robertoj

I recently used Linphone for an audio call from my laptop to my desktop and it works for audio calls in command line mode With video calls, it is promising, but it complains with MSvp8 media errors (most likely can't use decoding libraries) I really want to use them in my armbian SBC since it is so lightweight (and my ili9341 LCD would look nice with a video call ) Does anyone here have experience with Linphone and BareSIP (another SIP video client, even more lightweight). The only discussion I see about it is in the Linphone google group and the german forum for "DoorPi"... but I can't see a guide to install and use it.

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/29202-orange-pi-zero-3/?do=findComment&comment=193374 Does this ILI9341+touch DTS work for the Orange Pi Zero 3? (with or without backlight control)

The orange pi zero 3 does not have a camera serial interface

Document everything in your DTS, including how you calculate the GPIO numbers and the describe the physical wiring Make sure you use armbian-add-overlay correctly, and armbianEnv.txt doesn't include previous dtbo experiments. Send a schematic of your touch chip pins and your ARM board This is a reference on how it is done with an Allwinner H3 and spi-gpio. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/27457-connecting-banana-pi-m2-zero-with-ili9341-display-over-spi-on-latest-armbian-image/?do=findComment&comment=202734 Try changing the active-high/active low/edge up/edge down parameters

When the chip select is not specified, as above, the gpio pin is available for other uses I read somewhere that the ili9341 does not need the MISO wire because no information is read from the LCD ever... is this true? Some people are getting away with it https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=370089 Also, if a wire is loose momentarily, the LCD locks up or turns "white-washed"... is there a way to reset the LCD and its KO module?

Are you a linux beginner also? Have you operated linux computers through SSH? What is your objective with an SBC? Desktop, server, media player, robot controller? This is the best guide around: https://github.com/robertojguerra/orangepi-zero-full-setup Keep in mind that following guides made years ago may not be valid anymore, and you need to research how to make it work Community suppport means: you ask questions in the forum, and someone who had the experience answers it

Can you get the gt911_btt_tft43_dip.dtbo source file DTS? I think there's a thread that explains how to decompile a DTBO into a DTS. In the DTS, you will find the exact kernel module needed. If you don't have it in /lib/kernel/6.xxx/kernel/drivers, you need to build an armbian image, and extract the KOs needed (look in the raspberry, run lsmod) Check out these threads: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/44191-orangepi-zero-lts-ili9341-tft-lcd-and-later-orangepi-zero-3/ https://forum.armbian.com/topic/27457-connecting-banana-pi-m2-zero-with-ili9341-display-over-spi-on-latest-armbian-image/page/2/#comments There's discussion about the thought process of making your DTS and there's a big difference between SPI and DSI... you should find examples of OTHER DSI screens I dont know why Raspberry OS uses KO parameter in the config.txt (equivalent to armbianEnv.txt), but more commonly, these parameters are passed in the DTS (creating a DTBO) Well, I see that the DTS is available, and it only refers to the touch part of the screen You will need to see how the raspberry community has made the screen work, and modify the DTS for your SBC https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=315337

it is possible to install octoprint in a more powerful ARM (32bit) SBC, then move the project folder with its VENV folder, to a smaller ARM (32bit) SBC, fix something and then run it https://dev.to/geekypandey/copy-venv-from-one-folder-to-another-and-still-be-able-to-use-it-3m49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZlgLrWed1I

Thank you for your work The concept sounds super useful to me... I will try it

Did you try: apt update apt-cache search rear

Usually it means that you need to install a *-dev package apt-cache search ffmpeg-dev ... or try other key words Also make sure you have installed build-common and python3-dev If you cant install with pip, is it available in debian? apt-cache search python3 |grep ffmpeg

Hello, I am having a lot of fun making my first apps with python and tkinter... and with my recent good experiences with LCD TFT displays, I want to create an "appliance" project. I can start non-GUI apps with systemctl service files, and they run with the proper user permissions... and I don't worry about giving it root access. But I would like to do the same with GUI apps. They would be full screen, 320x240 on the LCD TFT. All I can do now is: * start with armbian minimal (with orange pi zero in my case) * add the DTS for LCD and touch, and the ko for spi-gpio (as seen in my threads in the orangepi zero section) * install the bare minimum for X11: xorg, xorg-video-fbdev, xorg-input-evdev, python3-tk, openbox, xterm * create an auxiliary starter script: launch_my_app.sh #!/bin/sh openbox --startup 'python3 /home/roberto/tkinter_test/tktest.py' Then, I execute from within my python project folder, in an ssh session as my username DISPLAY=:0.0 sudo startx ./launch_my_app.sh Then my tkinter app runs, until I press ctrl-C in the ssh. But I feel that sudo is unnecessary and too much for a cybersecurity perspective. Is there a way to make it start automatically? (it would be ideal if xorg would exit if the window is closed) Sample python code. Credits: https://www.pythonguis.com/tutorials/create-gui-tkinter/

Which available kernel version makes this WiFi work correctly?

