SBC thread, no rapepi's please

SBC thread, no rapepi's please.

Also looking for a good complete bairbone board, at most just have external I/O and the comm chip soldered on.

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>TFW I want an orange pi pc2 for compact low end cheap as fuck emulation and web browsing machine for my tv
>TFW I just bought a prebuilt Dell with an i3 2120 in auction for 70 aud instead

I'd still consider the orange pi if there was any good OS for it, but for now that money's going to the cheapest low profile GPU that isn't shit. At least now I can also do GCN/PS2...

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i hated the thing, needed alot of power, would randomly shut off if power supply was not 100% consistent.

can anything useful be done with the raspi zero?

I don't think so.
It has very limited functionality and terrible problems with driver blobs.

I wonder why ppl go for rapepis when an asrock mini or itx with a4-5000 is a bit more.

>SBC thread
>No raspi's

Whats the point in leaving out the only sbc that matters?

OP said
>no rapepi's please.
Also, as I mentioned before, even rpis with the shitload of s/w and beta testers around the world, still suffers from the closed drivers.
The idiots of rpi, due to their previous experience they didn't like mali.
Mali could've made rpi the best playfirm..but no, let the users and devs suffer with blobs

Friendly reminder than ODROID C2 outperforms a Rpi 3:

CPU of 2.0 GHZ with integrated heatsink.
2 GB RAM.
GPU of 700 MHz.
HDMI 2 4K 60 FPS.
h265 video compression.
microSD + eMMC for storage (choose the eMMC).
4 USB 2.0 + microUSB OTG.
40 pin UART.
Infrared receiver
10/100/1000 LAN (1 gigabit ethernet).
64-bit ARM technology.

Can play Kodi beautifully (I suggest OpenELEC) and if you buy the eMMC you get crazy speeds. Also gaymes youtube.com/watch?v=rn10J9K58YA

I managed to fit a 1050ti into an optiplex 3020. Had to chop the PSU up a bit for fit but it runs great. Dropped in an SSD and I've got plenty of headroom for an i5 upgrade when I choose to spend the money.

Name one sbc wich is fully open source.

I want a board similar to the banana pi R2 to make an open source router (probably openwrt but I wouldn't mind going the openBSD route)

Is there a similar board that has better support? I read yesterday that the banana pi has shit support and has some nonfree GPU on it for some reason

anyone recommend freedreno compatable SBC's?

>nonfree GPU
Isn't it possible to blacklist the driver ? And why the fuck they even put GPU into router board ?

mine keeps getting second long black screen so I just set it up as a DLNA and torrent download server. I suck at SBCs.

>open source router
the only problem with this is wifi (implying you care about it).
For some reason there isn't any mpci card that will work decently in AP mode.

I have a Minnowboard

What's the cheapest board with 512MB/1GB RAM and video output right now?

Orange pi

Is there anything that can be powered off a USB port that has wifi and ethernet? I want to make a platform independent wireless N card for my 2000s machines.
>just use normal ethernet
But i want to use a powerbook while in bed.

Dragonboard 410c.

Generally anything that you can find with mali and adreno.

Cont'ued
Check this page linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2017-with-90-hacker-friendly-single-board-computers/
for proper sbcs.
Look how rpi is at the bottom.
I have the zboard 7020, but i do fpga development, not hobby projects.

ARM is not open source. Try again.

But it's hacker friendly didn't you see the link

That's not "bairbones"

Nice meme. You were complaining about blobs. They all have that. None of them are open. Some of them wont even run linux. Most have no software support or thriving community. They're also more expensive.
It's just retarded to make a sbc thread and say "no raspis". Fucking edgelord.

Great pic user, you made it ?

>Friendly reminder than ODROID C2 outperforms a Rpi 3:
Friendly reminder that it's also just under twice the fucking price though. No shit it's more powerful.

