For wireless interfaces, it appears that WiFi and BLE are going to be supported. However, it would be extremely useful if one or more IEEE 802.15.4 interfaces were added. This would allow the device to perform the role of a 6LoWPAN edge router or a Zigbee coordinator. The price point of the Pine64 with a IEEE 802.15.4 interface would allow an economical creation of an IoT network using 6LoWPAN or Zigbee devices. The Hub from Smartthings costs $99, and has a wired Ethernet interface, an IEEE 802.15.4, Bluetooth, and Z-wave interfaces. Also, it is a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9, with 2 USB ports, 512MB DDR3 RAM, and 4GB FLASH. Thus, a Pine64 with a IEEE 802.15.4 interface is a much more powerful system with a much lower cost.
So please, consider adding a IEEE 802.15.4 interface. (Note: the Z-wave is an older and proprietary interface. To me, it is not that important.) The cost to add a IEEE 802.15.4 should be less than $5. For example, take a look at ATMEL ATmega256rfr2.
"Free electrons" is a French company that does embedded Linux development.
Apart from software development, they run seminars like the one below
about porting the Linux kernel to new ARM SoCs.
I'm looking to deploy several pine64's in our church for digital signage. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the pine64 running Ubuntu would be able to handle the Rise player? https://help.risevision.com/user/create-a-display
Hello, I am picking one of these units and hoping to start figuring out these new sub 20$ computer systems (ardunio/raspberry)
I really want to use this to remote monitor my homes heating units. I want to be able to monitor and record 4 different temperatures, with the capability of adding more, with a simple flow meter.
If anyone has any experience doing this, please feel free to contact me, or if anyone wants to figure this out and get a working model built - also contact me
I don't mind learning, but I also don't need or want to recreate a wheel if its already working.
Is it possible for me to compile Android from source code and flash the sdcard's system partition with the new system.img? Is there anything else I need to do other then flashing?
Congratulations on your $1m KickStarter achievement! Clearly you have struck a nerve. I have signed up for the Pine A64+ with 2GB RAM to use to trial Linux, as I'm becoming increasingly interested in open source / disillusioned with Apple.
On a bit of a side note, have you have tested the Pine64+ with OpenVPN? I know it's not top of everyone's wish list, but it is mine.
I live in rural Thailand, and my internet connection is rather unreliable. However, I have found that, by connecting to my own VPN server via OpenVPN, I can get speed increases of 50%, along with reduction in latency and increased reliability.
The other thing I've done is to invest in a Peplink bonding router, which allows me to bond multiple ISP WAN connections. At the moment I'm bonding 4.
However, it strikes me that I should be opening a VPN connection on each WAN connection before they enter the bonding router, so I've been talking with PicoCluster about them building me an 8 board, 4 node cluster, based on Pine A64+, as per the attached diagram.
Will this work? I don't think the chip you're using is particularly suited for AES encryption, so want to be sure before I spend $800+ on my little project!
