LarryA Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 I just received 3 of the Zero Plus boards and am trying to verify they at least basically work. I'm new to Armbian & Orange Pi but have been using Raspbian & Raspberry Pi's for years. I've downloaded Armbian for the OP Zero (Armbian_5.38_Orangepizero_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.14.img), verified the gpg signature and the sha256 checksum and used Etcher v. 1.4.4 on a 2017 iMac, macOS Sierra, to burn SD cards. After burning, macOS claims "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." Maybe that's normal for Armbian? diskutil list shows: /dev/disk8 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.9 GB disk8 1: Linux 1.4 GB disk8s1 so the lack of a FAT partition would explain it not being readable. Still, tried to use it to boot the OP Zero's... Nothing. No indication that it's receiving power, no activity on the ethernet hub it's connected to. Does the OP Zero even have a power LED? I know first boot takes a "long" time, so I left it alone for > 10 minutes. Nothing. Also, to address some obvious questions: 1) power supply - 2A, 18 inch USB cable. It successfully powers a Raspberry Pi 3B+, which is notorious for it's power usage. Could the OP Zero be worse? 2) ethernet connection - works with RPi 3) SD card - burning a Raspbian image to the same SD card (after formatting) boots on both a 2B and 3B+. I verified 5.20 volts between pins 1 & 2 of the populated header (CON5) so it sure looks like the power is good. This seems to work for lots of other folks, so I must be missing something. Perhaps I received 3 defective boards? Unlikely, but possible. Does the OP Zero Plus require a different Debian build than the OP Zero? What else? Thanks. LarryA
chwe Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 Opi zero! =opi zero plus... Search for the correct image, the downloadpage shows you a picture to compare.. zero Plus is h3/h5 (if i have it right in mind) and the normal zero is a h2+ soc.
TonyMac32 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 37 minutes ago, chwe said: Opi zero! =opi zero plus... Yes, the naming scheme is quite unfortunate in some cases, it's not like an RPi B vs B+, where the SoC is always the same.
LarryA Posted May 25, 2018 Author Posted May 25, 2018 @chwe and @TonyMac32 - thanks! Yes, I had presumed, based on my experience with Raspberry Pi, that a Zero wouldn't be that different from Zero+ ... well, apparently not! Now that I've got the right .img file, things are working as expected.
guidol Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 5 hours ago, LarryA said: I've downloaded Armbian for the OP Zero (Armbian_5.38_Orangepizero_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.14.img) Does the OP Zero Plus require a different Debian build than the OP Zero? What else? Yes - the Orange Pi Zero Plus does need his own image You could usehttps://dl.armbian.com/orangepizeroplus/archive/Armbian_5.45_Orangepizeroplus_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.43.7z or you may select one by your own choice fromhttps://dl.armbian.com/orangepizeroplus/
guidol Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Today my OPi Zero Plus (not Plus2 - but H5) doenst boot anymore - also after repowering..... So I did download the testing armbian-image Armbian_5.46_Orangepizeroplus_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.44 (because Bionic may be not stable or hasnt all the packages which I use with debian: mbrola and espeak-ng). But for using the image I had to add some commands to the /etc/rc.local (before exit 0): # because nameserver doesnt work from nmtui nor /etc/network/interfaces echo 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' >> /etc/resolv.conf # for switching ondemand down to lower frequencies echo 200000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate # for activating CPU temperature - didnt work after some update - before it did work ln -fs /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input /etc/armbianmonitor/datasources/soctemp System diagnosis information has been uploaded to http://ix.io/1iCh because frequency-switching only allows up to 816Mhz I changed the MAX_SPEED from 1200000 to 816000 in /etc/default/cpufrequtils: # WARNING: this file will be replaced on board support package (linux-root-...) upgrade ENABLE=true MIN_SPEED=408000 MAX_SPEED=816000 GOVERNOR=ondemand
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