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I have a Sabrent NT-SS5G Wired 5 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (USB3) and a network that can do 2.5 and 5 Gbe so thought I'd see if it works with Armbian on a Nanopi M4V2. Using this distro: Armbian_22.05.4_Nanopim4v2_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop Baseline using built-in 1 Gigabit ethernet port on Nanopi M4V2 board: iperf3 -t 60 -c faststore (1 stream) [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-60.00 sec 6.63 GBytes 949 Mbits/sec 0 sender [ 5] 0.00-60.00 sec 6.63 GBytes 949 Mbits/sec receiver iperf3 -t 60 -P4 -c faststore (4 s…

This will cause update-grub to add the following a devicetree line to all menu entries. This example is based on Debian Trixie's grub-efi. This example will expect dtb directories (or links) to be in the /boot directory, using the convention that I've seen Armbian use. Here is an example of a /boot directory listing for (pure) Debian Trixie with two kernels: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 336036 Aug 27 04:10 config-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 343394 Sep 6 12:48 config-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Sep 20 16:17 dtb -> ../usr/lib/linux-image-6.16.3+deb13-arm64/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Sep 20 16:17 dtb-6.12.43+deb13-…

(disclaimer) No itention to make a Frankendebian (https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian) but ubuntu package "zram-config" works perfectly. I tested it for two weeks in a: Orange PI Zero 512MB Armbian Stretch 5.40 4.14.18, Orange PI PC2 Armbian Stretch 5.40 4.14.18, AMD Sempron microserver Debian Stretch 9.4 4.9.0-6-amd64. A short tutorial: 1. Download zram-config package (it's a universal package, it does not matter the architecture in use) wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/z/zram-config/zram-config_0.5_all.deb 2. Install it sudo dpkg -i zram-config_0.5_all.deb 3. Remove the installer …

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First of all, credits goes to https://4pda.ru/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t750921-2560.html Device that I used for this guide: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3-5-Inch-TFT-LCD-Moudle-For-Raspberry-Pi-2-Model-B-RPI-B-raspberry-pi/32707058182.html Pinout: http://www.waveshare.com/3.5inch-rpi-lcd-a.htm (Yes, the device is a waveshare knockoff) How to place the device? For Orange pi lite/one it is reversed. For the rest, it should be normal. Refer to https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/724-quick-review-of-orange-pi-one/ for more info. There are two sections to this guide. Legacy / Mainline Legacy Kernel [You can …

Hi all. I've made a new video where I test all storage devices for the NanoPi M4. 8GB, 16GB and 32GB eMMC modules, NVMe drive, sd-card and SSD over USB3. Here's the video. Here's my gathered data. Storage speeds -------------- 8GB eMMC module read : 160 MB/s write : 11 MB/s 16GB eMMC module read : 175 MB/s write : 50 MB/s 32GB eMMC module read : 173 MB/s write : 111.6 MB/s 256GB NVMe read : 697.7 MB/s write : 401 MB/s (630MB/s for 2.5GB, then 300 MB/s) M4 sd-card read : 70 MB/s write : 20 MB/s …

Is not important, and is a topic related to desktop environment and I know that armbian is more a server OS than a dektop replacement ... but I'm stuck trying to have all the environment in my mother language, Spanish. I change locale in root user and in the additionally created desktop user, I use dpkg-reconfigure locales locales and also export LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8 but after reboot is again in English. And also when I update and upgrade the system I can see Translation-en logs but never a Translation-es. Is there any chance to do a better localization of the Desktop Environment? Thanks.

