rsegoly Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 If I want to use such device on prange pi one, do I need to install anything I use it a lot with Raspberry but when trying with Orange Pi I do not get prompt (login screen) https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrkoGB_leq-7hEJRtlZjAe345K1-v96BhenuE9EmdglEs3VUDY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 When you power on the board, do you have some prompt from boot loader? // with SD card containing Armbian for Orange PI ONE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsegoly Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 Nope, nothing When I connect Raspberry I see all boot messages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Nope, nothing When I connect Raspberry I see all boot messages If it's really nothing then connection is wrong or something else that's hardware related (on your side, it's absolutely no problem to use the serial console on any Orange Pi board). But to be honest: Regarding boot messages we just recently changed this and prior to (yet not released) Armbian 5.15 boot messages are sent to HDMI display instead of serial console unless you tweak /boot/boot.cmd (beginning with 5.15 we're using both outputs parallel) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsegoly Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 speed is 115200? I use same connection with Raspberry and it works fine so I do not suspect its wrong connection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 speed is 115200? I use same connection with Raspberry and it works fine so I do not suspect its wrong connection I use minicom -D /dev/cu.usbserial -b 115200 with every RPi or any of the countless other SBCs that are lying here around (only exception is Solid-Run's Clearfog since this board contains an own USB-to-UART onboard chip). Not a single problem. Ever. GND <--> GND, TX <--> RX, RX <--> TX, done http://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_One#Locating_the_UART Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arox Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Well I interconnect 2 Pis uart in order to get serial console with 3.3V lines. Cheap and simple. With sometimes curious side effect : power led glowing without power supply on bpiM2+ (powered by uart !) or boot fail on monitoring BPI when bpiM2+ crashed in unknown state during boot ... N.B. On bpiM2+ tx/rx order is inverted in comparison of RPI or bpiM1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodolfo Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 speed is 115200? I use same connection with Raspberry and it works fine so I do not suspect its wrong connection Speed is 15200. The Raspis have the serial console on the rows of GPIO pins. Orange PI ONE has a separate UART-connector (three pins, no power connection) see link @tkaiser. I used the serial console regularly from Linux host with screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 I just rechecked with Armbian_5.14 and it looks like there is no login console anymore. Boot messages appear and then the console switches to HDMI. Leave the host side connected and reboot the OPI. You should see start messages in your terminal window. This would confirm you have a correct hardware setup. For the needed changes in configuration see @tkaiser's posts above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I just rechecked with Armbian_5.14 and it looks like there is no login console anymore. Huh. There is no console output but login should be possible from serial. It's possible than we produced a bug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodolfo Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Quick workaround to enable serial console on OPI : cd /boot sudo nano boot.cmd -----------------------------------enable serial console setenv bootargs "console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ...................... ----------------------------------- sudo mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr reboot enjoy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Orange Pi One serial console works normally. U-Boot 2016.05-armbian (Jun 23 2016 - 09:03:24 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi One DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: No ethernet found. starting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 2465 bytes read in 172 ms (13.7 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 gpio: pin PL10 (gpio 298) value is 1 Warning: value of pin is still 0 gpio: pin PG11 (gpio 203) value is 1 ** File not found /boot/.verbose ** ** File not found /boot/.next ** ** Unrecognized filesystem type ** ** File not found .next ** 35908 bytes read in 507 ms (68.4 KiB/s) 3136501 bytes read in 3263 ms (938.5 KiB/s) 5011808 bytes read in 5166 ms (947.3 KiB/s) Kernel image @ 0x48000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x4c7960 ] ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 42000000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 3136437 Bytes = 3 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Using machid 0x1029 from environment Starting kernel ... [sun8i_fixup]: From boot, get meminfo: Start: 0x40000000 Size: 512MB ion_carveout reserve: 160m@0 256m@0 130m@1 200m@1 ion_reserve_select: ion chipid [0x2004620! ion_reserve_common: ion reserve: [0x56000000, 0x60000000]! Ubuntu 16.04 LTS orangepione ttyS0 orangepione login: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodolfo Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Orange Pi One serial console works normally. Yes, it definitely does. In the cases it did not, wrong connections or missing configuration in boot.cmd were found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsegoly Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 my issue was using connection on gpio header and not the dedicated pins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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