/r/ChromiumRPI

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This Is a Young and Still Developing Project of Porting The Chromium OS To The Raspberry Pi 2, it is run by a small team, reddit users tohipfortheroom. So Far we Have had two successful releases and with many more on the way, Please Feel Free to Use This Subreddit To Talk about the Project :)

Bugs / Feature Requests -> http://bit.ly/21eLdjh

This Is a Young and Still Developing Project of Porting The Chromium OS To The Raspberry Pi 2 And Other Single Board Computers, it is run by a small team, Dylan Callahan, Hans-Gerhard Weinreich and Stephen Bonnell. So Far we Have had four successful releases of our ChromiunRPI port which is a ChromiumOS built for the Raspberry Pi 2. We plan on expanding our devices and our releases to other Single Board Computers

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raspberry pi zero w web browser

guys pls help me to open web browser(chromium-browser), is starts to open but then nothing, i'm new to raspberry pi using monitor but cant open web browser ,pls give me guide step by step , in chromium-browser says illegal instruction

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2021/12/11
16:57 UTC

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FydeOS ChromiumOS portage release - PIN code ?

Hello there,

Looking at Chromeboxes awful prices here in Belgium, I bought a Raspberry PI 4B 8GB, recycled a screen, a mouse and a keyboard, and was able to build a small comptuer for my Kids.

I installed the latest FydeOS portage of ChromiumOS on this https://github.com/FydeOS/chromium_os-raspberry_pi/releases

So far things are good, but my main difficulties is that I don't have the possibility to use PIN codes to log in the system. It makes it then difficult to type my 64 char password each time me or my kids want to use this machine...

Am I the only one to use this release ?

Is there a way to activate that pin at boot up? I configured this in the setting s but wasn't able to use it so far. I have never been confronted to the pin screen, only the password...

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

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2021/11/03
21:49 UTC

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Devtools in chromium code

Hi,

In chromium code I am trying to open two devtools on a single page but I am not able to do the same. I want to use native chrome devtool. And want to open two instances of the devtool on same page. Can anyone please suggest any approach for the same?

Thanks

2 Comments
2021/06/30
12:10 UTC

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Linux beta on rpi4?

Hi! I am probably the noobiest person you'll find on the internet that wants to do stuff that he can't do lol.

I was looking into chromiumOS and its relatives for a while for its android support, but I needed more than just android because of the tools I need for android development, graphic design, and a whole lot more.

I've seen it supposedly has support for 3, 3B, 3B+, and 400, but I can't seem to find anything that directly says it has support for R-Pi 4 (8gb RAM)

I really hope I can find a direct way to run them together, otherwise, my use of the Raspberry Pi is useless...

Thanks :)

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2021/05/11
00:25 UTC

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Cloudready ISO!!!

I've heard some people say that they just want an iso of chromium. Well after some time I've found out a way to do so and will be publishing a new iso everytime there is a new build Like for example. R77 and R78. I will start making them from R88 and upwards and if you do need an older version of cloudready for 32bit systems just tell me here!

Download Repository: (Out Tomorrow)

2 Comments
2021/01/27
23:13 UTC

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who was the brilliant asshat who sugggested to turn Auto Discards to Yes on every tab?

who was the brilliant asshat who sugggested to turn Auto Discards to Yes on every tab? if i upload a video to youtube and it might take 1 hour, i go browse soemthing else in another window or tab, and 30 minutes later the tab that is in progress of uploading, refreshes itself.

Get your act together Opera Asshat

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2020/11/12
00:56 UTC

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Just worried about this chromium android real or fake

hello I'm just worried I'm using a fake android chromium. when I type in this keyword chrome: // settings / help the web is not loaded. but if you type in this keyword chrome: // about the pages are loaded but in line of text I also tested it on the main chrome on my smartphone and it was the same with the chromium I tried. so also i can't login using my gmail account on the chromium. Is that chromium android real or fake?

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2020/10/20
13:27 UTC

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Chromium Embedded Framework Quick start

I followed the quick start instructions in windows.

The problem is running update.bat file in terminal to download source code gets stuck every time and it never passes 57%.

