So I recently bought a cheap SBC to play around with and want to run it headless but with the full desktop image on it. I'm having a hard time finding a vnc viewer for the PineBookPro. I found a package labled gtk-vnc in synaptic, but after installing and trying to get it to work I finally gave up. What do you guys use when wanting to vnc into another device? When I search online for vnc viewers I can find them for everything else including raspberry pi, but not for our pb64's. Thank you.

I would like to install Android (at least 7.1.2, not Android-TV) on ROCK64.

What would be the minimum RAM size and SD card size requirements for doing this?
Can I get by with 1GB RAM version of ROCK64 and 8GB SD card?

The setup can and need be quite minimalist, as I will only need to run a handful of very simple apps. Google Play Store is not required for my use case.

For reference - When I ran these apps on an Android 5.1.1 emulator set to 1GB RAM, I had over 325 MB of free RAM; and only 26% of 8 GB storage was used.
            - Similarly, these same apps ran fine on an Android 7.1.1 and Android 10 Virtual Devices in Android Studio, both set to 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage.

I received my PBP today. After unpacking it I plugged in to power and left it alone to fully charge before first boot. It took 4-5 hr? For red led to turnoff. Next I powered the machine on and finished initial manjaro setup. After I got to logon screen I noticed that my trackpad is to totally not responsive. I can’t move cursor not any clicks do not produce anything. I did try toggle Fn-F7 but that did not do anything.
I did try to soft and hard reboot and no change.

Any one having this issue? Anyway to resolve this? Or should I consider it defective unit?

Cheers

Can wasp-os and MicroPython run on top of Mynewt to enjoy wireless firmware switching, full multitasking and a common companion app? Here's a quick experiment...

Porting MicroPython and wasp-os to Mynewt on PineTime Smart Watch (nRF52)

I used the debootstrap advice here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...2#pid66592

Instead, I installed Focal, omitted the CP ld-linux-armhf.so.3 line, and was able to use it. However, I get stuck installing Chromium. It's trying to install it using Snap and there are connectivity issues and accessing localhost.

Any recommendations?

I've been trying to get MakeHuman (makehumancommunity.org) to work for Blender (Blender.org). So far, I can easily install Blender from the repo. Using PPA, I can install Make Human (new and old) without issues. However, it crashes when I launch it. 


I've tried to reinstall libqt 4/5 OpenGL, Mali library, and Python modules. With each install/reinstall, I was able to get a little further until I hit messages mentioning that certain extensions aren't available such as GL_ARB_multisample and GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two.

Has anybody had any success in running MakeHuman?

Hi! I booted up my PBP for the first time, and I misunderstood the locale question, and selected the wrong one. So the whole system started in Arabic. I figured out how to change the locale in the settings manager, but it only changed about half of the text back to English. I literally have not done anything else on it yet, is there a way to redo the initial boot process? I feel like that would be the simplest option if possible.
(I'm fairly new to Linux and extremely new to Manjaro)

I saw a thread about providing a repair kit for the PBP last year and that seems like a great idea. However, I lost just one screw from the front of my device (under where the trackpad is) and I just need to be able to get a replacement screw. Paying for shipping to America would be ridiculous. Is there any way I could get the spec to purchase a replacement?

In this article I talk about using the Flutter mobile app framework (and Dart programming language) to create the PineTime Companion App for Android and iOS.

You can see that building a Bluetooth LE app with Flutter is not that hard! :-)

Your First Bluetooth Low Energy App with Flutter

I'll be writing another article about creating the PineTime Companion App for PinePhone with Go and GTK3... As soon as I receive my PinePhone :-)

I am working on the thermal simulation activities of ROCK64 board with heatsink R64-HS.  Can anyone send me the datasheet of heatsink R64-HS, iincluding the thermal resistance , or  the 3D model of R64-HS? Thanks.