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My only experience is with Ubuntu "Grand Unified Boot loader". GRUB. This has always been a very reliable method of booting windows and other Linux's along side Ubuntu. I have no idea what options we have for Armbian. Seasalt

Is there an easy way to dual boot Armbian and OpenElec on my OrangePi PC.

After reading the link I went back to my Orange Pi One and inserted the OTG cable and then the wireless mouse adapter it did not work. BUT when I did a reboot it worked perfectly. The same thing happened in Openelec. Thanks for your help.

I have searched the forum and the internet and am having a lot of trouble finding a guide on how to covert the OTG on my OrangePi One to a USB port. (I am assuming it is possible to do.) I believe the current configuration for the OrangePi One is one usb and a OTG. I would also Like to be able to use the OTG as a USB port when I run OpenElec as I would like the second USB to plug in the new Optional Bluetooth dongle. Seasalt

Could you put up a bit more information on how you are going, getting GQRX working. Is it worth trying to do or is GQRX such a CPU intensive app it wont work effectively on a H3 processor. I am very interested in any HAM related uses for my Orange Pi's.

I run Armbian and Openelec on two separate orange Pi ones. The Open elec is a VERY paired down version of Linux and only runs the MEDIA player. All be it brilliantly. The Armbian is great for web surfing and file serving etc. But I am not sure with all the Armbian processes running, that there is enough Horse Power left in the system to run a HEVC highly compressed .mkv video file without the sound going out of sink etc. My very happy situation is a $12.00 Orange PI one for Openelec media centre and another Orange Pi One running Armbian for everything else.

For an extra $5 bucks WIFI (with big antenna) and 8gb of storage it seems a No Brain-er better deal than the $15 Orange Pi PC. I am absolutely delighted with my Orange Pi One running Openelec Kodi and Armbian 5.10. These are fun and great value boards. The PC+ will certainly be the next one I get.

TKaiser. If you install the Desktop version of Armbian 5.10 then the following list of codecs (containing h.265 with 8 bit but not 10 bit!) is available for HW accelerated decoding: http://linux-sunxi.o...ed_codec_matrix Is 8 Bit versus 10 Bit a limitation. Can the Orange Pi PC with Armbian 1.10 decode all HEVC 8 or 10 bit encoding to 8 bit decoding, or can it ONLY do 8bit encoded to 8 bit decoding? Seasalt

Is 8 Bit versus 10 Bit a limitation. Can the Orange Pi PC with Armbian 1.10 decode all HEVC 8 or 10 bit encoding to 8 bit decoding, or can it ONLY do 8bit encoded to 8 bit decoding? Seasalt.

Well done Larry. I love the idea of a image being available.

I have a Armbian OPi.one and a Armbian.OPi.pc and I have found a 8GB mini sd Card fine to run some extra programs and do a bit of downloading etc. I think your idea of 4gb even if it runs wont leave you any room for future stuff.

For any one interested in software defined radio the OrangePi.pc and Armbian 5.05 software is a killer combination. The extra horsepower of the Allwinner H3 quad core and the clean Armbian Linux implementation give you a great platform for Software defined Radio. The $10 low cost RTL2838 dongle has an enormous amount to offer. But plugging it into a big computer laptop is not always practical It is often better to put the RTL2838 dongle as close to the antenna as possible. This could mean a long USB cable and voltage drop issues. So now you can buy a $9.99 Orange Pi.one and use it as a RTL to ethernet/ opt.wifi extender. You "just" Plug the RTL2838 into the OrangePi USB port and run a software called rtl_tcp. Which then sends whatever the RTL2838 dongle receives in packets across your local network. I will assume people have installed rtl_tcp which from memory is part of GNU radio. To run rtl_tcp on your OrangePi use the following command with "YOUR OrangePI's IP ADDRRESS" @orangepione:~$ rtl_tcp -a 192.168.X.XX Found 1 device(s): 0: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 00000001 Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner Tuned to 100000000 Hz. listening... Use the device argument 'rtl_tcp=192.168.X.XX:1234' in OsmoSDR (gr-osmosdr) source to receive samples in GRC and control rtl_tcp parameters (frequency, gain, ...) This is confirming that it has found a RTL2832 dongle and has set it to 100Mhz and it is now listening on IP address of the OrangePI 192.168.X.XX and on port 1234. Next we need to tell our network attached computer to use a Software Defined Radio software to talk to the RTL dongle accross the Network. I am using Ubuntu and It comes with the absolutely Magical GQRX SDR software. This is a magnificent Open Source project that never ceases to amaze me. In GQRX you need to set the Remote dongle that is sending TCP packets accross the network as the device that GQRX will communicate with. We do this by pasting the message part from the rtl_tcp output into GQRX. 'rtl_tcp=192.168.X.XX:1234' In GQRX configure i/o devices select "RTL-SDR Spectrum Server" You will see a editable box that says rtl_tcp=localhost:1234 You need to change localhost to the network IP address of your OrangePi/Armbian with the RTL dongle connected. ie rtl_tcp=192.168.X.XX:1234 If everything is running GQRX should appear. It seems to crash a bit whilst I was mucking around getting it to work and I had to go and kill off the zombie GQRX before it would let me try again. GQRX should now work as if the RTL2832 dongle was directly connected via a USB connection. You can change all the software defined radio setting on the virtual connection the same as on the real connection. It seems to take one second for the remote commands to change frequency etc to be relayed across the network to the OPi connected RTL dongle. But once you get used to it its fine. I have only played and listened to some local FM stations so far. I would definitely say it APPEARS the OrangePI.pc has enough grunt to run the rtl_tcp without too much lag or delay. For an experimental system it is a lot of fun. Next I will be setting up my Soft66RTL HF Upconverter RTL dongle from Japan (great product) to my OrangePi and see if I can get the lower HF bands successfully to stream across my network correctly. Once again a big thanks to the Armbian Team and also the excellent work by the GQRX team

