Single Board Computers

Is the khadas vim a POS or is it really the dream SBC?

>inb4 link to board-db.org
full of missing/incorrect data

>>61065087
That looks rather promising in terms of specs, but the site looks like shit, it's all pictures of text.

Oh wait, 100Mbps port. Pass.

>>61065069
what do you mean by not stable? was planning to buy XU4

>>61065087
>100Mbps ethernet
No. Get out.

>>61065069
odroid has been around at least as long as the rpi foundation.

>raspberry pi costs 30$
>cool.jpg
>go online to buy it
>cheapest one is 60$

when will this meme end

>>61065069
Was thinking about buying the banana pi M2, hooking up some externally powered drives, and making it an economical torrent / Plex server

>>61065165
>>61065146
Yeah that's shitty. I'll just wait™ for the Vim2 and hope the chinks deliver

It depends on the project. Orange pi zero seems like a good option for most simple projects that don't need a video output and it's for like 8~9 dollars in Ali.

>>61065199
when you learn how to shop

>>61065255
Or you could get the odroid xu4.

>>61065199
it's ~$30 for the board alone
then you need a power source
sd card
maybe a case...
additional cables if you don't have them (ethernet, usb, hdmi)
usb drive

>>61065250
odroid xu4 would work better for that

the banana pi has shit support

>>61065301
yet it's an additional $20.
seems like the armbian images work

what the most chipest single board shit that can run Kodi and has wifi?

>>61065301
>>61065286
I currently have an old celeron laptop that I use as a torrent & plex server, but it can't handle x265 movies. The two cores max out at 100% use.
Can the xu4 decode x265? I'm aiming for 1080, not 4k.

>>61065366
If I remember correctly, the comparison posted here a while back said no x265 on the XU4, but yes on the C2. But definitely not certain of that.
>>61065339
For Kodi/OpenELEC only, any good TV boxes someone can recommend? x265 support, stable OS
>>61065286
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the XU4 around $90 and then an additional ~$70 for the eMMC?

>>61065414
I just want a small box that can run Kodi 1080p and has wifi, nothig more

>>61065472
same here, but 1Gbps instead of WiFi, and x265 decoding

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>>61065069
These are going to be replaced when they put bluetooth and wifi inside of microcontrollers

>>61065414
Why would you need emmc?

Just plug your hard drives into the usb 3.0 ports and boot off an sd card.
Once a program is loaded it's just running in memory anyway. You can get an 8gb sd card for dirt cheap.

USB 3 has plenty of bandwidth to support a hard drive at full speed and the XU4 has actual gigabit ethernet.

Use arch and rtorrent and you'll be able to fit everything into the sd card and ram very easily.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RTorrent

You wouldn't be so foolish as to actually load a whole gui system onto a seed box would you?

>>61066750
Eh, I don't think I'll run apcupsd, a DNS server and a web server on a microcontroller any time soon, even if it has BT and WiFi.

>>61065414
Yes, but it can boot off a microsd. I have an xu4 and I absolutely love it, well worth the cost. Much better than my gen1 raspi

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http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=130

anyone have experience with this? looks p good

>>61065472
I'm using a pi3 for this but it is rather sluggish, playback is fine though

anyone know of any good power supplies to power a couple of SBCs? rather than having to use lots of individual ones

>>61067671
How is the performance? What's your boot time? I heard they get hot quickly and throttle hard.

>>61065199
>falling for the weaker raspi meme
orange pi master race

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>>61068301
>gigabit ethernet
>$49
Wow, that looks pretty awesome. Seems like it could actually feasibly be used for pi-hole, openVPN, and stuff like that. What do you use yours for?

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>>61068118
boot time depends on what you run on it, it's not a good metric. I run skeletal Jessie on it and use it for Ampache and transmission-daemon, and as an arm build box in a pinch.

they don't get hot quickly, however the default fan regulator tends to cycle hard between 10% and 100% which makes it sound that way (and the fan is pretty loud at 100%). found someone's shell script online that tweaks it via sysfs and with that it stays almost inaudible and rarely spikes.
https://hastebin.com/hizakuxale.bash

the 8 cores are killer for my purposes, overall would buy more of them for general purpose small compute needs. nice boards.

pic related, while streaming flacs via ampache & seeding 200+ torrents

>>61068415
Actually i use the $12 orange pi zero for those purposes. Pihole, VPN server, Owncloud, Seedbox with Deluge and as a local wannabe samba "NAS" with a 2tb usb hdd.

