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| LAN/NIC problem |
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Posted by: xrez - 04-28-2016, 04:17 PM - Forum: Ethernet Port
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I have a 2gb pine64 board. I have managed to load up remixos and android on it without issues. However i found that the NIC does not connect well when using long cables. I have cat6 cables going throughout the house and when i connect the pine64 directly to my router with a 2-3m network cable it works and connects fine. However when i move it to my living room where i would like the device to be, it doesn't connect. On remixos i can see that it gets an ip address, but does not connect to the internet or even the router page. Is there a design flaw for the NIC or would it be android related?
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| cant seem to get 5.1 surround output |
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Posted by: xrez - 04-28-2016, 04:11 PM - Forum: Android on Pine A64(+)
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Hey guys
I have tried to use a couple of players to try to get 5.1 surround from the pine64. I tested it with kodi, mx player and the native players both in remix and pure android. It just outputs stereo sound via hdmi although its DTS audio. On Kodi for android i tried using the audio passthrough to an amp i have (which can decode dts, as done by my old boxee box) but the audio cuts off every 3-4 seconds. Has anyone have any luck in running this as a true media center? Or has anyone managed to get 5.1 output out of a dts/dolby audio? 1080p video plays fine though.
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| Can't boot Remix OS |
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Posted by: arpanj2 - 04-28-2016, 03:28 PM - Forum: Remix OS
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Hi Guys,
I have tried every way of installing Remix latest version - using Phoenix or DD 8GB image onto a 64Gb card, but no luck. Its stuck for hours together on the flashing RemixOS screen. I have used DD image from the software page as well as from one of the posts, but no luck.
Earlier, when the version was made available, I was able to boot it but it was sluggish - but now its just stuck at the RemixOS screen - any help?
Thanks!
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| Power supply questions |
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Posted by: montero65 - 04-28-2016, 02:44 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PINE A64(+)
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I've seen a number of posts about people having issues with booting, and one thing brought up a lot is not using a good power supply. I ordered one of the Pine power supplies as an add on, but don't have it yet. In the meantime, I've ordered from one Amazon that was marked as being for Raspberry Pi 3, rated at 5V, 2.5A, by CanaKit.
What I want to know though, is how high of a current rating can be used? I don't know if higher current rated power supplies are out there, but if so, could I use a 5.0A, or even a 10.0A? What is the limit? I've read that plugging in externals like USB stuff could draw more current and cause voltage drops, so I'm wondering if I should be trying to find a higher current power supply if I plan on plugging in stuff.
And if a supply is rated for higher current, does that mean the current is available if necessary, or will it be always cranking out that much? If the board is only trying to draw 2.1A, will a 5.0A supply only supply the 2.1A? I don't want to get a supply that risks burning out the board.
Sorry if these are obvious, I'm not great with electrical stuff. Thanks!
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| Why no DVI-HDMI video? |
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Posted by: Sequence - 04-28-2016, 02:08 PM - Forum: Ubuntu
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Hey,
So I recently bought a new monitor for my Pine64 that has a DVI in. HDMI and DVI are both digital, so I bought a converter cable to connect my pine to the monitor. It doesn't work unfortunately (black screen.) I just googled it today and found on the wiki that...
"Do not use a DVI-HDMI adapter. If you want video output, use a HDMI cable direct to a HDMI monitor or TV. This may change as development continues."
Why is this? Would it work if I installed a different flavor of linux on my card instead of using the image given?
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Pine64, Ubuntu Xenial, ownCloud |
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Posted by: jean_bruder - 04-28-2016, 01:36 PM - Forum: Ubuntu
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Dear Pine64 users,
My fresh installed Pine64 is running Ubuntu Xenial after some strange crashes when trying to do a system upgrade : I had to made all the update using the serial console ... Now, everything is working fine, except ... ownCloud !
Apache2 is installed with PHP7/MySQL. A simple PHP file displaying the phpinfo() informations works fine.
Now ownCLoud 9 is installed and properly configured, according to the online owncloud installation manual. The setup seems to run fine (using the MyDSL DB), but the system become unresponsive on both the SSH remote console and the serial console when the owncloud pages starts to get displayed. No way to get any debug messages.
How can the system get debugged in order to try to understand what happens ?
