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and then you can just use xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync && xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 1920x1080_60.00 && xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080_60.00 Wifi (before you ask this also) mv /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin-ORIG mv /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt-ORIG cp /lib/firmware/rkwifi/fw_bcm43456c5_ag.bin /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin cp /lib/firmware/rkwifi/nvram_ap6256.txt /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt PLease read some posts above, it's been posted many times now. @martinayotte @lanefu Could you put that info somwhere so people don't need to keep asking? I'm now building a Debian image. Only issue now I can think of is on-board sound. My usb audio adapters work fine. Many thanks for all the great work @martinayotte

Could anyone else check the voltage on USB please? I'm seeing very low voltages of 4.5V idle to 4V maxed out. I'm using a OPi cable and my 4A PSU from my NanoPi M4. I would like to know if it's my setup. Thank you. P.S. With a higher input voltage of 5.3V(vs 5.1V) I get 4.75V idle and 4.5V maxed out.

I think you are making things too complicated. I guess it's an electric pump? You can measure the amperage the pump uses. Or maybe put a motion detector on top of it to sense the shocks. Or just measure the decibels with a microphone attached to the pump. Or make a flow meter with an electrical motor and measure the current.... I could think of a lot more idea's. What you think of is possible, but I think it's too complicated for the goal. I probably would just use an Arduino or esp32 and some sort of sensor with a multi-digit 7 segment display and some buttons to browse through the info. And an sdcard reader to store data. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/customer-display-10-digit-7-segment_60241316220.html?spm=a2700.7724857.normalList.86.390f4f69plkdcV Most of the times simple works best. I've learned that the hard way.

I don't have the sata hat. But... If it works for him it should work for you.

Here you go ;)

It's my favorite of 25 sbc's. So you're going to be happy with it. Most other SBC's have good things about them, but also bad ones. This one everything is good. It's got USB3, GbE, eMMC, sata-hat, great heatsink, very good software, very fast multi-core, very fast single-core, 4GB ram possible(mine is 2GB too bad, my RockPi4B has 4GB), very stable, ... Working with the M4 is like working with a modern pc. I did order the Odroid N2 today. It could be that one is going to detrone the NanoPi M4. But the M4 has it's small form factor as advantage to make a laptop out of it.

You could watch my review video about it. The software has improved a lot, but all the other information is still valid. I've also got a 32GB eMMC module on the way. For me that will be a lot better than 16GB. I can't compile the software I need on 16GB.

My sentence was a bit unclear. I menth something like, "I've got the simular C2 that I like a lot, but other people don't like it." So that's why I thought I'm not sure it's the best choice to make for him. I would always say to buy the NanoPi M4 before anything else for desktop use. I've been struggling with the Rock64 a whole week, + with the RPi3B+. Yesterday I again turned the M4 on after a week not using it, boy how happy I was to be back on it. So fast, stable, pleasant, ... There's nothing like it(that I have yet) I just ordered the Odroid N2. So maybe the M4 isn't going to stay my favorite. But I've got to wait +2 weeks for it to arrive, why haven't we got a time machine yet. It's 2019 g*d damned.

Did you try this? sudo cvt 1920 1080 60 Then you get something like : # 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz Modeline "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync Everything after modeline you need to copy and past it behind : sudo xrandr -- newmod e Example : sudo xrandr -- newmod e "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync Then : sudo xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 1920x10 80_60.00 sudo xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080_60.00 For your tv those settings could be different and maybe that's why it doesn't work.

Use FriendlyDesktop instead. That has everything installed for playing videos default. Friendlycore is not for desktop use. 18.2 2018-12-19 FriendlyDesktop is updated as follows: 1) Added OV13850 and wide dynamic OV4689 camera support 2) Add Chrome-browser browser, support web page 1080P hardware decoding, support WebGL 3) Added ffmpeg support, provides static libraries and header files, supports 4K hardware decoding (does not support hardware encoding)

Now with this(gpu acc disabled) Firefox crashed again. 1080p didn't play anymore. It was stuck on 1 image. 720p played ok, not great. It was a little choppy. But almost acceptable. So it still plays better than without the script.

