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Hi, I'm testing a clone of Waveshare 3.5" (A) TFT with the mainline kernel and I've trouble with colors With legacy kernel works very well until SPI driver hangs (see https://github.com/notro/fbtft/issues/413 for reference) due to a bug So I've decided to test it with the new kernel The TFT is attached on SPI1 and I'm able to correctly load fbtft_device (with ILI9486) and I'm able to start xorg, executing SDL & GLX application But all the colors are wrong. I've also tested bgr or mode args during modprobe without any results I attach a photo of the display running glxgears with kernel module loaded as follow modprobe fbtft_device custom na…

Hello people, I am interested in designing a cooler for OPI Zero and OPI LIte. Next is the formula of calculus: I am NOT able to find next parameters: T_Jmax = this is the DIE(microprocessor) wanted temperature ---> is this 30-40 degrees best temperature for OPI for well functioning in parameters? P_DMAX = power that is generated by the losses of OPI Zero board and OPI Lite board. Q_jc = thermal resistance between DIE(microcontroller) and case Can please someone help? Thanks.

Armbian is afaik based on Debian 8. Is it tested or possible to upgrade to Debian 9 ?

Hello, I am talking strictly about GPIO's value and mode at reset. Under "sudo gpio readall" of H3 core (OPI Lite) I can see that ALL GPIO pins are 0V with different alternative mode functions. Under H3 core (OPI Lite) datasheet 1.2 says that value PC3 and PC4 GPIOs are pulled up? This are in contradiction! Did anyone measured the H3 core GPIOs value? Does H3 core has any pin of pulled-up mode during the reset time of the controller? Please help.

Have you ever seen such error preventing booting (OPI PC here, legacy kernel)? [ 3.571753] Btrfs loaded [ 4.219189] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Opts: (null) [ 5.465203] systemd[1]: Failed to determine whether /sys is a mount point: Bad file descriptor [ 5.474926] systemd[1]: Failed to determine whether /proc is a mount point: Bad file descriptor [ 5.484674] systemd[1]: Failed to determine whether /dev is a mount point: Bad file descriptor [ 5.507533] systemd[1]: Freezing execution. There were power outages, so it may be related. But I've checked fs and it seems to be clear...

I have a small C program where a GPIO pin on Orange Pi is polled using digitalRead. It works fine and detects HIGH and LOW as expected. When I put a dupont wire with nothing connected at the other end (ie. just extend the GPIO pin) digitalRead starts registering intermittent HIGHs and LOWs wildly. What the heck am I seeing? I have a Raspberry 3 nearby and it does not show this phenomenom. Using digitalWrite on the pin works as expected.

Playing with freshly installed/updated armbian, tried to compile "patched" realtek drivers for those weird realtek 81xx things. Bumped error: ./scripts/recordsmcount not found Go to /usr/src/linux-headers-whatever-version-4.x/scripts then, sudo make recordmcount After this even DKMS version installed/build without any issues. Not sure I will survive next kernel update without manual intervention with this "make", but anyway, it worked for me.

Hi, I'm using H2+ at the moment with Ubuntu Server. But I can switch to Armbian if that will solve the issues. The board is powered from battery. Power consumption is essential. I totally don't need GPU and USB. Any idea how I can disable them? Thanks

Hi, I ran into an issue when configuring ssh. As it seems, ssh listens only to the first interface that is enabled (it seems it is always eth0). Probably, if I set a listen to 192.168.x.x in the config file of the sshd (same as the IP set in the wlan0), and a different network on the ethernet, it would work, but as I won't be using ethernet I would rather disable it completly. I tried already ifdown, ifconfig down, ifconfig eth0 down && rmmod -f sunxi_gmac, and some others. I even tried removing nmtui just to check if that was causing the problem. all what that step does is removing the bond0 interface (something I would like to do too). I checke…

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…

Hello, I have the Odroid XU4 since january, but a proper installation of Yunohost is impossible... I tried to install Debian Server, but I encounter an error in the reposites.

