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I am using an Orange pi win plus (Allwinner A64, 2GB ram), running Armbian Bionic with Linux 5.3.9-sunxi64 The board has an 2MB on-board spi flash and I want to flash bootloader in it. The spi flash can be correctly detected in the system (showing /dev/mtdblock0). But the "install" tool in armbian-config can't install the bootloader into the flash. When I selected "Install/Update the bootloader on SPI Flash" and confirmed the warning notice, the tool printed "OK" immidiately and there is actually nothing written to the flash. After using "sudo bash -x armbian-config", I found the tool executed a command: dd if=/usr/lib/linux-u-bo…

I was trying to get my Fritz!WLAN AC860 to work which requires Mediatek drivers/firmware. I noticed that the various kernel modules (mt76x2u, mt76x2_common, mt76x02_usb, mt76_usb, mt76x02_lib and mt76) were already available through the armbian-firmware package, but the also required mt7662_rom_patch.bin was not. The Mediatek modules plus mt7662_rom_patch.bin are available in the firmware-linux-nonfree package, but this will only install properly after first removing the armbian-firmware package. Everything seems to work fine now (I'm using my OdroidC4 as a headless server), but I have this nagging feeling that one day I'll need to us…

Hi, I'm building my own kernels but just wanted to know what the difference is between armbian-firmware-full vs armbian-firmware? Which packages should I be installing after building custom kernels? armbian-config_5.98_all.deb armbian-firmware_5.98_all.deb armbian-firmware-full_5.98_all.deb linux-dtb-next-sunxi64_5.98_arm64.deb linux-headers-next-sunxi64_5.98_arm64.deb linux-image-next-sunxi64_5.98_arm64.deb linux-source-next-sunxi64_5.98_all.deb

Hi, I’m new to the forum and just wanted to take a moment to appreciate the incredible work Armbian has done for the community. I have been tinkering around with Radxa rock 5 ITX SBC and Armbian. I flashed UEFI EDK2 for Radxa rock 5 ITX  v1.1 from EDK2 porting to RK3588 initiative. While I can install ARM64 version of Ubuntu and Debian, none of them had support for H/W transcoding. So I decided to build an Armbian which used vendor kernel and had `uefi-edk2-3588` extension. Full build report is linked in this Armbian paste ./compile.sh \ BOARD=rock-5-itx \ RELEASE=trixie \ BRANCH=vendor \ BUILD_MINIMAL=yes \ BUILD_DESKTOP=no \ KERNEL_CONFIG…

The /sbin/armbian-install script that ships in Armbian_22.08.7_Odroidn2_bullseye_current_5.19.17_minimal.img.xz has a couple of faulty lsblk arguments that cause it to exit instead of allowing the user to select the installation target partition. The script works properly after both instances of the string MOUNTPOINTS are changed to MOUNTPOINT which is easily done with sed -ie s/MOUNTPOINTS/MOUNTPOINT/ /sbin/armbian-install

armbian-ramlog & armbian-truncate-log are not executed due to an error parsing the XTRA_RSYNC_TO=(--delete) from /etc/default/armbian-ramlog This results in quick saturation of /var/log. I've made some advancement in debugging "armbian-ramlog & armbian-truncate-log" complex, based on the master tree here: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog Your /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog has a syntax error in the array expression ${XTRA_RSYNC_TO[@]+"${XTRA_RSYNC_TO[@]}"} The 1st array lacks a closing } curly braces. Secondly, I can't figure out, why the same array …

Hi, I've two Tinker Board servers running latest Armbian stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 with 4.19.*-rockchip. In that regard, I've connected some HDDs and from the log I see that every day at a specific time all HDDs are spinning up as seen below in the spoiler. This happens for both servers at the same specific time every day.. Spoiler # Server 1 May 13 06:25:26 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sda spinup May 13 06:25:26 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sdc spinup May 13 06:25:26 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sdb spinup May 13 06:35:36 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sda spindown May 13 06:35:45 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sdc spindown May 13 06:…

Hello, I flashed the Armbian_22.11.1_Pinebook-pro_jammy_edge_6.0.10_gnome_desktop.img file on the 64GB eMMC card of my Pinebook Pro (PBP) laptop but although the eMMC recognizes the image (the ARM logo appears on the screen for a few seconds), booting stalls at (initramfs). I proceeded as follows: 1) First copied the image file from my PC on a 64GB SD card which I inserted into PBP, booted it from the SD card and installed Armbian-Ubuntu without any problem. 2) Downloaded the Armbian*.xz file a second time - this time from the SD card installation -, uncompressed it and flashed it to the eMMC with a USB-to-eMMC adapter after having formatt…

I have recently managed to get SPI boot to USB SSD working on my Odroid N2+. However, to get there, I had to manually set setenv rootdev "/dev/sda1" in my /boot/boot.cmd With that set, SPI boot works. However, obviously I should not set it manually there, and the setting gets overwritten by armbian-config. My understanding is, that I should let boot.cmd unchanged (rootdev "/dev/mmcblk0p1") and armbianEnv.txt should do its magic, but the rootdev setting in armbianEnv.txt is simply ignored upon SPI boot and it fails to boot, as it tries to load the root fs from SD card... Any pointers, what might go wrong here or …

Armbian documentation on Overlays refers to /boot/armbianEnv.txt. But in the version of Armbian that I'm running (on a Cubietruck, ARMBIAN 5.36 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 4.13.16-sunxi) there is no such file. There is however a copy in directory /usr/share/armbian. Is this the overlay file that is processed at start-up? If so, it would be good if the documentation was updated.

