Hello everyone,

 

I have an OrangePi 4 that will serve as an interface for the electric car chargers that are produced in my company. We currently use Raspberry 3 and we want to upgrade to the OrangePi 4, mainly because it has eMMc.

The problem is that the interface we have was designed to work on Raspberry. I put the SD card with the image in the OrangePi but it starts with the system that has been installed on eMMc (Armbian).

Can you tell me if it will be very difficult for the image we use in Rpi to be possible to install on OrangePi?

 

Another thing I want to do is move from the Armbian that I have currently installed on eMMc to Debian, however the image on the website (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wAdkC25BmjMwapWahEEQGTvi-yuwo8Gx) is only for the 4.4.179 kernel and the one I have installed on OrangePi is 4.4.213. How can I install the Debian image?

 

 

5 minutes ago, carlosinacio said:

I put the SD card with the image

You cannot simply put an sd card with an OS designed for SBC type X into an SBC type Y and expect to work.

 

5 minutes ago, carlosinacio said:

however the image on the website

Get official images here:https://www.armbian.com/download/

 

To bring it to the eMMC first you have to write the image to the sd card, boot from it and use armbian-config (or issue nand-sata-install directly) to write it to the eMMC.

24 minutes ago, Werner said:

 

 

You cannot simply put an sd card with an OS designed for SBC type X into an SBC type Y and expect to work.

 

Get official images here:https://www.armbian.com/download/

 

To bring it to the eMMC first you have to write the image to the sd card, boot from it and use armbian-config (or issue nand-sata-install directly) to write it to the eMMC.

 

Yes, I know it can't be just putting the card in and it works. But there may be some simple way to be able to compile the interface I have to work on OrangePi..

 

The only official images from Armbian that I can install are based on kernel 4.4 because I can't upgrade it to 5.8. In armbian-config just appear 4.4.x kernels.. And in the Armbian website doesn't appear one image based on Debian

 

If there are not specific reasons to use 5.8 you can stick with 4.4. @NicoD explained in a video why this is a good idea depending on your needs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLY5nbMaT6U

 

There is a Debian image available.

 

If you want Buster with 5.8 kernel you need to build that on your own. Build tools will help you to do this: https://github.com/armbian/build

 

 

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But there may be some simple way to be able to compile the interface I have to work on OrangePi..

Install compiler and compile your source code? Hard to tell what is needed without any info whatsoever about your program

2 hours ago, Werner said:

If there are not specific reasons to use 5.8 you can stick with 4.4. @NicoD explained in a video why this is a good idea depending on your needs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLY5nbMaT6U

 

There is a Debian image available.

 

If you want Buster with 5.8 kernel you need to build that on your own. Build tools will help you to do this: https://github.com/armbian/build

 

 

Install compiler and compile your source code? Hard to tell what is needed without any info whatsoever about your program

 

I had already seen and tested this Debian image, but I needed one with a desktop and not a server.

 

I know the interface is made with QTCreator, and our raspberrys runs a Debian image.. I have the image on a SD Card, I can pass to you and check if it's possible to do something with it..

 

1 hour ago, carlosinacio said:

but I needed one with a desktop and not a server.

Same story. Use the build script to create an image with the options you need.

14 hours ago, Werner said:

Same story. Use the build script to create an image with the options you need.

 

I'm going to do that, but tell me how do I put it on the SD card afterwards because I don't just have an image file at the end..

5 hours ago, carlosinacio said:

because I don't just have an image file at the end..

At the end of the builds, the image files are written into output/images directory ...

46 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

At the end of the builds, the image files are written into output/images directory ...

 

Yes, I had already seen it, thanks!