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Thanks for the info Nico but I can't visualise what you're suggesting

I understood what he meant but how can that be done ?

While I have your ear - can I buy a replacement USB C socket that I could affix to the board and solder the two wires to - that would allow me to still use a case. Hope this makes sense.

That's useful to know Nico thanks - I have it working with just two - how can you feed to two power pins ? I'm using a USB 2 cable which has four wires but I assumed two of them were data only so I only used the red and black - are you saying the data wires can also provide power ? Edit I've just checked and the ones I'm using ( Dupont ) can handle up to three amps

Hi Werner, thanks for this, I've got some cables like that - they will push onto the pins OK but I still need to connect the other ends to my power supply - I find the pin diagram very confusing where are pins 2 and 6 ? do you count from the USB port end or the other ? Edit no worries I found some numbers printed on the board

Hi all, unfortunately the USB power port on my Nanopi M4 V2 has broken off and I can't see a way to reattach it securely - it looks like it's just a push fit onto the board on 4 little tabs no solder involved no wonder it eventually fell off. I've heard that it's possible to power the Nano via the GPIO pins - anyone here done that - I'm not to clued up with all things electrical but I can solder ? I'm thinking I could make a cable to connect to the pins

Hi Werner, I didn't realise I'd posted this as a bug I'll post it elsewhere

Hi all, unfortunately the USB power port on my Nanopi has broken off and I can't see a way to reattach it - it looks like it's just a push fit onto the board on 4 little tabs no solder involved no wonder it eventually fell off. I've heard that it's possible to power the Nano via the GPIO pins - anyone here done that ? I'm thinking I could make a cable to connect to the pins

I have a few Nanopi m4 v1 and v2 boards most of them use 5.10.16-rockchip64 kernel but one runs 4.4.213-rk3399 because I haven't got around to updating it but all of the boards have the nvme hat and a Samsung 970 SSD fitted.

What SSD are you using? I've been using Samsung 970 EVO for a couple of years without any issues

Ok thanks Werner as I haven't received any replies I guess this is the wrong place to post - I tried because there is such a wealth of good infomation on here - thanks for your time

Hi Werner it's not an issue it's a question ?

Hi guys, I'm looking into installing roon server on my NanoPiM4 V2 board - has anyone here done this ? it would be good to see others experiences and possible Howtos uname -a gives me 4.4.213-rk3399 #8 SMP Sat Oct 31 08:18:20 CET 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux thanks guys

Thanks Nico - nice little C program he wrote there

Thanks Nico - what kernel should I use ? also if you can point me to the script that controls the fan it would be great

Hi all, today I used rsync to copy some music files from an attached USB drive to my NVME M2 SSD drive and noticed the Nanopi was getting very hot. I have it housed in an official metal case with a fan. The fan didn't come on despite the temperature of 80 + , the case was very hot to the touch. I turned it off in the end in case it got damaged. Any suggestions appreciated. The board is running the latest Buster from here.

Hi all, anyone here ever used a Khadas Tone Board on a Nanopi M4 ? I've just bought one but can't get any sound out of it. What I'm trying to achieve is run Logitech media server in conjunction with squeezelite using the Khadas as my DAC. LMS and Squeezelite both installed and run without errors BUT ! there is no sound. How can I make the Khadas the default output device ? Edit I have it working now you have to edit /etc/defaults/squeezelite and tell it what card to use SL_SOUNDCARD="hw:CARD=Control,DEV=0"

Ok thanks guys

Hi all, is it possible to boot a Nanopi M4 V2 from a NVME M2 ?

I just want something to power the board long enough for me to power it down gracefully in the event of a power failure

Hi all, I have several Nanopi M4V2's running 24/7 which I use for prototyping my projects , I would like a UPS as a safety backup to power them. I'm in the UK has anybody got any suggestions as to what I should consider ? I hope this is the right forum for this post

Hi there, thanks for replying - what I'm trying to do is clone the eMMC on a running system. If I understand what you are suggesting correctly you are saying rsync everything you need from eMMC card to an external card then install a fresh Armbian image on the eMMC and finally copy the data back

I thought that might be the case thanks

Ok neither am I :-)

Hi Igor, I would like to create a system image, on my windows boxes I use AOMEI which you can use on a running system and it creates a snapshot of your current box ( applications installed etc... the works ) I would pay for such a system for these boards - when you say Backup your data and changes to the system (additional packages and configs). How can you do that with a live system ?