Hey folks,

As one of the steps in my ongoing PINE64 robot project, I wrote a couple of blog posts that deal with connecting the Pine and an Arduino Mega over the I2C bus. My Pine is the 1GB version running longsleep's Ubuntu image.

The first post covers the the pin connection and the Arduino sketch.
http://nanite.co/2017/01/12/extending-gp...using-i2c/

The second post explains the C and C# code for controlling the Arduino from the Pine.
http://nanite.co/2017/01/13/controlling-...nd-csharp/

Has anyone been able to configure there Pine64 to do the pppoe connection when your DSL modem is in transparent bridging mode?

I've finally gotten time to start playing with my board and last night I attempted to have the Pine64 handle the DSL connection with the pppoeconf script.  It found the DSL connection and asked for my credentials which I put in.  After it ran, I did get an error about the ppp module not loading and to do a mknod to create I think /dev/ppp .  I did that and then a reboot.  At that point I was unable to connect to the board through ssh.  It was late so I didn't hookup a monitor or keyboard, but the ppp module error has me concerned.

For the network, I have a USB ethernet dongle which is now hooked up to the DSL modem.  The onboard NIC is running to a 5 port ToughSwitch.

Rusting in one corner, at last i find some time to play with my PINE64, but the idea of making a retro-console was discarted. With the new release of debian, i begin to think to put Ultrastar in the board.

First steps:

- Put the keyboard in my language (spanish)

Hello everyone,

my TV is the Philips 42PFL8404 which i bought ~6-7 years ago. Since then i had the same issue with some devices which didn't really bother my because i rarely used them on my TV

The problem is that every now and then (no real trigger) the screen gets inverted colors. Doesn't matter if a movie is running or it's a picture on the screen without any movement.
This happened to some devices like my laptop, a playstation and my PC once when i had another GFX card installed. So the Problem is definetly the TV not the Pine.

Why am i talking about it then on this forum???

Because there is a Fix that can be used on Radean GFX Cards. There u can go to the ATI Driver Settings and set "PC-Standard-Pixelformat RGB 4:4:4 (full RGB)" to fix this issue. And i wanted to ask if there is anything similar that can be done on the Pine64 on Linux oder Android

It's really terrible that my Pine64 finally runs smoothly with Ayufans Android image but i can't use it on my TV :/


Thanks in advance

Hi All,

First of all, thanks for taking the time to read my issue. I don't have a lot of experience with Debian (some, as I develop in PHP and have setup a PHP server before on Debian).

I have debian installed (pine64-image-debianbase-310102bsp-2) as I'm building big photo screen for in my house. Remix OS takes too long to startup and the program I've written links to my Synology and displays my pictures (and I've written an Android app for my phone to take control over the photo screen). I've developped this over the webbrowser and it works perfectly on any browser.

So I have gotten Debian up and running, Chromium (52) and Midori installed, however when I fire one of them up I get the message: Midori: Cannot open display and with Chromium: Eror: Browser_main _loop.cc(283)] Gtk: Cannot open display:

I've connected the Pine64 (2GB) via HDMI to a screen (Acer computer screen) and login directly on Debian (not over SSH or via a client).

Anyone experienced a simular issue?

Thanks for any help.

Dumees

Hello!
Just as a disclaimer: I don't have an Pine, yet but I will buy one, soon.

I was wondering how to access the GPIO-Pins directly (like the PORT[...]-Registers on AVR or wiringPi for the Raspberry). How to set the Pins of PortL is written pretty detailed on Page 410 of the A64 User Manual. But what about the other Ports?

Thanks in advance!
Thomas131

I recently got a Pine 64 board along with a Power Cord, SD Card, Camera, Humidity Sensor. I have *somehow* misplaced the Power Cord & SD Card. I am oblivious as to how I done so but I did, sadly. 

Is it possible any of you could send me one via the mail? I live in the United States.

Need some basic help since the packaging didn't provide any clues and I haven't been able to find anything in my searches. I have the Openhab configuration with zwave card and serialapi_controller_static_ZW5304_USBVCP_US. 

Where does the Zwave card get 'plugged' into? 

The same question for the serialapi ... Also just guessing this provides a serial interface to get console access? Maybe useful if you are not connected to a lan?  

Also it looks like they shipped a push button but don't know the use of this or where it would get 'plugged' in. Guessing it is some sort of reset button so you don't need to pull the power.

Thanks

Since I was mostly busy with my job and other things over the last couple month I only just recently came back to my Pine64 projects. I then was looking at the currently available Linux support options and found that Armbian now has official support for the Pine64. I am currently running one of their Ubuntu images with BSP kernel and an experimental one with an updated mainline (sunxi) kernel.

You can find more information and images at their Download site: https://www.armbian.com/pine64/
Make sure to read all the hints and issues which nicely sums up most things you need to be aware of or configure to your needs: https://docs.armbian.com/board_details/pine64/

While the download section has ready built images, Armbian is by design a build system which creates Debian/Ubuntu based images for ARM systems and you can roll your own  with custom configuration as well:  https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide...eparation/

I would like to collect information and feedback from other Armbian users here.

I am following the instructions on the GitHub page to try and install Windows 10 IoT on my Pine, but they're really not making this easy. Besides some poorly worded and confusing instructions in steps 2 and 3, it says I am supposed to open the iothub_csharp_client.sln solution (/azure-iot-sdks/csharp) file. However, that file does not even exist in the repository.

Also, there are two different URLs to download the .ffu file specified between this forum and the GitHub page — http://files.pine64.org/os/win10-iot/Win...Pine64.ffu and http://files.pine64.org/os/win10-iot/Pin...eta0.1.ffu. This level of inconsistency is staggering.

Has anyone else run into these issues? If so, how were able to get around them? I don't know where to go from here.

Thanks.