So I've been working with my pine for a few months now, trying to get a hadoop server running to support my work as an integration architect. My plan is to use the pine as a linux server, running multiple hadoop clusters, a postgres db and proprietary integration software from my employer. As an experiment I simply installed everything on the micro sd card, but that is not sustainable as far as size, so I experimented with using a usb thumbdrive as a pic. That only worked somewhat since I had to muck around with disk mounts etc, and ultimately as soon as I had it all working a bad shutdown corrupted the thumbdrive sending me back to square one.

I have since invested in a 1tb usb hdd, a powered usb hub, and now need to the optimal way of setting it all up. My first question is is it best to reformat the external hdd to a linux partition or leave it as ntfs. I know that ntfs has limitations with setting privileges, which is a issue with postgres. How would the linux gurus  approach this?

Hi,

I received shipment in july but without things i ordered from backerkit.
I got: 
  
  1x Pine54 2GB with Wifi module
  Air mouse
  Acrylic case
  Keyboard
  ABS case
  Power supply 
  RTC Backup Battery - CR
  HDMI to VGA Adapter
  2x MicroSD cards 64GB
  Micro USB to USB
  HDMI to DVI adapter
  POE Splitter

Instead of: 
  2x   2gb board 
         PINE64 Acrylic Open Enclosure
  3x   5 Way 12C Cables 
  3x   4 Way 12C Cables 
  3x   5-Way to 4-Way I2C Cables
  2x   PINE64 5V 2A Power Supply - International
         PINE64 ABS Enclosure 
         PINE64 12C Multiport POT 
         PINE64 Wifi Remote Module 
         USB Serial Programmer for PINE64 
         PINE64 Ambient Light Sensor 
  2x   PINE64 Humidity Temperature Sensor 
         HDMI to VGA Adapter With Audio 
         RTC Backup Battery - AAA 
  2x   RTC Backup Battery - CR 
         Wifi 802.11BGN/ Bluetooth 4.0 Module

I tried to contact Pine support but they are ignoring me.
I also tried to politely contact tllim. He informed shipping facility two times, now he ignoring me as well.

Is there any other way how to get my paid things? Or get overpaid money back? 

I want to use my Pine64+ (2 GB) as a headless fileserver but it won't boot up unless monitor is connected. Are there any workarounds?

Operating system is latest Debian Base (3.10.102 BSP 2).

Hi,

I reported an issue at exoplayer github about this problem and, at the moment, there's a probability of the problem to be on the pine64 side. 

Exoplayer Github link: 


https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/1800


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I've figured out that if I capture the movie in Landscape it plays well (captured with iPhone 6):
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx62BNfVLJZDSG0wVWcxSjFQN1U/view?usp=sharing

Though, if I do it in portrait the issue happens. Here is a movie that is giving problems (captured with iPhone 6):
Link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx62BNfVLJZDUW1oZThFR05iamc/view?usp=sharing

Any idea?

I have a query re Android SD backup. The system is on a 32 GB disk & I have it set up basically as I would like it. I want to create an image file for backup. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and would like to use the Disks utility ( Create disk image...)

This start well but after a short interval it all goes pear-shaped & I get an error.

See attachment.

Any reason why this should not work ?
I suspect I may have overlooked something blindingly obvious but in my defence it is early & I have not had my first cup of coffee yet.

Yes, I could use dd.

But I burned the image with Disks so I see no reason not to make the backup the same way.  

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Hello, I am thinking about creating a business of providing services of GPS servers and tracking system. 
We already made website for GPS tracking that is ( https://www.gpswox.com/ ) and still working for improving our services. 

Please feel free to provide business and project ideas about my business. 

Thank You.

Hi all,

just release an initial version of a yocto meta layer for pine64. Currently it was tested with my board which is a 1MB board. It currently just supports pine64 plus but it shouldn't be hard to have it working for Pine64 with 512MB.

You can find the meta layer and instructions here: https://github.com/mont3z/meta-pine64

Chees,
Montez

Hi,

Apologies for asking a low level question, but I can't find any way to stop Android on the Pine 64 other than just killing the power.

All 'normal' android devices have a power button - and there seems to be no way to do a clean power off without one - the problem occurs in many android forums from users with phones/tablets with broken power buttons.

Is there any obvious way to do this without soldering a power button onto the board or finding some solution via rooting the installation?

John.

Hi !!!

Amazon makes its new release gachet ECHO DOT improved and is now smaller and better price 50 $ ...

I know there are people who have done something similar for Raspberry Pi,

I wonder if anyone is doing well for Pine 64?

Thank's

Can one even order the playbox case anymore? I would like one; don't see it on the "shop" pages.