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

I've been having a recent issue over the last couple months where my ArmbianEvn.txt file is being overwritten thus causing Helios to hang in the boot process. Using some samples i've found on these forums, I was able to re-create my file and get the Helios back up and running and have since stored a copy so that when it happens, I can just copy and paste and back up running in no time. To date, i've had this happen to me 4 times. I'm not worried about having go through this at this point in time, but I was curious if anyone else has seen this issue or not? I've saved a couple samples of what was written into the ArmbianEnv.txt file: /var/log/armbian-ha…

Hello ! Since last armbian update (5.10.16-meson64 #21.02.2 SMP PREEMPT) the quirks option added to the armbianEnv.txt file is not added to the boot command line at boot time armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 console=both overlay_prefix=meson rootdev=UUID=722afb48-c000-4b51-a382-ae3a7b132c86 rootfstype=ext4 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u,0x2109:0x0715:u Boot log Kernel command line: root=UUID=722afb48-c000-4b51-a382-ae3a7b132c86 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty1 loglevel=1 no_console_suspend fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 elevator=noop hdmimode=custombuilt cvbsmode=576cvbs max_freq_a53=1896 max_fr…

Hey there! I'm trying to create an image with Debian Bullseye using Debos and Armbian. My board is an Orange Pi PC H3. I am following this step guide to generate the image, but I'm having problems to read serial. The tutorial that I follow was created for Orange Pi Zero +2 H5, so I change the architecture for armhf. When I boot the image I don't have any file named "armbianEnv.txt". This file should be already there? Or I have to create it? Some idea about what can be the problem? Just for test I create this file with some parameters that I found, but still not working.

Hi all! I try to run ./demo file, that must make diode blinks on 4 pin. But nothing happens... It finds correct board name (Running on a Orange Pi One), but blinking doesn't works. I also try simple c++ program: Spoiler #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <time.h> extern "C" { #include <armbianio.h> } int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i, rc; const char *szBoardName; // Initialize the library rc = AIOInit(); if (rc == 0) { printf("Problem initializing ArmbianIO library\n"); return 0; } szBoardName = AIOG…

I've noted that 'armbianmonitor -u' will obfuscate some detail such as IPv4 addresses prior to uploading, but it misses similar additional detail: IPv6 addresses, specifically 'global' scope, are left intact. These are on interface configurations and in resolv.conf configurations at least. 'domain' and 'search' directives in resolv.conf are left intact. These can (would) include local domain names, which may be sensitive outside of a given environment. username is exposed in showing group membership. This may be minor but in some cases may be sensitive outside of a given environment, and perhaps can be shown anonymously such as '### Group membership o…

I have the same problem on Orange Pi PC rmbianmonitor -m 12:15:42: --- 0.06 15% 4% 9% 1% 0% 0%/usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 388: read: read error: 0: Invalid argument /usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 389: [: -ge: unary operator expected cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=orangepipc BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi PC" BOARDFAMILY=sun8i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=fef01045-dirty DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported VERSION=20.11.6 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=dev ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMGE_TYPE=Image

Pretty simple question, I know a few years ago the temps provided by armbianmonitor were off by 10-15 degrees celsius, is that still the case today? Or are those temps accurate in newer versions of Armbian?

Got a bit of a weird issue and the search in Armbian site is not helping much due to words with few characters.. Have a Opi+2E running Armbian Ubuntu 16.04.1 xenial desktop and an ethernet connection. (Packet tracking is via wireshark) Whenever an ARP network request comes to it (targeted at its MAC addr) for revealing its IP, it does not reply back. Is there any hint or info on such an issue? Solved. It was just me not rebooting when needed.. Sorry for the noise.

