'bout ready to throw this thing
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I have a little OrangePi Zero 2 which in theory is a great little device, since the components that make it up are sourceable and the schematic is available. Orange Pi Zero 2 build of linux: Worked last I checked - have to try again, maybe my SD card is bad? Takes too long to boot anyway, and the boot screen with all the services starting displayed is unacceptable in production. Armbian linux: Works except for Wifi, so it's an option, because I have no plans to put a wifi module on this board for any of our client projects unless i need something better than wireless G (i'd rather use an ESP32 for this). Same issue with booting taking too long and showing too many details. Orange Pi Zero 2 build of android (10 i think?) - black screen after boot. The backlight turns off and no LEDs on the board shortly after powering on! I can't get this to work at all even though it might be my best option for production. Figured out the problem. I need to burn the image with a particular piece of software that crashes on my machine. Googling shows no results. Claims it works in win11. Compatibility mode no work either. Watched a youtube video on fixing problems with it. Tried that. No results. Gonna try it on hubby's laptop when he wakes up. Found a russian version of the SD burner that works on my machine. Tried the image and get a black screen but at least the backlight is on. Progress. :~ Zephyr RTOS: This is what I wanted to use. They support the Arm Cortex A53 but none of the peripherals for my AllWinner H616 SoC. I'd have to switch to a much harder to source NXP NXP MIMX8 that supports HDMI, and I'm not even sure Zephyr supports one of those variants. Running into walls everywhere I go. I don't have the resources to port Zephyr on my own. Android 10 might be my best bet if the sucker would boot. Gotta try a new SD but hell this is ridiculous. - brand new SD card - same result There has to be a way to come up with a reasonable OS solution for this H616 that doesn't take man-years of effort to put together. At least I think I have the sunxi toolchain and cross compiler and stuff for this SoC installed on my VM. That's something.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have a little OrangePi Zero 2 which in theory is a great little device, since the components that make it up are sourceable and the schematic is available. Orange Pi Zero 2 build of linux: Worked last I checked - have to try again, maybe my SD card is bad? Takes too long to boot anyway, and the boot screen with all the services starting displayed is unacceptable in production. Armbian linux: Works except for Wifi, so it's an option, because I have no plans to put a wifi module on this board for any of our client projects unless i need something better than wireless G (i'd rather use an ESP32 for this). Same issue with booting taking too long and showing too many details. Orange Pi Zero 2 build of android (10 i think?) - black screen after boot. The backlight turns off and no LEDs on the board shortly after powering on! I can't get this to work at all even though it might be my best option for production. Figured out the problem. I need to burn the image with a particular piece of software that crashes on my machine. Googling shows no results. Claims it works in win11. Compatibility mode no work either. Watched a youtube video on fixing problems with it. Tried that. No results. Gonna try it on hubby's laptop when he wakes up. Found a russian version of the SD burner that works on my machine. Tried the image and get a black screen but at least the backlight is on. Progress. :~ Zephyr RTOS: This is what I wanted to use. They support the Arm Cortex A53 but none of the peripherals for my AllWinner H616 SoC. I'd have to switch to a much harder to source NXP NXP MIMX8 that supports HDMI, and I'm not even sure Zephyr supports one of those variants. Running into walls everywhere I go. I don't have the resources to port Zephyr on my own. Android 10 might be my best bet if the sucker would boot. Gotta try a new SD but hell this is ridiculous. - brand new SD card - same result There has to be a way to come up with a reasonable OS solution for this H616 that doesn't take man-years of effort to put together. At least I think I have the sunxi toolchain and cross compiler and stuff for this SoC installed on my VM. That's something.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
With armbian you have to configure wifi, what I usually do is, start with a wired connection, ssh into the box, then run armbian-config to configure the wifi - never had a problem
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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With armbian you have to configure wifi, what I usually do is, start with a wired connection, ssh into the box, then run armbian-config to configure the wifi - never had a problem
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
From forum posts I've seen, it just doesn't work with the Orange Pi Zero 2. It gave me the option to configure it. Listed my WiFi SSID, "connected" and then immediately dropped every time. Also that issue doesn't matter to me.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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From forum posts I've seen, it just doesn't work with the Orange Pi Zero 2. It gave me the option to configure it. Listed my WiFi SSID, "connected" and then immediately dropped every time. Also that issue doesn't matter to me.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
