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First of all, I love Syncthing because:
- My files cannot be read in transit.
- I can run my own central discovery service to be completely invisible.
- Nodes will find each other no matter what (it can automatically use tor even, if it needs to).
- Unless absolutely necessary, Syncthing nodes connect directly to each other for transfers.
- It can run on anything.
I run two Syncthing networks. One is for office stuff and there's a central PC which runs 24/7. I know, that's not optimal but, we need to keep them up to connect remotely anyway, so be it.
The second network is a two node network, from office to Home to carry small to medium sized files. The good thing? The home node is running on an OrangePi Zero. That thing is also running DNSmasq and other small services to augment my home network so it's a no biggie.
Running a small daemon on a matchbox sized device frees me from relying on anything cloud based, all over the world. Yes, I use dropbox for collaboration, etc. but, when it comes to personal files, syncthing can do wonders, even on a small device like that.
Plug it in, install Armbian, spend 3-4 hours to fine tune it, attach an ethernet cable and forget it. That's all. You have an always on Syncthing node.
You could do an Orange Pi with a 2TB 2.5 inch Drive.
Kind of like this poster earlier today did.
I'd then run Kodi on it, plug it into a TV and call it a day. Or if you're going to be streaming to other crew members, I'd set up a Samba share and let them use their own laptops to connect to it.
Just because it "doesn't run windows" doesn't mean it's best off to skip it. These days Linux has many user-friendly versions that work great on these kinds of devices.
The OrangePi (http://www.orangepi.org/) has four 1.6GHz processors - that rivals many PCs and trumps most streaming boxes like FireTV (http://kodifiretvstick.com). Knowing that, it's safe to assume this device can handle just about anything a media center would require (article mentions 4K capability) as well as various operating systems. If you can put Kodi on this thing, it'd rock too!
Indeed! As it stands the microsd boot drive is just slow. External flash drives are faster than reading/writing to it. The Orange Pi has one, but I've not tried this board before.
There are no sales that I know of currently but if you are looking for a development board to run Android or Linux on I highly recommend the Orange Pi Plus 2. Very powerful hardware and tons of features for the size/class. Should be able to get one for around $50. Some highlights are: 2 GB of RAM, Arm 7 quad core, 16GB built in emmc flash, built in WiFi, HDMI, Ethernet, USB 2.0, Sata 2.0, IR receiver, Mic, etc. Website [http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiplus2/](here).
This has to be a mistake, the Orange Pi is stated as a dual core processor, while the Orange Pi Plus has the linked stats, but at a way higher price point.
Edit: added some more info
The SBC I used could be substituted for an Orange PI 4G or picked from 1000's of other android boards on the market (with out 4G support). Boards with 4G capabilities that are targeted at the maker scene are just starting to come out.
The process for using any android board would be pretty similar to the build I posted.
Not sure where the second kickstarter comes from though.
Edit: thanks for the recommendation
I think an Orange Pi would be a better choice for a server, since it has gigabit ethernet and SATA.
How long have you used it? I've tried using a RPi as a file server a couple of times, but it ends up crashed and won't boot after a couple of months, probably because it ate the SD-card. I got tired of having to rebuild the system and gave up, I think I'll probably give the orange Pi a try soon. Plus, reading from a hard drive connected over USB is less than 5 MB/s over the network, which is not great.
I don't like it because it dumbs down all the technical details... seems like a cash grab. He's milking naive people, building hype, profiting off open source stuff. For all I know this is some fake company a dude made up to sound legit. Never heard of Doyodo. Plus the robot voice is ugly. and why the hell are they using Sega Genesis as the case???? no thanks.
I see armbian and emulationstation already in those screenshots and videos - there's even a chance it uses RetroPi or RetroArch. Vectrex? Who the fuck plays Vectrex? It exists as a libretro core though, kind of showing a correlation there. It seems very dishonest. He says it's not a Raspberry Pi, but the analogues are hard to miss. It may just be the more powerful Orange Pi. In the legal disclaimer he mentions it is a SingleBoard Computer, and that it uses Open Source Software and it will release the source code to get over the license issues.
