I am using the LinkS HDMI to VGA & audio adapter on this Android setup with the PineA64 board ! TL Lim tipped me off to this great little adapter, for those of you who would like to adapt an older vga monitor to your PineA64 board. 

This adapter requires no external power (is active) and provides not only the video conversion, but also the audio !  ~a very nice addition to my PineA64 collection of peripheral nit bits.

   

The keyboard is a logitech K360 paired with the track marble from logitech (M570) on a single receiver.  The monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster SA300 (I'm using the VGA input) which also has a DVI input (but no direct hdmi input).

The hdmi-->vga adapter in the Amazon pic is obviously white (mine is green in the pic above, I don't know the difference otherwise).  Auto adjust worked mostly , and i then tweaked the horizontal and vertical position slightly.  

This setup mirrors my Play Box very closely, and gives me a tech support Android station that is easy to see !

Just wondering what the difference is in the downloads for the different sizes of micro sd cards ?  I've tried 3 different 64 gb cards for android 5.1 and all give me in effect " not enough space " on sd card for image , but it will install a 32 gb version. None of the manufacturers will list the "TRUE" available space on their cards, and your files require more than their actual available space !!

Trying the Windows IoT image, I get a:

KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE

About 3 times, and then it boots, but USB keyboard and mouse not working and "no internet connection".

Then I get stuck at this screen (see attached file):

Anyone similar experiences?

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Hi @tllim

I have a compatible usb UVC camera but it does not come up as a front facing camera. Is there any way to check this. Also when will the source be released for the kernel for the latest update? I know there have been UVC camera HAL's made for android so that usb cameras can be used. 

The camera is a logitech C615

Hello
i was looking in the android image but seems that the gpio pins are not avaliable in the
/sys/class/gpio  directory
the directory does not even exist

so please any way that we can make this think work on android:>??

of course there is no a single tablet with GPIO
of course its a TABLET
not a Development BOARD!!
 
then why have android working on the board that have more thant 50+ gpio but u cant acceso from the OS u want  to run on >??

so i think that we need some examples to control them from android
with working pwm, spi, i2c, interrupts etc...

other wise its like y get this board if u need other board to do the things u want to do with it in the first place and the board itself have the gpio u need ????

thanks! :

Hi all, today we had a small blackout and my SD card is a damaged a bit...
- it boots, I can log in, but I can't install anything, due to this error:

Error: Unable to read file „/var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File“: Input/output error

I believe that I'm not first one with this problem, but can it be solved without reflashing whole SD card with new image?
Any suggestions?

bluetooth crashes when pairing for first time. using Pine64 2gb latest debian.

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I am new to linux and i am trying to make a disk image of the setup that i have like the ones that are on the pine64 wiki page. I am trying to dd my microsd card and output that as a .img file. However, although it outputs a .img file it doesn't seem to work even if i write that to another microsd card.

It looks like the PINE64 can now run Windows IoT core according to the Wiki entry at https://github.com/Azure/azure-iot-sdks/...-csharp.md

Anyone gonna give this a shot?

So I have been attempting to create multiple lxd containers that willl each serve small services on my network:
yunohost, cups, pihole, whatever my heart desires...

This has been pretty easy - all of that is actually easy to get going. I just haven't been able to get them going together - on separate static ips.
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The problem is that I cannot figure out how to staticly assign ips to each of the services.

What I want is for each service - inside its own lxc container - to be persistently static on my home LAN.

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I have tried all the tutorials about lxc and have basically lost my mind.

I tried bridging - but I basically don't know what is going on with that

One of the most obvious solutions - which worked on Debian Jessie but I can't get to work on ubuntu is to create
fake ethernet interfaces - like eth0:0 and assign each staticly. (Unfortunately lxd hasn't worked for me on debian - so this isn't a soltion for me....)

I can't get persistent fake eth0:0 interfaces on ubuntu ... part of the problem is in xenial they somewhat changed their /etc/network/interfaces setup - now /etc/network/interfaces.d/ is where devices are configured... and I can't find good information on how to add entries - adding files in interfaces.d creates an interface - but it doesn't work for long....


Any help would be much appreciated.