be, that there was installed a new kernel image. What can we do to get it working again? Also ReleaseHistory says there is a version 5.01 but the download link for BananaPro Vanilla Jessie still leads to a version 5.00 link. Kind regards Wolf

Hi, i switched from Bananian Linux to Armbian xenial due to reaching its "end of life". Everything is working except it wont power off the system after a shutdown neither will it reboot properly. Hope someone could help me?

I can't get the LeMaker 5in LCD working with Armbian 5.04 legacy on LeMaker BananaPro. First things first: # uname -a Linux bpi2 3.4.110-sun7i #12 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 1 08:39:29 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux # lsmod Module Size Used by cpufreq_userspace 3524 0 ft5x_ts 44223 0 spidev 6366 0 ap6211 624553 0 a20_tp 3365 0 8021q 18593 0 garp 6072 1 8021q stp 2032 1 garp llc 5365 2 stp,garp # dmesg [ 6.514195] ===========================ft5x_ts_init===================== [ 6.520934] ctp_fetch…

Hi, I use BananaPro on Armbian Strech or Bionic, I try to use the GPIO python library (for bananapro from LeMaker github) gpio.add_event_detect() or GPIO.wait_for_edge(channel, GPIO.RISING) This usually disconnect my network and the event is never detected. I have to reboot the PI to restore the state. Also, a normal read/write state GPIO.input(PIN_NUM) works perfectly... I try this : https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3249-bananapi-m1-gpioadd_event_detect-not-working-after-switch-to-vanilla-kernel/ but not work. My python script work fine on Bananian on the same bananaPro. thank for your help.

Hello guys, I've been playing around with the build-in lima drivers but didn't get it to work on BananaPro using Armbian_20.02.1_Bananapipro_buster_current_5.4.20_desktop image. I installed drivers armsoc, modesetting, fbdev from debian buster repos but "Xorg -configure" fails. /var/log/Xorg.0.log says: and and generated xorg.conf: Any suggestions what I am doing wrong? regards

I'm using ARMBIAN 5.25 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i and on my raspberry pi the bash script below works without any errors/ #!/bin/sh i=$(cat /etc/hour.conf) new_i=$((i+1)) if [ "$new_i" -gt 15 ]; then new_i=0 fi echo "$new_i">/etc/hour.conf echo "$new_i" However on the OrangePiZero , I get the following error message? ./loops: 3 ./loops: Illegal number: new_i Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Forum, Please let me take a "low level" question about what I experienced on my CT. It should be my misunderstanding but it would be good if someone could help to clarify. On my CT udev mounts a USB device then starts a bash script in the background. This script lunches some bash threads and waits for them to complete. The threads has no common job on any file or resource. In the third level of nesting cp -r chrashes without any error message. It leaves the logging sentence in the middle, so it's really chrashes. rsync does the same but for different files. The scripts are fully functional if I start them from a root console. Even if started in the background.…

So I have a question... I'd like to manage Li-Ion battery operation on SBCs using the AXP209 power management chip (especially the Banana Pro, as that's what I have...) I soldered a connector to the battery terminals on my BPro for portable operation, and it would be nice to have some kind of solution to raise an alert at low battery charge (like via the onboard LEDs), and automatically call system shutdown at a certain level. Googling has shown that the AXP209 has an i2c interface for sensors, and there are a few scripts for reading battery status here: http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/11/banana-pi-axp209-battery-power-monitoring/ My current plan is to pro…

Lucky me received a Beelink X2 as a gift days ago. I flashed Legacy 3.4.112 to a Samsung EVO and am pretty stoked to see this display on an HDMI TV. It doesn't display to DVI but I saw reference to h3disp, so I have hope this applies. I'd like to incorporate a Traveller mode (I made that up) that can be set so the unit knows monitors are likely to change and find an automatic way for this to detect DVI. I'll also get a cheap USB soundcard and output to a monitor that has a soundbar and avoid SPDIF for a while. That's about it: play tutorials and enjoy what Armbian can do. I can't tell you how blown away I am with this neat little Beelink X2, or how much I'm in aw…

Hi, I have a beelink X2 and did: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install -f apt-get update apt-get autoremove -y I think i have version 5.20. If i look at: cat /etc/*-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=beelinkx2 BOARD_NAME="Beelink X2" VERSION=5.20 LINUXFAMILY=sun8i BRANCH=default ARCH=arm PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="8" VERSION="8 (jessie)" ID=debian HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" So i think i have version 20 But if i do an: cat /proc/version Linux version 3.4.112-sun8i (root@xenial) (gcc…

Hi, I'm trying to make a hotspot with the beelink x2. I have some problems with resume after suspend. So i have a question about the beelink x2. Does anybody know if it is possible to start the beelink after a shutdown with the power-button. If i want to restart it, i have to re-insert the power-cord and the beelink will boot. Button does nothing. Thanks. Erik

I disconnected the Beelink X2 and connected it again and now there is no picture on screen. I tried several HDMI cables and tvs. What can I do so the player will work and show the picture? I tried flash the x2 firmware the flash was successful but still there is no picture. edit: now the red light on the x2 that shows the x2 connected to the electricity turns off and doesnt stay on like before.

