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I rebooted from the 6.6.16-current-sunxi kernel to the 6.7.4-edge-sunxi on my Orange Pi +2E and it couldn't mount some partitions from a USB stick. These use LVM2, and each partition is encrypted using LUKS2 with a keyfile stored in /etc (yes, I know this is a fig leaf encryption, but it prevents someone from grabbing the USB stick and getting the contents of the drive). This works fine with the older kernel, but fails with the newer kernel. I use the exact same setup on a Rock 64 board, and it works fine, on the 6.7.4-edge-rockchip64 kernel.

I actually did a search on the forum for these and found nothing, so now I'm asking for the help. Of coarse it could be I didn't know what I was looking at or understood it. I'm running a Cubie 2 with the desktop Armdian 1. Unable to copy and paste from or to termal 2. unable to add user (I did install lightdm) or go to a login screen 3. Unable to get the audio to go to the HDMI port so it will play thru the TV/Monitor 4 No package manager, is it possible to install one? I tried an apt-get install synaptic and got no where. 5. Unable to install ElectricSheep or the Xscreensaver (got partway in installing xsreensaver) Thanks Dave C

I'm trying to connect to my Orange Pi Lite with TightVNC. I installed tightvncserver on my orange pi lite and ran vncserver :1. On my laptop I installed TightVNC viewer and connected, but it gives me following error "Unable to contact settings server" (see attachment for full error). When I press 'Close', the dialog closes but nothing happens. Help please.

Hi I'm trying to start own service with rc.local automatically on the boot: sudo systemctl start Announce.service I can successful start it manually from terminal (/etc/rc.local) but it is not starting automatically on the boot. rc.local ist starting ([ OK ] Started /etc/rc.local Compatibility new / new is from me) I didn't find any solution by google. Thanks Andy

So I am in school and worked with CENTOS with these two command to save iptables iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables service iptables save I have tried googling and nothing seems to be armbian focused iptables save. Goal is to set up iptables instead of everything allowed........ armbian will be used for pi hole soon. Thank you.

Always running latest Armbian Buster: Since some months multiple machines with totally different application sets get slow writing to ANY mounted volume after one or more weeks of uptime (the busier the earlier). According to top IOWAIT exceeds user/kernel cpu usage. All applications and networking incl. disk reads run without any problem, until they write to the disk which makes them crawl. Even cp on a small file hangs. Any hint?

Hello, I've tried nighly because of eth0 Bug with Odroid C2. How can I switch back to stable? Best regards, Stefan

Hi, I want to make my orange pi 3 lts work in a similar way to the way Wifi manager works on esp8266 projects The idea being that if there is not a valid Wifi connection found then an AP is activated so a user can connect to a captive portal and enter the wifi ssid and password anc click connect. the pi then reboots and tries to connect. if that is successful then it works as normal if it is not then it reactivates the AP. I found various different partial solutions but none of which seem to work well with my setup. this might be either due to the orange pi or Armbian. The most promising i ahve foudn so far is https://github.com/b…

Hi all! Sorry about my English. I just started learning Armbian. Please don't scold me for my ignorance. I have an Orange Pi 3-lts. I installed an "Armbian_23.02.2_Orangepi3-lts_bullseye_current_5.15.93" OS on it. Transferred everything to EMMC. Installed Clipper. I started experimenting with the rotation of the display. (everything seems to have turned out as I wanted!) But damn! Wanted more! I wanted the startup process log to not be displayed on the screen when the OS was started. I read somewhere on the Internet: change in armbianenv.txt console = botn on console = serial. I listened and changed. And now I can't manage my OPI. I can't connect via terminal b…

Would passive cooling be any good for OrangePi PC Plus? Or active cooling is better suited?

Hi, I wanted to install Armbian to my old Asus eee PC. So I made live USB containing the .iso and boot from there. I can login as root fine, but when running armbian-install, I only see the option of installing to sdb (my USB drive), but not to my sda (the laptop local drive). I am not sure what's the problem. Do I have to do something to the partition in sda? Currently Alpine Linux is installed in the local drive. Previous installation was Lubuntu (14, I think?). I want to run pi-hole and there are not many supported OSes for pi-hole that still support x86, so I would like to make it work. Armbian version: Armbian 25.5.1 Bookworm Minimal

Hello, I have a 7 in lcd touchscreen that I would like to use with my 'le potato' board. I have begun using Armbian Le Potato Debian Stretch. I would like to get this working and would explore many options but when it breaks down i have: utilized putty to ssh into my 'le potato' with ethernet on my main router and typed in fbset to reveal... putty ssh screenshot I was curious about other possible options in Armbian like utilizing a config file or converting a .bin file to fex and changing the values. However, I have had no luck in utilizing an hdmi touchscreen besides maintaining usb power and flickering. Would anyone have a method of touchs…

Hello, i was trying to connect sensors via i2c, and neither wiringPi.h nor i2c-dev.h are comiting Read/Write comands. The file descriptor is given a value, so i think the connection worked, but functions like : i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(FILEDESCRIPTOR, (u_int8_t)REGISTERADRESS) just pop errors. Do you guys have any idea? Thanks for any help! edit: i have also included /linux/i2c.h and the function error persists. "I2C_SMBUS_READ_BYTE_DATA was not declared in this scope"

Hello I use sunix A20 embed capture(4 channel TV input) with kernel 3.4. driver working good but The moving parts of the video are broken. such as: Please watch this sample video sample video sample video How to solve this problem and get smooth video? Thanks a lot.