Hello, i use your debian images for my orange pies, thank you very much for that every time I log in to one of my miniserver - terminal shows ORANGE ascii art logo and banner with load, temperature, memory and disk space I would like to know how can I change it or at least remove it ? I thought it would be in .bashrc - but nothing there a not even in sshd_config pls can you tell me how you put it there, how to change it or at least remove the ORANGE ascii art (I love the banner, but not fan of ASCII) thank you very much

I wanted to build the cli version but didn't see an obvious way to do that with conf variables and the docs don't illuminate that choice. so I tried BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no and that seems to do force the cli version. Just suggesting that this might be easier to grok if the variable was say BUILD_TYPE=(desktop|cli|minimal|custom) with maybe default cli where custom might be a rootfs that is custom (like one I put together) and thus doesn't need to be reconstructed from the custom-image script. Maybe setting custom then RELEASE could hold the path to the tarball? If that seems better mayb…

Hi ! I am running deb stretch server on OPi Zero LTS. To control LEDs I tried to follow this thread https://forum.armbian.com/topic/6306-orange-pi-zero-h2-status-led/ So if I edit the file /sys/class/leds/orangepi:green:pwr/trigger to select "cpu" but I get the following opi@orangepizero:/$ sudo echo "power" > /sys/class/leds/orangepi:green:pwr/trigger -bash: /sys/class/leds/orangepi:green:pwr/trigger: Permission denied With root as user, this is what I get root@orangepizero:/# echo "power" > /sys/class/leds/orangepi:green:pwr/trigger bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument however, if I edit the file using nano and delete all conten…

Running the command below I have the issue below: I work with armbian-build git repo, tag 23.02.0-trunk.0256 and I run this command to build a armbian .img for my orangepi zero lts. It used to work well in february but now maybe the armbian repositories do not work anymore with this tag version ? ./armbian-build/compile.sh docker USE_MAINLINE_GOOGLE_MIRROR=yes BOARD=orangepizero BRANCH=current BUILD_KSRC=no RELEASE=bullseye BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no ROOTFS_TYPE=ext4 BOOTFS_TYPE=fat COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,img ' Processing triggers for resolvconf (1.87) ... [ o.k. ] Checking MD5 sum of installed packages…

Hello! I tried to update jessie dismally, here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/9984-apt-get-update-pointing-to-404-not-found-ip-151101240204-80/?do=findComment&comment=79685 Since then, I have been attempting to update to strech, I feel like I got close, but it's failed and I strongly suspect, my next reboot will hose it. (I will not reboot it, linux is wondeful!!) I updated my sources.list file to have the following 4 values. deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stre…

Hi, I'm trying to compile Armbian with TOC0 support for my opi-zero2, but am having difficulty getting the configuration setting to take effect. Opening the compiled disk image in a hex editor shows me what I believe is evidence the current u-boot does not have the toc0 flag set: I started by creating a patch file in userpatches: userpatches/u-boot/v2023.10/board_orangepizero2/orangepizero2_toc0.patch diff --git a/configs/orangepi_zero2_defconfig b/configs/orangepi_zero2_defconfig index f13735e91c..31f3c475e4 100644 --- a/configs/orangepi_zero2_defconfig +++ b/configs/orangepi_zero2_defconfig @@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ CONFIG_SPI=y CON…

good morning . can you explain something? . is it possible to use voice control to transmit audio wirelessly to the speakers with nanopi + NanoHat PCM5102A as happens with google assistant + chromecast audio?

hello, how to redirect audio output on jack instead of hdmi? cannot find any configuration... thanks a lot

Following the Armbian Guide (Section - Fine Tuning), I was able to change the audio sink but the change is not permanent on reboot. What am I missing ? Any hints would be appreciated Thanks

I am not shure if this is board specific so I post it here and hope that you might be willing to try this on your board: - I installed audit: apt install auditd - I set up a rule for a file audit should watch: auditctl -w /boot/armbianEnv.txt -p wa - I change or touch the file being watched: touch /boot/armbianEnv.txt - I have a look at the log of audit: cat /var/log/audit/audit.log And then ––– I see nothing... Any hints what's going wrong? My guess is that the kernel might be lacking the audit module?!

Hello, everybody. I am using Orange Pi Zero 2 Plus and I need to make autologin in my user. How do I do this? Thanks

Hello, Im using Orange Pi One with Armbian v6.6 (Ubuntu 24.04 CLI). I want to autologin to armbian and than auto run a python script. I already tried some things, but with no success. I will add screenshots of files what I modified. In the first screenshot in the red rectangle I modified it and changed every RealUserName to root as suggested in this thread: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16788-auto-user-login/ Or it doesnt work with root and I need to use user account? In the second screenshot I just added few lines according to this thread: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/7458-how-to-run-a-python-script-at-startup-on-orange-pi…

Hi all. I am not sure but it seems that all my Orange Pi boards will reboot by itself. I assume it is a setting some-ware as I see in the syslog something about unattended upgrades. If it is a setting where can I switch that off ? Regards.

Hello, I am new on the embedded system. I am using Orange Pi zero and I am having stuff with wlan configuration. I want to run the static ip for wifi on the board and reconnect after every time rebooting How I do that? I use 2 files below The eth0 works fine with this setup otherwise the wlan not active even though I used ifconfig wlan0 up but I using ifconfig wlan0 down, it got the static ip like the configuration file then I can't turn on or off using ifconfig up/down one more time Anyone help me? Thanks a lot!

Hello, I tried to install Gladys on Orange Pi and has succeeded. Now i want to start the OPi on fullscreen with Gladys (http://localhost:8080) on Chrome How to get it done in Armbian?