Hello everyone I own some noname chinese Android stick, which has Allwinner A20 CPU. Unfortunately, long time ago seller cheated me and device has 512 MB ram instead of 1GB (4 gigabit chips..). It has some "Android" firmware (which shows 1GB), but I cannot find nor backup, neither upgrade firmware. Not a big deal, since device not in active use. I tried Armbian Cubeiboard2 and pcDuino3 builds - everything working like a charm, desktop starts, so I want to run sata-nand install for Armbian for legacy kernel - /dev/nand is here, and I can even dump a "backup" of NAND to have it "just in case". Some help is really appreciated (some questio…

Currently installed PHP 5.6.30-0 + deb8u1 (cli) (built: Feb 8 2017 10:31:58) Nginx version: nginx / 1.6.2 You need to install php 5.4.45. Tell me how to install?

Good morning, I'm new to the community and I'm having problems with wifi adapters driver. I tested some changes that were not recognized. Now I'm testing a RTL8088CU, it came to be recognized at first, but after typing the wifi password it restarted itself and when the call back goes into conflict with the bluetooth dongle and back off. I'm interpreting this as a driver problem, where can I find the usb wifi driver and do its installation? Thank you

Hi, All! I have modified w1-therm kernel module. Now device directory contains two more files w1_read and w1_convert_all. You can read sensor memory without triggering temperature conversion using the first one and you can trigger the temperature conversion on all sensors (implemented using "skip ROM") with the second one. I needed this modification to speed up sensor reading. Now I start temperature measurement on all sensors (it takes 750ms on 18B20) and then read the results. Earlier reading sensor (using w1_slave) required 750+ms for each sensor. Here is the result for my 10sensors 1wire network (using the usual w1_slave required 8.5sec, with new feature…

Hi i have a Orange pi lite and 3d Printer. i want use this online but i manuel therminal code is Run (~/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint) its very good run but why its not auto run? Or How i run this code when system is opening? D6603 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi

Can anyone confirm that they have been able to view a 4K video, output to a 4K display (@30fps) on Orange Pi (lower end boards like One/Lite)? What software/configuration were used?

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've got a python script talking to one of the serial port via pyserial. It works fine when I execute using the terminal. If I place it under startup, the behaviour is changed. It doesn't work properly compared former. Has anyone come across this problem. Advise/help is appreciated.

Hi, I want to patch the kernel with the preempt-rt patches from the repository but their are corrupt Who needs this patch? I think the real time kernel is very useful for many projects.

Hi guys, I'm playing around with two orange Pi's , a One and a Lite, and thanks to all the good work here on the forum with good success. Both OPi's are running python programs, one reads and counts buttons, and flashes some leds, and the other reads my smart meter and puts the data on a webpage. both programs are still under construction but working. The problem I need some idea's for is that both OPi's crash after running somewhere between 1 day to 6 weeks. So now I'm looking for ways to figure out why they crash so i can start working on a fix. Both OPi's run on separate adapters for power, I've been measuring the amps and voltages but there is…

Today I had problems copying files from my Synology NAS. Browsing the directories was fine but copying files resulted in I/O error. No errors in any logs (dmesg, /var/log/messages) The kernel is not built with rpc debugging available so I couldn't look further in to the cause. Armbian 5.26 didn't work Armbian 5.25 didn't work I Downgraded all the way back to 5.23 (kernel 4.8.4) and everything works perfectly.

Hey Guys Sorry if someone has already asked this q. I'd like to get my camera a bit more useful and I need longer cable So is it possible to buy? (the Aliexpress link would be the best solution) 300mm or 450mm

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

I am deciding for buy orange pi one board. But I want to use it for this pipe { ffmpeg -v -ss seconds -i ./video -vframes 7 -f image2pipe -vcodec bmp - | mkbitmap -x -f 3.5 -s 1 -b 1 -t 0.48 -o - | potrace --turdsize 2 --longcurve --turnpolicy black -b pdf -o pdf-file.pdf } . And I need someone that have the orange pi one that could test it and post the "fps speed" or time of process some video , 60 seconds .

Hi, I want to apply some changes to default camera driver (ov5640) to get 60-90FPS, so I just need to change same initialization values in .c file. Now, I compile a whole armbian after patching the .c file to get driver (.ko file). Is there quicker way to obtain the driver without compiling a whole armbian (just get .ko file)?

How do I disable SSH and then enable it later?

Hi, i dont know how to automaticly run kodi after boot. I used: rc.local: Spoiler /home/vlad/autorun chmod +x /home/vlad/autorun sudoers: Spoiler vlad ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/vlad/autorun vlad ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/kodi autorun: Spoiler sudo /usr/bin/kodi But kodi doesnt run after desktop is loaded. Maybe i missed some params?

