Thewonderer

I've updated my OPi5 Plus to the latest Armbian build. 25.2 with 6.12 kernel. I noticed the power usage dropped after I full disconnected the power from the device. It's gone from 5W to 4W with an idle USB HDD drive connected and the OS on EMMC (the same it's been since posting in this thread). I used the excellent Btop app to monitor resources and can see the RK3588 never drops below 1GHZ while my RPI 4 will drop to 600MHZ when idle.

Sorry to jump in on this thread, but I wanted to ask where you are downloading Orange PI 3B from? I have a 4GB v1.1 board and still using JReik build. Want to hop on a 25.2 Kernel 6.12 build with Ubuntu Server 24.04 to stay supported. Thanks.

Thank you Igor and Eselarm. I saw some of the github issues Joshua had to deal with. Glad he's looking after himself by walking away. I believe Kernel 6.1 is the Android Kernel Rockchip released and was hacked together by them. I know Sebastian and colleagues having been chipping away at Collabora .... https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md I like the idea of using btop, but from what I can see it needs to be compiled, so will try that later. I recall when I had a Rock64 that, when the kernel enabled all the hardware features, the power usage did increase. As my install is a headless server, I could probably disable the HDMI and a few other things. It's not a major deal, but it would be nice to reduce the power usage when idle. Keep up the great work!

Hi, I've come from Joshua's 24.04 Server build. I was concerned that the support was dropping off as he's having a well deserved break. I've installed the latest Server build from here. https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/Noble_current_server-kisak Works fine, have moved it to EMMC and removed the SD card. I use a USB power meter to see how much juice it uses. I noticed this build uses about 20 to 25% more when idle or under load compared to Josh's 6.1 kernel build. I am suspecting 6.12 has enabled more hardware in the OPi5+ and this is the reason. Is there a way to disable some of the HW to lower the idle power usage? On average it uses 5w on idle. Thanks. Loving the Armbian build.

Might need to clear the SPI flash first them re-image that before copying to NVME. I had an issue with my OPi5 + not booting of EMMC, wiping SPI and imaging that first, sorted it. With all the newer kernel versions coming out and Spooky getting close to 6.1 too, I'm not clear if I will need to do the wiping for SPi first as the uboot is different...? Any advice appreciated.

The newer builds are up. I hope the Server Jammy builds will come soon. https://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-dl/orangepi5-plus/archive/

Thanks Werner, I've been looking at the work going on here and this gives me hope. https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md

Hi, I've been running Armbian legacy server on my 5+ for a month now. I had trouble initially with my EMMC not booting, but I discovered, I had to wipe the SPI Nor then using Armbian config to flash it, then write to EMMC. When a new version of Armbian comes out for the 5+ and it may be a 6.8 kernel build, will I need to re-flash the SPI before I can install the newer version of Armbian (or another image from that's not Armbian?) before updating the EMMC. I found the steps on the Radxa site insightful for a general overview of SPI Nor and flashing (I understand it not an OPi5 x board), but it's not clear to me if a different OS will need the SPI updated due to different bootloader etc ..... https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/lowlevel-development/bootloader_spi_flash

Thanks Wener. I did read the vendor bsp was a hack job. What a shame. They make a great SOC and then release poor and probably inefficient BSP to go with it. I might hold off until 6.8 comes out in a month then do a clean install.

Following on from the update, if and when a new Kernel is added such as 6.8 which is getting a lot of commits with RK3588 SOC, will an apt update do the trick for that too?

Hi, I went to see if there were any updates to the OPi5+ images and saw the OPi5 had updates. I clicked on the link on the main download page. https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/ https://redirect.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/archive/ I've come back and now it has desktop images but no server images.

I saw this article regarding RK3588 today from cnx-software I thought this thread would would like to know... Sounds very promising! Add full HWA transcoding pipeline for Rockchip RKMPP HW decoder (MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H264, HEVC, VP8, VP9, AV1) HW encoder (H264, HEVC) up to 1080p @ 480fps / 4k @ 120fps on RK3588 HW scaler, format conversion, and subtitle burn-in HW HDR-to-SDR tone-mapping (requires OpenCL, RK3588 only) The OpenCL runtime can be downloaded and installed from libmali-valhall-g610-g13p0-x11-wayland-gbm_1.9-1_arm64.deb Support lossless AFBC (Arm frame buffer compression) to save memory bandwidth and improve FPS Support async RGA filter and MPP encoder https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/02/01/jellyfin-rockchip-rk3588-mpp-hardware-acceleration/ https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg/pull/318#commits-pushed-d89df02

The posts sound promising. I've got an old Zidoo Media player z9s which is on Android 6. Sometimes it stutters with the 2160p x265 . I'm guessing a OPi 3B would be too underpowered to run 2160p so maybe a OPi5b will be perfect if I can support a bluetooth remote, HDR, DTS and ATMOS pass through. Has anyone had success with this kind of setup so far with no issues? Thanks.

Hi, I saw the debian CLI release, but was looking for the Ubuntu 22.04 CLI release. So I tried to build my own (1st time) and when I got as far as the Armbian menu to choose the board, I didn't see the Orange Pi 3b in the list. I checked github and could see it listed here https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/orangepi3b.csc Not sure if this is what is used during the compile... I also noted that Joshua Reik is going to start building for this board under his latest commits Comparing v1.32...main · Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip (github.com) Hopefully this will bring this board onto Standard support soon. It seems like a great price / performance SBC. @magus What ethernet issues are you getting? Does it not work at all or just some times?

Fantastic!!! That did it. Wiping the SPI/MTD and using Armbian-config (System/Install/) to install to SPI/MTD worked. Anyone having issues with EMMC never booting , you need to install gdisk, identify the 16MB SPI and clear it. Then use Armbian-config to write to the SPI (called MTD if memory serves) , shutdown. Using A-C again to write your SD card image to the EMMC. Shutdown and remove SD card. That's it. Detailed instructions are below. I'm getting 80MB/s write speed using WinSCP to the EMMC which is OK. Just glad I got the EMMC working. Orange Pi 5 – Simple Overview and Installation with M.2 SSD | Crosstalk Solutions UPDATE. I found a script that benchmarks Raspberry Pi etc, so ran that, the throughput is around 260MBs/s .... nice. Also, by removing the SD card, the power consumption dropped by nearly a Watt! Never would have expected that. I use a plug in USB C power meter to view the stats. More out of curiosity than actually needing the data.