I ordered a dock for the Pinebook Pro and it arrived about a week ago and I just got around to trying it out. The only laptop dock I have ever used is for a Thinkpad. A Thinkpad dock requires no power to operate, although it can be powered if desired.

I have plugged the dock into the Pinebook Pro, but I get no HDMI output. I have booted from the latest Manjaro KDE image. The USB ports work when plugged in. Ethernet seems to work. The HDMI does not work, nor does the VGA work.

Does the Pinebook Pro dock need to have power connected to work? I do not have anything with USB C besides the Pinebook Pro, so I have no way to check out if lack of external power is the problem.

Thanks
bill

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Hello,

I'm building kernels for Manjaro Arm on and for the Pine64+ or the pineH64.  these are fine as long everything goes fine.  One complete kernel build on these devices takes me approx12 hours for compiling.  When the buld fails or it seems the kernel doesn't boot it takes me a long time to trouble shoot.  On my x86_64 pc it's around the same compiling time, so no benefit there and it's a lot more power hungry.

So i was thinking about selling a extra board just for compiling my arm stuff.  So now is my question:

which board should be better for compiling; should I go for the rockpro64 or wait for the Quartz64 or should I go for another SBC?

bravo to the guys who pushed this forward. it happened by accident that triggered me to research and ultimately realize how much privacy I dont have. I think I was asleep in the matrix like many people are. freely giving every information about myself. feeling I could trust google. not anymore.

  the trigger in me was with my phone. I turned it on and icons changed. I researched that and then realized how much privacy we dont have. since then I turned off everything I could, force stopping/disabling everything i can and I dont even browse on it. ever. it was googles mistake. had they not done that and ran things in the background, I would have never known.

let me get right down to it. I watch videos on PP to learn about it. ive used android and ios but know nothing of linux or PP. one specific video was this person installing pureos (this is the librem5 os, correct?) on the PP. within the first minute I saw the overview of setting up and a screen forcing him to opt in for location. oh no thats not good. does PP software have a forced opt in for tracking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT9XUkui4zs
in the 1:00 mark.

for me, realizing how much is being tracked with any android phone. made me look for options. Im curious regarding how much can be disabled with the PP so no tracking or data is being taken.

I dont plan on browsing on it. I will need a chat app. whatsapp is out. telegram with their new ads' is out, so maybe signal. otherwise will be happy to just use sms. anyone want, they can call. gps maps I will need and the basics like calculator sms and thats pretty much it. this trigger was a few months ago and since then I hardly want to use my phone.

I realize the PP is privacy aimed and features is not critical. thats fine by me. but seeing the video of the guy forced to opt in for location is a worry for me. I dont have anything to hide but no respect to a persons privacy and constant tracking really gets me worked up.

ive erased my fb, this used old laptop I use now (just for browsing) uses w10 (horrible)and its getting downgraded back to w7. I plan to install linux on another spare 2nd pc and learn that in parallel as it will be too frustrating for me to make a cold turkey switch.

besides this I see many videos of people showing issues with the software but im glad the option is there and in time will get better so really psyched .  I read many posts here to learn about the PP as well. all in all, I think its wonderful.
I wish I could convert my brother but hes mac fanboy ostrich with head in the sand, which also happned by accident because of his buggy HTC windows mobile.

stay safe and merry christmas

While searching over past threads talking about custom sensors, the gist of it was that you could just 3D print your own back case to fit whatever extra sensor you'd like.

Now, obviously, this wouldn't work for a UV sensor and the top part is occupied by the screen. Do you think it would be possible to create a custom top case for the watch or hack the existing one?

I think a UV sensor would be an amazing addition - this was one of the features I loved the hell out of on the Microsoft Band.
Why? My skin is insanely sensitive to UV exposure - vampires probably have it easier than me and living in the Mediterranean makes walks outside a challenge haha so, having a UV sensor to monitor my exposure would be an awesome project I'd like to work on and, if such a sensor could be embedded somehow in the case would be the ideal scenario.

I tried installing things and updating using apt and apt-get again on my Pinebook and now I can't boot Neon.
I can get to the console, but it gives me a kind of graphics related error.
Is there an easy way to undo this? Without reinstalling Neon?

Hi, I'm running the newest version of Mobian and whenever I try to take a picture in Megapixels the app crashes, the viewfinder and such works fine it's just taking the photo that's the issue. I tried running the app from the terminal and I seem to get a segmentation fault, anyone know what's wrong?

Hi folks,

I received my replacement mainboard for my BH pinephone but I wonder what the purpose of the shielding tape is that came with it? Am I supposed to apply it somewhere?

Edit: Seems like the new mainboard comes with the shielding but BH was missing it. I suppose it's included in case you want to repurpose your BH board then. Confirmation welcome.

A week ago I came across the PINE64 site while looking for some alternative SBCs to replace an RPi3 in a project.  I have no real reason to do so other than I enjoy using new pieces, or old, of hardware in motion control.  Currently I am building a machine to run tensile tests on materials to analyze their properties which uses a RPi3 connected to an Arduino as the main controls.  The machine uses a ball screw driven by a servo motor with a motor encoder.  Currently the Arduino reads the quadrature encoder which is not the most efficient use for an entire micro controller, but quadrature ICs are fairly expensive from what I can find.  I have been looking through some of the Pine SBCs data sheets and schematics but have a yet unanswered question.

To the point: Do any of the pine SBCs have a built in quadrature encoder input?

In my searches I have found that the Beagle Boards do, but after a few hours of looking around here I am very interested in the PINE 64 products.

due to a recent edict by my state government I find I'm no longer able to buy food or alcohol since I have to sign in at all restaurants and bars using a random "guest register" which pretty much every establishment is only enabling access to via a QR code. Obviously The govt say that establishments "should" allow other electronic means to register, but people are lazy so they don't. I dislike QR codes as much as the next person (I mean they could just print the URL as text - but obviously they don't bother) but need a solution.

I've mostly been using Manjaro recently but any suggestions using other distos welcomed.

What I've tried and what's failed.

obviously neither qtqr or cobang allow access to the camera and neither scale very well either
Taking picture using megapixel and using zbar or uploading the jpg to onlinebarcodereader have been (repeatedly) unsuccessful.
Taking the raw files from megapixel  and creating higher resolution jpgs for those apps/services/applying sharpening filters using rawtherapee also hasn't worked.
UBports and sailfish both have qr readers but neither  can access the camera.

I'm beginning to wonder if the camera can even take sharp enough pictures to decode a qr although the results I've achieved with rawtherapee have looked fine.