Framework and userspace feature requests

Good day. I built an image for SDCARD on the rockchip3568 board using the project from here https://github.com/armbian/build This framework creates an image for SDCARD, consisting of two partitions: 1 - boot (Fat32 - 256 MiB) 2 - root file system (ext4) (all remaining capacity on SDCARD, I use a 16GiB card) I need a different, custom, file system partition. How can I make three partitions, for example of these sizes: 1. boot - 256MiB 2. root - 2GiB 3. work - the entire remaining capacity of the SDCARD while the size of the image file is not all 16GiB, but 256MiB (boot) + 2Gib (root) + 256MiB (work) = 2.5GiB and the last partition …

Hi, I’m using this panel: https://osoyoo.com/2019/11/12/instruction-for-raspberry-pi-7-dsi-touch-screen I've installed image: Armbian_20.08.1_Rockpi-4c_bionic_current_5.8.6_minimal.img The system does not work with the Raspberry PI Touchscreen. The OSOYOO panel works fine if connected to Raspberry PI 3B+. Any solutions?

Are there any plans to add an option for full disk encryption to the installer ? I am using the RockPro64 if that matters. I notice that no ARM distro I have tried supports this for the RockPro64 currently so i'm not sure if it is just a low priority or if there is a techncial reason to not have it. Regardless if it's doable I would appreciate it being added down the road.

"Type armbianmonitor into the console - we develop this to get the best out of those board without using much resources." in the documentation, maybe add Armbian tools - armbian-config - armbianmonitor ....

@lanefu, @TonyMac32 I am looking for support of native english speakers. I just wanted to install RPi-Monitor, listed all options to find it: armbianmonitor --help and saw this : armbianmonitor -M provides simple CLI monitoring - fixed-line output armbianmonitor -N provides simple CLI network monitoring - fixed-line output So, I thought what has been repaired (fixed) ? So, I tested the two options -m & -M and I saw, -m is with history, not scrolling rather new-line feed -M is dynamically refreshing in line (static), (fix, but not fixed) In short, I think the wording is a bit bumpy. My suggestion to change wo…

A sincere request to include virtualization technology "incus" in armbian-config. https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/introduction/ https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/installing/ https://github.com/lxc/incus Thank you!

I would love to see support for modems based on the SIM7070G chip. Along with Quectel’s BG96, SIMCom’s 70x0 and 7x00 families seem to be the leading choice when it comes to IoT-related applications with LTE-M and NB-IoT. Shenzhen-based AND Technology manufactures and offers two very affordable modems (< USD 25) using the SIM7070G: BK-SIM7070G (a break-out board with serial interface) -> AliExpress DG-SIM7070G (a USB stick/dongle) -> AliExpress Sidenote: Waveshare has a Raspberry Pi HAT based on the very same chip –> SIM7070G Cat-M/NB-IoT/GPRS HAT SIMCom as chip provider offers excellent documentation on their …

Would there be a way to add a configuration option to armbian-config to disable built-in button being used for shutdown? Currently I have to remove the r_gpio_keys section in the DTB and compile. Seems like something armbian-config could do?

armbian merge android architecture armbian shared library replace android lib and android linux kernel. see image on github https://github.com/annopnod/Img/blob/master/armbian%20android_architecture.jpg

It's time to get a good logo for armbian...I mean the little penguin dude is cool...but we need something we can make stickers and templates for cases and whatnot I am no graphics guru...but can we either get that little guy below converted into something we can use for other things

There are a lot of the new wider monitors coming out. I have had one for several months. None of my Armbian boards support it. Some won't display at all, some default to a single lower resolution, and several will only allow to set to 1920x1080. Doesn't HDMI interrogate to discover resolutions and then match capabilities? I have no clue how HDMI actually works but it would be great if Armbian looked proportional on those monitors ;] Thanks

