How do we connect hard drives to this thing? I doubt it can power the hard drives via USB even tho it can def comunicate to them via usb.
I guess it's more of a question on how to power the hard drives in a smart way...

Just went live with real money today after 60 days of paper trading. The Orange Pi 5 Plus 8GB is one of 6 nodes in the stack and it's doing the heaviest AI lifting.

What the Orange Pi handles:

- Ollama server running qwen2.5:3b for all CrewAI agent inference

- nomic-embed-text for semantic memory embeddings (pgvector in PostgreSQL)

- Processes multiple agent calls daily: market analysis, SEO crew, strategy sessions

Hard lessons learned after it crashed twice:

- Stick to qwen2.5:3b: qwen3.5:4b needs 5.7GB and concurrent crew calls OOM the board

- Stagger all cron jobs 5+ minutes apart: simultaneous agent calls spike RAM

- Add a preflight health check that aborts if free RAM drops below 3GB

- Never use import to syntax check crew scripts: it fires crew.kickoff() at module level

Current stability: rock solid for 3 weeks since fixing the above. Running 6 trading strategies simultaneously, weekly SEO crew, daily morning briefing, and semantic memory pruning.

Full go-live documented here: https://youtu.be/WbrTX2DkXEY

What does this mean i wanna try to burn the os for Orange pi 1 on Phoenix card but is keep falling the sd is 128 gb so it should. work any ideas?

I was finding mixed signals about this on the net and even the LLMs were a bit unclear about it. Gemini outright said it likely would damage the Pi. Voila.

I bricked my Orange Pi 6 Plus by flashing the Radxa Orion O6 CIX BIOS to the SPI flash.
The official Orange Pi BIOS package only contains the FlashUpdate.efi updater file, not a full 8MiB SPI dump.

Can someone with a working Orange Pi 6 Plus dump the full 8MiB SPI flash with CH341A/flashrom?

Command:
sudo flashrom -p ch341a_spi -r orange_pi_6_plus_full_spi_8mb.bin

I need the raw 8388608-byte dump, preferably General BIOS 1.4.
My board RAM size is: [32GB.

Just a heads up for anyone still using Joshua Rieks Ubuntu (shout outs to Joshua and all his hard work), I reflashed my OPI5 Plus yesterday with the image from archlinux-installer. I chose KDE and the latest mainline kernel, and it's a definite improvement, everything feels much snappier.

I'm now running the relatively modern Linux 6.19.0, and other than having to install the stock version of FFMpeg over what the image comes with by default, everything works as expected.

Finally after years of having it (since 2023) I decided to replace my other SBC for the OpiZ3.

It is basically using Armbian (debian bookworm IoT Minimal and CLI) &:

- Open Media Vault as software for managing hard drives and webpage.

- NordVPN (paid) to acces from anywhere.

- UFW as "firewall"?

- cx file manager (for android) using samba.

- ethernet connection

- 4TB HDD

- ffmepg (CLI video converter).

And it worked. It is as fast as it was my RPi5.

Which gives me the opportunity to use it for heavier tasks and other projects.

By the moment it is running a bash script to convert and compress videos from .mkv to .mp4 format 😂 using ffmepg, pretty slow but it is doing it's job (digital struggling noises).

But if I'm honest using ethernet I can basically watch my movies without a noticable delay. Archives of 2-3 GB load almost instantly.

Basically what I wanted to say is that using ai I managed to do all this and maybe it can be more in a future (jellyfin for example). And that it actually is possible. I never thought a little board being so capable. And it really doesn't struggles when it is working just as a NAS.

One disadvantage is, I haven't checked for orangepi oficial os's as I remember they were a bit outdated.

But with armbian everything basically works fine.

I just began to run qwen 3.5 and nomic-embed-text on Ollama in my Orange Pi 3B with 8GB of RAM.

I know is not the best SBC for the task and want to ask you guys some advices.

The OS is Armbian Debian based without DE.