It can be used as a full computer, the "Sigma Desktop" with no mention of Linux anywhere... btw, this thing has been funded $60,000.00 more than the goal, this fucker has dollar signs for eyes.
Also I guess he isn't marketing this past the campaign. Seems like a quick cash grab, build hype, do a funding campaign, and tell them they have to fund it NOW! because it won't be available later.
I don't normally protest these things, but I just want to say, I'll happily, proudly let this pass, and not give them any of my money.
Companies must love naive consumers that think a cable costs as much to make as a $7 computer with POE ethernet, WIFI, video, audio, USB, etc. The Chinese must be laughing hard at how clueless we are.
No. They're not going to modify it. If you want something like that you'll have to buy the compute module and make your own carrier.
There are several other boards that either use eMMC or have flash built into them. Look into purchasing something like an OrangePI Plus2E that has 16GB already on it, or any of the Odroid boards and their eMMC modules. While it's still flash based storage it gets you away from the slow and occasionally unreliable SD card. FriendlyElec also makes a few boards that have onboard storage like their NeoPlus2 board.
Q1: WHAT IS THE USER ACCOUNT/PASSWORD FOR ORANGE PI OS IMAGES? A1: For most os images the default login username is orangepi/root and the default password is orangepi.
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I respectfully suggest you try these solutions:
Get Ubuntu MATE from this link: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342&extra=&page=1
And follow my notes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OrangePI/comments/4e9cgx/notes_for_ubuntu_orange_pi_pc_and_orange_pi_one/
I ordered mine about a month ago and it came pretty fast. I paid $25 and got 2...
Aliexpress is notoriously slow. I order quite a bit and shipping is hit and miss. Some items come in a couple weeks and some take over a month. Also your USPS tracking number wont work until it gets to the US.
I've only just started using them. So far WiringPi doesn’t work and Gordan was pretty mad when I asked about the Orange Pi. He has no plan on porting it.
I can't get my USB WiFi dongles to work but haven’t put too much effort in.
I managed to get my Flightradar24 feeding and it's been working fine 24 hours in.
The OS install was a bit different from a NOOBs install. I installed Raspian from an image off the Orange Pi resources. I'll be installing Debian server in the next couple days.
So far I'm satisfied... I was expecting there to be a few problems. I usually don’t mess with clones but couldn’t resist on this one.
If I understand you correctly, you want to install an operating system on the Pi Compute Module 3+ Lite? Not possible at all with the Lite. It lacks storage. Compute Modules are meant to plugin into another device to function. Even with the eMMC storage on the regular version, there is no output input for things like video, audio, controller, etc. What you want is a kit to make a handheld console. Like the PiGrrl 2. That is one kit, there are dozens of others. Some are easier and some are harder. It depends on how much you want to do and learn, and how complicated you want your device.
As far as having a computer? Do you mean a desktop OS, alongside RetroPie? That is totally possible. It will be cumbersome to use on a device like a PiGrrl or Gameboy-esque device, but you can do it. Again, it depends on how you design the device. The RetroOrangePi operating system looks like it is meant to install on specific hardware, such as the OrangePi board, I assume.
What you need to do, first, before picking out parts and stuff, is decide what you want to make. You need to establish what kind of device you want to build and then find the right kit or parts for it. Is it a simpler device for just gaming? Or do you also want Kodi on it? A desktop OS like Linux or Windows alongside retro gaming? These are important questions to answer first, then you can find a kit or set of parts to make from.
Depends on how much effort you're willing to put in to make it work.
Option 1: Local storage
For this to work, you need a PCIe card that supports USB OTG. The only one that seems to be available is the USB3380EVB.
Pros: USB3, no network bandwidth limitations
Cons: Relatively expensive, hard to find
Option 2: Network-backed Storage
For this, you'll just want a cheap SBC with gigabit ethernet and USB OTG. The Orange Pi Zero Plus is a good example.
Pros: Cheap, easy to obtain
Cons: USB 2.0 (unless you can find one with USB 3.0), constrained by network bandwidth (they say it's gigabit, but good luck hitting those speeds consistently)
But How Do I Make It Work?