Hi Armbian Support Team, I'm running a Kubernetes cluster on top of 8 odroid HC1 cards (3 master nodes & 5 workers nodes) - Armbian used version is : adrien@bilbon:~/git/k8s$ kc get node master-01 -o wide NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME master-01 Ready master 44d v1.17.0 192.168.0.101 <none> Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 4.14.150-odroidxu4 docker://19.3.5 - I'm currently observing those following events at Kubernetes level: adrien@bilbon:~/git/k8s$ kc get events --…

The "create access point" utility in `armbian-config` has several bugs that prevent it from working, due to changes in the default installation since it was written: - hostapd does not install a default configuration file at `/etc/hostapd.conf` - hostapd is installed masked by default - dnsmasq fails to start because systemd-resolvd launches first as the default DNS resolver I can write patches to fix this utility, but I'm wondering if it will ultimately be worth it. I noticed this access point utility doesn't exist in the `armbian-configng` repository. Is that because Armbian is dropping this utility, or no one has gotten around to it yet? …

Would be nice to see bullseye image for NanoPi NEO 2

Thanks for Armbian, I very much enjoy it on my Cubietruck server. Forgive my ignorance if I have misunderstood something, but I believe that the Lima opensource Mali drivers will shortly be part of the kernel. https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/8/1122 What is the likelihood of Armbian supporting a hardware accelerated desktop using these drivers for the cubietruck and similar boards? It's an old board and is well supported by the project as a server already, so it would be understandable if it was out of scope.

Hi all, I would like to fit a Hifiberry DAC pro to my M4 - does Armbian have the drivers to support this board ? or how can they be added ( I presume to the kernel ) On a Ras Pi it's simply a matter of a dtoverlay line added to /boot/config.txt but I don't see this file in Armbian

Was wondering if there is a utility similar to the Khadas Krescue boot utility that allows one to backup/install emcc images?? I found it very useful to backup my Khadas images as well as installing different os. The description is as follows: 'Krescue is an extremely small (21mb) operating system that you can boot directly from a micro-SD card or your EMMC. It is a “Swiss Army knife”, and you can use it to perform a variety of low-level SBC maintenance tasks. Most notable of which are backing-up your EMMC by dumping a raw-compressed .img.gz, and rapidly installing a new OS via flashing a .img.gz back into the EMMC. Krescue can download and install OS i…

Hello. I am trying to use MKS SKIPR board with HDMI 7" LCD (1024x600) from BTT (https://biqu.equipment/collections/lcd/products/bigtreetech-hdmi5-v1-0-hdmi7-v1-0?variant=39984058138722 ) but seems to be not supported (initial console or klipperscreen). I tried mks linux image, and 0.2.1-23.08.0-trunk (edge) Regards, Fabrizio

I Wish for cameradrivers on csi port to be added in kernel or to be installable from a repo. OV5640 for H3 and H6 GC2035 for H3 and H6 OV13850 For RK3399 .... thanks, friendly regards. joel

I am running armbian on a rock64 with a usb bluetooth adapter. Adding bluetooth devices with the blueman app is very hit-or-miss for me, mostly misses. I installed the blueberry app, which I have had good luck with in the past, and device connection has been great. Every device connects on the first try. Blueberry is easy to install because it has no arch, and it also appears to be relatively light on resources. So I would like to suggest that the devs consider including it in armbian by default.

From Armbian 20.08 onwards, I observed that htop loses its settings (e.g. show userland threads, process sort order) every boot. This is equally odd and frustrating, and until recently I had no idea what was happening to make this so. Then I discovered the cause - this script: /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/80-update-htop-and-offload-tx And indeed, on every reboot, it overwrites htoprc with some default settings. And I have tried but not succeeded to understand the intention was behind a decision to not allow users on SBCs to persistently change .htoprc any more. Can anyone add any context? Struggling to see how this makes…

Writing code for armbian is currently pain and suffering, because the code quality is horrible and it always makes me do changes alike https://github.com/Kreyren/armbian-build-kreyren/compare/6cd581c96c0b7b800b6549afe23112d4a662d2a0..811288169004dccacab964129ecaf8cfe891b22d that waste time just to get the contribution to work reliably, thus proposing to take an inspiration for how other projects such as nixos handle this issue and implement a RFC: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs Which is a repository filled with directives that are to be followed during development to unite the coding style through brainstorm and logical rationale Additionally this RFC can then be…

Hello, I am in a project where I need to use armbian on an OrangePi R1 Plus, but I realized that it is not yet available on the site. Any prevision?

