Hey guys,

so after playing around alot with the ethtool (in the end i set it to 100mbit, because even with the newest kernel/uboot and longsleeps network script i cant get better speeds)

Now i tried to download over a OpenVPN Server, but the performance is way worse then i expected. From around 9-10 MB/s (my isp allows up to 12 MB/s so im quite pleased with how fast the pine64 can get).

Before anyone asks "maybe the vpn server is just not fast enough". Just after i tested the speeds of the pine (with vpn), i tested my laptop (also with the same vpn) and there im getting near max speeds (9-10 mb/s).

The ./speedtest-cli (tested a few times) results are also disappointing.

I hoped that the pine64 is powerful enough for a OpenVPN connection with good speeds :/

Can someone help ? /Give advice ?

I try and download the images from the Pine64 site and they crawl so bad I feel like I'm on 2400 baud modem again, and I have 40Mb down! They should really look into more servers to download from. I just tried to download the Ubuntu image and it took like 3 hours and then the download still failed.

Is there anywhere to download the images other than the main web site? I am looking for the latest stable images.

Thanks everyone.

Does anyone have any tuning methods for PMS?  I know I can optimize each video, but want to avoid that if possible.

Hey guys, it seems that the Marshmallow SDK that is on the wiki is corrupted. I cannot extract some files inside the archive properly.


Is anyone from the Pine64 team going to fix this?

Has anyone attempted to exchange their Pine64 for another and have success?  I know they are a new startup and under staffed and I didn't want to spend more time and money to ship it back if a hopeless cause.

I finally got around to opening my Pine64 and I've spent the last several days trying every trick listed online including this forum and have no success.  I've created boot cards on my Windows and MAC and used four different imaging apps (DD, Phoenix Card, ApplePi-Baker, and the WinImage one I forget the name) and tried various size Android and Remix images and used three different SD cards including one I bought yesterday at Bestbuy.  Zero luck - screen always remains black (using same cable to plug into Pi sitting next to Pine64 displays fine).  Power supply from Pine64.  The red light comes on when plugged in but nothing happens on the screen.  Nothing extra plugged in when booted and left alone for a couple hours each time started.

And of course I got the Pine64+ full package (lcd, power supply, network, extra memory).  

Frustrated and hoping for a new one but not looking to waste another second of my life with this if others have had no luck with exchanges.

After getting the required python modules, I was able to get the steam controller working in Debian.  The driver is on GitHub..

https://github.com/ynsta/steamcontroller

No virtual keyboard as of yet but, otherwise, seems to work pretty well.

(since there appears to be an entire subforum for this, I'll skip the "have you searched the forums"-part) ;-)

So. I got my 2G version in one of the first batches, never got it to boot but have now returned for a second round. The problem is that all I get at boot is a red led

1. I have an fast, authentic memory card
2. I have tried burning two different images with Phoenix Card and DiskImager
3. I don't have an Ethernet cable attached
4. I have tried two different power supples (5V/2.1A latest one)

Is there *any* way of debugging the boot process so I can figure out if it's a power issue, an image issue or a hardware issue?

thanks in advance,
  Nik

When launching mame on my Debian Pine64 I'm getting the following.  Do I need to update the display drivers?

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: Permission denied
OpenGL: VBO not supported
OpenGL: PBO not supported
OpenGL: FBO not supported
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadRenderRequest
  Major opcode of failed request:  148 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (X_GLXRender)
  Serial number of failed request:  33
  Current serial number in output stream:  33

I have a couple of  question as a newbie I might ask something
that has bees answered I didnt see it but first off

  Iam trying to setup a arduino CNC machine I have the IDE arduino
 installed and runnung and flashed the hex file and it is taking g-code
 commands one at a time but I need a g-code sender like
 universial g-code sender but its java base and wont run correct I start it in a terminal
and its start I guest no errors but there is no GUI so I dont know what to do?


next I cant watch netflix and youtube is very choppy and most of my videos wont
play there .avi and mp4 and some mkv

So I've setup a guide on how to setup Octoprint on the Pine64 2gb model. It is kind of lengthy and the only thing I don't have working quite yet is webcam support. But it is coming! 

Pine64 Octoprint setup

1. Download Base Debian Image
2. cd /usr/local/sbin/
3. sudo ./resize_rootfs.sh
4. sudo apt-get update
5. sudo apt-get upgrade
6. sudo reboot now 


****WIFI SETUP****
****use ifconfig to find ip first, then ssh into ethernet ip***
1. sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
2. add the following:
***comment out
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
****will get stuck at boot without this when not connected to ethernet
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid "YOUR-SSID-HERE"
wpa-psk "YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE"
3. sudo ifup wlan0
4. sudo ifconfig wlan0
5. ping router-ip-here
6. ping google.com
7. sudo service networking restart 
8. sudo reboot now 

****Octoprint Setup Without Webcam****
1. cd ~
2. sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev python-setuptools python-virtualenv git libyaml-dev build-essential
3. git clone https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint.git
4. cd OctoPrint
5. virtualenv venv
6. ./venv/bin/pip install pip --upgrade
7. ./venv/bin/python setup.py install
8. mkdir ~/.octoprint
9. sudo usermod -a -G tty debian
10. sudo usermod -a -G dialout debian

***To Test Octoprint is working
11. ~/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint

***This section allows for starting Octoprint when at boot
12. sudo nano ~/OctoPrint/scripts/octoprint.init
***edit following to:
DAEMON=/home/debian/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint
13. sudo nano ~/Octoprint/scripts/octoprint.default
**edit following to:
OCTOPRINT_USER=debian
DAEMON=/home/debian/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint
14. sudo cp ~/OctoPrint/scripts/octoprint.init /etc/init.d/octoprint
15. sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/octoprint
16. sudo cp ~/OctoPrint/scripts/octoprint.default /etc/default/octoprint
17. sudo update-rc.d octoprint defaults
18. sudo service octoprint {stop|start|restart}
----You should now be able to boot into octoprint from <PINEIP:5000> from a web browser

***Make everything accessible on port 80
1. sudo apt-get install haproxy
2. sudo nano /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
***add following to bottom
   global
        maxconn 4096
        user haproxy
        group haproxy
        daemon
        log 127.0.0.1 local0 debug

defaults
        log     global
        mode    http
        option  httplog
        option  dontlognull
        retries 3
        option redispatch
        option http-server-close
        option forwardfor
        maxconn 2000
        timeout connect 5s
        timeout client  15min
        timeout server  15min

frontend public
        bind *:80
        use_backend webcam if { path_beg /webcam/ }
        default_backend octoprint

backend octoprint
        reqrep ^([^\ :]*)\ /(.*)     \1\ /\2
        option forwardfor
        server octoprint1 127.0.0.1:5000

backend webcam
        reqrep ^([^\ :]*)\ /webcam/(.*)     \1\ /\2
        server webcam1  127.0.0.1:8080

3. sudo nano /etc/default/haproxy
***add following to bottom
ENABLE=1

4. sudo nano ~/.octoprint/config.yaml
***add following to bottom
server:
host: 127.0.0.1

***This is will now allow you log in to OctoPrint from <PINE64IP>.

TO change that from <PINE64IP> to pine64.local 
1.sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon
2. sudo reboot 
Note: If using Windows PC to log in to pine64.local install Bonjour