I migrated my home NAS to the orange pi 5 plus and wanted to share the files on the off chance someone might want to use it. This is a replacement skeleton for the power mac G4 cube that will let you fit more modern components into the case. Previously, it supported the Rockpro64, Zimaboard, and now the orangepi 5 plus. I've also included the F3D and STEP files for anyone to make modifications of their own.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6929399

I found this interesting documentation about OPI5+. I don't guarantee it's 100% useful but it helped me for my OPI5+

https://www.blunix.com/blog/howto-setup-armbian-on-orange-pi-5-plus-with-spi-and-i2c.html

I recently bought an Orange Pi 5 Pro and I'm trying to setup Immich with hardware acceleration. I have installed Debian using Armbian. Following the docs, I need to find a libmali.so file for it to work. After some searches I found this repository: https://github.com/tsukumijima/libmali-rockchip/releases

But it seems none of the files are compatible with my device. When checking dmesg, I have a G610-g25p0 (because of RK3588S and not RK3588 I guess).

I am totally unable to find the driver for my device. Does this mean I just can't use hardware acceleration? Before buying this, I wasn't aware of the support issue that exists on Orange Pi.

If I get an another device with RK3588 instead of RK3588S, will it fix my issue?

Thanks!

So I have an Orange pi 5 Ultra it's nice and cool but I can't run droid or there andriod version files aren't working why? I use a macbook. So I installed windows 11 of course! so now I'm stuck can't change languge and now I need help (P.S) is there a good battery pack and fan?

When I first got it, I didn't lnow I had to use Micro HDMI to set it up. I installed Android and the green light flashed, but I couldn't connect a monitor. So I tried to install Armbian with no luck to ssh.

After a while I got the cable, but now the green light doesn't blink and there's no video signal on Android. I even tried low level formatting and flashing on an old Windows 10 laptop, but nothing changed. Could Armbian have bricked it? The green light just stays lit if SD card is plugged in, and ethernet has both lights turned on. If there's no card, it flashes.

What do you use? Anyone successfully booted dietpi or armbian? I was only able to run os'es from orange pi and rockchip Ubuntu..

I have 2 OPI5+ with metal case. Every month I shutdown my OPI5+ for upgrade. And every month I have to change the fan of the metal case. Anyone knows a good brand of fans? Chinese fans 40x40 are not good.

Having some issues with my 5 pro and need some help. The thing turn on, fan kicks on, but the red light never turns green and there is no signal from the board to the tv. I recently flashed the image onto the SD card, using the Pi Droid build, but it's not working, and honestly it's not getting that far I don't think.

EDIT: Found something in the manual and tried it, didn't work, now I have an SD card with a bunch of partitions, and still no Orange Pi OS. Getting really tired of this thing real quick...

Hello,

I'm in need of some help with my Orange Pi 5 Plus. I'm attempting to use the Debian X Terminal Emulator, but it is not launching.

I've performed the 'sudo apt update' & 'sudo apt upgrade' commands with no change.

I did notice in the journalctl logs that the service is attempting to log in repeatedly it seems with a user account that does not exist?

I am able to use the Xfce Terminal locally and log in remotely via SSH.

journtalctl Logs

Jan 28 09:01:18 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: Started Serial Getty on ttyFIQ0.
Jan 28 09:01:18 orangepi5plus kernel: ttyFIQ ttyFIQ0: tty_port_close_start: tty->count = 1 port count = 2
Jan 28 09:01:25 orangepi5plus login[7143]: pam_unix(login:account): could not identify user (from getpwnam(orangepi))
Jan 28 09:01:25 orangepi5plus login[7143]: Authentication failure
Jan 28 09:01:25 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: getty@tty1.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jan 28 09:01:25 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: getty@tty1.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 143.
Jan 28 09:01:25 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: Stopped Getty on tty1.
Jan 28 09:01:25 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty1.
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus kernel: ttyFIQ ttyFIQ0: tty_port_close_start: tty->count = 1 port count = 2
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus login[7153]: pam_unix(login:account): could not identify user (from getpwnam(orangepi))
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus login[7153]: Authentication failure
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: serial-getty@ttyFIQ0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus kernel: ttyFIQ ttyFIQ0: tty_port_close_start: tty->count = 1 port count = 3
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: serial-getty@ttyFIQ0.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 140.
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: Stopped Serial Getty on ttyFIQ0.
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: Started Serial Getty on ttyFIQ0.
Jan 28 09:01:28 orangepi5plus kernel: ttyFIQ ttyFIQ0: tty_port_close_start: tty->count = 1 port count = 2
Jan 28 09:01:35 orangepi5plus login[7174]: pam_unix(login:account): could not identify user (from getpwnam(orangepi))
Jan 28 09:01:35 orangepi5plus login[7174]: Authentication failure
Jan 28 09:01:35 orangepi5plus systemd[1]: getty@tty1.service: Deactivated successfully.

