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hi all . i got a old pandaboard only $20 by auction . i expirienced RS232C conection to install freebsd & arch (fail to install openbsd ) . RS232C is impressive to me . i guess that the armbian developers usually use rs232c . is it right ? if you have some interrest , please see http://akita-arm.blogspot.jp/2016/08/pandaboard-openbsd.html . two green palates is the thing on which we use kitchin knife on . it is easylly cut by scissors and holed out by electric drill and cheap only $1 . ------ thanks

Orange Pi has a form to fill out to submit your projects. Has anyone submitted any? Where are lists of them located? http://www.orangepi.org/News/info_a3e7799eff76ca475becaa462a9697a.html

Sorry to ask, does anyone have a howto make a h6 board (orange pi 3 lts) work with 264 hw DECODE? All howtos i can find uses old mainline not available to the LTS version Im trying to use VLC and MPV but no hwdec is working.. there is a custom launch parameter? Thank you in advance

A brief internet search revealed that Invision board software is supposed to accept bbcode. I wish there was a way to preview this, but it does not appear to be so. Since I prefer to edit my post in Emacs using bbcode mode before posting (I just lost a big post I was working on due to an errant keypress) I hope that it is alright I am testing this functionality. Feel free to delete this once it has been posted... unless somehow you feel it is useful? Well, here goes... Size 150 Size 200 bold italic underline link to google A paragraph. Another paragraph.

I came across these recently and found several interesting things within, so thought I would share them. I debated posting this in Development, but wanted anyone to be able to see and reply to the thread. Anyway some parts I felt were important enough that I actually took down some notes and quotations, which I will include. Open drivers for Arm GPUs This looks like it was presentation LVC21-318 at Linaro Connect '21 on 2021-03-25. Video is available at above page, and also on ThemTube here. I found this a fascinating presentation. Alyssa contrasts the (proprietary) 'before times' with current situation whi…

Hello, I would like to replace the ribbon of the orangepi camera which is damaged. What are the technical characteristics of the ribbon or better, where can we buy it? Thx

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/12/08/rock-pi-sata-hat-targets-rock-pi-4-raspberry-pi-4-nas/ Nice hardware for NAS on usb3.0 only board. It looks like perfect hardware for ultimate 12-bay RK3399 nas experience if combined with proper hardware Sent from my Redmi 4X using Tapatalk

hello, i need help with configuring BIND9. I want to set up local DNS for LAN. forwarding works, but adding a zone doesn't work. BIND9 with the first zone starts but does not translate the name to an ip address. With the second zone, BIND9 does not get up at all. What am I doing wrong? /etc/bind/named.conf.local // // Do any local configuration here // // Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your // organization //include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918"; zone "example.loc" { type master; file "/etc/bind/zones/example.loc.db"; }; zone “0.10.10.in-addr.arpa” { type master; file “/etc/bind/zones/10.1…

I am looking to replace 3 OrangePi boards with a H3 CPU with one board. Every board has a RTL-SDR USB stick attached to it, and the software tends to load up the CPU a lot on at least one core, in some cases the total load is high on 2 cores. To make it all easier / simpler I would like to replace the 3 with one board with enough processing power, but nothing extreme. The goal is that it will be in an enclosure up the antenna mast, POE fed, so not easily accessible! I even looked at the Atomic Pi, but I am not so sure about processing power in that unit.. (I might be wrong though!) Browsing the options online, I saw the NanoPi M4 which looks like a good candid…

so 22.04 will come out soon-ish so I have a few questions: is it known when there will be an armbian release for it? can users of focal armbian upgrade to that directly, or is it kinda needed to nuke everything? I have a rockpro64 btw

I wonder how the community would react to an addition to the existing version of the images with XFCE DE , new version with Mate DE. Or other variants. The issue arose due to the fact that collecting different images and often get from users are requests for different options that vary from the norm in the community Armbian variant of DE (ICEWM KDE LXDE LXQT etc). I tried to add a test version with a Mate. Got to add the Assembly of images with alternative DE without prejudice to the basic variant (XFCE).

If there are any people out there proficient in c and assembly we should all commit some time to improving the lima driver, the benefits of having an open source user space driver for the mali gpu are too high to pass up, i plan to devote two of my three sbc's to this task, one with the mali400 the other mali450, there is already considerable information on the 400 in the git repo, i know that i alone cannot do this so please look into it search lima driver on google.

