orangepi5pro
By Igor Pečovnik / Desktop • General purpose / 0 Comments

Orange Pi 5 Pro

PCI support is broken on vendor kernel (6.1.xx) on versions higher then 24.8.1. Use this version and freeze kernel (armbian-config -> system) prior to updating OS. PCI works on other Rockchip 3588 devices, while fixing this on all represent expensive technical challenge which we will be able to proceed once your donations for entire project reaches at least 1000 USD per month. With Orangepi devices we have extremely high negative support budget. Alternative operating systems that relies on our work face the same problem. We appreciate for your understanding.

orangepizero3
By viraniac viraniac / General purpose / 0 Comments

Orange Pi Zero 3

The 26 pin headers on Orange Pi Zero3 provides the following interfaces:-

  • 3 I2C
  • 2 UARTS
  • 2 PWM
  • 1 SPDIF
  • 1 I2S
  • and 1 SPI with 2 CS pins.

The pwm, spdif and i2s support is not there in kernel yet and hence overlays for them are not yet available. We have added overlays for i2c and uart. The spidev1_0 and spidev1_1 needs some editing and will be fixed in the future. When using the overlays, user should make sure they don’t enable overlay for features that use the same pin as this can cause conflict and either only one of the conflicting overlays or none of conflicting overlays will work. Its easy to fix it though as one can just disable it again from armbian-config.

orangepi5
By Efe Çetin / Desktop • General purpose / 0 Comments

Orange Pi 5 and 5B

4K Video acceleration within Chromium works only in Jammy / Noble Gnome or KDE Neon desktop images with kernel 6.1.y

Enable AP6275P Wireless Module on Orange Pi 5:

Enable orangepi-5-ap6275p overlay from Hardware menu of armbian-config and reboot.

In order to run Kodi (sudo apt install kodi) with HW acceleration, you have to run kodi under gbm or wayland.

Armbian 24.11.1 Noble KDE Neon test report:

  • Flashed to SD card with USB imager
  • Boot ok, from sdcard, install to NVME and boot from
  • HDMI is ok, HDMI audio works
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok, troughput ~940Mbit/s
  • 4K video playback works in Chromium (accelerated)
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended

Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm minimal test report:

  • Flashed to SD card with USB imager
  • Boot ok, from sdcard
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok, troughput ~940Mbit/s
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended
orangepi4-lts.png
By jock jock / General purpose • Desktop / 0 Comments

Orange Pi 4 and LTS

  • Images for non LTS version can be downloaded here

Ubuntu Noble 24.8.1 XFCE testing:

  • Boot ok, from both sdcard and emmc
  • HDMI ok, boot splash screen shows up
  • USB2 and USB3 ok
  • Gigabit ethernet ok
  • Wireless ok
  • Bluetooth ok (although a bit spotty and usual cohabitation issues with wifi)
  • Analog audio codec is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended

 Debian Bookworm 24.8.1 minimal testing:

  • Boot ok, from both sdcard and emmc
  • HDMI ok
  • USB2 and USB3 ok
  • Gigabit ethernet ok, throughput is fine (~960mbps)
  • Wireless ok, throughput ok (~50mbps at 2.4ghz, but far from router)
  • Analog audio codec is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended
orangepir1-pluslts
By Kat Schwarz / General purpose • IOT • Networking / 0 Comments

Orange Pi R1+ and LTS

  • Images for non LTS version can be downloaded here
  • There is currently a known issue that may affect this board on some IPv4 only networks. Symptoms are variable, from intermittent drop-outs and slow-downs to total loss of one NIC or total loss of networking. The issue can be completely eliminated by disabling IPv6. Don’t try to do this through armbian-config as this method does not work. IPv6 must be disabled by adding a line extraargs="ipv6.disable=1" to /boot/armbianEnv.txt
  • Device tree overlays to enable uart1 and i2c0 are available in Armbian 23.02.
orangepi-r1plus
By Kat Schwarz / Networking / 0 Comments

Orange Pi R1+

  • There may be a known issue that could affect this board on some IPv4 only networks. Symptoms are variable, from intermittent drop-outs and slow-downs to total loss of one NIC or total loss of networking. The issue can be completely eliminated by disabling IPv6. Don’t try to do this through armbian-config this method does not work. IPv6 must be disabled by adding a line extraargs="ipv6.disable=1" to /boot/armbianEnv.txt