Many thanks in advance,
Cheers,
Jean
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| Pine as a Pi-hole ... Does that make it a PineHole? |
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Posted by: tomd - 04-28-2016, 01:23 PM - Forum: Ubuntu
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Just a quick writeup on how I got Pi-Hole running on a Pine A64 512MB. I am by no means a professional or expert, just know enough to really mess things up! If I screwed anything up or am doing anything the hard way, please don't hesitate to correct me!
What is Pi-hole?
pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements (designed for Raspberry Pi)
https://pi-hole.net/
Install Ubuntu following damikeh's How To
Boot it up, personally I would suggest changing the default password and possibly adding another account, and changing the hostname but that's just my personal preference.
Update the repos and check for upgrades by running
Code: sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I installed my preferred CLI txt editor (nano) though any should work. While we are at it, going to install PHP which we will need for Pi-hole Web Interface
Code: sudo apt-get install nano php7.0-cgi php7.0-fpm
This may prompt you asking if you want to continue, respond with Y for yes.
Now we need to setup out network with a static IP address. I'm using the built in ethernet and am setting my IP to 192.168.1.240 and my router is located at 192.168.1.1 and we will use Googles DNS servers
Code: sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0
By default this will probably look something like
Code: auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
But we want it to me more like (changing any values as needed for your local network)
Code: auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.240
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
Now we need to restart the network so changes take effect, this should be able to be done without restarting the board itself, but none of the usual ways seem to be working for me so we can just reboot the board
Now once we login we can check and make sure out network settings are working by running ifconfig
Code: tomd@marvin2:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 36:c9:e3:f1:b8:05
inet addr:192.168.1.240 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::34c9:e3ff:fef1:b805/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19598 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6151787 (6.1 MB) TX bytes:3605516 (3.6 MB)
Interrupt:114
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19785 (19.7 KB) TX bytes:19785 (19.7 KB)
If all went well, our inet addr should now match our desire static IP!
Now getting Pi-hole on the rest of the way is easy!
Code: curl -L install.pi-hole.net | bash
It will take a few as it downloads and installs necessary packages, it will get made that PHP5 packages aren't available but we already install PHP7 so it seems to work for me!
Just follow all the prompts, I left the network interface stuff alone since we already configured that and once the installer finishes, it should be ready to go!
Next you'll need to change the DNS server your computer or device is using to the IP you set for your Pi-hole (192.168.1.240 for me).
Then to access the Web Control Interface, point your browser to
http://192.168.1.240/admin/index.php
You should get a page similar to mine
![[Image: pinehole.jpg]](http://s32.postimg.org/gpohavys5/pinehole.jpg)
Let me know if this helps anybody out! If you have problems, I'll do my best to help troubleshoot but am no means an expert on this!
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| HDMI->DVI Works "solution" |
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Posted by: Luke - 04-28-2016, 11:51 AM - Forum: Linux on Pine A64(+)
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So I managed to get HDMI->DVI working today after a lengthy conversation with Baryluk yesterday night. I have previously experienced a problem where colour black would be displayed as pink on my monitor using a HDMI->DVI connection. This happened over a cable that had a HDMI connector on one end and a DVI on the other. Today I bough a converter that plugs in on the end of a regular HDMI cable and I am no longer experiencing the problem with colour black being correctly displayed. For those of you in the UK/ EU - this is the converter I got: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-Genuine...+converter
I've seen some posts about this on here so I figured its worth sharing.
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No idea what your Pine is doing? Serial console! |
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Posted by: hyperlogos - 04-28-2016, 11:30 AM - Forum: Getting Started
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Short, short form:
- Connect the GND wire to Pin 6 or 9 of the EXP connector.
- Connect the RX wire to Pin 7 of the EXP connector.
- Connect the TX wire to Pin 8 of the EXP connector.
- Connect to the COM port at 115,200 bps.
I used a CH340G USB to serial which I bought for talking to ESP-01 ESP8266 boards. You can use basically any USB to TTL Serial. I used PuTTY to talk to the serial, which Windows helpfully told me was COM13 when I connected it. Since my USB to serial has a female header, I used three male-to-female jumper wires to connect it to the EXP header. Pins 7, 8 and 9 are right next to the memory card slot. I used pin 9 as ground.
When I plugged in the power connector, I got to see the full boot process, including formatting of the memory card.
I got the information here: http://elinux.org/Pine64#Serial_Console
In the case of the latest (20160303) Android release, there is a root shell attached to this port. If you have no video, you can execute a safe shutdown here with "reboot -p". I have not tried Linux yet, but I would anticipate a normal login prompt there after boot.
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