Hello folks,

Went over a bunch of posts already so gonna keep it to the point, got myself an Orange Pi 5 and was keen to know which option would suit best in terms of thermals and performance:

1. GeekPi/Geekworm/52Pi N505 case
2. Official Orange Pi 5 Aluminum case
3. 3D printed case with aluminum/copper heat sinks w/w:o mounted small fan

I already have the armor case but it’s impractical for transport and looks ugly as fuck (same with option 1 tho but maybe that one I can paint or whatever)

Thanks a bunch!

Whenever I use a os that isn't provided by the offical website, my os will crash randomly. The screen will trun either black or green for some reason. Anyone know what's going on? I have tried armbian, and Joshua Rieks ununtu and both crash randomly. I have also tried 2 micro sd cards. The only thing that works is the official os's.

1 year ago i got the orange pi 5 4gb version and the power supply for it. Then i bought a micro sd from kinston of 32 gb space. It didnt boot the first time, but then i installed another jammy ubuntu version and it worked. For any reason the os was so slow. Now im trying to boot my orange pi 5 with arch through micro sd and it is showing static red light and a yellow blinking light like a heartbeat (blinking twice a second) I usually see a orange pi logo in the tv and then it just stays black for a long time blinking a yellow light along with it. I connected the hdmi to my TG TV (i recently bought a new tv) and it isnt showing no video. Also i tried a iphone 12 charger (5v 3a) and still the same result. Im not sure if it is the micro sd bc i read some people saying that blinking yellow light is actually the kernel loading and other people saying its a power supply issue. If there is a solution I would be very grateful if you shared it. Thanks.

How secure is the orange operating system from the manufacturer? Can you trust it? Will the creators install a backdoor? Has anyone ever checked? Because I suspect that it cannot be updated except for Huawei Cloud.

What are some methods / techniques to getting lightning fast boot up with the Orange Pi 5 Plus?

I want to boot into a kiosk mode chromium web app in 10 seconds or less, but currently even with an NVME SSD booting into Ubuntu, this is still taking 30 seconds or more;

Does anybody have an recommendations are far as OS customization / configuration to get to a faster bootup? I require chromium with hardware acceleration; so any configurations that do not include that are a non-starter.

I have a question about the RK3588 in general, what architecture is it? looking to use an SBC (namely the Orange Pi 5 Plus) for a docker host however the image supports arm64v8 would this work for my use-case?

Hello, how are you?, I'm happy to have purchased an orange pi win, 1gb ram and a64 cortex53 cpu, it's not strong but that's what I could buy, I live in Brazil and it's difficult here. But let's get to my doubts hehe. I'm using an Armbian image and I can't get the audio on my phone to work, I've already checked alsamixer, I've unmuted the channels on it, I've already changed the asound conf file, I've already tried to check if there were missing drivers, I've already disabled card1 which is the HDMI output (or I tried to disable it), but I didn't get any results... I'm giving up trying to fix the audio, maybe someone has already experienced this??

Anyone have any flickering issues on their Orange Pi 5 Plus with the latest release of Rocknix?

The icons at the bottom of the screen (you know the ones that show you which direction to push the buttons) will flicker but the text will NOT flicker. Just the icons. Also the entire screen will flicker a lot.

However, when you launch a game, the game will run fine. So the flickering issue seems to be just in the UI?

I tried changing the GPU driver to panfrost and back to the default again. I tried rebooting. Tried googling for anyone else with this problem. Also I tried changing the display, to full size artwork. Then to no artwork. Then to centered artwork.

Nothing I try gets rid of the flickering in the UI. Any advice or suggestions please? Or anyone else had this happen to them on their Orange Pi 5 Plus with Rocknix?

I ordered Orange 5 Pro but eventually got the Max, been using for couple weeks, but I have a lot of confusions and I just can't find any info.

Does this board have GPU drivers? It seems has certain level of GPU acceleration but still very limited, and I can't find any related patches or packages.

How does this board boot? Like how it determines boot device when eMMC, nvme and microSD card are all present? I know on raspberry pi there's a firmware partition for these settings, but I only see something similar on the official Orange Pi OS, I didn't see on the 3rd party Ubuntu, and it seems the board will assign all drive with same UUID? Am I missing something here?

Is anyway to flash Android to eMMC or nvme without connecting to computer? I found the process of flashing Android is quite frustrating and the tool from Rockchip is buggy.

The WiFi card is mysterious, it doesn't show up on lspci, nor under usb and it just works?

Hey,
So I'm trying to install the latest Android 12 on the Orange pi 5. I have a 120GB SSD in the nvme m.2.
I did run the commands dd with "rkspi_loader.img" and then dd with "OrangePi5_RK3588S_Android12_spi-nvme_v1.0.6.tar.gz". But then when I try to boot without the sd card nothing happens.

I'm on macOS, no access to windows pc.

Why is it not working, what is RKDevTools doing that I din't do.

Any idea? If you want some details just ask me

Armbian docs say it has community support:

https://www.armbian.com/orangepi3b/

I have tried desktop image on sd card, it boots, Ethernet works, but most programs fail silently, I see cursor in loading state for 10 seconds and programs never load, most of them, including terminal and browser, OS is unusable.

Do I need to do some additional configuration or Armbian is simply broken and unusable on 3B? Has any of you ran Armbian successfully on 3B?

Hi! I have an Orange Pi 5 Pro on which I am using Joshua Riek's Ubuntu - which is amazing.

The OS is currently installed on the SD but I would like to use either the EMMC or (even better) a NVME drive.

