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Since 23 hours, 23 views, no reply's. So I have ordered a 4 pack of the latest 4gig bananna pi's, and would like to know: 1. if Armbian will work on them, and 2. If octoprint-1.8.6 can be installed in a python venv so I can get back to work on a room full of 3d FDM printers. off topic, I have been running an apt update at about 8 hour intervals on the rock64's but while error msgs are, or were displayed on the hdmi output, no xserver appears to be start-able, the hdmi display has now gone dark without its declaring a loss of signal so I have to assume it is generating a synch signal of some sort. I can ssh -Y into both f…

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

Hi. I problem with the board banana pi r1, I've installed a couple of system on it, but I can't get the ip address from the router, I have a banana pi m1 and with the same image it works, but when I remove the sd memory and install it on banana pi r1 and it doesn't work. The bpi-r1 is broken the ethernet port or something like that? When the bpi-r1 starts running turn on the green light in the ethernet port, that doesn't happen with the bpi-m1 model. any idea, I've installed with the debian installer, but is the same problem, the ethernet doesn't work when I am configuring the net

Hey, I'm trying to setup the ports of the switch correctly but I don't arrive anywhere. I'm using the mainline armbian for my R1. There are different files in /etc/network(e.g.): -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 495 18. Jun 2017 interfaces.r1 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 610 18. Jun 2017 interfaces.r1router -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 359 18. Jun 2017 interfaces.r1switch But even if I completely copy a configuration file to /etc/network/interfaces there are still no packets arriving at the Ports named lan1 to lan4. I checked this with tcpdump -i interfaceName, but all packets are arriving at eth0. Only some IPv6 packets are arriving at the lan-ports. …

Hello, I have Banana Pi R2 with armbian bionic. Have two wlan cards both USB, both works. But earlier when I used openwrt on x86 my both wlan and lan were bridged and had one IP - which was router IP. Here with armbian wlan hotspot get other IP than armbian itself. Is there any way to change it to bridge? Or best practices is to leave it as is? regards, Maciek

Hello, I try to run this image: Armbian_20.02.0-rc0_Bananapir2_buster_legacy_4.19.97_minimal.img on Sinovoip Banana PI R2 (from SD card) and on 1-st boot i'm stuck: Tx DQM dly bit4 = 0x0 DRAMC_DQODLY1=79A98889h DRAMC_DQODLY2=8988B99Ah DRAMC_DQODLY3=2203123h DRAMC_DQODLY4=31103014h Tx DQ dly bit4 = 0x0 Tx DQS dly = 0x8949 Tx DQS dly bit4 = 0x0 TX Byte0: DQ - 16, DQS - 17. win_sum= 32 TX Byte1: DQ - 21, DQS - 13. win_sum= 33 TX Byte2: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 TX Byte3: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 DRAMC calibration takes 651397386 CPU cycles [EMI] DRAMC calibration passed [MEM] complex R/W mem test pass 0:dram_rank_size:80000000 [Dram_Buffer]…

Hi, as I am testing ARMBian (Vanilla Kernel) and also testing to set up a reliable Seafile server on my banana Pi, I would like to hear some opinions from the Pro's here (Igor, tkaiser, zador.blood.stained) I'm thinking of choosing btrfs for my data SSD hooked on SATA port and here I am not sure about following questions: * Trim support * performance compared to ext4 writing reading especially smaller chunks (seafile makes chunks out of big files) * reliability? I can hardly find any info regarding "ARMBian and btrfs" * Current drawbacks? May be btrfs is not the right choice for servers like Seafile? * Is btrfs good for SSD? May be it has more indirect write …

Hi Need help! SATA stopped working on the latest Armbian 21.08.3 Bananapipro buster current 5.10 after upgrading from Armbian 20.05.1 Bananapipro buster current 5.4.43. Does anyone know how to get it back?

Hi Guys, I buy me in LCD-Display (BL035-RGB). This will be connect to my Banana PRO. All this I do, how it is described on this page "here". After change the config, add the script.bin and reboot, the display do nothing. It all the time black. It come no flash or something. My question is, what I have to change on my Banana Pro? I have install ARMBINA 5.31 (4.11.6-sunxi). One thing. How I can test the LCD-Display for conection? Can I send commandos to the Display? thanks for YOU help.

Hy Everybody. For my Work, I need an Access Point into the Bananapi M64. So I have followed this tutorial: https://www.awasu.com/weblog/bpi-gateway/wifi-access-point/ And more precisely: First, install the packages needed to compile: sudo apt-get install gcc git make sudo apt-get install libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev openssl libssl-dev pkg-config Then, get the source for hostapd: cd /tmp git clone git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap.git Then, configure it: cd hostap/hostapd cp defconfig .config Edit .config and make sure that CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y and CONFIG_LIBNL32=y are active i.e. not …

I just tried to get the dhclient on eth0 to communicate with my ISP (which uses dhcp). On OpenWrt, this works with no problem. However, all I got on the bpi-r2 (eth0) was a 169.x (no answer) address. For the internal network, the dhclient works just fine. I have already tried using eth0 in systemd's network and outside of it (using dhclient). No communication in both cases. ta, t.