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

Hello everybody, I am not using OpenMediaVault but I am trying to implement some of its feautures into my existing system based on Armbian Bullseye, running on ODROID HC-2. Is there any tutorial or HowTo available that explains steb-by-step how to install and setup auto-shutdown feauture and WOL? I'd like my odroid hc-2 shut-down when not in use (especially over night) and let it auto-start again whenever I access it via \\myhost\share or \\192.168.0.1\someshare. If that's not possible then I can live with sending a WOL magic packet manually. Any known tutorial avaible for doing this on a ODROID-HC2 ?

Hello. I need to boot armbian without logs and start my application. I rebuilt and configured uboot and create splash screen with plymouth, so i have no any logs on screen until os boots. I use autologin by NODM, but after splash screen login string appears for a second. Can i disable this output? And the next question: how can i start my gui application without starting desktop?

hello, and sorry for my English I installed Armbian and i have many problem : 1/ I want a auto-login at startup, but I don't know how to do. 2/ I want stay the command line , and choose to startup on desktop. 3/ I have a problem to return to command line then i am on desktop (with default desktop). 4/ that other desktop works on Armbian and how to install them cordially Rachel

Hi, I'm new at this forum and I'm a little more than a newbie about linux for embedded systems. I need quickly to start an application on login of armbian, after the autologin of the user(no root). I don't know how to do. I did it in the past on archlinux using getty on tty1, but on armbian it not work. I put my application on /home/user/.profile. The system start, then I connect with ssh and my application start. It seems start as no logged user. Maybe is my board(nanopi neo) that has not output video and I can see output only with ssh or serial cable. Any advice ? Thanks a lot in advance

I'm a beginner and I'm really afraid that my work won't be wasted and I won't have to set everything up from scratch again. I installed on the BPI-M5 Armbian_25.2.1_Bananapim5_noble_current_6.12.13_ubuntu-server. But I need the server to simply log in when it reboots and start working without my participation. Please tell me if it would be correct to set up autologin as described below??? Step-by-step manual configuration of autologin, user "pi" Step 1: Verify that the pi user exists If you haven't created a pi user yet, do it.: sudo adduser pi If there is already a user, proceed to the next step. Step 2: Create an ov…

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

It would be super handy whilst also preconfiguring network / users / timezone ... that hostanem was in there also

Hi, I am searching to make a service running automatically at boot. I edited the .bash_profile and I added the command line service. In the OrangePi Pc2 and in the NanoPi Fire3 SOCs the procedure is perfectly working. In Orange Pi Zero Plus2 (with Armbian) this procedure doesn't work. Could you please help me to let start a procedure at boot? Thanks.

Hi everyone, I'm new to creating my own images and I'm learning this just because I'm interested in it. I am trying to build ubuntu 24.04 for my rpi3b using the build configuration for rpi4b. Now I'm trying to automate the process of the first launch (skip the selection of bash, zsh, creating a password for root, creating a regular user, etc.). In one of the topics, I found out that I can delete "rm -rf/root/.not_logged_in_yet" And the system will not ask for the initial setup, but to make all the necessary changes for me, I wrote a small function in customize-image.sh: SettingSystemFirtsRun() { #disable defaut script sudo rm -rf…

Hello I am using cubieboard 1. I have 3 problems 1) How to format sd card and auto mount when the cubieboard starts? 2) How to store mariadb database and www folder in sd card? I dont have enough space in nand. i want mariadb stores database in sd card 3) How to configure freedns afraid?

Good day! I can not auto-flush. The directory is created / deleted when installing / removing the flash. But the mount does not happen - error 1. /var/log/arbian-hardware-monitor.log Fri Oct 26 19:51:50 UTC 2018 | Orange Pi Lite | 5.65 | armhf | armv7l | 4.14.78-sunxi To autoload flash: /etc/udev/rules.d/20-automount_flash.rules ACTION=="add" KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]" RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /media/%k" ACTION=="add" KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]" RUN+="/bin/mount uid=1000 /dev/%k /media/%k" ACTION=="remove" KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]" RUN+="/bin/rmdir /media/%k" result in: /var/log/daemon.log Process '/bin/mount ui…

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 @all, i built this: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Lyric-Monitor-for-Stage/ running armbian-OS. In order to have an external power switch, i made this: using pin 7 and gnd and it works! the script is successfully doing a shutdown. but, to run that program ("pushbuttons.c" compiled to "pushbuttons") in anything other than root, he wants the password. and i really dont know how to add it to autostart (in "settings"), because i dont know how to fill in the "command" field. like "sudo ./program"? Thank you so much für any help.

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Explain it on your fingers, or I do not understand. How can I make my python script run when I turn on my NanoPI, without logging in, without entering a login, password?

