Tido

Beside your comment, I can see two scenarios and I guess there are others 1. Just a USP - in case you lose main power, secure shutdown 2. Run the device autonomously for a period of time, secure shutdown Also to consider with aging the accu gets weaker. I don't know which steps you can set, but I would not go bleeding edge. @TK - boring - does your Accu have too much capacity :-) a good old P4 would be faster in draining

Hi, have you more than one SDcard? I have two but only one works - although I can use the other for everything else, it won't work for R1

Yes, return it. No 5GHz and other technical limitations.

I saw that too, they also promote now their gitbooks in which, in oposite to the website it says: 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A7 octa-core processor, The Website cannot display larger 2GHz - gimmy a break Overall, this is cheap. 15 Nov. they promised drivers and now they have to proof with a 6 min Video that they don't lie. Lousy. And for this gitbooks there is no no no Link on the Website, just in the forum. Sometimes you really wonder how chinese find information compare to western people. Btw, poor developer now must also use the lousy MicroUSB power plug Life can be hard if the manager sucks. Compare with LeMaker they feature now packages at Lenovator with the very useful DC-Jack, power supply and USB OTG cable that shall work. So the GPU works, does the Video decoding also work - my understanding is, that this is not the same, right? 1080p they promise on the website linked above.

Looks nice. concering accu - to have a long life for a Li-Ion accu it should be used between 15 - 80% above and below is stress /mobile /laptop /tablet and so on. I don't know if there is a possibility to change the color of the Accu-Capacity already from 80% to green - but I thought it is worth to know it. The Lenovo Power Manager 6 offers me to adjust max charge and a threshold for start to charge again. Just as information - I don't expect this functions. What you have designed is already great.

interesting, if I remember correct I searched 14days ago for Xunlong A20 NOTHING on AliExpress store NOTHING Well, if you have only 1 SoC model, every improvement you make, counts for all SBC. So, yes but NO. And I already mentioned sunxi in my posting. And if you read: does not mention good support. Das heisst, auch sunxi hat keinen Support für die Xunlong's - es sei denn das Wiki wäre uralt.

It is nice to see, that Xunlong in opposite to SinoVoip /Foxconn is smart enough to stay with the same SoC for different SBC I didn't read through this thread maybe it is already written somewhere, but a quick look at sunxi does not mention good support. To bad, if you consider the first line. The latest changes on Github are also 9 months old.

Hi, There was a broken Link to download the image-file. It is now fixed and you can walk easy through the manual to get the R1 up and running. Cheers Tido

I don't know about the Kernel, but it is still: Linux LeGuitar 3.10.37 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 16 14:33:53 CST 2016 Until now, there was the issue that you only get 1024x600 resolution. I have tested this on my Plasma TV (HDMI-HDMI): xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080 default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1920x1080 0.00* The letters are not nice on the screen and changes in the settings of TV or OpenBox made no changes. I don't know whether this is because a TV is never as good as a Monitor for PC ? Although Peter wrote that, I gave it a try HDMI-DVI cable 19" Monitor with 1280x1024 = blank screen This is sad, I guess many tinkerer have an old Monitor on their desk for things like the Guitar. I hope they fix this soon. If I do xrandr on my Linux PC, that looks much better :-) Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384 DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm 1920x1200 60.0*+ 1920x1080 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1600x1200 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Hello Mr. Moderator double posting above - see here if you delete the above, you can delete this one too

The LeMaker Team has released updates on its images v1601 (i.e. Lemuntu): Release note: > Update the display framework(HDMI as master device and LCD as slaver device by default) > Add the HDMI-CEC driver > Add the EDID analytic function on uboot ...

good choice - of the Banana familiy. Both base on Debian - concerning troubleshooting and help I recommend armbian. Did you already read this: http://www.armbian.com/documentation/

There are several Banana's available, can you be more specific what you have bought?

while I was looking up my bloody FON routers, I read about the HW-mod to add a second 'real' antenna to the FON 2201. They wrote, this is only worth it if people move around with their devices. Reading this, I don't know how big the difference would be for the R1 if both Antenna's working nicely.