When running this sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/clk_summary I get the list of clocks and the specific interest is in these pll-audio-base 0 0 0 24576000 50000 0 50000 pll-audio-8x 0 0 0 49152000 50000 0 50000 i2s1 0 0 0 49152000 50000 0 50000 pll-audio-4x 0 0 0 24576000 50000 0 50000 i2s0 0 0 0 24576000 50000 0 50000 i2s2 0 0 …

Hello everyone. I have to change drivers code in ./cache/sources/linux-mainline/linux-5.10.y/sound/soc/codecs/ Which is the best way to compile a single sound driver without building all the kernel and without lost modification. I would like to work in my Ubuntu pc build Armbian directory.

I made a custom mini usb hub for the orange pi zero. I used the fe1.1s chip to do so. But for some reason iam getting the following error when running dmesg. And is also not recognized when running lsusb I have added both a pic of the error and a schematic of my custom pcb. ERROR 1 : https://ibb.co/HHP8DnB ERROR 2: https://ibb.co/3vHTztz Schematic: https://ibb.co/xsPv9KX Thank You for your time, hoping for a quick solution

I am a Linux-Newbee myself but in the DOS/Windows-world I was programmer and admin. But my friend is a total user-only (he is physiotherapist an GOOD in that) so I ended up being his computerman. We both have the rockPi 4 A (no WLAN) with Armbian XFCE. He also has some pad with Android. Everything was good for about a year. He is using Telegram a lot. On the pad he had several messages about a Telegram update, one click, done. On the RockPi with Armbian instead he had messages about using an outdated version of Telegram which soon will cease functioning. No Updates offered. He installed Telegram new which worked, but after a restart he had the old versio…

I would like to create a LAN teaming on my Orange pi 5 plus. So combine both interfaces. The whole thing should run as load balancing so that the load is distributed evenly. How exactly do I set this up and can there be problems with something like this with Docker?

I have strange issue with small hdmi display, when i connect orange pi to it theres no signal, but whet i connect orange pi to a 15'' display it works fine. also when i connect small display in to a pc output it also works. i tried different distros on that pi with the same behavior. Today i turned it on and it randomly worked but when i try to enter console mode theres no output. theres some weird hdmi errors Nov 11 18:08:12 orangepi5pro kernel: rockchip-hdptx-phy-hdmi fed60000.hdmiphy: bus_width:0x7aae4,bit_rate:502500 Nov 11 18:08:12 orangepi5pro kernel: rockchip-hdptx-phy-hdmi fed60000.hdmiphy: hdptx phy lane can't ready! Nov 11 18:08:12 orangepi5pro kernel: p…

Hello, as i didn't found a perfect UI for my cubie and me and i always liked the look and feel of crunchbang, i developed a little script in the past to bring #! to my cubietruck. It should also work on every other debian based image, but i mainly targeted igor's image since it seemed to be the best base to start from. NOTICE: crunchbang has EOL-status, no updates coming from them! I mainly use it even though, because its very fast and stable on my cubie. This script could be injected into building process or can be run on a fresh 'install'. Just use the get_crunchy.sh script and relax or download the image from second post. It's tested on debian jessie and wheezy…

I want to build a GPS timeserver like http://rdlazaro.info/compu-Raspberry_Pi-RPi-stratum0.html I modified the kernel config to use the pps-gpio module in kernel , but since H3 linux kernel don't support device tree yet, Is there any method to assign a GPIO pin to this module ? I don't want to hard-code in the source code .

I've been able to use all the other user space I/O without being root. PWM on the other hand seems to create files only after opening device. Is there a udev rule that will work with 4.14 kernel? For all other devices I use a simple rc.local script: chown -R root:gpio /dev/gpiochip0 chmod -R ug+rw /dev/gpiochip0 chown -R root:gpio /dev/gpiochip1 chmod -R ug+rw /dev/gpiochip1 chown -R root:i2c /dev/i2c-0 chmod -R ug+rw /dev/i2c-0 chown -R root:spi /dev/spidev1.0 chmod -R ug+rw /dev/spidev1.0

I'm struggling to use the armbian-config tool to setup a hotspot when I have two radios. Can someone share with me the intended workflow/step using armbian-config? I get asked twice for Default interface and the 2nd dialog is throwing me off. My board and radios work fine, but my network is suffering from insufficient user IQ. :-(

In the latest image for NanoPi M1 Plus, I enable the analog audio I/O on the card by adding overlays=analog-codec in /boot/armbianEnv.txt But the microphone on the card is disabled by default, because the ALSA control "Mic1 Playback Switch" is set to false by default on the card. Worse still, this mixer control does not appear in the alsamixer GUI, and the only way to set to true is to use the amixer command line utility, for example with: amixer cset name="Mixer Capture Switch" on on I can do this inside a first boot script, and then ALSA will persist the state between reboots. But does not seem ideal, and took me a very long time to …

Hi, I have a cubietruck 3 with a Debian "Buster". I am looking to connect to the MySQL server to reach an outside database. Everywhere, it is said to comment out the line containing "bind-address = 172.0.0.1". This is done and the server listens on all ports. I still can't reach it, there must be something else to do but the tutorials don't say it. Thanks

