Hi,
I am waiting for my Pine64+ 1GB to arrive so I have to prepare myself for a long run setting up this board.
I have couple of questions regarding some hardware add-ons and proper installation of Longsllep's Ubuntu OS

1. I bought HDMI-VGA converter from PINE's backer store. Because I do not have any HDMI working device at my home my Q is: will PINE64+ work with this converter or should I seek in my neighbourhood for a HDMI enabled monitor running initial setup, after that trying to work with this converter ?
2. I also bought external USB HUB with it's own power supply. My intends are to connect USB keyboard and wireless mouse on it. My Q is: Should I install it (usb keyboad and wireless mouse attached to it) or just plug usb keyboard and usb mouse on a initial setup of PINE64+ ? I must mention that I also bought power supply for PINE64+ also on their backer's site, so I do not intend to use this USB HUB as a power supply.
3. Addition to Q no.2, is it safe to use both at the same time external power supply and USB HUB that is also externally powered ?
4. Regarding micro SD Cards I have buying issues with limited quality and manufacturer options in my country:
- Secure Digital Micro Kingston 16GB SDHC cl10 UHS-I 45MB Read http://www.anhoch.com/product/15243/secu...-45mb-read
- Secure Digital Micro for Tablet/Smartphone Verbatim 16GB Class10 and UHS-1 with adapter Blue
http://www.anhoch.com/product/36396/secu...apter-blue
- Mobility Kit 16GB Class10 USB, reader, SD Micro w/adapter Kingston
http://www.anhoch.com/product/14409/mobi...r-kingston
- Secure Digital Micro Kingston 32GB SDHC cl10 UHS-I 45MB Read
http://www.anhoch.com/product/15191/secu...-45mb-read
- Secure Digital Micro for Tablet/Smartphone Verbatim 32GB Class10 and UHS-1 with adapter RED
http://www.anhoch.com/product/36397/secu...dapter-red

What is you suggestion based on your experience with these micro SD cards ? Money is not a issue for this but time is. I can't allow additional waiting for delivery of SD card from other country. It takes so much time to arrive.

5. Regular updates: I can't see or I did not see is this Ubuntu version regulary updated like standard Ubuntu releases or it will remain as it is on first install?

Well, for start I suppose it is enough.

Waiting for you precious help.

Regards and stay well.

Uh,uh. EDITED: Should I remove card after installation or leave it inserted on the board ? O

Reward: The PINE A64+ Box w/ Touch Screen

Does the SD card that shipped with this support the touch screen or do I need to burn a custom image?

Android 5.1.1
Build tulip_chiphd-eng 5.1.1 LVY48E 20160505 test-keys
Kernel 3.10.65

   

To say the least... remix os worked ok till i tried i tried to play movies in kodi, it would play for maybe a minute then crash to a black screen...  also while in kodi everything was slow... menus, loading movies and what not. i have the 2gb unit, and this thing is a turd compared to my Raspberry PI 2....

I just hope that they get all the software issues work out, cause as of now i packaged it back up in its box...

all i wanted i wanted to use this for was netflix and kodi... and it failed at both...

I've got a waveshare display 5" which I used with my Raspberry Pi 2. Now i'm wondering if someone has some experience to get this working on the pine64 since I've only got a blank screen without any image via the hdmi. On the Raspberry it was almost like plug-and-play with 'raspbian'.
 
I've got the display powered through the Pi 2 bus, ordered by the gpio layout and the layout on the display.  I do use the Ubuntu mate Image atm.

Is someone able to help me out and is prepared to share knowledge? ^^,

I was just browsing the Datasheet and User Manual of the A64 and while I am glad that we have those available, I also noticed that the section for the DE2.0 (Display Engine) is just a two page stub in the user manual... is there a chance that we can get that documentation released as well, or is this something super secret?

Hi, i've found this library. I would like to port it from a20 to a53 processors. Someone has got any suggestion??

Attached Files

  librf24-sunxi-master.zip (Size: 27.63 KB / Downloads: 469)

I recently upgraded phones as my S4's screen gave out. I was wondering if there's anything I can salvage from my Samsung Galaxy S4 and repurpose for use on my Pine board (whenever it actually arrives)? I'm new to this kind of thing and plan on using the Pine as a learning tool. I found this teardown that shows the components of the S4...

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+...down/13947

I keep hearing people say "you must not know how kickstarter works" as they thumb their nose at customer complaints, but I fail to see the justification for a company that just took $1.7 Million in pledges to run this horribly. The logistics issues are a complete embarrassment. I submitted my order in December, was told it would arrive in March, was told it shipped 3 weeks ago, still waiting with no tracking updates whatsoever. Then they can't even respond to customer emails for "10 days" and they act like the people getting upset about that are being unreasonable. $1.7 Million, hire some staff and get your shit together. This is a total shambles.

I have set up a 32GB SD card from pine64-image-debianmate-310101bsp.img.xz with command xzcat /media/pine64-image-debianmate-310101bsp.img.xz|pv|sudo dd of=/dev/sdc bs=1M oflag=sync

I have the 2GB version of pine64 with WiFi native board installed. Once I plug the micro sd card it boots (albeit taking more than 1 minute to get me to the desktop).

From the debian mate desktop I can set up the wifi connection and I can see the connection is set up. I can also do sudo apt-get update / upgrade. But when I try to access websites with Iceweasel I get errors. For example www.yahoo.com works but www.github.com doesn't work.

I have tried also git clone from github but I get an error Failed to connect to github.com port 443: No route to host

My ISP is ipv6 based. Any other device in the house (Windows PC, Linux PC, Android device) have standard DHCP settings and all work without problems. What can I check/set on the pine board to get complete connectivity?

Hi,

does anybody consider to use Pine64 as an Ethereum node (like a go-ethereum)?

Will that work or is that a completely crazy idea?

Thanks,
Artur.