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Hello, I want to do for personal use a server and for you it prefer use Debian version or Ubuntu ? Thanks

Hello, I would like to know how they reduce the size of the images and then, when the microSD cards are inserted into a card, they expand to fill the entire space. In other words, the same thing that Armbian images do when we use them for the first time: they are small, and then they occupy all the storage space.

Most of the time our Arm computer does nothing and the CPU is around 40º, and therefore no fan is needed. But sometimes they work a lot and the fan is really necessary. So I wonder if a 5V fan connected to the gpio pins can be used and that the same board sends power to the fan when for example the CPU exceeds 60 °. And below 60º the orangepi that cuts the current to the fan. Can it be done without external components?

Hi all, We are now using ARMbian build tools as our 1st choice for all future DietPi SBC images. Currently, we support these devices that use ARMbian at their base: BPI Pro BPI M2+ OPI PC NanoPi Neo I'd like to increase this so we can support more boards with the same ARM SoC (eg: H3). Unfortunately, like most, i do not have access to every SBC out there. As we do further manual optimizations to the ARMbian images, after compile (eg: DietPi-RAMlog, DietPi-RAMdisk, package removals, prep for DietPi scripts etc etc), having the SBC device is essential to creating our image. I'am curious to know if the following is true: Are the Sun8i compiled kernels and mod…

Hi, I have an OrangePi_4b (RK3399), mounted in aluminum case, in which I am going to install armbian. I also have a mini-double fan that I want to attach to the outside of the box, to cool it. The approximate power consumption of this mini fan is 300 mA. According to the orange pi 4b manual, I find these Gpio: PIN1 VCC3V3_SYS PIN2 VCC5V0_SYS PIN4 VCC5V0_SYS The questions (to whoever can answer or has experiences) are: For those pins respectively, what is the maximum consumption per pin, measured in milliamps? Is it feasible to connect the mini-fan to Gpio (V + GND)? If possible I am thinking both 5V (pin2 and pin4) an…

I would like to ask you for help with quotaon.service. I am struggling with it on my nanopi neo2 with armbian. ● quotaon.service - Enable File System Quotas Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/quotaon.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-03-17 20:00:48 CET; 59min ago Docs: man:quotaon(8) Process: 425 ExecStart=/sbin/quotaon -aug (code=exited, status=4) Main PID: 425 (code=exited, status=4) Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel. Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: using /srv/dev-disk-by-label-HGST7K10001TB/aquota.user on /dev/…

Trying to install qutebrowser in Armbian on OPi+ 2E (H3) - but get stuck on dependencies : apt-get install python-tox python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-sip python3-pypeg2 python3-jinja2 python3-yaml This is then followed up (if successful) by : dpkg -i qute-package.deb However cannot install all those dependencies (if I remove python3-pypeg2 from the list) : root@sporange:~/qutebrowser-0.8.2# apt-get install python-tox python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-sip python3-jinja2 python3-pygments python3-yaml Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean tha…

hello guys, how to activate bridge mode between the 2 ethernet ports of R2S (WAN and LAN) which are referred to as eth0 and lan0 respectively, so as both of them have the same ip address. i tried this https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Manual_bridge_setup but when i reach the command which adds interfaces to the bridge (# brctl addif br0 eth0 lan0)then the ssh connection is lost. i noticed something as well, in interfaces file i added eth0 and lan0 and gave each one a different ip. but then it seems as is now i have two IPs but for the same port (WAN), and no ip for lan port!!!

Hi sir, I want to interface the r305 finger print module with orange pi zero with uart serial communication can i get the code using c and please help me its urgent

Hi everyone Board: Odroid HC1 Tried to install Sonarr using armbian-config(softly) and it worked just fine, tried the same with radarr and got the following error during installation: tar: This does not look like a tar archive gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now. Looks like an issue with the package not beeing downloaded correctly. Any Ideas?

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…

Hi, I want to use a mcp2515 can controller over spi1 or 2. I read about internal flash is blocking the spi1. Can I use another Chipselect pin to use the spi1 with GPIO? Can you please give some advice where to start my research about overlays? What else do I need to activate? (core moduls, driver…)

Hi, the hardware in question: PCIe_TO_2-CH_SATA_HAT+ In expectation for the Rock 4D forum to arrive I am posting my issue here: The Rock 4D works and all is well The two SATA drives work over USB to SATA adapters - that is not ideal in the long term IMHO The HAT just arrived and i have no doubt in my mind that it can be defective in any way - i assume it is 100% operational. But when i connect it and plug the power in the Rock 4D boots, everything else works as usual, but the HAT just sits there without any signal. My questions: 1. How do i query the eeprom via the pins 27 & 28 (ID_SD & ID_SC), do i just enable the i2c_6 overlay? …

Hi, First time poster, so immediately confused with the tags. tag was required but could not find one for Radxa Rock 4se. I want to get the raspberry pi camera working in ubuntu on my rock 4se. I tested with the image radxa provides and the hardware works. Then i switched to the community ubuntu image and it seems i need an overlay to tell the linux device tree that the rpi camera is there. Can anybody help me with this? Thanks!

