Hello, my name is Gary and i'm addicted to technology. I've been developing a handheld device to review video, score points and submit scoresheets. The last couple of months i've been hacking on the raspberry pis with good success. Until I made a 50 item order from adafruit to make a few units, let's just say customer service isn't great at adafruit. After I ordered, I noticed a few items stayed in my cart and weren't added to the shipment. Bringing this up to the adafruit support prompted them to turn package around mid-transit back to the warehouse, cancel my order, and told me to find a new supplier. So here i am.

Here is the current project i'm working on, I'm looking into redesigning these cases for the Pine H64 vB to serve the same purpose.
https://imgur.com/gallery/94BSP7J
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3711469

The current software side consists of GUIslice as the touchscreen interface, with omxplayer sending video to the hdmi screen. I've been using the videocore layering abilities to overlay dynamically generated png images over the video as well. The buttons are configured for scoring points and busts during video replay, additionally for touchscreen interface navigation when not playing video.

I'm not sure what comparable touchscreen I should look into, as I can modify this design to fit just about anything., the 3.5" screen size seems to be a good overall size for this device. I have lots to learn in the pine64 community and will be updating this thread as my project progresses.

Appreciate any advice and constructive criticism from the community. Thanks!

I was wondering, who do I need to talk with about potentially getting a review unit for the Pinebook Pro (and/or PineTab and PinePhone ) to review on TuxDigital and This Week in Linux podcast? 

For reference: https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/114...6205654016

New stable release from ayufan for the ROCK64, the ROCKPro64 and Pinebook Pro. Many new fixes and improvements for all OS images. 

Ayufan's Notes on Variants (please read carefully).

Quote:1. Desktop Use armhf variant with Ubuntu Mate as one that offers the best compatibility and performance.
Ubuntu Mate is not available for Rock64 as it is simply too slow.
To improve YouTube video playback in Chromium install h264ify plugin.
Credentials: rock64/rock64
2. Bionic / Container Linux
It has Docker Community Edition / Docker Compose / Kubernetes-admin installed for easy Containers use.
Credentials: rock64/rock64
3. OpenMediaVault
Use armhf variant as one that offers the best compatibility.
Credentials: admin/openmediavault (for Web), root/openmediavault (for Console).
To enable SSH for OMV go to Web > SSH > Permit Root Login > Save > Apply

New stable release from ayufan for the ROCK64, the ROCKPro64 and Pinebook Pro. Many new fixes and improvements for all OS images. 

Ayufan's Notes on Variants (please read carefully).

Quote:1. Desktop Use armhf variant with Ubuntu Mate as one that offers the best compatibility and performance.


Ubuntu Mate is not available for Rock64 as it is simply too slow.
To improve YouTube video playback in Chromium install h264ify plugin.
Credentials: rock64/rock64
2. Bionic / Container Linux
It has Docker Community Edition / Docker Compose / Kubernetes-admin installed for easy Containers use.
Credentials: rock64/rock64
3. OpenMediaVault
Use armhf variant as one that offers the best compatibility.
Credentials: admin/openmediavault (for Web), root/openmediavault (for Console).
To enable SSH for OMV go to Web > SSH > Permit Root Login > Save > Apply

So I've seen that some people have the V3, and I particularly desire one (or a couple) based on the RTC battery.  How does a person specifically order a Rock64 V3, and not get old V2 stock?  Thanks.

Hi :-)

I've been waiting for the latest official kernel additions concerning the rockchip's graphic support.
lima is now a part of the kernel and mesa.

Sadly, I'm not able to test any of that using the latest Arch Linux for Arm release because there is simply no output via HDMI.

There's a framebuffer in /dev but I haven't found a way to make use of it.
I can understand there's no console output, so i installed xorg-server and the fbdev support.

Still no image :-(

What am I missing?

kind regards

Apologies if this has been covered before, I didn't find anything in a search..

Privacy-oriented people/groups (including EFF) have written about how Intel's Management Engine is a potential privacy/security risk. It's closed-source, runs close to the hardware, basically has access to everything on the computer. It's a prize target for hackers, and speculation has it that there might be backdoors for government agencies. AMD has a similar system, "AMD Secure Technology". 

I can't see that ARM chips contain anything similar. So, in theory, maybe ARM-based systems have a small privacy/security advantage?

(Yes, I realize that my privacy is probably far more at risk from anything I do online, regardless of hardware or operating system. But still, I'd be curious to know!)

I say hi to the community and want to start directly with the issues I have and could not solve myself.

If I try 0.8.3 bionic mate armhf from the newest as stable declared release from the ayufan repo the board will not boot.
The image was flashed with the newest etcher version on an 64GB emmc module.
If I install the version that's linked from the pine64 webpage (0.7.9 aarch) and manually upgrade to 0.8.3 (I know it's an aarch install instead of an armhf then) the board will boot, but both indication LEDs are on. (The white that's usually on and the red in addition)
Surprisingly video playback runs as smooth as never seen before on this board, YouTube runs, Twitch streams do not crash the whole browser but run also smooth but the sound sounds like some old cassettes that was played very often. (Sound through HDMI)

Usage of the PCIe Card with the SATA Ports directly from Pine64 doesn't work, the board won't even boot with it installed in the slot.
This PCIe problem is know for me since month and I hoped it will be fixed now.

I'm now at that point, to ask for any help. Board revision is 2.1 with 4GB now overclocking or some crude experiments in the past.
All what I what is: one 2TB NAS HDD, YouTube, Netflix and Twitch playback, plus some low resource intensive task like pihole, unifi controller and so on.
In previous versions (I think it was 0.6.9 the whole time because of many little issues) I was never able to get Twitchstreams or the PCIe Card to run properly.
Even a Minecraftserver was running on this board with amazing power, so I would really like it to see the Bugs fixed since everything else runs so great on this power full board, it's even faster as my old Computer.

I'm sorry for some bad English in this wall of text, it not my native language.
I hope for any help and will try everything that's maybe helpful. If some information is missing, pleas let me know and I will response as soon as possible.

Regard
TheSupercomputer

Even though we've sold close to 1000 ROCKPro64 units, we've only had 2 people review it on ameriDroid.com, and one of them gave it a 1-star review. We'd love it if you could give your honest review of the ROCKPro64 at https://ameridroid.com/products/rockpro64 to help improve the rating and give potential customers a reliable measure of the value of the SBC.

Thanks in advance!

-Bo
ameriDroid.com

Hi,

Has anybody successfully got the RockPro64 work as USB device towards the host PC? We've followed couple of instructions how to enable USB ECM gadget but so far no luck, device is not recognized by the PC.

The dts is changed to force the usb0 as peripheral