Hi ! I recently tried to use vlc and more specificly the RTSP flux, but it return an error when connecting "Vlc is unable to open the MRL ...". This error dont come of my network, i can ping the server of the rstp stream, on the second hand, it perfectly work on another pc. Well i think it come from armbian but what i am missing ? Thank

I am aware that the Raspberry Pi 1, 2,3 can transmit Radio waves on GPIO pin 4 and 18. There are even special skins that filter the output. " Previously we posted about the Raspberry Pi’s ability to modulate one of its pins to produce FM transmissions with PiFM. A developer (F5OEO) has recently expanded on this idea, and now the Raspberry Pi is capable of modulating and transmitting FM, AM, SSB, SSTV and FSQ signals anywhere between 130 kHz to 750 MHz. To transmit with the Raspberry Pi all you need to do is plug in a wire antenna to Pin 12 (GPIO 18) on the GPIO port and run the PiTx software by piping in an audio file or image for SSTV. " …

Hi, I was looking for ways how to speed up CPU for faster ethernet transfers and speed it down when idle. I would also like to control voltage. I know that in mainline kernel you can edit this file arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi and configure it yourself. 1)I would like to know where (if) you can control voltage somewhere for 3.4 kernel. I was unable to found any info. 2) in /boot/script.bin i found out parameter "dram_clk", I assume that you can change freq of RAM here. Somewhere I read (I think form tkaiser) that you can add 48MHz steps to CPU/memory. Why exactly 48MHz? That is very interesting for me. Some clock source/timer works in 48 MHz? …

I just want to share what I examined yesterday... Background: I used OPi one to output HDMI video when a button is pressed. It has an attached fan, a remote shutdown button and a remote switch to turn power off-on (OPi is hidden and operated through these buttons). It worked on breadboard, produced 2 working examples, tested the first two with a 24h test. All fine... Problem: On a third installation after the "circuits" are built, I made a last test. HDMI output had problems Sound comes and goes with a hick-up... Debugging: Checked wiring, checked with other video, checked with other OPi etc. Nada... The problem persiste…

Hello, Now I got 3 different sata -> USB Brigdes but none of them are recognized by any of the USB Ports. I was just wondering which sata is build onto a orangepi 2 plus so that it works. Is it even connected internally via USB? Anything is helpful, since I would like to install mediavault and it does not really make sense. :-> all the best

Hello friends, just short question - i2s do supported in mainline today for A20 (Lime2, Cubietruck, Banana etc...)? BR, Alex

Hi everybody. Recently i needed to grab videostream from external HDMI. I would like to use my Orange Pi One for this. Is it possible to implement and configure an HDMI input?

Hi, I got a problem with orange pi zero and audio record latency. What I try to do is to record the audio on orange pi zero, send data to my phone and play it here, but the delay is big(around ~1-1.5s) that's is quite a lot. I've tested it for a few days now and I am sure the delay is on the device. What is interesting sending audio the other way(phone->orange pi zero) has no delay at all(~0.1s). First I tried to use Qt(5.9) and QAudioInput, now I switched to alsa libraries but no results. I also tried to use command line to check this arecord | aplay but still I can hear the delay. Is there any way to decrease the latency? …

Hi All, A question from a linux newbe i want to build a custom image for an A13-SOM-512 from Olimex. I followed the next instructions from page www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/: apt-get -y -qq install git git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib cp lib/compile.sh . nano compile.sh # alter if necessary ./compile.sh After selecting linux-som-a13 from the dialog "Select one of the supported boards" i receive a messages [ error ] ERROR in function source [ main.sh:103 ] [ error ] Board configuration does not define valid kernel config [ o.k. ] Process terminated Is the A13 not supported or do i need to create a kernel config f…

Am I right, that there are no wifi support at uboot level for sunxi boards? And the only similar solution to use wifi at early level is to boot linux kernel with wifi support from SPI flash.

I use the serial library but when I import it. it will show an error. why? File "test.py", line 1 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file test.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details when i change coding, with the following code, it has the error again # coding: utf-8 how can i solve it??

