Hi. I got tired of this insane 1500000 baud/s speed, Rockchip made default for UART. I can't use UART for debug/trace normally - no utilities work with this. minicom corrupts output, screen doesn't configure at all. I can't attach the board directly to my machine, because the adapter I can use with it, doesn't work with such speed, I need to attach it through a pine64 board, and there, the mentioned utilities get their pants dirty with this speed too... I was told how to make uboot run on 115200 baud/s. this is by setting the environment variable baudrate (and storing it for the permanent effect, I checked it, rock64 works fine with this speed, let's hope saveenv will work too), but what do I need to do for linux to make it use 115200 baud/s permanently? Does anybody know? I think, this might be useful not only for me, because this poor choice of the speed gives a lot of troubles for others too. many USB-UART adapters don't support it. Just don't tell, I need to compile the kernel! I hope it involves some dancing with DT? I am not a linux guy.
And yet, why not switch to this normal speed for builds? Literally everything works just fine with 115200 baud/s. This would eliminate so much of frustration.

Will this https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro6...wer-supply
deliver sufficient power to run the board with a NVMe drive attached to this https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro6...rface-card plugged into the board?

Howdy,

I run a few rock64 with these cables https://www.pine64.org/?product=1-meter-...ower-cable
Does the H 3.5mm OD/1.35mm ID barrel also fit a ROCKPro64 board power connector?

Cheers.

Hi everyone,

I'm using Pine64 LTS for a project. According to AXP803 datasheet  Page37 & 38, the charge LED indicator can be set to Mode A or Mode B. Does anyone know how to change this setting via sysfs, or other interface(I2c, Uart) ?


pine@pine64so:/sys/class/power_supply$ ls
axp20x-battery  axp813-ac
pine@pine64so:/sys/class/power_supply$ cd axp813-ac
pine@pine64so:/sys/class/power_supply/axp813-ac$ ls
device  health  input_current_limit  online  power  present  subsystem  type  uevent  voltage_min
pine@pine64so:/sys/class/power_supply/axp813-ac$ cat uevent
POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=axp813-ac
POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH=Good
POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1
POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE=1
POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN=4000000
POWER_SUPPLY_INPUT_CURRENT_LIMIT=1500000


Thanks,
JTX

Hi all.
I've just finished my review video about the Pine H64 model B.
I compare it with the Orange Pi 3, and with the Rock64.

I like the board a lot. It's very well designed, and is sold for a great price.
It does still need a lot of work to make the software better. Luckily there's the Sunxi community who's supporting the H6 with a lot of great open-source software.
This might become a very well supported SoC.

Here's my video.

Greetings,
NicoD

Comparing the two product pages:

• Pine A64+ and
  
• Pine A64-LTS
  

• the eMMC slot on the A64-LTS and
  
• the configurable RAM options [i.e., 512 MB/1GB/2GB] and the corresponding Ethernet options [i.e., 10/100 or 10/100/1000] on the A64+
  

I'm looking at the Pine64 site and wondering: Does the Pinebook A64 use an A64 mainboard? (The Pine64 site seems remarkably light on technical details!)

Hi,

this is my first post :-)

I have a project where I will be mounting the Pine64-LTS board in a DIN enclosure. So far I have ordered a few samples from Italtronic: https://eng.italtronic.com/products/modu...ox_xts_en/

Currently I have worked out the standoffs needed, power/reset buttons, and connector couplers for HDMI/RJ45 connections.

What I need to figure out now is a TTL to RS232c adapter that will work.

At present my thought is to use this: https://www.waveshare.com/product/module...m?___SID=U

and attach it to to the main TTL output for serial console access similar to many types of network equipment.

Does any one have any experience with this, as in will work or are there alternatives that would be better?

My current idea is to attach them using single jumper leads, however, I would need to distribute the +5v power supply to the DB9 serial board additionally.




Also I would like to find out what the best way to power the Pine board would be? My current idea is to use a Type H power barrel to bare wire connector but there aren't any available in the Pine store. I have had a look at the barrels individually and am a little confused as to which internal diameter would be needed? For 3.40mm OD I have found connectors with 1.34mm and 1.35mm ID.


