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  Setup My Pinebook 64 and Lost Password
Posted by: jersdayoff - 04-23-2021, 11:00 AM - Forum: Getting Started - Replies (5)

Hi everyone! I am new here. What is the easiest way to reset the OS, I have completely forgotten the password and am locked out. Thanks in advance for the help Smile


  UB Touch build with debos
Posted by: layton-dev - 04-23-2021, 08:12 AM - Forum: UBPorts on PinePhone - No Replies

Hi !

I'm currently trying to build from source a UBTouch image, for the Pinephone and I'm following these instructions :
https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/pinephone

Apparently, the images are built using the tool "debos" : https://gitlab.com/ubports/core/rootfs-builder-debos
But after following the provided instructions (installing Docker, etc) and running the command :

./debos-docker -m 5G pinephone.yaml

I have the following error :
"Action `Pine64 common` failed at stage Run, error : stream error: stream ID 1; INTERNAL_ERROR"
... right after trying to download the UB Touch rootfs.

I'm wondering whether this is some kind of network or proxy problem (I can download the rootfs just fine with a web browser, though), or if anybody else has the same issue ?

Thanks !


  PinePhone Keyboard update [April 24/04]
Posted by: Luke - 04-23-2021, 06:56 AM - Forum: News - Replies (73)

A look at PinePhone keyboard prototype

In this month's community update I wrote that once the keyboard molding arrives from the factory I'll make a post about it. I know that many of you are eagerly awaiting news, so now that it is here (well sorta, I'll get to that) I'm happy to oblige with some show-and-tell.

I decided on posting a forum rather than a blog post simply because there isn't enough here for me to write about to warrant a blog entry. I currently don't have an ETA of final molding, store availability date, functionality status report, etc,. Also, if you just found out about the keyboard's existence, then I encourage you to first read this blog post, followed by the March community update.

Let me give you some context for the pictures and video. This pictured molding isn't actually final - there are still a handful of touchups needed. Most notably, the key caps need to be remolded because the tolerances are currently not quite right. This will take some 2 weeks or so I'm told. The final keyboard will also be all black (although I think it looks nice with the white bit), and of course the key caps will have latter and labeling we all decided on a while back.

Lastly, the video and pictures were shot at the factory, and are meant to show progress rather than being promo material. Also, that PinePhone has seen things Sad 

That's all I have for you today, but it is likely I'll have more details to share in the May community update.
Enjoy the pictures and video below.


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Video showing the PinePhone + keyboard open, close, hinge position and stiffness


Information Pinedio Project: Notes Sharing/Log
Posted by: RTP - 04-22-2021, 03:15 PM - Forum: P64-LTS / SOPINE Projects, Ideas and Tutorials - Replies (45)

EDIT: installing https://github.com/righttoprivacy/rak_co...or_gateway sets the Pinedio gateway devices (concentrator/gps) listed below. (Leaving notes for context/reference).
See lower page for example image with fork installed.

Hello! Smile

Post to share things that are found helpful/work, progress/Notes along Pinedio Gateway/modules/Kit.

(Pinedio uses Rak Wireless "LoRa"/Mesh related/compatible hardware).

Pinedio's Wiki has been started and can be found here: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinedio

Thread for sharing some found to be working notes that can be edited out/posted to WiKi as wanted.

The Pine64 Gateway's underlying hardware runs on the A64-LTS (this looked the best place to post this - feel free to move).

Working SOPINE/Patched Armbian image can be found at:

*** Removed one of the images as users reported ethernet was not working- my working image is below this:

https://mega.nz/file/Wd5CGRhB#spBqSQrhLm...HopFs4Ho9o (576MB) (Uploaded this copy after patching it)

sx1302_hal compiles/installs on Armbian without issue.

EXPERIMENT: SET UP RAK_COMMON_FOR_GATEWAY (ORIGINALLY FOR RPI: SOME MOD REQUIRED - NOT QUITE FINISHED):

Run sudo armbian-config. Enter System to enable SPI/UART for sx1302/rak/GPS.