So, back again. I keep seeing the ethernet connection dropped. When logging in by USB the login reports IP <blank> (see picture). I saw this previously (see full set of traumas here https://organicmonkeymotion.wordpress.com/category/orange-pi/). Happens now on freshly burnt image using Etcher. Ran for two days. The problem also manifested using an image burnt with WIN32DiskImager so we can discount any FS corruption assumptions - the Etcher burn reported no errors. Call it "Phantom Ethernet" in honour of Screaming Jeeby - that is the board is haunted wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…

hy, please help... i cant set up automatic time and date sync via ntp. date is ok, time set GMT in all time, not apply my custom timezone GMT+2... i power on board, set time, is good. i power off board. today good, tomorrow not. tomorrow set again timezone GMT+2 system use UTC, and i cant change it! i try this metod to fix my local time: "cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-2 /etc/localtime" this work to reboot, after reboot restore GMT timezone... I try NTP time sync... ubuntu ntp server not working, and change to for europe.pool.ntp.org Europe NTP Server. Problem with NTP sync is not sync at boot. I try many metod, all wori…

Not sure exactly where to post this, or how to ask it, but here goes... In the 'olden days' of my Linux adventures, compiling one's own kernel was standard practice. Thankfully, now many years later, I have become content with the 'standard' kernels (e.g. Debian) that are available to me on my x86 computers. Now, enter the world of ARM-based computing, and the possible return of self-compiled kernels. In my specific case, I am interested in using Pi-like devices to run a GPS-based time server with the additional accuracy of PPS. From my understanding, there are two optional-but-useful changes that would be required to maximal accuracy: - turnin…

Using legacy Ubuntu desktop image (currently with OPi One)... The application will be in a public place and will be shutdown/power up by a personnel. Whenever my application starts, I have full control of the display area. On the other hand: * At the very startup boot process with armbian logo is shown * Desktop does uploaded and shown shortly (my application starts with automatic user login) * In case of a shutdown (button press, IrDa, remote control etc) the desktop is shown again, screen gets blank and up again, shows login and shuts down (do your boards do that?)... How can I prevent these? What I tried: * Looked if I could …

Ok first, im new to linux, i am moving from windows and becoming a linux user. (trying to learn linux) So i used the command- sudo h3disp -m 800x480 -d It is the correct resolution for the lcd but idk what exactly is going on with my display, it works but the screen is chopped off. im not sure what to do Im using an orange pi one and latest armbian desktop image from the armbian download page

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Title changed by moderator from "Performance and support ... how to select a good board, processor? Problem about different installation procedures by variety of platforms ex rpi-monitor ..." pine64:~$ uname -a Linux pine64 3.10.102-2-pine64-longsleep #66 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 16 10:53:13 CEST 2016 aarch64 GNU/Linux After reading the post here about your thoughts concerning AllWinners processor seems not the best choice qua performance and support. https://docs.armbian.com/ What kind of boards, processor is this community recommending? Thanks, I didn't found yet some kind of stars, recommendations here about boards. To be honest I'm little bit misguided, …

Hi there, i didnt work on my banana for some weeks now, and ist seem i forgot the ssh login password. Is there any option on armbian to reset it or to create a new user account with a new password on my bananaPro?

Looks like at present Armbian is based on LTS only. I am in particular annoyed by the outdated Samba release 4.3.11 in Ubuntu 16.04 and thus Armbian. Any chance that there might be a variant of Armbian adopting intermediate (yet stable) releases in the future? Or is there a way to upgrade Armbian or Samba without compiling myself? Thanks Joachim

Hi to all, I have a Cubieboard1 and it seems it can't boot from nand after running nand-sata-install script. The output I get through ttl is: HELLO! BOOT0 is starting! boot0 version : 1.5.1 dram size =1024 Succeed in opening nand flash. Succeed in reading Boot1 file head. The size of Boot1 is 0x0003c000. The file stored in 0X00000000 of block 2 is perfect. Check is correct. Ready to disable icache. Succeed in loading Boot1. Jump to Boot1. [ 0.133] boot1 version : 1.4.0 [ 0.133] pmu type = 3 [ 0.134] bat vol = 0 [ 0.161] axi:ahb:apb=3:2:2 [ 0.161] set dcdc2=1400, clock=1008 successed [ 0.163] key [ 0.175] no key found [ 0.…

