Hi there, 

I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M) fleet. I'm open to your suggestions. 


Things I do **not** like about NanoPi: 
* Unreliable Ethernet. A network interface is flipping all the time Up/Down. 
* 512 MB is not enough for a tor relay
* Hardware watchdog does not work reliably.  It works in synthetic tests but sometimes a board just freezes.

Things I like about NanoPi: 
* Armbian support
* Price 
* Size/form factor
* Performance

* Heat dissipation

* Ethernet tap

My use cases: 
* Tor router
* Home DNS server
* Monitoring server Prometheus for my SBCs and network equipment.  

55 minutes ago, Igor_K said:

I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M) fleet. I'm open to your suggestions. 

 

Things I do **not** like about NanoPi: 
* Unreliable Ethernet. A network interface is flipping all the time Up/Down. 
* 512 MB is not enough for a tor relay
* Hardware watchdog does not work reliably.  It works in synthetic tests but sometimes a board just freezes.

Things I like about NanoPi: 
* Armbian support
* Price 
* Size/form factor
* Performance

* Heat dissipation

* Ethernet tap

 

 

The follwoing NanoPis are also available with 1GB of Ram (at a additional cost)

- the "new" NanoPi Neo2 LTS

- the NanoPi Neo Core2 LTS
- the NanoPi Neo Plus2

and

- the NanoPi M1+

 

For the ethernetport check how and with which tools it is configured and try another way nmtui <==> /etc/network/interfaces.

On a NanoPi Neo I got problem with the NetworkManager/nmtui (but do work on the around other types of SBCs)

 

NanoPis are good supported in armbian.

 

Unstable for me and ethernet - so not a good replacement - is the Orange Pi Zero Plus H5 (maybe a heat issue)

 

Orange Pi PC and PC2 are running stable - but didnt get mostly the newest kernels.

Orrange PI One & Zero also have only 512MB of Ram like the NanoPi Duo

 

Yes NanoPi NEO2-LTS looks like a very good candidate.  

NanoPi Neo Plus2 is also good however wifi/bt are useless for me.  Is emmc supported by armbian? 

NanoPi NEO Core2-LTS has no ethernet, 

I've got some variants deployed in my lab.  All have ethernet issues 
1) dns01:  4.14.18-sunxi, Armbian, NetworkManager is installed

2) dns02:  4.14.0 #1,  FriendlyElec  Ubuntu 16.04

3) monitor:  4.14.18-sunxi, Armbian
 

❯ ansible all -b -m shell -a 'journalctl | grep -Ec "Link is (Down|Up)"'
nanotor | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
55

dns01 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
2028

monitor | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
18

dns02 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
159

 

10 minutes ago, Igor_K said:

NanoPi Neo Plus2 is also good however wifi/bt are useless for me.  Is emmc supported by armbian? 
NanoPi NEO Core2-LTS has no ethernet, 

 

emmc is supported in armbian (Iam booting my Core from emmc) and in the beginning the Core2 did (does?) use the Plus image.

 

BTW: you will get ethernet for the Core2 with the Core2 Starter Kit (and wont cost much more then the Core2 alone):

http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=214

But you cant close the case with the original heat-sink attached

That is great.  NanoPi NEO2 1Gb ($37) and NanoPi NEO Plus2 ($57) are in my list.  

But I'm afraid they would have the same ethernet issue. 
 

6 minutes ago, guidol said:

 

emmc is supported in armbian (Iam booting my Core from emmc) and in the beginning the Core2 did (does?) use the Plus image.

 

BTW: you will get ethernet for the Core2 with the Core2 Starter Kit (and wont cost much more then the Core2 alone):

http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=214

 

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39 minutes ago, Igor_K said:

That is great.  NanoPi NEO2 1Gb ($37) and NanoPi NEO Plus2 ($57) are in my list.  
But I'm afraid they would have the same ethernet issue. 

 

Hmm - I hadnt with these no ethernet problems, but you could test the Orange Pi PC2 with 1GB for $30:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orange-Pi-PC-2-H5-Quad-core-64bit-Support-Ubuntu-Linux-And-Android-Mini-PC/352355200303

 

but you have to check for the kernel

Thank you.  It is a good option and it is about $20 on aliexpress 

 

54 minutes ago, guidol said:

 

Hmm - I hadnt with these no ethernet problems, but you could test the Orange Pi PC2 with 1GB for $30:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orange-Pi-PC-2-H5-Quad-core-64bit-Support-Ubuntu-Linux-And-Android-Mini-PC/352355200303

 

but you have to check for the kernel

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