Then Add The Following Line To /boot/armbianEnv.txt:

Code:
param_spidev_spi_bus=0

***After this reboot Gateway***

NEXT:

Code:
clone https://github.com/RAKWireless/rak_common_for_gateway.git

Then:

Code:
cd rak_common_for_gateway

In rak/install.sh comment out the line (add hash mark in front of)

Code:
# systemctl stop hciuart
(or you will receive errors aborting your install)

Run the install.sh script in the main directory.

Select: 7 : rak2287/GPS without LTE

We can use gateway-config command to make some device location changes (if needed).

Before entering gateway-config -> edit packet forwarder, we need to grab our mac address based Gateway ID for all LoRa networks. To grab this Gateway ID run:

Code:
gateway-version

It will print out your Gateway ID (based on your unique mac address).

Inside gateway-config make the following changes:

Code:
{
    "SX130x_conf": {
        "com_type": "SPI",
        "com_path": "/dev/spidev0.0",
        "lorawan_public": true,

Set GPS to /dev/ttyS2 and grep -i reset to find reset pin swapping 17 with 71.

GPS section of the packet forwarding should look as below

Code:
/* GPS configuration */
        "gps_tty_path": "/dev/ttyS2",
        /* GPS reference coordinates */

Above GPS, replace the default GatewayID with your gateway ID retrieved from gateway-version (from earlier). The line looks like:
Code:
"gateway_conf": {
        "gateway_ID": "03BD3EFFFF21D2F",

Restart packet forwarder. You may need a reboot.

GPS Related:

If experimenting with The Things Network I discovered Gateway does not appear on the map until the GPS signal is stable. I ran a line towards a window to give it a clear line of sight for GPS. Using a temporary antenna I was able to get a better GPS reception. Immediately after setting up this stable GPS link, the Gateway appears on the map and the PPS counter begins.

journalctl log example (still more to look at):

Code:
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: Opening SPI communication interface
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: Note: chip version is 0x10 (v1.0)
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: INFO: using legacy timestamp
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: INFO: LoRa Service modem: configuring preamble size to 8 symbols
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: ARB: dual demodulation disabled for all SF
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: INFO: found temperature sensor on port 0x39
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: INFO: [main] concentrator started, packet can now be received
Apr 24 23:45:14 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[10543]: INFO: concentrator EUI: 0x00xxxxxxxx (masked)
Apr 22 16:57:19 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: CoreCell reset through GPIO71...
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: *** Packet Forwarder ***
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: Version: 2.0.1
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: *** SX1302 HAL library version info ***
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: Version: 2.0.1;
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: ***
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Little endian host
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: found configuration file global_conf.json, parsing
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: global_conf.json does contain a JSON object named SX130x_conf, parsing SX1302 parameters
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: com_type SPI, com_path /dev/spidev0.0, lorawan_public 1, clksrc 0, full_duplex 0
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: antenna_gain 0 dBi
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Configuring legacy timestamp
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: no configuration for SX1261
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Configuring Tx Gain LUT for rf_chain 0 with 16 indexes for sx1250
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: radio 0 enabled (type SX1250), center frequency 904300000, RSSI offset -215.399994, tx enabled 1, single input mode 0
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: radio 1 enabled (type SX1250), center frequency 905000000, RSSI offset -215.399994, tx enabled 0, single input mode 0
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 0>  radio 0, IF -400000 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 1>  radio 0, IF -200000 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 2>  radio 0, IF 0 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 3>  radio 0, IF 200000 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 4>  radio 1, IF -300000 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 5>  radio 1, IF -100000 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 6>  radio 1, IF 100000 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora multi-SF channel 7>  radio 1, IF 300000 Hz, 125 kHz bw, SF 5 to 12
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: Lora std channel> radio 0, IF 300000 Hz, 500000 Hz bw, SF 8, Explicit header
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: FSK channel 8 disabled
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: global_conf.json does contain a JSON object named gateway_conf, parsing gateway parameters
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: gateway MAC address is configured to AAxxxxxxxxxxxx (mac masked)
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: server hostname or IP address is configured to "router.us.thethings.network"
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: upstream port is configured to "1700"
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: downstream port is configured to "1700"
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: downstream keep-alive interval is configured to 10 seconds
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: statistics display interval is configured to 30 seconds
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: upstream PUSH_DATA time-out is configured to 100 ms
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: packets received with a valid CRC will be forwarded
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: packets received with a CRC error will NOT be forwarded
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: packets received with no CRC will NOT be forwarded
Apr 22 16:57:23 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[6400]: INFO: GPS serial port path is configured to "/dev/ttyS2"
....
Apr 23 03:17:37 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[17110]: # PUSH_DATA datagrams sent: 1 (124 bytes)
Apr 23 03:17:37 rak-gateway ttn-gateway[17110]: # PUSH_DATA acknowledged: 100.00%

