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Orange Pi Is A Pain In The Ass? (Read 169 times)
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Orange Pi Is A Pain In The Ass?
Sep 8th, 2017, 12:32am
 
It's not like I warned anyone... The Orange Pi is not for the beginner, and one has to do some detective work to get things working.
 
The mistakes this guy is doing is using the Orange Pi's Raspbian OS and not Arnbian. Using the Android from Orange Pi site also is a mistake, as it is a Chinese version of Android. There is an English Version of Android one can download, and if you can read Mandarin, you can switch the Chinese Android to English.
 
Raspbian for the O-Pi on their website is just a minimum set up of Raspbian. Things like the GPIO and other issues does not work on the Orange Pi, as the system was rushed out to show that the system does boot. One can spend days fixing it to get things to work, but no one has done so yet.
 
And the Power Supply is also a major issue with the Orange Pi, especially with the larger boards like the O-Pi PC. The smaller boards like the O-Pi Lite, O-Pi Mini, O-Pi One and O-Pi Zeros are a bit more forgiving on the power input as there are lesser chips to run on those boards. BUT at minimum, one should have 5V @ 2 or 2.5 AMPs for the O-Pi Boards, with the larger boards needing the higher amps. Funny though, I have ran the O-Pies just fine on the 2600mah cellphone Back Up Power Cell Packs and they are supposed to only throw out 1amp of power.
 
I do not have any problems with the O-Pies I have, which I have about 9 of them. Only issue is not having enough SD Cards for them as they want the more expensive high end Class 10 SD Cards. But I did found out that the OS for the O-Pi PC works on the O-Pi Mini, O-Pi Lite and O-Pi One as they all share similar chips and hardware memory maps. And of course, my O-Pi Zero 512MB and O-Pi 256MB also share the SD Cards with the same OS with the O-Pi Zero 256MB just running the GUI. Its much like the Raspberry Pi Model A and A+ with 256MB running Jessie with a GUI, it can do it. it is that things will be a little slower and you need to go into the config file and change the GPU memory to a minimum of 64MB.
 
I keep forgetting that the O-Pi Mini is no longer made or supported, but at least I managed to get one of them before they were discontinued. The O-Pi Mini is like the O-Pi Lite - no Ethernet but does have Wifi and Blue Tooth. Maybe it was a name change as both the Mini and Lite boards are too similar to each other, though I need to verify it with my eye.
 
But again, the O-Pi is not for the Noob User like the Raspberry Pi is. One should know some basic Linux and be able to do one's own apt-gets for what they wants along with updates and upgrades. One can learn all this through the Raspberry Pi and then move over to the Orange Pi. But if you get one, do not give up on it. It's a hair puller, but once you get it going, it is better than an R-Pi on many things.
 
Here's the guy's video of his attempt to boot with his O-Pi PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtUn-dnJFdU
 
Some successes here with Raspbian and Android boot here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSV6h2RZeq0
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Re: Orange Pi Is A Pain In The Ass?
Reply #1 - Sep 9th, 2017, 12:38am
 
better built but no support. damn. still want to mess with them someday
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Re: Orange Pi Is A Pain In The Ass?
Reply #2 - Sep 9th, 2017, 12:45pm
 
You will get your chance of a taste of it! The O-Pi One I sent ought to be a nice machine to start with.
 
The O-Pi PC, O-Pi One, O-Pi Lite and the (discontinued) O-Pi Mini all use the same chip set and hardware memory map, and can use the same OS on the SD card on all these models. In fact in another post I put up that the O-Pi Lite and O-Pi Mini has jumper pads on the boards to connect missing ports to them to complete it to a nearly complete O-Pi PC.
 
The FB O-Pi group is growing but not the O-Pi group on the O-Pi main site. It is similar what Banana Pi went through when they broke away from Lemaker. Now the Banana Pi group is fractured though they have systems.
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