Use the Linux USB Gadget mass-storage driver and point it at your backing storage (either an entire disk/partition or a sparse file if you went the PCIe route, or probably an ISCSI target if you went the SBC route). When you plug in the Xbox it should just appear to be any old USB mass-storage device.
http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/
Honestly looks like a better choice than an RPi 3 for a cluster. POE simplifies cable management (vs needing micro USB and network), specs are decent, and it’s less than a third the price. Compared to an RPi Zero it should be loads faster.
If you know what you are doing you might want to try the new $15 Orange Pi PC. http://www.orangepi.org/orangepipc/ Small community (less support), but this little board packs a faster CPU as well as a mic and IR in addition to all the features of the RPi.
If you look at the official resource page: http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/ you can see only android and lubuntu are available.
Also looking into this board in details I found out in forum, images available are far from being usable: no hardware acceleration, sound issue and so on. The price is attractive but it does not seem usable at the moment.
It usually doesn't matter much, but it is traditional and often easier to route on a grid (and EDA tools will usually give you snap to grid style functions) which lends itself to 45 and 90 degree angles. If everything is at different angles it makes it harder to pack lots of traces together nicely in a small space. But nothing is stopping you from making a board like this one. Or if you go back to the days of hand drawn routing you get boards with truly chaotic layouts like this one. While you could still make a board like that today, you'd be fighting your CAD tool the whole time trying to get it to accept those curves.
Check out the Orange Pi One Plus: http://www.orangepi.org/OrangePiOneplus/
They have an image for Android 9.0 for it. Orange doesn't have the best support, but this is a $20 board and runs the latest Android, so it might be a good starting point with a low cost of entry.
The problem with old kit being used in low power applications is electricity consumption can almost justify moving to newer kit. It depends on the age and efficiency of the PSU.
If you can live with linux on ARM Orange PI R1 has dual NIC
UDOO have a N3160 based single NIC board
I checked and for 14c/ Kw/H each watt of power saving is ~$1 per year.
OrangePi Zero will also run Pi-Hole well... Kinda power greedy so needs 2A PSU at least. Its way cheaper than a RaspberryPi3 as well.
I run a RPi2, but its powered off my router, does Pi-Hole, Some Node-Red to open my garage door, and runs my home brew version of http://hushlabs.ca/shop-online/hush-box as well.
Ain't got that board but since you tried Armbian and it never worked out then maybe you wanna try OpenBSD for Arm64(Rockchip RK3399, Allwinner A64/H5, Raspberry Pi 3 and Opteron A1100)
https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
And try the OSes on Orange Pi site
OH totally. Pi3 isn't an allwinner H3, though. Orange Pi is Allwinner based and can handle 1080p30 if you're cooling it actively. In fact this looks like an Orange Pi to boot: The specs are remarkably similar to the Orange Pi lite.
No:
As I said before, I wouldn't get one of these, this guy agrees:
Someone else is distributing an Ubuntu-based image for it, go ask him:
Buy a proper Raspberry Pi 3, have a much better experience, and support a charity foundation while doing so.
Why would any1 buy this over Orange Pi Plus 2?
For 49$ you get:
1.6Ghz vs 1.2Ghz on Pi3
2GB ram vs 1GB on Pi3
1GB Ethernet on SEPARATE Chip vs 100MB shared with USB controller on Pi3 which is a huge bottleneck if you're running lots of IO intensive tasks like Torrent Box + DLNA Server. Basically Downloading a torrent and watching a movie from Pi2/Pi3 is impossible unless you want constant stuttering.
SATA2 for high speed transfers while on Pi2/Pi3 you're capped at ~33MB/s read/write even with the fastest USB drive you can find. ( Pi2/3 doesn't support USB 3.0 )
Mali-400 MP2 @ 600Mhz vs 400MHz VideoCore I on Pi3
For the diffrences: Pi3 has Bluetooth while OrangePi has IR receiver.
Give jacer's Debian 8 a try: forum link
3rd post down is link to the image on Mega. I used Win32DiskImager to write the image to sd. Download the "Script.bin...for OPI-PC...zip" file from Mega as well. Copy "script.bin" and "uImage" from that folder to the "BOOT" partition, replacing both current files.
