Do you wish there was an easy hands-free way to interact with your PP's touch GUI while sitting in front of your desktop system?
Would you like to compose, read, and send SMSs and IMs using your full size keyboard? Interact with your mobile apps using your desktop's mouse, and screen?
Is there a way to cut and paste between your phone and Desktop?
Maybe you would like to initiate and end hands-free or speakerphone calls without touching your phone?

These and more are all possible using VNC to remotely interact with the GUI of your Pinephone.

Let's start with your Pinephone; mine is running Mobian but the instructions should work for other distros; use your system's package installer. (this is for systems running Weyland for video, x11(and mir/surfaceflinger) uses a different VNC server)

Here's the document: https://files.pine64.org/doc/Pinecil/Pin...220608.pdf

I also notice that PS doesn't exist in the datasheet for the SC7A20, that pin is NC, although finding an English version was slightly hard, maybe there are different versions?

I used this as a reference for a custom board using it, before I was able to find an english datasheet, figuring that the pinecil is probably the most famous trusted application and whatever it does is probably right, but I'm having some issues getting it to work... Any advice?

Is this an old version of the schematic or something? I also just now noticed it says BMA223, which I apparently glossed over thinking it was a part of the package code, but actually that's a completely different accelerometer chip, so something funny seems to be occuring.

The SC7A20 needs CS pulled high, as far as I can tell from the other datasheet, and on my boards, the chip doesn't seem to be responding to an I2C scan.

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Hello

The little scissors assembly thing has broken on two of the keys on my PBPro keyboard (ISO / UK version)

One normal-sized one and the backspace key. It feels like the sort of thing that could be replaced, if I can source the assembly. I think in both cases it's the lugs that hold the switch into the keyboard side that have snapped off (so the scissors attaches to the key, just not the keyboard).

Does anyone know if it's possible to obtain them without buying a new keyboard? (the Pine64 store does sell US versions but not the ISO ones).

Thanks!

Chris

Anyone wanna buy a mostly linux but totally locked down 10" ereader for $100 used.
Or the same thing new for $399.

No?

Or would you like to buy a system where:
- the code is free if you wanna see if you can get black and white 30fps no flicker animation?
- you want to syncthing it with your life
- you want to rsync it with your life
- you want to load all of your information ... pdf's ebooks... over wifi or usb or (pray they add a sd card) ...
- you want to run your email client
- your browser
- your calendar
- your any one of 65k debian packages applications
- you want to solder a SD card port on it (if it doesnt come with one, I will pay $50 for the first person who does...my old remarkable had that hack)
- you want to crack the screen and be able to buy a new screen and make it work (again praying we can open/repair it)
- you want to VNC viewer to become a screen extension of your desktop?
- you want to add a bt keyboard and a bt mouse with a roller and probably (distro is X11) alt scroll wheel to zoom in and out and use this is a yes, I can sit on the beach and earn a living while getting a tan.
- (you see where this is going?)
- basically...you want to do anything with this...you can.
(try that with a competitive product)

So, OP 9+ is worth $150?  kb elip is worth $150...what trash and I going to sell to get that extra $100.

You guys rock.  I'm challenging myself to become the first order once it hits the store.

Bill

Hi all,

I'm looking for a open source NAS solution and it proves surprisingly difficult, especially on the more budget minded side of things. Got a ton of drives I have to load into something and open hardware would be preferred. Helios64 would be ideal if not for the minor problem of it not being produced anymore and unavailable on the second hand market (which I consider proof of a good design). PINE64 NAS Case with ROCKPro64 sounds like a decent alternative but again, it's not in store. I dont see anything that would hint it's comeback, even though this stuff seems like a fairly easy project with key components available already and a niche. I'd love Pine to pick up the Helios64 project, even if it comes with a proper markup, or at least to sell a decent case (better yet one for more than 2 drives). But if anyone has any other solutions I'm very interested to hear them.

Hi there,

thanks for this nice board. So far I have a working NAS setup with a Quartz64 model A, using the Startech 8 port SATA board plugged into the PCIe slot.

I am now trying to switch between battery powered "low power" mode and the "regular" 12V power supply. I know from reading the Wiki

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64_Mo..._a_battery

that the PCIe slot is powerd down while using the battery.

Now comes the challenge: how to properly reengage the PCIe slot when switching back from battery mode to the "fully powered" mode?

So far I tried:

- unmount all drives before disconnecting the 12V main power supply
- remove the PCIe slot via "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:00.0/remove"
- switch off the 12V supply

So far so good. The system keeps on running, the NIC is still powered, everything seems to work as expected, I am still logged in via ssh after disconnecting the 12V supply.

Now, when I reengage the 12V supply, I try to resurrect the PCIe bus via

echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan

This makes the PCEe bridge reappear. But the SATA-controller plugged into the slot is not reinitialized. I tried also

echo 1 >  /sys/devices/platform/3c0000000.pcie/pci0000\:00/pci_bus/0000\:00/rescan

But this does not seem to have an effect. The output of "lspci" still only reads:

root@nas:~# lspci  
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3568 Remote Signal Processor (rev 01)

but should be something like this

root@nas:~# lspci  
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3568 Remote Signal Processor (rev 01)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:01.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:02.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:03.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:04.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
03:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
42:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
81:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
c0:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)

I would be kind of cool (for power-saving reasons) if it would be possible to dynamically switch between battery and 12V main power supply. Is there any knowledge in this forum how to achieve this?

Kind thanks in advance for any comments, best

Claus

Hello

On October 1, 2024 I have ordered PinePhone from pine64.com
Order Number 357282 PayPal Transaction ID 2RY52872NE788445V
Can you please give me a little more info about my order ... Shipping Update etc please???
My order is accepted or is not accepted?
If accepted - what is about delivery, how long delivery takes?
If its not accepted - why I have any notification yet or why you did not full refund it?
Just to confirm - I want PinePhone I have ordered
Thank you in advance

I'm running Debiaan Trixie userland on the Star64, from an NVMe, with a 5.15.131-star64 kernel built by one of the images which are available.

I was not able to find a tree with kernel sources for the Star64 though, has someone details? The "tun" kernel module is not available for the kernel I'm using.

I bought a PinePhone 5 months ago. It was horrible. 

Worked on it again recently. Was advised to get a microSD card, pick a distro and go. 

I chose postmarketOS. Installed it. It asks for a pin. I don't see any docs on having to have a pin, nor, know what it is. Seems I can't do anything without it. 

I found 147147 on an old post. That didn't work. 

Anyone know what the pin is?

Hi all.
I made a reply about this issue to this issue in somebody else's thread started in 2021,
but it might be bumping a thread which is too old.
The original thread is this:

    https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13703


My essential problems are:

•  When I decompress and then dd the PostmarketOS image to an SD Card, I cannot boot from that SD Card on the Pinephone.   
  
  
•  Alternately: When I try to directly follow the PostmarketOS instructions for this: It also will not boot from that SD Card.
     
•  When I try to dd an image of  "JumpDrive" (PostmarketOSbootloader / boot selection tool developed by PostmarketOS devs) to the same SD Card, this also fails to boot.