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I've taken peeks at threads related to hardware decoding (of H.264 and HEVC, mainly) on Allwinner and Rockchip platforms on and off, sometimes dabbled in trying and failing to implement solutions recommended there. Being a complete amateur, I find the topic very opaque and confusing, with various different components that need to interface with each other, be patched in sync, and sometimes change drastically between kernel versions, etc. Today I sat down and read up on these subjects, scouring wikis, documentation, this forum, and assorted other sources to try and understand how this works. In this post I will attempt to compile what I've learned on the different software…

I can't seem to get apt-get update to work, this is a fresh install anyone know the fix? mango@nezha:~$ sudo apt-get update Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu jammy InRelease Hit:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease Hit:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease Hit:1 https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium InRelease Hit:2 https://cli.github.com/packages stable InRelease Err:2 https://cli.github.com/packages stable InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because th…

Armbian implements some basic 'system logging' at every startup and shutdown and contains a little utility to provide this collected information combined with some more useful debug info from user installations. All that's needed is executing 'sudo armbianmonitor -u' (or armbian-config --> Software --> Diagnostics) and then all this support related information is uploaded to an online pasteboard service automagically (see example output) How to interpret this wall of text? The output is best read from bottom to top since the most important information is collected during upload: At the bottom /proc/interrupts contents to chec…

This tutorial is based on my knowledge and experience in testing Tinkerboard. It has not been tested on other devices and I do not take any responsibility nor am I liable for any damage that may be caused through the use of this tutorial. Debian / XFCE minimal desktop Download the latest current version of Bullseye (Panfrost drivers included) for your device and follow the instructions https://www.armbian.com/download/ After the first login type ... exit (exit from root, login with your new user id) sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade (if the kernel installation prompts for modifications, just say Yes or Ok) sudo apt install task-xf…

Hi! Currently try to figure out how to run my freshly builded Armbian using QEMU arm64. According to this tutorial: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ I prepare clean Jammy VM. Build using this CMD: ./compile.sh BOARD=qemu-uboot-arm64 BRANCH=current RELEASE=bookworm Build process was going smoothly i pick up two files from output folder: 1) Armbian-unofficial_24.5.0-trunk_Qemu-uboot-arm64_bookworm_current_6.6.29_minimal.img.qcow2 2) Armbian-unofficial_24.5.0-trunk_Qemu-uboot-arm64_bookworm_current_6.6.29_minimal.u-boot.bin Currently boot up process stucked, i can run U-boot and mount qcow2 ima…

Hi there, I have been using Ubuntu stock from Hardkernel but it is worse than a kick upon my jewels... As usual only Armbian is the way to go, however I personally dislike Ubuntu therefore I'd like to go with Debian but I didn't get the difference between CLI and Minimal. Can anyone advise me? Thanks in advance, F.

Hello, I wish to share my research on getting OpenGL to work on Mali GPU. I realize Armbian focuses on server images, but I suppose many people would be interested nevertheless. I have a Banana Pi Pro and an Orange Pi PC, which both have a compatible GPU. Perhaps it will work on other boards as well. Here are the commands I used to get OpenGL to work. 1. Install: # install GLX Gears, mesa GL and GLU libraries apt-get -y install mesa-utils # install development tools apt-get -y install build-essential automake pkg-config libtool ca-certificates git cmake subversion # install re…

Hello. I can see thet avaota A1 is supported. But how it run from sd-card? I burn image put sdcard and i can see only black screen. Image does not boot...

Is it possible to install armbian to EMMC? Is the Fat32 partition still necessary?

Hi, I wrote this news http://time4ee.com/news.php?readmore=170 about Orange Pi Zero Plus (SBC with SIM and Bluetooth) but I have a question. I didn't hear about this processor RDA8810PL and my question is if armbian will support this board. I don't know if xunlong send you preliminary boards or not. Thanks P.S. The answer will be release in news :-)

Dear All, I just want to share my workflow of successfully installing Box86-Box64, Wine32-Wine64 and Winetricks on Arm64 Big thanks to @NicoD for sharing his source code of Armbian-Gaming. I modified some of his code to be used in Armbian Focal (or any Arm64 distro) and fix the armhf dependencies issue by using the "arm-linux-gnueabihf" Library from TwisterOS. I also used some of Box86 Manual. So many thanks to all of them. Ok Let's Start: 1. Add armhf multiarch sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf sudo apt-get update 2. Install dependencies for box86 & box64 sudo apt-get install git cmake cabextract gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf lib…

armbian-config - wireless network connect, - AP (hotspot) in bridged or NAT mode, - freeze and unfreeze kernel and BSP upgrades, - edit boot environment, network, FEX, welcome screen items, - switching between available kernels and nightly builds, - enabling read only root filesystem (Ubuntu only), - set display resolution (H3 boards with legacy kernel), softy - TV headend (IPTV server) - Syncthing (personal cloud) - SoftEther VPN server (VPN server) - Transmission (torrent server) - ISPConfig (WEB & MAIL server) - Openmediavault NAS (NAS server) - PI hole (ad blocker) - MiniDLNA (media sharing) Welcome to submit / push …

Hi everyone, I'm using a Nanopi NEO2 as a NAS (link : https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=222) and it's provided with an armbian jessie version. I did try to upgrade to Stretch but I was missing some repositories. Now I'm trying to install a fresh Armbian Stretch version but on first boot SSH is not enabled. How can I configure armbian ? I cannot connect keyboard/screen. Maybe there is another way to do it ? Other armbian/debian images ? Does anyone have a solution ?