OK, playing around with NanoPi Duo (H2+) to see what kind of performance boost I can get using MMIO (/dev/mem) instead of gpiod (forget sysfs) and it was pretty impressive. I used pre-calculated offset to run a square wave (rapid on/off) on pin 203 IOG11 and I hit ~3.8 MHz compared to ~500 KHz using gpiod. You can take a peek at the source at https://github.com/sgjava/java-periphery/blob/master/src/main/java/com/codeferm/periphery/demo/MmioTest.java. So the idea is how to make this generic with boards with multiple GPIO chips and different register configurations. The cool thing is the underlying MMIO stuff is kernel cross platform. Any ways I've been thinking about this …

I have done some things with the 3D printer and planned to design a box for the OPZ. Before to do this, I tried a search on thingiverse and found some boxes! So right now I am printing... Err, no in fact my wife is printing, she is the 3D printer boss... On the top we have a thingiverse OPZ box https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1986658 On the left this is a box for 16x2 LCD http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:614241 On the right this is box for OPZ + PCM2704 DAC

The download page of armbian has a pretty good UI. I am interested to know how this page is generated, is there a php backend generating the directory listing? Or, is it a static html with bootstrap? link: https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-e/

https://www.pine64.org/2020/10/28/nutcracker-challenge-blob-free-wifi-ble/

Hi We've made a patch for the current a64 megous 5.10 kernel which enables writing to the 2K SID/Efuse security area of the A64/R18 processor. Our initial investigations have found that the A64 doesn't seem to match the tables found in the SID Register Guide, however we've proceeded to perform various write tests and are presenting our results here for anyone that may found it useful in further development. There shouldn't be any issues using the same patch in the 5.14 kernel, as the driver code is still the same. The patch won't be pushed upstream, and is for dev purposes only, as the original intend of the driver is to be read-only. (This is EFUSE area …

A while back I wrote some simple C code to talk to those inexpensive little 128x64 OLED monochrome displays. I just added options to initialize the display in inverted and/or flipped 180 modes: https://github.com/bitbank2/oled_96

WOW, I was really unhappy when I saw this, just goes to show you not to trust even projects like ARMBIAN on where they will connect to from your network, advise before anyone finds themselves in trouble having to explain why some of these connections..... I was downloading Armbian image and then got a warning that I couldn't connect to site called "FOREVER PIRATES" and became concerned... You can read it yourself... https://imgur.com/a/IQyzlvr

just want ask is Wanke Cloud NAS is use armbian? I bought this thrift item

I do not wish to make this too political. But I do often get the question if we can trust all the images from board makers security wise. I personally try many images. I only use Hardkernel images on my Odroids. On my NVIDIA Jetson Nano I of course use the image from NVIDIA since it's got all the goodies. But on all other boards I use Armbian. Either official Armbian, or Balbes Armbian. I wanted to hear your thought about this.

Is there any store online that sells the ClearFog Pro board in the US? Just wondering if there is a way to avoid the 2 week lead time and $28 shipping.

I saw an indegoo campaign for the LicheePi Zero and was wondering if it'll be a useful board or chock-full-o-problems. It only has 64mbram, but may be useful if used in specific iot projects. I don't think it's available for purchase yet, but it may be soon. I would be interested in getting the add-on wifi component and driving a 2.4" tft lcd with this board.

Hi all, This is my first post after reading all the good work this community has done. My goal is to create a cheap cluster of ARM boards. I started with the RPI3 but that's getting expensive real quick and the board isn't that good performance wise. So I started looking for different, cheaper boards but it still wouldn't be cheap enough if you plan to run 30-40 of them. So I started looking at older Smartphones with OpenCL support and came to the Samsung Galaxy S4 (The Exynos version). It is an older phone but once was one of Samsungs flagships and still offers good performance for what I want. I know the Exynos 5410 was used on the Odroid XU, so in my opinio…

I have recently bought a Orange Pi Lite 2 H6 1GB Quad Core Development Board, it comes with one USB 2.0 Port and one USB 3.0 Port. I like to connect the HD Web Camera using the USB 2.0 Port or USB 3.0 Port on to that board, and including setting up the Live-Stream using a Wi-Fi on my PC, so do you have Video Tutorial or Instructions for it . I don’t have Google drive so how can I download instructions for the Orange Pi Lite 2 H6 1GB Quad Core Development Board, Because the Orange Pi Forums is a joke, I can’t even chat to people on the forums when I am logged in, and I cannot Post my message in the forums regarding about technical help I need. So…