I use a Beelink X2 Android TV box with Armbian Stretch mainline kernel 4.19.y Image on a SD Card. If I plug in my SD Card and then the power supply, the LED is purple and after some seconds blue. No picture over hdmi but the num-lock on the keyboard works. The box also don't get an IP over DHCP. No matter how long (1h+) I wait, nothing happens... When I plug in the power supply without the SD Card, the LED is red. The normal standby mode of the box. I can now plug in the SD Card and then power the system on. The LED switches to purple and after sone seconds to blue and Armbian is running fine, no problems. If the system reboots it will ru…

Hello Everybody !!! Armbian works great on beelink (Armbian_5.20_Beelinkx2_Debian_jessie_3.4.112) Just one last thing to reach the perfection : "speaker-test -twav -c2" gives good sound on hdmi But with mpv (and vlc previous version) hdmi sound and video are slowed... With audiocodec and sndspdif it's ok. Is it a known problem ? Is there other way to play sound and video ? cat /etc/modules #gpio_sunxi bcmdhd sndspdif sunxi_sndspdif sunxi_spdif sunxi_spdma sunxi-cir

Hello, How to shutdown or reboot correctly with armbian jessie server 5.25 on Beelink X2 ?

hello, i got a really big deal with a beelink x2, i cant erase andoid in order to run armbian completly with out SD card any idea? another problem is the wifi, the beelink wifi is not scanning anything, can you help me?

Hello, my Beelink X2 is a Allwinner H3 TV Box and is possible to boot the Orange Pi PC Image from OrangePi.org but not from armbian. What is needed to bring this TV Box to work with armbian, I already habe a immage from Beelink X2 internal 8GB NAND. Is there a howto to get this working (Eng/Ger) Thank you. Here is smal part from NAND Image, If some one need more, I will insert it. hd BeelinkX2.img |head -n 200 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 |................| 000001c0 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 20 33 00 00 e8 b4 00 00 00 |....... 3.....…

Until the day Armbian can auto-configure HDMI output (with respect to a TV or DVI computer monitor), the thought occurred to me that the Beelink X2 defaults to Android KitKat 4.x, and from there maybe it's possible to plug in the TF card that you'll be rebooting into, then access the card from Android to makes changes, like: h3disp -m 720p60 -d If a DVI-monitor is expected to boot into. I was even brushing up on MIT App Inventor to make presets from Android side, but my skills drop off sharply at that point. The practical reason for his, is not only to show the neighbors but also have a media player anywhere there's a screen. In conclusion, I don't know what m…

I've gotten the board up and running and on Wifi, but this is supposed to be a dim wifi 'lamp'. Just to start out: how do I connect the +- to the board How do I tell the board to power on the leds And for more advanced: Is it possibly to do voltage-limiting dimming as opposed to PWM If no: what's the best way to do PWM? (I'm perfectly fine with creating a c program that simply turns it on and off at a specified hz, but there may be a more elegant tool I'm not aware of) Thanks

Good evening, In your opinion, what is the best alternative to the NanoPi NEO2? I don't need wifi or sata. I'm looking for a stable and qualitative armbian with a gigabit and usb port. Is there a better performing armbian that the NEO2 has for less than 40$? Thanks

Help me for choose the best compatible WiFi Dongle for Orange PI PC v1.2 Maybe exist list supported wifi dongle?

Hello everyone. I just got an Orange Pi Plus 2e, which I intend to use a as a personal cloud server. I understand that, in this board, Legacy Kernel is much better than Mainline for desktop usage (video accel, TV out, etc.), but I am not so clear about which one is better for a server. May main concerns are: Ethernet and Wifi speed and reliabililty (ethernet will conect to Internet, and Wifi to home devices as an AP) I/O speed for the USB attached HD Security Any advice about which Kernel to choose? Thanks!

Guys, purchased shortly my first Bananapi M1. I installed without problems Armbian to a SD Card and now in second step i would like to connect a 1TB Western Digital 2,5" SATA HDD. But which connection cable do i have to use with the Banana Pi? Can someone please post a link url if allowed or let me know? Thanks in advance!

hi, i'm trying to run docker on an orange pi +2E, using armbian xenial well, using default legacy kernel, i can see /dev/spi* and /dev/i2c* and the like BUT i can't have docker-ce running with this kernel... so i swapped to the DEV kernel, now i've setup docker-ce but lost completely the hw support... which is the best setup to have both, so i can pass local hw devices to docker containers and have access to gpio and serial? thanks

Hello, i have a old Banana Pi M2 with the current Armbian in use. I use the green LED with Heartbeat Signal. Today i try to connect with putty but after Username and PW nothing happen. Samba Service work normal. Then i have look at the Banana and the green LED was lightning constant and no heartbeat blinking. Maybe the trouble was because in a few meters distance sawed with a circular saw. Has perhaps caused interference or power fluctuations. No idea and maybe just coincidence. I have been using Armbian for only two days. Previously, the manufacturers ran Distribution for two years. I have Google and found out t…

Hi folks, A few months back, I set up an Orange Pi Prime on Armbian Bionic (Armbian_5.52.180715_Orangepiprime_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_4.18.0-rc4.7z). I'm now putting together a home automation workshop around this configuration, but it looks like it's now missing from the website (https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-prime/) and download site (https://dl.armbian.com/orangepiprime/). Is Bionic no longer supported for this board, or was this an oversight? Is there something I can do to help?