I don't know what the problem might be

0 Comments
2020/08/11
22:19 UTC

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Expanding Partition for Chromium OS on Raspberry Pi 4

Hello,

I am new to the Chromium Community and am working on trying to get a Raspberry Pi 4 set up with Chromium for my nephew to use for school. After using Etcher to create the Chromium SD card I plugged it in and it works fine but I am only showing a total of 2GB of available storage on a 32GB SD card. How can I get that expanded even just a little so there can be more room for other things on the system?

Thank you so much for any advice you can give.

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2020/07/03
04:06 UTC

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How to get Chrome OS to display through the raspberry pi official 7" display?

I have a raspberry pi 3b+ with a 32 gigabyte sd card. Connected to the official raspberry pi 7" touchscreen via the dsi connector and in the smartipi touch 2 case. How do you get Chrome OS to display through the dsi rather than hdmi. When i power up the screen and pi, the screen shows the colour spectrum then stays black but when I connect a hdmi monitor, it shows chromium fine. Is there a way to fix this or should I move onto a different os? I am trying to make a tablet so could do with some suggestions of good tablet suitable distros.

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2020/05/15
07:52 UTC

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Chromium OS For SBC’s is returning.

The project Chromium OS for SBC’s is returning. The project will of course offer new builds for the raspberry pi 2,3,3+

The first new release will be named after one of the co-founders of chromium os for sbc, Hans-Gerhard Weinreich. Hans-Gerhard recently passed away this year. Han’s was one of the first people that helped me initially, we met on here he helped me for a year and half and then he went on to the recently acquired FlintOS to help design and code there Raspberry Pi project.

P.S congrats to the Flint OS team on their recent success.

Hans-Gerhard was a great man, he became a close friend. I want to honor him in the first release aimed at the raspberry pi 3+.

So you might have a few questions.

When can I use it?

Hopefully soon, I’m one man, with my own forty hour work week and a family. I’m also limited to the dollar amount I can invest into this project. So the reboot to we’re the project was at peak is going to be slower then I want. I would like to say before Christmas of this year.

I just purchased a new raspberry pi 3+ to start testing and development on. I need to configure my physical server at home, which currently is very very under powered. I will not be compile quickly, so that will bottleneck me for a while, cloud platforms are not affordable at the moment for the actual horsepower needed.

Will it be a flavored Chromium OS like other releases with for the raspberry pi currently?

Nope, I like Pure Chromium OS. Google is a amazing company that builds a beautiful operating system, Chromium OS is basically Chrome OS, trying to theme it, means I’m trying to claim the code is mine. The code that builds a open source operating system is your code and it’s my code. Just because I’m creating and modify the source code for a board that’s not currently supporting doesn’t mean it’s my operating system. Yes the modification and bug killing for the raspberry pi is challenging, but at the end of the day you just want the awesome operating system that google built on your board. Not mine, So there will be no logos at are not in the original up to date source code and no alterations that are not performance based.

So to summarize what I just said you can expect the Chromium OS for SBC to bring you a new release Weinreich 1.0 for the raspberry pi 2/3/3+ Before the end of the year, hopefully on Christmas if not before.

Cheers,

1 Comment
2018/07/13
06:32 UTC

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Dead?

Is this project dead, or is it still in active development?

3 Comments
2018/01/15
19:13 UTC

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Spotify on Chromium ????

I'm trying to setup a raspberry pi to use spotify connecting to my house stereo via Bluetooth.

I setup NOOBS_v2_4_4, and tried to use the “User-Agent Switcher for Chrome” for IE10 but when I try to open the web player in Chromium I get an error "This Browser doesn't support Spotify web server".

I've tried every browser in the user-agent switcher and I get the same error. Any suggestions of getting spotify to work properly ?

3 Comments
2017/11/27
01:52 UTC

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About testing LennyBruce0.4.1.img

Hi all,

I have LennyBruce0.4.1.tar.xz download on; http://www.mediafire.com/file/0wa61paso992cm4/LennyBruce0.4.1.tar.xz

and tested it on Rasp Pi3.

It works but I couldn't find following features; 1) How to shut down, in steady of switching off the Power Supply?

Where is the Terminal for executing commands?