Hi, Can I use this guide to run armbian on a SSD on a tinkerboard and then install Homeassistant? Until now I run hass.io. I'm trying to run it on an SSD to prevent SD card corruption again. Since HA will run on a docker, could I just run docker from SSD and keep armbian on sdcard? Which option would you think is better? Thank you

Hello, I am trying to get i2c-0 working on my Armbian 20.11.3 Focal with Linux 5.9.14-sunxi64 After I run: i2cdetect -y 0 i see a plenty of dmesg errors: i2c i2c-0: mv64xxx_i2c_fsm: Ctlr Error -- state: 0x4, status: 0x0, addr: 0x77, flags: 0x0 I have enabled i2c-0 in armbian-config, tried what I could but no luck. Can anybody told me what mv64xxx_i2c_fsm: Ctlr Error means please? ls -l /sys/bus/i2c/devices -> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 22 13:05 i2c-0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc/1c2ac00.i2c/i2c-0 The same wiring and installation (with i2c_bcm2708 and i2c_dev) works on Raspberry p…

Hi guys! I need to run some game on full screen, and they are old school windows one. the thing is that adding the modeline worked perfectly fine on rpi4, not on armbian sadly. it seems to change the resolution and then it go "out of signal". I used the same parametes than on rpi4. also generated new ones just in case. the thing is I cant make it to work and maybe iut's something deep into armbian. exaple: xrandr --newmode "640x480_60.00" 23.75 640 664 720 800 480 483 487 500 -hsync +vsync xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 640x480_60.00

If anyone needs to get the 3.5mm audio jack working on the N2+, here's one method. 1. Edit or create /etc/asound.conf with these lines. Copied directly from the Hard Kernel Ubuntu setup. pcm.!default{ type hw card 0 device 1 } ctl.!default{ type hw card 0 } 2. Run this script to turn on the 3.5mm audio in alsamixer. The settings are listed in the same order as in alsamixer. #!/bin/bash # 3.5MM JACK, set to max gain amixer sset 'ACODEC' '255' # 3.5MM JACK - set in/out channels (src/sink) amixer sset 'FRDDR_B SINK 1 SEL' 'OUT 2' || true amixer sset 'FRDDR_B SRC 1 EN' 'on' || true # 3.5MM JACK amixer sset 'TOACODE…

Hi All, Please advise, started a few days ago. haven't done any changes. Debian Stretch: Armbian Linux 4.14.150-odroidxu4 :~# apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease Get:3 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch InRelease [44.8 kB] Ign:4 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:5 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease Hit:6 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease Hit:7 https://apt.syncthing.net syncthing InRelease Ign:2 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt stretch InRelease Hit:8 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch Rel…

Hi all, I am using Trunk Image Hirsute(kernel 5.14) for Orange Pi Win Plus and follow below topic to compile the gstreamer: But when I am using the gst-play-1.0 --use-playbin3 --videosink="kmssink plane-properties=s,zpos=3" video.file to play the video, the whole system is hang. Then only reboot can recover the system Can you please give some suggestions? Regards, Tan

Hi all, I have a Rock64 running on the "official" image (at the time, according to the official Pine64 documentation) "Armbian Ubuntu Bionic XFCE Desktop". Recently I updated it but suddenly it stopped working. After rebooting, all the 3 LEDs were lit, ON all the time and that was about it. I thought it was some kind of SD card corruption because it couldn't load some files from the SD card after the update and before rebooting. The only thing that came to mind to fix this was to restore a backup I had from Dec 2020. So I restored it and it worked again! But guess what... after updating the 280 packages that had an update, it stopped working again. But this time it w…

Hello all. I'm obviously a newbie to this all and have a Libre Le Potato I just purchased. Put in Armbian Bullseye and got everything configured so my Python script runs on boot and writes the data it records by sending a byte string through the USB port to a device and records the parsed response. All is well there, but I needed to add an RTC to this and I have many DS3231 boards that I've integrated with Arduino boards recently and they all work well. I've soldered the connections to the 3.3V, GND, SDA, and SCK pins and matched those to the GPIO pins 1, 9, 3, and 5 respectively. I've gone into 'armbian-config' and enabled…

Hi, i'd like to know if it's possible to disable the first run wizard (set up of root password, timezone locale etc) via armbian build framework? I have build my own image, and set the parameter DEST_LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" , but still the wizard shows up after flashing and asks me for the locale. Can i do this type of customization in the customize-image.sh? (sorry if that's a too stupid or obvious question). This is my customize-image.sh script (i have truncated it). #!/bin/bash # arguments: $RELEASE $LINUXFAMILY $BOARD $BUILD_DESKTOP # # This is the image customization script # NOTE: It is copied to /tmp directory inside the image # and executed…

Hi! Have limited knowledge in linux, all self learned so bear with me if I sometimes sound like an i**ot in my wording. I have used lots of different Raspberry pi's but since they are near to impossible to get your hands on I figured I'd try out some of the alternate boards. Got myself a nanoPiNeo2, orangePiZero2 and an orangePiPC2 just for the fun of it. I have tried this on the nanoPi and the opiZero2 and run into the same problems, havent even opened the opiPC2 yet but I suspect it will be the same problem on that board. Downloaded armbian for each separate board (instead of debian) because I want to use the same system o…

Hi. Armbian 21.02.1 / 5.15.74-sunxi (22.08.6 SMP) / Debian 11.5 is working flawlessly on my cubietruck for several days, and then just hangs. I've studied the armbian-hardware-monitor.log, systemlog, run a 2-minute periodic cron to watch the temperature, and even added a serial comsole in an attempt to find out what might be the cause. I have not seen any weird indications in these logs. Temperature stays between 37 and 45 degrees. When the system hangs, there are no error messages on the consoles or via the serial comm. Pings are unresponded then, and magic sysrq won't work then. Armbian is run on a sata harddisk, there are some harddisks attached via an USB hub too but …

Hi Guys, My Orange Pi Zero LTS H5 had a short circuit and no longer power up. worst that it seems that i cannot find any replacement for it as market is full of H2 & H3 variants but non is H5. Perhaps its time to upgrade Armbian & Hardware by inserting the SD card in one of the below boards: - Orange Pi Zero 2 1GB RAM with Allwinner H616 - Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS 1GB RAM RK3328 -Nanopi NEO3 Mini RK3328 (though not Orange pi but seems very similar) Though i'm not sure OS would boot on different CPU / board, (i remember doing such upgrade from h3 to 5h or zero 2 to lts) I would like to avoid re-building the OS w…

On X86 and AMD64 systems they all have either the UEFI bios or the old bios. I don't know what the Raspberry Pi uses but I don't think it's UEFI. Do any of the ARM systems use UEFI? How does Armbian boot on the non-UEFI systems?

Hi, recently downloaded image for may odroid hc4. There was big sign with 23.5 version so i used this. Everything went fine. Set up lamp nextcloud server but then i wanted to set firewall with geoblock(xt_geoip) but can't go through basic steps. On my old version it workerd. With some addition steps but did. Problem is with linux headers. I found out there is some weird "desync" with packages versioning? I downloaded image for 23.5 and repo seems to be on 23.2. Linux kernel on fresh image is 6.1.30 and in repo is 6.1.11. Even armbian-config is installing headers for 6.1.11 and can't compile my stuffs. I just wanted to downgrade kernel to 6.1.11, but i think it …

Tried following this guide https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4174-full-root-filesystem-encryption-on-an-armbianorange-pi-pc-2-system/ to encrypt the root file system of a OPI R1. The system would boot to starting kernel and then just stay there. Any Ideas???

I have a project with "Orange PI PC PLUS" and a Realtek 8153B usb-ethernet adapter. My big problem is that the adapter lights do not come on, even if the rest is working. On windows systems the activity light of the adapter lights up, but in linux no (I tested on armbian 5.60 and ubuntu 18.04). I've successfully installed the linux driver from realtek's website, but the light still does not light up. Module r8152 installed and used for the device.

i have another problem, if someone have some ideas. I'm French and i would like to have my system in French: but here you will see the result when i write locale: dr@gon:~$ locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ALL= LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 // How can i do to put it in French ? Because i have some of my files which have…

Hello, I got a Orange Pi One H3 based board with the usual 512MB DDR3 ram and never used it much but lately I'm trying to use it as an everyday home computer, so I'm trying to push the hardware as much as possible to benefit from any features. I actually have installed latest armbian v5.9.x kernel o.s. with Buster distribution and with some zram usage it's quite acceptable on the speed side. I had to add an heatsink on the SoC cause after latest mainline kernel temperature it seems to get close easier to 80°C degrees and even if I suppose it might work even at these temps, I think it was better to lower it down a bit (probably 5° to 10°C degrees). No overclocki…

I did my first install yesterday on a ODROID C4 with the Focal/Xfce Desktop image running the 5.10.27 kernel (Armbian_21.02.4_Odroidc4_focal_current_5.10.27_xfce_desktop.img). I installed it on an eMMC card which I had tested using f3read and f3write earlier (those tests worked). I reset the root password and added a user with sudo privileges. I also did an apt-get update/upgrade and installed openvpn (the openVPN service that I use seemed to be working as with my laptops). I didn't tinker much more and shut Armbian down. I was very pleased with Armbian (and much preferred it to the stock Ubuntu Mate). I was (and still am) looking to u…

Hello guys. Could you help me resolv a problem with orange pi (armbian)? The problem is the following: I created a small script in Python that read a I/O of orange Pi, that is read the state of a button(switch). If I execute it on terminal It works fine... But my problem is when I put in inicialization of SO(/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service ), the linux created a process correctly but when a press the button not happen anything. root@orangepizero:~# ps -aux|grep press root 1306 83.7 1.9 11268 4852 ? Rs 18:54 0:38 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/sbin/press_button.py SO of Orange Pi Zero: Linux orangepizero 5.10.21-s…

Is every 6 hours a good interval to fstrim an SD card? Is it safe for the SD card to be TRIMed often? I know that SD card trimming is not like TRIM on an SSD, but the operation performed on a SD card that supports CMD38 performs a similar function, to tell the SD card which pages do not contain valid data.

I run "armbianmonitor -u" and I got this : https://paste.armbian.com/bapohonaja My SBC is orangepi zero 2, and I tried to use it as a NAS. But sometime the system hangup because I push to much file in my usb-disk. And I G**gle about it. Somebody said because usb driver is "UAS". So I use command "lsusb -t" and bingo, my usb driver is "uas": ``` >: lsusb Bus 006 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 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1…

I'm familiar with ARMbian on Orange PI 3, more specifically I'm trying to master programming in C on this system and hw. Since yesterday I've been searching in vain for some description, ideally with examples of how to control GPIO, I2C and SPI in C. Can you advise?

