thanks @eselarm. I think I may not have made myself clear. I want to be able to "Power On" i.e. boot the board using a remote switch and not Power (provide 5v) to the board via the GPIO pins. The Banana Pi docs here (half way down page to GPIO section) actually states that you cannot use the GPIO pins for injecting power only drawing power for ancillary boards etc. When testing the board and setting it up I accidentally touch the SATA case against the GPIO pins and the board started, I'm not sure what pin it was and if it might cause damage long term starting the board this way but I need to know if its possible and which pin(s) i need to short to ground? As regards SATA drive I'm fixing the 2.5" drive to the lid of the box and using one of these SATA right angle adapters and a short100mm very flexible SATA cable to connect to the SATA port on the board and the adapter. when its built I will upload a photo. In the meantime I need to be able to reboot the board externally when the power has been disrupted. I could unsolder the existing switch but the solder pads look tiny.

Hi all, I’m trying to enable the front VFD/LED display on an RK3318 TV box. OS: Armbian 23.11.1 Jammy, kernel 6.18.10-current-rockchip64 DTB: rk3318-box.dtb (fdtfile=rockchip/rk3318-box.dtb) In DTB I found: fd628_dev { compatible = "fd628_dev"; fd628_gpio_clk = <0x7a 0x10 0x00>; // bank2, offset16 fd628_gpio_dat = <0x7a 0x0f 0x00>; // bank2, offset15 }; I built linux_openvfd and added an openvfd node in DTB: openvfd { compatible = "open,vfd"; dev_name = "openvfd"; status = "okay"; }; Module loads, /dev/openvfd appears with: vfd_gpio_clk=2,16,0 vfd_gpio_dat=2,15,0 vfd_gpio_stb=2,19,0 vfd_display_type=0,0,0,0 vfd_chars=0,1,2,3,4,5,6 vfd_dot_bits=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,0 dmesg shows: OpenVFD: Select FD628 controller OpenVFD: SPI 3-wire interface initialized (LSB mode) /sys/class/leds/openvfd exists, but no indicators light up. Tried multiple display_type values and STB pins (bank2 offsets 18–22 + other banks) — still no output. Question: Does anyone know the correct GPIO pins (CLK/DAT/STB) for rk3318-box VFD, or a working driver/service for FD628/FD650 on this board? Any confirmed configs for RK3318 boxes would be greatly appreciated. I’ve been working on this for ~2 weeks and tried multiple configs/drivers without success. Thanks!

One interesting thing I discovered today is that you can actually boot from a flash drive, if you don't have a SD Card! In my case, I would have to buy a SD Card and had a flash drive laying around so I thought I might just give it a try, worked on an Arm Cortex-A53 CPU. I used u-boot-s905x-912 for .ext and meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb.

If you look at the wiki page you find the typical 26-pin header like for the original RaspberryPi. pins 2 and 4 are tagged 5V and pin 6 is tagged GND. However, in the schematics there is no mentioning of the 26-pin header. There is GND ofcourse and there is ACIN, that is the 'master' 5V you need to apply and is the same as the VBUS of the microUSB power connector. As there is also the option to connect a LiPo battery (needs soldering), I decided to use the microUSB input for power, I have enough DIY of those connectors (need soldering) as I am not 100% sure if ACIN is exactly the same as pins 2 and 4. I also use a very small DC/DC from 12V to 5V, so I have 12V, 5V, GND for BananaPi and 3.5inch HDD. In never do anything with power button, It is just and old molex connector that I use to connect/disconnect power. You will have the SATA connector sticking out quite a bit, even more then the microUSB for power, so using 26-pin header for power is not getting it much more compact.

Btw. do you know if: 1. Is it possible to use the internal dvb-s tuner in the wetek play 2 with tvheadend? "dmesg | grep -i dvb" showed nothing (an external usb dvb-c wintv solohd was found). 2. Is hardware acellerated "Moonlight Gamestream" possible? In newer/latest Libreelec, the Wetek Play 2 Tuner isnt supported and hardware accelerated x264 is buggy. I think these problems also exist in armbian, or? 🙏