Some sort of hope? http://nanopi.io/nanopi-m3.html http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=130 Great eW

Hello.. I'm using Armbian v5.71 on Orange Pi Plus 2E with kernel: version 3.4.113-sun8i. I didn't touch the /etc/apt/sources.list file This is ~third day that I can not do the apt-get update without error. The output is: root@orangepiplus2e:~# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease Hit http://apt.armbian.com jessie InRelease Get:1 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main armhf Packages [636 kB] Get:2 http://apt.armbian.com jessie/main armhf Packages [413 kB] Hit h…

EDIT: This is NOT about a (hidden) backdoor but just a local privileges escalation that affects one single 3.4 kernel variant for 2 Allwinner SoCs. In case you came here through lurid headlines please read this comment here first and help stop spreading further BS like "all Allwinner devices contain a hidden backdoor" -- the code has been found since Allwinner could be convinced to open their Github repos in the past so everyone is able to audit their Android kernel source! It has been brought to our attention two days ago on 2016-04-30 in linux-sunxi IRC that Allwinner's 3.4 legacy kernel for H3/A83T/H8 contains a nasty local privileges escalation. Any process …

At this point upgrade is ready only for advanced users. Repository: apt.armbian.com Key: http://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key Add to sources if not there: deb http://apt.armbian.com $(lsb_release -cs) main Packages naming logic for apt-get install: I. Kernel 3.4: Deprecated linux-u-boot-DEVICE_NAME-default (cubieboard, cubietruck, lime, ...) linux-image-sunxi (all) or linux-image-banana (for boards bananapi, orange, lamobo r1) linux-headers-sunxi or linux-headers-banana (for boards bananapi, orange, lamobo r1) linux-firmware-image-sunxi or linux-firmware-image-banana (for boards bananapi, orange, lamobo r1) linux-$(lsb_r…

I installed Armbian_5.24_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.9.4 on my Orange Pi Zero. Because it has no video out, I try to login via SSH. Unfortunately the password "1234" does not work for user root. I get "Permission denied (publickey,password).". Is the password wrong?

What about the new Banana PI M2 ultra ? Is it a real SATA controller ? or just one more that is channeled through the USB ? And is this machine likely to be supported by Armbian ? It in short seems to be a little overpriced and the eMMC storage to be to little. And the M3 left a bit bad taste in my mouth, but if it is Sata that gives more speed than USB and if it will be Armbian supported then I might give them another go.

Hi, I setup armbian version 5.6 (Ubuntu 16.04.5 Xenial) on OrangePI PC. Working long time without problem. But after power failure I found that directories in /var/run have bad permissions and some daemons won't start. After investigation I found failure start of systemd-tmpfiles: systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/btrfs-control: Bad file descriptor systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/net: Bad file descriptor systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/net/tun: Bad file descriptor I setup debug loglevel and got this: systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/btrfs-control: Bad file descriptor systemd-tmpfil…

Hi, I'm trying to setup the wifi with the image: Armbian 24.8.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT But there is no wlan0 on the ip a command. Can you please give me a hint on how to setup the wifi with the bananapi M4 zero? I have also tried the server image debian12 but found the same issue. FYI I tried an image from the BPI M4 zero website: 20240819-Bananapi-Armbian_24.8.0-trunk_Bpi-m4zero_Debian12 And there is wlan0 so I successfully configured the wifi ( but there is no bananapi-config to copy the image to the emmc but that's another story... ) Thanks in advance!

hello guys !!! I want to make a backup of my sd card with armbian and other installed on it . In windows not possible because the ext3-4 format of the card . In ubuntu I can see the armbian file system into the card but not copy because I don't have permission So , I put again the card into my orange pi and I type sudo su and then password . I tyoe also sudo -s but nothing . Pratically some folders are not "visible" Do you have any suggestion? ciao Walter

System Information: - Cubietruck with Ubuntu 16.04 - armbian-config 5.62 - armbian-firmware 5.60 - armbian-tools-xenial 5.60 Hallo since last few updated I've noticed that I have no logs... With some update armbian ram logging was enabled and all logs moved to log.hdd folder, but not all of them are filled up after this operation. I did disabled armbian-ram-loggin wia editing /etc/default/armbian-ramlog: ENABLED=false After this services was disabled, but no logs filled in a log folder... Also no log rotation happens. Spoiler # /var/log/ls -lah total 116K drwxrwxr-x 13 root syslog 4.0K Oct 15 06:30 .…

Hi, Just did a new armbian build Armbian_21.02.0-trunk_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.10.6_desktop and flashed the image. It works ok but after some reboot times the auto login to desktop is not working anymore and it prompts for user login. Tried quite a few times to re-install but always after a few shutdown and start again cycles it reverts to login prompt and not auto login. Also tried to find a solution in the forum but the files and config involved in previous solutions is no longer valid in the newer builds (/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf or /etc/default/nodm). So the questio…

Hi there First of all thanks a lot for your images. Currently I am trying to setup my R1 as wifi access point using the image Lamobo-r1_Debian_3.2_jessie_4.1.2 The out of the box hostapd let me connect successfully from my wireless devices. After some time, one hour or so, the connection starts dropping and reconnecting up to a point that I cannot connect at all. BTW, I could not get hostapd working stable with Bananian and self compiled drivers as well. Symptoms were similar. I am also not using any harddisk or USB devices. I also used a second R1 and have the same problems. Does anyone have the same sy…