I try find $BOOTSOURCE in armbian docs. But nothing. But I know that armbian docs use a lot of words with $! I suggest allow users to find words with $ in armbian docs.

The BananaPi CM4 doesn't play well with a number of third party base boards in that often, USB does not work on them. Usually, that is because the third party base board designer connected the USB hub IC to an SOC OTG port without connecting a line to switch the OTG port into host mode. The problem was demonstrated at least with the Waveshare CM4 Base Board B and the MCUZone POE baseboard. In the Banana Pi forums, Sinovoip engineer "August" posted a DTBO for Ubuntu 20.04 which solves the issue by forcing host mode. Below is the DTBO decompiled to DTS. I would like to request that this overlay be updated for the Armbian kernel and included as an optional overlay into …

Would it be possible to include VHD versions of the Armbian for PC? I was able to convert the image file over to VHD, but it would have been nice to have it available as a download. This is for use in VirtualBox or other virtual machine (like XCP-NG for my use case). Alternate being an ISO installer, but that would probably take a bunch of work to get going.

A lot of spi-nand flashes is supported linux kernel. It will be very helpful to add a possibility to read/write/erase such flashes using standard linux support. Unfortunately spi-nand support is not enabled in armbian linux kernel. example: recovery bootloader on the router board Orange Pi 4 configuration 1. Recompile orange pi 4 linux kernel to enable spi-nand driver (linux-5.10 or above is required). Make sure spinand, mtd and nandcore are built as modules 2. sudo armbian-config, go to “System → DTC” and replace spidev with spinand 3. install the following packages: mtd-utils 4. reboot board to apply changes Connect spi-na…

As many boards have now kernel 5.9.x may we have support for zstd in mkinitramfs?

Hi, I have a tv box (mxq pro 4k 5g with rk3228a chipset). The wifi chipset is sv6152p. The armbian image "Armbian_21.08.1_Rk322x-box_buster_legacy_4.4.194_xfce_desktop.img.xz" works on it with the wifi driver ssv6x5x. I want to use librelec on it. When i install unofficial libreelec for rk3229/rk3228 box (kernel 4.4.194) the wifi don't works. The driver for ssv6051 is loading at startup but wifi don't works. Can somebody say to me how to compile ssv6x5x for libreelec. I don't know how to cross compile it. which source do i use : https://github.com/khadas/android_hardware_wifi_icomm_drivers_ssv6xxx …

The official GitHub page for haveged says: Fedora and Arch both have a test for the kernel version in haveged.service: ConditionKernelVersion=<5.6 I put a complete example of haveged.service in this GitHub Gist for the convenience of anyone reading this post. https://gist.github.com/ambiamber/0d99cc5c8f79a72633acf39c443f5f2f I got here because on a fresh installation "systemctl status" showed "degraded" because haveged failed to start (which is correct because it shouldn't start). Upstream bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=999811

Hello everyone, I am looking for an answer regarding the Orange Pi PC2 Armbian OS is 32-bit or 64-bit version? Thanks in advance. Best regards, SaiHou

If you curl -I http://apt.armbian.com over and over again, you will receive a 302 redirect to what seems to be a random mirror. I am wondering how I can help add some sophistication to that randomness. As someone downloading updates from the US, it's a big exercise of patience to download at a rate of 20-60 KBps. As each package request goes to the redirector every time (since it's not a 301 redirect), some packages download at a good rate but plenty are very slow for me. In contrast, when I download an Armbian image from bittorrent, I can get 9MBps. I know that everything here is provided for free and I am grateful! I am asking how I can help make this…

