Werner

I'd like to buy one or more NanoPi NEO2 or NanoPi NEO2 BLACK. Preferably 1GB model.
 
The manufacturer stopped selling these boards and none of the currrent models fit in their CNC OLED case (which I would also be interested in but will otherwise buy from them).
 
(Actually, anything with 64-bit CPU that fits in that case, or similarly nano-size with display and buttons, is of interest)
 
Will pay shipping to Asia from wherever you are.

You all know the problem: You have a spare SBC (with USB3) laying around catching dust, a spare SSD or other hard drive and for whatever reason some (terabyte?) space in whatever cloud on the planet and have no idea what to do with it.
 
Well here is what I came up with to solve this struggle
 
https://zuckerbude.org/cloud-nas-with-local-cache/

I suggest to ask here: https://twisteros.com/index.html

You all know the problem: You have a spare SBC (with USB3) laying around catching dust, a spare SSD or other hard drive and for whatever reason some (terabyte?) space in whatever cloud on the planet and have no idea what to do with it.
 
Well here is what I came up with to solve this struggle
 
https://zuckerbude.org/cloud-nas-with-local-cache/

I'll add your use case (sd + nvme) to install, but you  have to check it yourself. 

So, started playing around a bit. Mostly just mocking up ideas.
 
https://github.com/tparys/armbian-reconfig
 
The script currently is recursively driven by a directory system. When it hits a script, it simply executes it. Should be pretty easy to extend. Just drop a script in place and it should use it.
 
I mulled over how to "name" the various scripts and directories, and eventually settled on using gettext, which also provides internationalization support as well. Basically takes the relative menu location like "/system/firmware" and "translates" into the appropriate language. In the case that only partial translations exist, it falls back to English, which i figured wasn't a horrible default.
 
And for testing, I added some translations of the top level menu to Spanish. I did use Google Translate, as my bash-fu is strong and my Spanish is quite rusty.

This log is not from HC4. Not sure if this a problem of pastebin service or you made some mistake. Check it and do it again.

@i5Js you can download these packages and install them with apt/dpkg: https://users.armbian.com/piter75/nanopim4v2-stability-fix/
You need both of them for the fix.
 
When they are correctly installed and the board is rebooted you should see this message in your dmesg:
piter@nanopim4v2-4:~$ dmesg | grep rk808-regulator.*buck [ 2.840331] rk808-regulator rk808-regulator: max buck steps per change: 4 The last "4" means you have the fix. No message or "8" means you don't have a fix.

It seems that NanoPi K1 Plus is using rtl8189 WiFi ... Right ?
Driver is broken in 5.11, I'm working on it with other guys, I'm using OPiPC+/OPiLite/OPiPlus2E.
In the mean time, if you don't need WiFi, disable the module :
mv /lib/modules/5.11.1-sunxi/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8189fs/8189fs.ko /lib/modules/5.11.1-sunxi/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8189fs/8189fs.ko-disabled  

As a test I updated on a secondary Pihole-Server (buster on NanoPi K1 Plus) the kernel to 5.11.1-dev and at startup Pihole did seem to make some trouble
The server isnt getting to the login prompt and on the serial console the last info is "Starting kernel..."
 
I updated some of my SMB-Servers with kernel 5.11.1-deb without problems.
 
Will later try a new resinstall with buster and 5.11.1 and see if Pihole will run on a complete new installation.
 

Yes, and No ... it prevent all networking if WiFi is present, such as running "ifconfig" will hang forever.
Simply move or delete the 8189fs.ko module will prevent that.

@balbes150I'll check the new image tonight. 
I finally have filmed everything I need for the video. I had a lot of issue's with capture devices not working properly and always had to redo it. 
So I installed it 4 times. And every time it didn't boot from NVMe, but instead from sd-card. Changing extlinux with the correct uuid from NVMe works. 
I did choose the correct way, you'll see it in the video. Tomorrow I should have it finished. It'll be a long one. Review and installation all in one...

Moved to proper location.
armhf is 32bit
arm64 is 64bit.
 