I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck using spi-gpio to bitbang SPI on the H5... @martinayotte, I found a forum thread from a few years ago where you seemed to be looking at this area - perhaps you have an idea? Doing a typical spi-gpio DT overlay for this properly loads the spi-gpio and spi-bitbang drivers, creates /dev/spidev0.0, and allocates the gpios (verified via gpiod)...but the first problem I see is that the CS line is simply not working (cs-gpios below)...? /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { fragment@0 { target-path = "/"; __overlay__ { spi { compatible = "s…

Hi in the last build of 17/05/2019, https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi3/nightly/Armbian_5.87.190517_Orangepi3_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_5.1.0.7z armbian won't boot and there are a black display My board is a opi3 2gbram + mmc 8GB The board is working, because in the mmc, I have installed an old version (5.82) and I can bood from the SD card with android 7 get form here: http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/OrangePi3/2019-01-23/orangepi3_0e7dae8bb1bf9678fda5754272.html I tried to connect via ssh from another computer, and it's works, I login, changed the default passwd, but after 1 or 2 minutes, the opi3 reboot and from th…

Hello, I just intalled the new Armbian 5.10 on my orange pi mini. I tried to play a video, but after i start it there was only black screen and audio. If i changed the vo to X11 it's worked but with vdpau it's not. Can someone help me how to make it work? Thanks, Sp0T

Hello, When I flash the newest version of Armbian debian, and plug it into my Orange Pi Lite, nothing is displayed on my monitor, even if the led is green. My monitor is 4K LG display. With Debian, the HDMI output is not reconized. I tried with Armbian Ubuntu, and the instalation guide is displayed, but the edge and the bottom of the screen are cut. After one reboot, the screen is entirely black and I can't do nothing. Any help is welcome

Hello, my orange pi device crashes to white screen at random times. And in this case USB, ethernet does not work.Which logs should I look at?

Hi, I've just wrote today's latest image for my Orange Pi PC: Armbian_21.02.1_Orangepipc_focal_current_5.10.12_desktop At first boot, I am asked to make my user and everything is fine and I end up in the XFCE desktop. All works fine. Then, I reboot the system. I see it booting and when X is starting, the screen goes blank (all black). If I do Ctrl+Alt+F1, I can log in in text mode, but X shows nothing. Thank you for your hard work on Armbian! -Alexandre

I'm running OpenElec on a NanoPI-M1 and one thing missing is having the screen blanked when the screensaver kicks in, allowing the monitor to power down. In Kodi there's no option to do it, unlike when running in other OS. Probably someone is going to direct me at CEC but that does not work for me as I have a PC monitor connected to the board through a HDMI->VGA adaptor. I've read in the sunxi docs that the '/sys/class/graphics/fb0/blank' sysfs entry should control blanking for the framebuffer, therefore blanking the HDMI output, but it either does not work that way or at all, as nothing happens. On the RP world there is a command line utility that can enable/disabl…

Hello, I currently installed Opi0 plus2 h3_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.78 but when I boot up my device, red led blinks 2times then pause and repeating again. What does it mean? I have never seen this blinking red led behaviour in previous Armbian releases.

first off: I'm totally new in the Linux world, but it's really fun to play with *Pis! currently I'm on a OPILite but I have some RasPis lying around and just ordered a nanoPieNEO2. I'm trying to setup a filesystem that supports deduplication, as far as I can tell that's ZFS or BTRFS. After a lot of reading and learning I got BTRFS with bedup running, but bedup is only file-wise deduplication. The solution for block-wise would be duperemove, but I can't find/get/install/build it for armhf. Has somebody tried block-wise deduplication before and can point me in the right direction? I'm running armbian 5.31 on 4.11.5

Hello... I've got an Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H3 with Armbian Stretch. Kernel: 4.14.70-sunxi armbianEnv.txt: I did: cp -a /lib/firmware/ap6212/fw_bcm43438a1.bin /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin dmesg when searching for "brcm" gives me: [ 8.123186] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_map_chip_to_name: using brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin for chip 0x00a9a6(43430) rev 0x000001 [ 8.256708] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Oct 8 2016 15:31:47 version 7.46.57.4.ap.r4 (A1 Station/P2P) FWID 01-3621395e es6.c5.n4.a3 In /etc/default/ap6212 I have: PORT=ttyS1 But the scr…

Hello, I have a couple of NEO Pi Air's and they show up as the same device in LightBlue. After a bit of digging, I noticed that the BD addr of the devices are the same. hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: UART BD Address: 43:29:B1:55:01:01 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1 UP RUNNING RX bytes:6552 acl:180 sco:0 events:373 errors:0 TX bytes:6809 acl:180 sco:0 commands:248 errors:0 Is there any way to change the address?

