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Post by jhornbr225 on Apr 30, 2019 17:24:14 GMT -5
Saw a video today on YouTube ETAPrime for a device called Atomic Pi. A $35 x86 Cherry Trail PC. Yes, the Cherry Trail chips are no longer made, probably getting dumped, hence the low price. Only 2G RAM, 16GB eMMC. Built in 2x10W Audio Amp (If you supply a separate 12V supply). One USB3 port, possible additional USB2 port on pins. But overall, about the same as my original Lattepanda. Amazon had 500 of them, sold them out quick. They are still available from the manufacturer dlidirect.com.
$15.91 shipping though. I couldn't resist. Although just what I need, another cheap, low feature PC. I get the feeling though, that it's not coming from China. They did offer 2 day shipping, but that was like, $35. I can wait a couple more days for the $20 savings.
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Post by COMpulse on May 1, 2019 6:25:15 GMT -5
I saw these too. They were already sold out on Amazon. Supposedly returning to amazon in May with a breakout board as well.
Just now, I ordered the atomic pi and breakout board from dli.
Planning on building a PC for a green house. Sensors for temperature and humidity, etc.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 1, 2019 8:17:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I ordered mine from dli as well. I didn't want to wait for Amazon, even though I would have saved the $15.91 shipping. I didn't order the breakout, I'll have to fix something up for power.
Hell, I might use an old ATX power supply. Plenty of 5V amps, and 12V for the on-board amplifier as well.
Although looking at the pictures, and the schematic, it looks like the power button plug might not be populated.
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Post by COMpulse on May 1, 2019 9:51:49 GMT -5
I actually have no idea what I'm in for when this thing arrives. I saw a $35 mini computer with an x86 CPU and I started throwing my wallet at my monitor.
I think I have some obsession with tiny PCs. But I think maybe I suck at using them. I have 3 raspberry pi's in this room. And only 1 is even plugged in.
1 is a Model 3B+ running MotionEyeOS for a security camera. It's okay.
1 is actually a pretty bad-ass 3B+ booting from mSATA SSD and running RetroPi. I tried getting emulators, Kodi, plex, NetFlix, etc going. Lot's of things sort of work. It's sitting in a drawer.
1 is a Model A running Pi Hole. I unplugged it because I was having WiFi issues in my house, and the PiHole always seems suspect.
I did build a successful Kodi / OSMC media center for my mom with a large USB hard drive, and remote control. It works like a media player instead of the PC I had given her previously.
WHY IS THERE NO FUCKING UI FOR ANYTHING IN LINUX?!!!
Did you know all model 3B+ support booting from USB with no modification? I didn't know until I did some research on it.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 1, 2019 18:55:13 GMT -5
Just for fun I tried booting up the LattePanda today. I like to keep it up to date with updates occasionally. It appears to be bricked somehow. The red LED underneath, that's supposed to go out after you plug in power never goes out. I tried the hard reset procedure, no luck. Next step appears to be flashing the bios with some little chip programmer....What?
Also if you do flash the BIOS, it looks like you lose your Windows activation. I do have a Belarc Advisor Computer Profile on it though.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 1, 2019 20:57:48 GMT -5
Ordered a CH341A chip programmer kit. Looks like the chip on the LattePanda is a 1.8V chip, so I got the kit with the voltage converter. About $8 with shipping from China. Time to wait. I guess it's worth a try, considering the LattePanda was not cheap.
"Throwing wallet at monitor"
Me Too. Although I'm a little worried that I have not gotten any other emails from dli, other than the initial order confirmation. I guess I'm used to Amazon's instant gratification.
My Pi Hole seems to run great, no wifi issues here.
No time to play games. Got a Pi on both TV's for Kodi/OSMC. Only problem is that it seems I have to go and explicitly select the input that the Pi is attached to before I turn on it's power. And yes, I have to get up off the couch and turn the power on for them. If I don't select the input first, they don't seem to boot right.
Boot sequence: Change TV to HDMI 2 input. (That's what coming out of the Sony Surround Sound receiver) Press AMP button on Sony Remote. Press Home button on Sony Remote Select "Watch" Select "OSMC" (I labelled the input) Then turn on power to the Pi
That all may change in a few months. There is some extra equipment tied to the TV that will be going away in a few months. Hopefully things will get better after that. I never had that problem before the extra equipment was added. It's not my equipment, I don't own it, so I can't mess with it. Not to mention that I promised that I wouldn't. This boot problem is a small, hopefully temporary, inconvenience.
Now if only Driveline ran on the RPi. Not even the full enchilada, mainly Music, GPS, Navigation stuff. But if the Atomic Pi works out, then it would be silly to waste time on getting Driveline on the RPi.