I think the issue is cheap TV's of which mine is, slightly expanding the video image so that a movie has no visible blank edge. Ideal for watching movies but a disaster for using a TV as a Computer monitor. I have looked every where in the TV menu's for a adjustment setting. My Andoid Minix H6 allows me to reduce the image 3% and then the Android graphical interface fits back inside the visible area. I do not see Armbian screen size as a priority issue for now. My main concern is first time installers trying Armbian on a TV are not put off when they cannot Log in easily. Seasalt

I am thinking about the Over-scan on first boot issue and the problems people are having trying to log in if the login questions are off the screen bottom. I under stand it is caused by not having a lot of development into the screen size adjusting software. It is essential that the lead developers prioritize the main Armbian bugs issues and I do not consider on the fly screen resizing a major issue when a stop gap solution could possibly work. My temporary solution would simply be that all logins scripts be tripled. ie.. Login login login: password password password: Enter New Password Enter New Password Enter New Password: So even if some one cannot see all three due to over-scan they can at least understand how to get into a graphical interface by completing the first boot login procedure. Seasalt.

If I put a USB stick in I can see it in Nautilus(yes I installed nautilus) but when I click on the name of the USB , I get.. " Unable to access “USBNAME" Not authorized to perform operation (polkit authority not available and caller is not uid 0)" Everything else is working. I have Samba, SSH, x11vnc, NAS, HEVC x265 Video, all working happily.I can live without USB but I thought it would be important to give the Armbian developers feedback. I have looked for an answer and I do not see any one else having this problem. Once again I just love this Armbian / OPi.pc combination. Seasalt

Lesson learned.. OPI software is in it's infancy, and with time and effort spent, and some temporary workarounds.. it will find many uses. If you want closer to perfection out of the box than what OPI has to offer? Pay more and benefit from a more developed product.. however, if you want to work the line a bit - between cost and functionality - perhaps you have more time than money available at the moment - don't dispair at your purchase.. persist a while before you opt for the lump hammer option.. and you may get what you need out of the RPi's clone-family with a bit of effort spent.. Good Luck. I totally LOVE my OPi.PC and OPi. one running Armbian 5.05. I have the over-scan problem but I am used to it now and can kind of guess whats going on. I just love the low power. It is 50% faster at least than the Raspberry Pi i had been using. I feel it is quite snappy for low powered applications. Ie it can write a letter and surf the net all for $15.00. I have had bad meals for more money. I am running a Sandisk 32gb Class 4 SD Card and it seems really fine. I am using x11vnc to remote desktop. Its ok but it crashes after a while. So now I ssh into the unit and restart x11vnc. Its kind of a happy compromise. My only problem I have is I can not access a USB storage drive if I plug it into the USB ports. It says I do not have permission? I am thinking of having the OPi on all the time 24 hrs a day and am trying to think of any uses that would be worth setting up on it. So far I use it for a bit of downloading and print server. Do you guys have any other 24hr apps that you intend to set up? Once again well done to the Orange PI Armbian Team Seasalt

Absolutely well done on Armbian 5.05. Delighted with it on Orange Pi one. I had a similar problem with OP0ne 5.05Armbian as my tv as a monitor was slightly overscanning. So when Armbian first booted the request to login was hidden under the bottom of the monitor view-able area. Eventually I guessed what was happening and eventually by putting in root and PSW 1234 was able to log in. But I still had the same problem when it requested me to enter a new password. Armbian on My 1080p TV defaulted to 720p . But was over-scanning my TV has no way to adjust the screen. On my Android TV Box (Minix H6) the android set up software has a ability to reduce the size of the screen to fit the view-able area. Thanks heaps for your efforts on Armbian. Seasalt