Hello, Trying to figure out to get bluetooth working on Cubietruck with Armbian Buster mainline based kernel 5.4.y Installed all software but bluetoothctl keeps telling me there is no default controller. Seems to me the drivers are not loaded/activated. Is this supposed to work or m i trying to fix someting unfixable. Please bump me in the right direction.. Tjabks!

My Banana Pi M2+ is running quite fine on noble but something is amiss with bluetooth. bluetoothctl never shows any devices even when scanning for them and there are plenty of devices within arm's length. I am hoping for your help in diagnosing and ultimately fixing the issue. Logs: Spoiler $ uname -a Linux banana 6.12.20-current-sunxi #1 SMP Sat Mar 22 19:54:28 UTC 2025 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux $ bluetoothctl list Controller B0:F1:EC:FD:65:CE banana [default] [ the second line below at 14:20:17 is certainly odd ] $ sudo journalctl -u bluetooth [...] …

Hi, I use OPI0+. Bluetooth works well when using WiFi as a client. In access point I got an error like"Invalid command" "ConnectionAttemptFailed". Is there any way to fix it?

Dear Armbian Zen Masters, Please, help me turn on bluetooth on my Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H5 board (running armbian focal server). This board is up to date (apt update and upgrade). I've enabled bluetooth support from armbian-config on this board. But, bluetoothctl is not working (gets stuck in waiting for response on command execution). Wifi is working fine on this board. (I could easily use bluetoothctl on my khadas vim3 pro board with "current armbian xfce desktop" on it) Waiting for your response. (Please, find the relevant board info below.) Thanks in advance, Spherulite. -------------------------------------------…

Hi all, I'm starting with armbian and Banana pi m2p card. I entered image 4.19.21-sunxi, I can not make BT work. with armbian-config I have enabled the BT, next systemctl start bluetooth. with systemctl status bluetooth: Feb 18 18:01:30 bananapim2plus systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... Feb 18 18:01:30 bananapim2plus bluetoothd[1779]: Bluetooth daemon 5.48 Feb 18 18:01:30 bananapim2plus bluetoothd[1779]: Starting SDP server Feb 18 18:01:30 bananapim2plus systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. Feb 18 18:01:30 bananapim2plus bluetoothd[1779]: Bluetooth management interface and root@bananapim2plus:~# bluetoothctl Agent registered [bluetooth]…

sudo systemctl status bluetooth ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-02-25 16:50:52 IST; 1h 41min ago Docs: man:bluetoothd(8) Main PID: 1131 (bluetoothd) Status: "Running" Tasks: 1 (limit: 2209) Memory: 1.3M CPU: 402ms CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service └─1131 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd Feb 25 16:50:51 orange systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... Feb 25 16:50:52 orange bluetoothd[1131]: Bluetooth daemon 5.64 Feb 25 16:50:52 orange systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. …

I just installed the image located here and am unable to get a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to connect. https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-plus-2-h3/ And used armbian-config -> Network -> Enable bluetooth. Here's the output of some common debugging commands I found in the forums. root@orangepizeroplus2-h3:~# lsusb Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation…

Hello everybody, I'm new in armbian and Cubietruck. It looks to me that bluetooth is installed but if I scan for devices no devices will be found. I have the impression that something is wrong with the driver installation. I used the file image "Armbian_community_24.11.0-trunk.130_Cubietruck_noble_current_6.6.44_xfce_desktop.img.xz" for installation. Any help would be appreciated. Best regards Albrecht

Hi. I've got a Orange Pi Win Plus flashed with armbian, everything is running great, except the bluetooth module. I have everything installed, but blueman keeps telling me that no adapters are found. I've checked if the bluetooth adapters were on with the command 'armbian-config', as well as trying to stop and restart it with '/etc/init.d/bluetooth stop and start'. I start to feel like it won't work on linux, because I've already tried debian and ubuntu from the orangepi downloads page and the bluetooth didn't work too. I don't want to run Android just because of this issue. Any ideas?