This may not be an 'armbian' thing at all, but if not, maybe I'll get a little direction. My first "image" with armbian I downloaded had some 3.4.x kernel on it. After some learning, I was able to get GPIO to work with it. I had some other limitations though. So, I decided to build my own image (buster) so I could customize it. After booting, I GPIO did not work. I explored this, but was unable to to get it to work. I tried a -legacy version (which was 4.x) but also, GPIO did not work. This is my first sunxi experience. So, I'm not sure of the tricks used to get it to work. Either it's broken, or there are patches/config for the kernel …

Hy i Would like to make a made home box tv with openelec do you think i can use infrared of my bananapi m64 for a remote controler

Hi, I just migrated to armbian freom bananian using exactly the same hardware components (that were working well with bananian) and now after let armbian auto configure the wifi AP with armbian-config, I can see many problems in starting hostad: Spoiler hostapd v2.5 for Realtek rtl871xdrv root@bananapi:~# hostapd -d /etc/hostapd.conf random: Trying to read entropy from /dev/random Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf ctrl_interface_group=0 drv->ifindex=4 l2_sock_recv==l2_sock_xmit=0x0x16e1ae8 BSS count 1, BSSID mask 00:00:00:00:00:00 (0 bits) Completing interface initialization Mode: IEEE 802.11g Channel: 5 Frequency: 2432 MHz DFS …

Hello everyone, I have a home dashboard (apache2 + php website) on this bananapi since 2018, when I installed a new SSD on it, now I noticed I can't open my dashboard anymore, and when I checked the logs I seen the drive was set to read-only mode. I started to copy my data from it, but I hope I won't need to change the ssd drive. Anyone around to give me some advices, how I could check and fix eventually the existing drive? Bellow are some logs. Thank you root@bananapi:/var/log# dmesg | grep sda [ 2.876748] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte logical blocks: (120 GB/112 GiB) [ 2.876842] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is…

I've got Bananapi M1 with broken sd card detect pin (pad is delaminated and I cannot solder it to ground). In the past I was able to mitigate this issue by patching file \linux-mainline\linux-4.14.y\arch\arm\boot\dts\sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts and replacing "cd-gpios...." line with "broken-cd;" . This fix does not work anymore with current stable image (kernel linux-5.15.y). Does anyone know how else to solve it? Does u-boot (Bananapi-defconfig) need to be modified as well?

Hello! I have BPI M1 and IR transmitter that connected to GPIO pin out. By default i have only /dev/lirc0 device, as i understood, lirc0 is used to receive from builtin receiver Could someone help me to make transmitter work as a transmit device for lirc? Thanks!

I am running Debian 9 on Bananapi M1 with custom built image. Board has SD-card detect pin broken that's why I patched sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts with below changes &mmc0 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&mmc0_pins_a>, <&mmc0_cd_pin_bananapi>; vmmc-supply = <&reg_vcc3v3>; bus-width = <4>; broken-cd; cd-inverted; status = "okay"; }; Everything works fine until I upgrade any or all of below three packages: linux-dtb-next-sunxi linux-image-next-sunxi linux-u-boot-bananapi-next The upgrade goes through fine but after rebooting the system …

Hey, I am struggling with my installation. Came from an ubuntu 1,5 to 2 years old. And startet Updates because my bananapi lost the connection. only rebooting helped. So I thought I get rid of this behaviour by getting the latest Software. It actually got worse. I ended up recognizing read errors on the ssd, where the system runs on. I startet with a fresh sd and newest armbian. System Runs stable. But when I attach the ssd and Mount it, I get errors After some time. I did Not yet transferred the new system to ssd. Its the old ssd. Any idea what I should check or the error is? see Screenshots. https://m.imgur.com/a…

Hello On the bananapi forum I noticed Igor's post (2018/08/22) that is for download image for bananapi m2 ultra. Support is not provided. I have a question about the sound device. This one directly from the SOC R40 is not supported and no one is working on it as. I spied this in the matrix for allwinner. But I use an external sound card on usb https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G141629380416. It works with every kernel and single board. And here in the case of the 4.18 kernel and bananapi m2 ultra, there are problems with getting connected to the pulseaudio server; which does not work at all. Is there a chance that this will be corrected.…

Is there a way to skip this phase? Is it possible to force board to boot from SD card again? I have BananaPI M2 Ultra v1.1 board and my goal is to get this little device boot Linux OS from its eMMC storage. So I entered URL https://www.armbian.com/bananapi-m2u/, connected board with keyboard, display and ethernet switch and downloaded image (Bookworm CLI). Then I followed document at https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/ and was able to get my board boot from SD card. Then I made configurations as guided and lastly proceeded installation to eMMC. Then I made poweroff, took SD card out and started board. Boot started nicely but sadly stuck at sta…

Hallo, I hope the topic hasn't existed before .. I have an Bananpi M2+ as H5 (64bit). Good Images are OrangePi-PC2 or NanoPi K1 Plus. My problem is, no support of emmc. Are there any known compatible images for the Banana Pi M2 + H5 that work? The NanoPi K1 Plus has problems rebooting and recognizing a keyboard. The OranngeP PC2 works fine, but no emmc support. Thanks and Best wishes, Mahdi2006

