Hello,

Hope everyone is doing OK and staying safe in their respective lock downs!

I'm having a strange issue with the latest ubports image: it wont boot.

• With the UBPorts SD card in I am just not able to boot the phone at all, either plugged in to power or not.
  
• Sometimes after pressing and holding power there is brief white/green flash of the status LED.
  
• Confirmed that battery had charge by booting PMOS on another SD card.
  
• Reproduced the same issue by writing the same UBPorts image to the known working SD card.
  

Manjaro ARM Alpha5 for PinePhone!

Official Manjaro Forum Link

Changes since Alpha4:

• Outgoing and Incoming Audio Call works.
  
• New SMS app called spacebear, A re-write of spacebar.
  
• Added some new apps.
  
• Angelfish browser is quite smooth and can add webpages to homescreen.
  
• Updated and more stable Plasma Mobile interface.
  
• Current Alpha image is using Testing branch.
  

• Buho - Simple Note Taking app.
  
• Nota - Simple Text editor app.
  
• Vvave - Audio player app. (Can play youtube Videos in it)
  
• Qwikaccess - Simple shortcut buttons app
  
• Peruse - Comic Book reading App.
  
• Koko - Kde Plasma Image gallery.
  

 Hello Pine64,

The Pine Store has a listing for replacement back covers for the Pinephone,

BUT they are "Out of Stock"  

Complete phones are on open 'Pre-order status'  so there must be a factory making these covers.

I have been extra careful opening my phone, but after opening it so many times it has finally cracked on me.

I am not blaming anybody,  but I DO wish to purchase one or two replacements,   P L E A S E   !

A response here on the forum may save a lot of emails to and from the store.

Thank You

Hi all,
I'm looking for some advice with regards to controlling a relay from a web page. 

I am familiar with using the RPi.GPIO to control the actual relay(s) on the pine64.

What I am confused about it how to have the web page button onClick event send the python code to the pine64.
Does html have an event or method "onClick" or is this only available using javascript?

Would I create a html (PHP) webpage  add a button, then have a cgi script run the python RPi.GPIO code?

I'm trying to come up with the right strategy of how to go about this so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Dave

What's the current state of the art for getting Netflix running on various distros, (especially Manjaro)?

If anyone has a reproducible procedure, maybe we can make it public here?

Hi all.

In this new time of video conferencing I have tried Jitsi Meet.

Jitsi is an open source decentralised video conferencing software for the browser or apps. Also it is free and several good people offer their Jitsi Server to the public. However the official one also works ok.

On the PBP you previously needed a Chromium  browser oner one of it's siblings to use Jitsi, but just now I noticed that Firefox now recognises the camera as well and it works.

In Firefox when accepting the permissions I have selected the USB Camera from the list, not the pre-selected one.

If you  have chosen a camera from the list that does not work, close the meeting and reopen it, you will be asked for permissions again and then you can choose the USB Camera. If you have saved the permissions you need to delete the permission for the camera in the preferences first.

The CPU load is quite high for both browsers though, but it works. Sometimes there are hick-ups, but overall it works.

How is your experience ?

Hi.

Is there any chance to offer markdown as a format for the forum posts?
Maybe it is possible to add that when the forum migrates to the new RockPro64 cluster ?

Hello everybody,

first of all a HUGE thank you to everybody who works on PostmarketOS! That is an amazing project and I see really stunning things happening.

But one thing I have notices when I compare it to the Debian + Phosh version (which you can find in another forum thread) is that they were able to adjust the form factor for many things almost ideally. Especially in Firefox this is huge, but also in other apps. 

Is there a way to collaborate a bit with them on this issue to just to "borrow" some code from them?

Best,
Thomas

Hi @Luke and Pine64ers,

Please let me share with you my expectations and then please allow me raise some more questions.

"RK3399 OG Pinebook upgrade kit testing and challenges; we’ll likely use graphene for cooling.". 

My expectation on this is that there will be a 11" RK3399-based Pinebook in the pipeline. The size is about the 11" MacBook Air late 2010 model. Is that possible to make it a combination of something like pi-top+pi? That is to say, when combined it is very decent laptop for everyday use. 

When detached, the naked SBC are versatile and flexible enough to let me attach various peripherals to it and serve as a core components of my other projects?

Now for some questions. 

Rockchip has just announced RK3588. Are there any new products and/or upgrade kits under development? What is the time line?

Will there be any accessories such as stack case? 

thanks community.

Hello,

I have been tweaking my Arch Linux setup since I described how to dirty hack Arch over Ayufans images in this forum a while back (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6333).

There is already a thread on compiling U-Boot for the RockPro64 in this forum by @TaborFife : https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7992, but he did not create a PKGBUILD for easy reproduction and updates under Arch Linux. His build is rather described to be built from any host, but I think if anyone wants to install Arch Linux on their RockPro64, it is likely they also have an Arch Linux x86 machine running somewhere

So, now I have created a PKGBUILD for building U-Boot for the RockPro64 from upstream U-Boot with ARM Trusted Firmware also built from source. The PKGBUILD and install files are based on the uboot PKGBUILD for the Rock64 which is already in the ArchLinuxARM repos.

According to the Rockchip wiki http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Boot_option, this equals to Boot Flow 2 with the small exception that ATF is also compiled from source.

The PKGBUILD can be both cross compiled from an Arch Linux x86 machine (works out of the box) or directly on your RockPro64.

What is the advantage of doing everything from source: First for the fun of learning, and second, I can do the build without the Rockchiptools. I just find things more beautiful if you do not need special vendor tools for anything.


So, here is the HowTo (to do an initial build to bootstrap your SD card from your Arch Linux x86 PC):

1) Check out the PKGBUILD from my GitHub: https://github.com/matyas1995/u-boot-PKGBUILD.git

2) Make the package - for bootstrapping the SD card, you will need to go into the directory where the package sources have been build my makepkg

3) Partition your SD card as described by @TaborFife https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7992 in his thread in Section 2, steps 0 to 4

4) From the directory where u-boot has been build (makepkg builds packages in the 'BUILDDIR' directory, described in /etc/makepkg.conf) burn the bootloader with dd to the SD card: