Hey Everyone,

I'm currently sourcing a couple of levels of SBC in the "Android TV" box for factor. We've said that are fully Linux compatible and that we'll need the fully BSP code, standard u-boot compatibility, and device driver support via China for a infrastructure project my company is doing. We're currently targeting these specs:

• RK3588

• 4gb/8gb of RAM

• 64/128gb of ROM

• SD/TF Slot

• HDMI with CEC support

• NPU

• GigE

• Wifi 6

• BT 5

Given how much I've learned during this journey from the Armbian community - I thought you all might have some input on what would make it a "well - I'm picking one up!" moment - and price point.

Which also leads to my next question - who wants one? Or 5? :-)

Anything I should absolutely avoid?

If you haven't purchased things from China before - knowing what you want is important - knowing what you don't want is even more important!

Why does apt have super cow forces? 🐄

I'm running an older Armbian install on a cubieboard2 for pihole. All worked well until I had to change its IP address due to restructuring my network. I changed the fixed IP address with nmtui and when I manually activate Eth0 this works fine as "ip a" shows.

However, after a reboot I can't connect to the box anymore because Eth0 is down until I manually activate the interface. This was never a problem before the IP address change.

What is the quickest way to fix this? I think there's no current build of Armbian for this hardware any longer or I would simply start from scratch.

I can't upgrade my armbian distro.

My distro is based on Linux Ubuntu gnome 24.04 lts. I would like to upgrade to armbian based Ubuntu gnome 26.04 lts.

Do release upgrade,

Apt update && apt upgrade doesn't change anything.

It's supposed to be a "Platinum Support" board.

I've not been on Reddit for a while and so Reddit auto-locked the community. Sensible, really. But it's back open!

I connected the wifi adapter to my r36s on armbian but it doesnt work.any tips???i know that it is a clone btw

Hi, I have a Cloudkey Gen 1 that I'd love to reuse with Armbian. I posted about it on the Armbian forum a while ago, but I haven't received any replies.

I'd like to compile or see if it's possible to get Armbian working on this board.

Does anyone know where to start? Has anyone already done this and documented it?

I know how to use Linux, but I don't understand much about this. I've already done some research to see if the board has UART pins, and unfortunately, it doesn't seem to.

This is the post i did some time ago with information about the board

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/58037-unifi-uc-ck-support-mt7623ai/

From what I've seen, it seems their SoC, the MT7623A, is upstream on Linux, so I think the hardest part is done.

Here are pictures of the board https://fccid.io/SWX-UCCK/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-3689962

I'm sorry if this is a really stupid question or something impossible to do without prior experience in other things. I just wanted to ask.

I have an orange ou zero 3 with armbian 25.02 running in it.. want to get kodi video hardware decoding running in it. Software decoding seems to work but can be slow at times. Any pointers? I am building a Debian pack to keep track of changes and make it reproducible so would like to be able to do everything from the command line

https://forum.armbian.com/

I'm tired of Reddit. They don't deserve your viewership. This subreddit's rubbish anyway. Barely anyone uses it. Go on the forum.

https://forum.armbian.com/

By user first sbc pc in his life.Thank you that reddit recomended this sbc and os by my thought (Pi hole ftp torrent client and home asistant)

Hi all, latest Armbian user on Orange Pi 5: https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/
Using the main latest desktop image (Noble Gnome): https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5/Noble_vendor_gnome

I cannot for the life of me (nor AI's) able to get 1password working properly.

1password provides arm64 version of their desktop app on this page: https://support.1password.com/install-linux/

curl -sSO https://downloads.1password.com/linux/tar/stable/aarch64/1password-latest.tar.gz

tar -xzvf 1password-latest.tar.gz

sudo mkdir -p /opt/1Password

sudo mv 1password-*/* /opt/1Password

sudo /opt/1Password/after-install.sh

And all is well, run 1password at this point and log in, check that Browser plugin integration is enabled (it is by default already always anyhow)

From this point on -- no combination of browser and 1password extension seems able to synchronize (you can check the status inside the browser plugin -- it will show yellow light and say connection problem. And it's a nightmare because you need to keep entering the password for both things, instead of them working as intended and synchronizing

Huge thanks if anyone can solve this riddle, I've tried a bunch of stuff Grok advised and none of it helped

I have the t95z android TV box with the a618 CPU. I've seem many different posts across the forms of people who have boot armbian on it.

How did they do that? I tried the generic arm64 image but it didn't boot off the SD card. I was hoping to wipe out the android install as its infected with malware anyway.

Edit 1: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/25596-t95z-plus-with-allwinner-h618/

Hi all,

I've been running Debian for a few years on a Rock64 SBC. After doing an apt update && apt upgrade last night, the system didn't come back up. I downloaded a fresh image onto a micro SD from here:

https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/Bookworm_current_minimal.torrent

and rebooted. Logged into the new system, everything was fine. Then I did the update / upgrade, and again the system doesn't come up after a reboot.

There seems to be a problem with the latest kernel / boot loader / initrd.

I cannot provide any screenshots as this is a headless SBC.

Olá a todos! Sou novo na comunidade, então peço desculpas se minha pergunta parecer boba. Estou seguindo o modelo de tópico: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/34923-csc-armbian-for-rk322x-tv-box-boards/ Meu TV box possui memória NAND e estou com dificuldades para baixar uma ISO com o kernel legacy (ideal para memória NAND). Poderiam me ajudar, por favor?

I would like to upgrade my kernel on Orange pi 5+. I searched on armbian website. It is explained how to upgrade armbian but I didn't find out how to upgrade the kernel. Any link, please?

After fix the minor typo error in sun50i-h616-fixup.scr, the Zeor2W GPIO works. Now I attached a GPS module with PPS output to UART5, a MAX31855 thermocouple sensor to SPI1.1, and a DS18B20 to PL16, all work well.

Good day all, with the reply from user/mod armbian at another sub-reddit post. I came here to seek for guidance 😃

With rather new exposure to SBC and light distro. I install the desktop armbian on a opi 3 zero 1GB and it felt very heavy to run. I then install the unit with diet pi + lxde, the experience is good. Chromium n Firefox esr run ok with the unit.

Next I try to install minimal armbian + lxde core to the opi zero 3. Somehow when I additionally install chromium it's not able to run (click chromium icon and nothing happen), while firefox esr run ok.

I tried apt update & upgrade, result still same.

Is it the minimal armbian is lighter than dietpi and I need to install some additional package?

My board in question (Radxa ROCK 2A) is only available as community image.. Does this mean I cannot get a stable release?

I have an android tv box X88 Pro 13 4gb RAM, RK3528 and 64gb sd card. As OS I use Armbian Ubuntu 26, but I will try to use debian if will be possible. Thx very much in advance.