Hi All, I'm working with a linux5.4.213 (arm) - OpenWRT based (QCA driver) Mesh AP. Currently the device is running into Out of memory and looking at the slab info, we see skb_head_cache and skb_data_cache accounting a major increase. But i don't have any clue on how to go about debugging the same. I came across similar issues discussed years ago, but there were no conclusion or methods to debug/triage the issue further. We gave a shot with kmemtracer, but that seems to pretty much point to false positives and the module itself was contributing to leak and we were asked to turn the configs off. If someone could point me on w…

Hey everyone, I am a tech lover with a passion for single board computers & opensource projects. I want to exploring the capabilities of Armbian and want to share insights on optimizing performance for various applications. I want to learn as well as start my own conversation to answer my question and learn more. If there are any posts or resources that are suggested for new users. Please share with me. I am grateful. 😊

Hi everyone! I'm obviously new here, and I simply wanted to give my profile a picture, but failed to find that option in the "profile > account settings". I assume it's easy, and to be honest I like to take the time to ask a real person here. Is there an option to upload an avatar image? Thank you!

Hi all. How many years people can count on support of 32 bit mini PC? (OS + repository ) For example Orange Pi: Allwinner H2+ Quad-core Cortex-A7 Is it worth to buy 64 bit ARM ? I wanna use 1 device more than 10 years. I know about 2038 year. And I dont want to buy devices which support stops after 2 or 3 years. Please give me a link if this has been discussed. Thanks in advance.

Hi, please i want to know how to use an accelerometer to activate the auto rotate settings on android image whats the file responsible for iknw little about java but ineed some one to drive me for the first steps the best accelero/gyro sensor and how to compile driver and make it word on android and i have another question about autorotion on linux is possible cz i heared that must be robboted to take effects for screen rotation on linux thanks

Hi all, I am working with GSM Module MC60 from Quectel. I am facing a problem with AT commands of the module. When i am trying to close the connection using AT+QICLOSE= server_index,the response i am getting is +CME ERROR 0. The +CME ERROR 0 indicates phone failure error. Can someone please explain what is this phone failure error in GSM modules and when it generally comes. Also if there is a solution to rectify this. Thanks Amit

This does not look good... Did someone forget to renew the certificates?

I am using my personal laptop for my work, but recently, they have degraded a lot. In the past I bought a computer with an HHD drive, because the price was cheaper. Now I need to upgrade to an SSD computer, because the laptop is running very slow. So is it possible to change the HHD drive to an SSD? If so, how many GB SSD is reasonable? Please give me some advice. thanks all

Hey all! Just signed up. I had been thinking of converting an older T.V. box and was hoping I could do it with Debian. Debian has been my preferred OS for some time now. I have never dealt with these boxes or arm for that matter. It looks like it may be possible to install armbian on this box and I started reading some of the documentation. What I would like to ask before I go down the rabbit hole is, based only on the specs below, if it looks possible? Would it be a good candidate for armbian or would there be too much non-cpu bits that surely won't work. If you folks thinks it's a capable box then I will put on my boots and get into it. Just an honest opinion. Also…

La frite sbc is avalaible via preorder. This board dont have micro-sd slot. It is avalaible with eMMc module. Can we expect armbian for such sbc? Can i suggest it as support board?

Mostly because I was bored and for self-educational purpose I desigend a custom fan hat for the Nanopi R4S. Planned to mill it from 2mm aluminum. As reference I created a heavily simplified version of the board (4GB version) using the provided 2D drawing from Friendlyarm. Fan: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B071JN6HKM?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share Heat sink: https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000107291369.html Bolts and nuts: Whatever fits... M2 Baugr1.mkv

Hello Everyone, I want to build my career as a software tester and I am looking to online tutorial which helps me to build my career. Can any know any free resource where i can start learning?

Hi people. My ubuntu machine serves as a samba and openvpn servers. Sometimes it hangs and I'm unable to connect using ssh/openvpn. I've been searching the logs syslog and dmesg, but I'm stil unable to find the cause. Could you point where I should search for the problem? Or help me to troubleshoot and find the problem? Thanks in advance

Why can I not sign in with GitHub ?

I heard about this today. https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift sounds pretty neat..