Hi So I installed the minimal IOT version on the eMMC and I am struggling with it as on login, the temperature is at already 73C then ends up having a forced shutdown after like 5 minutes. I don't see why this is happening as it's literally doing nothing on the command line. Any ideas on how to fix this? I was expecting this to idle around 30s, not reach 90 in an air conditioned room. Thanks.

Hi, picked up a Rock 5b+ as it looked like the exact right board hardware wise and the rk3588 is getting a reasonable amount of support and happy to see it's officially supported by Armbian. Was able to build and flash the UEFI image and boot into the Fedora installer which would allow a RAID install but unfortunately it doesn't support either the PCIe bifurcation needed for both m.2 slots to work or the hardware acceleration for transcoding. It looks like there's progress being made by Collabora so eventually mainline support should be good enough but for now I'm looking to use Armbian with the BSP kernel as able to boot into it with both drives being de…

Hi All. As you may have read at my HDMI post, I have tried two different OpiPC images, the default one here, and the current RetrorangePi. On the first one, I used this tutorial: and it worked perfectly, well almost. I got some errors because the usbids isn't on here, nor is modprobe. But it worked. Then I tried the retro image and went back to do the same process, but no matter what I do I can't see to get rid of error messages. I've tried to put ARCH=ARM and arm. I've tried TARGET=LINUX. None of the tips out there seem to work. pi@RetrOrangePi:/usr/src/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913$ sudo make ARCH=arm make -C tools …

I've done a apt-get upgrade on my banana PI running ARMBian. Since then I get every morning this error message via email: /etc/cron.daily/ramlog: Error: ramlog is not running... failed! run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/ramlog exited with return code 110 In release history I can't find any recent changes regarding ramlog. Whats wrong? If I invoke the cron-command manually in SSH, i get this: root@bananapi:~# /etc/init.d/ramlog restart [FAIL] Error: ramlog is not running... failed! If I do simply a start instead of restart, I get this: root@bananapi:~# /etc/init.d/ramlog start [FAIL] Starting ramlog-tmpfs 2.0Error: /var/log is in use... failed! The list of open files: (Y…

Thanks for Ramlog. I have installed Armbian_5.35_Micro_Debian_stretch_next_4.13.16 and not done anything in terms of Ramlog setup. What should I do when it is full? Or to avoid that it gets full? Symptoms: * Aptitude complained about "no space left on device" on exit. * df: root@micro:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 432M 0 432M 0% /dev tmpfs 100M 12M 89M 12% /run /dev/mmcblk0p1 29G 3.0G 26G 11% / tmpfs 499M 0 499M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 499M 0 49…

Hi to all, My box was running in the same issue. So have I've had a look into the logs. In my case it was the knowing Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1768291 > lirc is flooding the syslog with two lines each second [date&time] flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]* My solution was to uninstall lirc. Have nice day deBugger @moderator the thread https://forum.armbian.com/topic/6229-ramlog-full-no-space-left-on-device/ was closed feel free to join.

Ramlog.service postrotate will execute a cat from /var/log.hdd directory to /var/log directory while rsyslog.service is always outputting stuffs in the background to /var/log directory. This in general has no problem except for some files which are mostly preoccupied with output from rsyslog during logrotate activation, namely syslog and a varieties of journals entries. I have found some of these postrotate failures with cryptic messages as write errors from cat and corresponding rsyslogd omfile module stating lost messages. I suspect two independent processes competing to send output to same files hence causing these errors. I don't know enough of detail but I think ther…

Ever since I updated the BPi recently, the ramlogger stopped working. I'm regularly getting mail from the Cron Daemon saying this: /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-truncate-logs: 19: /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-truncate-logs: logrotate: not found … so, it looks like the paths are messed up since the program is definitely installed in `/usr/sbin/`.

