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  1. Thank you @jock the Radxa Pi-e board is interesting, but if you add a case and shipping it would at least double or triple the price of a tv-box shipped.

    Of course it is better to spend more money once instead of buying something cheap that you have to throw in the trash, but I really like cheap things (provided they work well enough 😅).

    I'll keep thinking about it.

  2. Is it a really stupid idea to buy one of these boxes, install armbian+raspap (or  openwrt) and use it as a travel router/access point (I need both 2.4 and 5GHz)?

    Most cheap routers (i.e. at the same price point of a tv-box) with openwrt support have no usb port (I need one for tethering with an android phone).

    OTOH tv-boxes have flaky wifi, but I have several usb wifi sticks that I could use (though I'd prefer to use the integrated wifi if at all possible, at least for one of the bands).

    If it's really stupid (and the first message of the threads seems to imply so) I'll go back to my cave, but if it isn't, what's the most suitable box?

  3. Armbianmonitor:

    Today unattended-upgrades warned me that hostapd was on hold:

     

    Unattended upgrade returned: True
    
    Packages that were upgraded:
     
    Packages with upgradable origin but kept back:
     Armbian xenial:
      hostapd 

     

    I checked and it's because it depends on libssl1.1 >= 1.1.1 which isn't available

     

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
     hostapd : Depends: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1) but it is not installable
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
    

     

    The package comes from armbian's repository (ubuntu has an older version)

     

    $ apt-cache policy hostapd
    hostapd:
      Installed: 3:2.7-99~armbian5.73+1
      Candidate: 3:2.9-100~armbian20.05.0-trunk+1
      Version table:
         3:2.9-100~armbian20.05.0-trunk+1 500
            500 http://apt.armbian.com xenial/main armhf Packages
     *** 3:2.7-99~armbian5.73+1 100
            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
         1:2.4-0ubuntu6.6 500
            500 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-security/universe armhf Packages
            500 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-updates/universe armhf Packages
         1:2.4-0ubuntu6 500
            500 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial/universe armhf Packages
    

     

    I don't use or need it (I suppose it was installed by default in the original image) but I thought to report it anyway.

  4. On 9/15/2019 at 11:48 PM, 5kft said:

    For what it's worth, I gave up on OPi.GPIO some time back, and switched to the standard libgpiod instead (e.g., see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/about/).  Use of libgpiod eliminates almost all pain in terms of permissions to manage GPIOs for non-root users.

     

    I still use OPi.GPIO and it works fine for non root users with the proper udev rules. When I started using it I had to patch it to delay opening the files (the udev rules take some time to apply), but now it does it itself (it checks that the file is accessible before giving up).

  5. There are no drivers for the camera in mainline kernel. You have to use a version based on a legacy kernel (https://dl.armbian.com/orangepilite/Ubuntu_xenial_default_desktop.7z). I don't know the progress in mainline regarding gc2035.

    Edit: looking  at the table here  I see that the csi driver has been mainlined in kernel 5.0. Without that the camera cannot work. What I don't know is if the gc2035 driver is available in 5.0

  6. On 8/22/2019 at 10:38 AM, kreston said:

     

    Dear olivluca, I read "man gpio". There no command "set"! May be need to use command "write"? And I dont know, how can understand what pin need activate for supply CSI of  OrangePiPcPlus??? PL10? PG11? where can I to read it? I'm really afraid to give voltage on wrong pin!

     

    The "gpio" there is an uboot command, not a linux one, so "set" is correct. I cannot help on the correct gpio to set for your board, mine is an opi pc.

  7. In the EU

    6 hours ago, Stuart Naylor said:

    is this a Brexit shape of things to come?

     

     

     

    No, it's an EU thing

    Edit: didn't finish - but there are variations depending on each country. Here in Spain, over 22€ you have to pay VAT + handling charges (IIRC 20 or so €), over 150€ you have to pay VAT + customs duties + handling charges. Less that 22€ you pay nothing (in theory).

    But many parcels pass through customs with no charges (they cannot control everything).

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