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Hi when I use the orangepi PC plus TRRS audio output (analog), I have some glitches which are linked to the video mouvment. I've tested the connection between ground and video and it seems that on the left ground pin there is a natural link with video output (50 ohms), is this normal? my cable is a 4 pole TRRS. I even tested audio with cable directly plug on soldering but same result. How could I get a clean audio output? note that the hdmi audio output is clean. and my speaker system is clean if I plug it on a MP3 player with an audio jack. I use retrorangepi 4.2 which is based upon Armbian v5.54 (default legacy kernel)

No sound via the hdmi port to hdmi tv port however I can use headphones with the 3.5 mm audio jack and it works fine. Not sure if my board is broken either. I just got it. The only image that works with my orange pi pc plus is Armbian Stretch edition. The ones I have tried thus far are armbian xenial multimedia edition, retrorangepi, android 7 from orangepi website they all don't work haven't tried bionic armbian edition though. But that is for another post just thought to mention that. 1. Logs when you can boot the board: armbianmonitor -u https://pastebin.com/e5xb2gZD

Hello! There is a common issue with my Orange Pi PC +. I didn't find any solution for it. When I "shutdown -t 0" my device, it continues to consume power and the chipset is warm. Is it possible to turn the power off completely through the command line? Thanks in advance!

hello there! after update rpimonitor to 2.13-beta6 by Xavier Berger, can't monitor, any temperature , memory usage. But CPU freq, Sd card and network work OK. my spec : Orange pi pc + ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS 3.4.113-sun8i

Hello, I am developing a project that will use the ethernet module ENC28J60 on orangepi pc plus, but I do not know how to configure armbian to enable using the module. Searching the internet I just found solutions for raspberry. I have already enabled the spi-spidev option using the armbian-config tool. What should I do now? Thanks.

I have an Orange Pi PC Plus running the mainline Debian Stretch desktop version of Armbian, but lately I've been using it headless. When I'm logged in over ssh and shutdown it down using "sudo shutdown -h now", the ssh connection drops and the board's LED flashes then shuts off, giving every indication the board is off. However, power consumption doubles (increasing from ~1.2W to ~2.4 W)! The problem persists as long as the board is powered, so I presume the board is hung and never fully shutdown. Any thoughts as to what could be causing the board to hang when shutting down?

Hi, My applications were running from eMMC when I used Kernel 3.4.113 and Orange Pi PC Plus purchased 6 months back. But on my last week purchase, armbian-config of 3.4.113 does not detect eMMC of Orange Pi PC Plus. I am told by Xunlong to use the latest kernel. This will result in huge development efforts. Are there any patches that can be applied to 3.4.113 to use my same application on latest PCB? Thanks

Hi, we have problems with 5 inch display from waveshare. Can somebody help us.

Hello everyone, Is there any utility to deal with overscan when using TVout? I'm using Armbian Legacy kernel. There is a tool called Allwinner_TVOUT_manipulator, anyone have used it?

Hi all, first of all, I really like the dev-tools! I successfully developed my own Image (incl. patches etc.) and it's running great. But now I want to "burn" it to the Orange Pi's emmc directly, without using nand-sata-install ... it's necessary, because the target-image does not allow shell- and/or ssh-access (for purpose). So I flashed a "normal" armbian-image to my sd-card, copied my own image-file to the card, booted the card and wanted to 'dd' my image to /dev/mmcblk1. Everything went fine till now ... after rebooting w/o the sd-card plugged in, the loader hangs in a loop (Rebooting within 10 seconds) :/ I looked into the nand-sata-install-script and found nothing special in there, so I'm missing something? I even tried to flash the bootloader after flashing the image (as done in the nand-sata-install-script), without success, too. I don't have a serial console right now, so if someone maybe knows what to do ... I'm really stuck right now :/ -- Micha

Previously I installed legacy Armbian to an Orange Pi PC Plus device and noted down its eth0 and wlan MAC addresses. Then I installed a Mainline Armbian server image to its EMMC, updated the armbian-config to enable the desktop manager. Now I checked the MAC addresses to be completely different. Why does this happen?

Hello there. I've got an Orange Pi PC+ SBC running desktop Armbian Xenial 5.38 kernel 3.4.113 from its eMMC that showed up pink screen after intermittent Power Up. I was using a 5V power adaptor that became faulty and intermittently became on and off. After replacing the power adaptor and booting up my device to a HDMI monitor, I found out that it now displays nothing but pink screen! Here's what I've done to no avail: 1. Turning on the HDMI monitor before and after I turn on the machine 2. SSHing from UART0 and suing command h3disp -m 5 (or 6 or 33 or 34...). No dice 3. Booting using the same Armbian OS but from SD card. SSH shows me the hostname is different(so same OS but boot from SD card ) but the display remains pink 4. Booting from Android SD card. The monitor works normally, showing the entire Android and all 5. Reflashed the eMMC inside the Orange Pi PC+ using the nand-sata-install from the Armbian SD card. After booting from eMMC the monitor is still pink! I noticed that during bootup, the Uboot output is different compared to the UBoot output of normal images. Normal Uboot utput: Pink Monitor UBoot Output Is this why the pink screen comes up, becauseUboot settings have been changed/corrupted somewhat during the intermittent power interrupt? How does the in, out and err defined? I've checked the files in /boot and couldn't find anywhere that refers to this. I don't understand how the device uses the eMMC UBoot even when it is booting from SD card, and how the problem persists even after I run nand-sata-install. A different Orange PI image works, so is this an Armbian issue? Is there a hardware broken somewhere?