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

Hello guys I am looking for any help or hint on how to start the work stated in the title: Porting Audioinjector Pi SoundCard overlay from Raspbian to Armbian. I would like to use the card on OrangePi platform based on because H3 SoC has all required hardware: I2C, SPI, I2S(?). The code I found is in Raspbian github repository https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/3f53e7886737a975e3fe76bc8ae6cc78f33c8cf8/sound/soc/bcm. As far as I see, the sound card driver is based on WM8731 codec and it is using on BCM SoC I2S interface.. Can I use the similar I2S interface on Sunxi SoC? Does current mainline linux allow me to do this port at all? …

When i set up armbian after first boot, when the screen went to the bottom line, the resolution would not allow me to see the bottom line, so when it asked me to set a password for the user, i hit return - it allowed me to enter a blank password, but now when i try to config for sudo, it does not accept a blank password. If i reinstall the same thing will happen. is there anyway to change or set the admin password from a blank password? 1234 does not work or the new password i set up for root also does not work.

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

Hi. My custom board has two PHY devices in the same bus. But I don´t know how to change to use the other one. alr@lime2-emmc:~$ dmesg |grep eth0 [ 10.888810] eth0: PHY ID 02430c54 at 0 IRQ 0 (sunxi_gmac-0:00) active [ 10.893616] eth0: PHY ID 283400c2 at 8 IRQ 0 (sunxi_gmac-0:08) Thanks!

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

Hello there I have had great success using Armbian as a base OS to run my commercial application. Finally free of Microsoft Windows CE However the time is now at hand when I need to clean things up before it goes out in the field. As far as possible I need to hide some stuff and one of the things I need to do is as follows: 1. Disable (or hide- I prefer this as it is needs to be re-enabled if we have problems) the text that scrolls during boot. 2. Change the black background with the Armbian logo in the middle. I preferably want to change this to our own logo and some custom text, retaining the Armbian logo at a different position. I suspect thi…

Hello All, What do I have to do in order to get Armbian on the Marsboard A20 SOM Thanks,

I have some DYI idea to make some custom ODBII Logger using SBC with Armbian. So I'm searching for suitable SBC: - quite small (50x50mm max), IoT category I think - with H3, at least 512MB RAM - eMMC at least 4GB, SD Cards support - 1 USB for pendrive - wifi in AP mode, just for ssh and copying small files via scp - second UART, freen 2xGPIO, and nice to have audio line-out also - and the most important: running Armbian in headless mode with booting from eMMC - working DVFS to keep temperature in lower levels, no heat dissipation problems (SBC will mostly work with low cpu usage, but I don't really know how low can be CPU/DRAM clock…

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

Is it possible to make a bootable SD Card with the content of the EMMC. A "nand-sata-install" back to SD

Hi, I was reading for some days and don't know what's is best SBC for recording (maybe orange pi plus 2e @tkaiser). Right now, I have 6 1080p IP cameras recording 5 fps 1024 kbs bit rate in a raspberry pi 2 with raspbian and a edimax 7811 wifi. 3 cameras record over ftp. 3 cameras record by shell scripts using ffmpeg only copy not transcode. I like better bandwidth and if possible hardware decode 1080p for streaming online Videos. Thank you for your time.

Hi, thanks to this tutorial: I was able to add optical S/PDIF module to my orange pi zero plus 2 h3 - It works But I noticed the the every time when a sound is played it causes the SPDIF output on the OPI to initialise (switch on the red light) which takes about 1-2 seconds, after the sound has finished the SPDIF output goes back to sleep (switch off the red light). As a result on every new audio that is played the first 1-2 second is lost off This is not a problem if I'm listening radio but in case of quick phrases spoken by the synthesizer(my case) this is a real problem. Is there any way to keep S/PDIF …

Hello. I just got the board to play with, but I can't find any specific documentation on how to build a specific image to such board. After researching on google, foruns, etc. I've found some *mentions* on using the bananapim2 config and build (since they use the same core), but it's not working. Building an image using bananapim2 profile, after power on the device start booting from SD, but shows me: unknow image format and start asking for TFP to find flash. Can you please point me toward some useful information on how to build an Armbian image on such card? Thank you in advance

Hi, i recently upgraded my armbian from Kernel 4.9.something to 4.10.12. After the upgrade cryptdisks wont decrypt my partitions and in the syslog Any ideas? there seem to be no modules missing and the crypto functions are there

I have the same problem. Using Lubuntu 14.04- 0.9.1 img for Orange pi lite. bin2fex in sunxi tools gave me "malformed data" error. using the windows bin2fex gave me "unrecognized GPIO port #12". Since this bin2fex is so critical in setting display, audio, resolution, etc. This bug made my ARM experience very bad. I understand and appreciate all the efforts in the linux community though.

