I have an old (can't believe I'm saying it) pine64+ with the WiFi module and was thinking of upgrading to the RockPro64. I don't want to buy the WiFi module for that, yet, so I was wondering if I can cannibalize the N from the Pine64 for the time being and upgrade to that later. It's already more than I spent originally, albeit more powerful, so upfront cost is a concern. The more I have to spend upfront, the longer it will take for my project to get back up.

The reason for the upgrade is I designed a Home Automation Hub/Media Center for my dining room and the Jessie and Xenial kernels just seem to not like USB touchscreen very well and unless it was solved and I missed it, the gigabit network is not really a gigabit network (hardware flaw), and It will stream from a Plex/Playon server on my network at times at 4K (large get togethers). Plus I'm finding a really annoying problem that on boot from a long shutdown, I have to unplug the HDMI then Plug it back in to get signal. Only happens for long shutdowns. Restarts and quick shutdowns don't do it. Basically going to retire it to something headless. The RockPro gives me the excuse.

Basically, will the module work or not.

Hi,

I just received 2 Rock64 boards, hoping to use them as tvheadend clients. Needless to say - I am disappointed with results so far, I've tried LibreElec latest build (video crashes regularry), Android 7.1+ Kodi (very slow)...

Is there a proven way to use the Rock64 board as stable HD stream receiver (4K would be nice, but even HD is currently problematic)?

Does anyone know if something like this https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/cluster-build is possible to build rancheros for/on the cluster board? 


Best,

PP

Hi Team;

I'd love to see RockPro64 to be part the following list of boards supported by Windows IoT Core.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...typeboards

As this board is much more Superior than the rest. Is there any plan for Pine64 to make this board as a certified Windows IoT Core board?

Thanks !
..Ben

Hi everyone,

as we have now plenty of OSes to choose from to install on our Rock64 board for doing one thing or another, and it's could be difficult and time consuming to pick the right tool for the task, I have thought of gathering OS to use and the purpose which suit them best.

A random example:

retrogaming/emulate N64 - Android x.y.z (+ link to image or a relevant thread) (+ if available other links with performance report)
kodi - raspbian X
NAS - dietpi Y.Z
FTP server - ...
and so on

So, based on user's experience and feedback, someone new getting "rock'ed"   can , just reading the list, pick right away the very right OS and be happy with his/her new board, instead of searching for hours, pick one, have trouble installing it, then be disappointing because in this one, peripheral A or B is not yet handled well.

the "best" could be for performance, maintenance, easiness, power consumption, etc

Even for just testing the Rock64 without any actual usage, it's not that easy among all OS available. Myself I go on dietPi on SD in order to install Android on eMMC and try it for retrogaming (mostly CPC, Amiga and PSX would be a nice bonus)

What do you think ?
@Moderators: making it sticky, is that sound useful ?

My pinebook (which I use on a daily basis) seems to have stopped charging. I guess the power supply died. The is no green light as ther used to be when the book charged.


I know it is a 5V adapter 3A, but can somebody tell me if the core pin is + or -? Then I can look around for a replacement adapter here in NL

Thanks for any reply,
Erik

I'm a little surprised it doesn't actually.  I've got half a dozen of them, in a Pi they just work.  Garden variety USB wifi adapter, comes in big or small depending on the antenna size, $4-15 on eBay.

ifquery --list shows only lo

lsmod shows:

Just find it on top right corner of every post I posted.  Am I warned?  For what?  (I checked couple of other posts, it is not a standard, i.e. not from standard template.)

As I make post only in this channel, so I ask here too.

Did I offend anybody before?  I will apologize personally to him/her.  Please let me know where I did that so that I can know what mistake I made and avoid in future.  Sorry for my poor English first, it is not my mother tongue.

Or, is it because I leaked my frustrating problem solving experience with rock64 when I explained those steps I had struggled before?

Or, is it because I mentioned that I don't have the skill of a developer?

The previous install committed harikari back in January after an update/upgrade by apt.  So since the disk I had all my rock64 work on died shortly before that, I left it laying until I had found and bought a sata adapter so I could plug in an ssd of about 60 gigs to the usb3 port.

Still no boot, never got to the startx stage. So I brought its 64GB u-sd in and rewrote it with bionic-lxde-rock64-0.6.44-239-arm64.img, which I took it was a debian image, but etc issue says its a Ubuntu 18-4-LTS, which tells me some things have been changed just to make it more difficult to configure since I've not had to deal with a *buntu since 8-4, 10 years ago.

When I looked at (after putting my local static network data in the /etc/hosts file) the /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0 file was set to use dhcp, and my router can pass out a maximum of 2 dhcp leases. But I don't think it was even trying dhcp or it would have been assigned a 192.168.xx.100 address..

Everything I try errors and tells me to read the man page so-and-so. But there's just one problem, this image doesn't include a man reader, so I've given up until someone can enlighten me.

/etc/resolv,conf is still that worthless link to /var/run/ResolveConfig and contains no useful data. I figure in 10 years there is a chance they've managed to fix NetworkManager so it actually works, even with a static network.  Wrong or I've not found the magic twanger yet.

So whats the procedure to configure a static network with the above install?

Thanks folks.

Hi,

I'm using a Pine A64+ 2GB on the openHAB distro but the problem is every 3-14 days my PineA64+ locks up completely. It's powered from the micro usb with a very good power supply 3.0 Amps with nominal jitter or noise.

The only other thing connected is a SSD where the main file system is located through USB Port.

My guess is that it's still the power supply, but do you think it would help cutting of the Micro USB to power it through Euler? Problem there is also I don't know where to get the connectors to plug onto the wires to connect them with euler bus.

Or do you think it could be something completely different, can it still be too much noise? Are there readymade filters one can buy somewhere? I read about a filter here in the forums but I don't have those parts at hand easily and would prefer buying something more soild.

Or do you think the culprit maybe the USB port for the file system?

Thanks for any help because currently I have to use a external watchdog which resets the board if this happens which is not really a desired behaviour.