Hi folks, this is my first thread here, I just recently came aboard since I found that Armbian is the better solution for my Odroi-HC4 therefore I won't insist on checking for info and solution on the Odroid Forum. I am not very satisfied with Hardkernel, they produce excellent board with very poor OS support, looks like such critical aspect is left on the shoulder of a couple of great dudes but is not same as having a community behind; also board as the RPI demonstrated that a great OS support is better than having the most powerful hardware, is the same lesson learned by Rock64 even though I won't user Manjaro not even under torture... 😜 …

Tested with a few drives, and different operating systems. Also a couple power supplies. The harddrive runs extra hot 107F on the outside for the last one I measured myself. It dies during heavy loads. a simple fsck will kill it. But put it in my main computer and I can write /dev/zero to it all day long. My first thought is that I had a power issue with some power supplies lying about their actual amperage. So I found "FSP Net 36 Universal Netbook Power Adapter 12V 36W for ASUS Eee PC" in the discount bin and modified it to work in a 12v adapter. Still the crashing persists. However if I don't use the 3.5 addon package and I use a 2TB samsung laptop drive, no …

I got an older Toshiba AC100 with Tegra processor. Is there a possibility to get Armbian running on this netbook?

Hi Everyone, I am new with Raspberry Pi. I need to install FreePBX into raspberry Pi3 and make raspberry Pi acts for server I need to know what OS have i install in raspberry Pi and how i install my FreePBX

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Please anyone explain difference. Advantages and disadvantages?

Hello!!! I am sorry if I am lost, but I cannot find a way to delete my account in this forum. Can any kind soul direct me to the right place. Thanks...

Any reason why even after being registered for a month and having validated my email, I still cannot see any posts in any of the topics on this entire forum? For some reason it was just a mobile phone issue.

This is my first day trying Armbian on my Firefly Renegade. But the web browsers do not work under the main user, only if I log in as root. Other distros that I have used only let the less privileged users run a browser. Was this intentiional on your part ?

Unless my eyes are deceiving me, that appears to be a Molex Mini-SPOX 2.5mm connector, I have seen some questions here and there about what that thing was, I'll order a couple connectors and verify (once I see if I have a usable crimper), since it would be nice to have a few more laying around.

Been waiting for sometime, couple of months but glad that you guys had made it happened. I basically just leave my boards aside until armbian is ready. Thank you. Just wonder would there be os for tinkerboard as well in future?

Hi, I have a Rock Pi 4B and trying to enable Monitor Mode on the onboard WiFi. According to this article it should work - RockPi4-Monitor-Mode The file download link is broken so was advised to use this one - https://github.com/radxa/rkwifibt/blob/master/brcm_tools/dhd_priv.c However when running the command - gcc dhd_priv.c -o dhd_priv I just get loads of errors. Has anyone managed to use monitor mode with the built in WiFi, or could possibly help to resolve all the error messages you get

neither apt nor snap will update firefox, apt says possible mirror update in progress. snap refresh or snap list says its current. Call me puzzled. Which do I uninstall??? .

Yes - I'm here flailing about for clues (like person who can't swim in deep end of pool :-) ). I know, this is more of an Orange Pi/ I2C_sunxi thing, but OPI and Armbian go together, so... I have an oscilloscope that shows I2C-0 putting out clock bits with my LDC1314's '2A' address data just fine - up to the ninth clock. On the ninth clock - which follows clocks for bits 6,5,4,3,2,1,0,R/W - and should be where the slave responds with the ACK/NACK bit, the SDA line goes to 1/2Vcc - like the master is fighting the slave. It's like the device is trying its best to pull it low for an ACK, but the Master (OPI pin PA12) is not letting go. I have a pictur…

Hey guys, I just compiled and installed v5.56 (Armbian_5.56_Orangepilite2_Debian_stretch_next_4.17.14.img) and am really pleased to see USB3 working now! Thank you very much! So, what is needed to bring the AP6255 SDIO Adapter to live?

