I got a Orange Pi 5 from Amazon, but not any accessories (such as a heatsink or fan). A long time ago, SBCs didn't need heatsinks to function. Has that changed?

It's also currently bootlooping Armbian. Since it fails to boot, that seems like it's too quick for thermal shutdown, but I could be wrong. Ambient air is about 22 C.

Immediately open receiving it I flash the EDK2 firmware then got to installing my preferred OS on my NVME drive, got myself an intel AX210 Wi-Fi card to put on there. Then quite painfully assembled the aliminium case (perhaps the least enjoyable part of it all).

The case does a decent job of managing the temperature, though it does get quite hot when doing long compiles, CPU stays below 70 degrees though so all good there.

Already sent some patches in for fixing the headphone detection, the HDMI receiver and the NPU which is landing in mainline 6.18.

Hoping to turn this thing into a TV media box in the end.

I have set up several pihole and speedtest services for my home network, what projects can I do for security and take advantage of my home network with containers, do you think it can be done, a blog or GitHub with similar projects

Armbian_24.5.2_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.43_gnome-oibaf_desktop.img

I've been running NetBSD on my Opi5+ for about a year with no problems except it has no audio support, neither HDMI nor the 3.5mm jack. So I went off to see if Linux has audio support for this board. I want to make this my daily driver, it has 32 GB of RAM and 8 64-bit processors, ought to be adequate, except for no Youtube.

I tried the above named file on a pretty good 64 GB microSD card. When it boots up I'm automatically logged in. If I don't touch the mouse or keyboard for about 5 minutes it blanks the screen. To wake it up I have to enter my password. OK, but if the bad guys want to get in while I'm not there they can cycle the power and I'm logged in automagically.

However, if I don't wake it up, after another ten minutes or so, fifteen minutes total, it shuts itself down completely. The display goes from blank/dark to "No video signal", doesn't respond to ssh or the keyboard or mouse, and the only way to get back is power off, wait several seconds, and power on.

Is this intentional?

Furthermore, it doesn't seem to have audio either. I poked around in 'settings' and found an audio test, but it was silent, nothing from HDMI nor from headphones plugged into the 3.5mm jack. Does anyone know of a system with audio for this board?

Orange Pi Zero (H2) Case include Expanding Board and Fan. There are links for file details.

https://www.printables.com/model/1391605-orange-pi-zero

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7124571

Hi there, I have been using Armbian Vendor Gnome for the longest time, and I decided to try and flash the edk2 UEFI firmware which worked! Yay! And then I installed Ubuntu arm64 to my NVMe drive, and THAT worked too! Yahoo!

Only problem is, when I get into the desktop, and right click the display properties -- unlike the Gnome in Armbian which lists all my monitors refresh rates (59.97hz, 120hz, and 144hz) this one is locked to 59.97hz

I saw several people report they had full hardware acceleration working inside the desktop, so I'm just wondering what I did wrong or need to change.. I'm headed to check with all the different AI helpers now for any suggestions, but I figured asking the people who have actually done it would be best

Thanks for any guidance

I thought I found a decent deal at $130 USD for the 5 Max, which all other listings sell for considerably more.

I decided to type into google 'orange pi 5 max launch price' and it actually launched at $125, for the 16gb unit so this is no deal at all?

Just curious if you've ever seen this item sell for under $125 and if so, I will be holding out a while longer

Hi guys. I've got one Orange Pi Zero as a gift and I'm struggling to install OctoPrint on it. I know it's a lilbit complicated but I want to be sure that it is still possible in '25. Any help will be appreciated. I've installed Armbian image and have successful wifi ssh connection to it. There is a dedicated setup in the os software list but as soon as it reaches the end I get message if I want to uninstall OctoPrint or purge the data which in both cases leaves me without the program installed.

# glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

libGL error: glx: failed to create dri3 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: rockchip
libGL error: glx: failed to create dri2 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: rockchip
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 128 bits)

• modinfo panfrost modinfo: ERROR: Module panfrost not found.
• uname -r 5.10.160-rockchip-rk356x

The system image of the application is ： Orangepi3b_1.0.8_ubuntu_jammy_desktop_xfce_linux5.10.160

when I watch youtube in my browser, the cpu will reach 120%.

immich Transcoding also consumes a lot of cpu

How can I enable hardware acceleration ? 😊

🔥

So I have no idea what is going on. I have received and killed 3 OPi Zero 3 by plugging it into a USB port. It came on for about 2 seconds, red light. Then it went off. All 3.

I have used the following cables, all of them work with my other USB C devices and my cell phone.

AC-DC converter (this is how it's meant to be deployed) 16VAC to 5V2A DC

Dedicated USB C charger / cable

USB hub on PC

All 3 of them had either magic smoke come from the little cap next to the USB C port or just stopped working. Plugging into the data port of the PC will break half the other USB devices until it's unplugged.

Ideas on what I may be doing wrong? I've ordered from 3 different vendors, 2 claim to be Orange Pi Official.

Cheers

Hello,

I am new to Orange Pi and I am looking for a board that will allow me to transform a speaker into a connected speaker.

I would like to install stuff like Mopidy and Librespot so I can control the speaker from my phone.

What board with what accessories can you recommend me ?

Thanks

Need a new treadmill tablet and would rather have a single board computer and touch screen instead. Would this usb-c touchscreen work with the rock pi 5 and also have touch ability?

Hello all, I am trying desperately to cool my orange Pi 5 plus. Since I have a NVME drive in it, there is a lot of heat, how is it possible to dissipate the heat of NVME drive with efficiency, what Fan do you recommend that was a sucess?? Did someone find a solution? Is there a very small fan that can go under the metal case that is thin but large but also powerfull somewhere??

