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    kodi on armbian?

    in Off-topic

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    I do remember some discussions on OpenELEC forum (it is completely ruined now, unfortunately)  about NEON optimizations, which improve h.265 playing. 

    I can be wrong but seems like Amlogic should support hw decoding.  I my personal experience with LibreELEC/CoreELEC on Le Potato is kinda "mixed".  I wouldn't recommend it as a replacement for RPI3 at least right now. 

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    kodi on armbian?

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    Hi,

    TLDR: RPI3 is a very good option. 

    I've got RPI 3B now. It runs LibreElec smoothly. Previously, I had RPI 2 and even RPI 1 (which is like zero almost). In general, RPI3 works great, I've got no serious complaints just a nit-picking.  

     

    IMHO there are few important points (your mileage may vary): 

    *) 1GB and 2 cores make a huge difference 

    *) A lightweight OS like LibreElec, OpenElec whatever.  Do not waste resources. I tried Raspbian, Xbian and OSMC. They are all good but LibreELEC flavors are just better. 
    *) My RPI3 has a root filesystem on a USB thumb drive, it is faster and more reliable. 
    *) A good PSU as always. 

     

    Now I'm experimenting with AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato) and LibreELEC. It is a very nice board but frankly, it is not a real competitor so far. 

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    [Odroid HC1] irqbalance 1.0.6 leaks memory

    in Odroid XU4

    Posted

    I've seen a growing memory utilization on my Odroid HC1.  It turned out that `irqbalance` is a root cause. It looks like it is a known bug 

    Right now ` irqbalance `  get restarted once per a day to keep it small. 

      

    $ grep 'resource limit' /var/log/monit.log
[MSK Sep 30 21:00:56] error    : 'irqbalance' mem amount of 400.0 MB matches resource limit [mem amount>400.0 MB]
[MSK Oct  2 01:53:31] error    : 'irqbalance' mem amount of 400.1 MB matches resource limit [mem amount>400.0 MB]
[MSK Oct  3 06:46:01] error    : 'irqbalance' mem amount of 400.2 MB matches resource limit [mem amount>400.0 MB]
[MSK Oct  4 11:38:34] error    : 'irqbalance' mem amount of 400.2 MB matches resource limit [mem amount>400.0 MB]
[MSK Oct  5 16:31:01] error    : 'irqbalance' mem amount of 400.2 MB matches resource limit [mem amount>400.0 MB]

     

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    I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M)

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    That is great.  NanoPi NEO2 1Gb ($37) and NanoPi NEO Plus2 ($57) are in my list.  

    But I'm afraid they would have the same ethernet issue. 
     

    6 minutes ago, guidol said:

     

    emmc is supported in armbian (Iam booting my Core from emmc) and in the beginning the Core2 did (does?) use the Plus image.

     

    BTW: you will get ethernet for the Core2 with the Core2 Starter Kit (and wont cost much more then the Core2 alone):

    http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=214

     

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    I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M)

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    Yes NanoPi NEO2-LTS looks like a very good candidate.  

    NanoPi Neo Plus2 is also good however wifi/bt are useless for me.  Is emmc supported by armbian? 

    NanoPi NEO Core2-LTS has no ethernet, 

    I've got some variants deployed in my lab.  All have ethernet issues 
    1) dns01:  4.14.18-sunxi, Armbian, NetworkManager is installed

    2) dns02:  4.14.0 #1,  FriendlyElec  Ubuntu 16.04

    3) monitor:  4.14.18-sunxi, Armbian
      

    ❯ ansible all -b -m shell -a 'journalctl | grep -Ec "Link is (Down|Up)"'
nanotor | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
55

dns01 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
2028

monitor | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
18

dns02 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
159

     

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    I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M)

    in Off-topic

    Posted

    Hi there, 

    I'm looking for a replacement for my NanoPi NEO (512M) fleet. I'm open to your suggestions. 


    Things I do **not** like about NanoPi: 
    * Unreliable Ethernet. A network interface is flipping all the time Up/Down. 
    * 512 MB is not enough for a tor relay
    * Hardware watchdog does not work reliably.  It works in synthetic tests but sometimes a board just freezes.

    Things I like about NanoPi: 
    * Armbian support
    * Price 
    * Size/form factor
    * Performance

    * Heat dissipation

    * Ethernet tap


    My use cases: 
    * Tor router
    * Home DNS server
    * Monitoring server Prometheus for my SBCs and network equipment.  

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    Pi-factor cases

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    Posted

    5 hours ago, TonyMac32 said:

    This looks like the same one I have (and sent 3 others to friend/family), mine seemed to fit a bit better than that, the case gets warm to the touch and the SoC stays cool.  I think the thin thermal pad should do the job.

    I hope so. Will see. 

     

    For the record, here is the previous setup (the old case was open all the time). 

    IMG_0207.jpg

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    Pi-factor cases

    in Off-topic

    Posted · Edited by Igor_K
    add the temperature

    4 hours ago, chwe said:

    Idle, under high load? Absolut values might be interesting too... 

    It is a media player on OpenELEC so yes it is idle almost all the time.  Some details are below. 

     

    It was about 64 °C now it is about 59 °C. 

     

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