Hi folks, i was running Openmediavault 5 on an BananaPi M1 with Amrbian Buster for years and it worked all fine. Now i "upgraded" to an M2U because of the RAM and real Sata support. I installed the newest stable buster image 20.08 (also tried old ones and the nightly) because OMV does not support bullseye yet. After this, i just did "apt update" and "apt install armbian-config". I have choosen in softy the OMV setup. I also tried it again with the OMV install script for Armbian. In both cases i couldn't install it. I waited with softy almost 24h to install it, but it got stuck (no cpu usage, nothing happens). …

Hello guys! i had download armbian for bananapi m3(a83t) from arambian for bpi-m3. And braking my mind with friending sinovoip LCD+touchscreen module. I tried all the known options for me to connect the LCD display S070WV20HG-DC16 with the touchscreen on the ft5x_ts driver, and failed because apparently not smart enough for this, the my brains are exploding. In the kernel, I did not find the drivers on the display (S070WV20_MIPI_RGB) and the driver on the screen in the kernel is not compiled. Is anyone can correct in the device tree file the parameters for the LCD section for the display as I understood the data can be taken from the fex file: …

Hi, I had Armbian based on kernel 4.19 installed on emmc. It was running pretty good for a long time but recently it was automatically upgraded to kernel 5.3.9 and started to restart while booting. I had collected a log (see attachment), It looks like it was unable to find root partition and this is most likely caused by issue with axp20x_device_probe. Is this a known issue? Is there any remedy? minicom.log

Hi, I compiled from scratch an armbian image and kernel, and in these ones the eMMC /dev/mmcblk1 is not present. If I try the (outdated 4.14) official images, the eMMC is present. Any ideas ? Thanks https://pastebin.pl/view/ba06da6f

I've got one of these boards. It is just Kernel development that has ceased as there are no maintainers? (Had I had the skills, I would have happily maintained it. ;-( ) Also, to get the latest Kernel later on, is it as simple as obtaining the official sources and then compiling (or cross-compiling to ARM) and then install the Kernel? On this one I'm a bit like a duck out of water and if anyone can point me along the right path, all help will be greatly appreciated.

i want to use led on/off 7 pin (gpio 40 header) but it doesn’t work. Others work fine: echo 20 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo 23 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo 40 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo 42 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio20/direction echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio23/direction echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio40/direction echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio42/direction echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio20/value echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio23/value echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio40/value echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio42/value May be problem in pwm10 pwm10 { …

Hi! There are Images for an old/original Lemaker "Banana Pi" up to 03/2021 in the archive, but from that time onward it seems like only "Banana Pi Pro" is supported with new images. Is it possible and save to use such "Banana Pi Pro"-image for the old Banana Pi too or should I stick to the last archived version of the "Banana Pi"-image? Datasheet looks almost identically, both with same SOC Allwinner20 and CPU CortexA7 and only the SD-slot and GPIO-pins are different, so I thought I'd try the Pro-Image, which also does install and run ok. But I have strange issues running some software (iobroker) afterwards, so I'm not sure if this migh…

Hello, My BananaPI is booting from SSD and everything is working fine. To maintain SSD I want to use the TRIM function weekly. Is this function already implemented and works automatically or do I need to install it via CRON-Job?

Hello. I've an BananaPi H3 with Armbian Stretch 5.73 and 4.19.17-sunxi. I use this with USB HDD for Plex DLNA media server, Amule and other service. I've a strange problem with network interface. The Bananapi ( IP 192.168.1.41) is connect to a Mikrotik RB260 switch. in the same swith is connected a NAS ( IP 192.168.1.21). The switch is connect to the router RB4011 (IP 192.168.1.1). When i've start the service Amule and PlexMediaServer, i've difficult to ping the router 192.168.1.1 and the connection is foult and i've ~1500ms ping, but if i ping 192.168.1.21 ( in the same switch), the connection is OK and i've 0ms ping. If i ping 192.1…

Hey there since i got a Bananapi-R1 recently ive started to notice that there are no up to Date Images out there. Official support is over since 2016 and none of the Images later than Ubuntu 16.04 i found started booting or even have a working Download Link! So i had to figure out how i could get a later Version installed on my Board by myself! I have compiled a Bullseye Image that works fine, the only things ive noticed are missing OTG and WirringPi Support! Maybe someone knows a way how to get it working?? As i wrote before i couldnt find any recent Images out there, so i compiled some with this well documented Compiler by Armbian. SSH…

Greetings all; I have a pile of bananapi-m5's, all used behind a home.arpa local network. I am the only one here, and no one but me will ever have access to these machines. So I need full access from any other machine on my local network. I updated one that I am slowly configuring to drive a bigger enter5+ 3d printer. New mobo in the rinter so I am starting from square one. Using klipper and mainsail as web interfaces to klipper. Now it goes to a no screen condition at about the time it used to bring up the login requester, but I can still access it via ssh -X me & my pw., but don't have full access cuz x or whatever is not…