I haven't tried to do GPIO yet but according to the specs:
> 40 Pins Header,compatible with Raspberry Pi B+
And it looks to me like the RP B+, A+ and 2 all have the same GPIO scheme.
Try this image: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=662&extra=page%3D1
I had nothing but trouble trying to create my own image so I was glad to see DietPi which works perfectly fine.
If you want a truly working and updated image to use, grab one of loboris' image from the forum. He maintains a few distros and actively supports them. http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342&extra=&page=1
According to their own site, it does Android 4.4, not 5.
http://www.orangepi.org/orangepimini2/
The downloads for it seem to indicate that it runs some form of Raspian, Lubuntu, and Debian server along with Android KitKat.
Glad you mentioned that, I see after googling you're not the only person to have that problem... Seems like the dev is unable to do it according to this forum post.
The question is - what you really need from a system which runs klipper?
Basically an equivalent of ~20-25 year old x86 CPU + 256-512MB of ram + ability to run modern linux. You can use any old PC, laptop, whatever you have. Or you can buy any SBC like orange pi, nano pi, etc. Can take a look at major distros targeting such systems like armbian to see what's supported and what is not. You do not need anything special from this SBC, as long as it runs linux it is fine. Most trouble on random obscure SBC-s usually comes from hardware support (like GPU drivers etc) but you do not need that for klipper.
Practically - i have 2 different printers with klipper, one has nanopi neo, another - nanopi neo2. Did not have any issues with either of them. I know a person who uses orange pi zero with the same result.
System ip updated. I've downloaded firmware from here http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/orangepiR1Plus/2020-12-22/orangepiR1357b4fd6e8b12f7bc81d7e40e7.html
This is excellent. My one complaint is that the referenced PhoenixCard link at the bottom of http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/ is expired, by 7 years.
The "Office Tools" under the Orange Pi Zero2 heading does link to a download for the latest version, but it's not clear that that's where to look. I'm guessing "Office Tools" should instead read "Official Tools" as the current title suggests, to me anyway, spreadsheet and word processing software.
Android was tricky to install - You have to first format the card (for some reason That pheonix card program throws a problem if the card has anything on it while it tries to format I t), then install the newest version of Pheonix card (4.2.5) from their site (it’s under Office Tools). Follow their instructions (http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/SDcardinstallation.html#Install_Android_OS_image) while etching the card very carefully - you gotta check the same boxes they check in that pdf and such, or OPi02 will just ignore the card.
http://www.orangepi.org/Orange%20Pi%20Zero2/
http://www.orangepi.org/OrangePiZeroPlus2/
They're different boards using different SoCs, RAM and port layouts. I haven't looked at mainline linux support for new allwinner chips recently but the last time I did the H3 and H5 have the most compete support.
Personally I'm a huge fan of the "orange pi zero plus 2 H5" version but I'm not sure if they're even making it anymore. It looks like they've largely started selling H6 and H616 boards instead of H5. Pay close attention to the ports on the different boards, some of their models don't include HDMI (like the H3 "orange pi zero plus") so double check everything before you order.
fake edit: it looks like there's an armbian testing image for the zero2 H616 board so there's probably decent support for the hardware. I'd probably go with that one, it has the newest and best performing SoC of the bunch. Double check with either the armbian forums or whoever makes the emulator you want to run and verify that the H616 board will actually work.
Raspberry P400 has dual video, gpio and is stable overclocked to 2.2/2.3GHz
Otherwise you could enter the OrangePi rabbit hole: OrangePi
Aside from their prebuilt Ubuntu, Debian, or Android 10 (32-bit) options?
http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/
I'm hoping for a 64-bit Android and possibly RetrorangePi. I picked up the 1GB model and wrote the Android image, but haven't tinkered yet.
Mostly in price, though there's a variety of models with different specs. This awesome little guy is around 15USD plus shipping, depending on where you get it from. Armbian (formerly Raspbian) runs happily on them, you just need to make sure you get the right OS version based on which chipset you get.