Hi I own a NanoPi R4S Specs: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=284&search=r4s&description=true&category_id=0&sub_category=true There is written: But the hardware has no HDMI out or other display output. Why there is support for a Desktop OS? I plugged in two 2 USB attached devices, because there is no WLAN capabilities? Is this correct? lsusb Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0bc2:ab09 Seagate RSS LLC Fast SSD (..) Bus 003 Device 002: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] (..) and …

Hello everyone. I've upgraded my Cubietruck from Xenial to Noble Ubuntu using supplied image on https://www.armbian.com/cubietruck/ . Thank you by the way for uncomplicated installation, worked just fine. Now to the problem: Cubietruck continues to hang (or shut down, I don't know exactly on the same time in a few days turn. Here are the last lines of syslog when it happens: 2025-03-03T23:34:59.245531+01:00 Artisan anacron[8415]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2025-03-03 2025-03-03T23:34:59.249722+01:00 Artisan anacron[8415]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) 2025-03-03T23:34:59.253667+01:00 Artisan systemd[1]: anacron.service: Deactivated successfully. 2…

For any one interested in software defined radio the OrangePi.pc and Armbian 5.05 software is a killer combination. The extra horsepower of the Allwinner H3 quad core and the clean Armbian Linux implementation give you a great platform for Software defined Radio. The $10 low cost RTL2838 dongle has an enormous amount to offer. But plugging it into a big computer laptop is not always practical It is often better to put the RTL2838 dongle as close to the antenna as possible. This could mean a long USB cable and voltage drop issues. So now you can buy a $9.99 Orange Pi.one and use it as a RTL to ethernet/ opt.wifi extender. You "just" Plug the RTL2838…

Flashed legacy trusty server for Cubox-i onto a 16G SC card. Installed this succesfully on a Cubox-i4*4 and connected with ssh (no console, after all it is a headless server). The mount command showed /dev/mmcblk0p1 on / type ext4 parted showed one aprtition 1 size 16.0G primary ext4 (as promissed, the partition was extended to use the whole card) Now comes the disturbing bit df -h /dev/mmcblk0p1 gives nonsense. df -h / responds with /dev/root 1022M 896M used 89M free Indeed, I tried to load a GUI but it got stuck on a full partition:( Ideas where this /dev/root came from and why it was not subsumed in the grand mmcblk0p1 partition? The purpo…

I use this method and it works like a charm: void setup(){ pinMode(0,INPUT); pinMode(1,INPUT); } void loop(){ } Just upload this code, and connect GND to GND, TX to RX and RX to TX, then connect your Arduino to your computer, it will get a name like COM3, connect that com port, and you're in! You can also use PuTTY for connecting to the com port. Spoiler

Hi All, as I just started with armbian on one of my R2s and I would like to share my learnings.... 1. Learning build own Image Why?: One of my requirements is to have DRBD Support which seems not to be part of standard build. At least it was gone with one of the Kernel Updates. So I setup a VM as described here: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ to build a Image that supports DRBD. That was really simple. Build took 81min for me... Image Size 864MB Next goals are to bring this image running on the R2 on the eMMC. This worked with armbian-config After moving to eMMC Reboot issue is visible... Adapt hostname, local…

Rock64. Running mosquitto. Running my python script for home automation, measures temps, does a bit of control and uses an SIM900 for SMS outside access with no IP address issues. I've run this for ages with an Rpi doing mosquitto and an ESP8266 doing the SMS part. I tried using the RPi for everything but it can't keep up with the 19200b SIM900. The Rock64 does it beautifully. So, all works beautifully but for pulsing the SIM900 to power it up. I have R64.GPIO which works only if I sudo into idle or python. Otherwise I get the dreaded "cannot export GPIO". So close, so far. My eyes and the lcd are dim from searching for an answer. Tryin…

Hi, how can I remove all files of desktop (GUI) after installing with armbian-config. I am running armbian 4.19.62 sunxi #5.92 on BananaPi M1 I can disable the Desktop but I require the space for the server. Regards, Rein

Hello. I have own developed custom boards with H3 processor. One of it works nice, second one doesn't boot. Here is the serial output. U-Boot 2020.04-armbian (Jun 01 2020 - 18:57:23 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi One DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial@1c28000 Out: serial@1c28000 Err: serial@1c28000 Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1b000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1b400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning b…

Hi, this is a problem that has persisted on my Orange Pi H2+ Board (running Armbian) for quite some time now. At one stage I thought I had resolved the issue, but now since an update to some unrelated software, said software no longer works. I have tracked this back to the locale settings, which, for all intents and purposes, don't exist. I have tried a variety of fixes, such as trying to set Locale using the armbian-config , but Locale remains adamantly blank. I can SSH into the board (which is where I ran the arm config program, as well as the following commands). I tried dpkg-reconfigure locales but I only get told the following: pe…

I am building a media player using BananaPro (also called BananaPi M1+?). I am doing: 1. Burn a SDCard. 2. Boot and set user and password. 3. Enable USB Massage Storage insmode g_mass_storage.ko file=a_sdcard_partition_or_a_big_file removable=1 echo "2" >/sys/bus/platform/devices/sunxi_usb_udc/otg_role stuck here 4. Install a media player and get H264 HW decoder working 5. ... And I found that /sys/bus/platform/devices/sunxi_usb_udc/otg_role is not exist. Than edited usb@01c13000 part in dtb file to change status = "disabled" to change status = "okay", and the board would not boot any…

