[Etcher.io bug]

There is a recent Etcher.io bug in Linux https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/1955  causing errors writing images.

While we're hoping to release Etcher 1.3.1 soon, but as a temporary workaround you can do to manually downgrade to 1.2.1 :

 

sudo apt-get remove etcher-electron
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install etcher-electron

 

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

3 hours ago, balbes150 said:

Have you tried the latest test image Armbian Mate 20180116 ?

 

Yes, I download the zip, checked the hash and install the "Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180116.img".

I need to open the box to check the Wi-Fi vendor inside these newx MXQ boxes.

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

1 hour ago, xXx said:

1) No wifi at all (after "sudo modprobe wifi_dummy" [and before of course])

 

 

Same problem here with MXQ Pro and MXQ Pro + and original @balbes150 images. But the other issues don't affects me.

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

46 minutes ago, balbes150 said:

All the entry works correctly, cause in Your system.

 

YES, I'm the problem of course, because nobody has same issues. But with my workaround finally I have your images working on a MXQpro and a MXQpro+.

The Wi-Fi is not working, I don't know whats happens.

I need to open the box to see the chipset or can be retrieve this info with some command on the CLI?

Thanks again for this incredible work!!!

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

On 9/1/2018 at 4:11 PM, manuti said:

OK, thanks.

I don't understond what's happened. I try again with the images on Mega and also with ROSA.

Hey @balbes150   I don't know what happens with your images but is impossible to me to burn using my Laptop with Ubuntu 16.04. After my first try I ended with a bricked SD card (nested partitions, incorrect partition orden ...  and a sort of things that made impossible to format or recover). I buyed a new one and started having same errors writing the image with Etcher and Rosa and I decided to stop this way. 
I have created the partition structure with Gparted, I have mounted the image, I copied the /BOOT files in fat16 partition and /ROOTFS to ext4 partition, I have to recreate the permissions for sudoers ... and finally the image boots!!! Thanks!!!

[Any Mirror To download Armbian?]

@balbes150 shared recently a link on MEGA https://mega.nz/#F!Xw4WVBqY!xgPbJkJkfMUIVoCAX2hBlQ

 

 

 

[Properly powering the Tinkerboard]

49 minutes ago, chrisf said:

I love this:

Micro USB connectors are only rated for 1.8A according to the USB spec.

 

yes cheat power control, yeah!

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

1 hour ago, balbes150 said:

I now checked. Downloaded image Armbian Mate 20171226. Unpacked. Recorded on the USB pendrive (Linux , ROSA Imagewriter). All signed up with no problems.

OK, thanks.

I don't understond what's happened. I try again with the images on Mega and also with ROSA.

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

1 hour ago, balbes150 said:

What size media are you using ?

I try 2 different 4GB USB drives with Server image and 2 different 16GB microSD card with Mate and icewm. The 4 media are OK and already used with Armbian, Lakka without problems. 

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

Hey @balbes150 I check the md5 against my yesterday downloads (the 3 ubuntu armbian 5.37 s9xx images) and the checksum are OK but I'm having problems to write the images on SD card and USB drive, I try 2 different SD card and 2 different USB drives. I use Etcher and Disk Utility in Ubuntu 16.04 and also 2 different ports in my Laptop and again I try to use the card reader in the Laptop and a USD card reader. In all the cases the image fail in some point more or less at 80% of the process.

Are the images correct? What is the correct way to do the step 3? Thanks again

 

On 6/5/2016 at 11:59 AM, balbes150 said:

3. Record an image on the medium

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

1 hour ago, balbes150 said:

Added control files for MD5.

Added the files to MEGA. Try this link.

https://mega.nz/#F!Xw4WVBqY!xgPbJkJkfMUIVoCAX2hBlQ

 

So many thanks!!! ... downloanding right now!!! 

[Properly powering the Tinkerboard]

New Tinker Board S http://linuxgizmos.com/asus-tinker-board-s-adds-16gb-emmc-and-more/ with cheat power control to prevent the problem they create:

 

Quote

 

New power management features include low-voltage input detection on the micro-USB port to ensure stability when using a non-qualified power supply. There’s also a new 2-pin power-on header.

 

Product page https://www.asus.com/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board-S/

[Orange pi prime ffmpeg hardware acceleration]

Impressive numbers. How do you manage to achieve this performance? 

Thanks 

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

H ey @balbes150  can you add some SHA or MD5 checksums to the Yandex report?

thanks

[Orange pi prime ffmpeg hardware acceleration]

I don't know if I use or not, I use the same instruction en every machine: 

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec libx264 -profile:v main -level 3.1 -preset medium -crf 23 -x264-params ref=4 -acodec copy -movflags +faststart output.mp4

Usually the ffmpeg detects the processor capabilities like you can see on the OPiPC2 with H5 with ARMv8 and NEON

 

[Orange pi prime ffmpeg hardware acceleration]

The info is in Spanish https://raspberryparatorpes.net/proyectos/optimizar-videos-para-ipad-en-plex/

But in short the numbers are:

• In the Banana PRO that is dual core and running the entire OMV server with Samba, torrent and Plex I have achieved a speed of about 0.15x, that is, to convert a 1h video it takes 6h40.
• Then I tried the Raspberry Pi 2 with the same video and conversion reaches about 0.40x.
• We move to the newer model, the Raspberry Pi 3 also reaches about 0.75x
• Testing with the Orange Pi PC gives us 0.58x
• And finally the Orange Pi PC2 same SoC reaches 0.9x
• As a final test, I compared it with a normal laptop, a Lenova Yoga 2 with an intel Core 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 4200U is achieved to 2.85x

This number are only an example it may vary depending your case.

[SmartGear multi-system emulator released as open-source]

Awesome work! 

[Armbian for OrangePi PC2, AllWinner H5]

Armbian monitor isn't currently available on this board and with the new kernel. 

[Installing FTP server bananaPi M1]

Is the image stored in a partition formatted in fat32, ntfs or some type different than linux (ext4 or similar)?

Because I normally have problems with permissions when I mess with this kind of Windows things.

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

Real morons over there 

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

The S/PDIF output from the Beelink X2 is active and real. But I only can managed to  use with test sound. I don't waste many time messing with the configuration. I only tested with Legacy kernel I don't know if work with Mainline. I'll try to test this X-mas. 

I'm going to receive a MXQ Pro Plus and a MXQ Pro 4K.  One of these have s/PDIF and thee other don't have enough information in Banggood. When I'll receive the two MXQ my plan is try to install this armbian version. If you whish I'll try also to check the S/PDIF output. 

[Armbian for tv box Z28]

Another RK3328 not booting in the easy way from microSD card. 

https://raspberryparatorpes.net/compras/probando-z28-rk3328-quad-core-2gb-ram-16gb/

https://www.banggood.com/Z28-RK3328-Quad-Core-2GB-RAM-16GB-ROM-Android-7_1-2_4G-WiFi-100M-LAN-4Kx2K-60fps-H_265-HEVC-Android-p-1133993.html?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=cussku&utm_campaign=16244253_1133993&utm_content=3048&cur_warehouse=CN

[NanoPi Neo Core & Core2 & MiniShield]

In the Icons they say: H5 Octa Core??

 

[Armbian for tv box Z28]

Another ZPRO 2GB RAM + 16GB eMMC not booting directly from SD. I try serveral ayufan images, older than 0.5 and the new ones, amrhf and arm64.

[CLUSTER]

You can use as distributed video encoder https://github.com/nergdron/dve