Orange Pi PC -- a $15 alternative to RPi 2? So far, so good

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Opi with “Ubuntu Vivid Mate”

pi@OrangePI:~$ hostnamectl
Static hostname: OrangePI
Icon name: computer
Machine ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boot ID: dd9e4782cff844e99c6e33d701ba760e
Operating System: Ubuntu 15.04
Kernel: Linux 3.4.39
Architecture: arm
pi@OrangePI:~$

Opi with Jessie Xfce

pi@OrangePI:~$ hostnamectl
Static hostname: OrangePI
Icon name: computer
Chassis: n/a
Machine ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boot ID: 8fe0c307f47649c0ba29a9de40a2372c
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)
Kernel: Linux 3.4.39
Architecture: arm
pi@OrangePI:~$

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I can’t remember if anyone said about this or not, but I was able to install the older version of the graphs on Raspbian_For_OrangePi_PC. I was able to install everything with no issues.

Running dump1090-mutability
Piaware 2.1-5

Here is the commands I did for the graphs.


sudo apt-get install rrdtool && sudo apt-get install collectd 
wget http://raspi.ayadex.com/volatile/web_install.sh
sudo chmod +x web_install.sh
sudo ./web_install.sh "dump-tools"
cd ~/pi/dump-tools
sudo ./install.sh "crontab"
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Anyone have any experience with the Orange Pi Plus?
Any issues as far as operating system compatibility issues with the extra bells and whistles?

The Orange Pi site is extremely slow and I am hoping to get an order off ASAP so I can get one in my hands sooner.

Possible saving going with the Orange Pi plus over the Orange Pi PC:
Power through micro USB OTG. (no need to buy a power supply)
Built in WiFi. (no need to buy a WiFi dongle)

Orange Pi PC

US $19.00
US $8.00 (Power Adapter)
US $10.00 (Wifi Dongle)

US $37.00 Total

or

Orange Pi plus

US $43.00 Total

For US $6.00 more you get the following on top of what was mentioned earlier:
Onboard 8GB EMMC Flash.
An extra USB port.
SATA interface.
A few other extras which would not be a value add as far as ADS-B feeding is concerned.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Anyone who may have one of these have issues installing the OS?

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I have the OPi 2, which is the OPi+ without the EMMC. The PC the Plus and the 2 all use the same processor so they all use the same OS releases. Use the loboris releases, the stock ones from OPi are dodgy at best, and non-functional at worst.

I would suggest the plus, the EMMC is nice to have, and everything is onboard. You do need to get the SATA adaptor if you want to power your HD via the board.

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Orange Pi Plus:
Price = US $39
Shipping to Canada = US $25.71
Total = US $64.71

Note at bottom of image below:
“It is best to buy DC 5V2A charger . Because Orange Pi Plus don’t  support Micro USB Power supply.”

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5740/23981712862_fb69399fac_b.jpg

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Orange Pi Plus Hardware specification

CPU:
H3 Quad-core Cortex-A7 H.265/HEVC 4K

GPU:
Mali400MP2 GPU @600MHz.
Supports OpenGL ES 2.0                                                                                                                                     
**Memory (SDRAM): **
1GB DDR3 (shared with GPU)

**Onboard Storage: **
TF card (Max. 64GB) /?MMC card slot, up to 2T on 2.5 SATA disk
8GB EMMC Flash

Onboard Network
10/100/1000M Ethernet RJ45

Onboard WIFI
Realtek RTL8189ETV, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n

Video Input
A CSI input connector Camera:
Supports 8-bit YUV422 CMOS sensor interface
Supports CCIR656 protocol for NTSC and PAL
Supports SM pixel camera sensor
Supports video capture solution up to 1080p@30fps

Audio Input
MIC

Video Outputs
Supports HDMI output with HDCP
Supports HDMI CEC
Supports HDMI 30 function
Integrated CVBS
Supports simultaneous output of HDMI and CVBS