UPDATE 11-FEB-2017: Version 2.2.0 is released: now including video recording in stead of only images and also a privacy option to black out areas that may not be filmed. UPDATE 09-FEB-2017: Version 2.2.1 is released: memory leak(s) fixed and in some cases video stopped recording. This should be fixed now. Download via this page. Kerberos.io (link) is a relative new video surveillance program focusing mainly on the Raspberry Pi. In collaboration with the owner of the github project I managed to get it working on my Orange Pi Plus and PCDuino3 nano using Armbian (Debian Jessie) and a Logitech UVC compatible USB webcam. It consists of 2 modules: the Machiner…

How to install Puppeteer on node.js on Armbian. Tested on OrangePi Zero Plus running Ubuntu Xenial or Bionic. Should work on other boards and other builds. How to install the latest version of node.js. (at the time of writing was 12.7.0). Instructions for installing node.js on Debian and Ubuntu can be found at: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md#deb The instructions at the time of writing were: # Using Ubuntu curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs # Using Debian, as root curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash - apt-get ins…

Hi all. Here my video about the MangoPi MQ-Pro. It's not powerful, not cheap and not great at anything. But it is nice to see it works. Everybody started out as a baby. So it now needs to grow. Spoiler MangoPi MQ-Pro 1GB ------------------ https://bret.dk/armbian-on-the-mangopi-mq-pro/ Armbian Jammy xfce4 5.19 ------------------------ Idle temp 57C Max temp 63C Blender NicoD 8h34m 7z b 573 Armbian Jammy 5.19 headless without display or usb connected with wifi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Idle temp 47C Max temp 50C Blender NicoD …

Hello everyone! Is there anyone who tried to run Docker on armbian? Ok, let's start from the beginning: I am from the Hypriot Team (we made Docker available on ARM) and recently saw some guys successfully playing with Docker on armbian. Meanwhile, we know, that our Docker runs at least on the Cubietrack and Lamobo R1/BananaPi R1 on top of armbian! This is awesome because, you know, IoT is coming, and Docker on ARM helps get a grip on many challenges induced by IoT. However, we were only able to support Docker on Raspberry Pis so far... Imagine if Docker would run on more than just a few ARM boards! Armbian seems an awesome platform to …

The above thing is a $10 accessory that can be ordered together with ROCK64 (and maybe other Pine Inc. devices like Pine64 or Pinebook?). It's an USB-to-SATA bridge (JMicron JMS578 based) to be used together with 2.5" SSD/HDD or 3.5" HDD. For the latter purpose it's equipped with a separate power jack suitable for the usual 12V 5.5/2.1mm power barrels (centre positive) you find PSUs with literally everywhere. TL;DR: If you want to add storage to your ROCK64 order this cable too. It works great with both 2.5" and 3.5" disks and it's somewhat sad it's not available separately since it's a great storage companion for many other devices too. Basics fir…

I need a suggestion for a samba server (guess that is what it is called). I have an 8 TB external powered HD, and need a device that I can attach it to, so I can "see" it on the network. I had it attached to the USB 3 port on my Asus router, but it had issues, because the router did not support the 8 TB HD. I now have it connected to one of my microPCs (Tronsmart Ara X5) USB 3 ports, but I am only gettting a max of 12 MBs speed. I would like an inexpensive board that will support that drive and is easy to set up as a samba server..... thanks.

Clearfog PRO with Linux 4.12.4-mvebu Samsung 840 PRO utilization: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 random random kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write 102400 4 62501 101691 98761 94430 34522 93050 102400 16 183325 215091 231439 232948 101667 171875 102400 512 301985 307789 341261 344567 328849 309560 102400 1024 294818 309177 345099 347791 339763 309775 102400 16384 271066 344426 384226 …

Hi all. I made a new video on how to build Armbian images. These days you can use your ARM64 SBC to do this. For Windows users there's WSL2 you can use. Here my video about that. Greetings, NicoD

Here are the instructions to run Htop remotely using a web browser. I often use Htop to monitor the health of my boards and servers (amd64). It is a good tool for the sys admin to monitor the servers in real-time without much resources and it is not very intrusive. Recipe 1 - Clone shellinabox root@cubieboard2:~# git clone https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox Cloning into 'shellinabox'... remote: Enumerating objects: 3073, done. remote: Total 3073 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 3073 Receiving objects: 100% (3073/3073), 4.31 MiB | 1.89 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (2418/2418), done. root@cubieboard2:~#…