Hi, Is nand-sata-install script still included in Armbian_4.5_Cubox-i_Debian_jessie_3.14.54.raw ? Thanks

Pls, need tutorial for install samba for accessing samba share in my network (Armbian<->Win7) hardware: Orange PI PC v1.2 image "Armbian_5.05_Orangepih3_Debian_jessie_3.4.110_desktop" i'm install SAMBA after create folder in home directories user /home/myuser/myfiles sudo apt install samba cifs-utils smbclient after edit sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf ... workgroup = MEM ... ... [myfiles] path = /home/myuser/myfiles browseable = Yes writable = Yes guest ok = Yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 ..... after sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart and see this share from windows pc, but I…

Since the question came up a few days ago on linux-sunxi IRC and Igor2 provided a nice tutorial to activate Ethernet Gadget mode, I added the necessary one-liner patch to our repo (disabled by default) and built now a kernel with all the necessary stuff patched and enabled: http://kaiser-edv.de/tmp/4U4tkD/Armbian_3.4.112_g_ether_kernel.tar.bz2 To get the idea please read through Igor2's Readme: http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/opi_usb_gadget.txt You should run a recent Armbian installation (apt-get update/upgrade), then extract the contents of the tar archive above somewhere, install the stuff using dpkg and then reboot: tar xf Armbian_3.4.112_g_ether_…

I know I shouldn't have, but I bought today a Sunvell H3 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM TV Box. I have no idea if this will run Armbian someday, but I had to try...

Hi, in addition to some research regarding a few quality SD cards I wanted to ask our users to contribute to some collective benchmarking. In case you bought Samsung, SanDisk, Toshiba or Transcend SD cards within the last few months, have a A20 device and are able to test the card in question, please use this A20 Armbian 5.07 image (vanilla kernel, performance governor, no user creation), burn the image on the card, connect board to network, start it and do the following at least twice iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 Please be aware that some cards seem to need some time for auto calibration when being first used s…

Hi, I am currently working on a OLinuxIno A20 limeX system which works in read only mode. I use the code I developped here: https://github.com/lauhub/debian-to-readonly I have small problems with armbian evolutions, since it uses, creates and modifies some files in some directories that should not be modified according to this page. Example of files : /etc/init.d/armhwinfo (modifies permissions of /etc/logrotate.d/armhwinfo) /sbin/fake-hwclock (creates /etc/fake-hwclock.data) /etc/update-motd.d/40-updates /usr/local/bin/armbianmonitor (modifies /etc/armbianmonitor/datasources/soctemp) I can easily disable these files for my purposes, but I would be gla…

I've an OrangePI PC. I would like install, enable and start watchdog. I installed watchdog using apt-get install watchdog. But install seems to require some tweaks. I tried to googling but until now nothing works. Any hints ? Thanks!

After reading from June '16 until February '17 I think it makes sense to start at the last steps /improvements. In the 5.24 nightly the directory for networking looks like this (the network folder and the few below this branch): Looking back to my manual I deleted the VLAN file and created my own. Then I see here: ifenslave | ethtool | ip | several 'interfaces' and I was wondering does it need all that for a working VLAN with DSA=Distributed Switch Architecture ? ==================================================== reto@lamobo-r1:/etc/network$ ll total 60 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 4 18:34 ./ drwxr-xr-x 94 root root 4096 Feb 4 18:36 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2…

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Have been struggling to install Armbian on Firefly rk3399 - did try many images from armbian.com/firefly-rk3399 with no luck at all. Then I did stumble on a Arbmian image on a USB stick from 5 of January this year Armbian_19.11.7_Firefly-rk3399_bionic_legacy_4.4.208_desktop.img which did work to my surprise. Thought it had something to do with u-boot and partitions. I did always stop on starting kernel ... with some prior errors. Will try to install newer images for the sake of curiosity :-) Btw. have donated to the Armbian project twice - not so much, but some amount - as people should do. This is the serial out…

Hi. After installing OpenVPN (apt install openvpn) I'm trying to run a VPN client on ARMBIAN 5.38 (9 stretch) 4.14.18-sunxi and I'm getting the following error when executing: sudo openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/client/myVPN.conf In the /etc/openvpn/client there are while the myVPN.conf file looks like # Specify that we are a client and that we # will be pulling certain config file directives # from the server. client # Use the same setting as you are using on # the server. # On most systems, the VPN will not function # unless you partially or fully disable # the firewall for the TUN/TAP interface. dev tun # A…

A new 4xA53 Amlogic S905 board from FriendlyArm. -> http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=186 Really interesting.