Any folk having tested it before please shed me some light. Thanks

Regards satimis

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2017/09/26
16:59 UTC

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Flint OS for Pi Public Github available!

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2017/09/12
03:25 UTC

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wondering is this project will have a chromium version of crd

Since chrome is based on chromium and chrome os is based on im wondering if there will be a chromium remote desktop similar to chrome remote desktop

0 Comments
2016/11/27
20:43 UTC

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A open letter to the Chromium OS for SBC project

I understand your disappointment, my end goal was always to make what I develop great experience for the classroom settings, Chromium OS and the inexpensive raspberry pi just made sense. It handles the very resource heavy Chromium OS quite well for the horsepower it has, but this new project plans to be a performance driven educational build of Chromium OS. I felt very limited as a developer with the hardware of the raspberry pi, this new project will allow me to create and advance without much hardware limitations.

The true goal of this new project is to fix the limitations of Chromium OS and optimize it to its full potential. Hopefully this Chromium OS for SBC project can be resurrected. I just need more involvement from the community to make building for the single board platform more feasible. I am only one man, and fixing the bugs of the always evolving Chromium OS turned out to be a huge headache I spent many sleepless nights trying to fix.

I know the community is disappointed in lack of fruitful development that has been happening since April. I tried, but hopefully posting the source code like we have since the beginning of the chromium OS for SBC project, has inspired people, I heard a lot on the Chromium OS dev mailing list about people working on the pi, I have tried to contact these involved parties, but to no avail.

I would truly love if someone, was able to bring the world a better Chromium OS for the raspberry pi then I have. I just hope they build on my work and are able to release it free to all.

This is not the ending of a chapter for those that have liked what I have done.

This is just a plot twist, in theory there are more "regular" PC's with either a 32 bit or 64 bit processor. I wish and hope to create a new experience for this target audience. By making this Chromium OS fork more available and easier to adapt I feel like it will have more of a impact on the world.

Once again I would love to thank all the support I have had, we took a simple idea and made it possible, I am grateful and blessed for all of the people that donated and published the work that I, and my colleagues were doing. Like I said earlier I do not feel like the idea that I put my heart into is dead, I think I personally needed to focus on something new, yet the same in a sense. For my own sanity and personal peace of mind. This was a selfish decision to end the Chromium OS for SBC project for the time being but I hope I have explained my reasoning, the community was so supportive, but I found it was hard for others to create and contribute.

Hopefully I can create an amazing product that you can experience for FREE, I've made many connections in the tech industry with the brief existence of the chromium OS for SBC project. I've already connected with many universities and colleges in the United States for students that are excited to contribute. Hopefully we can create something amazing.

To all that have read this I am hoping that you are experiencing a great life, and that technology has help improved your life, I hope I have not let you down and I hope that you can support my new endeavors.

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2016/09/09
03:52 UTC

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I am focusing on a new project! Thoughts?

I am constantly tired of the failed packages that happen with the constant change in source code on the arm7 and aarch64 platform. So I am focusing my love for the chromium OS in a new direction, this fall I have teamed up with computer science programs from around the United States to develop a new fork of the chromium OS called VintOS. Development is going at a great pace and we look to bring the OS to the general public on Christmas Day 2016.

I want your input on what you want include in this new fork of Chromium OS, you can learn more in a this recently published article, http://news.softpedia.com/news/vintos-promises-to-be-the-chromium-os-fork-you-ve-always-wanted-and-needed-507976.shtml?utm_content=bufferf94b6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I hope you are not disappointed in me as a developer, or in this project, life happens and in this case, out of the ashes of the Chromium OS for SBC project comes VintOS a OS that will improve the already awesome and amazing Chromium OS community!

Thank you so much for being a part of the Chromium OS for SBC community, I hope you can continue to follow my work as I evolve as man and as a developer.

  • Dylan Callahan
4 Comments
2016/09/06
22:49 UTC

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How to help?

Hi I have an interest in this project. But how would one go about helping? I see you have some overlay source code up on sourceforge from March...

Are you planning on keeping this open source? I'd love to see commits to the project as they are made. Public activity is a great way to help stir up more help from eager devs. Would love to see the project on a more active (and less controversial) site like github. Then people could contribute pull requests and smash bugs... themselves!