If you're getting poor/bad audio performance from an audio VST on the N2+, it can sometimes be the context switching between the BIG.little ARM cores. In my case, Pianoteq was giving me a lot of x-runs and wide fluctuations in performance when it switched between the 2x low-performance and 4x high-performance cores. One way to get more stable performance is to assign the application to the 4x high-performance cores like this. taskset -c 2,3,4,5 'Pianoteq 7' On the N2+ the 2x low-performance are numbered 0 and 1. The 4x high-performance cores are 2,3,4,5. 'Pianoteq 7 STAGE' is the name of the application being assigned. This is more useful …

Hello. I am using the NanoPi NEO Core board to communicate via UART1 and UART2 ports. I configure the ports using Python - pyserial. This is my configuration code: import serial com = serial.Serial( port = '/dev/ttyS' + str(port), baudrate = 115200, parity = serial.PARITY_NONE, stopbits = serial.STOPBITS_ONE, bytesize = serial.EIGHTBITS, timeout = 0.02 ) The problem is that the UART TX signal is not clean, as you can see from the following pictures: https://ibb.co/5sdvGVf https://ibb.co/zfgZrGT I get the same signal on both UART ports.…

Hi All, I have successfully installed a brand new armbian on my H616 OrangePiZero2 Board. I have installed docker and have several containers running on it. one of the dockers need to scan a cifs drive that contains Hebrew characters and it fails on scanning - not retrieving all the files. I have tested the same on a raspberry pi running Ubuntu18.04 and it works great and retrieved all the files without any issues on armbian it was ~300 files and ubuntu ~900 files. The name of the files can not be changed since they are used out side of the docker. basically files are been saved in Hebrew on the cifs mount all the time. I have done a…

rock@rock-3a:~$ dmesg |grep spi [ 6.279244] spi-nor spi4.0: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 6.279275] spi-nor: probe of spi4.0 failed with error -2 the armbianEnv is as below. verbosity=1 bootlogo=false extraargs=systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 overlay_prefix=rk35xx fdtfile=rockchip/rk3568-rock-3a.dtb rootdev=UUID=6359cdcb-b9a7-4930-9257-30f4e34b0a4f rootfstype=ext4 overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0 param_spidev_spi_cs=0 param_spidev_max_freq=40000000 Is there anyone know which version is ok for Rock 3a or rock p;i 4b?

Hi. I have my orange PI OPT 3 LTS running Ubuntu.. The system is installed in /dev/mmcblk0 (I believe that's the SD card?), and I just checked with gparted that it still has the Android it came with on /dev/mmcblk2 (I believe that's the internal memory?) Anyway, I would like to move Ubuntu to the external USB HDD I added. I created a /dev/sdb2 for it in ext4. I launched nand-sata-install a few times, but I'm afraid of picking the wrong options.. Which options should I pick to ensure that it does not destroy my Ubuntu installation in the process? Many thanks, -t

Hello, Armbian community, I've been trying to build the Armbian kernel for my board "Orange Pi 5" with the rbd (RADOS Block Device) module enabled. I followed the standard build procedure using Armbian's build tools, and I explicitly enabled the rbd support during the menuconfig step. Despite doing this, after completing the build and installation processes, I'm unable to load the rbd module. When I attempt to load the module with modprobe rbd, I get the following error: modprobe: FATAL: Module rbd not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.160-rk35xx Here are the steps I followed: 1. Cloned the Armbian Build Repository. 2. St…

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So I was trying to compile a wifi driver for a somewhat new usb wifi device and it breaks during compilation because it expects a directory named /usr/src/<linux-headers>/arch/aarch64 but on NanoPi NEO3 the directory is named (on NanoPI R4S is the same case btw) /usr/src/<linux-headers>/arch/arm64 In order to make it work, I created a symlink under the "arch" directory called "aarch64" pointing to "arm64" and I was able to compile it. Here is what happens when I try to compile it without the symlink: pablo@callampa:~/repos/github.com/morrownr/rtl8852cu-20240510$ make clean cd phl ; rm -fr */*/*/*/*.mod.c */*/*/*/*.mod */*/*/*…

Hiya I just received a free Roseapple Pi board and seeing as it uses the same SoC as the LeMaker Guitar was wondering if there could their be an Armbian build for it please? Many Thanks Lemonzest

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…

I still struggle Got today new adapter, it came with Linux drivers https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0kast2unzyg6sux/AADz143tOM2Lqg2bYF-OneK5a?dl=0 Can someone explain how to use these drivers?