Good day, I am new to using Armbian and also this is my first Raspberry PI. So Please excuse the question but can someone maybe give me advice on how to fix my Bluetooth connection. If I try to pair any Bluetooth device it keeps failing to pair. Then I have to remove the device due to it not wanting to connect. I have got Armbian OS noble kde-neon 25.5.1 installed on the Raspberry PI 5 16GB. Please help with any advice on how I can fix this. I have also never used Linux before so I would also appreciate any advice on which applications is critical to start getting into robotics or other nice projects on the Raspberry PI. Sorry for all the question…

Hi, i have ordered complete new Hardware: - Raspberry 5 with 2GB, - USB-C NVME Case with RTL9201 chip and - NVME M.2 SSD: Kingspec NE-128 2280 with 128GB If I attached the M2 Case the SSD will not be detected (sda1) also not on an other PC. So now I don't know, what is defect (Case or SSD). I checked the Setting of the SSD in the case several times. Is there anything else, that I can do? Here some Logs: dmesg: [ 396.031067] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd [ 396.175568] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=9201, bcdDevice=f2.00 [ 396.175575] usb 1-1: New U…

Not sure how much truth there is in this as I haven't had time to follow up on the sources, but interesting if true! http://www.open-electronics.org/the-raspberry-pi-3-gets-seriously-hot-clocking-up-to-100-c/

Hi all. For gaming on the Raspberry Pi 4 there is nothing better(opinion) than TwisterOS. It is Raspberry Pi OS with a lot preinstalled tools for gaming. Also very nice skins to make your OS look like old Windows versions, or even MacOS. You can play old Windows games with it thanks to Box86 + wine which is preinstalled and configured. Also native x86 Linux games run amazingly well with it. There is a Steam client preinstalled. Is must say I've never used it, since I've never used/liked Steam. You can download TwisterOS here : https://twisteros.com The official TwisterOS reviewer on Youtube is @Salvador Liébana and his colleague from Pi Labs : https:/…

Hello, I'm very familiar with Raspberry Pi, not so much Armbian. I have installed Armbian KDE Neon with Plasma 6 successfully and am very interested in possibilities with the Pi5.

Hi all; Recently i installed a armbian and seems to be all ok less the global memory detection. I don't know by but the system have only detect 256 Mb. from total amount of 512Mb. (/proc/meminfo). Of course, i proved another OS and detet all memory so i know that's not a hardware problem. Is there any trick on kernel or something misconfigurated?

I work a lot with Raspberry including Zero Just bought several Orange Pi One The issue of power supply is annoying Same power adapter which will drive Raspberry smoothly fails to do the same for Orange Adding KB or Mouse also effects the stability, even adding one more computer to same power block had an effect on the orange As I need my machines in various locations I am concerned I will have issues

Raspian4 bis 8GB RAM Raspian5 - bis8GB - noch schnellere CPU - Änderungen?

Hi!, i got some issue with armbian version 20.11. The problem is similar to https://forum.armbian.com/topic/2076-a20-cubieboard-2/ . I tried to blacklist the ir, too. But it do not fix my problem, because there were changes at the commands to blacklist the ir. But also i am not 100% sure that it is the ir, because the prompt shows me the stacks and pointed at the smbd PID (at the appendix - fotos). (Sorry for the bad foto quality!) I appreciate your help! Thank you ! Armbian version: # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=cubietruck BOARD_NAME="Cubietruck" BOARDFAMILY=sun7i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=htt…

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

please, I am really helpless. I am on Armbian. I am trying to run hyperion-v4l2 in /etc/rc.local (please it is not important why for now) with these parameters: Code: /home/user/hyperion/build/bin/hyperion-v4l2 --device /dev/video0 --video-standard PAL --width 720 --height 576 --crop-top 10 --crop-bottom 10 --crop-left 24 --crop-right 24 --frame-decimator 1 --size-decimator 4 --red-threshold 0.2 --green-threshold 0.4 --blue-threshold 1.0 (before v4l2 I am executing sudo /home/user/hyperion/build/bin/hyperiond /home/user/hyperion.config.json) But it does not take crop parameters in effect (important for blackborder detection) of hyperion-v4l2. I tried to put t…

Hi, I have a problem with rc.local I found an error rc-local.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=4/NOPERMISSION Can someone help ?

Hi there, First of all, have a nice christmas. Especially you Igor, im still amazed by what armbian is. I'd like to ask a question regarding a problem i'm having. Last two days i've been setting up my rockpi 4 as a replacement server. I had everything configured correctly and working. I left the rock on over night and discovered this morning that i couldn' t connect over SSH and vnc/rdp anymore. Since i couldn't connect and the rock was headless i pulled the power an forced a reboot. After the reboot i could connect to ssh but not over rdp or vnc. My app jump desktop gives the following error: Could not create SSH tunnel. Please make su…

Hello, I've Googled for a solution without success. Today, I set up a Le Potato w/Armbian XFCE 22.04. All was well except only root had RDP access. After trying various ideas from the internet, I still can't get in as a normal user. After the last attempt, I see this in /var/log/xrdp.log: [20220830-08:06:43] [INFO ] Socket 12: AF_INET6 connection received from ::ffff:192.168.50.226 port 63884 [20220830-08:06:43] [INFO ] Using default X.509 certificate: /etc/xrdp/cert.pem [20220830-08:06:43] [INFO ] Using default X.509 key file: /etc/xrdp/key.pem [20220830-08:06:43] [ERROR] SSL_read: I/O error [20220830-08:06:43] [ERROR] libxrdp_force_read: …