Hi all. I've made a new video on how to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple SBCs with Armbian. This is the source website where I've gotten my info. There is a lot more info to be found on it then I show in the video. https://itsfoss.com/keyboard-mouse-sharing-between-computers/ Here is my video. Install Barrier sudo apt install snap snapd sudo snap install --edge barrier Run Barrier /snap/bin/barrier Greetings, NicoD

Hello, I'm new here and do not quite understand the sub-forums here but hopefully this is the right one. I got an Orange pi ONE running 4.19 RT kernel with Armbian buster. I was testing out the GPIO capabilities of the H3 SoC without any libraries and got only 1.67 Mhz at best(which is ironically the same as WiringPIOP) with some task interrupt issues. #define INP_GPIO(g) *(unsigned int *)(gpio+0x04) &= ~(7 << (((g) % 10) * 3)) //I did not thoroughly check if the mapping is okay #define OUT_GPIO(g){\ *(unsigned int *)(gpio+0x04) &= ~(6 << (((g) % 8) * 4));\ *(unsigned int *)(gpio+0x0…

Hi all, we have developed a script to create an SD image for Odroid HC4. With this method you can use Armbian without erase Petitboot partition. https://github.com/TheLillo/generate-image-hc4-armbian

We included in Armbian a small utility called h3disp. If called without arguments it displays just a usage information: tk@orangepipc:~$ sudo h3disp [sudo] password for tk: Usage: h3disp [-h/-H] -m [video mode] [-d] [-c [0-2]] ############################################################################ This is a tool to set the display resolution of your Orange Pi by patching script.bin. In case you use an HDMI-to-DVI converter please use the -d switch. The resolution can be set using the -m switch. The following resolutions are currently supported: 480i use "-m 480i" or "-m 0" 576i use "-m 576i" or "-m 1" 480p use "-m 480p" or "-m 2" 576p …

Orange Pi One PCB is designed to easy add almost all removed features from Orange Pi PC. Currently only RAM expansion is unprofitable. To add 2 removed USB ports just solder wires to solder points as shown below on the photo: Data lines for USB #3: points 1,2 Data lines for USB #2: points 3,4 Power can be taken directly from GPIO header or DC socket. OPiOne has no separate voltage regulators for USB ports like previous boards used to have. This way I want to solder mini WiFi dongle (after removing the case and USB port) directly to the PCB.

For those of you who're interested in running a CMS on Armbian I've a small tutorial how to get django CMS working. If you're not interested in the 'story' just want a step by step installation guide, scroll to the end of this post, there you find it. Story: Following their installation guide it fails during creation of a django project with 'djangocms -f -p . mysite'. The error looks something like: Spoiler Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/opi/django/env/bin/djangocms", line 11, in <module> sys.exit(execute()) File "/home/opi/django/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djangocms_install er/main…

I was able to read a DHT22 on PA10 with my Orange Pi Prime using https://github.com/Jeremie-C/OrangePi.GPIO Minimal documentation provided in readme https://github.com/lanefu/DHT22-Python-library-Orange-PI

tkaiser has built a new Kernel with i2s Modules. With this Kernel and some cheap DAC e.g. (http://www.ebay.de/itm/Audiophonics-I2S-DAC-ES9023-Sabre-to-Analog-24bit-192KHZ-fur-Raspberry-PI-/291573327639?hash=item43e31fe717:g:TTwAAOSw~OdVZXtm) it is possible to get good quality sound out of the Orange Pis. After installing the Kernel Two Things have to be changed in the fex File: Change Directory to boot: cd /boot Turn the script.bin to a fex-File and open it in an Editor sudo bin2fex script.bin script.fex sudo nano script.fex Now change the following Entries: [twi1] twi_used = 1 to [twi1] twi_used = 0 and [pcm0] daudi…