Hello, I have following issue with HDMI resolution 1024x768. As soon as kernel starts loading, little light-green box 6x4px appears at the bottom-left corner of the screen and never goes away. The box always stays on top of everything including mouse pointer and vdpau-accelerated video, not visible on screenshots. Also HDMI sound is full of clicks in this resolution only. Other resolutions are ok. Seems that there is no problem with DVI 1024x768 (entire screen is greenish when connected by HDMI but i see that mouse pointer is visible in that area). First seen this on TV 42PC1RR which has native resolution 1024x768, also reproduced on fullhd monitor S24D390 in 1024x768 mode. Both screens work fine with other 1024x768 sources with same HDMI cables. Problem visible on latest Armbian Xenial 5.38, also on Armbian Xenial 5.24.

After a long time of happyness I got careless and did an apt-get upgrade on one of the OrangePiPcPlus, and I my Eizo FlexScan S1921 Monitor does not sync anymore. I need a Resolution of 1280*1024 at 60 Hz with a pll_video of 432 Mhz. I tried to reselect -m33 on h3disp but this did not change anything. Is h3disp even supported anymore? Have there been changes to the legacy kernel or the way resolution is selected? Before: root@JugOpi:~# uname -a Linux JugOpi 3.4.113-sun8i #18 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 15 02:16:06 CEST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux root@JugOpi:~# cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=orangepipcplus BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi PC +" VERSION=5.31 LINUXFAMILY=sun8i BRANCH=default ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable Afterwards: root@JagOpi:~# uname -a Linux JagOpi 3.4.113-sun8i #18 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 24 22:10:49 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux root@JagOpi:~# cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=orangepipcplus BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi PC +" BOARDFAMILY=sun8i VERSION=5.38 LINUXFAMILY=sun8i BRANCH=default ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage root@JagOpi:~#

I have an Orange Pi PC Plus and I'm looking for a USB video grabber. Could you suggest me some models which are easy to setup and work with OPi reliably?

Hello Everyone! Need your help to difficult task. I'm a newbie to micro-computers. Recently installed Armbian on Orange Pi PC Plus (H3), but can't connect to a TVusing HDMI-VGA adapter. Get just black screen, but once got a pink image (as in attachment). That HDMI-VGA adapter works well with notebook and shows picture on this TV. However, this adapter works well with Orange Pi and my Iiyama computer monitor in VGA mode. So, i completely dont understand why Orange Pi not working especially with my Sharp TV. Native resolution of TV is WXGA (1360x768). I tried many resolutions and got black screens, but in XGA (1024x768) resolution i got pink screen (see image). Thanks for your help! UPD: Solution was in changing the hdmi-vga adapter to another. Works only in XGA resolution now.

Hi I only have an old monitor, and I thus need to use a HDMI-to-VGA-converter to work with my Orange Pi PC Plus. When powering the Orange Pi on, the green LED on the board is constantly ligthened. On the monitor, I get a black screen, after 4 s (or so) a totally red screen. No text. No graphics. Then after about 15 s, on the board the red LED starts to double blink. The red screen remains for ever. I have tested the Raspbian and Debian images available on http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/. They work fine with the converter. Alas, the preferred OS, "Orange OS" armbian, seems not to work. Board: Orange Pi PC Plus Image: Armbian_5.38_Orangepipcplus_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop.img downloaded from https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pc-plus/ I'm using a high quality SD card from Transcend (32GB, *400, class 10). The SD card was checked with H2testw: Okay! The SC card was formatted (no quick format) with "SD Formater". The checksum of the downloaded image had been verified with 7-Zip: Okay! The image was burnt and successfully validated using Etcher. And I only get a red screen when powering the system on :-( What can I do?

I have just received an Orange Pi PC Plus, and am mostly happy with it. Linux orangepipcplus 4.14.18-sunxi is installed on a microSD card. There is a minor problem with IP addresses. When I first turned it on I forgot to plug in the network cable, so naturally ifconfig showed no IP address. I plugged in the cable, waited a minute, and tried again. Still no address. Maybe it's not hot-pluggable. Reboot, and I got an address. Since it was outside the range my server accepts I assigned a static address in the router, and rebooted the router. ifconfig still showed the first address, even though the router's client list showed the new static address. Another reboot was needed. All my other systems update an address change automatically. Some day I hope to be able to stream live TV (currently I get 5fps) but it's not a priority.