Hello, I'm looking to buy an ARM SBC with: Bluetooth Connection for monitor x3 CPU: x86 AMD Graphics integrated LAN x2 Mobo: I'm unsure on mini pc mobos, but needed? Power Ram: 16-32GB preferred Storage: small is fine 32GB-256GB, nothing large like 1TB USB for mouse USB for spare Wi-Fi for hotspot I usually use Raspberry Pi 5, however the Bananapi-M7 appears to have dual port, although I haven't confirmed the other requirements I need. The question is which OS do I download please? as per https://www.armbian.com/bananapi-m7/

Hello to all, I've followed this thread to compile the new u-boot and kernel: The only difference during the instructions was that I've had to enable the 'EXPERT="yes"' mode to access BananaPiPro. After patching and compiling, the result was: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 176360 Jun 3 04:42 linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.88_armhf.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10597964 Jun 3 04:42 linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.88_armhf.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20541784 Jun 3 04:42 linux-image-next-sunxi_5.88_armhf.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 396289200 Jun 3 04:43 linux-source-next-sunxi_5.88_all.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 247868 Jun 3 04:43 linux-u-boot-next-bananapipro_5.88_a…

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

Hi, my new Orange Pi has been set up with an external HDD. I've backed up my banana pi m1 with sudo tar cvpzf /mnt/BackupNas/backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/boot / and restored the files onto the external HDD on the OPI. A restart was successfully and the system appears to run smoothly. It now doesn't display the nice text after logging in via SSH. I am afraid that there are other important files overwritten. Does anybody know what I might have overwritten and needs to be restored from plain armbian? Thanks René

I'm using Armbian bullseye on an Odroid HC2 with 2 GB of RAM with OpenMediaVault. Its memory usage used to be around 10% before starting any docker services, and a cool 50-60% while running things like Nextcloud, Vaultwarden etc. It used to jump to around 80% when some headless Chromium processes ran intermittently, but overall, it's been quite stable. I don't recall to make any significant changes to the system, yet suddenly the baseline memory usage jumped to around 50%, making my system extremely slow and unstable, with service and system restarts now occuring several times a day. I couldn't extract any useful clue about what's using all that RAM, with `sys…

Hi all, I've just installed Armbian on my OPi3-lts and I'm trying to get the IR remote working (the iDroid included in the kit from aliexpress). I've followed this guide (from "Second attempt" on), using only the kernel driver without intalling lirc. Found out the protocol (nec), wrote the rc_keymap file mapping the key codes to the button names and everything seems to work fine, down to the last command (sudo ir-keytable -v -t -p nec), which correctly gives me the codes and the button names associated with them. Now, the guide says it's all and I should be able to use the remote as I use my keyboard, but... the desktop and the apps seem not to be aw…

Hey guys, Using a A20 board with AXP209, using mainline, I am trying to add a battery indicator as an overlay on video signal so that user can see remaining battery %. Something similar to smartphone battery indicator. Any idea how to do this? This shows how to get battery % but how to add an overlay? This sounds like something that probably have already been done. Do you know any existing reference ?

This is bazel 0.10.0 for H3 device like: nanopi m1, nano pi neo, orange pi pc, orange pi one,... You'll need this when building tensorflow from source for our H3. Copy this file to /usr/local/bin to use it. Sorry for my bad English Bazel

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 folks, I was looking to activate the NPU on my beagley-AI chip, running armbian, and I couldn't find how. This chip as a NPU (AM67A) on the SOC from TexasInstruments (https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9783895766572_A50990365/preview-9783895766572_A50990365.pdf). The loading of the NPU seems to have failed: mesg | grep remoteproc [ 8.461511] k3-dsp-rproc 7e000000.dsp: configured DSP for remoteproc mode [ 8.461728] remoteproc remoteproc0: 7e000000.dsp is available [ 8.461868] k3-dsp-rproc 7e000000.dsp: register pm nitifiers in remoteproc mode [ 8.464448] k3-dsp-rproc 7e200000.dsp: configured DSP for remoteproc mode [ …

mainline kernel support, libreelec is allready working. is there any chance on getting amrbian ported here, i allready did some test and made it boot, but network does not get an ip adress link with ethtool show up and 1 gbit. same for the eachlink device

Hi Sirs, for first excuse me for my English. I followed all the instructions, used a 8GB class 10 SD Card, burned it with the program proposed, put in the Box but obtained only a purple led. After 30 mintes no other results. I don't know if I missed some steps, but it seems to do all correctly. No results at all at the present time. The S/N is X2HCAAG40056. Maybe could be blocked for upgrade or other? Actually the Vendor is 207K4. Thank you for your possible help. Have a Merry Christmas Gianluca

I don't know how to explain this, so I start with my hardware: Two Odroid HC1. I love swapping Kernels, default was 5.4.199 but that was "too old" because I like it bleeding edge. Did upgrade both to 5.17.5 and it works like a charm! Really good performance and some errors from dmesg disappeared too! However the problems did not wait for long: Kernel 5.19.x broke fstrim commands on my SATA drives so I rolled back, everything was good on 5.17.5 again. My logs showed TRIM was supported and running again, cheers! Now to the actual problem at hand and this might be my own doing. I froze the upgrades in armbian-config. Thinking this would prevent upgrading to the n…

