Posts by jernej

  • [Orange Pi 3 LTS] Wireless and Bluetooth Aktivate

    Anyone can, but there is very limited documentation within build system. There is no other way than to "dig in" build system and learn by trial & error.

    Main reason why LE team decided not to add each and every wifi driver to official image is because it's annoying to keep these wifi drivers buildable and working across different kernel versions. If you have luck, someone already published driver sources for currently used kernel version and all you need to do is just write package.mk file which points to those sources. If not, you have to also create patches to fix build and/or working issues.

  • Initial boot of Orange PI3 LTS

    That error usually indicates that your partition UUID doesn't match. Why does that happen I can't say, I don't use LE SD creator. I use dd on Linux, which writes image 1:1 on SD card and I never had any issue with it, although it's pretty dumb tool (thus not ideal) and it doesn't verify if everything has been written correctly. In any case, you can override UUID in extlinux.conf. Before you do that, get current UUID by executing "lsblk" in that emergency console. Check for ext4 partition.

    While I didn't test LE11 final on OPi3 LTS, I tested clean install of beta and it worked as expected. I don't have any reason to doubt final release. Nothing changed in that regard.

    EDIT: eMMC install script takes care for UUID update. So once you're able to boot SD image, installation to eMMC should be straightforward and without issues. Note that this means you'll lose everything there. No backups are made.

  • Initial boot of Orange PI3 LTS

    SD card image must be written 1:1. If you start making your own partitions and stuff, IDs won't match and you'll get exactly the problems you have. FYI, there should be 2 partitions, one FAT32 and another ext4. Later one is just 32 MiB at first and it's resized at boot to cover whole card.

    Automatically installing OS on eMMC would be extremely bad. It destroys all data on it. If you want to do that, call "install2emmc" command from ssh.

  • Initial boot of Orange PI3 LTS

    Integrated IR receiver is more than capable handling most if not any IR remote. All you need is correct keymap. Chances are that there is already working keymap that just need enabling. Note, I'm far from being expert in this field, so I can't give you any better explanation that it's already on wiki.

    Of course it's possible to wake up or power on board via IR. However, protocol and key number must be selected at build time (limitation of power management firmware.) Due to that fact, default protocol and button on boards which come without remote (including OrangePi 3 LTS) is RC9 MCE power button. This combination was selected due to popularity of windows media center remotes. If you want to customize this, you have to build your own image with adjusted configuration. But good news is that usual LE updates don't update U-Boot, which, among others, contains power management firmware and is responsible for loading it. So you have to do this only once.

    Any power button, be it on board or on IR remote, only brings up power menu in Kodi. I'm not aware of any direct way to power it down or sleep with one press.

    Note, other power up options are power button on board and HDMI CEC (although CEC might not work reliably - still under development.)

  • Initial boot of Orange PI3 LTS

    Quote from spschneer

    As best as I can tell, the LE USB SD creator does the following:


    Partitions the SD card properly (512 MB FAT (Active partition), 32 MB Fat (swap space), 14.2 GB Unallocated.

    Writes the contents of the "OS" onto the Active partition


    Do you do anything else when you prepare a SD?

    No, that's all.

    Quote from spschneer

    I saw the nice words you said about the Orange Pi 3 LTS (as well as some other folks), and went ahead and got one (after a minor detour to a Chinese mini-pc that had a few things wrong)....

    Mine works pretty well, minus occasional boot hiccup, but reboot mitigate it. Thing is that OrangePi 3 LTS support is pretty new and I'm working on solving all kinks. Your issue is pretty unique and hard to solve since I can't reproduce it.

    Quote from spschneer

    Is there any "easy" way to set up the serial adapter to do the debugging? I'm not sure what you mean ...

    You have to have it first. Check ebay under "uart adapter". Alternatively, you can use some other SBC with 3.3 V UART lines.

    I found another possible explanation. Replace sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb with this one: http://jernej.libreelec.tv/tmp/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb This will lower max. possible SD card speed, which has more chances to work.

  • Initial boot of Orange PI3 LTS

    I actually don't know anything about LE USB SD creator. I always unpack images and write them with dd to SD card under Linux. In any case, image is booting, so it's written correctly.

    I just retested above image on fresh SD card and it works fine, so there must be some difference. Can you test some other SD card? What kind of SD card are you using? Another thing to try would be removing quiet console=ttyS0,115200 from extlinux.conf. This should produce additional messages on screen.

    EDIT: For some reason, this still doesn't print all messages on screen. From this point on, it's only possible to debug using serial adapter...

  • Initial boot of Orange PI3 LTS

    Sorry, I just realized that this fails early in boot, where there is no network drivers to load. For reference, you almost correctly edited extlinux.conf, just replace comma with space.

    I suppose you don't have serial adapter? That would certainly make it easier to access system even in such state.

    However, there is one possibility. Remove quiet from APPEND line in extlinux.conf. It should print much more info, hopefully also error messages. In the mean time, I'll take a look at schematic.