I just installed armbian buster on my NAS (odroid HC2). Everything works perfectly. However, as debian bullseye has become stable and I expect this to happen for armbian also in the near future, I am thinking about how to do the upgrade. This is mainly because all my other boxes run bullseye and administration becomes a lot easier if all systems run the same version. In addition, I will have to do the update anyways at some point in time and therefor I want do it when armbian bullseye becomes stable. Reading through the forum I found out it is not supported. However, I am using debian now since woody and have done a lot of upgrades since then, I th…

I run this command I saw that my system clock is not synchronized. destructor@orangepiplus:~$ timedatectl Local time: Mon 2020-05-18 14:05:45 EEST Universal time: Mon 2020-05-18 11:05:45 UTC RTC time: Tue 1970-01-06 15:48:55 Time zone: Europe/Kiev (EEST, +0300) System clock synchronized: no NTP service: inactive RTC in local TZ: no So how can I active ntp server? I undestand that is common Linux OS question but when I installed Linux OS on PC devices it never disturb me because there it worked as default

For what it's worth, and one of the most discussed topics can now hopefully finally closed: Mali in mainline Did not try it, but the source is trustworthy to my humble knowledge... Still no open source release, but I guess it silences a lot of people questioning for Mali support! For the real Mali die hards, here is a link to some more background info: Free Electrons

Hello Igor, your Image resizes itself upon boot to full SD card size. Is it possible to reenable this process again? I know I simply could resize with GParted or similar tools. But I'd rather reuse it the way your image did on first boot. Thank you.

I got the stable release of armbian for the ROCK64, flashed on a sd-card aaaaaaaand ... wrong password. root + 1234 doesn't work. Has the password been changed? I tried the following combinations: root:1234 ROOT:1234 root:!"§$ (german keyboard, don't know whats on en) armbian:armbian rock64:rock64 All passwords are incorrect. I try it with xenial and strech. (Files of the direct download)

We will be configuring in a mode that allows both NFSv3 and NFSv4 clients to connect to access to the same share. Q. What are the benefits of an NFS share over a SAMBA share? A. This would take an article in itself! But as a brief reasoning, In a closed network (where you know every device), NFS is a fine choice. With a good network, throughput it disgustingly fast and at the same time less CPU intensive on the server. There are a lot of applications that support NFS "Out of the box" KODI being a common example. It's very simple to set up and you can toggle readonly on shares you don't need to be writeable. It only gets complicated if you want to start l…

Doing apt search took just a few seconds before, but since some days, probably after an apt update && apt upgrade, it has become so slow that a search takes many minutes (20+ minutes) instead of seconds. I don't know why, and I don't know how to fix this. Do you know what to do? The slow part of the search is where it says "Full Text Search". It reaches 50% quickly, and then goes slow. If it matters: ODROID-C2, Buster

Hello to everyone! : ) I've made a lot of digging around but I haven't found a final reply to my questions because all the informations I've found are quite old and probably outdated. I own an OPi PC which I was using with Libreelec but unfortunately the HDMI output broke because of the missing protections. By what I know, there isn't any mean of getting AV out working on Libreelec so I switched to Armbian for which it seems to be possible instead. I've installed it with no issues at all (version as per title) but all the guides I've found on this forum to enable AV out seem not to apply, probably because they're intended for much older Armbian versions nor I couldn't fin…

Armbian Stretch Is there an instruction on getting a graphical user interface on the orange pi one? Thanks.

Hi Igor, thanks for your work and excellent armbian builds! I have a Cubietruck and wish to have a OS like OpenElec which running only Kodi on the device. Because OpenElec ist no available for Cubietruck, i start to try and play with your armbian builds. But i have no luck, maybe because i am a linux noop. Can you help me to compile Kodi and a Kernel with CedarX to run Movies with hardware accleration on Mali-400? Unfortunatelly i found no ready-to-use Kodi/XBMC-Images for Cubietruck on Internet. There a only 3 years old images based on XBMC 12 (Frodo) and a Kernel for CubieBoard2. This images runs only without working ethernet and only 1GB RAM and i have no idea to…

Using Armbian 5.30 stable Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 3.4.113-sun8i Linux orangepipc 3.4.113-sun8i #16 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 13 14:15:57 CEST 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Just updated my chromium from the pre-installed version 58.0.3029.110-0ubuntu0.16.04.1281 which worked fine to 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.16.04.1289 which fails to start for some reason. You can see the window open up for a brief moment, then it crashes with the following error: Received signal 4 <unknown> 0000b472df76 #0 0x0000b5381d12 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace() #1 0x0000b5381952 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace() #2 0x0000b5381ffc <unknown> #3 0x0000b…

My main desktop workstation is, in actuality, a server motherboard (KGPE-D16). I have a need to turn it on remotely from time to time. Apparently it is not capable of Wake on LAN, as that is a feature reserved for some add on server management card (which I don't have and am not going to purchase, as it requires some proprietary software). So I realized I could simply hook up some relay to a microcontroller to pull the power switch low for 200 ms or whatever. Well then I thought, I have a Cubietruck and an ODROID-XU4 (and a ROCKPro64 for that matter) right in the case which should have GPIO available and are already connected to Ethernet, why not use those instead... …

Hello In raspberry pi there is an option to add a boot splash screen, looking in this forum I havent found and instructions or if it is even possible. I am not interested with u-boot splash screen but when the Linux start booting. I am using 3.5" SPI LCD and I do see the boot logs when the Linux is loading. So my question is if there is any guide of how to do that boot splash screen in Armbian or there is no way to do that?

