Short backstory: I have an N2+ that I can't use it for what I actually bought it for (upgrade to my XU4 multimedia server), as there's an issue with USB connections. Odroid UK are ignoring the issue and desperately trying to find some way to blame me (they can't, and it's 1000% faulty hardware) and have now resorted to simply ignoring my emails.

Since I have a decent sized emmc for it, I thought I'd consider trying to get my own private AI server up and running using something like Ollama (and llama2 or similar) with the web UI for it (probably using docker).

Has anyone tried something like this? If so, how was the performance?

Hi All,

I have a XU4 that I am trying to get working with an realtek rtl8188eus usb wireless adapter.

When I try to complile the driver I am getting this error, any help would be great!!

"make[1]: *** /lib/modules/6.1.63-current-odroidxu4/build: No such file or directory."

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Hi! I’m not too familiar on how these systems work, but I have an ODROID go ultra and wanted to see the ODROID’s screen on my laptop so I can screen share to a friend, but I can’t figure out a way to do it. It runs Ubuntu 18. If anyone can help me out that would be great! Thank you!

I'm running a set of 3 Odroid HC4 units. Almost identical setups across all 3 units.
All 3 units are in custom cases and fit with 'Noctua NF-F12 5V PWM' fans.
All 3 units running with 15VDC power supplies from HardKernel.
All units running with identical configs of 'fancontrol'... however!
Over the past 3 months, the fan speeds have diverged... and I'm a little curious as to why.

I've checked the pwm output... and the 'fast' one is generally about 5% lower, but the reported rpm is considerably higher. (As of this writing, 58/255 output = 469 RPM vs. 51/255 output = 1289 RPM)
I've also checked the voltage levels (maybe they are flawed) within /sys/class/regulator and the voltages are the same between units.

I can understand if the fans were to slow down over time... but to speed up?

(All running Armbian Jammy btw.)

I have a handful of oDroid C2 units that my company decommissioned. They have trouble booting. I can get them to boot to a point, but they seem to stop and fail at random points. The behavior is like this:

I flash Android 6 image provided by oDroid. Insert the SD into a unit, plug in the DC power source (5v 3A), and it will do one of two things. It will either boot, and present the solid red, solid and then flashing blue LED's and display to an HDMI monitor that it is installing android. It will fail at some point, usually very early in the installation progress. The other behavior is that it will not present a solid or blinking blue LED at all.

I managed to get the install completed on one unit, but after removing the power and reconnecting, I get either a solid red LED, or a solid red and solid blue LED.

There is not much of a pattern, except I get furthest after reflashing the SD card.

I have tried multiple micro SD UHS-1 cards from SanDisk 32 gb to Onn (walmart brand) to one that came with my 3d printer.

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Does ANYONE know why these units do this? Is there any simple way for me to diagnose if its a power issue, sd card slot issue, etc?

I know some games in OGU jelos don't work, but are there any games available other than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge?

Hey!!
I'm following a guide to install XEN hypervisor in my ODROID-XU4 board. I've done the host-pc steps so far but after booting odroid with the new boot.ini file, I can't initialize as there is a hang.
Any ideas as to what can I be doing wrong? (the guide I'm following is this one: https://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:xu4_xen)
Thanks in advance!

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I'm aiming to sell an old Odroid X barely used.

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-x/

I'm based in France and can ship to EU.

I can provide:

• a wooden laser cut case
• the wifi USB dongle from odroid
• power supply
• emmc module
• USB to uart module
• HDMI cable

If anyone is interested, please reach me out. I'm also open to swaps with other electronics, such as ESP32, M5Stack or RP2040 based boards.

Can provide photos and additional info.

Hi all,

i have a spare odroid XU4 which i am planning to use to drive my 3d printer with Klipper. I am aware of the 1.8V gpio limitations so i am using a 5v level shifter based on TXS0108E and i have already been able to control a relay with it.

I also need to drive an ADXL345 accelerometer board using the SPI protocol. I have successfully enabled it and tested in loopback using spidev_test. However, as i am not expert with spi, do i need to connect all the spi pins to ADXL345 thorugh the level shifter as well or those dedicated pins already provide standard levels?

Thank you for your help!

