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Marc Draco

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    Marc Draco reacted to rodolfo in Which board for me?   
    @Marc
     
    The small arm boards are wonderful for games, entertainment and hand-crafted appliances of all sorts. Pick one supported by excellent Armbian or use a recent Raspi. The boards you own are just fine for that.
     
    There is no such thing as "General PC" but you state requirements as
     
    - truly silent and very, very low power
    - desktop for my research/writing.
    - DTP and graphics
    - fixed to the rear of a monitor
    - accelerated video and reliable sound
    - cost IS a consideration
     
    Your OPI PC is cheap, silent, low power with accelerated video and reliable sound when hooked up to HDMI-monitor with speakers. You can also use it for research/writing (even DTP and graphics) , but don't expect stellar performance.
     
    You do get quite pleasing performance by using OPI PC ( tested on smaller sibling OPI ONE ) as a capable thinclient accessing a physical (cheap old linux-converted notebook or PC ) or virtual ( virtual private server possibly living in the clowd ) linux server running suitable powerful software, keeping vital data centralized and universally accessible. Does this sound like what you want ?
     
    The recipe for your "general PC" is explained at  http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1044-remote-desktop-fun-with-armbian-505-on-opi-one/
     
    Enjoy !
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    Marc Draco reacted to Tido in Which board for me?   
    Don't forget Zador's great work and everybody else of course :-)
     
    retro games machine; I prefer something with Bluetooth to connect my PlayStation 3 controller for the Pi you find working images:
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    Marc Draco reacted to cbm801 in Orange Pi One - adding USB, analog audio out, TV out, mic and IR receiver   
    In my humble opinion it is not worth to save $5 and it's better to buy full OPiPC for $18.69. However for some simple applications like armbian server/NAS/home automation/etc OPiOne could be good enough. But for multimedia there are serious limitations. Most significant is memory - only 512MB. You can consider using only OpenELEC but still with some limitations. For example forget about 4k in h265 because OpenELEC uses too much memory and doesn't want to open such videos. Some plugins have memory leak issues (like YT addon). Forget about Androids - those for OrangePi need 1GB for comfortable use. Of course for analog audio you need to solder 2 very tiny wires which is rather difficult because it is very close to SoC and points are very tiny. Same for USB. It's not worth to save $5. Also I don't like CPU power management in OPiOne which makes it hotter than PC. I personally purchased One just for fun. And I love gadgets Maybe I will use it for multimedia, as OpenELEC dongle for one of my TVs. But only when jerney solves problem with HDMI-CEC support - I just want to use same remote for TV and multimedia. I don't need 4K, but YouTube can be problematic because it crashes frequently on One due to lack of memory.
    I also don't want to wait for Lite which will have same limitations and additionally no ethernet port. WiFi is not huge benefit because I can buy WiFi dongle for $1.7 which is less than $2 price difference between One and Lite.
    OPiPC is for sure most profitable buy currenly. I will rather wait for 2GB version of PC.
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    Marc Draco reacted to tkaiser in Orange Pi One - adding USB, analog audio out, TV out, mic and IR receiver   
    Amazing. You looked at an image where a chip is shown that is 14x14mm in size and don't get the idea that these solder points nearby have to be rather tiny?
     
    And now you're searching in a software forum (Armbian you know) for tutorials how to improve your soldering skills since you tried to save $5 and ended up with the wrong device for your use cases? Really?
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    Marc Draco reacted to tkaiser in Orange Pi One - adding USB, analog audio out, TV out, mic and IR receiver   
    IR Receiver:
     
     

     
    All credits go to "@GUTEK@ the greatest artist on planet" who created this wonderful masterpiece of art. For a detailed description have a look below.
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    Marc Draco reacted to rodolfo in Orange Pi One - adding USB, analog audio out, TV out, mic and IR receiver   
    Instead of participating in a soldering contest I looked at the OrangePiOne board and found two fully functioning USB ports ( regular and microUSB dubbed OTG ) ready to be used. Two fast connections or one fast and several slower ones via external hub for testing are usually plenty. If you need more - the solution is called OrangePiPc.
     
    Please let us know who won the soldering competition and post some pictures of successfully added DIY USB host ports before hotgluing the mess to a repurposed old X86 PC with spare USB ports
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