Hi there, Is there a way to make an automatic switch between AV and HDMI when HDMI connector is connected/disconnected? ie By default AV composite signal is ON, if HDMI is detected while booting, then video and sound are output to HDMI instead of AV/L/R output. I read that if both TV out and HDMI are enable at the same time it can result in artifacts on HDMI and for that reason TV was disabled by default. So is there a way to detect if HDMI is plugged in, and if so disable TV out. I would say it needs 2 .bin files with each config, but how to detect if HDMI is present before loading .bin and load the right .bin according to situation? …

Hi Friends, I am trying to check mDNS and xmDNS services in our companies product. As part of that i am discovering the services of xmDNS using Avahi-discover. If i am announcing the service with domain ".local" (Link-local Multicast ) Avahi-discover is able to discover and querying the services. But if i am try to announce the service with domain ".site" (Site local multicast). Avahi-discover is not able to discover the services and not querying the services. Can somebody give me some advice to solve this problem. Many thanks.

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

Hi All We are having a problem where on booting the /var/log is filled and uses all mmc storage space. Does anyone know how to intervene in te booting process to stop this mapping and filling up of the fs? This issue sometimes causes the device to fail to boot properly and remain inaccessible. (It may indeed be that an unclean shutdown is causing this problem). Booting up properly is essential for us and we do not want or need these logs . We send the logs over the server, so capture these anyways. This posting refers to our same issue: Any help much appreciated. Thank you for Armbian! Best wishes Eric

Hello, I've recently build a custom image for Olimex's A13 SOM (details here) ### armbian-release: # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=olimex-som-a13 BOARD_NAME="SOM-A13" BOARDFAMILY=sun5i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/olimex/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=65b71245 VERSION=5.92 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=user-built BOARD_TYPE=csc INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage uname -r 5.0.21-sunxi I am able to play audio via DAC output using alsa. What I've noticed is that when I play and audio file for the first time (in the last 5 seconds) it starts very qui…

There's a cheap M2 SSD, for example for sale here, but it would be a bad idea to use it in any ARM board with an M2 drive slot. I have one of these M2 drives in my laptop, and I learned the hard way how slow it will get within 1 year's use, like 30MB/sec read, 8.5 MB/sec write! Over time, this drive will gradually go slower and slower and slower, until you figure out you need a firmware upgrade. Then you'll need to use the closed-source firmware-upgrading CLI utility that Micron publishes. There is a version for linux, but it's AMD64 only. You might think you can put the M2 drive in a USB-3.0 enclosure, then firmware upgrade it in that enclosure…

Hi, could anyone tell me how to disable pek short interrupt in mailine? I've already tried with "i2cset -f -y 0 0x34 0x42 0x01" but with no success. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

I found relatively little information concerning AXP209 support on mainline. My targets : - set the battery as 4.35V instead of 4.2V. Datasheet say it's set in REG 33H. Defaut value for register : 0xCX, X being the charge current. if 1200mAh then default value is 0xC9. To change from 4.2 to 4.35V, use EXh (so E9h if you'r using 1200mA) 11001001 to 11101001.) - Remove boot when AC plugged in and boot only when PEK is pressed. Datasheet say it's possible is not clear about how to do it. It may be reg40 bit6. I could not test yet as REG40 strangely reads 0x00 with i2cget. - Set GPIO0 and GPIO1 as ADC. GPIO0 function is REG 90H (see page 40 datasheet). GPIO1…

What is the recommended way to back up a user's *.img? I ask b/c I crashed the OS (Debian 11 Xfce) after a number of hours by upgrading via Synaptic -- don't know which of the upgrade group did the damage. It was a major pain to go back through everything I had done. I tried the very nice script "image-backup" from the image-utils developed by user RonR on the RPi Forum, but it complains about the wrong Partition config. Is there a method that is known to work? TIA

for yonger newbees , i may contribute for ther progress . i backup from 32G sd card , and restore it to 16G sd card . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- i usually use debiandog linux (a kind of debian ) as backup and restore tool . 1) insert 32G sd card to sd card reader . 2)insert the sd card reader into usb interface of debiandog . 3) mount /dev/sdb1 /mb1 4) mkdir /ArmBack 5) ( cd /mb1 ; tar cvpf - .)|(cd /ArmBack ; tar xpf -) 6) umoun /mb1 7) remove sd card reader and then 32G sd card . then i prepare 16G sd card . A) insert 16G sd card to sd card reader and insert the sd ca…

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

Hello I would like to backup my SD card so that in case of crash I do not have to make all the config again. I tried to make the image with Win32Diskimg, the image is done, but when I put it again on the board, it doesn't boot. Is there a special process to make this image ? Thanks Greg

I am creating a script that can backup sd-cards running on the system, resizing it with desired value or via resize2fs calculated. I learn a lot but there are a few things I don't fully understand. When I create a backup I dd what I understand is the bootsector, ie I grab the "start" position of the partition I am backing up with fidisk and use that value and a blocksize of 512. I then add another 10mb (in bytes) just to be sure. Usually the bootsector is 8192 big, but not always (IIRC nanopi neo3;s is WAY bigger). dd bs=512 count=$DDBOOTSECTOR if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=$IMG_FILE conv=noerror,sync status=progress I then truncate the file, calculated eithe…