Hi I've installed Armbian_21.02.3_Tinkerboard_focal_current_5.10.21.img on my Tinkerboard. # uname -a Linux tinkerboard 5.10.21-rockchip #21.02.3 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 8 07:34:33 UTC 2021 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I'm not able to create a bridge with a WiFi interface: brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 eth0 brctl addif br0 wlan0 can't add wlan0 to bridge br0: Operation not supported wlan0 is the onboard WiFi. I also tried several usb WiFi dongles with the same result. Any hint? Regards, Chris

Hello friends, I apologize for such a noob question, but I was not able to find the answer in the forums, nor via duckduckgo. Since the 23.08 upgrades were released (thank you again to team Armbian!), I noticed that the "default" image for the Orange Pi 3 LTS is Armbian 23.8 Bookworm. The minimal CLI image weighs in at 267Mb. My OPi3LTS SBCs are all running Armbian Jammy 23.08. The minimal CLI image weighs in at 195Mb. My understanding is that Jammy is Ubuntu (22.04.3 LTS), and Bookworm is Debian (12.0). But also Ubuntu Jammy is based on Debian Bookworm/sid. My questions are as follows: 1. What goes …

I wonder if any work is being done in that direction. Every browser i tried has some sort of issues, that makes it less than usable on H3 devices. -epiphany/midori: both work decently, but lock up after some time with 25% cpu usage (could be a webkit1 issue ?) -chromium: slow and apparently absent from repos -firefox: works ok, but quite slow -net surf: very fast and stable, but not up to date for web standards (probably what makes it fast in the first place) Am i missing any browsers here ? I propose we optimize one of those, that would work best on out allwinner devices in a similar fashion of what raspberry team did with epiphany. I'm sure lots of folks…

Hi, In order to secure my BPi-R1 I want to install a firewall on top of armbian. So please, no tipps for complete 'firewall distribution like IPcop, IPfire'. So I thought about, what is necessary to protect 'my cloud', which may be not the first interest for a hacker. My test candidates: Open Edgewize Shorewall ConfigServer Security & Firewall (csf) iptables (do it on your own) I collected some information of their functions, but I don't know what is crucial. Application Layer Filtering Just managing your network by port numbers and ip addresses is no longer sufficient. With the growing levels of web use, and http based applications, deep packet inspecti…

I added a script lurking around on my disk for some time to Armbian's repo to be hopefully included into future Armbian releases when testing looks good: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/scripts/h3consumption Since it's just a script you can include it in your running Armbian installation simply by downloading it from Github -- try it this way please: sudo -s wget -q -O /usr/local/bin/h3consumption "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/igorpecovnik/lib/master/scripts/h3consumption" chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/h3consumption h3consumption -H h3consumption -p The last 2 calls will show the verbose help text along with current settings. This might …

So I tested Kodi playing different demanding video files (H256), and it works smoothly, without crashing at all. So far the most stable media center option. But yes, we have no ethernet. So I was wondering how could we load the basics drivers from the Xulong image, into the PineH6 one. So I browsed for hours (because Im not at all familiar with this android weird partitions system, and with the OS itself). First I realized both Pine H6 and OPiOnePlus use the same ethernet controller (the realtek 8211). Then I went for the schematics, to actually check if the realtek chip was connected to the H6 the same way on both boards. Which it seems to be for…

hi. i am new to armbian and i want to start learning python i use below tutorial but it does't work https://youtu.be/D_N2K2fTH2M any body have other reference for me to install python 3.7.0? i am using orange pi pc. thanks.

I have installed Armbian minimal on RockPi 4, but it can't recognise the armbian-config command: armbian-config: command not found login as: pi pi@192.168.0.234's password: ____ _ ____ _ _ _ ____ | _ \ ___ ___| | _| _ \(_) | || | | __ ) | |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / |_) | |_____| || |_| _ \ | _ < (_) | (__| <| __/| |_____|__ _| |_) | |_| \_\___/ \___|_|\_\_| |_| |_| |____/ Welcome to Debian Buster with Armbian Linux 4.4.192-rockchip64 System load: 0.35 0.09 0.03 Up time: 0 min Memory usage: 7 % of 985MB IP: 192.168.0.234 CPU temp: 57°C Usage of /: …

Hi guys, I backed up my sd content on a 32GB card using dd command with count argument. So I ended up with a 8GB image file to move to a 16GB card. How can I expand the filesystem on the 16GB card to fit its size after putting the 8GB image on it? Thanks!

Since I was looking up which boards would make a proper NAS and home automation hub, I figured I might as well summarize the options in a post. Requirements for a proper NAS: Gigabit Ethernet SATA that is not a crappy USB->SATA chip Armbian-supported That last one is because otherwise the options are much more numerous and scattered, and the previous requirements become vague (e.g., you could even just take out a netbook's motherboard and run it standalone). Also, you could use an A80 board (USB 3.0) but I believe none are supported by Armbian, same goes for R40 (has SATA), so this leaves us with these A20 boards that also have GbE: _______________________…

I want to set static IP in armbian, I edit interfaces in /etc/network as follow auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 172.19.19.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 172.19.19.253 but when in terminal get ifconfig , address ,...there isn't exist and ping address is `Destination host unreachable` what am I missing??

I did not find the build for Orange Pi Zero 3 Vice versa I found the build for Orange Pi Zero2 Both SBCs are equipped with Allwinner H6 CPU (H618 for the board Zero 3 and H616 for the board Zero2). Is the build for Orange Pi Zero2 compatible with Orange Pi Zero 3 as well?