Hi all, first post here. Im Ivan, its nice to meet. So i finally came to install Debian Jessie stable, and it's good to be back. My installation is brand new and i have not a wired connection avalaible, so ill have to make things works nowired. As the title say, my card is an Intel i217-V, which in the beginning was not recognized at all by the OS. That was normal and expected, because in the installation phase Debian told that i was missing firmware files named rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin. After a few search i came to download from windows (im in a dual boot system) the following packages: firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb and firmware-realtek_0.43_all.deb. I also installed …

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Hi everyone, I would like to pick the brains of our fellow armbianers about powering the small boxes. My experience is that quality of the outlet, the in-the-wall circuit line, the health of the power strip, the actual voltage out of the plug, etc ... very much matter. How to best plug a system made of 5-6 devices (sbc+hard-drive+sata multiplier, dac, usb hub, usb wifi keys). Does phase, pluging orientation change something ? Is it possible to monitor via software the quality of the power signal from within the SBCs ? Interferences ? What kind of off the shelf instruments can help to monitor the power signal ? Do ferrites help ?…

Hi there, I was playing around with the new sun6i-csi driver and was able to capture up to 800x600, but if I try to capture with a higher resolution it will always fail: fswebcam -S 5 -d /dev/video0 -r 1600x1200 -p YUV420P test.jpg --- Opening /dev/video0... Trying source module v4l2... /dev/video0 opened. No input was specified, using the first. [ 2313.151304] sun6i-csi 1cb4000.csi: Wrong width or height 1600x1200 (800x600 expected) Error starting stream. VIDIOC_STREAMON: Broken pipe Unable to use mmap. Using read instead. Unable to use read. I have also tried to set a higher resolution with v4l2-ctl beforehand. It doesn't make an difference. v4l…

I was using OPI3 as my home automation server for many months, very stable for me with Armbian. But now I've migrated to more powerful machine and my OPI3 got nothing to do So I'm thinking about connecting it to my TV and use as light linux desktop: web browser mainly. Does anyone use OPI3 2GB RAM like that? Is it powerful enough to handle browsing with 10 tabs for example? Or I should go for some cheap RK3399+4GB RAM (under $50) instead? What's your experience?

Hello everybody, I am new to this forum, and stumbled upon Armbian while looking for OS options for the NanoPi M4 board. Great work! The board is running well now, but I do have a few questions: Armbian is WIP, but as NicoD says it's actually very stable. Any idea when it's going to "supported" officially? I did have an issue with the 4.4 kernel, which I worked around. How is your experience with more recent kernels, is it advisable to upgrade? Or will the official image be upgraded from the LibreElec kernel? (Compiling a kernel still seems a little bit daunting to me, although I did it on x86 chips years ago). What timeframe i…

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Hi, New to the forum and armbian but I have several different arm boards. This may have been hashed (rehashed) before but I have a couple of amlogic s912 boards; is there not an official download for them? I saw references to a few one-offs from different people. What is the general opinion of these boards and this chip? Thank you. Best, Chris

So in armbian-config I can enable /dev/i2c-0 /dev/i2c-1 /dev/i2c-2 but there is only one hardware I2C onboard. Are the other two software driven? If so what pins do you use for SCL and SDA?

One of the board members here wrote an article about a 12 node NanoPi-Fire3 cluster. I found it quite exciting (I don't get out much). It is a couple of years old. It seems to be very powerful yet energy efficient. Is this SBC still the King of clusters? I want to fool around with clusters, cluster software managers and process distributors, and perhaps do some coin mining (if that is feasible). Someone said this board has too little memory for coin mining, that 2gb would be better than 1gb. Pine have a 7 slot clusterboard which takes their PINE A64 (+) "Single Board Computer powered by Allwinner’…

Hi. I've just seen a small spelling mistake in the docs. I've searched for a thread to post these things but couldn't find any. From now on I'll post the mistakes I find here if ok. Here is the mistake "How to toogle verbose boot?" toogle -> toggle Here -> https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/ And in this link -> https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#how-to-toogle-verbose-boot

I use NANOPI R1 in one of my projects. Now I need to develop a board to make a physical watchdog from NANOPI R1 itself and an RTC (the NANOPI R1 RTC does not work). I have two possibilities: One is to use the already integrated UART, or use a USB - I2C converter. Using the UART I would communicate the NANOPI with a 328P microcontroller, and from there I would collect the RTC information (with i2c between 328P and RTC), in addition to sending the frequent information to the 328P to keep the watchdog active. Using the I2C, the RTC would be connected to the I2C BUS and I would do the direct query via NANOPI R1, as well as send the frequent information via I2C …

Hi everyone, I am new to the forum so my topic might be misplaced/already answered. I have armbian running on BananaPiPro and I am completely satisfied but this build is not supported anymore. I was am checking if I have the capabilities and/or the time to extend its support. How does it work? What is the main job I should do in order to maintain it/contribute to it? Thank you!

