Hi,
I bought the pine a64 on Kickstarter and i would like if projects made for the Raspberry Pi will be compatible with the pine ?

Thank you !

Cookeys

Was playing around with the idea of making a SuperMario themed casing for my Pine.
The casing will be made in 3mm acrylic and the overall dimmensions of it will be 135x135x135mm.

I was not able to attach image, but if you follow the link under you can see the "prototype" of the case from my OneDrive album.

The album can be found here...

(The last image is side by side my Lumia 925 as reference to the size of the casing)

Because of the design there is ALOT of room for "shields" and addons to the Pine.


Needless to say this is going to be used as a gaming console...

I purchased a Pine64 through kickstarter and am and interested in using this PC as a multi purpose device.  I will utilize it as a HDMI media PC with Kodi, but I would also like to use it as a zwave controller.  I was wondering if this is possible.

I see the simple ability to use this PC to turn on/off lights, fans and scenes.  But being that this PC will be connected to my 70" TV as a monitor, I figured I could get multiple purposes from it.

My second questoin is if it will have an IR port built in.  I have a logitech Harmony Elite home remote that I would also like to use with this awesome new computer.

Any other advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi to everybody

I pledged 59$ for the IoT package, would it be able to upgrade to 2 Gb later?

Thanks

Hello,
    Any idea if the Pine as well as the screen are suitable for automotive temperatures? I wanted to make mine a "carputer" and mount a touch panel in my truck permanently. I know some electronics will become ruined in the Florida heat because of this though, (it is not recommended to leave normal tablets in your vehicle all the time, etc). Also, is the touch panel connection extendable so I can mount the pine under the dash, and have the screen be where the radio would normally be?

Thanks!

Is it going to be possible to stream 1080p Netlfix on Pine64 on any OS? Don't mind if it's Linux, Android or Remix OS.

There were requests to embed PoE on the PINE 64 board. Doing so would take a lot of valuable real estate on the board. It also adds complexity to the power circuits and general board layout. Given the size of the board, I think we'd all agree that the design & functionality choices made by the PINE 64 team have been good ones.

So... As it stands now the best way to get PoE is to do it is externally.


It was suggested in another thread to use the "extra" pairs in the CAT 5/6 cable by splitting them out. This compromises the 802.11 specs, but likely will work for short cables. There will be a significant voltage drop on long cables. Putting in higher voltage supplies to compensate will work, but the voltage drop will vary depending on current draw which can be an issue in some applications. That said, it'll work, but there can be significant power issues doing this.

The better and (IMO) correct way would be to use an external 802.3af compliant power device (e.g. something like a TP-LINK TL-POE10R) paired with a POE switch (e.g. something like a TP-LINK TL-SF1008P) or a 802.3af injector. 802.3af allows 25 watts, the previous standard was 15.4 with 12.95 watts available, so 2 amps @5v is no issue.

NOTE: the power out of the TP-LINK device is a barrel connector, so one would need to make a cable or use something ready made like this http://tinyurl.com/usb2m.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with TP-LINK, but have used these devices in the past and they worked well.

Just my $0.01 worth.

Hi , 

PINE64 total of have which linux ?

1. Ubuntu
2. Debian
3. Archlinux
4. Centos
5. Fedora
6. Other ......

Thank !

Hello,

I am thinking on porting OpenELEc to PINE64. I will create a fork with a new PINE64 folder under project folder to setup the board build/toolchain.


Has someone already started with this work? The idea is to redo as less as possible.

Thanks.

My first project is to try the Pine64 as a Redis Cluster by using several boards.  Redis is limited by network connections, ram, and to a very small extent disk space.  Because it's very easy to shard and cluster Redis, I think that that Pine64 would actually make a great Redis cluster.  Each board could be running a master instance and a slave instance for another master.  While the limited 2GB of RAM is still an issue with the Pine64, if you had say 10 boards, you could have essentially 10 masters and 10 slaves sharding the database thus giving you 10Gbps network throughput and 40 cores running only about 25 watts.  Sure you won't store the entire Google database, but compared to a standard server, the cost / watt performance should be extremely good.