Let me start by saying thank you all for the great work, it is appreciated! So a bit of info first. board: firefly rk3399-pc pro ( yeah I know it’s old, but so am I!) os: armbian Debian trixie kernel: 6.18.35 Bear with me, last time I touched Linux, lilo and xfree86 were things… I installed the community supported rk3399-firefly as I didn’t find a better match for the pro. Most of the hardware worked with the major exception of the audio. No problem, the rk3399-roc-plus.dts had the correct audio for the board all I needed to do was switch the audio portion into the rk3399-firefly.dts (though other aspects including just booti…

Après installation de Arbian sur Rock pi 4 c le son sur le Jack ne fonctionne pas car le driver carte son es. 8316 n'est pas pris en charge Le son sort malgré tout sur le HDMI de mon téléviseur Y aurait-il une solution

Hi, Now that I have my NanoPC-T4 working with hardware 3D acceleration, 1080p video playback, full development environment on NVMe, Think it's time for a backup. Has anyone found a usefull utility ? Or should I just use dd to dump the eMMC partions to image files on a USB attached drive and rsync to backup the NVMe the the same ? I'd imagine to restore just boot from an install image, don't install, just dd the images to their repective eMMC partitions and rysnc to restore. Has anyone had to restore a board and how well did your solution work for you ?

Hi, Now that I have my NanoPC-T4 working with hardware 3D acceleration, 1080p video playback, full development environment on NVMe, Think it's time for a backup. Has anyone found a usefull utility ? Or should I just use dd to dump the eMMC partions to image files on a USB attached drive and rsync to backup the NVMe the the same ? I'd imagine to restore just boot from an install image, don't install, just dd the images to their repective eMMC partitions and rysnc to restore. Has anyone had to restore a board and how well did your solution work for you ?

Hi, as I would like to replace my old Banana Pi M1, I wonder which SoC I should use. I'd like to spend maximum 100€. What's the newest supported SoC which is right now available? Already orderes a Raspberry Pi 4 Gb 9 month ago....but still no idea when it'll be delivered. As I really like ARMbian and OpenMediaVault, I'd like to stick with it. I'd like to have at least a quadcore, gigabit-lan and 2-4GB ram.

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 all I would like to start this topic to discuss on the best approach for having some degree of data integrity using ARM SBC (aarch64 SoC in primis) My goal is to set a big archive, I have in program to build 5x8TB HD, scheme TBD The goal is to have at least one hard drive failure tolerance, it is acceptable that some data is lost during rebuild, since the main goal of the archive is to store picture and video, so it is tolerable that few pictures or video get corrupted, but the rebuild shall not stop in this case The write performances are not so important, but read performances shall sustain some video streaming, roughly at least 25 Mbytes/s M…

I wonder what the best desktop replacement might be. I'm in need for a stable and secure desktop replacement that is energy saving and capable of dooing office work, browsing the web and even playback videos from youtube and prime video. 4K isn't necessary but I want at least 720p or 1080 fullscreen. If possible: No internal spi / eeprom / flash memory. I want the firmware to be loaded from a USB Storage / SD Card that gets hardware write protected after the first setup. Like a live distro from dvd so that there is no risk of getting infected by rootkit / bad firmware ever. Most current gen SoC offer built in flash memory. Older ones like Rock64, Pi3 and …

I am looking to purchase an SBC ideally under $100 to install armbian and develop some hardware projects. I had previously gone for a BpiM5 which also has EMMC but when I came to install software I found there is little support from the makers, installing software is fiddly and the most recent Armbian images for this board were not working. I eventually got this going using Ubuntu Mate. For my next project I would like to change from Amlogic CPU's , use Armbian as the software base and choose a platform which has reasonable up to date support whilst avoiding going for an RPI. Regards

Hello! I bought an Orange Pi PC about two years ago which is still working perfectly to this day (very happy with it), but I am curious to know what would be considered the 'best' Single Board Computer at this time point time, which would be around the same price range ($15 USD). 'Best' being defined as having a decent processor, and good software support - which the Orange Pi PC eventually did. I'm tempted to just buy another one of these for another project, but interested to know. Again, the main factor is price - $15 USD or less would be ideal.

For reason I can't explain here , I had to run a video player at Non-X window OS ( Armbian_5.96_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.3.0_server ) at a S905X tv-box. I tried to play a mp4 video ( H.264 + AAC ) at the video player ( mpv ) with drm driver. The quality is just so so. Is there any other driver recommended ? Did Amlogic provide a linux video driver which can hard-decode h.264 ？ Regards !

So if I wanted to connect from smartphone via 3g to Node-red, Mopidy or Mycroft or other stuff what would be the easiest way to do... I'd require a letsencrypt cert right? So I can https the stuff? And then later no-ip.com? Could someone help me step by step please?

I need to count frequency about 1 Khz on GPIO input pin. Is it possible and what is the best way to do this? Tried WrinigOP isr.c but no luck. Thanks.