Hey guys, just wanted to see if anyone can help point me in the right direction, I’m looking to build a small home server for photo/video storage, plex, hosting game servers (Minecraft, Arma 3, Gmod, PalWorld), possibly 1-2 minimum spec VMs just for testing.

Will this board be capable of this? It will have the full 64gb of ram, 2 SSDs and an NVMe boot drive along with 2-3 additional small fans mounted inside a customer enclosure to help with temperatures.

If not, is there another board out there that might do the trick? Or stay away from a SBC for this use case?

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Hey guys! just got a question for this community, i want to purchase myself a cheap and cost friendly single-board computer that supports PCIE NVME 3.0, the same port of the orange pi cm4 baseboard, issue is that it only comes with gen 2.0 speeds at /500mbs where id like to use 3.0 speeds for /1gbs using a NVME TPU for AI for my home security system, I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to finding solutions but I'm open to finding alternatives for other boards but if there is a hack way to mount a board on top of it to support PCIE ill consider it.

I pretty much am looking for 4gb of ram somewhat okay processor, usb 3.0 and PCIE, 3.0 NVME port
with the desired need to support a nvme TPU for neural networking

The added image is someone adding pcie 3.0 to a raspberry pi from hackaday.com
Adding PCIe To Your Raspberry Pi 4, The Easier Way | Hackaday

Orange Pi - Orangepi
Geekworm Raspberry Pi Hdmi to CSI-2 Module C790

Title. I bought the HC4 with the OLED display as an addon, but I can't figure out how to open up the case to put the display in (and hook it up to the pins, of course). Any help would be appreciated, thanks! And yeah, I did do some google searching, nothing came up.

Hi so I’m a total novice when it comes to single board PCs and I’m not sure if this is even the right place to ask but I’m pretty much only aware of the very basics of them, but me and my friends often play minecraft and pay for hosts and I’m wondering if an okdo rock c4+ would work (my brother has one he doesn’t use) and if it would be cheaper to run than a host alongside all the other benefits gained from running your own server any guidance or advice would be appreciated

I'd like to install Proxmox on an Odroid H3 with 16 GB DDR4 RAM and a 64 GB eMMC disk. Anything I need to know before I start? I don't do this every day but I should be able to figure it out. Just wondering if there is anything I should be wary of.

Is fedora linux available for odroid n2? How it for daily using?

Is there a way I can leave my micro SD with emuelec on the odroid N2+ while having an EMMC with coreelec and be able to boot directly to:

• emuelec with spi switch
• coreelec with MMC switch

For the moment I can boo directly to emuelec in MMC switch if I have the SD. If I remove it, it will boot to EMMC coreelec.

When trying to upgrade or update odroid with the commands "sudo apt-get update or upgrade" on ssh connection, suddenly the cmd window freezed and after a while, it said "client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe"
and i typed ping odroid's ip. it said "Request timeout for icmp_seq x"
When the odroid came up to live checked out with ping test, i tried to connect to odroid with ssh and it said also Network is unreachable....

And sometimes for checking out the status of server, i connected keyboards or monitor to odroid directly and tried to see some log files. After a while monitor freezed also...

So the only thing i could do was rebooting the odroid...

How can i solve this problem and why is it happening?
Thank you

Hi everyone,

I got an ODROID-GO Advance Black Edition (link) two years ago, then let it sit in the drawer. Now I finally have some time, flashed the latest official image (link), and wonder if there shouldn't be some sound.

On the screen top left is a loudspeaker symbol with bars, that looks good. Shouldn't there be a sound on every menu item change and select? How can I play a sound on the device?

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What settings should I check and how should they be set for basic sound output via the speaker? If it still does not work, is there a common hardware issue I can fix myself?

UPDATE: To add some more info:

• I bought the device fully assembled from an EU distributor
• Testing with Jelos
  • When inserting and removing a headset, each time a volume indicator appears on GUI
  • When placing a MP3 file on the device, I can play it with aplay. No sound on speaker, when headset is inserted it creates only static noise
  • The Jelos music player shows moving bars, but stays silent with and without headset

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# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pipewire
    PipeWire Sound Server
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server)
sysdefault:CARD=rk817int
    rk817_int, ff070000.i2s-rk817-hifi rk817-hifi-0
    Default Audio Device

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I put my xu4 on a metal surface for a short while, it was powered on, but the the os wasn't loaded. It won't boot since then. The fan spins, ethernet connector is blinking and the red led is on, but nothing else. The power button does nothing. I tried switching sd cards. I tried booting different versions of ubuntu all flashed with balenaEtcher, tried multiple sd card readers, none worked. the connected screen is only showing no signal message. I checked the power supply. It's 5.2 V, while it's plugged in, the XU4 consumes 0.6 A. I took off the heatsink to see if anything has been visibly damaged and I found nothing. The switch emmc or sd card is switched to sd card. I have absolutely no idea what's wrong. Thanks for reading, have a nice day.