I reinstalled my OrangePi5 with a newly built debian12 based image and in the middle of setting up the third one I lost SSH connection. Now I have 2 OPi5 with the Armbian MOTD and whatever unseen setup that occurs behind the scenes and a third one where I manually configured locales and tzdata. Is there a way to re-run that first login script manually? Thanks

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

Windows wont let me edit/access the SD card once the iso has been written to it. Any help?

Hello! please let me know how to run properly bme280 i2c sensor I install https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_BME280 but orange pi pi + and banana pi displays bugs: python bme280.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "bme280.py", line 5, in <module> sensor = BME280(mode=BME280_OSAMPLE_8) File "/var/www/nettemp/modules/sensors/i2c/BME280/Adafruit_BME280.py", line 90, in __init__ self._load_calibration() File "/var/www/nettemp/modules/sensors/i2c/BME280/Adafruit_BME280.py", line 96, in _load_calibration self.dig_T1 = self._device.readU16LE(BME280_REGISTER_DIG_T1) File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/Adafruit_GPIO/I2C.py", line 185, in…

Hi, 1st - thanks for your wonderful job. I really like using Armbian. I have setup a few small nanopi neo's with spotify / airplay / Bluetooth to play music via Echo-Dots with line in connected speakers. Now I would like to make this setup as stable as it can be., so I was thinking about making those SD cards read only. What I got from here - on the old kernel 3.4 there is an option - apt-get install overlayroot. Sadly I'm on the latest Debain based image - fritz@nanopineo2:~$ uname -a Linux nanopineo2 4.14.18-sunxi #24 SMP Fri Feb 9 16:24:32 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux unionfs-fuse is maybe a goo…

Hello there, I'm trying to do is read-only system. My system will only work nginx and cron. I do not want to system update. I made some sets available below. Do you think I'm doing all right? apt-get remove logrotate apt-get install busybox-syslogd dpkg --purge rsyslog disable swap /etc/sysctl.conf in ` vm.swappiness=0 ` remove fake-hwlock, install ntpdate update clock boot and every hour rm -rf /var/lib/dhcp/ ln -s /tmp /var/lib/dhcp rm -rf /var/run /var/spool /var/lock ln -s /tmp /var/run ln -s /tmp /var/spool ln -s /tmp /var/lock insserv -r bootlogs insserv -r alsa-utils fstab edit /dev/mmcblk0p1 / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,data=w…

A problem I'm having with my fresh install of Armbian Bionic on my Libre Renegade board is that I cannot use the user login due to read-only file system warnings. Root login does allow more freedom, but comes with its own drawbacks. Prior to writing Armbian to the chip from Windows, I formatted the chip exFAT. I've reinstalled Armbian mutiple times on multiple chips, but even the recommended A1 SD doesn't work. I'm not sure where the problem lies. Is this strictly a hardware issue? Is there any non-extensive ways to workaround or fix the problem in the terminal? I'm not too familiar with Linux terminology, but can figure out common terms. I can supply more in…

Hey guys, I'm trying to find a way to read the values of the LRADC0 and LRADC1 of the A20. Those ADC are usually used for android-style buttons (labeled "VOL+", "VOL-", "MENU", "SEARCH", "HOME", "ESC" and "ENTER") which are connected to a low-resolution ADC via a resistor network. But I want to use the ADC for another purpose and I just need to read values between 0 and 63. Now it seems there is already a driver which let you setup the android-style buttons in the DTS (as can be seen in this patch) But I can't find the code of this driver, which I could use as a template. Any idea how to find the driver ? Or…

Hello, I have a lidar scanner, which I already made it work with a USB-TTL serial adapter... with a decoding python program... it works great However, I tried to use one of the serial ports in the pins of my orange Pi zero... UART1, in pins PG6,PG7... I have strange behavior When I test the serial port with picocom or screen, I see the flow of characters: picocom -b 230400 /dev/ttyS1 screen /dev/ttyS1 230400 However, my python program fails to read at the first character. With the python's own miniterm, I get the same error Spoiler roberto@orangepizero:~$ python3 -m serial.tools.mi…

Is it possible to read the serial number on NanoPI R2S ? In the kernel log, there is a line: [ 4.171269] friendlyelec-board board: Serial : 7e088f783b44571e I am not sure this is the serial number, I can not match it in any way with the number on the sticker attached to the the board itself (10407692 )

I am using web server as LIGHTTPD....database as sqlite3....And php.. I have installed the os in the flash memmory of nanopi..and sqlite3 database in sd card I made my flash memmory of nanopi as readonly(in fstab). while content listing from database to web page it is showing only limed amount of data( for example...in a webpage i am given to list 55 records.but beacuse of this readonly file system it is listing 19 records and no pagination.) How to make readonly filesystem without affecting above

@Igor Just an hour ago did a new build and got [ warn ] ... 30-real-time143-full-plus-rt-fixes.patch [ failed ] Up until this morning everything was fine but now the patch fails. It seems today's commits brake the RT.