Hi, I'm running Armbian 20.11.6 Buster with Linux 5.9.14-mvebu, on a ClearFog Base. This is (or will be) a production machine, so I'd like to keep it stable where possible. The default OpenSSH version in the stable Armbian build is 7.9. openssh-server/stable,now 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 armhf I need to update this package to a version greater than v8.1. By switching to the nightly Ambian build, I see the package is at version 8.4, but I don't know if running the nightly build is great on a production machine. Before I do anything stupid, could I get some feedback about the recommended/safest way to upgrade this package? …

Hi, I can't access the beta repository (either from the apt command on a armbian enabled board or my browser) : is there something I might look up on my side or is it general ? thanks !

Trying to update Armbian_community_25.8.0-trunk.38_Radxa-zero3_bookworm_vendor_6.1.115_minimal got a problem with beta.armbian.com's certificate: Err :6 https://beta.armbian.com bookworm InRelease Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses expired certificate. Content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.sources Types: deb URIs: https://beta.armbian.com Suites: bookworm Components: main bookworm-utils bookworm-desktop Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg Something to do on my side? Denis

Hi, I installed Armbian 22.05.3 on a OrangePi Zero. There is a huge file in the root directory of the microsd card named qemu_fstype_20220704-070826_11972.core owned by root that is almost the size of the card. What is this file?

I'm compiling Armbian image and even if I choose "minimal console" version I get a 1.5Gb image while the ones prebuild by you are 250Mb. What I doing wrong?

Hi I had bought a NanoPi R4S with the goal of installing IPfire. Unfortunately that was too complicated for me https://wiki.ipfire.org/hardware/arm/friendlyelec/nanopi-r4s I had now installed Armbian and NextCloud and I am very satisfied. In about 10 hours I had "my own cloud". Therefore a very warm and big thank you to the Armbian developers. Only thanks to the Armbian, I can look over the Raspberry horizon. I wish you a very pleasant week Best regards

Trying to set frequencies and governor for both types of CPUs on this processor. armbian-config sets the max freq and governor correctly for the two big proccesors but no config for little. Tried cpufreq-set for little, but it does not respect governor. If its set to a freq is stays there indefinitely, and if conservative governor is set the max freq goes back to 1.5. How do we set max freq to 1.2 for little, and governor to conservative and have both stick like big does with armbian-config?

Has anyone gotten this display to work in Armbian? I'm on a Rock Pi 4b and its getting power but I can't get any kind of display out of it over the MIPI cable. I can't find any kind of documentation for how to do this, just vague discussions of overlays - I did try the rock pi raspberry pi display overlay and it doesn't work. Thanks.

I am trying to get BigTreeTech Pi TFT43 display working on a Radxa Rockpi 3A I have. I put the latest Armbian image on the rockpi, but I'm at a loss as to how I configure the device tree to make the screen work. I have verified that the screen does work on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ while using BTT's instructions here, but those instructions don't seem to translate to Armbian. All other examples I have found seem to be specific to the SBC vendor's custom branches. It looks like the vdd_mipi regulator is not enabled so I guess that should be the first step, how do I enable it? Thanks for your help!

Apologies for this noob question but I am still new to Ubunto. If a piece of software is currently available as a binary archive only and the accompanying installation advises unzipping it to "a folder" and running the software from this place I presume this is not really advisable, as would be the same in the Windows world. In which case, should I install the software in, say, /usr/share and run it from there or is it okay to just unzip it and run it out of the /home/[username]/ directory? Thanks!

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

Hello, I have an old PCduino 3 that I would like to return to a more dignified life. But I see that it is currently considered as EOS so it will not have an update to Bionic or Stretch. But is it possible to do it unofficially with Armbian build?, if not, can I at least update it from Xenial to Bionic without breaking everything?

Good afternoon! Presented display bl070-lvds-003 I connected, installed even the last core of the Arbian, but it does not work ( Maybe look here setenv bootargs "console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 cgroup-enable=memory swapaccount=1 sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 monitor=none net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=7" #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Boot loader script to boot with different boot methods…

I built armbian from the main branch for my tablet based on Allwinner A33 and the topic: Used q88_a33_tablet_1024x600_defconfig and tried q8_a33_tablet_1024x600_defconfig the image was built successfully, at startup I see the console of u-boot, and can use it bu OTG, but only before message the kernel starting... and then after kernel starting it will a black screen as i think the video mode or something else is configured incorrectly, I checked the boot kernel logs, the kernel starts successfully, there are no any errors during start, apparently the problem is only in the video output on my tablet. I ask for help, help me understand what th…

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.

Hi. I would pre-configure a board in a SBC small lan. The board is blind and I have not the cable to config it from outside, i have to config it by txt file to get it online in the lan at the startup. Firt of all I have to write the ip plan of the SBC LAN. I configured one of them (the first) in the lan by a text file called "interfaces" stored in the etc/network. The file contains there few rows: source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # Network is managed by Network manager auto lo iface lo inet loopback # Rete Lan auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 gateway 192.168.1.10 # Scheda primaria Wi-fi…

Hey everyone, I am using a odroid c2 board with Armbien Buster image. I have a cheap bluetooth dongle and a usb sound card connected to the board. I am trying to use the board as bluetooht to aux input for my car. The board is working as expected when the a2dp profile is in use. But as soon as i place or receive a phone call i am getting garbage sound(garbage meaning a bunch of click like sound) after a while my phone drops the bluetooth connections and gives the sounds to earpiece on the phone. Also when the phone call places my syslog gets filled with "Bluetooth: hci0: SCO packet for unknown connection handle 0" I am using bluez5, alsa and pulsea…

Dear All, I managed to install Armbian on my H96 Max RK3399 box by using the nano-pc-t4 image Armbian Focal, and rockpro64 dtb. I am also able to boot to Armbian Twister OS by using Armbian Reforge u-boot as I mentioned in my previous post: Everything works fine. Even I managed to activate the internal wifi QCA9377 (ath10k_sdio) by installing the Full Armbian Firmware via armbian-config. I also installed the bluetooth module via armbian-config. The buetooth status is active But the bluetooth is not working. $ service bluetooth status ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor…

The new Orange Pi 4 Pro image connects to Bluetooth keyboards perfectly, but typing doesn't work because uinput is completely missing from the 6.6.98-vendor-sun60iw2 kernel config.

Hey there, has someone got bluetooth working on his Banana Pi M2 Berry? I looked up that the bluetooth chip (ap6212) is connected via UART3, so I changed the "ttyS1" to "ttyS3" in /etc/default/ap6212, but the service 'ap6212' crashes with several input/output errors. While reading about similar problems with different boards I discovered that the ttyS3 / UART3 is not enabled on my device, at least "dmesg | grep ttyS3" does not find anything, while "dmesg | grep ttyS0" and "dmesg | grep ttyS1" does show that these devices are enabled. There adding the lines "overlays=uart3" / "param_uart3_rtscts=1" helped them, but these lin…

Hello! I trying use bluetooth on Orangepi with buildroot (without systemd, only busybox), but when I try connect my smartphone (or any device) and bluetooth, I receive this message: And after I can't connect anymore. Bluez return this message I wrote this script to init bluetooth: https://pastebin.com/gHdjHynT I using Orange PI zero plus2 with buildroot, bluez 5.50 Modules Bluetooth Thanks, and I'm sorry for english.

Odroid N2. Armbian Ubuntu 22.04 kernel 5.10.123. xfce. Bluman 2.2.4 Adapter is Realtek rtl8821CU Wifi/Bluetooth. Drivers were present. Device Sony SRS-X2. The device is seen when searching but fails to pair. The only message is "bluetooth pairing failed." and "br-connection-already-connected" I'm note sure by what already connected means. It definitely is not connected.

Hi guys, I am using bluetooth (AP6212) and it works pretty well. After several hour of open connection I lost signal and need to reconnect. But I can't. Bluetoothctl returns "No default controller available", however one minute before it worked I tried to restart bluetooth service, rfkill (soft and hardware does not lock anything) , but the problem still exist. Only reboot can back the module to work. Is there any other way to restart the module without reboot?

Hello, I have a board similar to the bananapi m3, the main difference is that it has a ram type DDR3 memory instead of a type LPDDR3. If I compile in the following way: ./compile.sh BOARD = bananapim3 The result is: HELLO! BOOT0 is starting! boot0 version: 4.0.0 rtc [1] value = 0x00010000 rtc [2] value = 0x00020000 rtc [3] value = 0x00030000 DRAM DRIVE INFO: V1.0 DRAM Type = 7 (2: DDR2.3: DDR3.6: LPDDR2.7: LPDDR3) DRAM normal_mode value: 00000001 DRAM CLK = 672 MHZ PMU: AXP81X ddr voltage = 1200 mv using ic A83T using axp AXP813 DRAM zq value: 00003bfb initializing SDRAM Fail. Do I need to change the type of memory in the boot0, can …

Hi guys! I've a project with raspberry pi B+ and a usb modem for communication with server. Is a unattended system but I've many problems with communication cuts and memory card corrupted. Communications is not important issue, because isn't a real time system, and I manage the cuts with own scripts. In the other hand, the memory card corruption is a damn headache. I think that problem is caused by the model B+ because I've other similar project with model A+ and I haven't this problem. The reason for my question is that I'm looking for alternatives to the raspberry pi B+. I tested Orange Pi 2G-IOT, but is very unestable and I discard it. What borad…

Actual booting from eMMC and system including OMV from Sata SSD. Running boot & system from eMMC should be possible now and I would like to transfer system from SSD to eMMC without losing my config and starting from scratch again. That way I'll have a sdd beside the hdd for OMV. How can I manually transfer the system including OMV from SSD to eMMC and what configuration files need to be altered?