Hello everyone, I've recently encountered a problem. I need to run a Flutter program on the Orange Pi 3B and connect it to a Raspberry Pi 7-inch screen (MIPI). From what I know, running a Flutter program requires Flutter-elinux. According to the guidelines provided by Flutter-elinux, Flutter needs to run in a Wayland environment, which in turn requires Panfrost support.

I tried using the official image with kernel 5. It connects to the display perfectly, but it can't run Flutter and Panfrost isn't enabled either. After that, I attempted to compile an Ubuntu image with Panfrost using Orangepi-build, with the GNOME desktop environment. However, I couldn't enter the desktop after entering the password. When I tried to run Wayland, it showed that EGL failed to initialize, and the same issue occurred when running Flutter-elinux.

Later, I learned that the ARMBIAN image comes with Panfrost pre-installed. So I built an Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME using ARMBIAN build, and Flutter runs perfectly on it. But I can't open device tree management in armbian-config, nor can I connect to the Raspberry Pi screen. I tried moving the Raspberry Pi driver with the official kernel version 5 to ARMBIAN, but it still failed to load.

I've been stuck with this problem for over a month and really don't know what to do. I have to turn to everyone for help: how can I get Flutter to run with the Raspberry Pi screen and Panfrost?

I have a new Orange Pi 5 Plus and I can confirm the GPU drivers are loaded and Chromium is using a hardware accelerated video decoder but it won't even play any videos on Youtube at all. Grok is too stupid to give me any answers. Can someone please give me some advice?

It's a internet issue which makes video keep stopping however it might because the WiFi antenna maybe came off from inside. How ever 720p next to router has 0 problems and 480p has zero problems even when far away. I got panfrost to work after way too long.

Anyone notice the increase in price of opi over past 2 years?

I remember the 3 lts models being $35, which wasnt bad for what it is. Its lmao $70 now. What's going on there?

I made this pocket computer a few days ago, it's mainly built of cardboard but I decided to cover it with paper as a canvas, I really need design ideas for it. I am gonna use acrylic paint.

The monitor itself recognizes its connected to a board but says no signal.

Edit: I can’t edit the title at least on mobile I guess but I DO MEAN ORANGE PI I’m running orange pi plus

How to get archived post from this sub? There's 1 or 2 years ago someone posted short how to setup rtc on Orange pi 5 plus. I lost the link. So I would like to get/to access archives to read this how to another time. It helped me a lot.

Sorry to bother you with my poor skills and low knowledge

I got my RP5 and installed Ubuntu 24 desktop on it in about an hour. A couple of nits (screen size and kicking the wireless to life) but pretty much plug and play.

The OP5+, on the other hand, has so far been a time sink . I've tried two different SD cards (one of which I then used for the Ubuntu install on the RP5), several different image downloads, balinaEtcher / dd / the USB installer tool, from WIndows and from Linux. The result has been red / green blink green blink / red. etc.

I have ordered a 45W power supply but I'm starting to think I should scrap this POS and just buy another RP5. Any hints as to an install path that might actually work ?

I would like to have Android on SD card and Batocera on my USB. How can I interrupt the boot process and force it to switch to the other drive to boot from?

Hey guys,

I need some help with testing my android image on various boards. Previously, I have developed android 16 for orange pi 3b v2.1 and orange pi 5 pro and now I want to diversify this image for many other boards with rk3566s and rk3588/rk3588s boards.

Currently, I want to test if it is working for all orange pi boards and if it is successful, then move on to other boards which uses rockchip SoC.

NOTE: this image is in testing phase, not a production build.

RK3566s boards - https://drive.google.com/file/d/17LfcypxqXRCmYWzG7QsgFNc96VG8fHXA/view?usp=drive_link

RK3588 / RK3588s boards - https://drive.google.com/file/d/19uPAH16sW15Zc_c9Fxyjcx8ko747zGCw/view?usp=drive_link

Boards supported which uses RK3566s -

1. Orange pi 3b v2.1 (dtb - rk3566-orangepi-3b-v2.1.dtb)
   
2. Orange Pi 3b v1.1 (dtb - rk3566-orangepi-3b-v1.1.dtb)
   

Boards supported which uses RK3588s / RK3588 -
1. Orange Pi 5 pro (dtb - rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro-1.dtb)
2. Orange pi 5 (dtb - rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtb)
3. Orange pi 5b (dtb - rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dtb)
4. Orange pi 5 plus (dtb - rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb)
5. Orange pi 5 max (dtb - rk3588-orangepi-5-max.dtb)
6. Orange pi 5 ultra. (dtb - rk3588-orangepi-5-ultra.dtb)

Steps to make this work for your own board -
a. after burning the image, open the boot partiton. You will see a file named "config.txt"
b. Open the "config.txt" text file, and replace the dtb mentioned with the above given dtb name for your board.

for example, for aosp 16 image for rk3588s boards, the default is
fdtfile=rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro-1.dtb

remove the rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro-1.dtbwith the above given dtb name for your respective board.

c. Save the file(don't forget) and safely eject the sd card and power on the board.

Let me know if it is working for your board or not. I will mark in my chart for which boards it works. If it is not working for your board, please provide boot log if possible.

Please give it some time to boot as first initial boot might take some time like 10 min (especially for rk3588/rk3588s devices). You wont be able to see any screen until everything is booted fine. So dont worry if you dont see the screen right away after turning on the board. If still no android logo is shown on the screen, please provide a boot log if possible or else let me know. I will see what I can do.

Happy engineering Guys!

I decided to use a orange pi zero 2w and a 3.5" hdmi 480x320 generic display and a 4x4 membrane keypad as Main interface. I decided to use old laptop speakers As well as a kitronic amplifier which I got from a kit, I am using the audio out from the display since I don't have a dac. I also made a custom head sink using copper tape and cardboard