What's the easiest way of doing this? I know that the Pro has some quirks and will likely require me to use both the EMMC (to start the boot) and Nvme. I'm also OK with reinstalling the OS, if that's required.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I had gotten an Orange Pi 5B recently, and installed Debian from the official downloads page (1.0.8 Debian Bullseye server). After initial setup and installing KDE, I had tried to install Steam but came to the conclusion that it isn't working. It gives the run-of-the-mill error that I'm missing the 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run, so libc.so.6. I've tried different things such as PlayOnLinux, Wine, and other OSes such as Arch, Ubuntu, and even Android. It also gave vague details that my kernel may be corrupted. Help is appreciated.

My OS Armbian 24.8.1 desktop version With the lowest specs orange pi and i want to install browser and arduino uno please help meeeeeee!!!

Hi everyone! This is a bit of an older article I've never posted before. With the huge popularity of the Orange Pi Zero 2W and the general appeal of the small format, I figured it could be an interesting read.

That expansion board was especially intriguing, as it adds a lot of connectivity options and doesn't compromise the small footprint too much. It's a well-designed package overall, and has room for some expandability.

As always, feedback and follow-up questions are always welcome :)

https://magazinmehatronika.com/en/orange-pi-zero-2w-review/

Good morning.

I'm following this project https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-2-WiFi-RC-Car/ and set it up for orange pi zero 2w.

The original file https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZdyaCZy5BQWw8zS5SnzNsIaS6wz008rxxV

I have replaced wiringPi (for raspberry pi) with wiringOP and WebIOPi (for raaspberry pi) with WebioOP.

WebioOP configuration needs to run the picar.py file and I don't know how to set it up (the pins as soon as it is possible to execute it I will modify them).

The link to my file https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZBoNCZhq3e6ctdVUzyfsHmbTA59bVbFdQy

Thank you all.

Need to buy an Orange PI 5 pro. The one with the Mali GPU. Are there any resellers in the UK? Can't use ebay as it's for university.

trying to flash armbian on my orangepi 5 plus on the emmc
I tried for a couple of days with no result, i cannot find a guide which works.

Any link for a noobproof guide? Thanks

Olá! Alguém sabe me dizer qual driver instalar para ter função touch screen na placa? Tentei já diferentes monitores, o xinput não reconhece nenhum dos monitores. Já tentei usar em diferentes SO também (os oficiais da fabricante, Raspi, Armbian). Eu consigo conectar e ver a tela, mas não consigo usar a função touch screen. Algúem passou por isso e pode compartilhar uma saída para este problema, por favor?

Recently picked up a Orange Pi 5 Plus 32GB and have Armbian 24.8.4 - Bookworm (6.10.6-current-rockchip-rk3588) installed to a 2TB NVMe, with an Intel AX210 wireless card. Everything is going fine, with one exception.

I can not get the second HDMI port to work to extend the desktop to a second monitor. The monitor simply refuses to see anything and displays "No Signal". I have swapped ports, monitors and cables around so that I know the monitors and cables are functional, and the first HDMI port on the Orange Pi works, but the second port doesn't seem to put out a signal or recognize a monitor plugged into it.

I did do a bonehead check to ensure the 2nd monitor was plugged into the second HDMI output, and not the HDMI input.

Are there any configuration tricks to getting the second port to work?

CONCLUSION: Turns out I was using the collabora mainline kernel, not the vendor one, and the mainline kernel lacks dual hdmi support. Bonehead mistake, like I suspected. Only excuse if that I'm still new to Linux on ARM architecture.

I recently installed rocknix os on my orange pi 5 plus and installed some gamecube games to test it. My first thoughts are it runs good, but with some overclocking it could be so much better. So I'm wondering if anyone knows how to overclock an orange pi 5 that's running rocknix.

Also I have a case, heat sinks and fan for cooling to help keep it cool.

I've always forgotten my laptop at home and I have an idea, that is to make a micro pc that serves as my back up

Is it a good idea to buy an orange pi pc or should i consider buying an opi 5?

I went in official orange-config in Ubuntu Jammy Xfce and updated firmware and SPI Flash and then tried booting that same Ubuntu and Armbian from Nvme and none of them wanted to boot. I get blinking cursor, few lines of text and thats it. I can only boot from SD and Emmc.

How to make it boot from Nvme drive?

I installed Rocknix for the Orange PI 5 Plus on a 128 GB Kodak SDXC card (a fairly cheap card) and all games load instantly on the Orange PI 5 Plus.

Then I re-installed on a Lexar 1 TB SDXC card (this is the Amazon item: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CGT1WPBL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

A game that loads instantly on the Kodak 128 GB SDXC card, will take about 10 minutes to start with all the graphics on the screen going in "slow motion" on the Lexar 1 TB SDXC card?

Any advice or suggestions please?

I’m looking to basically DIY a Flipper Zero that’ll use an ESP32-S3 and connect to my OPI5+.

Anyone have experience doing something like this?

I found the following modules I plan on using:

RFID/NFC - PN532

Sub-GHz - CC1101

LoRa- SX1262

SDR - RTL-SDR v3

And a NFR24L01

Anyone used any of these with their OPI or ESP32?

I have an application that handles network settings for the user, and those settings are stored in /network/interfaces.

Q1: Is there a way to tell orange pi to not use nmtui, and use /etc/network/interfaces file instead?

I tried disabling network manager but I kind of needed nmcli for disabling the radio/wifi. I suppose I can try to bypass the use of nmcli.

I have been having some network issues that I believe may be related to this.

Q2: Another follow up question is whether I can script nmtui? Thanks!

Any help is appreciated.