Hello guys I know that this image is still under development and probably there are lots of more important things to do. but this problem bothering me for weeks. I am trying to create a hotspot using rtl8188cus the one in the armbian-config didn't work I have used different methods searching the net now I am using this driver: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes and the hostapd-realtek which is in apt.armbian.com (the one armbian-config installs) and now I am getting the following error: wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->COUNTRY_UPDATE ioctl[RTL_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported wlan1: Could not connect to kernel driver +rtl871x_st…

Hi! First of all, HELLO! I'm new here. I'm trying to install my wifi dongle Realtek RTL8188CUS that I had for my raspberry pi in my Cubieboard A20 with ARMBIAN Xenial Server Legacy and I can't do it work. Has anyone tried? Thanks!

Hi, I downloaded Armbian 4.14.14 and I installed it on my Banana PI. Then I configured it to act as Gateway/Firewall. Now, just before I start active using it, I wanted to backup the installation on a second SD-card, just in case... I buyed a Toshiba 8GB Class 10 and I started to copy the data from my "old" SD-Card (SanDisk 8GB Class 10), first with Linux using dd, then under Windows using Win32DiskImager. Always the same problem: if I boot the Banana PI with the new card the system boots and, before I get the login screen, the system restarts in a loop... With the "old" card of course it works... Can someone …

I know it sounds crazy. But at least every 1 out 3 reboots, the sbc will shutdown instead (no hdmi output) and not boot back up. Rebooting in terminal whether remotely or locally will have the same effect. And when it fails to reboot and just shuts down instead, my linksys router (ea9500) disconnects the internet (devices still connected to router). I have to power cycle the router to get it working again. This occurred on a fresh installation of the current focal releases. I would say I had to restart my router at least 15 times in the past few hours, and every time it happened was when the reboot command failed. The sbc is connected via ethernet, and the internet…

How Rebuild the kernel, if i have in armbian headers kernel orange pi zero? I want rebild on arm board. I use old kеrnel 3.4.113

the version number of zfsutils-linux was too low for the new version of zfs-dkms. So I downgraded zfs-dkms but the recent version of linux kernel was too high for the old version of zfs-dkms. I tried armbian-config to change the version of the kernel down to 6.6 from 6.12.18 but somehow it just repeatedly tried to build dkms modules for 6.12.18 again and again so I just gave up using armbian-config. I eventually replaced the linux kernel and headers with the older version 24.8.2 ( sudo apt install linux-image-current-meson64=24.8.2 linux-headers-current-meson64=24.8.2 linux-dtb-current-meson64=24.8.2 ) After these downgrades ZFS st…

Hi! I need to use the UART1 port on my NanoPi NEO. This usually means just adding "uart1" to the `overlays` in `/boot/armbianEnv.txt`. What I would like to do is build a custom image that already has the overlay activated by default. I read the following documentations: - https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian_overlays/ - https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/ But couldn't find anything about it. At first I tried to define the `DEFAULT_OVERLAYS` env var in `userpatches/config-example.conf` since I noticed it was defined in the configuration for the board, but it didn't work. I manage to make it work by …

Hi all, I'm looking for an sbc with low power consumption, but still able to run linux (arduino like solutions are somewhat unflexible, and take longer to configure). Basically it should be able to do rs232 and be able to store data to an sd card. It should be able to run approximately two weeks on batteries. Wifi/ethernet/hdmi are not required if there is a way to use a serial console (apart from the extra rs232 which is connected to our measuring device). I already own a banana pi (original) and raspberry pi zero (apart from other boards which draw much more power). Are there any boards I could check out that have significantly lower power u…

Does anyone here may have recommendations of standard sdcard or flashdrive that supports for installation on amlogic s905x devices? eg: sdcard only sdhc types or it will work with sdxc or any kind of limitations capacities for certain SBC ? . thank you in advance for your most kind replies. best regards

Can you help me know which panel is suitable for orange pi 3? “Install hass.io on supported boards / builds - it works there” thank you verry much!

