[Helios4 Support]

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[Helios4 Support]

On 2/17/2018 at 6:39 AM, gprovost said:

@NickS I just created this patch for fancontrol that fixes 2 issues :

- fix 'too many arguments' error messages

- set pwm to minimum speed when fancontrol exit

https://github.com/helios-4/build/blob/helios4/packages/bsp/helios4/fancontrol.patch

 

@Last_phil Good that you managed to setup Plex server. You pinpoint one the reason I never liked Plex, the need to still transcode stuff while the player device can natively support the codec. Many people asked the question about Plex on Helios4, I said clearly it will run but don't expect it to have the guts to transcode everything.

 

@tbendiksen Good suggestion, you can rise a Pull Request directly on Armbian official repo as Igor suggested you. 

 

Has anyone got a copy of the fan control patch, the above link is returning 404 and my fans go to max when shutdown the Helios4

[Helios4 Support]

9 hours ago, aprayoga said:

 

@smith69085, we have updated the wiki page how to use the GPIO  for button. You can take a look on

https://wiki.kobol.io/gpio/#use-gpio-with-device-tree-overlay

 

But currently the base dtb (armada-388-helios4.dtb) on Armbian 5.91 is still not compiled with overlay support.  You can download the attached dtb, rename and replace the dtb on your system.

 

 

lk4.14_armada-388-helios4.dtb is for Armbian Default (Stretch, Linux Kernel 4.14)

sudo cp lk4.14_armada-388-helios4.dtb /boot/dtb/armada-388-helios4.dtb

 

 

lk4.19_armada-388-helios4.dtb is for Armbian Next (Buster, Linux Kernel 4.19)

 

sudo cp lk4.19_armada-388-helios4.dtb /boot/dtb/armada-388-helios4.dtb

 

 

That looks perfect thank you for this.

 

I have followed through the wiki to set up the power-button.dtbo and double checked myself today, but I'm having a problem.

When booting the power button is not loading. It is looking for ' /boot/dtb/overlay/armada-388-helios4-fixup.scr' which is missing.

 

Applying user provided DT overlay power-button.dtbo

** File not found /boot/dtb/overlay/armada-388-helios4-fixup.scr **

The address of the fdt is 0x2040000

** Bad device specification 0:1 /boot/overlay-user/power-button **

** Bad device specification 0:1 /boot/overlay-user/power-button **

## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 02880000 ...

 

 

This may be unrelated / unimportant, but I had this come up when creating the dtbo

 

admin@helios4:~$ ./dtc -I dts -O dtb -o power-button.dtbo power-button.dts
power-button.dtbo: Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): Node /fragment@0 has a unit name, but no reg property
 

[Helios4 Support]

Hello, I've been using the Helios4 for some time now and its working great. The only thing I'm missing is a soft shut down button, opposed to  using ssh.

 

I'm pretty new to this and struggling to find info on a solution. CAn anyone point me in the right direction for a shutdown button connected through the gpio pins?