When should we expect Pine64 LTS boards to be back in stock?

Is there any way I can use the Espressif's ESP32 Module as only WiFi and Bluetooth Module for Rock64 using the GPIO Pins/Interface (e.g. UART/SPI/I2C)?

I can't find any references which would allow this functionality. All I could find are code examples for using ESP32 as standalone microcontroller

My goal is to use ESP32 as WiFi and Bluetooth Module on Android

If possible, could you please add Intel Wireless-AC 3168 or 3165 modules?
Also Qualcomm Atheros cards would be good.
The main issue with Realtek WiFi, is the the drivers are absolutely horrendous, and usually very unstable (former beta tester here, and Realtek did not seem to care about the quality of their drivers when I spoke with them about it).
Broadcom is also alright, however on Linux the best quality is with Intel and Qualcomm (due to them actually being serious about supporting Linux).

Regarding firmware, Also Realtek utilizes closed-source firmware, so that is not a real reason to go with them.
Realtek being the only option (I do not see any other boards I can connect to the WiFi/BT socket) is currently my main blocker from buying any Pine64 boards (and I'd love to switch over from Raspberry Pis), with my secondary blocker is (for me) inadequate USB I/O (I require at least 4 ports, not including USB-C, so 4 USB2 ports is better for me than 2 USB2 and 1 USB3).

I am interested in AMPAQ's quality though, so if anyone can post about it, I'd be very happy.

By the way, since the RockPro64 already has a PCIe x4 connector, why not start using M.2 for WiFi/BT on future iterations of Pine64 products? This will widen compatibility with more cards, as well as allow for more bandwidth (say if one would wish to use the Intel Wireless-AX 22260 for up to 600Mbts on 2.4Ghz Wireless-AX, or up to ~2400Mbts on 5Ghz Wireless-AX).

Hi All,

I promised this many many moons ago and here it is. Unzip this, and put the two files in your project library.

The delay is mostly that I keep evolving the library part so it's still a "work in progress" but does work, has been debugged as far as I know, and has been used for a production project. The sopine lib is broken into functional units rather than having all 204 pins on one block. There's one for power, gnd, hdmi, ethernet, etc ...


The footprint for it is for the TE_2013289_Debug. The manufacturer part number from TE is: 2-2013289-1

M.

Attached Files

  SopineBlocks.zip (Size: 3.13 KB / Downloads: 620)

Hello together

Yesterday my new Rock64 2GB arrived. Very nice piece!
I want to use this for IOT "iobroker"

There are for Rock64 ready made Armbian images.

I configured the Rock64 to boot from USB and create an USB3.0-Memorystick with this bootable iobroker Image.
It boots up, but then it stops. Could it be, that the memory or partitions of the 64GB Stick has to be resized?

When I use an SSD by an SATA to USB3.0 Adapter, I will not boot up at all.

I know this partition resizing of bootable USB-devices from the Raspberry Pi.

How is it at the Rock64?

Does anybody has a manual for this?


Thank you!

Received my Rock64 and have been having some fun with it, redoing it a couple times etc.
Was a bit worried about performance coming from a RPI 3b+, due to some posts here. No longer worried.

I now have a great little setup going. Plex Media Server, SickChill, NZBGet and thanks to armbian-config's software section, Radarr (I really messed it up trying to do it manually. Never got it working. Mono problem I believe).

So far everything is working quite well. Has a usb 2.5" drive connected.

So, just my good experience. Imaged the sdcard up. Wrote it to another card to confirm it works right. I am rather happy at this point and a part of me wonders how much better this might work on the RockPro64

Hi, i am using ubuntu18LTS on my rockpro64.
uname -a
Linux rockpro64 4.4.138-1097-rockchip-ayufan-gb5128c0a1684 #1 SMP Sat Sep 29 15:08:06 UTC 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux


aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=rockchipes8316c
    rockchip,es8316-codec, 
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=rockchipes8316c
    rockchip,es8316-codec, 
    Default Audio Device
default:CARD=rkhdmidpsound
    rk-hdmi-dp-sound, 
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=rkhdmidpsound
    rk-hdmi-dp-sound, 
    Default Audio Device


It looks like there is audio driver but still not able to hear any sound from 3.5mm audio jack.

Also i tested with a simple flite based command line text to speech test-
flite -t hello
It throws error-
audio_open_alsa: failed to set hw parameters. Invalid argument.

As note-
mplayer test.mp3
MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 © 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing test.mp3.
libavformat version 57.83.100 (external)
Audio only file format detected.
Clip info:
Title:
Artist:
Album:
Year:
Comment: converted by convert2mp3.net
Genre: Unknown
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 24000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 11.2 (11.1) of 2340.0 (39:00.0) 0.7%


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio
A: 11.3 (11.2) of 2340.0 (39:00.0) 0.7%



mpv test.mp3
Playing: test.mp3
(+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3 2ch 44100Hz)
File tags:
Comment: converted by convert2mp3.net
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch s16
A: 00:00:13 / 00:39:00 (0%)


Exiting... (Quit)


It seems song is being played but no sound,

Any suggetion?
Thanks

Hello All,
DvD movies have a security system called  css ..
Without a proper Library capable of reading the Dvd you will not be able to play movies..

Pay attention to the Legislation on your Country, in case its ok..

videolan.org Team have a library, for that, but they don't provide a aarch64 package..
I haven't found it in the ayufan repo, with the correct name..but its there with 'libdvd-pkg' , its a package that automates the process of downloading, compiling and installing, but I got Errors with it..


So I compiled the Source Code..
The last version is 1.4.2.

1). Clone the project:

These fell out of my Pinebook when I was upgrading the eMMC.
I cannot figure out where they came from. They are magnetic and stick to each other quite easily.
Can anyone tell me where they are from and how to put them back? Are they important?
    Any help greatly appreciated.

TL;DR Which distro/image supports ZFS, PCIe SATA card, OpenVPN Client, and optionally WiFi?

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I have finally received my RockPro64 4GB with the NAC case, eMMC module, PCIe card and WiFi module.

My goal is to build a remote backup server for important ZFS datasets on our home server.

The home server runs Ubuntu with ZFSonLinux. 

Ideally, the backup server connects via WiFi and is configured through systemd. It will need to connect to the home server via OpenVPN.

To my questions:

1. Being completely new to Linux on ARM, I would appreciate some help with the choice of the distro/image to achieve my goal.
2. Which network manager would you then recommend to automatically connect to my OpenVPN server?
3. I forgot to buy the eMMC USB adapter. Is it feasible to boot from an SD card and then dd onto the eMMC?

I have read that WiFi and PCIe is not possible in parallel, so I made the WiFi requirement optional.