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

Hello.
I hot a 4g rockpro64 and i want a full working debian image.
I have downloaded a debian stretch image listed in wiki but the graphics do not work.

I want to start to buy my RockPro64 components to start a project.

But i've noticed that Pine64s LCD touch screen has a note which says:"Only stock Android OS build for this LCD panel available for ROCKPro64 board"
https://www.pine64.org/?product=7-lcd-to...reen-panel

But then i saw this which looks to me there is Linux support for this LCD:
https://github.com/avafinger/pine64-touchscreen

So I'm asking maybe this note on the manufacturers LCD touch screen site has become obsolete?
Can somebody confirm?

I'd prefer Linux + GUI over Android, but when there's no chance i have to deal with Android on some kind.
A 5" LCD touch screen would be enough, but i haven't seen any other type on Pine64s store, so i have to deal with 7"

Hi,

I got a RockPro64 that I set up about a week ago.  Board, EMMC, USB EMMC adapter, power supply, USB serial adapter, heat sink, enclosure, all from the Pine64 online store.  I followed the NOOB guide and flashed ayufan's bionic minimal (bionic-minimal-rockpro64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img) to the EMMC.  I was able to connect over the serial console, boot, ssh, etc., everything working great.  Didn't power the device down, but did `sudo shutdown -r now` a time or two, no problems.

Then my house lost power for a bit, and it hasn't booted since.  The green light where the power connects comes on as it should whenever power is connected.  The lights on the ethernet port blink like normal.  But whenever I turn it on, the red LED near the power button blinks indefinitely and the white LED there never comes on.

I tried re-flashing the EMMC with the same image I'd used before (I was using dd both times), no improvement.

I tried connecting pins 23 and 25 as the "RockPro64 Main Page" suggests for bypassing SPI, no improvement.

I tried using the "recover" button as described in the "OTG mode" section on the "RockPro64 Main Page", no improvement -- white light never comes on, red light keeps blinking, nothing shows up on a desktop (as reported by lsusb) if I connect it to the USB 3 port.

The USB serial adapter's lights blink when I connect it and turn on the RockPro64, but nothing actually gets sent (as reported by minicom on my desktop, connected the same way I'd connected it successfully before).

I'd very much appreciate any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot this further.

Thanks,
-Joseph

On my 11.6" Pinebook with Xubuntu I only have 1920x1080 resolution and no hdmi connection to an exterior monitor. On my Pineboard with Xubuntu I'm also stuck with 1920x1080 resolution and xorg is not updating. What is the solution for this? Thanks

Hi!
I have a Rock64 with OMV, this sata to usb adapter and a WD red . My issue is that the adapter spins down the hard drive after 10 minutes of inactivity and there seems to be no way to increase that duration. I tried the integrated hd-parm in OMV and hd-idle with no luck. Thus, I need to change the adapter. 
My questions are: 

1. Does the adapter sold by pine support hd-parm? 
   
2. Are there any dual sata adapters that work with hd-parm or have a higher spindown time?
   
3. Is there a way to have al least 2 hard drives attached to the usb3 port in a reliable way? I noticed that on the OMV forums they advice against using usb hubs.
   

Hello, I know there are often bottlenecks. I placed a new order today for a RockPro64 4GB Ram board. When is the next shipment expected to be sent out?
Thanks for great support and exciting products.