I have been trying to install a minimal XFCE4 desktop environment onto my Orange Pi Zero 2+ H5 but have run into a weird issue. Here is the command I use... sudo apt-get -y install xorg lightdm xfce4 tango-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme which I had found elsewhere in the forums. The main issue I have is that I cannot start the desktop with the normal user account. It works if I startup with this... sudo startxfce4 which runs the root user desktop, but fails when I try to run it as just a user. Does anybody know what I have done wrong?

I have a mini computer with ubuntu installed, I forgot my system password, how can I restart it? The Mini PC does not use grub, only U-boot I ran the printenv command and I wonder where I should add the variable to be able to change the root password boot_a_script=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${script}; source ${scriptaddr} boot_extlinux=sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} any ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf boot_net_usb_start=usb start boot_prefixes=/ /boot/ boot_script_dhcp=boot.scr.uimg boot_scripts=boot.scr.uimg boot.scr boot_targets=mmc1 mmc0 usb0 pxe dhcp bootargs=storagemedia=emmc androi…

Hello everybody, im running a Helios64 with most current Debian Buster5.10.16 image. I was freshly setting up the device and i am now failing to assign a static ip address to it. I installed Pi-hole, Home assistant and openmediavault over softy. During the pihole installation i can setup a static ip address, but after a reboot i still get the old DHCP addess. I assigned it over the OMV interface but its not applied after a reboot, the armbian-config tool doesnt open when i want to change to static and i also tried netplan. DHCP is also turned off on my router and switch. i rebooted all of the devices mult…

Hello, Does anyone of you ever have done power consumption measurement or any statistic? For my Orange Pi cluster I have build up a simple circuit, to measure the total current (ampere) [1]. If all my nodes are powered off and my cubietruck and a orange Pi are powered on, the measured current is about 2A. It looks like that the Orange Pi One does not Consume a significant amount of current, if it is idle. And he is idle for about 90% of time. In case of all of that my 5 OrangePi PC nodes, the Orange PI One and my cubietruck is powered on, the measured current is about 7A what gives a power consumption of ~ 35Watt. Which is the power consumption when every node / host…

Hello, please, 1. how does nand-sata-install work in case my Armbian on microSD card is read-only mode? 2. Will nand-sata-install copy whole card to emmc or do I need to have read-write system on microSD card before I execute command? (I mean if it copy my OS from card properly and it will be also in read-only mode on emmc) 3. And I am I able somehow to write system to emmc from *.img file stored on sd card? Many thanks

I have a raspberry pi camera attached to the tinkerboard. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use it. Help?

Hello. I want to use btrfs as my rootfs (Armbian Ubuntu xenial 5.14 on M2) so I can use snapshots to roll back, freeze for backups, and to help manage changes. Btrfs is also good for error checking and can provide cheap easy data redundancy. How does booting work on my BPI M2? How can I change the target root partition? What has to be on /boot (ext4) and what can be on / (btrfs)? Along the same lines, is it possible to boot off of a USB device either directly or indirectly (Small SD with bootloader and /boot→ USB large root device)? Is there some documentation or good keywords to learn about how booting works in the ARM world?

SMART AM40 iQ Appliance P/N: 1031572 Model: UGK-AM40-EDU | EWY1-AM40-EDU | EWY2-AM40-EDU Processor RK3399, Dual-core A72+Quad-core A53, 64 bits, 2GHz Memory 4 GB DDR3L SDRAM Storage 32 GB eMMC 5.1 Wireless technology Bluetooth 4.1 802.11A/B/G/N/Ac Capture options Establish a Bluetooth wireless connection with a supported mobile device Connectors HDMI 1.4 (1920 × 1080) output for external monitor USB 3.0 Type-A (×2) RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet --Update-- For device tear-down and technical sheets included in package - SEE SECOND POST …

I’m trying to use a 3.5 LCD (waveshare clone) with ILI9486 + XPT2046 with my orange pi zero. My display is like this. I installed both Debian_buster_next_4.19.59 and Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.57 and I followed many guides in here with no success. I edited armbianEnv.txt and added these: overlays=spi-spidev spi-add-cs1 param_spidev_spi_bus=1 param_spidev_spi_cs=1 After that I ran this sudo modprobe fbtft_device custom name=fb_ili9486 gpios=dc:18,reset:2 speed=16000000 busnum=1 rotate=90 and didn’t get any error. I figured that the reset & DC pins on orange pi zero are pin22(GPIO2) and pin18(GPIO18) but I’m not 100% sure about these.…

Hello everyone I have a problem with icecast because I can't get the let's encrypt ssl certificate to work. I have followed several tutorials online, but in the end they were all the same, so I explain what I am doing, to see if someone tells me where I am wrong. I have created a script to concatenate certificates, change ownership and permissions, so that I can run it with cron along with the let's encrypt certbot. Here the script ---------------------- #!/bin/bash cat /etc/letsencrypt/live/radio.example.org/cert.pem \ /etc/letsencrypt/live/radio.example.org/privkey.pem \ > /usr/share/icecast2/icecast.pem chown icecast2.icecast /usr/s…

I did a new install of Armbian 5.88 Debian Stretch I then ran apt update I got the following error: Err:8 https://apt.armbian.com stretch Release server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'https://apt.armbian.com stretch Release' does no longer have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. I then ran apt-get install --reinstall ca-certificates but still get the same error.

Does the older stable version of wheezy have the sata power regulator patch? I am having issues with my device shutting down if i access my drive on the Lamobo-r1_Debian_2.8_wheezy_3.4.107 image. I need the hardware support that the older version gives me along with a working sata drive install script. i dont seem to have the shut down issue on the newer kernal images.