Hi, if anybody would like to use - please see attached script for backup of block devices. I used it when executing backup for topics: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2073-orange-pi-plus-2e-upgrade-to-520/and http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1681-migrate-from-orange-pi-plus-2-to-orange-pi-plus-2e/ Requirement: dd, gzip, ssh client (I guess they should be available by default on every system) lsblk, mount (should be available on every system) pv tool; you may install it "apt-get install pv" Script is identifying list of available block devices. The condition is that it should be block device with at least one partition and it cannot be mounted at the…

So basically if I wish to backup the sd card after installing the Armbian OS, how would I do that? In raspbian we put the image to sd card using win32diskimager. To backup the sd card we can just read the data back to computer and name the img file. How can we do that in armbian at least the easy way? Why we can view raspbian image's folder from window? What I understand is linux use ext4 file format which window cannot recognise as with armbian sd card? Many Many thanks!!

HI all, having finally got my Nanopi m4 v2s setup as I want them ( bionic ) and pretty stable too. I would like to setup a nightly backup , I have Postgres installed so would want that data backed up to . Do any of you have any suggestions as to the best way / strategy to do this ? I have external SSD' and USB drives available

Hello fellow Armbian users, Ne1 knows how to backup the armbian tvheadend version? I want to transfer the configuration to another armbian system. Greets from The Netherlands Vaoske

How to make a copy (backup) flash drives with installed operating system on it ? I need a program for windows.

I failed my password attempts (5 times) a few days ago. The account is still not allowing for a login. I have attempted to remove the password from /ect/shadow but I am still getting prompted for a password, so either I didnt do it right or it didnt save.

The espressobin has three ethernet ports. In Ubuntu Armbian, left to right (looking into the ports), they're called "lan1", "lan0", and "wan". The weird thing is that you can't bring them up until you've *first* brought up eth0, which is not associated with a physical port. This causes all kinds of havoc trying to use /etc/network/interfaces/, because it takes a couple of seconds for eth0 to come up, in which time the other interfaces have already failed. 1) What is this mysterious eth0? 2) My attempts to bridge lan0 and lan1 from .../interfaces have failed. Got an example you can give me?

Hi guys, I try to reinstall my tvheadend, but unfortunately it always tells me suddenly some depencies which I can't solve. libhdhomerun4 (>= 20200521) But it's installed and in Buster stable only available: libhdhomerun4:armhf (20180327-1) When i try to install it manuelly, then there is the next depency to libc-bin and so on... a never ending story. Actually tvheadend worked already quite well, but suddenly it stopped working. So I thought maybe it's the best idea to reinstall tvheadend. And now there is even bigger trouble.

is there any plan for a fix? also i tried usb wifi but this one is constantly dropping .... [ 955.206493] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-platform [ 955.252439] i2c i2c-0: mv64xxx_i2c_fsm: Ctlr Error -- state: 0x2, status: 0x0, addr: 0x34, flags: 0x0 [ 955.368151] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8176, bcdDevice= 2.00 [ 955.368168] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 955.368174] usb 1-1: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter [ 955.368180] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek [ 955.368188] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 [ 955.373535] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0…

Hello, everybody! Today I've got very interesting behavior during debian8-3.4.112 startup. If the network cable is plugged in - everything is ok. dhclient starting correctly with an ip address obtained from dhcp server. BUT! If the board started with unolugged network cable, dhclient do not start. Moreover, if I try to connect network cable when the system is up and running, dhclient is never start and network is unreachable respectively. Does somebody knows how to solve this problem?\ Thanx a lot!

Hello! I haven't had any problems with the updates so far, but today it no longer works. Maybe someone has an idea what the problem is? armbian.list deb http://mirror-eu-de1.armbian.airframes.io/dl/ buster main buster-utils buster-desktop deb http://apt.armbian.com buster main buster-utils buster-desktop apt update... root@fulla:~# apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change --allow-insecure-repositories update Hit:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease Hit:5 http://security.debian.org buster/updates I…

Hi, FYI, there might be an issue with old, slow hardware. Yesterday I installed the minimal Ubuntu 26.04 current 6.18.24 downloaded from https://armbian.com/boards/bananapi on my old Banana Pi on an similar old 8GB SD by sandisk. It runs normaly, but cannot set up the end0 during booting. Doing an "ip link set end0 up" manually on cli afterwards immediately activated end0, so my solution was using an script to do this command after booting. The AI aiding me thinks it's just the slow hardware causing a timeout when it should set up the interface during booting. Just wanted to let you know.