Somewhere I also read, that only one (1) Antenna is active - can't remember if there is a fix for that And if you want to use 40 MHz bandwidth you need to hack the hostapd file Thank you for your detailed information. I consider to embed this into the manual. Did you document on a website or such your modification with some more pictures /text ? I just wonder which WiFi chip is in my old: FON2201 (now in my closet for 2 years) this bloody device also lost connection all the time - it made me sooo angry Edit: I just found out, that I even have a second FON the 'simpl', but this has only 4MB flash. With the 2201 I will try to put OpenWrt on it

I realized your reloading problem long time ago, in my 15.04 Bananian manual I wrote therefore: This service must start after the wlan0, after isc-dhcp !! I am looking after a solution, if you have a working one, for: with service networking restart hostapd must be the last to restart. Solution: shutdown -r now Well, I played around with it for quite a while and finally gave up - armbian worked much better and still does. I am playing right now with Bananian 15.08 and its cold start on R1 with a spindle drive is horrible to listen to Beside WiFi does not work. Therefore I still don't have a manual for Bananian 15.08 released People with Windows drivers for 8192 have problems, by any chance do you still have a link to this?

@miguipda, may I give you an advise. Get this device up and running WITHOUT Harddisc. This way you can omit one point of failure - and no need of UART cable. If you are happy with the device running, you mount the harddisk - if it fails - you know why. If you like, in my signature is the link (Google docs) to a complete walk-through to get armbian running, like a router.

Last but not least: GPL-Violator I just heard this today in a podcast about the 2015 !!

I agree with you, pi became a 'magic' word. On the other hand, we are used on X86 that with time, most problem get fixed... not so much for ARM as we know, but not the majority of people knows that :-( Your link, ... you know you can always have an issue with HW - if it is an SDcard for $10.- who cares. I just read, in the newst Kernel-Development they integrate the interface for the RPi GPU. Some progress there as well. Absolutely possible, or that they funded the foundation. Common, everybody knows Broadcom now, the good guys from Banana-Pi mouth-to-mouth marketing par excellence !! To give them credit, they expected only a couple thousands, not millions. I also have one

I could not disagree more !! mouth-to-mouth marketing is the best you can get. Need a proof ? here you go ! The guy who startet Raspberry, knew the SoC (BCM2835) quite good I guess. They chose the SoC carefully, may be with prior consultation of Broadcom management - smart move. Then, they stayed with this product for 2 years = stability, something to build on (people don’t like change as we know). Raspberry came up with solutions for problems like Video encoding. Two (2) years later another SoC was released (Broadcom BCM2836) - only after selling more than 2 Million piece of (BCM2835), not before !! In conclusion: They not only make hardware, they also support it soft- and hardware wise. A stable platform over years OSS was not perfect from begin, but in opposite to SinoVoip Foxconn they tried !! and have done big progress wanna read more ?

@TK, Whatever that means... Maybe if you read it again you get my idea. I think so too, but as I wrote: they have opened all documents, incl. BOM, CAD, schematics, housing. So whoever would take over, does not have to start from zero. That saves a lot of money & time. Awesome

Currently you cannot purchase the WiTi board, in the forum I read about issues with WiFi, some say a heatsink would help, max speed 20m. Looks like they suffer similiar problems, like we do. Although I think they have access to the schematic FireWRT from Firefly I found while reading about WiTi, they have opened all documents, incl. BOM, CAD, schematics, housing. I think both projects suffer on something - to many components. i.e. TK wants fast SATA, Ethernet and maybe USB3.0, but no WiFi i.e. Tido wants SATA, Ethernet and WiFi So the PCB may fit all, but not all compontents have to be placed = different Versions of the board to keep the price and troubleshooting low(er).

A first short comment to your drawing, I come back later with more. The WLAN Chip RTL8192 is as far as I know connected via USB2 to A20, means your Plan-A is wrong, Plan-B is partially right, I guess.

There is a search box on top, change the search section to: Forums Then enter your search term, like: raspberry I've done that for you: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/483-support-of-raspberry-pi/?hl=raspberry

The picture is a bit dark, but a nice idea with the R1 in the background to compare the size of the PCB. It is quite large. What about the LEDs on the Ethernetports, I haven't attached any device on my R1 lately, but they didn't work in the past. Do these LEDs work on ClearFog?