TonyMac32

I've got a Tinker Board, had it about a week (they were very briefly available on Amazon, actually, as soon as it shipped the page was taken down). I'm actually posting from it, was running some updates/etc. It is truly identical to the Pi form factor wise, I slapped it into a Pi case. I stuck an initial impressions on my blog, but more or less the 4 usb ports are through a hub, the gigabit ethernet is tied directly into the SoC so that makes it's networking amazingly better than the Pi. Wifi is snappy, especially when considering the "chip-tenna" it's using for an aerial. Tinker OS is horribly unstable in my experience. The desktop crashes regularly and you have to reboot, or continue your work by switching to another terminal and living with the CLI. 0 graphic acceleration of any kind from what I can see, I have it hooked up to a 4k monitor, it appears to be upscaling a 1080p desktop and then putting a 4k mouse on top of it? The mouse is nice and crisp (and tiny) and everything else is kind of blurry. I've seen some noise concerning mainline patches for the Tinker board, hopefully those pan out. And hopefully someone decides to let us use the graphics subsystem properly.

Aha! I didn't see it hiding there! I'll have to update my how-to. Thank you for the heads up! The audio from the built-in codec actually seems pretty decent, all things considered. I'm tempted to build a tiny cMOY headphone amplifier to fit onto the thing. The PCM5102A has been a pleasant surprise as well, given the price.

I just did this on a NanoPi NEO, there is no hardware control of the NanoDAC, however it worked out of the box with the fex changes listed in Da Alchemists Orange Pi thread. I'm not sure what the warning above means, truthfully, in MPD using the software mixer appears to work just fine I used Da Alchemist's OrangPi thread for my fex changes, and had all 3 audio devices available: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: audiocodec [audiocodec], device 0: SUNXI-CODEC sndcodec-0 [] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: snddaudio [snddaudio], device 0: SUNXI-TDM0 snddaudio-0 [] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: sndhdmi [sndhdmi], device 0: SUNXI-HDMIAUDIO sndhdmi-0 [] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 If I'm not mistaken, however, the NanoPi NEO Air has no analog line out built in, it was a casualty of the Wifi footprint.

Thanks guys, this worked perfectly on my NanoPi NEO H3 board. I hope you don't mind if I cite this thread in my list for building a network MPD player out of the little board? I can verify that for both the PCM5102A and the onboard H3 audio hardware, I had to set " format "*:32:2" " for MPD to have equal volume across my 16 and 24 bit source material.