[OP actively being edited and may change - will clean up as I go]

(Thanks JF for sharing some hardware/SPI related information especially on GPS as I have not worked with an LTS/A64 board until now)

My thought is to continue looking at what may not yet work, change things along the way until all is functional.

Having some odd things happen where I make a small edit to packet forwarder and it resets to original RPI, leading me to have to re-edit leading to starting of concentrator (as far as can see - will end up testing a node on it coming up and checking more details that might differ between RPI/Pine64- if you have anything helpful to share, thanks).

(For now mainly looking at Gateway and using rak_gateway as a starting point to test hardware and make changes).

If you have anything/thoughts/suggestions to add, related, or unrelated, please do! Smile


  zfs on rockpro64 - any dual nvme PCI adapter for software raid ?
Posted by: romadr - 04-22-2021, 02:59 PM - Forum: RockPro64 Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

Hi everybody,
I am currently testing intensively rockpro64 in a blockchain usecase on a testnet.
As it is higlhy transactionnal, zfs OLTP performances are very appropriate to this usecase.
Actually it is the case, some easy arc size tuning makes it very performant in extreme i/o conditions.
No I want to mode forward for production testnet and I want to make it as safe.
I have found many adapters for a single nvme SSD, and I am looking for a dual PCI SSD adapter to run mirrored zfs pool on rockpro64.
Has anyone of you already found such PCIe adpater (not looking for an USB aspater) ?
For more details, I am running armbian focal ubuntu server on a rockpro64 SBC with a 2GB arc size on a 1GB zfs pool on nvme.

Many Thanks


  Display keeps dimming
Posted by: jojuma - 04-22-2021, 12:54 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (5)

Hello,

I hope I'm right here. I experience a weird behaviour for some time now with my KDE Community Edition PinePhone:

As long as I touch the screen, the brightness goes to normal. As soon as I lift my finger, the screen dims down to minimum immediatly.
The problem does not appear, as long as the phone is charging. But if it is not connected to the charger, the Pinephone is unusable like this. Shortly everything was ok, maybe this has come from a recent update.

What could be the reason? System is up to date...

Not every time, but sometimes when trying to power the phone off, an error appears and I get a mouse pointer. But the screen is too dark to read the error message (even with flashlight). The phone stays in this state until powering it of the hard way.

I found this thread which might provide a solution. But I'd prefer not to touch system files.
Did anybody experience this and solved it?


  PineTab Mobian Upgrade issue - Pin no longer works
Posted by: thomzane - 04-22-2021, 11:38 AM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (3)

I have had lots of issues trying to get Mobian to work and I am confused by my most recent problem.  Maybe one of you have resolved this issue.

Background: I could not get the latest installer (mobian-installer-pinetab-phosh-alpha5.img.gz) or the latest build (mobian-pinetab-phosh-20210314.img.gz) to work by flashing the eMMC using JumpDrive 0.7 with bmap or dd.  I tried both encrypted and unencrypted with the installer.  The installer finished, but both choices resulted in a system that did not boot.  With the latest build, it would resize, and then go to black.  Reboots would flash the Mobian logo and then be black.  I started flashing older builds using the same process with success.  I do not have the serial cable to investigate the black screen issue further.

