[arm-allstar] $29 Pi Alternative ?

[Fred Moses]

Hello,

So testing a few of those Allwinner H3 boxes with the Sputnik distro this weekend.  And they boot about 95% of the time but a big flag to work on is rebooting halts the machine to where one needs to remove power wait and apply power to boot..  I have one that just will not boot anymore and two more that if you do a reboot you then have to manually remove power and re-apply to restart.

But it’s a start.  Not getting anything on the HDMI port ether so this will be interesting to troubleshoot and work on..

BTW - David if you have an image to test for the H3 side of things let me know.

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Fredric Moses - W8FSM - WRPA678

> On Sep 9, 2022, at 05:14, David McGough via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I've gone ahead and purchased several "set top"
> boxes to evaluate, including the Allwinner H3 box you listed (Cortex-A7,
> like an RPi2) and one using an Amlogic S905 SoC (Cortex-A53, like the
> RPi3B).
> 
> I've been working on new firmware images for months now, it's time to push 
> these projects over the finish line.
> 
> 
> 73, David K4FXC
>