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Igor reacted to tkaiser in [RFC] Integrating RPi-Monitor in Armbian
Just a small update: This is the result based on this template: http://pastebin.com/75qRgFm7
Charging state and display of different data sources done dynamically based on values:
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Igor got a reaction from bl4ckc00k1e in UART (TXD & RXD) x 2 on GPIO of BPI-M2, is possible?
I am not sure about M2 but GPIOs are available in the kernel. I was doing something on A20 based boards and it's working out of the box.
http://linux-sunxi.org/GPIO
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Igor reacted to mk16 in Banana Pi: unbootable after dist-upgrade
I managed to compile and install the latest stable kernel (4.3.4) using those instructions: http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/
Next time I'll RTFM
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Igor got a reaction from Rui Ribeiro in Need help on Pine A64, 64bit Quad Core 1.2GHz Single board computer
@Tido
Don't want to erase or alter anything unless it's really necessary. I am not that sensitive either
@khgoh
I can understand and support your genuine passion to build a good device. I really do.
Let's look on the device trough the marketing fog - what's reality, which we usually refuse to see, and what the history tells us. I don't believe that this board can bring any better experience if a business model remain unchanged.
SoC supplier Allwinner doesn't really have a good reputation in areas like: support, working with community, playing a fair game, ... Their release of crappy outdated source code is more like a joke and it usually doesn't work without blobs.
It needs heavy fixing and no one has done that for previous AW chip series (A80, A83, H3, ...) in about a year. Check their Github, what's released, when and what was done after that. AW doesn't properly support their products and you also won't (be able to). Board without support isn't worth a penny but it's possible to sell it. People buy numbers and promises.
Our community here is mostly interested in real Linux experience where the only interesting thing most likely won't never work - 4K video within Linux and/or inside KODI under Debian or within Openelec. It also looks like 4K can go up only to 30p which is totally useless for a desktop usage. I might be wrong about not providing 4k@60p but haven't found the opposite information.
Stripped down: yet another limited usage Android device/setup box without a proper box, PSU and cables. I don't know how much will this 15$ board cost when it hit retail. Let's take an example of Raspberry Pi ZERO "price fraud" - the lowest price (more or less) for 5$ valued RPi Zero is 14.95 EUR + shipping cost, which means 24.90 EUR in total to get it to my desk or let's say around 20 EUR for most EU folks.
We talked the other day with @tkaiser and come out with conclusion that current SoC market is getting flooded with shitty boards. Not even one new board can be undoubtedly recommended for general usage.
I am not offended, don't worry about it.
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Igor got a reaction from Naguissa in Need help on Pine A64, 64bit Quad Core 1.2GHz Single board computer
General public is easy to mislead to backup the project - general public aka kick-starter community is dumb as hell. It's all about marketing. SBC's are still hot stuff and hardware development become ridiculous cheap so it's a great way to make money.
As I see you already made it to persuade investors. Why bother developers community, where you don't intent to invest more then few free boards here and there and use our channels for free marketing? BTW: You can run your marketing campaign on your own website or wherever but here you need to ask for permission. I hate ads.
Even before your boards become stable (to be used by professionals which is stated in your first line of your marketing appeal) you will probably restart the whole thing with a "new and better" board and hope to catch as many backers as possible. All board manufacturers are using community's current and future contribution in their business models and everyone want's to become next RPi in numbers. This is the only way you don't need to pledge anyone. Until then, we control the game.
Free sample? I have a bunch of boards and so do other people who develop and contribute. I don't even think to support your boards without paradigm change toward community. You collected the money for our work and you kept it. What the f*?
You are an engineer. It's is not your fault nor responsibility to think about this in such way. Don't take it personally either.
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Igor reacted to bjorn in Getting USB sticks to mount
I guess I found the fix my self:
sudo apt-get install gvfs
sudo apt-get install policykit-1
(Also makes the missing trash appear on the desktop)
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Igor got a reaction from wildcat_paris in LeMaker Banana-Pi-Pro not recognized & WiFi
Slow down, read docs and forum and try to understand how things works. It would be better for you and for us to assist in fixing the problem. Armbian is more or less default Debian / Ubuntu install. I added certain things that makes setup easier but the "plug and play" is done only to certain degree. There are example configurations, that you don't need to start from nothing. Further you need to "read and play" or use already owned knowledge.
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Igor got a reaction from bl4ckc00k1e in move armbian from one SD to another
For SD to SD yes. Your guide is perfectly correct.
Things gets messy when we start to combine SD, NAND and SATA and if you want to transfer only boot part of the SD image to another and transfer rootfs to SATA ... or if you want to write u-boot which is designed for NAND to blank SD card
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Igor got a reaction from wildcat_paris in Quick review of Solidrun's Clearfog
It's exact depth - only wider.