I tried this, and it crashed again. I also tried with ethernet and no difference. I'll now try to disable gpu acc and see what happens.

Lol, is that twitter? I could have more views I think if I would use twitter and reddit and... But I don't know anything of those things. I don't have a smart-phone, and I wouldn't know what to do with it if I got one. I'm not social enough to use all those social media things. And I think it's a vicious circle too, because I don't use those things I don't have contact with many people, and because I don't have contact with many people I don't use social media. Things used to be so much easier when I was young, we agreed a time and place. And everyone was there. Now I don't have any idea where anyone would hang out. I only now have seen your post, thank you for sharing/caring

With h264ify on in Chromium it's : Codecs : avc1.4d401f (136) / mp4a.40.2 (140) Just tried it again and again after 1 minute playing in 1080p "aw snap", and a bit later while reloading the video it just restarted the whole thing. I do find it weird that without the script it even can't play 480p. Also not in Firefox. And with the script it does play up to 720p well in Chromium and Firefox. I tried Vivaldi and this doesn't play this well. Firefox used to be bad for video playing. But the last months I've noticed that Firefox plays best on most SBC's where there's no gpu acceleration installed. On the NanoPi M4 Firefox played 1080p without a hitch without the script. On the Orange Pi3 Firefox plays a lot better than Chromium. Again, I don't know enough of these things. I thought something changed in the latest version on Firefox for arm64 what makes it possible to make use of arm gpu's. It is a new version, because the version before it didn't work on ARM64. Vivaldi is also a bit more optimised than standard Chromium for playing videos without acceleration. But it can't play as good as Firefox.(on M4) But Firefox does suck for surfing, it always hangs, and you've got to click wait every time to go further. So I prefer to have a good Chromium. Firefox about:support GPU #1 Active Yes Description VMware, Inc. -- llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0, 128 bits) Vendor ID VMware, Inc. Device ID llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0, 128 bits) Driver Version 3.1 Mesa 18.2.8 I think we should look for the differences between the boards where it runs fine, and those that are like mine. I'll now try with the ethernet cable downstairs. I am having problems with USB/WIFI. So you never know. When my wifi dongle is too close to the board I don't get a connection. This board must be disrupting the signal. I think it's leaking radiowaves. Maybe that's why it doesn't have wifi on-board. I can't use wifi plugged into it, I need to place my dongle far enough. Weird board.... You've got an eagle eye. I didn't notice that at all. It must be Bionic, else he would have other problems I guess.

Chromium chrome://gpu I don't know what is what. But most seems hardware accelerated.

Thank you, that's some extensive testing. You clearly are having the same experience as I have. This doesn't seem to be the same with everybody. I'm using a Rock64 with 4GB, you the Renegade 4GB. So the problem isn't with my board(too bad). @JMCC Someone made a useful comment on the video "Hi, I can see you are playing youtube video in vp09 format. Try to use h264ify addon to force h264 format, it should help a lot. I dont know if hardware acceleration is supported for vp09 codec." I did try h264ify, but it wasn't much better. I'll give more info tonight on this, it still didn't say h264, but it wasn't vp09 either. It also crashed with this installed, maybe 1080p played a bit smoother, but image quality was a lot worse than 720p vp09. The fact that Firefox does exact the same things makes me think the problem isn't with the browsers, but some compatibillity problem with the script or so. Or did we both forget something? I don't think so? With the NanoPi M4 I've never had any issue like this. That seems to work perfectly for me. I've also tried Ayufan his images but those were not bootable. He seems to have made images with VPU/GPU too. I told them to try Armbian with your script. They answered : "Using the latest Armbian build but get a NIC failure about once a week. Bunch of TX error.... Hoping these new builds and patched kernel will fix this as it's a known issue with the rockchip... Funnily enough the older 0.56 stable build never had this issue that i recall." I do not use the Rock64 a lot and don't follow threads about it. I think it's a known issue, but I'm not sure. Cheers

I fear this is again not the best choice. I don't have a Le Potato. But I've heard there are some problems with it. I've got the Odroid C2 which has got the same specs. I love it. Hardkernel is for me the best in software support for their boards. I hope Le Potato will do you well.