There are a few other variants of arm in 32bit which you can lookup via Wikipedia for example

Moved to proper location.
armhf is 32bit
arm64 is 64bit.
 
There are a few other variants of arm in 32bit which you can lookup via Wikipedia for example

The subscriptions behaves weird sometimes. As for myself who was on the intermediate level a few month too I ended up simply canceling everything within forums and paypal, waiting to expire and then do the whole subscription from scratch.

It works. OMG I'm so happy. You did an amazing work. 
 
Graphics Feature Status Canvas: Hardware accelerated Compositing: Hardware accelerated Multiple Raster Threads: Force enabled Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled OpenGL: Enabled Hardware Protected Video Decode: Hardware accelerated Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled Skia Renderer: Enabled Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled Vulkan: Disabled WebGL: Hardware accelerated WebGL2: Hardware accelerated And ... 
/dev/nvme0n1p1 ext4 458G 70M 435G 1% /media/nicod/3acb3cd1-680c-455f-ab36-36f424ce5302  
I'm stoked. I've got a bad habit of staying at a project until it's done. I should have done other things the last month, but every day I kept trying with the P1.
I'll finally be able to finish it and start with another board. And I'll be able to use the P1 as my main machine. And my M4V2 for gaming. Thank you.
 
I'll wait for that. I don't mind waiting a bit longer.

We have a realtime status page for primary Armbian web resources available here:
 
https://status.armbian.com
 

We are coming up soon with a change that will finally improve DVFS stability.

I dont know how to build an access point from scratch but have you tried the easy way? https://github.com/RaspAP/raspap-webgui

Now, on day 10, after the node was started the Nanopi Neo3 reached a continous traffic of 80 Mbits. Its still doing fine and it is not overwhelmed at all!  I think it could handle even more but i have some limits on the ISP site.
 
Thanks a lot Werner for the tip. These devices are like made for this job .
 
An update on, how the R1 will do, will follow.

Well we have a big arm server already configured as a github runner. I suppose we could chroot an armbian rootfs or place in a container 
 
So i guess something that can test armbian-config works as expected

IMHO I would not ship zsh by default. Simply because one of Armbians goals is to provide a mostly unmodified experience known from a fresh vanilla Debian/Ubuntu installation on other platforms. Providing as pre-configured and easy to install enhancement is perfectly fine.

Commercial Rpi OS is based on: https://wiki.lxde.org/en/Main_Page which is IMO not near more modern and project they have forked, seems dead. But it certainly appears more modern than its fork ... perhaps more than XFCE. Subjective.
 
Our current amateur desktop is more or less stock XFCE with custom theme and wallpaper and was not changed since years - except internal version, applications within. We only make it to provide something clean, light and stable. It has those most important properties, which is important for serious deployments. Distro hoppers or Rpi users are not our target group and on most hardware we support, Armbian is usually best choice for different reasons.
 
But as @Werner pointed out, for about a year we are developing desktop upgrade - but its again for our internal needs, to make more desktop options and to make package management easier. We hope someone will step up and tweak desktops further so they will look nicer but if not, they will remain as is.
 
If you want to trade stability and security for nice design, just say it  It is way way cheaper to make desktop looks nice then keeping OS functional. We can't cover everything and in any case - there is no reward except internal satisfaction.

Yes, it seems I will have to
But this will take some time till I am ready..
 
What I can say for sure about the NanoPi Neo3 so far, is, that it does a good job in the datacenter. Ramping up the traffic may not be complete after 7 days, but at this point, it handles 50 MBits traffic in both directions  easy. CPU temp. is with a small fan and some aluminium heatsinks+ full AC in the colo room at 42 *C. System load: 8%
 

I've just installed the media script on the Station P1. Video playback is 2x speed. Either in Youtube with Chromium, or with MPV and a normal video file.
Everything sounds like the chipmunks.
I also think not everything went correct with the chromium settings. 

Problems are haunting me on the StationP1.  I've been trying for a month to make a video about it and never was able to have everything working. When not filming it often worked. But when filming... Quantum mechanics are against me.