Last question quickly, has anyone used the CrystalFontz line of LCD/OLED displays with the Pine64? The reason I mention this is that I would like to use one coupled to LCDProc and since CF displays work really well with it, it would be a great idea to mount one on the front panel of the enclosure.


Many thanks for any suggestions, ideas, recommendations :-)

Hello,

Recently, I thought that I would really like to setup a personal NAS. However, I also thought that it will be a way more interesting to create a storage by myself. Here are a few reasons. Firstly, prices of pre-determined solutions (e.g. Synology) are probably too high for my needs. Secondly, I have a background in IT, so I consider this as an interesting experience with electronics and SBC. What's more, I have two unused drives that will probably meet my space needs.

I really need something with a USB 3.0 interface because I want fast communication via local and global network. My first thought - Raspberry PI. However, I was very disappointed, when I read that Raspberry does not have USB 3.0. What a shame!   So I've started looking for SBC, which is both inexpensive and has at least one USB 3.0.
I found Pine64. I've read a lot, but I have some questions that may turn out to be crucial during choosing SBC or a cheap NAS device. I decided that it would be much easier to show what I want to create with the help of a chart, so I put one below.



SOFTWARE: 

1. Can all of the above functionalities be achieved using OMV? 
   
2. Does OMV work well with a Pine64? Should I rather think about a stronger version that has 4GB or more USB 3.0 ports? 
   
3. Is OMV enough for my needs, or do I need something like FreeNAS? I've read about FreeNAS, but I'm terrified that NAS software may require as much as 8 GB of RAM! 
   

1. Ideally, it will be possible to purchase several IP cameras (no more than five) in the future and have a live-preview via OMV. What's more, I would like to achieve the recording functionality from the selected camera to the given folder. Perhaps this is trivial, but I imagine a situation when I am not at home and I want to set the recording for the next few hours or simply enable it when I forget about it (via Android Phone). 
   
2. I also saw the equivalent of OMV application, but for Android. It was probably OMV Remote Free. Does it contain all functionalities (or at least the most important ones) that OMV offers in Web Panel?
   
3. I have an old, unnecessary tablet. I wonder if there is a possibility to use it in any way in connection with the NAS? I was thinking about a simple frame that will show disk resources, temperature etc. If not that, then maybe someone has an idea for something more interesting?
   

1. The main bottleneck here is HUB. As I mentioned, it should be rather a NAS, which is very cheap and is based on elements that have been left from previous computers. Will there be any problems to use the USB 3.0 HUB to expand the number of USB ports and connect more hard drives? 
   I would like to add that the two main disks will use the SATA / IDE Adapter - USB 3.0 with external power supply (at least one of them will have external power supply). If all of them will be using USB power (or even more in the future), could there be a problem? Can the bandwidth be reduced?
2. I would like to keep the Multimedia (Movies, TV Series) on the external disk, but in such a way that after unplugging and attaching again, there will be no errors and PLEX will guess that it should use the right files automatically.
   

1. On YouTube, I saw that PS3 can be connected to a PLEX, but from what I remember from a few years ago, while playing multimedia from USB there were still problems with subtitles (TXT, SRT). Do I have to take care of the video format and subtitles using PLEX?
   
2. Dropbox Connection - absolutely necessary function. I have a folder with photos - about 50GB. Priceless. I can imagine situations that someone steals my computer - that's why I have NAS and backup at home. I can also imagine the situation that there is a fire (or whatever) and I also lose the NAS. I would like data from several folders (Photos, Private Files) to be sent to my Dropbox account (1 TB) immediately. Is it possible? In the simplest terms, I want to implement a few simple schemes, e.g. 
   

• Upload New Photos -> Send Them to the NAS -> NAS Sends Data to Dropbox
  
• Take a Photo using Phone (not necessarily being connected to my own network) -> Send Photo to the NAS -> NAS Sends Photo to Dropbox
  

• Of course, I'm talking here about really necessary data, not about FULL HD movies 

Board used rock64 OS Bionic minimal 0.7.11.Issue :Gpio script have been executing properly with sudo as per guidence in my project. But while using GPIO script, python modules has not been imported (Example numpy etc).this python module have been installed by pip command.Please help on this