Quote:But with a $400 price tag, it was also twice as expensive as the original PinePhone and never generated as much interest from buyers or developers. And now Pine64 says it’s ceased production of the PinePhone Pro and has no plans to resume selling the phone.

Привіт усім, я з України і щойно приєднався до спільноти. З нетерпінням чекаю можливості дізнатися більше про продукти Pine64.

Hi everyone! I’m working on a basic outdoor weather station using a Pine64 board, and I want to feed it real-time temperature, pressure, and humidity data from an ESP32 + BME280 sensor over the network. I just followed this helpful tutorial using an ESP32 with BMP280 to upload weather data to ThingSpeak it’s a great blueprint for sending environmental readings wirelessly:
https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2...erver.html
I’ve also seen a Random Nerd Tutorials guide for building a standalone ESP32 + BME280 mini weather station, and skimmed Pine64’s docs on setting up services via their community Linux image. Does anyone here have experience aggregating sensor data this way? I’d love tips on best practices for handling connectivity, lightweight data ingestion, or small dashboards on Pine boards.

A user on the armbian forum figured out how to get armbian to work. I was able to follow these instructions and update my machine. This requires tow boot on the spi. My system is on an nvme. 

The forum pst is here:https://forum.armbian.com/topic/50474-ex...ebook-pro/

Hello all.

I'm having a problem with my Pinetab2 here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19908

I'm trying to boot another OS from the MicroSD card using the UART adapter, but it just won't boot. Not with one or the other or both plugged in. I'm following this:

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2#In...structions

Am I doing something wrong?

I also noticed that if I plug in the UART adapter and get a serial console on my broken OS that boots to the login GUI, I start to see emmc errors on the serial console.

What can I do? I want to either:

1. Fix the OS on the internal emmc
2. Boot another OS on the MicroSD

I'm beginning to doubt the hackability of this hardware.

Hello!

I would like to know can I use Libre Office Writer etc. on Pinetab2? I don't mean review versions because I want to use writer version. I don't have yet Pinetab2 but I'm considering to buy it.

I'm currently testing a #Mobian kernel patch to improve battery life on the #PinephonePro and it's looking promising (about 3 hours of continuous use instead of 1 hour). If you'd like to try it out, assuming you are running Mobian, download the linked deb file onto your phone, install it, then shutdown your phone and remove battery, wait 10 minutes (to reset the battery meter), then boot into the new kernel. I recommend using this with Megi's uboot bootloader as you can then choose which kernel to boot into (6.16 is my patched one, 6.12 is the current Mobian one).

Note that suspend doesn't work in this kernel, I am looking into this. One additional bonus with this kernel is that if you uninstall the default Camera app, then install Camera from Flathub, it should work fine with both front and back cameras, you can take photos and scan QR codes and the image is not inverted on the back camera.

Let me know if you try it out.

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I see on the Manjaro forums they have a thread for every ARM Unstable Update.
https://forum.manjaro.org/c/arm/100

They say that only ARM Unstable is maintained anymore, but Testing seems to be getting updates too.

This Testing update arrived around 07.26 (Sat). Videos that used to play fine in mpv started getting debilitating amounts of audio dropouts with a buffer underrun message each time.

At first I thought it was due to video decompression getting less efficient and eating all the CPU, but playing the same files with --no-video and top running showed the system lightly loaded (~8% CPU), and yet the audio dropouts occured in the exact same places.

I tried updating to the Megi 6.15 kernel and rebooting. mpv no longer said "Audio device underrun detected" but the dropouts still occured, and pulseaudio was now hanging all the time and needing to be killed & restarted.

Start reading through this loooong page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAu...leshooting

Try running with pulseaudio -v, notice that it seems to be suspending too much.

Section 4.8, unload-module module-suspend-on-idle

And that fixed the problem completely.

(I had tried various other things since 07.26 like turning timer-based scheduling on and off, and adjusting buffer sizes, and so far none of it had helped.)

So pulseaudio suspend-on-idle is currently completely broken, at least with the default config. It thinks it's "idle" while it's playing back a video and the laptop is actively being used.

Next problem was pulseaudio sometimes starts endlessly spamming to the console,

My Pinetab 2 has been sitting unused for months at this point and I am considering selling it because it simply does not have any use case for me, it’s far too slow to be convenient for most tasks when I have access to my desktop PC most of the time and the clunkiness makes me want to avoid using it for Anki flashcard reviews when I am away from the PC. Has the Bluetooth been fixed since I last tried it? If it has then I could maybe consider using it as a portable media machine with my Pinebuds Pro. Thanks

Hello,
I recently got my PINETAB-V. I connected the USB-C power cable and pressed the power button for exactly 2 seconds, as instructed in the manual.

It looked like the OS was about to boot, but the following message has been repeating for over 4 hours:

`[21966.202233] [WARNING][BB]Skip gain error setting in scan status`

According to the documentation at [https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTab-V/\_full/]
> The 2nd batch of PineTab-V devices ship with a Debian Bookworm image from StarFive.

So I was expecting the OS to be pre-installed — is that not the case?