The Eltechs webpage is down https://eltechs.com/ Anyone knows something. Its only by curiosity.

Well, it's gotten to the point where I'm dedicating a PC to this, using the VM is only so useful. Any recommendations on tools (Git gui's, specific code editors, etc?) A lot of this stuff I already have ideas/"go-to"s, but I'd like some new ideas/recommendations. And I think it would help out others to know.

I have been bouncing ideas around with@diozerofor using MMIO in a generic way to achieve fast GPIO for times when performance (bit banging, software based PWM, low CPU latency, etc) is required. This is my first attempt using a NanoPi Duo (H2+) which should work on any H2+ or H3 based SBC. What I've done is write a register mapper, so I can extract the register masks without having to do it by hand from the datasheet. Hand mask making is tedious and error prone. The generic part will come in by externalizing the register offsets and masks. This will happen after I build my next project using an Odroid C2. Also, since the Duo didn't have PUDs, so I could not map those. Tha…

Hello I searched the forum and there is a lot of sd card performance topics. Im using SanDisk microSDHC 16GB read 98mb/sek UHS I C10 which cost 7.43 USD. I have given up Samsung EVO cards. Sandisk is much better. I have found in promotion - costs only 4.12 USD, read 100MB/sek Toshiba M203 microSDHC 16GB UHS-I, clas 10. There is no information about I/O transfer. Which sd-micro card do you recommend ? I mean card costs max 10 USD or even cheaper.

Hello, I have app (in attachment) from Rasbian and I have problem when I try to install this app on Armbian. Is it possible to run this app on Armbian? root@mps-box-000:/home/username/Downloads# sudo dpkg -i EERaspbian_1.0.1.0.deb (Reading database ... 113955 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack EERaspbian_1.0.1.0.deb ... Unpacking eelinux:armhf (1.0.1.0) over (1.0.1.0) ... Setting up eelinux:armhf (1.0.1.0) ... Job for eelinux.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status eelinux.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. dpkg: error processing package eelinux:armhf (--install):…

Hi Forum, can I completely backup and restore Armbian boot/root/data partitions with tar (or something similar) and dates, rights, everything is saved and restored and the system boots? I've used Clonezilla up to now, to backup the sd-cards but some say is not needed and runs only on pcs. I would like to backup the sd-cards of one pi with one other.

I just released a simple library for the MAX7219 LED matrix controller. It allows controlling any number of cascaded controllers in a very simple way. I tested it on an Orange Pi Lite. Even though it says it needs 5V, I ran the board @ 3.3v, it worked fine and didn't require any 3.3v->5v level converters. Here's the code: https://github.com/bitbank2/MAX7219 And a video of it in action: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iO66bsy6Wk13lT1y2

Cross-posted from here... At FOSDEM 2020, in roughly a few days (at 2pm, Sunday 2nd of Feb, Brussels time), there will be a livestreamed explanation given of the “FOSDEM Video Box” HDMI capturing devices. They use almost 60 of these ARM-based devices during the FOSDEM conference to capture both the video output of all presenters laptops, and the video and audio of the camera filming of the presenter. Serious video hackery accomplishes this. I would encourage anyone interested to check out the bio of Luc Verhaegen, one of the presenters. Using these "Video Boxes", FOSDEM inexpensively streams 720p videos of all 800+ presentations! This is a small m…

Tinkering with API's is fun. Always wanted to allocate the scripts and tools made over time and allow quick access to the data they can provide. Never liked the idea of leaving a power hungry Desktop running to have access to it and am too paranoid to leave any SBC (FTP/WebServer) connected to the World Wild West for too long. As seen with the Mirai Botnet/DYN attacks. So my answer was to have something low power (SBC and armbian) that was at least 'secure enough' for me to let it interface with the world. So this was made: https://github.com/BiTinerary/PersonalAPI In a nutshell this is how it works: Scripts on an OPi Zero that make API calls, scrape web da…

Hi, I have two Opi1 that are taking dust, here in italy we are under quaratine, and I want to do something stupid, like: setup an old OPi1 to be useful. So my first attemp was to try retrorangepi, but 4.3 version is really laggy and kodi is based on matrix alpha and there are so many error with python 3.0 dependancies, I can't even install youtube addon. 4.1 and 4.2 usually works better, but kodi again is the problem, and gamepad as a known problem with deadzone. android beta 7 gives me a lot of error on google play...but don't ask me what error is because it's written in chinese. Now, I think I will never find an OS perfect for me so I was…

Just wondering: what drives the 'Security update on all kernels' day counter on the main page of armbian.com? I noticed that it sometimes it increases as well...