That said, the Zero LTS I linked is what I'll absolutely buy again when I can find an excuse. The Orange Pi Lite, which is the other one I have, runs freakishly hot, to the point where I would not leave it on unattended (this is an issue others have reported as well, and is apparently just how the hardware is).
I am having the same dilemma. Official description says:
>Support RTC, on-board battery backup interface
Did not found schematics, but looking at picture the is "BAT" connector in the lower right (right at the 5V DCIN connector) which may be pads for RTC battery but if they are, they need soldering. Orange Pi 4B (version with NPU and less USB3 ports) doesn't have pads there, but are (maybe) close to the USB connectors.
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Currently I am using Orange Pi Zero which doesn't have RTC and it is suboptimal. Almost bough Orange Pi 4, but... but... questionable RTC and 2 lane PCIe.
Well, another way to go would be PoE (Power Over Ethernet) And then e.g. the Orange Pi Zero How to is right here and more here
That will save you a LOT of cables as well as no USB-networkstuff.
yes, even i turned off the hardware flow control as in here http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/LogintotheOrangePi.html#Using_TTL_serial_port
Both boards have H2+ main chip and XR819 wifi chip and there are no words on wifi fixes from xunlong.
Fun fact: the official page for the new LTS board http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizerolts/ shows a picture of board v1.4 which is at least 2 years old (as per https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4313-new-opi-zero-yet-another-high-temperature-issue/)
Btw > This was my first Orange Pi and it didn't disapoint me at all, I'm thinking of buying one of its big brother (Orange Pi 3)
> I tested both boards and I didn't have temperature problems and wifi breaks with the new board. The old board freezes a lot because of temperature and the wifi is too slow. The new board works better.
How the hell is it your first opi but you already had an older one to compare against?
Btw don't buy opi3 yet. It has broken pcie. Look at opipc2 instead: 1g ram, a53 cores, 2mb spi flash, gigabit ethernet chip.
Comme pour la plupart des SBC, il faut une distrib Linux ciblée. Ils en proposent sur leur site officiel, sinon tu peux utiliser Armbian
It was a solution given by Xunlong a few years back to exactly the same issue. It wasn't an ssh issue.
http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=224&extra=&page=1
I wonder how this would fare on my OrangePi PC Plus, I get it, it's a knockoff, but it was a gift.
Specs wise it seems capable when compared to the RaspberryPi 3 B+.
H3 @ 1.6GHZ(stock) versus H4 @ 1.6GHZ(OC to 1.55GHZ)
1GB DDR3 ram versus 1GB DDR2
I can roll my own minimal install of Linux so no worries there. I don't know how much of a difference H3 versus H4 makes though.
Yeah. OrangePI seems to have the most options: Go through their various "models". Their software support is somewhat shoddy but you can't beat the price and since the hardware is fully open source you can manufacture.
See this one for example: http://www.orangepi.org/OrangePii96/
It's a little underpowered but it has wifi and a camera module slot.
I only know of two SBC that come with a modem and android support.
The KitePhone (currently trying to get kickstartered)
Orange Pi 4G-IOT. this is unfortunately slower the V1 of the kitephone and doesnt support any MIPI screens.
The kite is really the only SBC I've seen that allows you to do something like this. All the 96 boards that support the newer processes aren't designed for portable devices, they are designed as a test bed for android development. They don't even come with a modem.
If anyone knows of another SBC that can do this, I'd love to know, but the kite is the first I've seen that is complete kit and fast enough to function like a phone.
V2 is based on the new SD 450. Its actually a pretty decent chip. octa-core and an adreno 506.
btw, an alternative could also be using http://www.orangepi.org/OrangePiR1/ if you don't care too much about performance. you could use wifi for the internet access and connect both ports to the device (LAN + WAN).
FusionPBX is light enough as to easily fit onto a $25 OrangePi PC if you want to do an on site PBX. Thing is, for a few dozen users or less, its better just to host the PBX off site and save the hardware cost and centralized updates and maintenance.
This isn't anything close to the Aria project, this is closer to a hacker board with android and 4G support and some I/O. There are lower speced boards on the market already like the Orange PI 4G That run android and could be turned into a phone with a few more components.