List of users: compgen -u

root
daemon
bin
sys
sync
games
man
lp
mail
news
uucp
proxy
www-data
backup
list
irc
gnats
nobody
systemd-network
systemd-resolve
messagebus
syslog
_apt
_chrony
avahi-autoipd
sshd
nm-openvpn
kernoops
xrdp
lightdm
colord
speech-dispatcher
pulse
hplip
dnsmasq
postgres
orangepi2
dkendall
postfix

If anyone is able to confirm my suspicions or point me in the right directions and provide a solution it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Did anyone manage to use hardware encoding in ffmpeg with the orange pi zero 3 or any orange pi for reference?

Hi guys, after reading lot of posts i am still confused about which orange pi would be perfect Things i want to run

1. plex (no 4k stuff just 1080p)
2. These arr* like sonarr, radarr, lidarr, bazaar
3. samba share
4. ftp server

I want to know if any cheapest orange pi can do this. not planning to add any more softwares in future.

I already have ssd goes on usb 3.0

can you list some recommendations please

Ok, I got this for Christmas, and I've been gathering parts to make it into a retrogaming setup (Next one will be a custom laptop, but felt starting with something simple would be good). I was getting ready to set it up today (BTW, if anyone has an actual a tutorial for that, that'd be great) but I realized I needed power. I have a spare Switch power supply, and thought I could use that but...I wanted to check before I use it, because I don't trust Nintendo not to proprietize the thing. Anyone run it on one of those?

am botting twitch on orange pi 3 lts currently, have to upgrade.

current options:
Orange Pi 5 Plus 32gb ram $379.95
Orange Pi 3B 8Gb ram $101.54
Orange Pi 5 Plus 16gb ram $266.13
Orange Pi 5 16gb ram $224.11
Orange Pi 5B 16gb ram $243.37

will be running them 24/7, with 400ish accounts that takes 30mb ram and that comes to a total of 12000mb, thinking of the 16gb, will have room for expansion and spare RAM if it is over loaded.
is there any real difference between the 5 plus, b and just 5?

the SBC will only be used for this purpose and nothing else. any recommendations? or should i just get the cheapest 16gb?

My OPI Zero 2W 4GB Setup

I posted the details of my setup here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1ia19w5/micro_home_lab_based_on_zero_sbc_a_low_cost_setup/

Very impressed with the capabilities of this little SBC!

Its been a blast so far. The only I might try is to set this up as a USB boot as I have a 512GB NVME in a 2230 enclosure. Not sure if its worth the effort as the limiting factor is still the WIFI5 which I have found in my setup to be slower than the micro SD reader on the SBC.

Has anyone been successful with this guide from James Chalmers for the OPI Zero 2W? Tried it once but the copy never works.

https://jamesachambers.com/orange-pi-zero-2-usb-ssd-boot-guide/

I recently purchased an Orange Pi Zero 2W. I used an SD card to install and update Debian, and everything worked fine for the first two boots. However, after browsing around in the orangepi-config (the last action I remember was starting a firmware update), the system suddenly powered off. Now, the board won't boot. When I connect the USB-C power cable, the red power LED blinks dimly about twice per second. Removing the SD card doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Can anyone advise on how to fix this or reset the settings?

edit: cleaned the text up a bit :)

Hello! I tried to configure my OrangePi 4A and when i run nand-sata-install i saw only two rows in menu:

• Boot from SD
• Install/update bootloader on SD/MMC

But i have connected nvme drive. `fdisk -l` output:

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors                                           
Disk model: Patriot M.2 P300 512GB                                                                              
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes                                                                           
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes                                                           
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes       

I can`t find any information about boot from nvme in docs (http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiwiki/index.php/Orange\_Pi\_4A).