Another look at another SBC: The Orange Pi PC from Shenzen based Xunlong. The company claims to have done the original ODM work for Banana Pi as Foxconn contractor and started with 2 'Orange Pi' models based on the same A20 SoC shortly thereafter: 'Orange Pi' and 'Orange Pi Mini' -- both supported by Armbian from the beginning. Then they released the 'Orange Pi Plus' based on a newer Allwinner SoC: the H3 (quad-core Cortex-A7 running at 1.2GHz). This SoC is intended for dirt-cheap OTT boxes, is equipped with 4 independent USB 2.0 PHYs and also an integrated 100 Mbits/sec Ethernet PHY (but can still provide GBit Ethernet using an external PHY like RTL8211 as Xunlong i…

Hello everyone, today I would like to show you how to compile CoovaChilli and Freeradius for a Wifi Hotspot with captive portal on an Orange Pi PC (or PC Plus). I'm writing this because I couldn't find anything related to this topic on the internet, so I wrote this not very detailed guide. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ua3nbw/opihotspot/master/opihotspot_debian.sh chmod +x opihotspot_debian.sh ./opihotspot_debian.sh Russian version https://ua3nbw.ru/all/orangepi-coovachilli-and-freeradius-for-a-wifi-hotspot-with-capt/

Hi all. In this episode @lanefu explains what he does for Armbian, what gear he uses, and why. It is a must see video. Enjoy

With USB camera and Bluetooth headset, mouse and keyboard.

In this tutorial we build a custom .config for OrangePiOnePlus board, eg: to remove blutooth, WiFi and or USB3.x support since the hardware is not onboard, alternatively you can adjust settings to your needs which is not in the default .config. The section mentions, if file " userpatches/linux-$KERNELFAMILY-$KERNELBRANCH.config " exists, it will be used instead of default one from " config ". This means for the OPiOnePlus : " linux-sunxi64-dev.config " should be created, but please note "dev" is just one of the three options available, which are: " current ", " legacy " and " dev " The default config files are located in : " /armbian/config…

For those who like to monitor temperature. Connect SDA & SCL to pins 3 and 5, connect 3.3V and GND. Connect all address wires of the DS1621 to ground. # sudo apt install i2c-tools # echo ds1621 0x48 >/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-1/new_device# cat /sys/devices/platform/ff140000.i2c/i2c-1/1-0048/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input Optional, use lm-sensors: # sudo apt install lm-sensors # sensors Optional, temperature logging: Create a file logtemp.sh with the following contents: #!/bin/bash echo "`date +%Y-%m-%dT%R`;`cat /sys/devices/platform/ff140000.i2c/i2c-1/1-0048/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input`" >>/home/USER/temp Add an entry to /etc/crontab:…

Station M1 is based on a firefly board quite similar to roc-rk3328-cc. However, the M1 has a different layout with all ports on the left or on the right, and it is enclosed in a metal case used also as a heat sink. The device tree is also different (rk3328-roc-pc instead of rk3328-roc-cc) and by default a smooth android 10 system is installed on emmc. Additionally, the powering of this board is ensured by a 5V USB-C port instead of a micro-usb for the roc-cc. You can find official pictures and specifications here. My M1 has 2GB ram and 16GB emmc but variants with 4GB ram and more emmc storage can be bought. Currently, an armbian CSC image can be downloaded (bu…

Hello, I apologize in advance if I haven't put the topic in the right section. I want to share my experience with NanoPC-T6 and two NVMe m.2 disk. I use my NanoPC-T6 for a small server. In the beginning I had 2 SSDs and an M.2 to 2 SATA adapter. But I never found the right solution to power both the NanoPC-T6 and the SSDs from 1 place. After some internet searching I was able to find a solution on how to put 2 NVMe drives on my NanoPC-T6 As you know NanoPC-T6 has 1 M.2 M-Key connector with PCIe 3.0 x4 There is also one PCIe which is M.2 E-key connector with PCIe 2.1 x1 With this adapter: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004762…

Hi all. I've created a tool to install Box86, Box64 and Wine onto Armbian Hirsute 5.13 I've tested it on RK3399. Should work on any device with panfrost drivers enabled. Please let me know on what it works, or if it doesn't. Here is the script. https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming I also made a video where I show how to use it.