Okay guys, thank you everyone for helping. It seems like PhoenixCard does not burn a valid image. I followed the instructions in the Docs (http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/SDcardinstallation.html) to create an Ubuntu Image instead of Android, plugged it in and it worked!
Seems like I'll have to find another way to create an Android Image or use Ubuntu :-)
The 40 pin header on the PC Plus mirrors what is on the regular Raspberry Pi, so I don't think there is audio or video there. The audio and video is just available via regular jacks.
Sounds like the Orange Pi Zero would be a better fit for you, as it doesn't bother with output jacks and instead just provides a separate row with 13 pins for video, audio and USB. A shield with jacks is also available to snap into that row.
Honestly the Orange Pi is quite an awesome Media Center because of the Hardware encoding.
You can give OpenELEC (basically a Kodi Distribution) a shot: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=648
Then you just have to install the PlexKodiConnect Plugin and with the correct skin (https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/218748/plexkodiconnect-whats-your-favorite-skin) you basically have rasplex with hardware encoding.
Apparently OpenELEC has LCD support, though you might have to compile it yourself to get i2c working.
I skimmed through this thread and it seemed like somebody is trying the same thing so maybe it'll help.
The cheapest with sata support is this : https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/NEW-orange-pi-plus-Allwinner-A31s-Dual-Core-1GB-RAM-Open-source-development-board/1553371_32248189300.html
Thank you for your hard work!
Meh, I boot live Linux distros from my phone all the time. Since I re-spin Arch into a live distro I can keep everything updated and the way I like it.
And why the hell would anyone want a "dumb" dock that can't exist without another computer, when you can get real PC for 40$? (That will be as powerful or more powerful than your phone)
I got the GPIO pins working on my OPi One.
These are helpful:
http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/09/26/status-of-orange-pi-boards-gpio-support/
http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/WiringPi.html
The key here being 'modprobe gpio-sunxi' to enable the gpio module and then you can use the gpio pins like a file system.
Much of the time, the support you find about the raspberry pi is more or less applicable to the Orange Pi as well, though it might take some tweaking.
There's a decent RetroArch build on the Orange Pi One that runs Armbian called RetrOrange Pi but real retropie on a Raspberry will generally run better. Armbian is a pretty great OS, but the graphic acceleration problem isn't quite cracked yet.
for your use I would recommend a raspberry Pi and or its rip offs for your use as long as your not storing data on it and streaming movies because most pentium 4 desktops have no parts you can move over other then the psu(no don't do it if its a prebuilt), the Cmos battery, Case(not always) and sometimes a SATA hdd(but most used IDE) that is if its not a late Pentium 4 desktop that used a later socket and moved onto newer tech.
Not as good as the c.h.i.p. and horrible compared to the Raspberry Pi. For example, peek at the downloads page: http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/ - no image for this board. One of the other images should boot, but that's not clear to new users.
Which OS distros did you download? I downloaded the official images from orangepi.org and they gave me nothing but grief. Only one of the USB ports ever worked.
Loboris' images from the forum have worked swell for me. Just don't forget to write the proper uImage and script.bin to the boot partition.
Yes, but for a Pi with a gig port, faster cpu, eSATA (you're not sticking with USB 2 drives are you?). you're not going to keep that $35 price with these more expensive parts.
you might want to check out the orange pi http://www.orangepi.org/ i've a few of these, work pretty well.
I think that's as close as you're going to get with the current generation of micro PCs unless OP wants to mod the Nvidia Shield.
Did you look at the Orange Pi 2 Plus? http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiplus2/ -Quad core ARM H3 CPU @ 1.6 -2GB DDR3 RAM -On-board WiFi -8GB On-board memory for OS storage -On-board IR receiver -SATA port
Check out the orangepi PC, its only 19 dollars shipped. I bought 2 from here, shipping takes a while but its all good.
I'm going to throw a completely different suggestion out there. I recently bought one of these http://www.orangepi.org/orangepipc/ . It's like the Raspberry PI but cheaper. I paid $25 for the PC, case & power supply delivered.