Hello, I'm following this project : I was recently spending time on the activities to do with children, 3D printing and robotics, and in order to be able to try to follow https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ i have bought a new laptop which respect the requirements (SSD, ram...). So now my next goal is to try to make a custom version of armbian dedicated to the schools. To start, for the first step, I would like to try make a localized version of armbian in French by default, in order to be more easier for the French speaking user. With the new evolutions of armbian for OrangePiPC+, there is an ubuntu desktop version, and now a Debian version (thanks for the armbian team for these improvements). I would like to know if there is recommendations, pros and cons for choosing ubuntu or Debian. The context that can maybe have an impact on the choice could be : - the compatibility with VGA screen (as it's for schools lot of old screen are used) ; - the computer will be used for 3D activities (blender, openscad...) ; - I have never made a compilation of an OS (but I'm motivate to learn it with the armbian doc). Is there any advice to choose ubuntu legacy or Debian stretch ? Thanks, Best regards

Hello. I install the 5.35 Version on a OrangePiPc+, all run in good condition. I upgrade to the 5.38 without problem (kernel 3.x) I upgrade the kernel to 4.x, so long as i didn't reboot, all is in function (with Ubuntu) and my USB Tevii 662 is recognized (and run with TVHeadend). After reboot, no Ethernet and no USB, no possibility to login. I tried all versions with kernel 4.x, even desktop, no function. Anyone has a idea, how it will be run??? Thank's for any idea. P.S. OrangePI PC Plus, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB SSD-OnChip, Tevii S662 S2 USB, TVHeadend.

Hi all, I have an application running on an orange pi pc plus 2 over the emmc 8gb memory. Everything is in there (os, db sw) and what it does is acquiring data from some sensors and then pushing it over mqtt to a server. Now, due to frequent internet connection issues, the board is able to store up to ~ 1 month of data in a local db but this means quite a lot of writes per seconds (plus all the logs). I would like to have an idea of how much the emmc can keep up with this rates and thus I am trying to understand how to calculate the life span in years (hopefully nothing less). Can anyone help me on how to do that? I am using right now iostat to get an estimate of the kB_wrtn/s and I get something around 50. Any help would be really appreciated. p.s.: obviously I am trying to explore solutions, like ramdisk, wear leveling and simply storing stuff if the connection is actually out, but I would like anyway to get a feeling of the life span of the memory.

Hi Iam a newbie working on OrangePi and I have an orangepi pc plus board and I have installed Armbian_5.38_Orangepipcplus_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop on it. I have two user account created on the OS. Lets say user1 and user2. When i reboot the orangepi, it auto logins using user1, instead i want it to auto login using user2. Kindly help me. Thanks in advance, Girish

Hi all, I am using an Orange Pi PC PLUS2 with everything in the emmc for controlling another device through a serial connection (rs485) with a serial converter using FTDI chips. I am using docker containers to embed my application and easily deploy/share it. using uname -a gives me: Linux host-test 4.14.15-sunxi #28 SMP Mon Jan 29 07:24:48 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux The problem is that randomly I get the following error: [135431.500807] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: ftdi_set_termios urb failed to set baudrate [137213.011801] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: ftdi_set_termios urb failed to set baudrate [138650.664850] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: ftdi_set_termios urb failed to set baudrate [140559.020691] ohci-platform 1c1b400.usb: frame counter not updating; disabled [140559.020972] ohci-platform 1c1b400.usb: HC died; cleaning up [140559.025797] usb 6-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [140560.099001] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: ftdi_set_termios urb failed to set baudrate [140560.099018] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: urb failed to clear flow control [140560.099652] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 [140560.099738] ftdi_sio 6-1:1.0: device disconnected After that I can't use the serial converter anymore. It does not appear on ttyUSB0 and I don't manage to make it work again. I tried to rmmod both "ftdi_sio" and "usbserial" and modprobe them again, but nothing changes. The only way to fix it is to reboot the system. I am experimenting a lot with modules like pylibftdi, vpc drivers vs d2xx ones, etc...without results. I am really struggling a lot with this and I can't find any real or clear help online. Unfortunately this is a big issue since it makes my SW unusable and I can't really deliver it like this. It is worth noting that I never saw this issue without using docker. My questions are: - Does anyone have any clue how to solve this or can provide any help (it is really a big issue for me)? - At least, does anyone have any idea how to restore the serial line without rebooting? Thanks a lot in advance.

Hello everyone, This post shows one of our users ported the Mender open source (over-the-air) OTA updater to the Orange Pi PC Plus: https://mender.io/blog/guest-post-on-porting-mender-to-the-orange-pi

Hi Everyone. I intend to use this sbc with a hdmi to lcd controller (not yet arrived). I noticed the predefined resolutions do not include 1366x768. I tested on a smart tv and I with the closest resolution of 1360x768, there was a vertical purple line on the left. I could probably live with the slightly lower resolution, however if the purple line appears on my final setup, how do I remove this or is there anyway to run the full 1366x768? I have tried 1280x720 in windows and it blurs the text so that seems to be out of the questions for me. Regards, Rauli