I wanted a RPI for years, but they are very expensive in my country (up to x5 its original price, and x10 for the Zero)
Ended up getting an used prebuilt for $35, i5 2nd generation and 4gb of RAM, far faster than any SBC out there and cheaper.
The whole SBC meme is a fucking joke unless you want it for IoT.

Holy shit the autism. Why the fuck are you against odroid are you selling raspi or something?

I read that the gpios are pretty much useless, but other than that what's wrong with it?
Thoughts?

>fell for the rpi meme
wasn't worth it, I'd rather have my 50 bucks

Can I just find one decent board with a x64 cpu? I don't need real time performance, I just need it to at least run my software.

>Had to chop the PSU up a bit
>plenty of headroom for an i5 upgrade when I choose to spend the money.
Spend the money on a proper fucking power supply and not one with exposed capacitors you enormous mongoloid

please tell us the fully open source board/computer that you are comparing against

>wasn't worth it, I'd rather have my 50 bucks
Why did you buy one if you didn't have a use for it?

beaglebonebone black and mayb boards that use imx?

impulse buy maybe

risc-v boards?

>impulse buy maybe
user has a degraded frontal lobe, and wants to blame raspberry pi?

Hardware is not source code therefor can never be open source

EOMA68 is finally going to ship in November!
First one of these certified to Respect Your Freedom by the FSF.
Super stoked.

`free hardware designs' is the term you all are looking for

>RPi3: $35
>Odroid C2: $45
>just under twice the fucking price

No ix86 SBCs? :-(

What's the point if we don't have fabs in our garages?

I'm confused about the GPU situation on this.

Are they even trying to get the lima driver working?

i wish the EOMA68 etc were an actuall pcmia card that you could just plug into ancient laptops and magicly transform into a modern computer

>non arm sbc
its a meme at this point, have fun waiting for compatibility with your favorite programs

Probably because they're always more expensive than micro-atx equivalents.

>ODROID
Enjoy your fucking binary blobs

But raspberry pi contains binary blobs too, and more, what are you saying?

go fuck yourself

not true. open source hardware is a thing. get with it man

Did I do good?

>C1
At least you tried

>go fuck yourself
Definitely lacks impulse control.

>need thingamajigy for rpi
>want it fast, so select only U.S. based sellers
>Pay a little extra, but don't care, becuase just need to have my doodad fast
>week in a half it's still not delivered
>week in a half you realized that the seller lied
>week and a half, and the fucking shit is still in China
>TFW I could have just ordered it directly from China

It's a C2, nigger. The case from C1 fits C2.

lowrisc.org

Don't exist yet, except some microcontroller boards, but I need a RISC-V SOC.

I'm not comparing anything. Some user complained about raspberry pi blobs and I stated that all the boards have blobs, you can't name one board which is fully open, because they don't exist.

gpio's are for connecting other components to your computer, like controller interfaces. they're only useless if you don't use them.

now my question..
I'm trying to get an MC7430 working as an internet connection on my board over mpcie. It shows up in linux as what may be the right driver (how do I check), but I can't dial the carrier network with it. I would like to use it in MBIM mode since that seems to be the most compatible, and also my kernel is not 4.5 or above. Anyone know what to do?

...

Here's what I have:

>rPi 2
Bought this when it first came out, used it behind the sofa at my parents' place as a VPN, since I was living abroad in a country where e.g. YouTube videos are really commonly blocked. Also had it doing occasional Torrent stuff unattended, though only to make use of some freeleeches over a Christmas period.

>rPi 3
Got this cheaply for the parents as their "first step" into HTPC-related tech, i.e. I ran Kodi on it so they could watch normie TV/Films I downloaded for them on a USB disk. It's currently the "secondary" LibreELEC machine in their bedroom, and impressively can handle 720p HEVC.

