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Why not just use one cheap SBC just for this purpose? Attach one or more UART adapters to it and control devices remotely. For my testing I'm using 3-port Wifi switch to control power to the devices. One SBC is used for USB-UART adapter, also controls one USB mux device to switch USB stick between device and this master SBC, and also controls one SD mux for same purpose as USB stick.

Maybe this? https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/espressobin/u-boot/

Isn't this supposed to be ok (renaming project to something else)? Because name Armbian also can't be used because it is not "real" Armbian.

Looks like my comment was moved above and it is not in context anymore?

Why this forum even exists if on every help you first need to become a partner to get any help? I though forum is here for Free support... And even more important question: why even use Armbian anyway. If it works great but if it doesn't than you are screwed!

From what I see this is the first mistake users do here. Looks like this only works when you don't need any help 😉

This is my real nickname. Should I made another one? You are so funny guy. Pleased to talk to you...

I think you just describe yourself isn't it? Probably true about BSP, but again things works there. Does it works on mainline linux? No.

What do you call shit? At least everything works there. And shit here is only your attitude which haven changed from the past and probably never be. But we are all get used to it You really fits this crowd here perfectly.

Users will never behave better. Until you will realize that you will live with same problem. And what about ignoring requests from users which are not possible to solve? No need to be always rude with response. No response in such case is better.

Sorry but what you are writing has no sense. And you don't know where to place this project. It is not commercial and it is not for basic users. Maybe it is only for advanced users Seems you need some sort of ignore button on yourself. Anyway, less hostility would be welcome here.

I can't figure out if Armbian is hobby project or commercial? I mean if you spend so much time on it that your life depends on it then it can't be just hobby. But then you need solid financial income every month. But seems this is not happening and that's why we can read so many times how every feature costs money. Which is stupid actions. Do things what you can and leave other issues unresolved. It's that easy. If some customer pay for some feature this is different story.

That's ridiculous! One wifi problem for 20.000 € For such amount I would just use different board. And you spend such amount for some user request? Sure, sure ... And as I wrote already before: stop supporting users and start support only real customers which pay for the work. But maybe there are not much of them so the calculation would fail? I think I should start calculating how much time (and consecutive money) I'm spending for free work.

50.000 € ? How did you get such amount?

I did few things. And still do them from time to time. But this talk is about your work Is this u-boot.ext even your work? Doesn't come from LibreELEC originally ? Or maybe I'm wrong (which I have no problem to apologize for it). Also isn't u-boot open source software? So binary should have the sources available somewhere? Online or per request?

Where are the sources of this famous u-boot.ext ?

In this thread @balbes150is making some accusations and I would like to see some more evidence. He is a moderator and I assume he understands that writing such things require some sort of proof. Or maybe he can write anything he want and mudslinging is ok at this forum?

Igor, I don't have any commercial project. I only express my own concerns. Also I do spend lot of free time on other projects where I don't get paid either. But this is my choice. You decided to make Armbian and you decided to put it as open source. So expect everything you mentioned. You don' like how things are going? Then shut down the project or make it private for anyone who pays for it, close the forum, ... There are other possibilities beside crying on a forum

But this is personal choice. If someone doesn't want to give time for free then it should not do this kind of things. Doing it for free and constantly saying "I'm doing this for free" is ridiculous.

How many boxes would they sell with Armbian (or ArmbianTV)? Only few. probably. Which means they don't care for such calculation.

I don't think Armbian project likes TV boxes. Is there any officially supported? I don't see any.