Hi how can i attach a text file to a forum post? Thanks

Hello all, I was reading the following topic when question myself about the advantages of write a driver for a device instead of write the SPI communication stuff on my application like vlad59 that use a python script to access the devices. Thank you

I want to build a project for a USB camera with motion software detection and autonomous power. I have some difficulties to find clear information regarding the consumption of the different Orange Pi boards. And I'm not sure to choose model Zero, I96, Lite, or perhaps another one My project includes: - power bank: already I have one with 20.000 mah (5v/1-2A) - usb camera: I have one camera low resolution, which I believe is better to get a lower consumption - one physical switch: to shutdown gracefully, and avoid the SD corruption before the battery is exhausted I have seen there is some code for the switch in the Zero board, although I ignore i…

Here at the Sunxi page that was linked off an Armbian page for Beelink X2 (Tips, Tricks, Caveats), down the page you see Running Linux on the X2" with a strike-through. Clicking on that goes to a message that says "Thanks for hacking !!! Go back to stone age!!!" I was wondering what that's all about? From my perspective it looks defaced but maybe it's dev humor.

Hi. I am developing an automation system and using raspberry pi 3 as server. But i dont want to use micro sd cards. So i bought an orange pi plus 2. But i dont know how can i use the 16gb memory of device. I am kinda new on linux. I need help with that. Have a nice day.

Hi! I am using armbian nightly image on my Orange Pi PC 2. Need I every time unpack a new build to the memory card to keep system up to date, or there is enought to make upgrade with apt? I mean will I get all the same updates as on fresh images from the armbian's repository?

Hi Armbians Maybe some of you already wanted to put your SBC in a professional data center and operate it as a standalone server for DNS, VPN, Tor, or whatever. That is exactly why I have put together a huge list of worldwide DC provider options, that are willing to colocate SBC‘s. It could certainly be of interest to one or the other. Check my list here: *** SBC colocation/ SBC hosting worldwide provider megalist ***

With script "nand-sata-install" I moved root "/" to hdd on the filesystem "btrfs" and the "Boot" partition stayed on "SD" card. Questions: 1. How can I to "wrap" it in subvolumes so that I can use btrfs snapshots? 2. It is possible to move the "Boot" to "HDD" too? PS -my orange pi 3 has no emmc

Hi, I created an Armbian article on Wikipedia. It's just a basic entry. Please help improving it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armbian Thanks!

Hey Armbian Forums! First post here, so excuse me if I'm not in the exact correct subforums, but I spent the better part of last night compiling an Armbian image specifically for the Banana Pi M2, it says unsupported which makes sense, because finding any information or images for this board has been a nightmare, I got the original Banana Pi Armbian image to load on it, but from there couldn't not figure out how to get the wifi working for the life of me, the M2 has the allwinner A31 chip, and AMPAK bluetooth/wifi chip on board as well, but for some reason the board wasn't picking them up, even after trying to modprobe different drivers and whatever else. So I booted up m…

Dear all, First post here I just wanted to thank you for the up-to-date image you made for the pcDuino4 Nano (a.k.a the NanoPI M1): https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/nanopim1/archive/ It's much better than the stock image provided my LinkSprite, based upon Debian 8 "Jessie": https://www.linksprite.com/pcduino4-nano/ I only had one issue so far with your image, certainly related to the default overclocking at 1368 MHz, which didn't play well with the CPU intensive, NEON optimized tasks I threw at it (BOINC) I lowered the frequency to 1296 MHz and it's been running stable for a couple …

I've liked the idea of having a little message board that was off the www and only accessible with wireless devices from the neighbors. It would be fine if the wireless were handled by a router and then use an adapter from Gigabit-to-USB port on an H3 device. I was wondering if anyone's tried that or has a favorite home cloud they'd recommend? There are various turnkey LAMP servers that could be installed to Armbian but it's a jungle out there. Messaging, message board, file sharing (or at least a repository), and maybe some kind of camera sharing. The camera sharing is because this is sometimes a dangerous neighborhood, and it'd be a big luxury if one neig…