Does armbian support h.265 video codec? It seems that mpv player can reproduce only audio... Should we install any codec? thanks in advance

Linux orangepizeroplus 5.15.25-sunxi64 #22.02.1 SMP Sun Feb 27 09:24:04 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux. I don't see anymore the /sys/class/gpio... directory. Has this been suppressed or is my filesystem corrupted? The /sys/class/ dir exists w/ a lot of stuff, just gpio is missing! This is duplicated in Discord, but I'm not sure, if it is right there (1st use)

# echo plop | logger should show things in tail -F /var/log/syslog After digging a bit: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 85M 0 85M 0% /dev tmpfs 24M 3.0M 22M 13% /run /dev/mmcblk0p1 15G 1.3G 13G 9% / tmpfs 120M 4.0K 120M 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 120M 0 120M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 120M 0 120M 0% /tmp log2ram 50M 50M 0 100% /var/log tmpfs 24M 0 24M 0% /run/user/0 # du -lsh /var/log/* | grep M 24M /var/log/kern.log.1 25M …

This is a FYI: My armbian did not automount my USB-disk. Possbile reason "By default, disk drives do not auto-mount in Ubuntu Server Edition.". Anyway: I solved it with usbmount: First install usbmount. Then, in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf change the line #MOUNTOPTIONS="sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime" to MOUNTOPTIONS="sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,user,umask=0000" to make it writeable for all users. HTH

Errors shown when doing $ sudo apt update ... Ign:1 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt bionic InRelease Get:8 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt bionic Release [17.5 kB] Get:9 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB] Ign:10 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt bionic Release.gpg .... E: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com bionic Release' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository c…

Could someone remind me of the status of the H3 crypto engine, both hardware (capabilities, aes-ni ?) and software (mainline or vanilla kernels) ? I've been testing openvpn on an amlogic s905 box (still need to fix my beelink x2 problems) and as expected i'm hitting a cpu bottleneck. i've been able to achieve around 60Mbps (Blowfish-cbc, usb hdd, ext4) but openvpn being single threaded the cpu load maxes out thus limiting openvpn's bandwidth. Unfortunately as with most vpn providers you can't tweak all parameters and so, changing the tun-mtu size is not possible and has to stay at the default 1500 value. I will perform some tests on my beelink x2 or opi pc…

Where can one find a overview of all possible parameters for armbianEnv.txt?

K-worker takes 10-20 % of one cpu core with later kernels. Does the 4.17 kernel still have this problem? Or is bionic a solution?

I have a Orange PI PC that I"m setting up as my file server with samba. I am using a hard drive with a SATA to USB adapter for my storage device. I've read and tried many HOW-TOs and none of them seem to get it working properly. Even though, they all say it is easy and it looks easy. I am able to see the shared folder over the network but Windows says that I don't have permissions to access it. One idea that I've had is that I'm not accessing the share folder through the config file. However I'm not sure how to properly access my HDD. Right now I am using the path that you would get from opening the disk on the desktop. Something l…

Hey there! I've just bought a used Orange Pi 5, according to the owner he never managed too boot up the first time, because he said it was bricked, for the price he offered for the device and accessories I thought I'd give it a go.. and yeah, I tried to install on different microSD cards, Armbian, OrangePi Os, Android 12 for Orange Pi, many tries but none of them booted or did anything after waiting even 15min. If I set the device into maskrom mode it enters the mode but it gives error to anything I try. I read on a post that using this firmware fixed someones board: https://dl.radxa.com/rock5/sw/images/loader/rock-5b/release/ I tried and I get the following: Downloa…

OrangePiZero root@orangepizero:~# uname -r 4.19.59-sunxi root@orangepizero:~# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" root@orangepizero:~# Only run sud apt get update / upgrade and then sudo apt install docker.io however it threw out this Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code. Se…

I'm looking to potentially set up a dedicated VPN server probably using an Olimex Olinuxino A20 Lime 2. The main thing I was somewhat confused about is how to connect to my router and how to ensure that traffic is routed through the VPN server? Presumably to connect to my router I would just use an Ethernet cable. But how then would I ensure that all traffic goes through the VPN? The vast majority of SBC that I have seen only have 1 Ethernet port so connecting devices physically is a no go. I assume I might need to use some form of port forwarding?

Hi i have 2 drives connected to my Cuboxi 4pro imx6. A sata drive and a usb drive. I am trying to get them to spin down because they will only be accessed in the evening and possibly during the day and evenings in the weekends. To let them all spin 24/7 makes me really nervous. The sata drive mounted and is in fstab: UUID="15bd6efe-5765-44a8-9750-9d31f19413aa" /media/SATAHD ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0 fdisk output for the sata drive is —————— Disk /dev/sda: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimu…

When trying to run `apt update` on Bionic I am getting a `File has unexpected size` from the armbian mirrors. This has been the case for several hours now. This is with the Bionic xfce desktop image from 12th December 2020 (just installed today). motofckr9k@rockpro64:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt update Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-security InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-backports InRelease Get:5 https://minio.k-space.ee/armbi…