Hello, I've got two questions for you folks: 1.) Why is LZO being used over LZO-RLE for /etc/default/armbian-zram-config? 2.) Are there any downsides or risks currently known from using the kernel option CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY? To 1.) I've been looking at LZO-RLE, which is the improved version of the LZO algorithm, and since it was made part of the kernel a while ago was I expecting some form of kernel configuration option to enable it. It is however included by default when LZO was configured and one just needs to specify "lzo-rle" over "lzo" as algorithm for zramctl. This means one only needs to replace "lzo" with "lzo…

I spotted this new board coming soon https://www.crowdsupply.com/ov-tech-gmbh/pi-mx8-module More info I appreciate it's a lot of work to support new boards, but I wondered if anyone was interested in forking this https://github.com/TechNexion-customization/ubuntu-tn-imx/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file#technexion-ubuntu-lts-image-builder and doing a Armbian build for it?

I've noticed that the AppArmor kernel config was switched off from kernels 4.19.x onwards. I've searched the forum and the github issues but haven't found any problems related AppArmor. I'm using the current kernel for cubox (5.4.x) that I've compiled by adding AppArmor config back, everything works as it should for a headless system. Would it be possible to add the AppArmor kernel config back? I can help with testing on the following boards: cubox, olimex lime2, cubietruck

To run 32bit rustc you need enabled cp15 barrier emulation. (This is removed in ARMV8 arch and needed to emulated by the kernel) Please reenable like in legacy kernel 4.9: CONFIG_ARMV8_DEPRECATED=y CONFIG_SWP_EMULATION=y CONFIG_CP15_BARRIER_EMULATION=y CONFIG_SETEND_EMULATION=y

Hello, I would like to request that support for the PecanPi DAC (www.orchardaudio.com/pecanpi-dac) be added to Armbian. Asus recently added support as of Scetch version 2.1.11. To enable the DAC the following line is needed int the hw_intf.conf file: intf:dtoverlay=rpi-dac Thank you; Leo

Hello Armbian community My HiFiBerry DAC HAT works well on my Raspberry Pi 3B with RasPiOS. However, I would like to put it on my Rock64 to use the higher Ethernet and USB speed it offers. As far as I can tell, HiFiBerry DAC is in the mainline Linux kernel - it is mentioned in the source code, but I do not understand programming, so I cannot see if it is used. Is the HiFiBerry DAC supported in Armbian's kernel? If so, how can I activate and use it? I put the HAT on the Rock64 and installed Armbian_20.05.2_Rock64_buster_current_5.4.43.img.xz , and it booted without problems, but I could not get sound out of the HiFiBerry DAC, and Alsamixer showe…

Hello, While there are a bunch of vnc and x11 options to access the box remotely, I found chrome remote desktop as a very useful tool to integrate access to different hosts wherever you are. chrome remote desktop 'host' runs on many platforms including, of course, debian. Installation does not work because package gets downloaded from Google directly and it is compiled for x86. The .deb package can't therefore be installed on armbian. Any chance chrome remote desktop could be compiled for armbian? I believe source code is under Chromium project but I could not find it. Ideas?

As an ansible neophyte, I'm looking through the 'ansible facts' trying to figure out how to positively identify an Armbian system, with the goal of contributing a patch to the k3s project to improve support for Armbian. Toward the end of the k3s-ansible playbook, they try to write some kernel options to a file in /boot. According to the comments, they've identified by Armbian machine as Ubuntu. At any rate, Armbian seems to want these flags in /boot/armbianEnv.txt, and the file ansible wants to modify doesn't exist so the update aborts: fatal: [t4]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Destination /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt does not exist !", "…

Hi here, as a hobby project I forked Armbian repo to add support of someone "new" hardware, mostly around 3D printing and mostly because no support from the vendor side. At this moment I have following almost independent components: a kernel module for ST7796 (LCD controller connected via SPI and working as frame buffer module/device) a patch for HDMI configuration to support MKS IPS50 screen (800x480, 5:3 aspect ration with some weird EDID) configuration with related patches for MKSPI, SKIPR and a few derivatives boards + some DTS overlay for one related/specific use case. It's a "Renegade ROC-RK3328-CC" based board(s) which wa…

It's been several years since I started looking for a forum to discuss various general aspects of SBCs, such as "recommend me the board for X", SoC software support state, pricing, deals, etc. All not armbian-related per se. Neither of current categories are exactly suitable for such questions on this forum. Off-topic category doesn't receive much attention as I would guess. Proposal: create "general discussions" category.