I can't make bluetooth work on my OPi0+ Is it a known bug? Am I doing it wrong? thank you

I am trying to setup a logitech squeezebox server on an Orange Pi Zero so that it can be carried around and serve my collection from a large micro-sd card. This is the 3rd iteration of this already (first was given as a gift, 2nd got fried by 12V, and now this one) and in the past I've been using hostapd to connect while away from home. I'd like to explore the possibility of using a Bluetooth Personal Area network, but I am not sure if there is a stack that can achieve this for me. The idea is that I would use bluetooth instead of wifi to connect to the orange pi zero and establish a tcp/ip connection that would allow me to control the server using the phone…

Hi! Banana pi m1, armbian Ubuntu Xenial Legacy 3.4.113, bluetooth usb dongle. I can find bananapi from other devices, but can`t pair whit any device. journalctl -u bluetooth ar 15 16:05:11 bananapi systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... Mar 15 16:05:11 bananapi bluetoothd[646]: Bluetooth daemon 5.37 Mar 15 16:05:11 bananapi bluetoothd[646]: Starting SDP server Mar 15 16:05:11 bananapi systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. Mar 15 16:05:11 bananapi bluetoothd[646]: Bluetooth management interface 1.0 initialized Mar 15 16:05:11 bananapi bluetoothd[646]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic Mar 15 16:05:11 bananapi bluetoothd[646]: Not e…

I am trying to test the ap6212-bluetooth script in the latest desktop image for the Orange Pi Zero +2 (H5), but am having no luck... Is there something I am missing about running this script?

I'm using Armbian 5.27 with BRANCH=default BOARD=cubietruck RELEASE=jessie BUILD_DESKTOP=no Sometimes bluetooth fail to start, are there some way to fix it? Leonardo

Hello Folks! Already successfully running an RTL-SDR device (for Flight Tracking) and U-Blox NEO-6M GPS (for GPS/NTP) on my Orange Pi PC Plus, and now wanted to try a BME280 weather chip, but ran into problems talking to it. The 'i2cdetect' seems to be working fine: darren@frodo10:~$ sudo i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- …

Just started with Orangepi and ARMbian ... ARMbian is a very nice OS. Especially since there's a RAW image for Orange pi! Thanks! I've got two DS18B20 working perfectly with my Orange pi pc! But now I've troubles with the BMP085 /BMP180. With my old Raspberry pi it was pretty easy, but how can I get the BMP180 running? I 've read there are modules for ARMbian, but I've read as well I've got to compile my own module. Does anybody know where can I find the files /module to load or compile?

Hi All, after next collapse of our network I used the hammer to destroy the R1. This board is really shit and I will never ever continue with any kind of experiments with it. The reason is probably BCM chip. But I am not sure. Everything works well on the table, you can stress it as much you want , everything works well. But when you use it for real traffic, the board starts to collapse, unexpected restarts etc. I followed all recommendations of you, but without success. The question is ... Which board for router I have to use? Any ideas welcome. Petr P.S. If somebody wants R1 for home router/NAS (for home is ok), I have two available, the third ended …

Hallo, I use Armbian for some time now, usually I can solve all problems myself. Recently, one of my boards has gone bad (or mad?). I started using this particular board on 10/11/2016. Installed Armbian (5.20) from images available on that day. Everything went nice, no problems, pretty much no load for whole days. On 20/12/2016 something began to use 1 core of CPU. No idea what. On 23/12/2016 board stopped responding completely. I haven't accessed/used system from 20/12/2016 so I was not aware of problem. I turned it off later. I removed SD card from board and used with other OrangePi One just fine. But this board behaves strange. I re-installed Armbian and it se…

Bookworm 6.1.30 - wi-fi don't work.

Hello community! I use in my project "Orange Pi Zero Plus (Alwinner H5 - 512mb)". When using the image downloaded from the official site (https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-plus/ - Armbian Stretch mainline kernel 4.14.y), I get a set of errors when I boot and when I use the working OS, which I'm straining. The same mistakes I get if I build the kernel and the OS myself through "build" (linux-sunxi64-next). My equipment: Memory: SanDisk Ultra microSDHC Class 10 UHS-I 48MB/s 16GB Power supply: Raspberry Pi 3b+ Power Adapter (STONTRONICS) - 5.1V @ 2.5A Boot: full log - https://pastebin.com/M9g6ipUp Loading Environmen…

Hello I'm using OPI PC + with 8GB external SD card. I detected a strange bug. I was using nand_sata_install.sh script to install Armbian to emmc card. So far so good, I was messed with configuration and decided to start over. Wrote fresh image into SD card and power up. So far so good until I rebooted. System boot up from EMMC instead from external SD card. When reboot again it start from SD card. I was wondering WTF is happening. Thinking about system is somehow confused so I delete emmc card partition. Now even with fresh install it boots one time from SD card, on second reboot it fail too boot (because I erased emmc), when restart again it boot from SD ............…

hi all . the illustlation is sd card's role is booting only . detail is http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/977-usrlibnand-sata-installnand-sata-installsh/

Hello, I am trying to run Armbian on my Orange Pi 3 LTS. The official Orange Pi image works normally: Orangepi3-lts_3.0.8_debian_bullseye_server_linux5.16.17 However, when I flash the Armbian image: Armbian 26.2.1 Minimal / IoT I get several boot errors during startup: [FAILED] Failed to start Apply Kernel Variables. [FAILED] Failed to start Dispatcher daemon for systemd-networkd. [FAILED] Failed to start Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Raise network interfaces. The system continues booting, but these errors appear every time. Hardware: Board: Orange Pi 3 LTS Image: Armbian 26.2.1 Minimal /…