Audio Output
3.5 mm Jack and HDMI

Power Source
DC input, USB OTG input don’t supply power

USB 2.0 Ports
Four USB 2.0 HOST, one USB 2.0 OTG

Buttons
Power button: Next to Reset button
UBoot button (optional): Behind HDMI connector

Low-level peripherals
40 Pins Header,compatible with Raspberry Pi B+ 
GPIO(1x3) pin
UART,ground.
LED
Power led & Status led
Key
IR input,UBOOT,POWER

Supported OS
Android Lubuntu, Debian, Rasberry Pi Image

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Been following the thread since day 2. Never posted as I don’t have horse in this race.
It has never been about saving $20 over the RPi, and I have greatly enjoyed the thread.
Happy New Year to all, and best wishes for continued progress on the Orange.
ABCD567, pm me to discuss how we can get you an antenna. :mrgreen:

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Orange Pi PC Hardware specification

CPU
H3 Quad-core Cortex-A7 H.265/HEVC 4K

GPU
·Mali400MP2 GPU @600MHz
·Supports OpenGL ES 2.0                                                                                                                                     
Memory (SDRAM)
1GB DDR3 (shared with GPU)

Onboard Storage
TF card (Max. 64GB) / MMC card slot

Onboard Network
10/100 Ethernet RJ45

Video Input
A CSI input connector Camera:
Supports 8-bit YUV422 CMOS sensor interface
Supports CCIR656 protocol for NTSC and PAL
Supports SM pixel camera sensor
Supports video capture solution up to 1080p@30fps

Audio Input
MIC

Video Outputs
Supports HDMI output with HDCP
Supports HDMI CEC
Supports HDMI 30 function
Integrated CVBS
Supports simultaneous output of HDMI and CVBS

Audio Output
3.5 mm Jack and HDMI

Power Source
DC input, USB OTG input don’t supply power

USB 2.0 Ports
Three USB 2.0 HOST, one USB 2.0 OTG

Buttons
Power button:

Low-level peripherals
40 Pins Header,compatible with Raspberry Pi B+ 
GPIO(1x3) pin
UART,ground.

LED
Power led & Status led

Key
IR input,POWER

Supported OS
Android Lubuntu, Debian, Rasberry Pi Image

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True, I am also in it just to try a new product, not to save $20 or so.

Happy New Year to all, and best wishes for continued progress on the Orange.

Thank you. Happy NewYear to you too.

ABCD567, pm me to discuss how we can get you an antenna. :mrgreen:

Ok,I will pm you.
I was expecting Santa will brig me the FA antenna :slight_smile:.

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Savings isn’t even a selling point anymore. I can go up to the local Micro Center so I just found out and get a RPi2 for US $30 bucks and save shipping making the OPi not that spectacular still ordered one anyways. Always liked to have new toys to play with even though in a toy perspective the RPi being a transformer the best the OPi will ever be is a Gobot. :laughing:

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The thing that OPI has that RPI cant match are the 4 separate USB host controllers with ethernet on it own bus it has some serious bandwidth (and crap support from the manufacturer, but we wont mention that :unamused:). So if anyone can think of a reason to hang a dozon sdr dongles off of one its probbably good to go. :laughing:

It sounds like mainline kernal support is allmost sorted for at least the usb and ethernet, that will add some interesting NAS type posabilaties to play with.

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I just ordered a oPi off of eBay, so my rPi2 can handle some more serious tasks. I know I saw somewhere on here where this has been setup successfully. Can someone point me to the most current working setup instructions? I’ve also ordered a Extreme Duty SD Card that has “wear limiting” built in to hopefully extend the life of the card.

Thanks

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jprochazka’s script may be working for the OPI by the time yours arrives. Otherwise read and follow loboris’s install instructions carefully then the setup recipe in this post worked for me on jesse_mimi a couple of weeks ago.
Then install piaware fromhere at step 2

Edit: added link to loboris’s thread

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Welcome to the crazy band wagon of Orange Pi!
Which model of OPi you have ordered? OPi Plus or OPi PC?