What is a good h2/h3 board to start getting into armbian? I see that there are a few vendors with issues so just wanted to see what is reliable. Wifi + BTLE would be a plus. Thanks

Is there any recommendations how to upgrade Armbian from Ubuntu Bionic to Ubuntu Focal?

I have changed the sysctl.conf by adding few parameters and it seems that i broke the system now, system is not loading and it's stuck in boot at the following step : [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-ttyGS0.device. [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-ttyS0.device. The question is how i recover my system. Is there anyway to recover the sysctl.conf file or any other way to stop the booting process and login to revert my changes? or another way to fix these timeout messages?

Hi, I have a Helios4 NAS I haven't used in over a year. This NAS have 4 HDDs set as a RAID5 in it with valuable information that I need access to. I've installed Armbian bookworm and found that there is no /proc/mdstat file from which to recover the RAID5 array. I am now at a loss on how to rebuild the RAID5 array and regain access to the information on these drives, from what I read, mdadm was removed as a feature in more modern distros and is no longer used. I've installed mdadm however still no /proc/mdstat from which to recover the RAID array. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to rebuild this array and use it in my bookworm d…

Hi all, Yesterday I make big mistake I executed command I have 8GB card, so all data are not lost. Is any way to recovery data? Thanks

I have done a firmware update on my Compulab Utilite Pro using u-boot compiled from source. However something went wrong, leaving me with a bricked board. In the manual it is mentioned, that the iMX6 has 2 boot-modes. The recovery-mode can be configured by switching some pin to a high-level. On the PCB I can not find any jumper, that allows me to do so. Question: Does anybody know how to switch the Compulab Utilite Pro to the recovery-mode? Thanks in advance

Hello experts I'm a newbie and use my ofroid as server (mysql, iobroker, go2rtc) This need a lot of ram. So i try to reduce all service which i don't need. I disabled the gui (desktop) and ise only ssh. I use zram to be faster. Is there any other service which i can deactivate?

Unfortunately I was very hasty and in connection to my goal to copy between sdcards I used Paragon disk manager to shrink my original partition. Like I mentioned... bad move. And now the partition is not bootable. Paragon wrote that I need to "reinit boot loader" , but I can not find any information how to do it. I can not believe it can be complicated... and again I have no idea what to do? Any help.... /R

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 just released Armbian Focal Desktop MAINLINE images for Khadas VIM3 Pro. These are individually, pure arm64 and hybrid arm64/armhf variations. Thanks go to @lanefu for key pointers in understanding how to "re-arm" the firstboot and firstboot-config mechanism in current-state Armbian. Please offer feedback and experiences if you test these. The images are currently hand-built, but if enough interest is generated, and time permitting, I will commit to a git fork for an unsupported standard building process. I have more detail on the distribution site at archive.org, and in the corresponding posts to the Khadas forums: …

The page at https://docs.armbian.com/Process_Release-Model/ has a link entitled "Release Testing", but the link doesn't seem to go anywhere. Is there a document on the release testing process?

...for navigation, audio, videorecording, an**radar, obd 2 ... and, and.. Condition - must be stable && fast ??

I installed remot3.it.deb through terminal, when in run the connectd installer, it asks me to log in, when i log in, it says: API call to https://device.remot3.it/api/project/create failed! If i run this on a Pi running Raspbian, it works fine. Any idea? It seems to be an Armbian issue as it works on other Ubuntu images. Thanks, Matthew

Hello i need some help. I want to access my OPI+2E remotely over the internet. I tried to use TeamViewer couldn't make it to run on armbian i followed all the instructions posted here on forum but it didn't help. I don't have static ip any other way to do it? Kindly, help me.

I have a pair of Orange Pi 3's acting as redundant PiHoles on my home network. After a bit of tinkering and configuring, I have them set up the way I want, and would like to keep them that way. Of course, a good backup plan is essential to this. Looking online, I found Image-Utils for Raspberry Pi, but that is limited in support for only the Raspbian OS. Is there a good system out there to make a cloneable image of an SD card in an Orange Pi, either from the Pi itself to a remote source (NFS mount, etc.), or from a remote source pulling from the Pi? I'd like to schedule this as a CRON job, so that in the event of a hardware failure, I can just re…

I used armbian-config to install remote desktop service on an Odroid C2. Works great. When I add a user via command line (adduser), when they log in they get messages for authentication for network services. I also note it doesn't show the XFCE splash screens like the original user does. It can't browse anything on the wifi network but it can get through on the ethernet network. I assume I haven't added the user to the proper groups - can someone tell me what groups, or if I'm barking up the wrong tree?