100Mbps ethernet isn't an issue because my upload speed is only 40Mbps and i don't transfer huge files between my devices.

Wi-Fi is shit on this device but the rest is alright, runs Debian and the processor is more than enough to do all these things at the same time.

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>>61068529
>>61068118
they're also sexy

>>61065199
The "full featured" raspberry pi isnt worth it imo, it just needs too many adapters and peripheral in order to make it work, and its price goes just too high to make it worth it.
I ended up getting an used PC instead off craiglist, 2nd generation i5 and 4gb of ram for $45 bucks, much cheaper than what a RasPI 3 + shipping would cost me while being far more powerful.

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>>61065069
SBCG are great in terms that they are the first Linux experience for the most of the normies, especially RPi, and they like it.

>>61068796
not smol tho

I would recommend the minnowboard if you're doing heavy computation and if youre okay with the price. Also it's much easier to patch a Linux kernel if necessary, since you're not working with an ARM architecture.

What's better for "iot" tinkering, the rpi zero w or those esp32 boards? How does one program the esp32, is it embedded or does it have an OS?

>>61070528
smol SBCs are qt

>>61068529
Does it decode 1080p x265 tho

>>61072278
still no answer on this?

>>61072278
Also interested in this, I think odroid c2 will do it but not sure

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>>61065069
>comparison spreadsheet
This? All I have is this outdated one. I don't have the link to the google docs site, sadly.

>>61068532
Did you run all those services at the same time? If so how do they are performance wise?
Also do you need to power the external hd or do you just use the usb port?

>>61067985
I want

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Someone recommend me a SBC that I can use as a low power desktop for spreadsheets and shitposting. It must have at least two full USB A or C ports, microUSB for power (preferably no more than 5V), SD slot or SATA slot for bootable storage, must be able to run Debian ARM or Android, at least 1GB of RAM (preferably 2GB), have some sort of display out port, and be under $60. What are my options?

>Inb4 buy a cheap laptop
I already have one and it's not as cute and fun as an SBC.

What's a cheap option I could use as a home cloud + seedbox? Meaning I want SATA, good networking, good quality, reliability, durability, and ease of maintenance, and as few other price-inflating features as possible. I have absolutely no idea of the market so I don't know where to even start looking.

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>>61074132
I haven't purchased one yet (still browsing), but the ODROID XU4 is listed as $60 on Hardkernel's site (without shipping), and according to its specs should be perfect for what you're asking - which is similar to what I'm looking for in an SBC. There's also the ODROID C2 for $46 which could work, its main downsides (for me) being USB 2.0 ports instead of 3.0, and Linux kernel 3.14 support instead of 4.9.

>>61065069
I'm still waiting for one with 100% free firmware and 8 GB of RAM

>>61074205
The ODROID XU4 doesn't have SATA, but does have USB 3.0... So maybe that if SATA's not a dealbreaker.

>>61074218
Unfortunately I think it's going to be a while before we get both in the same device.

>>61074241
It doesn't even have to be cheap, would pay up to 500 EUR for it
Have been looking the AMD Opteron ARM dev boards but if you want graphics output, they're over 1000 EUR

>>61074228
Hm usb3 should be plenty fast. But is there something cheaper? I probably don't need such a processor and I definitely don't need the GPU.

>>61074006
Yes, that's what I have as well. Just now thought to look it up, it seems like this blog might be the source, or at least knows where the source is.
https://www.loverpi.com/blogs/news/latest-orange-pi-board-feature-comparison

>>61072278
I have an odroid c2 and yes it does

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>>61074277
Maybe the Orange Pi Plus?Or one of the other Orange Pis. I can't really recommend since I don't own one, but the specs look good, it even has SATA (no USB 3.0). The Chinese sites have it for ~$40.
Some here recommended the Orange Pi Zero which is very cheap, but obviously inferior in terms of specs.
You could browse through the Orange Pi models and see what suits your needs.

>>61074350
Not sure if b8, but the question was regarding the XU4

>>61074306
The blog took the image from someone's Google docs. I specifically remember a link to the docs being posted here (maybe it was on the wiki) leading to the editable spreadsheet.

is there anything better (more perf, better hw specs, whatever) than the orange pi zero for $12 or less?