I know I saw somewhere on here where this has been setup successfully. Can someone point me to the most current working setup instructions?

There is no one place where there are consolidated instructions. It is still under trial by some (including me), we report problem & solutions on day to day basis. At this stage you have to go through several pages of several threads to get a fairly good grasp of the subject.

Please go through this thread and the thread linked below:
Click here: Adsb Feeder Project Setup Scripts

I’ve also ordered a Extreme Duty SD Card that has “wear limiting” built in to hopefully extend the life of the card.

Thanks

Dont worry about wearing a microSD card. I use 8Gb class 10 cards costing only US $5, and I have formatted and burned OS images on each at least a dozen times. None has failed yet, and when it fails, I will throw in trash can, taking the loss as if I ate a $5 burger.

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ORANGE PI - FIRST STEPS

STEP-1
Choose, download, and burn on your microSD card an Operating Sytem img according to instructions on this page:
“Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards by loboris”.

Once your operating sytem is booted, login as user “root” or “orangepi”. Both these user have password “orangepi”.
After log-in, execute following commands:



#expand file system
root@OrangePI:~# sudo fs_resize

#create a user "pi". This helps when scripts are hard-coded to path /home/pi
#you will be asked to assign a password to newly created user "pi"
root@OrangePI:~# sudo adduser pi

#give user "pi" sudo powers by including it in sudoers group
root@OrangePI:~# sudo adduser pi sudo

root@OrangePI:~# sudo reboot

At reboot, login as user “pi” using password you have assigned to user “pi”.
After login, execute following commands to install some basic packages which loboris distros lack:



pi@OrangePI:~# sudo apt-get update
pi@OrangePI:~# sudo apt-get upgrade
pi@OrangePI:~# sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
pi@OrangePI:~#  sudo apt-get install git
pi@OrangePI:~#  sudo apt-get install build-essential
pi@OrangePI:~#  sudo apt-get install cron

STEP-2
Next step is installation of dump1090-mutability, which can be installed manually by the method by mgunther (Click Here), or by jprochazka’s automated script (Click Here)

STEP-3
Next Step is installation of data feeders piaware & planefinder which can be done from respective sites manually, or by using jprochazka’s automated script. Since the piaware automated install bug has not been fixed yet, I will recommend manual install of piaware till such time the bug in jprochazka’s automated script is fixed.

For Piawre’s manual install Click Here, and follow instructions in this post.

For Planefinder’s Manual Install, Click Here and follow instructions in this post.

STEP-4
Installation of graphs+rrdtools+collectd is best done by using jprochazka’s automated script (Click Here).

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abcd567,

I can’t remember what OS it was, because of trying some many things and different OS’s. But you might have to install the following. Maybe not all of them. I know at one moment I had too.


sudo apt-get install fakeroot
sudo apt-get install fake-hwclock
sudo apt-get install netcat

To change the Time Zone.


sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Keep up the good work. I need to get more SD cards or OPi’s. I’m getting tired of walking from one end of the house to the other loading up the SD card… LOL. :mrgreen:

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Which distribution form Loboris do you recommend?

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Do you want headless, or a desktop?

If headless, here’s a walk-through of a Vivid install… https://github.com/jprochazka/adsb-feeder/issues/28

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Headless preferred. I installed OrangePI-PC_Ubuntu_Vivid_Mate and both collectd and dump1090 are running at 100.1% cpu according to top. :angry:

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Try a reboot and see if it settles down a bit. (Also grab a copy of htop and see what comes up.) I only use the mini/lite versions of Loboris’ work but when he says mini, he means it. There are a lot of packages that are missing with the small installs. That thread on GitHub covers most of the gotcha’s I think and the script has been fine tuned since then and a lot of things are caught by the script. Just make sure you have a fake-hwclock installed to prevent some issues.