Hi first of all Please excuse my poor English ! I install ubuntu lagecy server on my orange pi pc + and then install it on nand using : $nand-sata-install now when i power on my board with sd card (sd card without any image file) my root file system will mount on mmcb1k0p1 and if I insert my sd card after power on root will mount on mmcb1k1p1 (I now both mmcb1k1p1 & mmcb1k0p1 are my emmc) Now i need to automount my sd card and in my case I insert sd card before power on and as a result I add this line in fstab file #/dev/mmcb1k0p1 /mnt ext4 0 1 but it doesn't work ! how can i …

I have installed "Armbian_5.54.180727_Nanopineo_Debian_stretch_next_4.17.11" in the eMMC..My doubt is always boot from eMMC, If blank sd card is inserted in the slot.

I use "Semi_Armbian_5.07_M3", how can I mount blank SD? When I boot from eMMC with blank SD inside - System will not start (First boot A83T is from SD) , When I plug when the systen is already running - is not recognized. Do we need 'redirector' on SD-Bootsector? (like PC+ Floppy Disk) ? After inserting the SD: root@BananaPiM3:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7,3 GiB, 7818182656 bytes, 15269888 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000ac9e8 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /…

Is it possible to boot Orange pi Zero directly from hdd. I have sata hdd attached to OPI Zero via PI NAS. I can boot from usb flash and use HDD as root device but faild to boot from HDD directly. Is it possible to do this or not.

hello , i use opi pc + i was install armbian in emmc with nand-sata-install without problems. so after a few mouths of work i would backup emmc. i plug an sd in a usb reader and launch nand-sata-install. i has been just one choise: "boot to sd , systeme on sata usb". all copy was good. but now opi boot only with sd card plug in the usb reader or with a fresh image in sd slot. if i try nand-sata-install from usb reader , i have error message "this toll must run from sd card!" how is it possible to reinstall old systeme (with all my work) in emmc. thanks.

The Volumio team is currently investigating whether our sopine64 based motivo board (https://volumio.org/epic-journey-called-volumio-motivo/) could boot from usb using SPI flash. I'm aware of the sunxi SPI developments in u-boot and mainline kernel, and that we theoretically should be able to flash the SPI-NOR chip with the correct u-boot version using FEL mode. I also read that armbian has been prepared for booting from usb (as @martinayotte mentioned in other places). My question is, did anyone actually do anything in this direction, is there something I could help testing with? I know how to compile u-boot as I've done this with armbian's u-boot ver…

Hi, Armbian gurus, I'm trying to make the build system to build image with LibreELEC kernel tree for PineH64 I heard the kernel is patched for being better at hardware decoding Here are what I have done in order: 1. Retrieve patched kernel tree from LibreELEC build system. Upload the patched kernel tree to my gitlab account. 2. Modify config/sources/families/include/sunxi64_common.inc to make KERNEL_SOURCE = my previous repo; KERNELBRACH = master. To make it fetchable during bilding. 3. Modify lib/compilation-prepare.sh: skip aufs patch. 4. Modify lib/compilation.sh: skip advanced_patch in compile_kernel() After all th…

I have a 512 MB RAM, 4GB Toshiba NAND PocketCHIP with a custome u-boot supporting USB Booting and decided to test the latest armbian community image for the PocketCHIP (https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.668/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.668_Pocketchip-sd_trixie_current_6.18.20_minimal.img.xz) Boot seems to start fine with all kernel files load confirmed by u-boot output (vmlinuz, ramdisk dtb, etc) but then it goes mute while starting the kernel @TheSnowfield, you are listed as the pocketchip board maintainer (thanks a lot for your contribution! 🙏), any ideas of what am I missing? Do you have a suggestion for a w…

Hi, I'm watching a problem during boot of my A20-OLinuXino-MICRO-4GB, running 4.6.3-sunxi #7 SMP Tue Jul 5 16:23:41 CEST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux It seems to hang an multiple points and needs 417 seconds at all. It looks like a problem with initializing /dev/random and network configuration Here the entire log: Aug 30 00:23:49 autokino kernel: [ 7.624658] rt2800usb 1-1:1.0 wlan0: renamed from rename4 Aug 30 00:23:49 autokino kernel: [ 8.917512] random: mktemp urandom read with 96 bits of entropy available Aug 30 00:23:49 autokino kernel: [ 9.142494] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): re-mounted. Opts: data=writeback,commit=600,errors=remount-ro Aug 30 00:23:49 autokino ker…

Hi, I generated SD images for A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-eMMC boards. Kernel is 4.6.2, Debian wheezy, u-boot 2016.05 On my last two images (generated with slight differences in u-boot configuration), the first time I booted, everything worked fine. After that, I installed a booting system on the eMMC of the card. After few boots, (on the same board) the first SD card hanged (several minutes) just after displaying: random: nonblocking pool is initialized The other card continued to work (booting did not hang). A few hours later, I copied several files into a /data directory (.deb files). Trying to boot that second card, it ran in the same blocked statu…

1) If a debugging cable(USB to TTL converter for serial communication in gtkterminal) is already connected in nano-pi neo board..If we power up the nano-pi it is not booting 2) If a debugging cable(USB to TTL converter for serial communication in gtkterminal) and power cable is connected simultaneously.. It is not booting... Why in this two condition the nano-pi is not booting?

