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I have used Dell, HP, Logitech USB keyboards with the prime. What make model keyboard are you using

taner97...Dude Chill life is short. I am sorry if you felt that I was singling you out, sorry you took the post that way. I was posting my observations in response the the whole thread. For you I loaded the mainline and set up my 3 test AP’s as OPEN networks, verified your and re-forced your post “ i can't connect to any open wifi networks” and “but this device just refuse to connect ap's that does not have encryption.” then I took the time to try and force it to connect. Glad you think it was a waste of YOUR time. You have been doing wireless since 2007.... OK.. I got wi-fi gear older than you. I am VERY old, I bet I retired (the first time) from IT, I installed Muni / Corp wi-fi for almost 25 years; before you ever touched a PC, can you say "Proxim"??? I knew could. I got stuck fixing a project which my grandkids need for robotics competition. I picked up RPI’s from some website, then I got a ad for OPI and here we are. I am back at this trying to learn something to help them. The last single boards I purchased before this was back in the 1990's, they ran Super DOS / and other OS most folks never heard of, so this whole arm cpu thing is all new to me I got to get back under my bridge now. Good Luck \|||/ (o o) ------ooO(_)Ooo------ Kids what can do? One should try to make one self to more than they are, never think you are the smartest one in the room, the moment you do. you are not

I like having there when logging in, the kids who are playing with the boards would find it easier than digging around via CLI.

I got the wifi working on the zero plus under Debian jessie (no gui just CLI), did not test the BT, I will see if I can figure out what we did to get it working. I ASSUME that it would about the same process to get working under a Armain build It was a pain...

OK tkaiser, I will try to do better. I was only reporting what I see, some people here (hint hint) slam these DIRT CHEAP boards for the wi-fi. I have found that NOT to be the case for someone who uses them as they should (IOT / micro pc for robot / drone control). I was not worrying with trying to use 10.00 board to replace my 200.00 router, I was just making sure the boards where safe and usable for the kids to use in the projects, you know NOT start a fire or burn themselves, NOT be working on code to run on a board which would fail. I load / stress testing for a better idea of the boards limits. both the zero and zero plus are better than the batch of RPI's I got them, main reason is the Armbian crowd here. my posting are to let others know that they should filter out those negative post, because in fact the wi-fi does work, and is usable as intended. when someone gives NO info on their setup, nor do they troubleshoot, they just whine, those post are useless, NOTHING can be learned from that. most people do not know how wi-fi works, they have never heard of Shannon's capacity limit,

I loaded the 5.27 mainline image and for now wifi works fine for me (no it will not connect to an open AP) running a few load test now I did solve a couple of the anomaly's, my temp swings where caused by the A/C vent blowing on the device (back room has own unit ) and the sun hits the table where the device was running a few mins during the day.

at 38 feet with two walls between the zero and the AP the results are just a little different; ping times increased about 15 ms but Iperf shows about the same results. armbianmonitor shows temp has been around 44 ~ 46 c at idle, upto to 63 c during upgrading and testing, I ran the upgrade at the same time to push to limits. on reboot it takes about 35 ~ 40 secs before I can get in. not an issue as the fault was my the A/C / sunshine----I did noticed that if a I use a 1 amp P.S. vs A 2 amp p.s. it runs a a little cooler--- signal was down to 50 / 70 and 58 dbi

ok using a new updated install of Armbian_5.25_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113 using the stock ant. with the zero at 20 feet from the AP (Quality=70/70 Signal level=-28 dBm ) I disabled power management, and ran some iperf / ping test. ---The results below came from iperf test suggested here, they do not mean a thing in the real world use.--- ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 10] 0.0-30.0 sec 0.00 (null)s 260195013222332 Bytes/sec --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 55 packets transmitted, 55 received, 0% packet loss, time 54086ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.729/52.794/151.154/27.817 ms I did see that last image i had used was 5.27 mainline, which i see had known wifi issues.

Ok I have the zero running a "version" of openwrt, wifi works fine no issue for me, i have used it for hours of streaming video. only doing a single stream at a time. I did try to use Armbian builds from 5.20 ~ 5.26, but wifi was slow to connect, or would sometimes fail to connect, Tested with three different AP's (all have different chipsets). The zero is used as a client not as AP. I only did limited test as to range, and so on with the installs (home is only 1800 sq ft, 3 bedroom). my AP is mounted at 6 feet in my office and my daily use AP covers the whole house with very good to full signal coverage... BUT the max speed I have seen on the zero is around 17 meg. (not a real speedtest). In the small amount of using the zero outside i have done it still streamed netflix / hulu without buffering from 165 feet. Odd things i did notice, the armbian shows me many more AP's in my area than the WRT does, the WRT build runs MUCH cooler, my router shows the armbian as connecting at 72 / where it shows the wrt build at 54, but as i said i did really did not do any point to point testing I had no luck getting the zero pluswifi to work on the OPI image I used,upon loading the AP6212 driver, once i open network manager and select my ssid and get the passphase window the system hard locks,OS becomes read only. the wrt i am running is from http://pulpstone.pw/ , and yes i know it is a hacked up version using Armbian, but hey it works great for my limited use. I will pickup some more SD cards and load up the newest Armbian and see what i get. am using a better antenna than the one provided on the zero

I ASSUME (and you how it is) that the pins would be the same as the zero v1 as the expansion board for the zero v 1 works fine on the ZERO plus..I say works as I have been using the zero plus with the board.

brcmfmac https://linux-sunxi.org/FriendlyARM_NanoPi_NEO#WiFi

not sure how much i trust the temp readings, with the armbian installs on all my pi boards it jumps around a good bit , but on other installs it stays about the same, and armbian build temps do not a match with a thermometer. heatsinks are cheap use one

POE is off not ethernet

go to the orange site download page, scroll to the bottom also the debain desktop image from steven "works"

as for Armbian builds, the OPI liteimage Armbian_5.25_Orangepilite_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop boots and is working fine, no wi-fi or bluetooth working, cpu temps are showing 33, have dug around it yet, maybe later i will just what needs to be done

networking is networking. you should use a crossover cable and set a static IP on each device..NO GATEWAY, Just the IP and subnet

Sure have at it. or hack up a current build. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ I have mine running, not stable yet but working on it, no working Bluetooth yet but the HDMI and wi-fi are working.

I found it this a.m. looking at the downloads on orangepi website, it looked promising so I ordered it. I am happy with my PCplus and 1 st Zero, and I have got a zero plus coming in the next day or so. Steven should give us a heads up on these new boards.

Does anyone here have this board yet? Orange Pi Prime Development Board H5 Quad-core, 2 gig ram