Yesterday, I wanted to remove the linux-headers-edge-meson64 package. (Board: odroidc2) As a consequence, the entire SD card and all mounted devices got deleted and I had to reinstall my entire system. scritch@odroidc2:~$ pstree -Aap 189643 apt-get,189643 remove linux-headers-edge-meson64 `-dpkg,189662 --status-fd 54 --no-triggers --force-depends --abort-after=1 --remove ... `-sh,189663 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-edge-meson64.prerm remove `-find,189664 ./ -type f -exec rm {} + `-rm,189913 ./media/NAS/Public/Bilder/IMG_1097.JPG... I cannot imagine what I did wrong with removing this package, but I also c…

Hi Guys, I have noticed that camera connected to OPI, has several frames lag. I capture image with very high speed (50 fps, camera also gives about 50 fps). Min for V4l2 is 4 buffers, so it gives about 80ms of latency. I cant find a way how to decrease this buffer count to 0 to receive the latest frame. I assume that I need to change some line in kernel and compile it. However, I cant find where exaclty.

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

Hi, does anyone know how to remove the root password? tx

hello thanks for your attention. I need to remove the name of the development board "OPiZero" / _ \| _ \(_) |__ /___ _ __ ___ | | | | |_) | | / // _ \ '__/ _ \ | |_| | __/| | / /| __/ | | (_) | \___/|_| |_| /____\___|_| \___/ any suggestions? thank a lot

Hi, I know at least some distributions don't remove modules of currently running kernels. Even when upgrading kernels and modules. Also, armbian has files like /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove etc, which look like they're meant to accomplish the same (protect selected kernel modules from removal), but have in fact no effect (by default). How can I prevent removal of files on upgrade (specifically, kernel modules)? That is, enable the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove and related things to have an effect, or set some other option to do something similar. Actually, I would also prefer to keep a few previous kernels and support …

I have removed these packages: iw wireless-regdb rfkill hostapd (no wifi) ntfs-3g btrfs-progs (filesystems I don't use) stress iozone3 (benchmarks) qrencode (huh?!) alsa-utils (no sound) ifenslave (not needed I think) sunxi-tools (different processor) command-not-found (don't want it) And then apt autoremove to remove corresponding libraries etc.

Hi, on the renegade page: https://www.armbian.com/renegade/ It says we can run this cpu at 1.51Ghz, but when i follow the instructions nothing happens, is there a step i'm missing?: root@renegade:/mnt/config# sed -i "s/MAX_SPEED=.*/MAX_SPEED=1510000/" /etc/default/cpufrequtils root@renegade:/mnt/config# service cpufrequtils restart root@renegade:/mnt/config# cpufreq-set -g performance root@renegade:/mnt/config# armbianmonitor -m Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c] Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU C.St. 12:41:39: 1392MHz 1.37 17% 4% 7% 0% 3% 1% 65.4°C 0/6^C Is there an updated dtb file or overlay somewhere?

Hi, again: my sdcard was killed by power failure! my system runs on SATA: current buster on cubietruck, boot sequence ->sdcard->sda1 Thus a new sdcard is prepared. I want to save the root on sda1, but tweak the new sdcard to use sda1 root. If I start the armbian-config script for BOOT from "SD - SYSTEM on SATA" my existing sda1 will be overwritten - right? How to fix the new sdcard for using the existing sda1? Holger

First of all sorry for the newbie's question. I compiled a kernel with custom configuration to use this instruction: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ OS: Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 x64 apt -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh \ BOARD=orangepizero \ BRANCH=default \ BUILD_DESKTOP=no \ KERNEL_ONLY=yes \ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes After the kernel build is complete, the output directory contains output/config linux-sun8i-default.config output/debs /extra armbian-config_5.99_all.deb armbian-firmware-full_5.99_all.deb armbian-firmware_5.99_all.deb linux-headers-sun8i_5.99_armhf.deb linux-image-sun8i_…

I'm using the latest WIP config for the NanoPC-T6 build. I've discovered a problem that I don't have using an official FriendlyARM Debian image on the device. I have one HDMI output connected to a dual input screen in desktop mode. It works fine if I select the NanoPC-T6 screen input from the start, but if at a later stage I swap the screen input to a different source and back again, the NanoPC-T6 does not output video. I can ssh to the box but there is nothing obvious in either dmesg or syslog. summary-build-476d3c90-225f-4793-8dbb-01abf490e940.md

I downloaded image from https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pc-plus. It marked as STABLE and has kernel 4.14.65. Package linux-image-next-sunxi version 5.59. I'm trying to install kernel headers but in repository no package linux-headers-next-sunxi. And also in repository no package linux-image-next-sunxi (it installed in downloaded image) so it is not possible update other orangepi to latest kernel.