Now I am having trouble updating the old builds (mobian-pinetab-phosh-20201215.img.gz) to the latest version.  If I use the Software app and try to update, I run into the "Gnome Software (gnome-software) unable to download updates" issue listed on the troubleshooting section of the Mobian wiki [1].

The wiki suggests running these commands using King's Cross app:

Code:
sudo apt-get install packagekit-tools
sudo pkcon repair
sudo pkcon update

I do that and answer y enter to the apt-get install and pkcon update.  Everything appears to be updating.  If the device falls asleep during the update, my old pin no longer works!  I swipe up, enter the pin, tap unlock, it says Checking..., shakes, and returns to the Enter Passcode screen.  I tried twice with the default 1234 and a new updated numerical pin.  Both have the same behavior.  I even tried with an older build (mobian-pinetab-20201005.img.gz) and it had the same behavior.

If I plug a USB keyboard into the PineTab, I can enter a different TTY to access a command line with CTRL+ALT+F3.  I can login with username mobian and password 1234 so I can verify that the pin is correct.

Any troubleshooting ideas?  I could try the entire process a third time and make sure that the screen does not sleep, but this seems like a big issue that could affect others.

[1] https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...ad-updates


  InfiniTime 1.0 for the PineTime is out!
Posted by: Luke - 04-22-2021, 10:46 AM - Forum: News - Replies (3)

Read the blog entry by @JF002 discussing the release of InifiniTime 1.0 for the PineTime.

Read now


  Pinepower Desktop 120W
Posted by: marc.d - 04-22-2021, 09:25 AM - Forum: General - Replies (5)

Hi all,

I received my pinepower desktop earlier this week, and seems to be working fine when just used for charging devices.

However, when using the pinepower to supply power to a Raspberry Pi 4 (or even to a Lattepanda Alpha) through the type-C port, I'm seeing that the output power just drops then returns randomly, resulting in the SBCs to reboot, and that even multiple times per day. 

Initially I thought this was because of me plugging and unplugging the usb cable to charge my pinephone on the quickcharge port, but apparently, after leaving the pinepower desktop on overnight, I figured that the SBCs had rebooted multiple times!

It is strange to see this behaviour, and I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing this issue.

I'm aware the device is promoted as a charger, but I would like to know if this is considered normal.

Thanks!

PS: Feel free to move this message to a different thread if needed, because apparently there is no dedicated forum for the PinePower desktop to this day.


Shocked Rock64 - Reboots after few minutes
Posted by: addezai - 04-22-2021, 08:30 AM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCK64 - Replies (2)

Hello there,

I have a Rock64 4GB Board, powered by POE and running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (by Ayufan), Booting from microSD, no eMMC installed.
With fresh installations everything works great (i mean bare OS and no other applications), My intention of buying this board is to move away from RPi3B
for my Home Assistant system. I believe Rock64 is much more powerful CPU and extra RAM can provide a better environment.

However after migrating my working Home Assistant from RPi-3B to Rock64, Rock-64 started crashing immediately after boot with kernel panic.

I was able to take a short video to read what's going on with system and below are few lines which hets printed on console at panic.
Note that I have a oversized fan constantly blowing air on Rock64 and Heatsink is also installed on CPU.

Any help to resolve this issue will be appreciated.. Rolleyes  ( I believe this is not too unstable system and can at least handle load what RPi-3B was doing past 2 years)


---- ERROR LOGS ---
INFO: task systems:885 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
----
----  few more lines here with exception stack... 
----
Kernel Offset: disabled
Memory Limit: none

rockchip-thermal ff250000:tsadc: channel 0: temprature(48 C)
THERMAL REGS:
<SOME ADDRESSES IN BINARY>
Rebooting in 10 seconds