12-02-2018, 08:33 PM
I've been testing both the Rock64 and Rock64 Pro for about two months. I'm a long time Raspberry Pi developer. Unfortunately, the OS support on the Rock is poor. If you're doing GPIO, there is no official Python library. The Leapo library that everyone uses is buggy and does not support hardware interrupts (and thus callbacks). You have to poll. Pine has neither fixed this or answered my direct questions about it.
When running Ubuntu, I get segmentation faults. Trying Armbian, I get multiple issues trying to reconcile the python library dependencies. Sorry to say, but I'm not impressed. The hardware seems decent, but Pine has a long way to go before they have a stable production platform. We hoped to buy hundreds for a corporate project, but are giving up and running old slow reliable RPi.
When running Ubuntu, I get segmentation faults. Trying Armbian, I get multiple issues trying to reconcile the python library dependencies. Sorry to say, but I'm not impressed. The hardware seems decent, but Pine has a long way to go before they have a stable production platform. We hoped to buy hundreds for a corporate project, but are giving up and running old slow reliable RPi.