Please add support for the FireFly ITX-3588J. Note that the Armbian Station M3 latest UEFI image boots unmodified on an SD card on this hardware, with working picture on one of the HDMI ports. (But no USB) So the partition structure is ok. 20230428-EDK2-EFI-current/Armbian_23.04_Station-m3_sid_current_6.2.0.img.xz So it is already close to a usable image once the relevant device tree bits are swapped out. I am not 100% sure the details yet of the uboot they ship, or even how to just install the uboot part to emmc but when I flashed the complete Debian 11 "firmware" they provide on the website link to the EMMC (using the linux command line loader…

Hello, Well, ladies and gentlemen, I done it, becoz I can't live without it when quitting cinnamon for xfce. It is like the thunar-archive-plugin (file-roller equivalent) that should be enabled by default imho. I decided to release it here , this is my gift to armbian team to thanks for their work. INSTALLATION If you follow the README.md, you will have the magic custom action added The demo: Enjoy SoSie thunar-open-as-root-plugin.zip

I suggest allow armbian script put deb-src without comment. For example I want to get system with deb-src packages. Of cause I can add deb-src via userpatches/customize-image.sh but it is not so easy. May be armbian add option like INSTALL_KSRC that allow user to get OS with uncommented deb-src in /etc/apt/sources.list It also helps in customize-image.sh For example: Main() { apt-get install libxcb-xinerama0-dev -y It will Error: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list The solution may be: ./compile.sh REPOSITORY_INSTALL=deb-src general.sh

Hello Armbian team, I’m a big fan of your work and use Armbian on all my single-board computers, including Orange Pi, Banana Pi, and Raspberry Pi. However, I’ve noticed a recurring issue during bootstrapping: identifying the device on the network. Enabling the avahi-daemon could make it easier to connect to or discover the device using mDNS. What are your thoughts on this?

I have a z3735 board. Unfortunately, the only system that can be installed at present is Debian Server. Is it feasible for the armbian to support IA32 UEFI

Hi, currently container build only support docker, when I run `./compile.sh docker`(docker is an alias of podman), the build will fail. When I switch back to docker, the build is ok. Can Armbian dev team consider support podman? since podman is popular nowadays. :-P

Sry. the existing search tags are fine 🙂 Would be nice to have a separate forum for Nanopi Duo2. T.

Dear developers! Could you please consider possibility to change default kernel config, used in release versions of Armbian, so it enable to forcefully unload of kernel modules ( to do this config option CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD needs to be enabled). This is seldom but regular needs for me and I beleive for many others in case of external hardware malfunctions, for example. Previosly I have used selfcompiled version of Armbian 5.15 where named option was enabled and anything was fine. Now I have upgraded to Armbian 21.08.1 Buster by installing release version of it because it seems dramatically more complicated to compile by myself. Now in …

I'm using Armbian's Ubuntu Bionic image on a Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC (LePotato). It appears the chromedirver package is not available: Package chromedriver is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'chromedriver' has no installation candidate My use case is, I need to file an online complaint with a regulatory agency. The complaint is filed via a Python script, and Python uses Selenium to operate the web browser and populate the four page form. Please provide chromedriver (Chromium) and geckodriver (Firefox/Iceweasel) fo…

Since these boards doesn't have I2C headers the only simple solution is to use a USB/I2C adapter, but the module to this is not compiled into the kernel.

Hello, I am looking for a Minimal Armbian for H3 chip with kiosk feature. I don't need desktop interface but still need a web browser to open at startup. Is there any version like this? I need it minimum because i will install on eMMC of the Orange Pi PC Plus and it has only 8GB.

Hello, i've preordered an Helios64 and would like to install the main os on a f2fs formatted sd-card. your documentation says that this is not possible, and i would love to see this possibility. i guess most eMMC devices would also benefit

Hi, Context systemd's cloud-init.target and armbian-firstrun.service will be started concurrently (both are wanted by multi-user.target). Both will try to create SSH host keys by default: - armbian-firstrun will always delete SSH host keys and then generate new ones - cloud-init.target (by default) will always delete SSH host keys and then generate new ones. Problem When one must run armbian-firstrun and cloud-init, there is no deterministic ordering between the 2 files execution and therefore no one can guarantee which will be last to setup host keys. In my current scenario, host keys are explicitly setup in clo…

I'm looking to test this ehci debug port kernel module on a sunxi board that supports USB gadget, but it turns out it's not enabled in armbian by default. While I can recompile the kernel right now, I think it's useful to enable it as a module as this driver is quite small. Thanks. https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/kernel/linux-sunxi-current.config

Please, investigate and if it has a benefit, support debcow. See also https://github.com/teknoraver/debcow and https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debcow-Debian-DEBs-CoW-FS and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write#In_computer_storage

Running buster on a ZeroPi but softy does not uninstall. Also home-assistant does not seem to install, followed rpi3 guide on homeassistant and got it to work in docker container; Softy reports homeassistant to be installed.

Hello gents, I have been out of the loop for quite some time... Therefore did not update my armbian dev env either for quite a while, was a bit "surprised" after a " git pull " most boards went to CSC, but read the story why... Anyway I was wondering rgd the "new" OP1 Rockpi4+ boards, if same image can be used for these boards ? Most likely a new entry to compile, armbian building script, will appear sooner or later. Also noticed current kernel 5.16 holds commits for 4A+ and 4B+ : Rockchip ... Add RK3399 ROCK Pi 4A+ board commit Add RK3399 ROCK Pi 4B+ board commit ... In +/- two months like to start a PoE ROCK …

NanoPi R76S is supposed to have PHC hardware timestamp support with both ethernet interfaces. Unfortunately ethtool -T returns no hardware support. Would be great if PHC could be enabled in this nice box.

Dear I try to connect more than 2 sata disk on BananaPI R2 to do a NAS I has thinking a miniPCIe with a controler Marvel 88SE9215 it supported ; messages on Espressobin let know it is supported but when i try to plug ar HDD on, nothing append it do test with Armbian_5.75_Bananapir2_Debian_stretch_default_4.19.20.img

I found this default setting in `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02-armbian-periodic` for apt in my armbian image for my odroid HC2: ```APT::Periodic::Enable: "0"``` I suspect many credit-card servers just chug along with default settings for years without manual upgrades (myself included until i reinstalled a fresh image the other day). Should't that be enabled by default so people can stay up to date with security updates etc.?

New patches for mainline u-boot have been posted, so that espressobin should finally work now. That gives us a recent version of u-boot, compared to that old and unmaintained marvell fork. I opened a PR for OpenWRT to ship mainline u-boot/atf builds. Those also include distro boot: openwrt/openwrt#3360 And now we need testers openwrt/openwrt#3360 (comment) While this is a PR for OpenWRT, I boot vanilla debian with it. In the end the distro shouldn't matter Note: * All builds are currently CPU_800_DDR_800 only for stability reasons * There is no build for v5 with 2GiB RAM, does anyone have such a board? bu…

The only thing I've had issues with on armbian, and that I often have issues with, is the default log2ram. As soon as you start doing anything that actually logs stuff, like access logs, or container logs and so on, the log space is not enough, even if allocating 500 MB RAM. And when /var/log fills up there are going to be crashes... in all kinds of ways. I have an ansible script that disables this now, but sometimes when doing dist-upgrade, log2ram settings come back (and also zram swap, which is also bad because kubernetes does not like swap, but thats not a disaster at least). So I simply propose to not make log2ram default, unless it can have some way to "…