Hi, Im going to buy an Orange Pi Zero+, but I heard that the same manufacturer's product Orange Pi WinPlus's onboard Gigabit NIC has a serious packet loss problem: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-win/ Does Orange Pi Zero+ have such a problem? Im entangled that I should not buy

Hi folks, I upgraded my server towards a bigger machine and unfortunately neither my parents nor brothers need a reliable fileserver. So this little machine goes on sale. - Helios64 with all trays + 2 SSD inserts - Fully assembled - Original packaging - Changed the two fans for Noctuas in order to get an even more silent server What's missing is the Battery for UPS. Mine was faulty and caused me some random reboots. Condition is mint / very good. System is stable with 5.15.93 running OMV6. If you would like pictures of the machine itself please drop me a note.

good evening, on orange pzero+ with debian10 i tried to install docker with the procedure of the armbian manual, but the installation fails. do you know how to solve? apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | apt-key add - add-apt-repository "deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(lsb_release -cs) stable" apt update apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io result: ● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/syst…

Selling a fully working Helios64 NAS from Kobol. It has been running continuously since purchase without any issues. Includes 4x Western Digital Red 4TB HDDs (16TB total), all in good health and used only in this setup. All original parts are included: case, power supply, cables, and accessories. Note: the 1GbE Ethernet fix has not been applied. Selling because I recently upgraded to a new NAS. Located in the Netherlands. Pickup possible or shipping within the EU. Contact me for pricing or questions.

Hi, I own a cubitruck since years and since month armbian is installed on it. Now I have just ordered a cubieboard 5. Will armbian also working on thso device ?? AllWinner SOC H8，ARM® CortexTM-A7 Octa-Core，PowerVR SGX544 GPU bei bis zu 700 MHz (I know, that there was the same question, but it was two years ago and I hope there armian will support now)

Banana Pi BPI-M4 use Realtek RTD1395 chp design ,it is a 64-bit quad-core A53 mini single board computer. It features 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB eMMC. It also has onboard WiFi for b/g/n/ac and BT 4.2. On the ports side, the BPI-M4 has 4 USB 2.0 ports, 1 USB TYPE C port, 1 HDMI port, 1 audio jack. support M.2 Key E PCIE 2.0 interface. The RTD1395 is equipped with a high-performance quad-core CPU,ARM cortex-A53,with 512K L2 cache embedded. the RTD1395 also integrates and efficient ARM Mali-470 Graphic Processing Unit(GPU) to accelerate 2D and 3D graphics processing. For acceleration of this OSD and 2K user interface,the built-in Streaming Engine of the RTD1395 provides commo…

https://pi-hole.net/2019/02/03/pi-hole-v4-2-available-with-shared-memory-new-blocking-modes-and-more/ v4.2.1 Hotfix We have released a small hotfix which addresses possible crashes experienced for users without libcap capabilities (running FTLDNS under root). For most users, this update will not change anything. HIGHLIGHTS New Blocking Mode We’ve added a new blocking mode (NODATA), where blocked requested are replied with a status code of NOERROR and A / AAAA records are empty. It’s unclear if there are advantages to this mode over others, but you’re welcome to experiment with it. Shared Memory In prep…

Hi, No sure if this is the place to post this but here it goes. I use the Debian distro for my armbian deployments. Every time I deploy, and the system comes with systemd-resolved it gives me problems. I always have to remove it and use the /etc/resolv.conf file by it self. I would suggest removing this, it's not necessary or useful. -Cheers

___ ____ _ _ _ _ / _ \| _ \(_) | | (_) |_ ___ | | | | |_) | | | | | | __/ _ \ | |_| | __/| | | |___| | || __/ \___/|_| |_| |_____|_|\__\___| Welcome to Ubuntu Bionic with Armbian Linux 4.19.62-sunxi System load: 0.21 0.20 0.15 Up time: 18 min Memory usage: 44 % of 492MB Zram usage: 24 % of 246Mb IP: 192.168.1.71 CPU temp: 44°C Usage of /: 14% of 29G [ General system configuration (beta): armbian-config ] The emboldened line above message appears sometimes on login, but not always. I took it to mean that I needed to do something in armbian-config, but nothing is indicated or s…