Hi there,

At the moment, I have a big x86 headless server running TVHeadend, that is on 24/7.

The server contains 3HDDs and records via a Digibit R1.

I stream video to a number of Kodi clients (mostly Raspberry Pis) on my network.

It recently dawned on me that the server is only used for about 8 hours a day during the week (maybe 12 hours over the weekend), so it is spending the vast majority just sitting in an idle state, using electricity needlessly.

Furthermore, we only use one of the hard drives about 90% of the time (the one used for recording).

I think it is time to my PVR capabilities to something a little less noisy/thirsty and thought about going down the Raspberry Pi3B+ route.  

However, I was worried that the small amount of RAM and less than Gigabit speed network would cause me problems if I am trying to record/stream multiple HD channels.

I have seen some really good review for the Rock64 (although I know very little about it) and would be really grateful to know whether it would make a good headless TVHeadend server.

A few specific questions:

1. What is the best/fastest way to connect a harddrive?
2. What is the eMMC module socket for?  Can I use this for the OS, rather than the SD slot?

Thanks.

Where can I find th wifi drivers of ROCKPro64 2×2 MIMO Dual Band WIFI 802.11AC/BLUETOOTH 4.1 MODULE   for linux?

Attempting to install wireguard using DKMS on Armbian Xenial (legacy kernel). I've apt-installed kernel headers, but DKMS is failing to build the wireguard kernel module with the following error:

Hi. 

There is a "DSI - Display Serial Interface, 4 lanes MiPi, up to 1080P" listed within the SOPINE Extension ports. 

I'd like to attach the camera with 2 lanes MIPI (D0, D1, C pairs), I2C and two GPIOs. 

Is there a support in firmware for such camera? Or at least firmware easy to adopt? 

Thank you! 

Hello,

I am just relaying that NetBSD is now available for the Rock64. You can download their images from: http://www.invisible.ca/arm/
Many thanks to Jared McNeill

I had no audio/sound with bionic-lxde images, I tried pre-release 0.6.55 so went to release 0.6.44 but had same problem. I tried google but not find answer, so google more to learn about ALSA and pulseaudio, seems problem with pulseaudio default sink, and I created following file and now can get audio.
If you get no audio, give this a try.

rock64@rock64:~$ cat ~/.config/pulse/default.pa
.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
set-default-sink alsa_output.platform-hdmi-sound.stereo-fallback

rock64@rock64:~$

I'm using ayufan's latest image with the ROCK64 connected to a 4K display and the display says the input is 4K resolution. 
image: android-7.1-rock-64-rock64_atv-v0.3.4-r86-raw_sd2emmc.img.xz

However if you issue the command 
     "adb shell dumpsys SurfaceFlinger"

The framebuffer is 1920x1080.  When playing a 4K video using VLC (or any other player) you will see the video is 4K, but is scaled to the framebuffer 1920x1080 and then the HDMI display logic would scale it back to 3840x2160.   When issuing the same commands on a NVIDIA shield the framebuffer is 3840x2160, so no down and up scaling occurs. 

Admittedly behind the scenes the scaling might not be happening.  Does anyone know if this is the case?

Steve

Hi everyone,

I used the latest stable image of OpenMediaVault (microSD Boot) which at the current time of posting is stretch-openmediavault-rock64-0.6.44-239-armhf.img.xz as recommended by the release notes. I wrote the image to a Samsung Evo 32gb microSD card using latest version of Etcher and put it on my recently bought Rock64 4G. It boots up properly and I can access the web GUI. The problem is that the system date and time are not correct. I've spent several hours trying to get it to set the date and time correctly through NTP but no luck.

When booting for the first time and accessing by SSH, when I ran any of the following commands, It gives me an incorrect date and time (May 27th 2017, time is not even close to real current time).

Added Armbian Debian Stretch Desktop (ROCK64) 5.42 on Wiki and PINE64 Installer.
Added Armbian Ubuntu Xenial  (ROCK64) 5.42 on Wiki and PINE64 Installer.

Hello all, 

I am admittedly a novice when it comes to the rock64. I recently purchased one through the pine64 store along with the recommended power supply.

I am attempting to use it as a little NAS running the stretch-openmediavault-rock64-0.6.44-239-armhf.img.xz. I loaded the image via etcher onto a 32gb sandisk sd card and when I power up the device I get white, red and green lights all solid and unchanging. Ethernet lights never light up (plugged into router lan part via verified working cat5 cable) and no output is displayed via the hdmi port.

I have tried 2 or 3 versions of the stretch openmediavault, the most recent being 0.6.57-270 and the results have not changed.
I tried Armbian Xenial Legacy Kernal 4.4.y flashed with win32diskimager and the result was the same... white, red and green lights, no ethernet, no hdmi output.

I'm not sure where to go from this point and any help would be greatly appreciated.