Armbian Buster for Orange Pi Zero (kernel 5.4.45) is using an old version of gpsd which doesn't yet support ubxtool Armbian Focal does not have this problem Can Armbian Buster have a newer version of gpsd and gpsd-clients to support ubxtool Thank you

Hi, It is my personal opinion that armbian should be distributed without default packages from the Debian non-free archive area. I think that the only package that is pre-installed from that area is iozone3. I wanted to stress that I believe that the armbian developers chose to pre-install iozone3 in good faith. So I don't mean to cause any undue trouble - If removing the tool is not appropriate at this time, I understand. I just wanted it out there that this is something that is 'nice to have'. Thanks, LD

Is there a backup and restore script on armbian using rsync and NFS for backup entire system to NAS like there is on dietpi (dietpi-backup) which is excellent?

Hi Any news when it could be included in Armbian? As I see 4 years we have been waiting for it... Kindly

I have just found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSCj1b6PbaQ And I would like to ask what is missing to make a similar method to work on android phones? Is it only drivers? Touch screen amd sim management does not really matter for me, usb and wifi does. I think I am not the only one who thinks, my old 64 bit phones could be excelent servers.

Is there a web page that gives the download stats? I was curious to know which board is the most popular.

I enabled GPIO serial ports via armbianEnv.txt on my Orange pi One, good. Case for port 1 But the serial port file /dev/ttyS1 comes out with wrong permissions, so it cannot be used at first. Just needed: chmod 666 /dev/ttyS1 optional: chown root:root /dev/ttyS1 Thanks

Hi, this is a request...kinda, more like asking for help. A frined of mine have a PBP but his nvme draw tooo much battery. can we limit the speed of the nvme to save battery life. it would be handy also for servers that doesnt requiere that much write/read speeds and prefer power consumption rather than speed. maybe someone have an hdparm tip for that. thanks!!!

I know this topic was requested many many times. but I would like to introduce more reasons about why to do so. Igor, I don't like RPI, and many of you also don't like it. but I am thinking on Armbian rather than RPI 1) supporting RPI would be a plus for people that use sd with RPI4. armbian works flawlessly on sr cards. 2) armbian need recognition and founding and supporting a mainstream SBC like RPI could bring that! 3) armbian is the best OS for ARM Linux. 4) something similar to the reason 2

Hello, I noticed that overlayroot package is absent in armbian buster. Is it possible to add this feature to Armbian Buster? Cordially, M.B

Hi, I cannot exactly say why, but I never liked the 'emptyness' of the IP-Address on the SSH welcome message System load: 0.82 0.29 0.10 Up time: 1 min Memory usage: 3 % of 3867MB IP: 192.168.11.7 So I thought it needs a lot of space for a long Up time. So, the space is reasonable. Looking at the other information provided, which needs as well many letters? My suggestion to move it like this and adding: -Address (IP is not the complete term (Internet-Protocol): IP-Address: 192.168.11.7 Up time: 1 min Memory usage: 3 % of 3867MB System load: 0.82 0.29 0.10 adding 'Address' might fix …

Just recently got my hands on a new ODroid C4, just to find out it doesn't work with my gamepad. A quick check of the kernel config with linux-image-current-meson64 (20.11.3) suggests this: # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set While I'm pulling down the 5.9 sources and brushing up on cross compiling Linux kernel debians, is there any way this could get added to the Armbian baseline? Thanks in advance.

Hope add support for rockpi 4c+

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QCA6391 is supported since kernel 5.10 and QCNFA765(WCN6856) since 5.17. So please enable default build options for them. Options are ATH11K_PCI and ATH11K(ATH11K_PCI depends on ATH11K)

ksmbd is a more performant version of Samba. Located here: https://github.com/cifsd-team/cifsd and https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools Given that most devices supported by Armbian are underpowered, it would be great to get this installable via apt.