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

Does anybody here have experience with the Beagleboard ? It doesn't seem to be supported on this site. It also seems to be rather old? But it's the only board I can find with open hardware/firmware. Any opinions, hints, ideas, other suggestions for truly open hardware?

Hi, I want to use visualino a qt5 programming interface on orange pi with arduino, all my arduino programm works fine on armbian. Is it the same way as debian debbuild ? Or isn't it possible ? Any help welcome

Hello, I followed the steps Igor provided here to create separate partitions for boot & root. I'm now trying to flash my NAND using this SD card, but nand-sata-install doesn't work out-of-the-box with this setup. # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mmcblk0p1 20M 16M 4.1M 80% /boot /dev/mmcblk0p2 3.6G 2.3G 1.1G 68% / ... I tried making a lot of modifications to the nand-sata-install.sh script, but nothing seems to work. I would appreciate if someone could direct me as to what parts of the script need to be modified. Thank you.

Hi! I have sopine A64 board and I want to connect LCD via LVDS. Does anyone have experience with it? Thank you!

Here on the forums it is often recommended to burn images using etcher. I am now wondering how etcher differs from for instance using dd or Win32Diskimager. Thanks in advance, giri

Hey, I'm currently using Debian Wheezy Armbian and think on Upgrading to Jessie. This should be no problem using the Upgrade script as in documentation. Now I've seen that also Ubuntu Trusty ist available. Is there an upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Ubuntu Trusty possible? Does it have any consequences? Or should I stay within Debian? And as additional question: I currently backup the following directories: /etc /root /home /var/backups /var/lib /var/local /var/opt /var/mail /srv /opt /usr/local Is this enough? Or how should I backup before such a upgrade procedure? Thank you for your infos. Ingo

Hi All. Are there any rules to setting the CPU frequency and DRAM frequency using this tool? Eg: can you set the CPU Frequency to 827mHz (just a weird number) or are there specific multiples that are needed? Are there any combinations to avoid or that are best suited together? Thanks. J.

Hi! I'm testing some orange pi device for use it on my projects as a substitute for raspberrypi. I need a device with OS installed on emmc. I have not had good experiences with microsd on raspberrypi due to data corruption. I thought that orangepi device with emmc flash was a good option. However I'm realizing that it is not as compatible as I thought. Make the spi display and spi smart reader work I think that's crazy. For this reason I ask you the following: Whitch device is most compatible with raspberry pi at gpios level? If had emmc or something more robust then microsd it would be better. thanks in advence

Hi, will there be an Upgrade Path to DEBIAN 9 of existing ARMBIAN installations or just apt-get dist-upgrade ? Regards, Ireng

Sorry to borrow you with I suppose a basic question... I am not at home and I have to install an opz but the router here is managing address with 192.168.2.1 instead of 1.1... Please what I have to do on the opz to connect to the router? Sorry again for my lack of knowledge.

Hello, I'm running some busybox scripts in infinite loops. I have used them from long time, before I move to armbian, they work on openwrt without any problem , some of the machines was with uptime half a year and scripts never stop working. After I move to armbian, I noticed they stop from time to time. usually after 4-5 days of running. Script is run with output redirected to /dev/null There is no trace why script is stop working in the logs, so I run it in screen terminal and detach, it works more than a week without failing ........... is there a better way to see what is going on?

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

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Hello, I am wondering which board I should buy between thoses 2 : Orange Pi Plus 2E Allwinner H3 39$ (all in one) and ODROID-XU4 Exynos5422 80$+taxes(=~100$) I want a board that can deliver good transfert speed over the network to host files. So good bandwidth for network AND I/O for the hard drive. Plus I have a 4K TV so I would love to enjoy it (not sure 4k is supported by both cards) Obviously the XU4 is faster (and with usb3) but nearly twice the price so.. It has to to worth it. So, do you have some hints / numberses to show ? Best kernel support. Best co…

Hi, on a fresh installation I can find nmcli d DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION tunl0 unknown unmanaged -- where does it come from/which process spawns it?