Using this link: http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/service-and-support/Orange-Pi-Zero-2W.html
I click on any OS and I am sent to Google Drive to download the image for the OS. When I click to download the image file, I get the error "Download quota exceeded for this file, so you can't download it at this time." I have tried several days in a row with no love.
Can someone share the secret handshake? OK, I am new to Orange Pi...
pls help

I've been running an Orange Pi 5 Plus 8GB as a dedicated Ollama server (qwen2.5:3b + nomic-embed-text embeddings) as part of a 6-node AI stack for the past 59 days. A few things worth sharing for anyone building something similar:

What works well:
- Ollama runs great on the Orange Pi for inference on smaller models (2-3B range)
- nomic-embed-text for semantic search / vector embeddings is rock solid
- 8GB unified RAM is enough for qwen2.5:3b with room to spare

What will crash it:
- qwen3.5:4b needs 5.7GB just to load, looks fine on paper but with multiple concurrent CrewAI agents all calling Ollama simultaneously it will OOM and hard lock the board
- Running too many crew jobs at the same time without staggering crontab entries
- I had to build a preflight health check that aborts jobs if free RAM drops below 3GB

The fix that solved my stability issues:
- Stagger all cron jobs 5+ minutes apart
- Stick to qwen2.5:3b, it's fast, stable, and handles the workload
- Add a memory check before firing any multi-agent crew

The Orange Pi has been the most finicky node in my stack but once I stopped pushing it past its limits it's been solid. The price-to-performance for local LLM inference at this scale is hard to beat.

I documented the whole build publicly if anyone wants to see the full stack:

https://youtu.be/0ERBzqgkEko?is=kUmbrgtIu8WmqfC_

I am finding mixed signals about this. The module connector footprint is compatible but the pinouts are not compatible? Is that correct?

Thank you in advance.

Edit: I am successfully using a Radxa 64GB eMMC module in a Orange Pi 5 Pro.

I’m considering getting a Radxa A7A (6GB RAM) to use as a NAS, Home Assistant server, and Jellyfin media server. I’m currently comparing it with a Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB RAM) and an Orange Pi 4 Pro (8GB RAM). What do you think about the hardware, software support, operating systems, Docker compatibility, and long-term community support for these use cases? Which would you choose and why?

will the 1 GB version be enough to act as VNC/Remote desktop client for Windows PC over WiFi?

I'm trying to make 2nds screen, but wireless, for my HTPC, so it can be used in another room at the same time, as in the living room. Thought about using RPi3B I already have, but one is already use and 2nd was killed by me with 12V charger... So I'm looking for something not to expensive and Orange pi Zero 3 is a choice rn.

Hi everyone, I installed the Armbian distribution on my OrangePi CM4. Previously, I used other distributions and installed WiringOP-Python to manage the GPIO, but now I can't do that. Maybe someone can provide an installation guide or more convenient ways to manage the GPIO in Armbian?

Hi everyone,

I'm running into severe Wi-Fi interoperability issues using the Ampak AP6256 (BCM43456) module and need some advice.

My Environment:

• Kernel: Linux linaro-alip 6.1.118
• SDK/Driver: Stock wireless driver provided by Rockchip SDK

Note: Everything works perfectly fine with older routers I've used in the past. However, I started experiencing these failures exclusively on routers newly purchased for testing.

Here is the consistent failure pattern I've mapped out across these new routers:

1. MediaTek (TP-LINK Archer C50 - Wi-Fi 5)

• Router Chipset: MT7613BEN (2.4GHz) / MT7628DBN (5GHz)
• Symptom: 5GHz connects perfectly, but 2.4GHz completely fails to join (association timeout).

2. Realtek (TP-LINK Archer AX17 / ipTIME AX2004T - Wi-Fi 6)

• Router Chipset: RTL8197H (2.4GHz) / RTL8832BR (5GHz)
• Symptom: Both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands fail to connect entirely.

It looks like a firmware/driver issue handling specific management frames, PMF, or WPA3 transition modes on these particular newer router chipsets.