You can then install different android images from different android boxes to see which one suits you best, The good thing is people often remove all the bloatware when they post an image online. I have a few different micro sd cards so I can easily swap between different android images.
Directly from loboris' mega page:
https://mega.nz/#F!wh8l2BjK!OBep3nMldBletvNNwkH2Jg Which you can find in his thread here:
http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342
I dealt with mega instead of using Google drive as I heard the Google drive versions had some issues.
These two:
ArchLinux_Minimal.img.xz scriptbin_kernel.tar.gz
I can upload my two exact downloads, if you'd like, but there is no difference. After extracting both, I used dd from my desktop Arch install to write the image to disk, and then after untaring the scriptbin_kernel package I renamed the correct uImage file and script.bin file and copied them to the boot partition of the sdcard.
You need the loboris Ubuntu trusty (14.04) version. There is an issue with uploading wireless firmware in subsequent versions. Read the last 10 pages in this monster discussion http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342
Awesome I'll give it try tonight after work. I was using images and scripts from here. Following the instructions from here.
It says to use the PI-2 uImage for PC, should I use the Pi-PLUS instead? Also I do this all through cmd line on Arch Linux so I know I'm copying the script and uImage properly.
I'll update after trying later this evening. Thanks!
My OPPC was shipped right at the end of the processing time and took around two weeks to arrive. My experience with the OPPC so far has been frustrating, but it has made me appreciate the value of the RPi community even more. The RPi has such a helpful community, but with the Orange Pi you're basically on your own.
The downloadable OS images on their site didn't fully work. The PC would boot, but ethernet was sketchy and only one USB port (out of 3) worked. I would've thrown it in a drawer if not for Loboris on the OrangepiForum. Thanks to his kernel updates, all the ports were enabled and my cheap RT5370 USB wi-fi dongle worked out of the box with Debian 8. The OrangePi would be nothing if not for that guy.
Sure it is the exact same page where you have the links to the download: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342
Scroll down, down, down... http://imgur.com/zOLf4wm
Hope it works for you too. Only problem with this distribution is that I can't install libre office due to conflicting dependencies. If you could help me there :-D
Let me know if you get it working! I'd love to have an arch distro for these boards. Here's a lively forum discussing images for the more recent orangepi boards. Something might make sense there. He also includes source files and whatnot, which may be useful. I'm not sure how different arch from a debian distro.
If you try the Raspbian image you'll see that the network is running. Given the fact that you have the same problems gives hope it is software related. If I find a solution in regards to the USB I'll report back.
edit: seems the trick is to read I created a new sd with the ubuntu image and meticulously followed all the steps. But i ignored the steps under "If you are using an older image". As it seems after publishing these images online there was an update of the kernel. So even if you just downloaded the images, you are using an image that falls under the category "older image". To upgrade download scriptbin_kernel.tar.gz from Mega, unpack and copy uImage_OPI-2 to uImage on SD Card FAT partition. Copy one of the script.bin.OPI-XXXX (depending on your board type and desired monitor resolution) to script.bin on SD Card FAT partition. This fixed all my problems
It all is documented on http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342 but it is easy to overlook the last step... as said, you have to read it all.
This is actually what i believe too, they state the model in the shop as the "Orange Pi" though, which is clearly the weaker one, so they could always claim that they gave you the correct model number, just not the right specs. Let's see where this leads, if this is a mistake you are going to make a hell of a deal.
EDIT: even all pictures show the "Orange Pi", not the "Orange Pi Plus", so i think that they are going to send out the regular Orange Pi, this looks like a bad copy paste job of the item stats, but i doubt that they pick out the item due to the stats, they are just going to get an order for a Orange Pi. You could go for it and blame them later on, but they are sending from china, so i don't think it's worth the effort to complain.
EDIT2: i was wrong, this is actually the product sold there : http://www.orangepi.org/orangepipc/
You're onto something. The $15 AliExpress page though does have the higher specs. Maybe it's a mistake on their end and this is a steal?
Worth the $18 to find out, I'm going in.
Edit: Actually, maybe the article is kind of misleading by not including the 2 in every instance the name is written. Whatever the case someone's wrong.