I am looking for recommendations, the outstanding group here has knowledge of pretty much every board out there I would think. I have had to abandon my OPI projects today. They are just not stable/usable. A board specific crash at every turn. Comes with a legacy kernel that doesn't even support a working BTRFS. The up to date mainline kernel is also far from working I am told. Ethernet masq causes reboot, out of memory killing processes/servers while there is lots of free ram and swap, SD slot crashes periodically making the system unusable till the storage is removed and is checked/repaired by a working system. So, even working around everything, with a repla…

Hello. I am getting a kernel oops when I setup a masq firewall using firehol. It happenes when a device on the internal net trys anything more than a ping, like loading a web page or doing a speedtest. My network uses interface wlx??? as my external connection to the outside world (internet) and the builtin eth0 as my internal masq’d network (192.168.77.0/24). I am running armbian ubuntu, upgraded (up to date), with the kernel 4.10.0-sun8i and netmanager to configure the interfaces themselves. When I replace eth0 with a cheap usb dongle, everything just works so it seems isolated to the builtin eth0. My eth0 is configured to…

Hi all, I have been playing with a NanoPi Neo and the 2.8" screen with toutchscreen also from friendly Arm on Linux nanopineo 4.11.0-sun8i. Making it work was not very easy since it was the first time I messed with device trees, also add to rewire the screen to use a different pin for the touchscreen chip select since the connector is a column bigger that the neo's. I can provide more information or the dts file if it is of interest to someone. TL:DR: The problem is that the toutchscreen accuracy is not so great especially on the top part of the screen. I see that the ads7846 driver which I'm using has a "model" option which by being set…

Hi, After the latest website changes, downloads of the Debian versions went deeper and I have a feeling that Ubuntu versions are promoted. I used to use Debian in development as it is developed more rapidly. Are there any plans for the future in this area? As much of my work is script based that may mean a big change for me... Thanks...

Hi Can any one tell me how to access the GPIO from user space, I have tried this: sudo echo 203 > /sys/class/gpio/export But get this result -bash: /sys/class/gpio/export: Permission denied It's of course some thing really simple, but I haven't been able to find any thing which can lead in the right direction. I have tried adding user account to the /etc/sudoers By inserting this: # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives: #includedir /etc/sudoers.d mabzy ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Did someone else notice the the color saturation is to high on HDMI if a Video is played? Test video watch temperature of CPU and add a heatsink! May be the is an option for HDMI to change this? Especially Faces in normal TV shows are far to red. DISPLAY=:0 mpv --vo=vdpau --hwdec=vdpau --hwdec-codecs=all --fs http://ow.ly/10tB0C Olso interesting would be to know how smooth the VIDEO rans is far to slow in ma case.

I try to type cyrillic symbols in mysql command prompt but symbols are not shown: for example: mysql> SELECT * FROM Partners WHERE `Name` = 'Игорь'; latin symbols are shown only. I try run /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure locales but it didn't give results

is anybody around here running an OpenBazaar-Server on a bananaPro ? I tried hard to get it running on Lubuntu, arch, raspbian but nothing worked out. there are lots of tutorials but they are not working for me an my banana. If there is a solution around with armbian on a bananaPro i would like to try it. Any experiences are welcome....

Thanks to help in another thread to solve our eMMC problems, we are making progress getting Armbian working well on the H2+ boards we have. Now we would like to be able to make a snapshot of the eMMC device and then be able to write the whole image to another board. I have been able to create a single file backup using both these methods (done after booting from SD). The created files appear to be the same size. dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=16M | gzip -c > /mnt/usbflash/emmc.img.gz or ./backup_block_device.sh (from https://code.online-mp.pl/svn/public/backup_block_device/trunk/) To write the image, we'd like to use FEL. …

We have an H2+ based board that is very similar to the Orange Pi Zero. Basically it is equivalent to a Zero board with a different Wi-Fi chip and adding an eMMC chip. The SD card is on the SDC0 bus and the eMMC chip is on the SDC2 bus. The SDC1 bus isn't connected. We have been using the stock Orange Pi Zero Jessie images on SD card and they work pretty well (thanks to you guys for your hard work) We want to put a Jessie image on the eMMC but we are having trouble. First we tried the nand-sata-install script but it wouldn't run without the eMMC device. We edited the lib/config/fex/orangepizero.fex file and changed sdc_used for mmc2 to …