LEDs works fine.
Add: Sorry for quality. Have only some cheap compact around.
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Igor got a reaction from zador.blood.stained in [WiP] axp209 mainline sysfs interface
One small issue.
Charging / not charging seems not working ... When I unplug the power on fully charged battery, percentage drops to 98% which is somehow o.k. ... and when I do some stress tests it is going slowly down to 9x%. OK. When I put power back, there is no indication for charging ... but I can read out that AC is plugged.
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Igor reacted to badrianiulian in Hardware Mod BPi-R1
I can also confirm that replacing the 8192CU module with "WL-UM01EBS-5572-V1.0" is a success.
I'm now on armbian with an upgraded jessie kernel from 3.4.108 to 4.3.3 and using the rt2800usb integrated driver, the system has been stable for quite some time now. As of this morning the last uptime is about 13 days and 8 hours.
I had some pictures with the new install somewhere.. will post them when I'll find them.
Between the board and the new module I added some double sided thermal tape and in doing so I raised the module a bit. I soldered only the USB pins, left the antenna pins hanging and connected the antennas to the connectors on the module.
As for compiling the backports, I hadn't had time to do that since I've been quite busy with other work.
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Igor reacted to Azrael in Cubieboard3 / Cubietruck experience (I2C MUX, si2168 DVB-C)
Looks like this Thread became a good source of information for i2c_mux, si2168 and em28xx problems - even google lists it as first link when searching for cubietruck and any of i2c_mux or si2168
i've been running my cubietruck for months without any problems or need to reboot now, and we're using it as video recorder a few times a week. There is also a samba service running für backing up the windows machines, all without problems. So thanks again Igor for your work on the image and scripts. Wouldn't have worked without it.
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Igor reacted to d1dd1 in Cubieboard3 / Cubietruck experience (I2C MUX, si2168 DVB-C)
I can confim this, the Truck is rock-solid !
I use it with a SSD as Home Automation Server (Openhab, FHEM & Mosquitto), as well as little Web- & MySQL Server and since a few days also as DVB-S2 Recording / SatIP Server (TVHeadend). Still plenty resources available ;-)
With a Hub and 7 USB devices (DVB-S2 and several Home Automation Sticks / Arduinos ) connected, no problems so far.
Despite all Marketing blabla from competitiors, I have not found a comparable SBC (especially because of the SATA port, RAM and your amazing work)
Thanks !
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Igor got a reaction from Tido in Banana Pi M3
The board was probably designed in a Broadcomm lab and their PR department fabricated this romantic story with "inventor", "fundation", "sweet fruit" ... to generate more sales.
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Igor reacted to zador.blood.stained in Banana Pi M3
For me SBC named "something pi" is clearly targeted for Raspberry Pi audience, especially for people that are buying a new toy to play with for a week and forget about it later.
For these people news like "something-else pi" now supports kernel 4.4 doesn't mean anything,
while "something-else pi" version 2 is released, now with 4 cores instead of 2 (2 GB RAM instead of 1, 64 bit instead of 32 or something similar) would cause a reaction like "shut up and take my money ".
Raspberry Pi isn't perfect, for example there aren't public datasheets for BCM2835/BCM2836, and most of software support, I believe, is still done by the community. I wouldn't call it "stable for years" either. But compared to some boards discussed here in "Free" forum section, it's still great.
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Igor reacted to Shawn Wood in Lamobo-R1 wifi unstable in AP ("host") mode [better buy a good wifi dongle with proper linux support]
And yet another follow up on to my noobie attempts at making this work. I discovered that Hostapd was just eating memory when the service was running. It would go about 24 hours before hosing the board.
So I got a fresh install from Igors downloads (Debian Jessie Vanilla) - and this time I didn't apply any dist-upgrade, update or upgrade to it.
The thing is now running perfectly. I'm getting solid, acceptable performance on the WIFI (it's not sizzling by any means, but given my slow ISP, it is as good as it needs to be). Been running several days and memory use has stabilized (with 800 megs free memory), no lock-ups yet.
So - many thanks Igor for your most excellent images. I'm going to go back and re-image my other Banana Pi's to use these same versions!
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Igor reacted to stepman in Wifi not working on Cubietruck
I got it.
I had the new version of armbian on my sd-card, but the installation onto the hdd did not work properly. Therefore I booted an old version (kernel 3.4) from the hdd.
With the new kernel wifi works well.
Thanks for your help!
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Igor got a reaction from Tido in new motd for ubuntu/debian
https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/tree/master/scripts/update-motd.d
I also did some rework based on those ideas. Battery info is also included, but need further testing. One full charge / discharge cycle is needed for auto calibration.
