I see that the current board version of rock64 is 1.1 as per rock64_link.

However i have seen youtube videos and images where version 2.0 is printed on top of rock64 board (rock64_youtube link)

I would like to know if version 2.0 is the latest one.

Also where can I find any release notes stating the differences between version 1.1 and version 2.0

       
Found this copper cooler on ebay. Fits nicely except the area around the WIFI/Bluetooth card attaches so had to bend the fins a little bit. But all in all a nice passive cooler. it does have a fan that comes with it but would need connection modification. Just wanted to share this.

Hi,

even though the sopine64 module itself supports PXE boot I read some post that u cant PXE boot all the boards on a clusterboard. Currently you can only boot up to 6 sopines from the 7th.

Another ways is having your independet Linux on each Sopine and update them manually or by some tools like cssh or writing your own scripts..


Am I missing something?

Greetings,
Khaosgrille

Verified in the image ubuntu - lxde

when logout, and login again, seems that the power for pwm is Cut-Off.

• If pwm value is high,
  Fan will continue spinning before stop, and when pwm restored, fan can continue(because it doesn't stopped at all).
  
• But if pwn is low,
  Lets say 35 or 50, when power is cutoff, fan will stop,The power is restored then, but too late...fan already stoped, and it cannot start with a value so low as 35 or lets say 50.
  

Hello.

We ordered four of these, and have tested two of them so far and them seem to be having locking up issue. After about three days of running, the units will freeze up, and need to be rebooted. Will be testing the other two soon. One of the two tested has a CPU heatsink.

Anyone else having issues with that?

Hi, I am new owner of Rock64 4GB powered by genuine 3A psu and storage on Samsung MicroSDHC 32GB EVO Plus UHS-I U1 card.
I will try to share all my findings about this interesting board.
My goal is to achive stable h265 htpc for my old samsung tv.

First of all I was very disappointed how unstable is the stock board. I have tryed Android 7.1 TV, Android 7.1, Bionic minimal linux, Android 8.1, LibreElec and Recalbox. All systems except Android 8.1 and Bionic minimal were randomly freezing or crashing even with heatsinks on cpu and mem.

I have managed to install Kodi 17.6 on Android 8.1, but h265 hd iptv stream was choppy.

Then I reached recalbox installation and was impressed how seamless kodi worked, untill crash.
I suspect overheating to be main problem on my board. Maybe it's bad soldering, design or initial setup. It looks like most systems are crashing above 60'C
I have managed to reach console through ssh and lowered cpu frequency by setting governor to powersave.
Cpu frequency has been reported about 400MHz, I dont remember exact value, and temperature mostly did not exceeded 60'C. 
System was stable for at least 20 minutes and h265 playback was perfect.

I have few questions.

1/ Why the temperatures were so high even on powersave governor (cpu usage was low (top )) ?
2/ Can we lower voltage to cpu, mem and default cpu frequency to lower overheating ?
3/ Is genuine aluminium casing effective against overheating problem ?

Meanwhile I will try to use active cooling and test if my system is stable enough.

I have got a showstopper and I am not sure where to place the fault, but maybe someone has some insight as I am sure there have to be several builds similar to mine. Using the NAS Case set up all bought from the store. Ayufan’s OMV (armhf) for the NAS with NFS and SMB shares and Raspi with the LibreElec flavor of Kodi. Videos start good but will randomly stop after some time. OMV is fine, but Kodi locks up. Oddly it plays fine through WMP on a Win10 machine (smb obviously). I tagged onto this post, but the OP says he thinks it is hardware. I also saw this bug report but it isn’t a memory issue that I see through HTOP (although the MEM bar does seem to fill up some and never go back down). I am not an advanced Linux user, but am smart enough to search and follow directions. Any help would be appreciated.

Where can I find a US distributor?

AmeriDroid carries the full line of Pine64 products except Pinebook.
see... https://ameridroid.com/collections/singl...and_pine64

I bought the "clusterboard" and I want to use the Pinebook to develop for it.

Hola. me gustaria que se abriera un hilo en español para los usuarios de pinebook que tengamos uno y asi poder compartir con mas facilidad todos los aspectos del mismo. Gracias al administrador del foro si lo tiene en cuenta.

I've got a Clusterboard and 7 SOPine modules sitting in my cart with the excitement of thinking I will run Mesosphere DC/OS and/or Kubernetes on it to build out, literally on my desk, a fully elastic containerized microservices orchestrated backend (FECMOB) for my mobile/web app. And then in theory once I've written it all down from a composer and orchestrator perspective I could seamlessly play the whole systematized symphony out on the global cloud providers.  (I think of it as going from "hyperlocal fog" to "global cloud") 

But then I have a huge question; is the performance of this hardware gonna make it unusable for doing such a thing?  Is a single-board-computer-cluster (SBCC) just a geek toy or is it performant enough for a developer to actually use in building a real cloud application? I know any containers I run on this thing will be be slower than the running them on the "real" thing (actually they're all containers though too aren't they) but the question is how slow? Does anybody have a sense if this would work or if the whole system will just be so slow and frustrating given the inherent performance of the Cortex A53 with 2GB of RAM that I shouldn't even attempt this to avoid the disappointment? On spec it looks like this board gives you hardware that roughly equivalent to 28 t2.nano instances but they're ARM vs XEON.

Thanks