Hi! OS - Armbian bionic Board - Orange pi one I dont understand where goes 20-25% of 512mb ram. 18MB goes to video and wlan share. OK... root@OrangePiPBX:~# zramctl NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT /dev/zram1 lzo 98.2M 19.8M 10.2M 11M 4 [SWAP] /dev/zram0 50M 17.7M 2.5M 2.9M 4 /var/log Now we see - 150MB go's to swap and small partition for "logs". root@OrangePiPBX:~# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 502932 242376 26380 20008 234…

Hi folks, I'm running armbian on a Banana Pi 1st generation, so far no probs. Indeed it runs very stable. The armbian is a debian jessie. Is it possible or recommended to update to stretch via the official debian upgrade path ? The armbian is fully updated Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.36 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 4.13.16-sunxi I'm running an nginx php stack on the BaPi. But what about stretch ? Can I do a dist-upgrade ? Sorry if this has already been discussed. Thanks in advance for replies :-)

I have an Orange Pi PC (H3 cpu) running a sysV Debian Buster, with this kernel: Linux version 4.19.65-sunxi (root@nightly) (gcc version 7.4.1 20181213 [linaro-7.4-2019.02 revision 56ec6f6b99cc167ff0c2f8e1a2eed33b1edc85d4] (Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02)) #5.93.190808 SMP Wed Aug 7 23:18:20 CEST 2019 However, I cannot find this kernel on apt/beta.armbian.com. I want to install the kernel-headers. I fear my sources.list is not correct: deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://apt.armbian.com buster main buster-utils IIRC the…

Hi, my base problem is syncthing not starting on boot. But in trying to solve that it would be useful to uninstall and reinstall syncthing via armbian-config and hence softy. But armbian-config/softy does not let me uninstall syncthing (or for that matter samba, which I also don't want or need on that machine). Nor does apt: sudo apt-get remove --purge samba reports "Package 'samba' is not installed, so not removed", though armbian-config/softy shows it as installed. Is there a way to uninstall packages installed via armbian-config/softy? Thanks Graham

Hello I wanted to post on here regarding a new project we have been working on called SimpNAS. Its similar to OpenMediaVault or FreeNAS but simpler and more basic. Its currently in Beta but we are looking to have a stable release by the time Kobol ARM NAS gets released. It can be installed on armbian devices as long as it has two hard drives one for the OS and one for Data. For example we have it installed on an ODroid HC2, but can be installed on any PC. Feedback will be greatly appreciated. Check it out here https://simpnas.com Thanks for looking

Ok so first a big thanks to Igor for the work he has put into armbian, started using this build when it was still posted on Igor's site anyway i wanted more information out of the motd and here is what i came up with this is running on my cubietruck with the latest kernel _ ___| |_ ___ _ __ __ _ __ _ ___ / __| __/ _ \| '__/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ \__ \ || (_) | | | (_| | (_| | __/ |___/\__\___/|_| \__,_|\__, |\___| |___/ Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (4.3.3-sunxi). System information as of: Mon Jan 11 21:34:35 EET 2016 System load: 0.14 Memory usage: 97.5% Local users: 0 Swap usage: 0.0% IP address: …

hello guys ! I'm working with armbian 5_14 and orange pi plus 2 . I'm using the only eMMC and I'd like to make a backup to an SD card What is the best way to do that? Thanks and ciao Walter

It's important to believe blindly in numbers! At least when you try to be mislead as much as possible! Yesterday Michael Larabel from Phoronix fired up his usual set of passive benchmarking tests for the new Raspberry Pi 3 and he still uses rather questionable results for other boards to compare with (he claims that it would be sufficient to use a board with 'factory settings', run a set of synthetic benchmarks, don't analyse the results or even think about whether they could be wrong and treat the results as the truth) RPi 3 is 4 times faster than OPi PC and 6 times faster than OPi Plus? Really? If you just try to think about these graphs for a second it…

I have a orange pi plus 2e The time was ok a few days ago but now it is off by - 12 hrs +53 minutes which is before gmt thanks for your help Dave Do I need to open a port in the router?

I've started playing around with gpio, and thus far I don't have problems with any of the following: Access via the WiringOP C or Python bindings Access via /sys/class/gpio_sw However I can't seem to get the access via /sys/class/gpio to work. According to http://linux-sunxi.org/GPIOI need to write the pin number as defined in the fex file to /sys/class/gpio/export for 3.4 kernel (mainline kernel codes the pin number). For WiringOP pin #1 (physical pin #12 on the header), this is PD14, which is gpio_pin_5 according to the fex file, however the following does not light an LED connected to the pin: # echo "5" >/sys/class/gpio/export # echo "out" >/sys/class…

Following a successful deployment of an MCP2515 SPI to CAN device with the great help of https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3588-can-bus-support-orange-pi-zero/ I’ve been looking into using an SPI to CANFD device with the orangePi R1 (H2+ based). (CANFD allows greater bitrate than the “regular” CAN) I am looking into using the driver made for the mcp2517fd/mcp2518fd, which has been submitted but not yet linux mainlined: https://github.com/msperl/linux-rpi/tree/upstream-v5.0-rc3-mcp25xxfd-v6.11/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp25xxfd This driver seems to be functional with the raspberry pi, and an example of PCB and associated overlay can be seen here: https://github.com/…

Hello, I run my program system as a service in console mode, so no login is needed. The Linux system starts up almost quietly after changes in boot.scr. The only "small" thing that needs a solution is the login prompt. How can I prevent login prompt from appearing? I've tried some autologin options I found for different Linux systems, but they didn't work for me. Any suggestion?