@JMCC The video is ready. I don't think it will get too many views. But it can help other frustrated users Thanks for the help.

I've got the NanoPC T3+ with the same cpu. It's a monster But also not the best for desktop use. Great for heavy multi-core tasks like a Blender render farm.

The M4 is also a RockChip. But the company behind it, FriendlyElec is a lot better with support. And almost everything seems to work well. I use it daily, I use it for Blender rendering, for video editing, for gaming, programming, watching youtube... The Rock64 isn't good for those things. It's best to use as a NAS. It was the first cheap one with USB3 + GigE. But Pine64 is just the worst company when it comes to software support. So the Pine64 boards or best for Linux freaks who like to test and tinker a lot. I would not advice it for a normal user. I've just made a video about the Media Script on the Rock64, and how to overclock it to 1.5Ghz. Now rendering and in an hour it'll be online. I say it many times there are better boards for these things... Good luck

Well, then all you need more is audio and you've got everything you need. You can easily install the arduino ide on Armbian. And it works fine. I also use it with sbc's. But the Rock64 was not the best choice to make. You should have done a bit more homework to know what's best for you. Ask someone, or read forum threads about it. I know what it is, I've bought some in the past that I thought would be awesome. But they never were. At least the Rock64 is cheap, mine weren't.(+$100) For what you want the NanoPi M4 would have been a lot better. Great for media playback, surfing, very powerful and easy to use. Amazing for gaming. All things the Rock64 isn't/hasn't.

It's a lot easier saying which ones don't have that instead of the ones who do have that. What you describe is almost every sbc there is. So these fastors are not important for you. What might be important questions is, how much are you wiling to pay. What performance do you need? What's the form factor/size you want, how much power can it use, do you want a 5V device? What speeds do you need? 100Mbps enough per ethernet? usb2 good enough? Do you need hdmi? There's the R1 from FriendlyElec with double ethernet, usb ports, wifi and no hdmi. https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=248 Litteraly hundreds of boards have what you described....

Buy a usb audio device. They are less than $5 and come in very handy. Don't you use a hdmi display? Doesn't it have a headphone jack? It's just a small thing getting sound to work. I'm using this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/TISHRIC-Promotion-5HV2-External-usb-sound-card-7-1-with-3-5mm-audio-interface-adapter-for/32940768647.html?spm=2114.search0204.3.76.55b341e4twUlxU&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10065_10068_319_317_10696_10084_453_10083_454_10618_10304_10307_10820_10821_537_10302_536_10902_10843_10059_10884_10887_321_322_10103,searchweb201603_35,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=bc0423ae-a86e-45bc-a865-d9deeb864e5f-12&algo_pvid=bc0423ae-a86e-45bc-a865-d9deeb864e5f And these too. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Vention-External-Sound-Card-USB-To-3-5mm-Jack-Aux-headset-Adapter-Stereo-Audio-sound-card/32837377187.html?spm=2114.search0204.3.10.55b341e4twUlxU&s=p&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10065_10068_319_317_10696_10084_453_10083_454_10618_10304_10307_10820_10821_537_10302_536_10902_10843_10059_10884_10887_321_322_10103,searchweb201603_35,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=bc0423ae-a86e-45bc-a865-d9deeb864e5f-4&algo_pvid=bc0423ae-a86e-45bc-a865-d9deeb864e5f As JMCC says. If all you want is watching videos then you can just use LibreElec or Android. But I don't think/know if 3.5mm jack works there. http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_Software_Release

I don't know about that. I know hdmi is working. I haven't tried 3.5mm Have a look here. Maybe you'll find something. I'll check tomorrow evening. I know hdmi sound works, and usb audio devices too. https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=rock64 sound&fromCSE=1

@pzwI also got one of those. I haven't tried any armbian on it. I did use images for the M1+ from FriendlyElec because they were better. Maybe the one from Armbian works. https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-m1-plus/ It is end of support. But could be a good base to build upon. I should pick it up again and try. I made a wifi cam with a small powerbank. But I'm not happy of the camera. Picture isn't stable.