@PH Ph You need to find the correct GPIO# for your emmc. Extract the boot.bin from your original Android to get the device tree (DTS). Follow the steps in this link. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/29794-how-to-install-armbian-in-h618/#findComment-187672

I will definitely look into that. "mplayer -vo fbdev2:/dev/fb0 videofile.mp4" with desktop disabled worked perfectly by the way, no issues. I've used both X11 and wayland though and also there is nothing in the logs which I find extremely weird. However I will look into it further the upcoming week, I am most definitely missing something.

Hi @tmb Helios64 and Armbian are still very relevant in 2025! Thanks to this amazing community! I used mine with OpenMediaVault until a couple of MOSFETs failed and some drives stopped to spin up. Unfortunately, the original components were quite cheap. Even though I found better replacements, I didn’t want to pay for micro-soldering services, which can be pricey compared to the parts themselves (just a few euros). Instead, I built my own NAS using an Intel N100. It’s now a low-power device running a dozen Docker containers, using Home Assistant image as base. I’m totally in unsupported territory, but it works great! With this setup, OpenMediaVault can go into sleep mode when needed, and so far, it’s been working really well for me.

If you learn yourself a strategy not to wipe existing installation, but dist-upgrade it and also have a flexible backup and restore for yourself, you don't need lists or so as the same set of software keeps being there. I clone installations from 1 computer to the other, so do not use new images. With tasksel you can remove and add Desktop Environments, sudo systemctl set-default <target> to changes from GUI to CLI and vice-versa. Make sure you have a serial console cable working (for CLI and no HDMI/kbd/mouse connected). But you can use 'sudo apt list --installed' on Debian systems. Cloning on x86 is easy, for ARM, you need change bootloader and kernel and some other packages. Until also all ARM computers come with UEFI bootloader/firmware. https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html#preparing-apt-sources-files https://digint.ch/btrbk/doc/readme.html https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Send-receive.html

Good afternoon. Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I haven't had a positive experience. My apologies for misleading you, but my motherboard originally had a 618 processor. I tried creating an image for the 616 many times until I noticed that my processor was a 618. After several attempts, I was able to create an image for the 618. After receiving an image for the 618 with the panel-mipi-dbi module, I tried connecting a screen with an ili9488 chip. I can say I've taken the first step toward implementing this project. Now I need to get the screen working with the resulting image.