Hey all!

While anxiously waiting for my PINE64 to arrive my mind has been racing with all the cool things I might be able to do with it.

One thing I'd like to try to do is turn it into a virtual PINEball machine.

I was wondering if anyone knew if the PINE64 is capable of running Visual Pinball or Future Pinball?

Thanks!

Starting with Kernel 3.10.65-2-pine64-longsleep-43 the media modules are included. This means one could use the hardware video engine on the SoC. So i felt why not try it - and surprisingly it worked .

Pine64 decodes 1080p H.264 and HEVC just fine and smooth with Cedrus from linux-sunxi community.

You can do it yourself following the Cedrus build instructions on http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus

HEVC bbb-1920x1080-cfg02.mkv

I haven't found yet any post about this, so I am setting one as I work through what I have. 

Disclaimer: I am a noob, don't get biased by my moderator status ;-) 

Alright so let's start by the goal: 

Goal. I need a weather station to be used on a Net-Zero building. They are getting popular in Hawaii, since electricity is expensive here. I just happen to be a hire in a group dealing with those stuff, so I see the potential to use my pine to play around with this.   I will basically dump my Pine in there and collect some data side-by-side with other sensors that already exist there. I imagine the IoT kit likely would benefit from this as well. 

If you browsed over the backerkit, you will see this:




So, the Humidity/Temperature sensor and the Ambient Sensor call attention right off the bat. But is that all we need? Digging in the wiki, I found this template:



Looking back at the Backetkit, you will notice the I2C POT is the "Pine64 12C Multiport POT. Further digging the wiki you will find how it is connected to the Pine64:



Awesome. Now we got the two main folks plugged in, the next is to worry about the sensors. Where do they go? Looking back at the template, we can see the 12C connector has a 4Way Connector and a 5 Way Connector. Again, referring to the wiki, if we stare close enough we will observe this is the number of pins for each sensor (the "white thing"):





4 and 5 respectively. Inspecting closer the 12C POT we will see it has both 4 and 5 here and there with the 5 names..

Ok great so we see the holes. Now what we are missing is how to plug them in.. and again checking the wiki we get a picture of the actual thing built up:

 

Looking at the template again, we can see this is not really the arrangement being shown. Rather it seems closer to this one:



Which is plugged to the Wi-Fi module instead....but seems inconsistent with the template naming. Either way, depending on which set-up we go this may influence if we want 4-way cables, 5-way, or 4-to-5 cables as shown on the template. Seeing this also made me wonder: For those who added the wi-fi and blue-tooth module at the $89 tier, can we just go with the second arrangement and avoid building the 12C POT? What else would we plug in there? 

Thats it for now. :-) Hopefully someone with more expertise feels like sharing their know-how here. To this point, the POT Development Board and Z-Wave remain a full mistery to me, other than the later is useful for OpenHub OS as it is part of the IoT kit.  I am also not sure if the USB Serial Programmer is just an extra USB port or if there is anything special to it. 

Again if you know anything about this, please consider starting a thread, or providing educational links or simple reply to this thread ;-)

Hi folks, has anyone posted yet anything concerning building a weather station with the ambient light sensor and humidity temperature sensor and what else would be needed to assemble one? :-) I've been considering sticking a post with the different combinations and this one appears to have been missing as a package. 

Additionally, has anyone bought the IoT kit? I've been curious on the possibilities and what know-how is required. 

Thanks!

Hello All,

I see this list of ports available on the pine64, but I'm a bit unsure if one of these supports rs232. I'm sure rs232 would be supported but I'd just like some confirmation.

http://wiki.pine64.org/images/d/da/Pine64_Connector.JPG

Thanks,
sean

Hi all, 
I'm from Europe (Italy) and I'd like to know from other european users:
1) which courier was used to deliver the product to you (DHL, UPS, national post service...)
2) are there duties or fees? (shippings start from USA for us)

Thaks in advance

Hi!

I had a quick look at what I assume is the datasheet for the Wifi/BT chip/module that is then mounted onto the Pine64 "breakout board" type module.
I found it on the Pine64 Wiki so I assume that's what it is; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0cEs0l...9kRDQ/view


There are two pins on the actual IC that caught my interest;
"WLAN to wake-up HOST" (13) and "Bluetooth device to wake-up HOST" (7).

Are those pins be reachable and somehow relevant/useful when connected to the Pine64?
In other words:
would we be able to power up the Pine 64 by sending a simple Wake-On-Wifi package or BT equivalent?

(I'm not sure if there are any smartphone apps easily available that lets us send a Wifi/BT host wakeup "magic package" though)

Being able to boot up the Pine64 that way would be pretty neat, since it could be as simple as a "shortcut" on your smartphone.

http://wiki.pine64.org/images/7/7d/Pine6...nector.png


please update the wiki this. It would be nice even if then equal to the type specified in the slots.

Hi guys,

As you may know, I have recently received a PINE64 1GB board where I run ubuntu 16.04 xenial and one of the reason for which I wanted to own a PINE64 was to run a Tor relay.

If you are interested on running a Tor relay too, you can find instructions on my last blog post:

http://blog.antani.co/pine64-tor-relay/

Please let me know if anything is missing or could be improved.

I thought we'd get a 48 hour warning per lockdown, as we did with feb/early bird, did I miss the warning for march?