So can you answer me: is it real to install OS on nvme and boot from it?

I'm a beginner at using OrangePi but not a full newbie. I wanted to run these two projects, a PiHole as well as a personal cloud (likely using Nextcloud). I was hoping to get a board that could run these two concurrently for space reasons. I would need them both to handle about 8-10 devices. I've seen people use the 1 GB RAM for bith projects individually, would a 2GB or 4 GB RAM board work here?

I finally got the omni android image working on my orange pi zero 3, but I'm making a handheld and I have this 800x480 screen and wanna make it work with that. I tried a resolution changer app where I needed adb and that still didn't work :(

I keep getting
"[ 3.422910][ T27] thermal thermal_zone0: critical temperature reached (263 C), shutting down"

Tried different os, tried different SD cards.
What am I doing wrong?

OMG, it's sooooooo difficult to configure for a beginner! Literally took me a month to setup it properly.

I will share my struggles here, in case there's another me out there.

Eight Labours of Me:

• install system to nvme
• select audio output
• enable rdp
• enable pinyin input for Chinese
• turn off the blinking LED
• install Moonlight
• enabling network pass through between the two ethernet ports
• create desktop short-cuts

Unsolved problems

• HDMI input disabled
• front USB ports not working
• USB wifi card not working
• HDMI output through USB-C not stable

I know all of those are simple tasks for any advanced users and all resources are online and easily obtainable with gpt helping. However, I really have spent a lot of time on try and errors.

My Pi in its otimate form:

Gaming on Pi (via streaming, of course)

SSH is not enabled by default, tvout neither. Am I supposed to order that micro HDMI and wait another 3 weeks only to enable tvout and never use it again? I don't want to use Linux either, as my crt has rounded corners which eat up the buttons and menus in desktop-style OSes.

Read that with the new kernel 6.13 a lot of work that has been in the making for a long time surrounding Mesa and a Vulkan driver for the Mali chipset has finally landed.

I’m dying to know whether or not this significantly impacts GUI and emulator performance on the Orange Pi 5.

Anybody have any experiences with this yet?

And anybody know when a distro like Armbian might get this kernel (apart from running a nightly)?

I have opizero2w and the latest opi minimal image without GUI. For some my purposes I wanna downgrade kernel to 4.x, where can I downgrade my opi?

Can someone please advise me on how to set up Orange PI Zero 3 (1.5GB) as a Proxy? I have two requirements:

1. I can't access the router, so I can't do port forwarding.
2. I need to set it up on Vmess protocol to use it on V2ray or Netch.

I have Debian 12 running fine on my OPi5 8gb board with RK3588S chip, for more than 6 months now. But the Linux kernel is still at ver 5.10. Am I waiting in vain for an update of LTS kernel 6.1 for this board with Debian as my OS of choice? Or should I just switch to a different distro such as Arch Linux, in order to keep the distro more in line with the latest LTS kernels? Seems to me that full Debian support on OPi5 is a goner. I would have dumped my OPi5 by now (2 years old), mainly because the clumsy documentation from the OPI home site stinks. But damn, the hardware is so fast and the price is so competitive for an almost basic build right out of the box, compared to the 'other berry' SBC hardware.

I gotta tell you. I’ve got a orange pi 5 plus and an orange pi zero 3 and an orange pi zero 3 I’ve had more trouble installing an OS on the 03 than anything else It’s a piece of shit Anybody else agree or am I doing something wrong?

For fun I'm redesigning my home server to use the orange pi 5 plus instead of the zimaboard currently in there. I got by with a rockpro64 in this thing years ago. How does this compare to the rockpro64 and zimaboard?