It turned out that my USB power cable was too long... I replaced it with the previous short one and I am back in business. I am experimenting with NOT USING CS. Good progress: In the DTS, comment out with "/*" the line cs-gpios = <&pio 0 13 0>; /* PA13 chip select */ Also, change this line num-chipselects = <1>; to <0> Previous result of: sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/1c20800.pinctrl/pinmux-pins ... New result, with NO CS configuration: ... ... ^ with my next steps, I hope to verify that PA13 is available for other things It plays an h264 file with no hiccups mplayer -vo fbdev2:/dev/fb0 mj_remember_time.mp4

I meant to only change the kernel. I have never modified any of my SPI flash orange pis, because I fear bricking them.

Can you step back in armbian images until you find a linux version that doesn't show this problem?

In armbianenv.txt, erase the overlay “tve” (abbreviation of tv signal encoder) if you don’t use any analog outputs, can the pins be used as GPIO?

For anyone interested in connecting the ili9341 to an orange pi zero, and use the adafruit DRM driver: ili9341-spi1-drm.dts I made these experiments, since the LCD is the only one chip in the SPI bus. * disconnect the LCD's Chip Select -> LCD remains white * connect the LCD's Chip Select to GND -> LCD displays the login line and linux crashes soon after <- it might be my orange pi zero, which needs a heatsink Update: this thread also refers to orange pi zero 3... the solution (with touch function) is in this post: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/44191-orangepi-zero-lts-ili9341-tft-lcd-and-later-orangepi-zero-3/#findComment-204672

I simply rotated the image with the "rotation" parameter in the LCD DTS, and turned the screen 180 degrees physically. I will try the min, max swap later, but right now I am on a roll, making my tkinter apps work Another thing I will try is not using a chip select pin at all, since LCD and touch-chip are on different buses now.

I decided to use the gpio-spi driver, to emulate software spi just for the touch chip ADS7846/XPT2048, and use a different DTS file Here is what I think would work: ads7846-spi-gpio.dts I used these references: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-gpio.txt https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78905378/how-do-i-use-spi-gpio-driver-in-linux https://gist.github.com/BjoernSch/39d3bca950a3b025b806decc2b686bbc and need to check this too: http://terminal28.blogspot.com/2015/12/bitbanging-spi-on-raspberry-pi-via-spi.html http://terminal28.blogspot.com/2016/05/enabling-spi1-on-raspberry-pi-bzero23.html My DTS compiles well but the linux in my armbian image did not include spi-gpio.ko, in /lib/modules/6.6.44-current-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/ Therefore, I am building a new OS image. Does anyone see a problem with my DTS? Update:) it works good stability now the only problem is that both x-axis and y-axis are reversed (not swapped). More updates on the way

Is it just for allwinner chips? Is this a change for good and toward stability, or is it a mistake?

Did you ever solve your problem?

Thank you. I will try that, and I learned about the xinput_calibrator, which I will apply next time. (and https://github.com/reinderien/xcalibrate/blob/main/xcalibrate is a new interesting project) Now I am focusing on moving the touchscreen pins to an independent gpio-based SPI set of pins... we will know whether the LCD crash is from interfering SPI commands. I did an experiment with the "backlight = <&backlight_gpio>" parameter as shown in https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/blob/master/src/arm/BB-LCD-ADAFRUIT-24-SPI0-00A0.dts and https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=358240 but so far it ended up in a kernel not loading. I will leave this task for last. If the DTS configuration does not specify CPHA and CPOL, what is the default setting of the SPI protocol?

I learned netplan recently, because I was unable to use armbian-config or nmtui (the underlying mechanism used by armbian-config)

If it works all the time, nothing else gets disabled, no new dmesg warnings appear due to this, it would be a good indicator but a dtbo (compiled from a dts) sometimes need to be changed when Linux is upgraded (like some changes with spi and tft changes)… and the orange pi official OS images are very old. so in general, a dtbo copied from an old os to a new os, might not work all the time. Needs to be tested. do you see a dts file with the same name as the dtbo?