I'm trying to find the img for the Banana Pi BPI-M1+ or Pi BPI-M1 arm64 in the archive, can you help me? Debian buster minimal img

Hello guys. I have Banana Pi BPI-M2-Ultra v1.1 board with A40i chip I download img from armbian "Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.86_Bananapim2ultra_noble_current_6.6.62_xfce_desktop.img.xz" and write it on microSD(HC) 32Gb A1 10 class with balena etcher. Then plug it in a board and turn on. Here is uart debug output 11:14:41.598 -> 11:14:42.396 -> U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-Pb2fe-H0429-V0f9a-Bda0a-R448a (Nov 17 2024 - 03:22:36 +0000) 11:14:42.429 -> DRAM: 2048 MiB 11:14:42.429 -> Trying to boot from MMC1 11:14:42.728 -> ns16550_serial serial@1c28000: pinctrl_select_state_full: uclass_get_device_by_phandle…

I noticed the BPI-M4 Zero is supported. It's the same SoC as the BPI-M4 Berry and mostly the same hardware (8GB eMMC, 2GB RAM). The main differences seem to be the ports. Is there a chance the image would work? Is the BPI-M4 Berry possibly going to get support?

I still have a Banana Pi BPI-R1 on which I wanted to install PiHole. Can't find a suitable image? Is the Banana Pi BPI-R1 still supported?

My Banana Pi get a kernel panic if I try to shut it down as you can see in the picture. How can I fix this? I'm using Armbian 22.02.1 with Linux 5.15.25-sunxi http://ix.io/3VHA sudo i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Hi, I'm not sure if Debian mainline supports this, but I can't get TV out on this board working after it starts the kernel. The boot loader shows up, but as soon as the message "starting kernel" or something, pops up, the signal cuts out. I've tried changing the boot.cmd, but it doesn't make much difference. I've seen suggestions to break into the u-boot console, but the keyboard doesn't work there. I'm afraid it works only in serial mode. Any ideas? Thanks!

I want to install can4linux on my Banana Pi, did someone also have this problem or did they manage to turn everything on correctly? : #make TARGET=BANANAPI compile with KDIR=/lib/modules/3.4.111-bananian/build/, at /root/can4linux/can4linux CC = cc make -C /lib/modules/3.4.111-bananian/build/ V=0 C=0 M=/root/can4linux/can4linux TARGET=BANANAPI modules make[1]: *** /lib/modules/3.4.111-bananian/build/: No such file or directory. Stop. Makefile:800: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 make: Nothing to be done for '/mnt'. Thank you in advance for your help

Problem: as the title says, banana pi m1 is not responding to ssh after several days and need restart to be functional again. System does have a sata 3.5" 500gb samsung hdd attached. It is connected to the network by wired lan 100mb. Software running is lighthttpd (previous apache) and php. usage: a raspberry pi camera send pictures to http server multiple times per day with html post method, there is also a php/html gallery with the pictures for viewing All website/www and pictures folders are stored on sata hdd. There is also a cron job for erasing old pictures every 5 mins, quota now is set to 100GB. as ls ta…

Hello everyone, maybe I can get a solution here. My banana Pi M1 mainly runs as an energy-saving recording module for web radio etc. and is occasionally updated "by hand". Since I felt the bananian was hopelessly outdated, armbian runs on the dwarf. Recently there was also the update from 5.10 to 5.15. Kernel included: linux-dtb-current-sunxi/focal 22.02.1 armhf [aktualisierbar von: 21.08.2] linux-image-current-sunxi/focal 22.02.1 armhf [aktualisierbar von: 21.08.2] Unfortunately, the banana Pi can no longer be shut down cleanly, kernel panic, hangs and does not switch off. Reinstalled the old kernel and stapled it down, all good a…

No matter which image I take (stretch/bionic; Bananapim2/Bananapim2ultra; 5.38/5.69) my Banana Pi M2 Berry with it's Allwinner V40 won't boot correctly. The attached screen stays off and the LED keeps shining red. I used Etcher 1.4.9 portable to copy the image to an 16 GB MicroSD. It's worth mentioning that the Pi and the MicroSD work just fine if I'm running it with another distro, like the 2018-05-24-raspbian-jessie-preview-bpi-m2u-sd-emmc.img from the official website. If I'm using the image Armbian_5.69_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.13, then I'm able to access the Pi via ssh. Yet, the screen won't work at all. As an interesting side …

How can I setup my banana pi M2 H2+ ARMBIAN 5.41 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS 3.4.113-sun8i camera module I set this command "sudo modprobe sunxi_csi1" and returned: "modprobe: FATAL: Module sunxi_csi1 not found in directory /lib/modules/3.4.113-sun8i" I Don't see /dev/video0 Can I confirm and setup my camera module?

Hi, Is there support planned for this board anytime soon? I've been using Armbian on my Banana Pi M1 since more than a year ago and I've been thinking of upgrading to a more powerful board and the M2 seems quite nice. Thanks!

Hello, Is it possible to set the speed of the UART3 to 921600 baud instead of 115000? How to do it? I need to connect to an arduino at that speed. I have tried with minicom but I can't get it. I have also tried to put the following command dtoverlay=miniuart-bt in /boot/armbianEnv.tx but it doesn't work either. to 115000 if I can connect well, therefore the port works correctly Is there any way?

