Hi all,

Just registered for the forum, but I’ve dancing around the Pine-world for some time (even have an OG Pine64 SBC I got from the first Kickstarter laying around somewhere...). 

I saw that the Pinecil was released & while I don’t *need* another soldering iron I had always wanted to check out a TS80/100, but couldn’t justify the price (once I decided I needed something decent I got a Metcal SP-200 in very good condition for $70 + a couple tips. It’s no MX-5000, but gets the job done quite nicely for about as much as the aforementioned Chinese irons!). I dig a lot about the Pinecil & the low cost, USB-PD & other bits means I could find a use for it. So I figured I might as well consider all the Pine offerings if I am to buy some Pine kit and then I saw the PineCube & intrigued I became

Long story short - the wiki says that currently ‘we don’t know how to use the hw encoder yet’. Doing a quick Google I saw that there are a couple GitHub projects making use of the S3 chips hw encoder (from an OrangePi) running Armbian & have basic examples that include using it to encode a live camera stream. 

I’ll probably scoop one regardless if for no other reason than to toy around with/possibly use as a 3D printer cam, but figured I’d throw this out there in the off chance that no one had checked the existing projects for something that might be a drop-in:

https://github.com/rosimildo/videoenc (There are others, this seemed to be one of the more recent ones). 

Thanks!

Explore the BL602 GPIO and PWM Demo Firmware... And how they call the GPIO and PWM Hardware Abstraction Layer

Control PineCone BL602 RGB LED with GPIO and PWM

What are the community's thoughts about the 30 day hardware warranty on the Pinephone?  It's basically what's been holding me back from pulling the trigger on one.  In light of the recent news about the upcoming retail channel, I posted comments there and under the December update asking this question, and even tried to PM Lukasz but never heard back.  I was wondering if there were plans this year for a more traditional warranty than the 30 days.  I'm a Linux enthusiast so I feel right at home in the community (and not the retail channel), but, one's Linux or software expertise has nothing to do with the risk of developing a hardware problem after 30 days.  Perhaps is the concern not so great because the hardware is so inexpensive and the boards can be purchased and replaced?

I haven't brought myself to install Cheese because it's Gnome.  But I have another USB webcam (which this is) and even in OpenBSD it can do v4l2 (Video For Linux 2).  I'm In Bullseye, I did
modprobe uvcvideo and lsusb shows (maybe it did before):
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0c45:6321 Microdia HP Integrated Webcam

Installed a few v4l2 things, I don't really know what I'm doing.

Pow is a minimal and lightweight window/application switcher that uses wmctrl. Made for X.
https://github.com/jackghg/Pow

Try also:
OnKey onscreen keyboard. https://github.com/jackghg/OnKey
smlock screen lock. https://github.com/jackghg/smlock

I installed Kamoso and Cheese. If I take a webcam photo with either I get a solid gray image, even though the preview works just fine.

Hi!

This thread may go out to the pine64 crew...
Maybe it would be possible to get an update on the mainboard placement documents.

can the Thermal Camera module AMG883 be used with the pine64 LTS with Android 6.0, 
its sold by Adafruit for the Raspberry Pi, it connects to the Raspberry Pi via I2C
im still a noob when it comes to adding hardware and the programing side of things for the pine64

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AMG8833-IR-8...0005.m1851

Not sure where to post this, but I'm having trouble getting my app working on mobian, works ok on a desktop.

I'm making a geocaching app for mobian and it's mostly working except when clicking on caches on the map, double clicking to zoom in doesn't work either.

A current build can be found here: http://files.evilbunny.org/geocachingapp.deb

The app is far from finished, so far you can login and download caches and move the map about by clicking and dragging. If you run it on a desktop you can click on a cache and it outputs to stdout the cache ID, pinching to zoom on mobian doesn't seem to work either.

The signal to detect clicks on the markers is "button-release-event", I'm not sure if this signal is being sent to apps based on touches, and libchamplain doesn't seem to track/pass on "clicked" events to marker objects.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi guys,

I recently noticed a strange behavior with my pinebook pro and I hope it's not a sign that the charge module is giving out...

So problem is the orange power light that indicates charge is blinking when I try to charge my pinebook pro, but it does'nt do that when the pinebook pro is on...
It did not do that even a day ago so I'm kinda baffled, I also recently updated the pinebook pro so maybe this has been updated along?

Can anyone help me troubleshoot this issue?

Edit: I've browsed the forum and it looks like other people are having charging/power issues with the latest updates as well, I hope this is related because I haven't read any issue exactly similar to mine, this is kinda re-ensuring tho...