Hope this post isn't too forward, certainly isn't meant to offend. Love the project and looking forward to a day when I can donate loads of cheap, user friendly, chrome computers to those who couldn't normally afford a computer at all.

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2016/09/02
01:11 UTC

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Download Precompiled Fuchsia OS for Raspberry Pi 3 and 86x_64x Links Included

Fuchsia is an operating system currently being developed by Google. Contrary to previous operating systems developed by Google such as Chrome OS and Android, which are based on the Linux kernel, Fuchsia is based on a new microkernel called Magenta. derived from Little Kernel, which was intended for embedded systems and is mainly written in C. Fuchsia is designed to run on a multitude of devices, including mobile phones and personal computers I compiled these two versions of the OS today, please remember that is a on going build, so this is not a final release and will contain bugs and some things are not finished however i love to get my hands on new OS's and software as soon as i can and I am guessing that i am not the only one 86x_64x build http://www.mediafire.com/download/9zalt9f90ydfl8v/Fuchsia86x64x08262016.zip Raspberry PI 3 http://www.mediafire.com/download/mhgy7cyedfdp7xs/FuchsiaRaspberryPi308262016.zip Enjoy and share!

1 Comment
2016/08/26
16:49 UTC

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Download links

Hi,

Since the page is dead I want to know if anyone has got the download link for install it on my Raspberry Pi.

Thanks :)

EDIT: Solved thanks to sdoorex :)

10 Comments
2016/08/15
22:29 UTC

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WebGL 2 on chromium os rpi2/3

Open Chromium and type URL chrome://flags and then press CTRL + F and type webgl and go to fourth option and Enable it sorry for my bad english -Aaron Rays

0 Comments
2016/07/27
11:27 UTC

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Question about v0.5, RPi3, and hibernation

So my boss and I are trying to use C for SBC on some Pi3 units to display data to TVs. Simple enough. I got v0.5 installed, got logged in, etc., but here's where I'm running into an issue:

  1. The big issue is (I'm guessing) with sleep/hibernation. After about 40 minutes the screen the unit is connected to will go dark, and the Pi's normally-green activity light will turn yellow. Nothing I've tried has been able to wake it up - I have to completely reboot the Pi. Any ideas?
  2. I followed the guide on YouTube but was unable to get the conf file mentioned. Does anyone have a link to a secondary download location? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUX_1R21NXs)

Apart from that, I really think this will be the best option for our need. Thanks guys!

1 Comment
2016/07/22
18:37 UTC

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0.6 Build For PI 3 Finished Testers Needed

i just completed my build for the raspberry pi model b 3, i do not own a model 3 so i will need testers. please comment here or message me to get a link!

19 Comments
2016/07/13
18:34 UTC

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New Build Kicked Off, stay tuned for updates

I'am trying to keep all of you in the loop with the project, as of 8:15 my time, im near chicago, i have kicked off a new build, for the pi 2, using the 0.6 overlay, I took the advice of our newest team member rajesh261092, and am using a google compute VM, this will help us alot for it is our most powerfull build server yet, and best part is its free.

the specs of the server are 16 cores, 120GB of ram, 300GB of SSD, yes yes yes its quite sexy, compared to our old server that only had 8 cores and 6gb of ram it is quite a improvement. its actually finished building the smaller packages as i type this, absolutely amazing... and its free for the time being...

lets just hope that the VC4 gods are in our favor otherwise we might just have a problem with the GUI not loading, i am starting work on a custom kernel just in case, that is true

well i will keep all of you posted

Dylan Callahan signing off

1 Comment
2016/07/13
13:24 UTC

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New Overlay Complete for 0.6

I thought i would let you guys know what i had in store for you with the next upgraded version of ChromiumRPI

64bit support 4.7 kernel Built-in Wifi on model 3 New Version Of Chromium its self

The overlay has been written I'm just in the process of needing a build server to complete the building, so if you want to help me help you. offer up your machine for some compiling. it will get your name on the chromiumRPI hall of fame list!

3 Comments
2016/07/12
18:38 UTC

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