r/OrangePI

I saw a used OPi 6 Plus 32GB on Ebay with case/fan/psu/nvme for a lot less than the new price for this kit, easily 50+% off, couldn't resist.

I am fascinated by the possibilities of what that NPU could be made to do with the right prodding, all of those TOP/S made it feel irresistible, if they can actually be used usefully.

My inclination is to try to use it as a "robot brain" in a simulated environment on my workstation over the network.

What are other people's experience like with this device? I am especially interested in hearing of anyone's experience of low level control of the NPU in c/c++ and of how well NPU interfaces directly with the main system memory.

Thanks in advance for any responses!

​Hi everyone,

​I have a project where I need to wirelessly mirror my Android phone's screen directly to my Orange Pi Zero 2W.

​I'm currently looking into the best way to achieve this with minimal latency. Has anyone done this successfully before?

Hi everyone!

Could someone please help me find a touchscreen display (around 4 inches) for the Orange Pi Zero 3W?

I'm having trouble figuring out which displays are actually compatible with the 30-pin MIPI LCD connector on the bottom of the board. I know there are official displays available, but they start at 5 inches, which is too large for my project.

If anyone has experience with compatible MIPI DSI displays or can recommend a specific model, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi All,

Just thought I'd ask here before going to the hassle of returning a new Orange Pi 4 Pro.

I've been trying to get Linux running for 2 days using images from orangepi.org . I've tried the Ubuntu Server, the Ubuntu Desktop, backup Ubuntu Desktop and Debian Bookworm images, and pretty much all have thrown similar errors.

Usually Kernel panic errors, but can generally just freeze anywhere while trying to boot up, but maybe every 20th time, it will manage to boot to cli. So I did manage to get Ubuntu server running. I just set up docker with an SMB container and a USB disk connected. I left it running for a day but when I rebooted, it went back to not working, most of the time freezing while creating the zram drive.

Eventually wiped it and started afresh but continued to crash on first boot around the same time while booting.

I've tried multiple SD cards, created boot-able SD cards on Mac using Etcher, on Windows using Rufus. Tried 5 or 6 power supplies(18w or higher) and cables, always freezes at some stage during booting.

Can anyone confirm those images have worked recently? I've got a few SBC running already and never had any trouble like this.

i wanted to change the OS from dietpi to Ubuntu, entered the command sudo dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk2 count=1000 status=progress (on gemini's advice) after that, the screen is black and I cannot connect to my orange via usb