Hi, New to this forum. Hope someone can please assist. I recently purchased a tiny 5" display UMPC device. See instagram/puterpi for photos. There's also YouTube video of it in action by maker too. I installed Armbian image: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-m2-zero-new-image-2017-12-04-armbian-5-36-m2-zero-ubuntu-xenial-next-4-14-3-desktop-preview-buildbybpi/4325 Overall, works great. However, I periodically get the following error message at boot up in console and device will not boot up. Only fix I have now is to res-install image file. missing environment variable: boot file Retrieving…

Hi guy's urgent help needed, I have banana pi m2 zero and I need the hdmi Waveshare 7inch LCD settings help. I have tried to change the config file also dts file, none of those worked. Tried to build with hdmi lcd (internet help) - none Could any one point out what is need to be done to get it work? thank you

After some frustration with poor support for Banana Pi M2 Zero board by the manufacturer and not a very active community on Banana Pi forums, I stumbled upon Armbian and found out there's a CSC for building Armbian for this board. And because I'm having issues with wifi on the images found on Banana forums, with all images being old and based on kernel 3.4 -- wifi disconnects with some weird firmware errors in dmesg after about 3 minutes of running, requiring reboot to get back up again -- I was happy to read Armbian runs fine on BPI-M2Z for some folks here. So I did the build process, twice, so that I have two images to test, one with kernel 4.19 and one with 5.1, b…

Recently we bought several BananaM2+ boards to integrate them into our future fiscal project We are developing software using Armbian Linux Debian-3.4.113-sun8i with standard core, which was chosen as a stable platform. For now we have a problem with integration. Due to our fiscal laws the board should be placed in the fiscal box with no access from outside. Now we are testing the board “on the table†using typical operations (even without loading it by typical cashiers operations) and the temperature rises very high. As a result the board starts switching off processor’s cores leaving only 1 working. We even still haven’t started testing the board placed into…

Hey. I have a banana pi m2u (Allwinner A40), I created a debian stretch console image, but ethernet interface does not work. The eth0 interface is not visible in the system. Could you say what could be wrong?

I have worked with Raspberry pi for some time but I need a board with SATA port so I can plug in my hard drive directly so I got a Banana Pi M2U from ebay. When It arrived I thought this will be normal as my Raspberry pi So I downloaded image (Raspbian Jiessie) from http://www.banana-pi.org/m2u-download.html and burn it to SD card and boot up. It booted up I worked it with for few weeks and noticed it's not stable Pi Randomly Crash and I can't use a sata port multiplier. Then I found about armbian, So I went to armbian site and download the image for banana pi m2 and burn it with etcher and put the sd card to pi but it won't boot up, no display and and only one led on the…

Hello, I have read a lot of posts and the topic is described many times but I have a problem with moving armbian buster with Linux 5.4.28-sunxi to emmc in banana pi m3. I am not fluent in Linux, I took out m3 and I want to put home assistant on it. I don't know what I'm doing wrong to run armbian with emmc. Does not start. Please don't yell at me, help me please.

Hello, i have an Issue with my Touchscreen on my Banana Pi running Armbian Bullseye. The colors are not correct ... everything shows with a ?brown / red? touch and the Position are not correct ... Top 5 pixel border and bottom 5 pixel cut. I check the display ... it works fine when i plugin on my desktop pc ... so the hardware should be fine. Is there maybe anyone who can help me with that? I haven´t found a solution for this by myself or by google around. System: Banana PI M5 with prebuild Armbian 22.11 Bullseye CLI on internal MMC directly downloaded from the Armbian Website -> https://www.armbian.com/bananapi-m…

On my Banana Pi M5 Armbian Jammy has a strange device name assignment. BPi-M5 has internal 16GB eMMC normally named mmcblk0 and microSD named mmcblk1. Normally it boots from SD and if you install an OS like Raspberry OS for BPi into eMMC, you're still able to boot from SD another OS because RaspiOS maps device correctly. But when Armbian (i.e. Jammy) is installed into eMMC it changes eMMC device to mmcblk1 and SD to mmcblk0, and It prevents SD to boot. And if the eMMC OS corrupts and doesn't boot the SBC bricks and TTL connection is needed to erase boot record. To change OS it's necessary a command to delete boot record and SD on mmbl…

Hi All What is current working image for banana pi pro? Can't find any except one in archive (bookworm) which is not perfect.

I cannot understand how the drivers (dtb) could be choosen properly for banana pi pro. I download the 4.5 wheezy version for Banana Pi Pro but dmesg shows that the board is a "banana pi BP1-M1": [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.2.3-sunxi (root@production) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.2-16ubuntu4) ) #2 SMP Sun Oct 11 14:12:18 CEST 2015 [ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc074] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d [ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache [ 0.000000] Machine model: Banana Pi BPI-M1 I checked the /boot directory and I see that the script.bin is linked with "bananapi.bin" even inside /boot/bin we can…

Hi,I installed a fresh image today, one Armbian_21.08.3_Bananapipro_focal_current_5.10.60.img. Short check showed that there is an undefined traffic taking place, please see images. funny is that the open ports are not associated with any processes. does anyone have an idea what is behind it? buggy? trojan in the kernel? Johanes