Basically the project is building a small cloud architecture using multiple pi's and creating multiple containers to run basic lab programs for juniors. So for storage purpose we are using an HC1 Can someone help me set it up I couldnt find a proper OVM image to install

Most Odroid owners have concern over the Odroid H3/H3+ cases over the years, and many resorted to 3D printing, or 3rd party cases like from KKSB.

I realized while purchasing my new H3+ that the Type 2 case actually measures 120mm x 121mm.

So I thought why not just mount a 120mm fan on top. (I used a strong double-sided mounting foam as the screw holes on the Type2 top plate do not align to the fan holes).

Shown below is the Lian Li P28 fan which I thought goes well with the Type2 case. The fan cable is a bit long, but it can be carefully wound-up, cable tie, and sits on top of the cpu heatsink.

I am typing on this system, and it is dead silent.

Let me know if anyone has any questions and happy to share more.

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Hi.

I came across a Mediasonic esata/USB3 (non-raid model) enclosure with 4 3.5" drive bays.

I currently have 2x6TB Wd Red Pros containing my btrfs mirror of media files in that enclosure. I have plans to expand to 4 drives.

It works OK over USB3. In a btrfs Raid1 configuration, connected to my laptop, I get around 165MB/s seq reads. I want to build a modest, dedicated Jellyfin server. I prefer eSata over USB for stability. Ten years of linux USB experience makes me nervous running it like this The case works with FIS esata port multiplication on the host.

I planned to build a mini itx pc with an esata card, but the Odroid seems more suited. I read the specs on the H3/H3+ and the two Sata connections do not support port multiplication, so I can't bridge one to the enclosure.

I have very little experience building systems and none with SBCs. Is there an Odroid model suited to this (with enough transcoding power for 2-4 1080p HVEC to 1080p x264 streams on the LAN)? Bonus if the setup allows for a second esata enclosure done the road (these things are a great bargin).

Thanks.

I was gifted an 4ux in a Cloudshell-2 casing. Problem is it's armhf (arm32) which is losing support left and right.

Can someone suggest me an Odroid that's atleast arm64 and still fits in the Cloudshell-2 casing so with the same dimensions? I'm not sure how the versions and numerings work on odroid.

I recently got an Odroid H3+, and am hoping to use two 8tb Ironwolf drives with it. The problem is, if I attempt to start the machine with both drives connected, it almost immediately crashes.

I have a hunch that this is caused by the surge in power from the drives initially spinning up, since either of the two drives connected to the board on its own works just fine, and if I boot the machine with just one of the drives connected and then connect the second afterwards, there is no problem. I'm using the 19V/7A power supply, purchased directly from HardKernel.

Anyone have any workarounds or advice for me? I'm a bit surprised that this is a problem at all -- everything I've seen online seems to indicate that you should be easily able to power two 3.5" drives as long as you use the correct power supply.

I'm facing a strange sound problem with my OGA BE. The in-built speaker's sound is extremely low. I know it's low because I clearly remember the first time I fired it up with Batocera and the starting sound was so loud that I got worried that it'd wake my wife up. Now I can barely hear it at 100% when the ceiling fan is on.

Headphones don't work properly either. It doesn't work when the 3.5mm jack is all the way in. At that point, the in-built speaker doesn't make any sound either, which means it does detect the headphones. when headphones are halfway in, I can hear the sound clearly, but then, the device's inbuilt speakers also emit sound. The sound level in the Headphones is okay tho.

I've tried flashing different OSs and even installed a new speaker. The issue remains the same, which means it's probably neither faulty speaker, nor buggy OS. So far, it seems that it's an internal hardware issue. Perhaps a problem with the sound chip?

What seems to be the problems here? Can someone shed some light on this?