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Hi I keep seeing cheap Orange pi single-board computers and I was wondering if anybody tried using one. If so would you recommend it? Also what distros did you try on it?
No experience with an orange pi but the Amazon reviews might help. Looks like a nice board but does not have the community support yet like the rpi or banana pi and takes a bit more work to get an image up and running.
I have 4 orange pi one (h3 chip)
1 orange pi pc 2 ( h5 chip )
1 orange pi pc plus ( h3 + emmc)
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I have retro orange pi 3.0.1 running on 2 units ( orange oi one) - works fine for kodi and some retro gaming need a keyboard and a game controller to use
I have openelec running kodi jarvis and 2 units ( orange pi one)- works nice with a keyboard.
I have also have armbian and debian running on these units
the pc 2 I have had running using the same image as I used fore the orange oi one units -
problems of note:
open elec works flawlessly just have to make sure the script.bin has been changed to correct the overheat problem ( running cpu too fast)
retro orange pi has keyboard problems in the gaming section ( only f4 works) but works fine in kodi so you have to exit gaming and execute shutdown to cleanly turn off
armbian works very well as a basic desktop for browsing
Note
1. use the retrorange pi , openelec and armbian site for images ... everything on the orange pi sites by sunxi and allwinner are old
2. use very good 5v 3a power supplies - most people have trouble because of power supplies
3. I have a monitor and a TV ( 1080p and hdmi) the monitor does not always work properly ( LG24en43 ) the TV always works when booting systems
I have not tested I2C and GPIO yet
I actually went with a raspberry pi and I like it a lot, I use it as my main machine. I'm running Puppy Linux(Quirky) on mine, I like it a lot better than raspbian since its way lighter and not completely geared towards python, I like c/c++.
Do you think quirky would run on an orange pi? One of these days I want to get some more sbcs and I'll probably try an orange pi out.
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