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Post by Enforcer on May 2, 2019 2:09:59 GMT -5
WHY IS THERE NO FUCKING UI FOR ANYTHING IN LINUX?!!! having a UI means a User can use it. Which in turn means Users can fuck it up. Therefore no UI, no fuck up.
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Post by COMpulse on May 2, 2019 7:30:49 GMT -5
I bought a Windows 10 Pro license for like $10 last month. Feels good to be legit. If you lose your license, a new one is pretty cheap. Interested to hear how the BIOS flash goes.
DriveLine on linux could actually happen one day. ".Net Core" apps can run on Linux. Cross-platform compatibility would be awesome, but I would probably have to remove or re-do every piece of functionality that relies on a third-party DLL, like some of the radios, phidgets, WMP, etc. It would be more like writing a new app in .Net Core and working with the same skin files, since the skins define a lot of the programming.
UI's protect users from typo's and whatnot. It's hard to fuck up in a drop-down list.
Unless you mean that it's the fear factor that keeps people from fucking it up. In which case, I agree. I get to a point where I'm like "well, I'm just typing in commands I found on a website with no clue what they mean, and no idea how to do anything on my own without googling for help, so I should probably stop now."
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 2, 2019 18:49:13 GMT -5
Got an email today from digital loggers. I've got a FedEx tracking number, expected delivery on Monday. Coming from San Jose, CA.
Sweet.
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Post by COMpulse on May 3, 2019 9:34:49 GMT -5
I haven't heard back. I'm thinking maybe the break-out board is the delay, since it wasn't even offered on Amazon.
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Post by flylear45 on May 3, 2019 10:09:42 GMT -5
I saw it too and my hand twitched towards my wallet. If it had more ram I might have bit on it.
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Post by COMpulse on May 4, 2019 10:09:25 GMT -5
My estimated delivery is May 10th.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 6, 2019 19:51:22 GMT -5
Are they messing with your delivery date? I was supposed to get mine today, but over the weekend, I see the date changed to the 15th. It says it's in IL tonight, so I hope it's not really 9 more days.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 7, 2019 8:38:56 GMT -5
Last location was Independence, KY. Fedex is still saying delivery on the 15th though. Digital loggers website says the 14th. I'm not sure where they're getting that though.
It sure would be weird taking another week, seeing as it made it from San Jose CA to Kentucky in 4.5 days. It looks like it's near Cincinnati, about a 4 hour drive from me.
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Post by COMpulse on May 7, 2019 11:14:21 GMT -5
Mine hasn't changed.
On their website it says Estimated Delivery May 9th. On the FedEx site, it says May 10th.
Mine is in Effingham IL.
Not sure why I would get mine before you get yours. If they're both in IL, you're in Ohio and I'm in Michigan, I would expect you to get yours today or tomorrow, unless you've had mail delays due to weather.
As long as it has shipped, it's up to the delivery service.
Also, I wanted to ramble on about Raspberry Pi's for a moment. I decided to mess with my most interesting Pi -- the one with the SSD boot drive and enclosure with a fan.
I decided to try to get past my stopping points. I'm running RetroPie, with SteamLink and Kodi as an add-ons. And within Kodi, I've got add-ons for Plex, NetFlix, Amazon. I couldn't get the DRM module (called WideVine) installed for the NetFlix add-on. Fortunately, I moved on to installing Amazon, and the installer also installed the WideVine DRM modules. But NetFlix still wouldn't work. The Kodi logs revealed that CryptoDome was missing. So I found some instructions to install cryptodomex. But the instructions didn't work because I didn't have 'pip' installed. It's part of Python I guess, and I did have Python installed, but not pip apparently. So I installed python-pip. Then I installed CryptoDomex. THEN netflix started working. The whole process involved installing repositories from ZIP files and URLs, transferring ZIPs from PC and Pi, using SSH at times. It feels like setting up linux requires you have a Windows PC in the same room.
So, I've got a single Pi enclosure with SSD inside, a ton of NES, SNES, Sega, and N64 games on it. I found a Chrome browser add-on for RetroPie. The SteamLink add-on can stream games from my PC. Through Kodi I can stream movies and music from my PC running a Plex server, and I can stream Netflix and Amazon (at 720p or maybe 1080i due to Pi limitations). I'm still working on getting my VPN setup in Kodi and then trying some other add-ons. The system is controlled with a bluetooth game controller or IR remote. I wanted to add live over-the-air TV streaming, but I think it would cost me another $80 for a decoder box. Apparently the Pi isn't strong enough to decode and playback ATSC video at the same time.
Anyway, that's pi progress.
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