Hi, I'm tring to solve an issue on my Orange Pi Zero: at boot time the pins PA18 and PA19 are stucked to Vcc. I tried a lot of solution, now the best result is to add at the beginning of the file boot.cmd the command to clear the gpio configuration: gpio clear PA18 gpio clear PA19 and recompile the boot.scr. Despite this the pins goes HIGH for some seconds until the bootloader reach this line. What is the boot scheme? Why i get this pin HIGH? Is it because the I2C1 is configured? Is it possible to disable it? Thanks Simone

hi! I update kernel for cubie a10, bud do not know how tu update boot loader. As i know boot loader used uboot. In 1st part of microsd i have files drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 18 2015 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 12 2014 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jun 18 2015 .uEnv.txt.swp drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Nov 17 2014 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44240 Nov 17 2014 script.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 Jun 18 2015 uEnv.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6544616 Nov 17 2014 uImage As i understand i need change uImage file. Ok. I goint in /boot And export VERSION=4.3.3 mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -…

Dear All, I wonder if its possible to boot the Orange PI One from USB without an SDcard. 1, In the description I found (http://www.orangepi.org > Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards ) that "cmdline.txt must exist on BOOT (fat) partition on sd card "... for me that means I always need to have the sdcard there to be able to restart? 2, I read some other posts ,which use one or other way U-Boot... would it help and how it should go step by step to make it work. 3, Or is there any other possibilities to make the PI One boot/work without populating the SDcard at all? 4, Under the description on the "http://www.orangepi.org> Linux Distributions for Oran…

Hi first of all sorry for my bad English .I have an OPI PC + ,I install Ubuntu on my sd card and after boot i used nand-sata-install command to use may nand but when i tryied to use my sd card (after format sd card) it did't work and after reboot i receive "panic= boot argument" how can i use my sd card and mount it when my dist installed on nand? even i checked this link for Cubietruck but it wasn't useful for OPI , and then i checked this and it was really hopeful but I don't now how can i exactly implement this .Actually I need to auto mount my sd card as a result when I reboot my OPI PC + I need my OPI boot from emmc instead of sd card. thank you for you…

Hello. Thank you for your great effort. I'm using CubieTruck, and I installed Debian Jessie(Armbian, of course), and make it boot from Nand. It was successful. However, if I insert sd card into the slot, CubieTruck won't boot. Isn't it possible to boot from nand while sd card is inserted? I want mount the SD card to /home directory. (Using USB slot works.) Thanks in advance!

Hi, I have the following problem when a extern USB disk is connected the Banana Pi won’t boot., if I unplug the USB disk the Banana PI boots from the SATA disk fine. I’m using debian jessie and use the nand-sata-install to boot from SATA disk Kind regards,

Hi: I want to add "nowayout" watch dog parameter to my orange pi pc. I think the syntax should be "sunxi_wdt.nowayout=1". but I don't know how to add this to kernel boot parameter in armbian? is there a config file to add boot parameter? BTW I found if I shut down my orange pi PC normally, I can not restart it unless I unplug/plug the power cord. is this behavior expected? thanks a lot for help!!

Hi, What are the boot priorities on the Orange Pi Zero 2+ H3 / H5 boards? In case of a working eMMc boot, is it possible to prohibit any boot through SD? Thanks /R

Hi i am using Orangepiplus and armbian 5.20 debian jessise. but i have problem. somtime it's stopped Point is => started LSB: set CPUFreq kernel parameters or => starting LSB: set CPUFreq kernel parameters, so i adjust boot clock using /boot/script.fex => boot_clock : 1080 -> 1180 and => boot_clock : 1080 -> 980 but it's failed. help me please. (i try to reboot command, 100sec (repeat))

Hi! I'm new to Armbian and M2+ and I have this problem: The boot process is stopped, if there is an USB-device like keyboard or mouse adapter connected at power-up. After pressing reset button, boot is performed normally. Without USB devices no problem. There is the last image running: Linux bananapim2plus 3.4.112-sun8i #14 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 5 16:28:14 CEST 2016 armv7l U-Boot 2016.05-armbian (Jul 05 2016 - 16:26:30 +0200) Allwinner Technology arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) 5.3.1 20160413 GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.26 Booting stops here: ..... [ 2.241754] sunxi_spi_chan_cfg()1376 - [spi-0] has no spi_regulator. […