Hi Folks! I think this would be great for testing Anbox easily on armbian. We are linux users (and we hate android), but in order to get ARM Linux attractive as desktop we may have to offer anbox. the kernel modules have problems on latest kernels so would be great to have them included already. maybe that makes the kernel "too big" and isn't acceptable, but that's up to you to consider it or not. best regards, Salvador.

NanoPi K2 used to be supported but its not now and we’re looking forward to see NanoPi K2 on support list again !!! (NanoPi K2 has the same SoC as Odroid C2 and we wish we can use armbian on nanopik2 more stable) Have a nice day !!!

Hi everyone, I am trying to get TVHeadEnd working on my Helios4 NAS, which is currently running Debian Stretch with Armbian Linux 4.19.63-mvebu. The software has installed, and I can access the web GUI on port 9981. However, I cannot see my tuner device under TV adapters. If I type dmesg into the command line, I can see the RTL2838UHIDIR device connected to USB. However there is nothing listed under /dev/dvb. I'm wondering if Armbian might be missing some of the drivers that are included with full Debian. I would appreciate any help in getting my USB TV tuner working with Armbian. Thanks.

** EDIT - noise alert - already covered by F3 utility *** Is there a shell script that one could recommend for newbies that would work similarly to the H2TESTW program? And if so, should it be included in Armbian - perhaps on a first-run even throwing up a big warning to the op? Kudos to you guys for putting all that work into SD card knowledge and programming into Armbian in the first place. In fact, the good engineering of sd card preservation with Armbian is what drew me to it initially. Heck, for my use case, I may never really need an emmc. Anyway, I'm just not up on what an up to date alternative to h2testw is these …

After upgrading to buster (great!!) and installing desktop on my HC1, the standard procedure of starting a VNC server and using Real VNC viewer from a Mac ran into errors. I tried the following alternative solutions to get to the desktop - xrdp and Microsoft Remote Desktop (Mac) - tigervnc-scraping-server and Real VNC Viewer (Mac) --> No support for clipboard transfer, keyboard support awful and incomplete (missing # and | and so on) x11vnc with Real VNC Viewer (Mac) solved both issues, except keyboard autorepeat. So I strongly suggest adding x11vnc prominently as an alternative to xrdp.

Hi, Sorry for my poor english. I love your work. I use armbian for all my cubox(s) and I wanted to know if Cubox Pulse is supported ? I didn't see anything about it. Could you add it or tell me what is needed to do it ? Thx you for your time.

Please add Linux Mint 21 ("Vanessa") support to armbian build script.

Hi All, I would like to use the new RaspberryPI Camera ( IMX477 ) with armbian (with TinkerBoard S) and I was wondering if this is on the roadmap for development? If it's not I would like to attempt to submit a pull request, but I'm not really sure on how to pull the drivers into the armbian source. I can see the driver source here https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-5.4.y/drivers/media/i2c/imx477.c and the overlay source here https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-5.4.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/imx477-overlay.dts but I'm not too sure how to pull them into armbian, is there any articles/ help documentation y…

As WiringPi was never meant to support other boards nor does the author like to support other boards and it is officially depreciated now (http://wiringpi.com/wiringpi-deprecated/). I want to ask why not put some efforts into libmraa https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa and put it into the Armbian repository. I have already a fork which fixes Rock Pi 4 on recent mainline 5.3 kernels with updated debian build scripts here: https://github.com/bootsy52/mraa, so debian packages could be simple built using dpgk-buildpackage. Why I think it is a good idea to supply libmraa with the Armbian repository Supporting multiple boards is a…

Hello...I successfully installed Trixie on the BBAI-64. It is a beagleboard.org board from earlier in the 2020s. https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2025-04-18-armbian-support-is-here Anyway, I was wondering if there was some way to handle installing and configuring Wifi access to the BBAI-64 that anyone around here knew of currently. Ethernet works. I can get online. Also, there is a set up in `armbian-config` that may allow OctoPrint to be installed. It seems one needs to add support for Docker first. The Docker install from Trixie is not available on kernel 6.6.x so far. Seth P.S. Um, I understand that some people now are s…