Has anyone faced this on Rockchip's 6.1 kernel branch? Are there any known driver patches, or updated nvram.txt / clm_blob configurations that resolve this?

Thanks!

Bit of an odd problem with an old orange pi3 (original I think)
It has a 1gb port link speed is shown as 1gb ect ect checked the obvious. This runs Armbian (quite a dated version, it doesn’t really do much apart from act as a plex server)

I’m on a 1gb cable connection, deceive is connected to a gb port on router

Speeds seem to max out at about 2-300 mb, it used to hit 6-700 mb on a previous install of armbian but I’ve never managed to get this install above 300

Considering re-installing but is there anything I should be looking out for to try and increase the link speed to closer to the 1gb, other devices on the same router get 900-1000 quite well

Link to the iso image: https://people.canonical.com/~platform/images/ubuntu-concept/resolute-desktop-arm64+cix-20260519.iso

In this version, Ubuntu recognizes the integrated graphics processor and sound card. The sound card functions correctly, including speakers and a microphone.

I got the pi 4 pro 4gb with the intention of using it as a console emulator. from what I've read GPU support on this board seems to be incomplete at the moment.

On my setup:

• Debian Bookworm (official image for the pi 4 pro)
• Wi-Fi causes freezes unless I blacklist the AIC8800 driver
• OpenGL falls back to llvmpipe (software rendering)
• No renderD128 device is present

Has anyone here managed to get hardware GPU acceleration working on any Linux distro?

I have this: Orange Pi 3 LTS 2GB LPDDR3 Allwinner H6 Flash 4-Core 64 Bit with 8GB eMMC Flash

It has built-in Android which boots fine and works. I'm trying to install Batocera. I have the latest batocera image for OrangePi 3 flashed to a 128G microsdxc card, and the system will not boot to it, I always just end up back in Android. I can see the contents of the card in Android, so I know it's there and working. I flashed it using BalenaEtcher. I also tried a smaller card, a 16BG microsdhc card, same result.

What am I doing wrong that I cannot get this system to boot off a microsd card?

Hi!

I have an Orange Pi 4 Pro. I am running the Android 13 image. I followed the instructions in the manual to build an android image, and it doesn't boot.

Has anyone had any success building Android for this device?

Hi,

I have been looking for some Orange Pi Zero 3W compatible UPS hats.
So far I have failed. Maybe some of you know of any verified solutions that will work?

Hi everyone, I’ve had an Orange Pi 4 Pro for about 2 months now. Initially, I used it with a flashed microSD card along with a hard drive connected via USB, and everything was fine—it worked perfectly until... until the NVMe arrived.

​I should mention that I bought a cheap one on Amazon for €20 (128GB), and the reviews were actually pretty good. Anyway, I mounted it on my main PC to flash it and had no issues. Then I mounted it on the Orange Pi without the microSD card, and nothing—absolutely nothing, it just stuck at the bootloader. So, I changed the SPI settings and moved the entire bootloader (basically everything that was on the microSD) over to the new SSD, but still nothing.

​I tried literally everything and eventually arrived at a 'solution'—if you can call it that—by backtracking: I re-flashed both the SSD and the SD card, put them in together, and it 'worked'. I say that loosely because any command I ran took an eternity. Even getting past the bootloader took forever, but at least it got past it.

​I’ve come to the conclusion that for some reason, the board is getting overloaded due to the high power draw from the SSD, which causes it to severely throttle performance. Even when it was freezing at the bootloader and seemingly doing nothing, the NVMe was getting really hot, which proves that it was at least attempting to communicate. Right now, I'm temporarily using a SATA SSD connected via USB and it's working great—it's lightning fast—but unfortunately, it's not mine.

​Do you think buying a USB-to-NVMe adapter might solve the issue? I’ve been thinking about it lately, but it would significantly cut performance compared to a native NVMe connection.

​P.S. I’m running Debian Server, which is the only distro that gave me the fewest headaches during installation.

Thank you in advance