A little bit of community chat maintenance. With all the new gear coming this year - and with brand new categories of gear being introduced  - the IRC and Discord have been updated to reflect this and to accommodate the growing line of PINE64 devices. The current list of channels attempts to strike a balance between granularity (I don't really want to have one channel per device) and having everything discussed in one or two channels as it was until now. We'll see how it plays out.

The IRC and Discord chats have now all been bridged, and IRC logging has been updated to include the new channels.

We currently have the following channels:

• #pine64
  
• #rock64
  
• #pinebook
  
• #pinephone
  
• #cube
  
• #offtopic
  

• #pine64 is where you connect to by default in IRC, and the channel is concerned with discussion on Pine A64 (+)/ LTS, SOPine, Clusterboard and Pine H64  
  
• #rock64 is concerned with discussion on Rock64 and RockPro64
  
• #pinebook concerns the Pinebook, Pinebook Pro and PineTab
  
• #pinephone is solely meant for the PinePhone Dev / end-user product
  
• #cube is for discussing CUBE IP-Camera  
  
• #offtopic is an unloggedchannel for off topic conversation
  

I am not sure if I should go to the DietPi forum, or if my issue is not specific about DietPi and I am in the right place. Anyway...

My setup consists of a Rock64 4G board connected to a WDLabs Pi drive. I have replaced the HDD cable delivered by (the now defunct) WDLabs with another interfaced with USB3. The WDLabs Pi drive has no SATA connector, see here. I have verified that the USB driver used for the disk is not UAS, in fact the HDD drive is using the usb-storage driver:

Hi Just trying to keep my board updated with the Ubuntu releases, Im seeing a package in apt that I cant seem to upgrade:

> The following packages have been kept back:
>  libgl1-mesa-dri
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

I tried apt-get --with-new-pkgs and after that failed also dist-upgrade, but the package still isnt installed...?

What is the weight in grams of the rp64 ? (With and without the heatsink)
I tried searching for it in various websites but found no info about it..

Hello.
Where can i find examples/libs how to use gpio header from c/c++/java in armbian ?

Just wanted to make a quick post and say hello. I just got my Rock64 and have flashed the Android images. Sad to say Im dissapointed its all android TV and not a normal Android interface. Have had to sideload several apps that play store says I can't have.  I bought this as a replacement for my rk3188 tv stick running KK.  Funny story about that stick. It had a broadcom wifi chip with an external antenna I broke off and couldnt get a signal and my soldering skills suck So...  similar hardware had the Realtek rtl8188eu chip. I just flashed it with a dif image that used the realtek and bought a usb dongle that was rtl8188eu (etv) and it worked very well. Glad I could pull that little wifi gem out and keep it in use with my new board!!!! Not super proficient in Linux but have been a regular Ubuntu user for 10 years and Am up for any testing.

Hello..
I was just wondering which case, if any would allow the 20mm heatsink and fan to be used.

I'm planning on running an Emby server and would like to ensure there's adequate cooling.

Thank you..

Does anyone know the charge current of the PB? Is this set it SW or HW and has anyone tried to change it? I don't want to stress the battery beyond it's max C rating but it would be cool to get a higher charge current.

Hi everybody,

I have a Rock64 board which had been lying around for a while, but I now seriously want to deploy as a NAS/Media server replacement for my ageing Synology DS414. Therefore my entry on the forums here

My goal is to run OpenMediaVault as NAS solution. On top of that run Plex Media Server and possibly a few docker containers. I've been testing several images to see which works best for me:
- ayufan's OMV image, with Plex as plugin (or docker)
- Armbian Stretch with Plex installed via Softy
- for testing purposes: another x86 machine with own OMV installation and Plex in docker, but that's beyond the scope of this forum



OMV works perfectly on the NAS with ayufan's build, but the issue is with Plex video transcoding, Obviously the ARM CPU isn't suitable for that but I understood that the Rockchip RK3328 should have hardware encoding/decoding/transcoding capabilities. Plex supports it on Ubuntu, but OMV requires Debian. Since one is based on the other I'm hoping that can be made working.

But before I spend an inordinate amount tyring to get this working (and I'm not a sysadmin): has anybody got hardware accelerated video to work already on Rock64/Linux? I've searched the forum but couldn't find a recent answer to this.

If it works, some pointers how this is done would be MUCH appreciated. If doesn't work, that answer is also helpful because it would save me a lot of time. Thanks in advance!

Team,

I'm not new to PS's laptops or FOSS.

The idea of the Pinebook is awesome, the Pinebook Pro could be a game changer for many folks.

I have had my Pine book for more than a few weeks, but scheduling, holidays and life started to crowd out some other projects so I "queued it up" and have reached the point where I want to start writing on it.

Unfortunately I spend my daily hours in a hospital with stooped amounts of WIFI security, so far I cant get the Pinebook on the guest network, which Im ok with.

After all that's why God created USB memory keys right?

Sneaker-net!

Imagine my surprise when The USB key wouldn't go in less than 1/8 of an inch. Unsurprisingly the PB wont read it.

Tried 3 different keys, same thing. This started on the RIGHT port, because of AC, but one of them is pretty slim, so I moved it left.

same issue.

2 sandisk 32GB Duo's (USB(a) on one end Micro USB on th other) and a Sandisk Cruzer Glide 16GB

nothing really notable abouyt any of them

any ideas?

Im sure I haven't pushed them in as hard as I coiuld but just didn't think much more force should be needed.

Thanks
j