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And further, what do you need? I know Armbian and Opensuse use chrony instead of older ntp things. Chrony can serve the time to others, do you need that? If not remove it I would say and keep/use a standard client-only method.

2 captains on the same ship is my first note. Then there is fake-hwclock and maybe an RTC onchip/silicon and/or your own or PCB vendor added RTC module like DS3231. And the battery can be almost empty. Early Debian Trixie had a bug with fake hwclock script, I already removed it years ago on SBCs where I added DS3231, but if you haven't there is the sort of 3rd captain. RPi/Raspbian users had that issue.

keep pushing, this device is not brickable, you can make your trip worry-free

I think it still makes sense. And in the off chance that you DO find you have some time leftover, it's also nice to tinker and hobby about with. Mine is still running Buster and has not missed a beat since I got the thing - besides some issues with the SATA connector on the top drive and the inability to upgrade RAM. Groetjes,

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to install renegade firmware on a Rasperry Pi build for example? Libre used to host a script for a tool that achieved this but it hasn't been updated since Buster TIA

We don't support 3rd party forks. Ask at the place where you got this OS from.

Hello, I am using an X96 Air (S905X3) with Armbian (6.1.127-ophub) and I can see the hardware decoder working: v4l2-ctl --list-devices Amlogic Video Decoder (platform:meson-vdec): /dev/video0 However, the hardware encoder (VENC) does not appear: ls /dev/video* /dev/video0 ls /dev/amvenc* ls: cannot access '/dev/amvenc*': No such file or directory I want to use ffmpeg with hardware encoding (h264_v4l2m2m) for real-time RTMP streaming, but without the encoder device, it is not possible. Could you please explain: Does this kernel support VENC on S905X3 at all? If not, what changes are required to enable hardware encoder in the kernel? Is there any instructions or topics ? Any guidance or examples would be very helpful. Thank you!

What you need to understand is that whatever money you paid, you paid for the hardware not for software support. So, the hardware vendor does not give you software support. And we are just a bunch of enthusiasts trying to keep our own boards alive. I am sure that you can understand that your understandable nonetheless misguided rant does not necessarily help in making us more enthusiastic. Armbian provides you with some help to maintain your own board yourself. Whenever somebody does so and provides their work back to the community you are in luck and can freeload off of their work. Still doesn't give you the right to make demands and rant. In your case, you are in luck as there is a person donating their expertise and time. Let's see if @NicoD has anything to say about the issue with your board. Buy him a coffee on Paypal or Patreon for the time he already donated to keep YOUR board alive while getting 0 cents from you so far?

try and tell us

Because they sell you the hardware only. Their software support is very poorly made since for the price they cannot afford proper software support and - even more important - maintenance. They leave this burden to - mostly unpaid - random developers across the world like us. At least I'd go for a device with Standard Support which the Ultra and Max hasn't: https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Standard support For the raspberry you would need additional hardware (an AI kit I guess). No clue though about how they both perform in comparsion. For RK3588 you have two choices for now: The rockchip bsp implementation and https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rknn-toolkit2. Or using 6.18 kernel using the reverse engineered Rocket driver and latest bleeding edge mesa to get npu access. I personally did not play with either of these options and have no intention to do so for the moment.

I'm working on a project that utilises AI, GPS, Bluetooth... and i can't decide whether i should choose OPi or RPi. I've been researching for the past couple of days and I'm amazed at what the OPi can do, it's crazy for it's price. But my concern is how little support and community there is out there, idk if it's worth the risk. So if any one worked with it can you please tell me what kind of difficulties have you faced and how similar is it to working with the raspberry?

@Nick A this is updated patch for x98h that enables wifi after warm reboot. 2001-arm64-dts-allwinner-h618-add-x98h.patch

Armbian 25.8.1 Noble XFCE (BSD Kernel: 6.1.115) + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco) + box64 3.9 (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/) + wine-10.15-staging-tkg-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/tag/10.15) + DXVK-stripped v2.7.1 ~20fps@720p (low settings) Skyrim SE

I have a working img that boots fine from sd card. However the dtb is not perfectly working. Below are dts from android and linux (partial working). I hope that someone can help me with rewriting device tree source for it. Thank you! rk3399-emb3531.dts.txtrk3399-emb3531-android.dts.txt