- info that is not needed is hidden: if no updates available, if there is only one user logged, if there is no temperature readings, ....
- each info has it's own configurable red point
Not included anywhere ... yet. Only testing.
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Igor got a reaction from wildcat_paris in new motd for ubuntu/debian
https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/tree/master/scripts/update-motd.d
I also did some rework based on those ideas. Battery info is also included, but need further testing. One full charge / discharge cycle is needed for auto calibration.
- info that is not needed is hidden: if no updates available, if there is only one user logged, if there is no temperature readings, ....
- each info has it's own configurable red point
Not included anywhere ... yet. Only testing.
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Igor got a reaction from tkaiser in new motd for ubuntu/debian
https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/tree/master/scripts/update-motd.d
I also did some rework based on those ideas. Battery info is also included, but need further testing. One full charge / discharge cycle is needed for auto calibration.
- info that is not needed is hidden: if no updates available, if there is only one user logged, if there is no temperature readings, ....
- each info has it's own configurable red point
Not included anywhere ... yet. Only testing.
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Igor reacted to chessplayer in module bcmdhd missing
Ok, thanks. So now I need a file /etc/modprobe.d/a6210.conf with the following contents:
options ap6210 op_mode=2 Also, it is not clear to me whether everybody is aware that in order to make hostapd run at boot, you have to edit the file /etc/default/hostapd and uncomment the line
#DAEMON_CONF="" and change it to
DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd.conf" I believe it would be good to mention these two issues in your section on "How to set wireless access point" in your documentation. Especially the last point has not really been mentioned anywhere, has it?
In any case, I believe it is appropriate to really thank you very much again for the treemdous work you are doing with ARMbian!
chessplayer
P.S.: Can again be marked as "solved" ...
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Igor got a reaction from berturion in Moving Linux to SATA or external drive
I just figured out there is something else ... need to look further. I just built 4.4 for CT and try USB install. It does not work ... CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
Edit: SATA install works fine.
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Igor reacted to d1dd1 in Build additional DVB kernel module
Meanwhile I compiled the image from github sources according to the documention with KERNEL_ONLY=YES and installed it over 4.81 and the USB DVB stick works.
Thanks again !
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Igor reacted to vlad in new motd for ubuntu/debian
Ok so first a big thanks to Igor for the work he has put into armbian, started using this build when it was still posted on Igor's site
anyway i wanted more information out of the motd and here is what i came up with this is running on my cubietruck with the latest kernel
_ ___| |_ ___ _ __ __ _ __ _ ___ / __| __/ _ \| '__/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ \__ \ || (_) | | | (_| | (_| | __/ |___/\__\___/|_| \__,_|\__, |\___| |___/ Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (4.3.3-sunxi). System information as of: Mon Jan 11 21:34:35 EET 2016 System load: 0.14 Memory usage: 97.5% Local users: 0 Swap usage: 0.0% IP address: 888.888.88.8 Uptime: up 6 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes Usage of root/: 8% of 16G HDD temp: 43°C Usage of storage/: 26% of 443G Board temp: 47°C 0 updates to install. 0 are security updates. Last login: Mon Jan 11 07:50:37 2016 from 888.888.88.888 root@storage:~# this should work with both debian and ubuntu versions but has some hard coded values at least for the sensor temp in the cubietruck
upload everything from the archive to the /etc/ folder, make the files inside executable (chmod +x) - the files are taken from https://nickcharlton.net/posts/debian-ubuntu-dynamic-motd.htmlbut 10-sysinfo was updated with more information
finally disable default motd by editing the bash.bashrc files (remove/delete) this lines
if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc.custom ]; then . /etc/bash.bashrc.custom fi after this with every new login you should see the new motd
update-motd.d.zip
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Igor reacted to zador.blood.stained in [Framework] Build script improvement suggestions #1
@all
FYI, kernel 4.4.0 is out
Tested USB OTG on cubietruck; OTG autodetect and vbus (automatically enabling power on OTG port when OTG cable is plugged in) works with some extra kernel modules, will upload my kernel config later.
As a side-effect, I can use onboard miniUSB port as a serial console (only after systemd starts necessary getty service, of course).
Onboard audio works if DMA driver is loaded via /etc/modules or if it's compiled as built-in.
Edit: extras for /etc/modules:
# sunxi musb OTG sunxi # serial gadget (old) driver - required g_serial # ACM - for serial port emulation usb_f_acm Edit 2: For Debian Jessie (or stretch) gadget serial device name is /dev/ttyGS0, so command to enable it would be
sudo systemctl enable getty@ttyGS0.service