Hi all, 

I'm working on a Home Media Server project for automate the process of downloading series and movies and organize your media library. 
The project will easy the process of deployment a lot of great existing projects out there for a home server / personal cloud such as Plex, Emby, Radarr, CouchPotato, onwCLoud, ...

If you're interested in making a RockPro64 a Media Server, say hello to ARMBand.

The underling Bits:

ARMBand is a fork of Cloudbox for the arm64 architecture. Cloudbox can configure a impressive list of services for home media server without much user work envolved but only supports amd64 architecture. Cloudbox uses Ansible to configure media server related services using Docker containers.  Ansible is an infrastructure automation technology (like Puppet and Chef, but much more easily to start playing with).

Porting Cloudbox to arm64 basically envolves changing Ansible recipes to use arm64 based docker images, fork docker images and adapt scripts to download arm64 packages.
 
If anyone is interested in contributing in development or testing drop me a msg, ok? 

Thanks.

Main Project:
https://github.com/dibrz/ARMBand

Cloudbox Wiki:
https://github.com/Cloudbox/Cloudbox/wiki

So I have a Rock64 board and I want to leverage its hardware decoding and encoding abilities in an Emby server.  But for a start I'd be happy just to get any sort of hardware decoding working.  I tried out Armbian Stretch and wasn't able to get either of my HEVC test files to play smoothly out of the box.  (vainfo returned an error when trying to get a driver name, so evidently something needs to be installed that's not, but I'm not sure what...)  And there's very little instruction out there that I can find, so I'm not sure if this is an Armbian shortcoming or just a matter of me not knowing how to get all the pieces in place.

I'm interested in ayufan's images, but don't know if it's any easier to get hardware decoding working there than on Armbian...  Has anyone gotten hardware decoding working on these boards?  What OS works best and what needs to be installed/configured to get it working properly?

Hello all,
I recently ordered a rockpro64 with a few accessories, one of which is an emmc module (https://ameridroid.com/collections/stora...dule-blank).
However, I am unable to get the rockpro64 to boot with just the emmc module plugged in. I used the usb->emmc adapter to dd the Debian stretch image (version 0.7.9) to it. When it wouldn't boot with that image, I tried an SD card and that worked perfectly. Not only that, but the emmc is visible in /dev/ when booted off the SD so the SBC does recognize the emmc....it just won't boot from it.
After that, I tried a plethora of things to try to get emmc to boot:
1. dd the image to the emmc while booted off the SD with the emmc plugged in to the rockpro64.
2. dd the android emmc image to the emmc.
3. Changed every combination of mmc boot partition enable/disable/ack along with the various boot bus options.
4. Plugged in a serial adapter to view the boot process. The attempted emmc boot showed nothing on serial while the SD boot showed the whole process as expected.

A few things to note:
1. Before flashing anything to the emmc, I noticed it was already loaded with an odroid XU3  image, despite the emmc module I ordered stating it's supposed to be empty. Could this be a problem? I know the Odroids use the boot0 boot partition and I guess rockchip doesnt, so I enabled rw on the boot parts and zero'd them out.
2. The Linux mmc tool and dmesg showes the emmc module as hs200 as opposed to the hs400 that the ameridroid site says. The mmc version is 5.1 as confirmed by the linux mmc tool.
3. The linux kernel reports the emmc model number as DG4032 if that helps.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

If I connect sata 2.5" SSD 500gb to USB3 port
And
I connect USB C to sata 2.5 SSD 500gb
Running openmediavault.
 Can I set up the 1TB storage (2 x 500GB SSDs) as NAS?  If so can I set up raid copy to 2nd drive?

I've seen ROCKPORT 64 setup with 1 drive with Openmediavault as a successful NAS.

Thank you in advance!

Sorry if I'm being totally stupid and posted in wrong area, but...

I've just received a new production unit (Rockpro64 V2.1 2018-06-06) together with a PCIe 3.0 x4 to M.2 (NGFF) SSD Adaptor, to which I've added a WD blue SSD M.2 2280 drive.

I'm using Ayufan's latest builds, both minimal & full, but nothing I try allows access to the drive. 

The boot logging shows an error connecting to the PCIe device(s), but I'm not sure what is going on (sorry but I'm unable to upload file).

The drive I've tested in a normal PC & can create\format partitions etc... 

Reading other posts on the site, relate to a resistor that needs to be removed ?  but I was under the impression that the board I purchased was one of the new 'fixed' ones, so should work ok ??

Any thoughts or suggestions gratefully received....

Hi all,

I bought Rock64 and failed to use my hard disks with it (direct connection, no hub). It seems to work fine and then crashes randomly

I did see similar post here : https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5137&page=3

But I Don't use the same Linux (commands unavailable), OpenMediaVault was quite easy to use for newbie.

I tried several Linux distributions (OpenElec, Debian, OMV,...), huge deception. HD Movies are very slow, USB crashes Linux, my RPI Always did run fine on everything without any expert tuning  

Anyone could help for hard disk crashes :  "Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks" and give me advice about a Linux image to choose with maximum compatibility ? I'm not dealing about performance anymore, just would like it to work.

A crying newbie

Ehi,
I'm sure this has been asked already, but I couldn't find any reference.
How does the BTO queue works exactly? I signed up for a pinebook but I didn't even receive a confirmation email, is that normal?
Will I receive the coupon only when it's my turn in line?

Hi all,
after successful download and compile, I'm facing to the problem of writing an SD card with the Android 8 Image for my Rock64 board.
Is there a script to do the task?
Anybody knows where to get info about partitioning and writing image to the SD card?
I tried Etcher, but I have no output on the console.
Although, the stock image runs fine, so seems to me definitely a partitioning problems...
Any help?

Please check out and give a try:

http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pineboo...lease#AOSC