Armbian current: It seems that the N2+ is [i]immune[/i] to Chrony and systemd-timesyncd. The only way I can set the date/time is manually through date -s. # systemctl status systemd-timesyncd ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-11-24 13:06:59 PST; 31min ago Invocation: 50da85c1116348dbbd83cca270da6ff8 Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8) Main PID: 1185 (systemd-timesyn) Status: "Idle." Tasks: 2 (limit: 4227) Memory: 1.6M (peak: 2.3M) CPU: 79ms CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service └─1185 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd Nov 24 13:06:59 lab systemd-timesyncd[1185]: System clock time advanced to recorded timestamp: Mon 2025-11-24 13:06:59 PST Nov 24 13:06:57 lab systemd-timesyncd[1185]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection. Nov 24 13:06:57 lab systemd-timesyncd[1185]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection. Nov 24 13:06:57 lab systemd-timesyncd[1185]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection. Nov 24 13:07:01 lab systemd-timesyncd[1185]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection. Nov 24 13:07:11 lab systemd-timesyncd[1185]: Timed out waiting for reply from 10.2.1.10:123 (10.2.1.10). No, the network configuration has na-ha-hot, changed, Spastic. I see via tcpdump, the request going out 123/udp and the response, coming back. The information arrives at the destination. But it hits a hard rock head and disintegrates. Of course if it can't set the system clock, there's no sense trying to make it set the RTC. How is this possible in the 21st Century? Does time, no longer matter to Gen Z? Is this the precursor to the Apocalypse? Should I convert to religion and start praying?

If you are using the radxa-pkg github "which is the most up-to-date" know that its hardcoded to point to specific firmware. To get around this you need to create a file: This example is for an SDIO variant using the radxa dkms package cat > /etc/modprobe.d/aic8800-wireless.conf <<- EOT options aic8800_fdrv_sdio aicwf_dbg_level=0 custregd=0 ps_on=0 options aic8800_bsp_sdio aic_fw_path=/lib/firmware/aic8800_fw/SDIO/aic8800 EOT Also note that the AIC8800 firmware located in armbian-firmware is kind of old and probs not compat with the radxa builds.

Scroll back and read all my posts from April 11 onwards (page 17). On Radxa's github there are Wifi/BT drivers for AIC8800. They are at version 4 now : https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800/releases/tag/4.0%2Bgit20250410.b99ca8b6-3 Also to fix BT : sudo crontab -e then add the line : @reboot sudo hciattach -s 1500000 /dev/ttyS1 any 1500000 flow nosleep then reboot the H96.

We are slowly releasing v25.11 images and here I did some mess-up, fixed now. We don't offer Bookworm anymore, so Trixie it is. If you need to Bookworm for some reason, you can build on your own or use the one from archive: http://archive.armbian.com/ Attached torrent will download super fast. Armbian_25.11.1_Helios64_trixie_current_6.12.58_minimal.img.xz.torrent

Trying to download new images off the Helios64 page but every link seems to lead nowhere: This armbian.lv.auroradev.org page can’t be found No webpage was found for the web address: https://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/dl/helios64/archive/Armbian_25.5.1_Helios64_bookworm_current_6.12.28_minimal.img.xz HTTP ERROR 404 Is there another place to get these?

Will it work on the H96 max RK3528 4gb ram 64gb rom?

Hi @BipBip1981, thank you for sharing your thoughts. It is positive to hear from people still running these, much appreciated!

Im trying to flash armbian into the eMMC but its not detected, only the SD card. What should i do? Useful info: CPU/Chip/Idk: sun8iw7p1 PCB Model(?): H3 Q44 V4.0 Uname -a: Linux orangepipcplus 6.12.58-current-sunxi #1 SMP Thu Nov 13 20:34:41 UTC 2025 armv7l GNU/Linux dmesg | grep -i mmc [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=cf60c629-17b3-4fb8-91bb-24bd021f8c6b rootwait rootfstype=ext4 splash=verbose console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1920x1080p60 consoleblank=0 loglevel=1 ubootpart=def8ba6d-01 ubootsource=mmc usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 cgroup_enable=memory [ 0.000000] Unknown kernel command line parameters "splash=verbose ubootpart=def8ba6d-01 ubootsource=mmc sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 cgroup_enable=memory", will be passed to user space. [ 4.995824] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: Got CD GPIO [ 5.019105] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB [ 5.031030] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB [ 5.048053] mmc2: Failed to initialize a non-removable card [ 5.063249] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable [ 5.067129] mmc0: new high speed SDXC card at address aaaa [ 5.071189] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SC64G 59.5 GiB [ 5.080563] mmcblk0: p1 [ 5.316321] ubootsource=mmc [ 7.603641] sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: allocated mmc-pwrseq [ 7.635175] sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB [ 7.687081] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001 [ 8.364751] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem cf60c629-17b3-4fb8-91bb-24bd021f8c6b ro with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none. [ 14.091111] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): re-mounted cf60c629-17b3-4fb8-91bb-24bd021f8c6b r/w. dmesg | grep -i mmc2 [ 5.048053] mmc2: Failed to initialize a non-removable card I also extracted a DTB file and DTS file from the android of the TV box, if that is useful (I used AI for that, and dont really know if they are useful) Thanks. dts.txt

I found this thread https://forum.armbian.com/topic/47929-banana-pi-bpi-m2-ultra-with-armbian-stops-load-after-scanning-for-btrfs-filesystems/

I just tried it on a clean system. I didn't know about this package before. It didn't help me, even though it seemed to have the necessary drivers. But maybe they're for a different version of the adapter. https://github.com/armbian/firmware/tree/master/aic8800/USB

Have you installed armbian-firmware-full package?