I already had armbian buster installed on my nanopi neo core, i recently tried to update and upgrade but here is what m getting: root@nanopineo:~# apt update Get:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB] Get:2 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB] Get:3 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [51.9 kB] Hit:5 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-…

Does anybody know who to inform to get them to update the certificate on this repository? https://xogium.performanceservers.nl/apt/

Hi, I'm trying to generate a U-Boot for my OrangePi Plus board (H3). I'm using the Denx 2021.10 release and have tried the standard defconfig for this board and also variations of this config. Starting the kernel is fine but the kernel crashes/hangs when starting if I'm using HYP (nonsec) mode. Starting in sec mode works but this only enables one of the four CPU cores. The kernel crash/hang occurs while executing "udevadm trigger --action=add" but I can't determine exactly what is being enabled when the error occurs. Trying different kernels (including the Armbian 5.10 version) show no difference. The Armbian U-Boot (2021-10 dated August 2…

Hi, I use Armbian Stretch 4.19 on an OrangePi Zero Plus2 board with 512MB of memory, cat /proc/meminfo shows: MemTotal: 460224 kB I assume that the missing amount of memory is reserved for the GPU. I do not use the GPU, how can I decrease the amount of reserved memory?

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, I am trying to compile some firmware to recognize a DVB-T USB device. The compilation process raises an error as following: I was trying to to build kernel headers again: $ cd /usr/src/linux-headers-3.4.112-sun8i $ make headers_check $ make headers_install $ make scripts And then I run this command in the source directory: $ make ARCH=arm KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-3.4.112-sun8i this is the output: This is the same error from the compilation process. How can I solve this problem? Any help will be appreciated.

For e.g. SD card removals I power down the Nano with shutdown -P. To restart I usually unplug and plug in again USB power. To avoid the pluging, is there a possiblility to add/solder a reset/restart button to the NanoPi Neo board?

I am running the following OS: Linux renegade 4.4.156-rockchip64 #21 SMP Wed Sep 19 13:14:57 CEST 2018 aarch64 Hardware: Firefly ROC-RK3328-CC / Version 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver) MicroSD: 64GB The image I used was only 32GB. How do I reset it so it will resize/expand to the full MicroSD capacity? I have searched the forum and have tried what was suggested but they did not work.

I am using an orangePi and I had some scripts with bash but now I have put a screen with more resolution and now I see the text very small. How can you make the text look bigger? I have seen that if I press shift + +/- it increases the size of the letters and with stty size I see that the value of columns and rows has varied. But if I put stty cols 102 rows 29 it does not change the size of the characters. It doesn't work either if I run resize. What can I do?

I've got a quick question about the Armbian Ubuntu Xenial install. I want to make sure I'm not in the wrong here before looking around for where to submit a bug report. It seems that at least on the C2s, & NanoPI Neos that I have that the /etc/resolv.conf file is not a link to /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf. That doesn't seem right to me, is there a reason it's a regular file and not a link? It messes things up when moving the computer to different networks as it doesn't update with new DNS settings. Possibly more glaringly it could be a security issue for those unaware or not paying attention while using things like openvpn.

Hello, I would like to recover my Armbian root file system on a second sd card. On the second sd card there is a slightly older Armbian version installed. Unfortunately my efforts ended up in a boot loop with the second card. Here is what I did: backup current Armbian tar czpf ~/tmp/backupArm.tgz --exclude=dev/* --exclude=proc/* --exclude=run/* --exclude=tmp/* --exclude=mnt/* . restore backup on second card tar xvzf ~/tmp/backupArm.tgz Both cards use MBR partition style. Partition starts at sector 2048. Here are my SD cards details: current (source) fdisk -l /dev/sde Disk /dev/s…

Hello, I installed Retroarch from the repos, tried to install a "core" from the Retroarch updater but no cores were available. I searched about that if the installed version is too old no cores will be available, so I added the Retroarch ppa and installed the newest version, but got the same problem. Does Retroarch work under Armbian? Do I need to manually install "core" binaries? If so, where can I get them? Thanks.

Hi, With armbian-config i have installed the system into a pendrive (still boots from emmc). I want go back to full emmc system without formating emmc or reinstalling. Any ideas? Sorry for my english

For my Orange Pi PC, I just switched from the buggy debian-image to Armbian. Armbian works fantastic, but there is one small problem with my ssh reverse tunnel. On the (old) debian system i had my script tunnel.sh: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/autossh -p2000 -fNC -R 9000:localhost:9091 -R 5057:localhost:4949 -R 8000:localhost:8888 -R 10012:localhost:22 myusername@www.mydomain.com The remote Pi will call my gateway Pi at port 2000. Whenever i call the gateway-ip:9000 i am at port 9091 on my remote pi etc. Worked flawless. After I changed to Armbian, this mini-script for tunnel.sh works, too: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/autossh -p2000 -fNC -R 10012:localhost:22 myusername@ww…