Hi All, I am trying to run Toxcore tests on OrangPi Zero inorder to run a tox client on this board. So far I tried clone git repositories of libsodium and opus. I did make and make install for both of them .I did not find any issues in installing them. I built them on OrangePi itself. I did not pass any crosscompiler prefixes to ./configure command while building them.My doubt is ,are these libraries compiled with armgcc or normal gcc ? I thougt whatever gcc is available on Orangepi is armgcc so I didnot pass any arguments to ./configure while building. make process was simple and passed without any isseus for bot libsodium and opus.But…

Hi there, I'm trying to make the r1 work as a openflow switch using open vswitch. The most I've achieved is to make it work as a dumb 5 ports switch using this configuration script that I got from the sticky post: #!/bin/bash set -x ip addr flush dev eth0 ip addr flush dev wlan1 ip addr flush dev br0 ip link set eth0 up # No WLAN. Set cpu VLAN interfaces to associate to eth ports. ip link add link eth0 name eth0.101 type vlan id 101 ip link set eth0.101 up ip link add link eth0 name eth0.102 type vlan id 102 ip link set eth0.102 up ip link add link eth0 name eth0.103 type vlan id 103 ip link set eth0.103 up ip link add link eth0 name eth…

Hi, I have a generic brand tvbox (Nilox NXBAP210101) and I would like to compile the Ubuntu xenial version of Armbian. I tried some image of armbian for Olimex from MicroSD and start but I do not have WiFi or LAN and then I did some research on my hardware. This tvbox seems to be an i12-tvbox in fact has the following hardware components: CPU Allwinner A20 1GB Ram DDR3 (512MB x2) N2CB4G16BP-DI 4GB NAND Flash Memory H27UBG8T2BTR 10/100Mbps Ethernet ICplus IP101A 802.11b/g/n WiFi + BT4.0 Ampak AP6210 IR Receiver I would love to use this device fully and then I would like to be able to recompile the distro for my hardware. …

Out of curiosity, I installed the 'WiringOP' app so that I could view the 'gpio readall' output. Here is what happens when I do so: darren@frodo10:~$ gpio readall +-----+-----+----------+------+---+-Orange Pi+---+---+------+---------+-----+--+ | BCM | wPi | Name | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name | wPi | BCM | +-----+-----+----------+------+---+----++----+---+------+----------+-----+-----+ | | | 3.3v | | | 1 || 2 | | | 5v | | | | 12 | 8 | SDA.0 | ALT3 | 0 | 3 || 4 | | | 5V | | | | 11 | 9 | SCL.0 | ALT3 | 0 | 5 || 6 | | | 0v | | | | 6 | 7 …

I tried to apt update on my armbian xenial and it kacked on the Release file. Looking in apt.armbian.com/dists/xenial there is nothing. Did I miss something? If this is already known by all and I'm just stupidly behind the times my most sincere apologies! Chris

Hello everyone, I give you a 2017 discussion about a modified version of ffmpeg called Cedrus for H3 processors at 32bit. Since the h5 is 64 bit and the code they speak is quite old, therefore I cannot use it, I wonder if there is any version of ffmpeg that takes advantage of the HW acceleration of the H5 processors. Thank you Max

Please forgive if this been posted before, I've done a search and found nothing. I'm running xfce desktop and as stated, window control buttons are missing from top right of windows.. I set up a temporary additional user, same on that one. Window configuration is correct.

Running Armbian on a Rock64 (RK3328) board and in turn running pihole for DNS. I cannot seem to be able to get rid of the secondary IP address that is pulling from DHCP. the main static address I set duing pihole setup is 10.4.5.2. Any way to remove the 10.4.5.98? ifconfig from terminal only shows the .98 address.

Hello all, Has anybody tried to run armbian on VM8650 or vm8880 cheap chinese netbook like THESE I found Debian running on them like THAT but the project is old now (2012) and I would like to have up to date linux and python. Anybody concerned?, possible ? thanks for yr help? Kind regards Pascal

Radarr installed from armbian-confign to my Odroid XU4 wont start on boot or after enter this command in ssh shell: /usr/bin/taskset -c 4-7 /usr/bin/mono --debug /opt/Radarr/Radarr.exe -nobrowser This is error: [Info] Bootstrap: Starting Radarr - /opt/Radarr/Radarr.exe - Version 3.2.2.5080 [Trace] DiskProviderBase: Deleting file: /root/.config/Radarr/radarr.pid [Info] Router: Application mode: Interactive [Fatal] ConsoleApp: EPIC FAIL! [v3.2.2.5080] System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'NzbDrone.Core.Datastore.DbFactory' threw an exception. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the t…

I need to get an armbian focal image for the Rpi4b. I've checked in https://archive.armbian.com and it only shows the current jammy variant. If anyone could tell me where I can download the deprecated images, it would be much appreciated.

I picked up an OrangePi PC Plus. I installed armbian Jammy which does not have the mt7921u driver. I would like to install the driver and was wondering the proper steps. I have done apt install linux-headers-current-sunxi cd /usr/src/linux-headers-5.15.93-sunxi make scripts Now is it a matter of grabbing the mn7921u source and compiling it? Thanks for any direction.

Hello again, I was forced to reinstall OS and right now I have no sound at all. https://paste.armbian.com/omovipuyub I did try this but still no sound. cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Codec ]: H3_Audio_Codec - H3 Audio Codec H3 Audio Codec 1 [sun9ihdmi ]: sun9i-hdmi - sun9i-hdmi sun9i-hdmi

So, looking to create a CLI version of armbian-install. Only has to work with the rockpi-s and from the SD card to the eMMC. Looking at this script: If it works to clone the SD to eMMC (with some changes?) then I need to tell armbian to boot from the eMMC when the SD card isn't inserted, same way that armbian-install does. Do I simply change the UUID line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt to the UUID of the eMMC, or do I need to edit /etc/fstab or ??