Hello, sorry but my english is not best. I tried to search forum for these problems, but I do not found the answers First problem is that serial console do not work for me, just random symbols, I already tried 3 USB to RS converters with 3.3 V logic, hercules_3-2-8 and putty as SW, with multiple setting, mostly 115200, 8 data bits, no handshake, no parity. Second problem the HDMI do not show useful data either, at least for me there was nothing I can understand as problem. I have 2 orange Pi lite available, so it is probably not a board problem, I tried 2 SD cards and multiple images (desktop legacy kernel 3.4.y and mainline kernel 4.14.y …

Hello, all. My Orange Pi PC2 recently broke when doing an upgrade. So I hooked a serial cable to it and watched what it did. The error was that it couldn't find the dtb file. It was looking for "/boot/dtb/allwinner/allwinner/sun50i-h5-orangepi-pc2.dtb" and "/dtb/allwinner/allwinner/sun50i-h5-orangepi-pc2.dtb", but the former fails because the file is at "/boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h5-orangepi-pc2.dtb". So, I put a simlink in dtb/allwinner called 'allwinner' and pointing to the parent directory. Now the device boots. I'm not sure if that's the proper fix, but it works for now and I'll fix it if I manage to break something with it later on. Thi…

Is there any option to change the boot screen of the armbian in orange pi, during startup. And i also want hide the boot text during shutdown. I m new to armbian and orange pi I m using orange pi pc plus 2E. Can anyone help me please. Thanks in advance.

Hello! Could you please help me to recover my sd card on Cubietruck? 1. i've made dd copy from my sd card without options. 2. I was delete(mistake) some files from /boot. Dont ask me why.... 3. I was use the same sd card from clean new system from same board. 4. system started, but it clean - without soft. And sda1 (hard disk) have all information before crash. Question - how to repair my system -=))) please.

Hello, I installed Armbian on Nanopi M1 Plus. I used it for a couple of days but now I encountered a problem: the boot stops after the following writing appears: "started hostname service" I tried to wait several minutes but nothing happens anymore Best regards Marco UPDATE: The problem occurs when the device is powered only by the Debug UART, probably the pc usb is not enough to power it

Hello, greetings from Bulgaria and thanks for the OS. We use Orange Pi Lite and something may be is problem. Full boot time is around 1 min and 15 sec, how can we degree this time because it's so slow? When we was with 5.23 distro it was around 45 sec with same SD card and power supply.

Hello fellow Armbianers! I'm using Orange Pi zero. My only complaint is the 30s boot time. Looking at the log files, seems like it only takes 5 seconds to boot once the kernel is loaded. The majority of this 30s is spent in uboot somewhere? Does anyone know how to speed up this boot process? I'm always just booting from SD card, don't need USB boot/network boot, console, or any of that. Thanks!

I have problem with transmission-deamon on my CubieA20. It not starting listening on boot. Only after service restart. Met same problem on Raspberry-3 but it cured by enabling "boot to wait until a network connection is established" option. I checked the raspi-config and taken same measures on my A20 ("ExecStart=/sbin/dhcpcd -q -w" etc). Not succeeded! Anyone have alternate methods? There's some more applications that not starting on boot if connection not active, Blynk-client for ex. PS: I use legacy kernel on 5.25 Armbian. UPD: Problem resolved by editing /etc/network/interfaces.

I Installed the Armbian system who is dedicated for my OPI version: http://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pc/ with instruction, formatted SD card with format size adjustment option ON. But when I want to boot it there is only still green light (steady all time). OPI not giving any boot information on screen. This issue is not caused by SD card becasue I tried two (which one is recommended): Kingston 32GB (class 10) and Samsung EVO+ 32GB. Has anyone had similar experience or have any idea how to solve this?

Cubieboard2 How to create the armbian image with capability of booting with gps connected to the uart port ? The armbian can't start if gps connected to the uart port and vice versa - It starts with unpluged gps. After system is started up, I do connect the gps and can easily get the gps data from /dev/ttyS0 As I understand - it's happened because of ttyS0 can be using as keyboard, so bootload is interrupting. Also it's can be a problem while initial password changing.

Hi There, I hope I posted this in the correct forum. We run a lot of distros on a given "disk" or "sdcard" (or whatever). We call our system "Boot-Crazy". Here goes: The partition starts with a small boot partition containing the initial boot parameters, configuration, and a pointer to the partition holding the root file system we want to boot. The boot partition is followed by some number of other partitions, like this: [bOOT]-[sWAP]-[COMMON]-[COPYOF-DISTO-1-BOOT]-[DISTO-1-ROOT-FILE-SYSTEM]-[COPYOF-DISTO-2-BOOT]-[DISTO-2-ROOT-FILE-SYSTEM]... Armbian (as downloaded for the BananaPi-M2) is simply one large partition, like this: [armbia…

Is it possible to set Orange Pi Plus after "poweroff" command to boot-up by LAN impulse? I am using armbian ubuntu xenial OS. The LED-s on the Ethernet connector are on so maybe there is some chance.