For compatibility reason I'd like to have an NTFS data partition as partition 1 and the ext4 system partition as partition 2. I achieved this with debian installer, but I fail doing so using armbian. Can you tell me how to achive this for armbian? My idea was to copy the prepared partition from armbian-SD-image to partition 2 and configure u boot to start from there, but I failed in doing so... thank you

Hello, Like it happened to @Grogorio in 2016, I need to introduce a boot delay on my OrangePi Zero Plus (Armbian 23.02.2 Focal) to allow time for other network elements in my setup to boot. As per what I have read somewhere, this can done by adding a 'boot_delay=n' line in /boot/config.txt, however I don't see this file in Armbian; I've also tried to add the line, but it does not seems to be working. Furthermore, the max delay that can be setup there is 10 seconds, but I need a longer delay. Can someone help? TIA

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I need to introduce a boot delay on my OrangePiPc to allow time for other network elements in my setup to boot, otherwise it will not get an IP address after recovering from a power interruption (common where I am). In Raspbian, this can done by adding a 'boot_delay=n' line in /boot/config.txt, however I don't see this file in Armbian. How can this be accomplished on Armbian 5.20?

Hi all, This used to work absolutely fine for me a couple of years ago but for some reason it isn't working at all now. I had to format the eMMC and re-flash it. Using either Bookworm or Jammy, when I try to run the script for boot from eMMC / system on NVME after the reboot it won't boot again. I've tried on both, tried before / after apt-update etc. Just doesn't seem to want to work when it used to in the past. This is what I'm seeing, apologies for phone photos, as I was in my living room, no way to take a screenshot. Any ideas? Thank you!

Hello, I'm trying to install Armbian using `armbian-install` on NVMe, with bootloader on eMMC. I have installed 64GB Foresee eMMC module and 256GB WD SN530 2242 SSD. When I boot from SD card, both storages are detected. Using fdisk, I made them both `dos` (mbr) partitioned. Then I invoke `armbian-install`, it proceeds without any problems using eMMC+sata/nvme/usb option, and I have now 512 MB boot partition on eMMC, the rest of eMMC space as secondary, f2fs partition, and ext4 partition nvme0n1p1 containing the rest of the system. I power the system off, take the SD card out, and boot again.. and I'm stuck in initramfs. From it, I can mount the nvme0n1p1 m…

Hi there, I have been using a nanopi m4v2 for openmediavault for 4 years. In that time my SD card has died once. Now I have ordered an emmc module to do a full clean install of my server. So my questions are, is it wise to boot from the SD card and have the system on the emmc because the sd card can die faster? And if I boot from the SD card and it needs to be replaced, can I just insert a new one and everything will work as before? (With a freshly installed Armbian) If I do a backup of the emmc with win32 disk imager, can I burn the backup to a new emmc with a different sd-card as boot? When I do an armbian install, does it copy the system …

Im trying to boot from network with ORPI-One-Plus, but seems to be no support for boot direct from u-boot. is possible to boot (kernel, uboot) from sdcard, and leave only / (root) on NFS? When i try to compile/boot only u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin

I’ve done some searching, but haven’t found a clear answer. i have a rockpi-s with a built in eMMC that has a bootable armbian image. When i insert a micro-SD card into the RP, and the card has a bootable image, it happily boots off of the card. Remove the card, and it boots off the eMMC. Perfect. Now, how do I duplicate this same functionality with a usb key? no key or sd = boot from eMMC SD inserted = boot from SD USB inserted = boot from USB I’ve been able to get the RP to boot from the usb using armbian-install to set it up, but then if I remove the USB, it no longer boots from the eMMC.

Hello, I would like the ability to run Firefox or Chromuim rather than Gnome or any desktop environment when I start up my Orange Pi 5. This is for a device I'm setting up that (when rebooted) ideally won't even prompt the user to log in, it'll just directly bring up the browser and directly to a specific URL. Any thoughts on how I might do this? David

Is it possible boot into Web Browser instead of desktop ? `/usr/sbin/lightdm` is set in `/etc/X11/default-display-manager` can i replace it with `/usr/bin/chromium` ?

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…

I now have a RockPi4a running Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Rockpi-4b_bionic_legacy_4.4.210_desktop from eMMC. Now i wanted to see how i most easily can experiment with newer distributions, such as 5.x. The radxa debian images for rockpi4 use a lot of partitions and it was quite easy to reformat the eMMC to have two system partitions, install different linux versions into them, and then configure the boot script to allow booting from different partitions/kernels via serial console and there selecting the desired kernel. In Armbian, it seems booting uses the boot.cmd script to boot the kernel. Is there a simple example of the boot script with a m…

Hello, I have several ARM boards in my possession and I want to be able to boot them all from a single SD card (I have commercial SW which requires activation and is tied to a particular SD card afterwards). So far, I have made this script which creates multiple /boot-boardname directories, replaces /boot with a symlink to one of those, and makes sure the right u-boot is written to the card. However, I have one little problem I couldn't yet solve: I would like to generate the correct /etc/modules file for a new board, and I don't know how. For example, Orange Pi Zero needs this xradio_wlan module for WIFI. Where do I find the info that this module is needed? A…

My headless Orange Pi Zero Plus was configured to boot from a powered external USB2 drive with 3 partitions, a 48Gb linux partition populated by armbian-config, a 4Gb swap partition and a 800Gb NTFS data partition (shared by Samba). The setup is stable and works beautifully when powered up from the powered off state. The Pi fails to start when I reboot it. I suspect that the USB port or drive or both need some kind of reset when a reboot occurs. Has anybody encountered this problem? Is there a known solution?