I have a NanoPi R2S Plus. If I boot the FriendlyElec Debian image both network ports work: LAN and WAN. If I boot the Armbian NanoPi R2S image, it boots OK and the LAN port works but the WAN port does not work. I believe the WAN port does not work because the NanoPi R2S has an RTL8211E chip but the NanoPi R2S Plus has an RTL8211F chip. I found some notes about problems with network on other boards that had the same change of chip (e.g. radxa RockpiE) and the device tree changes required to accommodate the new chip. So I tried to patch armbian/build to make the same changes for the NanoPi R2S Plus. I am not familiar with armbian/build or…

Hi, I have Lime2 with installed last version Armbian. How make I2S interface in slave mode? Need build a new kernel or I2S driver? Any recomendations please... Kind regards

I am using Cubietruck with Armbian 5:04 Debian Jessie 3.4.110 with Asterisk 13 and Dahdi 2:10 with Amfeltec Piranha USB - FXO. Kernel Panic occurs constantly.

Hello why only gzip ? make all compression available not gzip only !! CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y # CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA is not set # CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ is not set # CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO is not set

I´m new to arm and linux; could you pls tell me how can i disable the login prompt at startup still in the command lines ? Thanks

Trying to reach a headless TinkerBoard with X2Go so I can set up wifi. SELinux is disabled. I can SSH in as my user just fine, with and without -i, but when setting the Pyhoca session to "Discover SSH Keys", I get "Not a valid EC private key file!" Ok, apparently it wants an elliptic curve key. It never used to accept anything but DSA and RSA. So I made an ecdsa keypair and ssh-copy-id to the TB. Same failure. I know that X2Go can't handle ed25519 unfortunately, so I don't even have that key for my user. When setting the Pyhoca session SSH key manually to /home/bill/.ssh/id_rsa or /home/bill/.ssh/id_ecdsa, I get, "Not a valid EC private key f…

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Hello. I have a couple of Chinese 3.5" TFTs, model MPI3508. I'm trying to get it to work with my Orange Pi 3. The module supports either connecting via GPIO or HDMI, either is fine for me. I'm using Linux orangepi3 5.4.20-sunxi64 #20.02.1 SMP Mon Feb 17 02:37:37 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux I'm trying to get it to display the console - no GUI installed, just the console is enough. The module also supports touch, but I don't care about that - I just want to use it as a monitor.. If I use HDMI, I can get a picture, but the resolution is all wrong. It's a 480x320 display but because Chinese manufacturers, it reports itself as having a m…

First time trying Armbian on my N2. I know N2 is very picky with HDMI cables, I tried a bunch of HDMI cables and couldn't make it work thru any my HDMI switches(1080p). I had to connect it directly to the HDMI ports on my TV to get video signal. My Samsung TV is a 65inch 4k capable of handling 1080p resolutions with my other arm64 devices(C4, Rpi4, Rockpro64 and N2+) without any issues. Unfortunately, despite of setting resolution to 1080p60(setenv hdmimode "1080p60hz"), disabling auto detection(setenv display_autodetect "false") and setting HDP=true(setenv disablehpd "true") on boot.ini, it keeps ignoring these settings. Just to make sure, I edited both "boot.ini" under …

I successfully run armbian, and I compiled Retroarch in the system, but after running it, I found that the video driver is missing. Can you help me? How should I install or compile the missing video driver

Hello. Sorry for maybe newbie question. I try to enable DS18B20 on my tinkerboard. The Armbian version is 21.08.1_Tinkerboard_buster_current_5.10.60. I've read the documentation about DTC, but I see no /boot/dtb/overlay directory, just /boot/dtb. I copied decompiled version of dtb from TinkerOS to this folder, compile it to rockchip-w1-gpio.dtb, but there is no /sys/bus/w1 folder. dmesg|grep w1 is empty. Here is my dts file: /dts-v1/; / { compatible = "rockchip,rk3288-miniarm", "rockchip,rk3288"; fragment@0 { target-path = [2f 00]; __overlay__ { onewire@0 { compatible = "w1-gpio"; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = &…

Hi, I built a second nas from rockpi4 and as I used the 12V plug to power the tower, I thought, I could use an old pc power supply to drive both. But when I start both nas from the same power supply, both will crash. Any idea, how I could avoid that crash and stil use only one power supply? Maybe add some electronic components?

I've got Jammy Minimal running on my EspressoBin v7 from Armbian_23.5.1_Espressobin_jammy_current_5.15.113_minimal. All seems to be working except the NICs do not auto-start with the system. Only lo starts. I have to "ip link set lan0 up" and "dhclient" each time it reboots. My /etc/network/interfaces: source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # Network is managed by Network manager auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto lan0 allow-hotplug lan0 iface lan0 inet dhcp The NetworkManager.service is running. How do I make lan0 auto start? Thanks

Hi, I'm having a problem with some timezones and I couldn't find anything in the web related with it. This is in a NanoiPi M1 with ARMBIAN on it. The problem is that when I run the following commands the result is not the as expected: echo "America/Indianapolis" > /etc/timezone && dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata and then result is: Current default time zone: 'America/Adak' Local time is now: Thu Sep 8 03:08:41 HDT 2016. Universal Time is now: Thu Sep 8 12:08:41 UTC 2016. but if I run: echo "America/Indiana/Indianapolis" > /etc/timezone && dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata the result is as expected: Current default…

Can anyone please share the information about implementing MQTT on Orange Pi Lite ? any guide or link would be helpful