just wondering what the differences between these 2 products are, as the RockPRO64 playbox just went up on the store but I had already put an order in for the other one. It looked like the PINE64 playbox is compatible to me. That is why I ordered it.

are there plans to produce a battery that hooks internally into the power port for the RockPro64?

and to further ask, what other accessories are you planning for this device so we can just get all this amazement out of the way at how awesome this product is? what do you have planned?

Hello all,
 
I need a small server to run on my living room (no space elsewhere), to be quiet and to use it for storage/nas, plex server, kodi, and some gaming if applicable (mame, snes psx etc) while will be connected to my 40" TV.
 
When I looked on RockPro64 4GB with the NAS case I thought that this is ideal for the job that I want.
 
So I intent to buy RockPro64 4GB, NAS Case, emmc 64GB, WiFi/Bluetooth Module, heatsinks/fan, PSU EU 5A and connect 2 HDD on it.
But before I buy it I have some questions, and I will appreciate any help:
1) Is v2.1 board available and without any H/W problems as the versions before (resistor removal etc)
2) Does PCIe SATA card works?
3) Which linux distro do you suggest in order to have desktop experience?
4) Based on (3) does it supports HW acceleration for Kodi?
5) Based on (3) can run Plex server (not just stream but transcode)?
6) Based on (3) I would want to install MAME, snes etc emulators. Would a bluetooth gamepad work?
7) Based on (3)  will a bluetooth Air mouse work?
 
The board will work as a server and NAS mostly but I want to be easy to control it with mouse and play some retro games from time to time.

EDIT: Looking the new ABS case with the graphene heatsink, I was thinking If I could power up a 2.5" HDD 1TB that I have with an external enclosure from the USB3.0 port.
It would take less space in the shelve under my TV.

Anyone know if it is possible to run a SolusVM Slave Only server on a Pine A64? Side question, would it be better to run SolusVM Slave Only on a Rock64 instead?

Does anyone have the LWH dimensions of the clusterboard in millimeters handy? The height to the top of the inserted SOPINE module would be great too. Thx

In a possibly silly move, last night, I upgraded Ubuntu MATE on my Pine A64+ from 16.04 to 18.04.

I'm still running the longsleep kernel 3.10.105. I was a little surprised that the upgrade worked, but it did. Everything was/is looking good, except that man is broken. When I run "man --debug man", I see:

I just got my rockpro64 and I am trying to get it setup to run kodi and retroarch.  I have it running on the bionic-lxde-rockpro64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz image.  But I have no sound in kodi.  Sound works in mplayer after removing pulseaudio, but it gives the "your system is too slow" warning when trying to play any 1080p videos.

I have read the threads on the 7” LCD that Pine sells.

I am looking to get this working on the Rock64Pro, but using the Bionic LXDE image.

1. No LCD by default. No power on, no backlight. HDMI works by default.
2. I tried setting the uEvb.txt lines, but that doesn’t existing in /boot/. Adding it had no effect.

Anyone able to help point me in the right direction?

Hi everyone

I'd like to change the setting value (resolution, format, porch, etc..) of DSI.

Therefore, do the following procedure.

1. edit /boot/uEnv.txt
 add disp_screen0=lcd

2. edit /boot/pine64/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb 

I'm excited about the RockPro64. It just arrived the other day. Sadly, I can't get the PCI-E -> Sata adapter card (also bought through Pine64) to work.

Symptoms:
System locks up hard when anything tries to touch a drive connected to the PCI-E SATA ports. Something as simple as `lspci -v` or `cfdisk /dev/sda` will lock the system and force a reset. Attempting to mount a partition has the same result.

Things I've ruled out:
It's not the drive. I tried multiple drives, all of which work fine in other systems. I was able to mount and use the same drives on my rockpro64 using an old usb2->sata adapter that I had lying around.
I don't think it's the OS images. I tried ayufan's lxde and minimal images, the latest stable 0.7.9 version.
I don't think it's this flaw: https://forum.pine64.org/announcements.php?aid=6 ... my board has a date stamp of 2018-06-06 and the schematics in that engineering notice do not match the power regulator design on my board.

Things I suspect:
I'm not an EE and it's likely that I don't know what I'm looking at, but I suspect there may still be a PCI-E power regulation defect in these boards. Yes, despite the hardware rev. `grep pcie /var/log/syslog` turns up lots of weirdness, including:

Hi,

I'm designing a camera board to interface with the rockpro64 CSI-2 connector. Here're some questions I have because I could not find a hardware user guide for this board.

 1. What DVP_PDN stands for?
Pin 12 on the connector DVP_PDN1 and DVP_PDN0_H are each connected to a GPIO. Since MIPI_RST already has a RC delayed pull up for reset. I'm not sure what's this for. Or this can be used for any purpose?

2. I2C multiplexing
It appears all three connectors share a single I2C interface. Thus I'm not sure how it will be used if both sensor has the same slave ID especially in a dual cam HDR application. And it appears many Sony sensors shared the slave ID across variety of chips based on driver code on github.

3. Power voltage
I'm getting confused by the power voltage. On the connector it has two separate rails of 2.8V. Then a 1.2V and a 1.8V. But there's a note in the LDO section that says 1.8 is replaced with 2.8V? However many sensor out there, IMX214 included has one 1.8V. Can some engineer clarify this for me? Then there's a VCC5 and I assume that's constantly powered on?

Additional questions related to rock3399
4. CSI lane swapping
I can't find documentation on this. But many D-PHY is capable of lane swapping with register setting that controls the input MUX. I'm not sure if rock3399 has this capability. This will facilitate board layout.

Thanks!