I want start global log on a database in mysql with query: SET global general_log = 1; Then i get error ERROR 3 (HY000): Error writing file '/var/log/mysql/mysql.log' (Errcode: 28) df-al shows me: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys proc 0 0 0 - /proc udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts tmpfs 205032 26604 178428 13% /run /dev/mmcblk0p1 29267548 1546492 27394084 6% / tmpfs …

I have read a few articles on kodi on Armbian. I am currently using RetrOrangePi as it is close to what i want. What i want is: A linux desktop - dont care which one Kodi with h/w acceleration RetrOranagePi does this but boots up into ES then you have to go to the desktop and currently i can't get kodo it run from desktop, so i have to go back into ES to run Kodi and i think (not sure) i can't update the os. so can i get the RetrOrangePi working kodi on an Armbian os? cheers

Hi all I need to develop a customized application on the OrangePi that uses this Allwinner H3 chip. So everything about this is the standard Armbian, with one change- I need to add security code into the loader to secure the board Prior to this I have only ever developed superloop C code on processors such as these i.e. no OS present. In those cases we had the development tools from the vendor or a JTAG probe. What I need to do is I need to customize the loader code to do certain security tasks. My question is, where is this loader sitting? (presumably its in the FLASH), and, is its source part of this distribution? Also, when they ma…

I'm fairly new to Linux, so excuse me when I'm asking the obvious. I'm using ARMbian 5.25 stable Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 3.4.113-sun8i on a Orange Pi Zero, RTL-SDR and DireWolf When I execute from prompt: rtl_fm -f 144.80M - | direwolf -c sdr.conf -r 24000 -D 1 - Everything starts up as it should. But as I'm planning to use a headless setup, some self sustaining feature after power failure or whatnot is necessary. I figured out how to configure a cronjob and it starts a shell script when the software is not running. In that shellscript I'm using: DWCMD="bash -c 'rtl_fm -f 144.80M - | direwolf -c s…

Hi, I have trouble to update armbian with apt upgrade. (ARMBIAN 5.27.170320 nightly Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i) how to solve? [ 9 updates to install: apt upgrade ] New to Armbian? Check the documentation first: docs.armbian.com Last login: Sun Mar 19 20:01:15 2017 from peter-laptop root@orangepipc:~# apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: armbian-firmware armbian-tools-jessie hostapd libvdpau1 linux-headers-sun8i linux-image-sun8i linux-jessie-root-orangepipc linux-u-boot-orangepipc-default…

Hello, i am very new to using armbain. I picked up an orange pi lite and loaded armbain debain jessie using etcher on a 16gb card. when i install it to the orange pi lite and power it on it asks me for a user name and password. i did as instructed using rot and 1234. then i added my name and made a new password as instructed. it then acts like its booting and says orange pi lite on the screen but wont boot the GUI desktop as it describes. it displays the name and some of the current states of the board (temp ect) but then sits at a command prompt waiting for input. i can type help and it will give me a list of commands that work for it but none indicate they will boot the…

Hi all, Despite I'm not using Armbian but Gentoo on my BananaPI, I hope I'll found some help on this forum as other BananaPI's related forum are sleeping and as many of my previous contact on LeMaker forum are now here I'm migrating my BananaPIes from Sunxi's 3.4.103 to mainline kernel, 4.1.00, and I have several questions mostly related to DTS. The 1st one : * on 3.4, I used J12's IO-8, linked to A20's PH03 to blink a Led, w/o any issue * on 4.11, the system doesn't allow me to acquire this GPIO-227 as it said it is already owned ... which is true cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip0: GPIOs 0-287, parent: platform/1c20800…

Hello I've just installed Armbian on my Asus tinker board, and i have a question. Im going to use it for a project that shows the units cpu usage and cpu temp on a website.. It looks as follows on my unit after logging in via SSH: System load: 1.42 1.43 1.32 CPU temp: 68°C How am i supposed to read the System load ? 1.42 ? Of what? How do you get the CPU Temperature? Can i issue a command my self from the terminal to get it my self? Thanks!

I have Huawei E352 modem switched into NDIS mode: iface wwan0 inet dhcp pre-up /bin/echo -en 'AT^NDISDUP=1,1,"internet"\r\n' > /dev/ttyUSB0 post-down /bin/echo -en 'AT^NDISDUP=1,0\r\n' > /dev/ttyUSB0 root@orangepione-0:~# ip link show dev wwan0 5: wwan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 02:50:f3:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff I works: root@orangepione-0:~# ifup wwan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1 Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org…