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Seasalt

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  1. I have also added a 5volt raspberry Pi fan to the s912 chip. Using Armbian monitor I can see that adding the fan has taken the standby temperature from 53 Celsius to 37 Celsius. Also under load it still appears to be lower than 60 Celsius unlike before when it was up in the 75 range. I strongly recommend adding a small fan to the s912.
  2. Hi Balbes, i installed this Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_xfce_20180305 3 weeks ago on my Mecool km8 S912 TV Box.and have been upgrading it using apt-get update and upgrade. Seasalt.
  3. Balbes Ia m running S912 Armbian latest version regularly updating, Can I change the screen resolution . 1080p on my TV makes everything small. I can not find any way of doing this. The "sudo apt-get update" command brings down 40mb of files each time is this correct? I have added a small 5volt raspberry pi fan to the S912 CPU using cable ties. It brings the idle temperature down to 39 Celsius on Armbianmonitor. Basically a 10 degree drop. I think I will do it to my 2 other Mecool s912 boards. How would you describe the s912 version of Armbian. Could it be described as experimental or stable? Thanks so much for your work. Seasalt.
  4. Well done on Armbian for s912. I have a Mecool km8 S912 TV box. Previously I had installed Kodi and it worked great and played 10 Bit x265 video files. (It did though occasionally FREEZE when playing x265) Supposedly this is due to overheating.. I have now installed onto a 16mb USB flash drive Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_xfce_20180305 and to my complete astonishment my Mecool KM* s912 booted and ran Armbian. I have a few issues though. Whenever I try to run a complex high CPU program it seems to overheat and I get a BLUE screen. I can run remote desktop and have Ethernet connection. Should I have also installed a CONFIGURATION file? Should I install some sort of fan cooling? Seasalt
  5. I am aware that the Raspberry Pi 1, 2,3 can transmit Radio waves on GPIO pin 4 and 18. There are even special skins that filter the output. " Previously we posted about the Raspberry Pi’s ability to modulate one of its pins to produce FM transmissions with PiFM. A developer (F5OEO) has recently expanded on this idea, and now the Raspberry Pi is capable of modulating and transmitting FM, AM, SSB, SSTV and FSQ signals anywhere between 130 kHz to 750 MHz. To transmit with the Raspberry Pi all you need to do is plug in a wire antenna to Pin 12 (GPIO 18) on the GPIO port and run the PiTx software by piping in an audio file or image for SSTV. " Would this work on the Orange Pi running Armbian or is there a technical difference between the GPIO pins etc.
  6. Have latest Armbian daily orange Pi PC2 running. Looks good. Samba worked straight away so I could connect to my network drives. Would play x264 video with MPV player but no sound. VLC crashed on trying to play video. But what delighted me was it straight away ran GQRX Ham Radio software and also autodetected the RTL-SDR dongle I installed.
  7. Orange Pi needs to sort out the PC2 H5 issues very quickly. To issue a board with fundamental failing ie can not play Video is unbelieveable. I had such a great experience with my Orange Pi PC H3 but the Orange Pi PC2 H5 is a disaster. If you are thinking of buying a Orange Pi PC2 absolutely hold off untill Orange Pi and Allwinner come up with the software to make it work properly.
  8. Is there any news on Armbian for the Orange Pi PC2?
  9. Am i understanding this right. Openelec which currently can play 1080p 8bit hevc using the Graphics processor could possibly by software decoding, decode 10 bit hevc. On the 10 bit hevc I read the the PC2 Mali 450 can decode 10 hevc up to (from memory) 4000 lines but that was a spec sheet. But considering a mali 400 (H3) is half a Mali 450 thats in the H5 I thought it was reasonable to assume it could do a higher color bit rate. I am perfectly happy with the stunning picture quality of Openelec on my Orange Pi one 512mb ram at 1080p 8 bit it just refuses to play 10 bit movies.
  10. I bought the orange Pi PC2 because I was unable to play 10 bit Hevc X 265 files in the H3 Openelec. Is there any way to play 10 bit Hevc on H3 Openelec? If not I guess I will have to wait for a H5 Board that will play 10 bit hevc. PS could you give a brief run down on wwhy the OPi PC2 H5 will take a while to come out with a Openelec.
  11. Is there a version of Openelec for the Orange PI PC2 H5 chip. I have tried to use the Orange Pi Image but the Video performance is terrible. Is there a forum for the Openelec on Orange Pi PC2? Seasalt.
  12. I have had a heap of Orange Pi's and they all need more than 5 volts. I usually use a USB type charge power supply. Take the risk and try 5.3 volts and see if it starts.
  13. Are you able to get this image to run Video properly? ie 720p X265 Video.
  14.     Sadly with the Orange Pi Image it has already overheated. I have added a small heat sink to the H5 CPU and the two Ram chips. I cannot find a command that will tell me the CPU speed og the processor running the Orange Pi image.
  15. I agree but I think it is a good start if you want to play with the OPi PC2
  16. I just downloaded and installed ubuntu_Desktop_Xenial_xfce4_PC2_V1_0_0.img This worked really well. I just dd if=Ubuntu_Desktop_Xenial_xfce4_PC2_V1_0_0.img | pv | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb bs=16M to a 16mb sd card and it worked. Booted OP PC2 up and it said welcome to Ubuntu. Username orangepi Password orangepi It looks amazing. already has Samba install. I installed Kodi and VLC but neither will play network videos properly. I think this is a great start for the OP PC2 and I look forward to the next update.
  17. Has any one managed to benchmark the h5 with a Mali 450. Can it really decode x265 10 bit HEVC 4000 X 2000 Video.
  18. Its real. The 4 I ordered are already shipped and arrived in Hong Kong where a friend will pick them up. Seasalt
  19. Are there any H5 benchmarks or comparisons out yet to the Orange Pi H3.
  20. I am using the new download 5.20 fresh install and have done apt-get upgrade. If i type pulseaudio in terminal i get george@orangepipcplus:~$ pulseaudio E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. george@orangepipcplus:~$
  21. I have done a fresh install of Armbian 5.20 for my pc+. I was hoping that the software defined radio software GQRX would now be able to find Pulse Audio and work properly. But I still get the same error. 192.168.6.103george@orangepipcplus:~$ sudo gqrx [sudo] password for george: linux; GNU C++ version 4.9.1; Boost_105500; UHD_003.007.003-0-unknown gr-osmosdr 0.1.3 (0.1.3) gnuradio 3.7.5 built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd miri hackrf bladerf rfspace airspy Using Volk machine: neon_hardfp_orc pulseaudio/pa_sink.cc: pa_simple_new() failed: Connection refused Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Could not resolve property : pattern10600 Thanks in advance. Seasalt.
  22. Worked great. Thanks for taking the time to help.
  23. I have a fresh install of Armbian 5.14 on a orange pi one. I i have updated and upgraded it. I have only installed synaptic and nautilus. I then followed the instruction to install the micro home server and I commenced to install the Samba option. It ran and then once it had finished said something like samba not running or samba not configured. I tried to browse the network and look for my Tplink NAS router and it says "this location could not be displayed." I would appreciate any ideas to get samba running.
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