>ODROID-C2
This is the "daily driver" for the parents. I'd have it running LibreELEC, but they like having (legal!) access to certain catch-up TV services, which is only possible with their official Android apps. So Android it is, despite there not being an AndroidTV build. Hopefully that changes. Works really well for the most part, even hardware-decoding for HEVC, but conks out occasionally due to Android being unstable and clunky.

>ODROID-XU4 + CloudShell2
This is MY daily-driver. On this I run:
>pi-hole (+ custom dnsmasq)
>ZNC
>murmur
>NFS (2x 8TB)
>Redundancy (4x4TB via mergerfs, 1x5TB "parity" disk via SnapRAID)

Everything's now wired up with gigabit ethernet, because I decided to get busy in July. I also have Syncthing running on all devices, ARM or otherwise, with a copy of my "Projects" folder, i.e. everything "actually important" which I would be problematic to lose.

When I say "MY daily-driver", I don't mean I use it as a desktop replacement - but rather, it's "my" server, and my first port of call for accessing my home LAN from outside.

My point is it's a misnomer

What's wrong with a Raspberry Pi?

it's popular

Not a flaw unless you're autistic.

exactly

But I'm not autistic.

BananaPi

I have raspberry pi 3 ver b, but I'm waiting on more parts to be used as I originally intended to.
Suggest me what to do with it while I wait (it's complete, and useable).

Internally it has only one USB2 port which is shared between all its output ports, including the 100Mbit ethernet port (itself so slow that it makes the device useless for NAS application).

What's the best/cheap SBC which can connect a camera and has ethernet? I want to make a simple and cheap IP security camera.

sorry, can't tell you, op has banned all mention of it

Well, I've already found cheaper alternatives that seem to do the same thing as those, so those wouldn't really apply anyway I think.

Suggestions if I wanted something to use as file server/NAS, ownCloud, torrent client, this kind of stuff?

XU4 isn't a bad choice, though there are some newer boards with similar functionality which might be cheaper? I'll let another user jump in.

cheaper than 5 quid? im impressed

Raspberry pi zero does not have ethernet.

Main issue I have is the awful I/O. What SBCs have decent support and real I/O buses instead of the PI's shitty USB ethernet?

Netflix on rspi3 when

Dunno which IO buses you need, but the ODroids (HC1 / XU4) do have decent storage + wired network connectivity.

Even ones with USB3 tend to have one "real" USB3 internally, virtual hubs all the way down.

I was looking into the C2 to be honest, not sure I need all the processing power of the XU4.

I remember seeing on a thread here a board with SATA connections, does anyone know which one? Might be handy if I want to use it as file server.

Remember too that while the C2 has gigabit ethernet, it doesn't have the USB3 connection.

The HC1 / XU4 are still just a lot better.

Don't you want SATA & USB3?

I didn't know the HC1 had SATA ports, it looks like it's just what I need.
Thanks anons

No problem.

And though it's probably pointless now - just to clarify, on the XU4 it's merely a typical addon that works well (much better than on the C2 AFAIK) - not stock.

For the record, a recent firmware update enables UAS mode on the 2 SATA ports of the CloudShell2. You'll probably have to flash it yourself (frustratingly requires a Windows machine), but there are performance benefits associated with this. Definitely worth bearing in mind. I just wish that my Orico 4-bay USB3-SATA thing had UAS too...

Congrats, I am using ubuntu minimal for kodi-fbdev and works as intended.

This is the kind of reviews I like, thanks.

I want to make a Tor only router. What Single Board Computer should I use?
Laptop -> SBC WiFi -> Regular WiFi.

lol no wtf man :D i am planing to buy XU4 and emmc card :D i am amazed by odroid :D

It's not bad if your country has any sort of anti exploitation laws to speak of.
Nobody is perfect, but at least some of us try.

like i am buying odroid because its 100% source

i know of this kobol.io/helios4/ but cant compare to others

That superficially certainly looks nice.

IF everything is smooth and stable and sane (which on SBC isn't a given), I can see this becoming popular.