<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399275">David - I had a similar experience... I thought it had some impressive specs for what it was. I got one on a lark, just for fun, diddled with it for a couple of weeks, had all sorts of nit picky issues. It now resides in an old beat up "Amazon" box on a shelf we call "the bone yard of used computer junk"...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399387"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399388">Pete - Refer to the above comment. I now have over 20 Pi's doing things in several counties... I just moved all my static web page hosting duties to a little tower of 4 Pi's with external redundant storage and retired 5 out of 6 of my old power hungry rack mounted windows servers... The lights in the shack now seem a bit brighter now - for some strange reason, lol... :)</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399403"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399431">So what's that tell ya...? I gave it a fair shot and it didn't cut the mustard. I like stuff that just simply works, reliably. The Pi fit the bill and then some! It's a shame the Banana Pi didn't work out... It makes a cool looking paperweight though!<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399432"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399433">Bill - N5MBM</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399434">www.n5mbm.net<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399177"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399199"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399261" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399260"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399259"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399258"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399257" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399256" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David McGough via arm-allstar <arm-allstar@hamvoip.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Pete Fierro via arm-allstar <arm-allstar@hamvoip.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> David McGough <kb4fxc@inttek.net>; Pete Fierro <mrpjf150@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, February 10, 2018 4:37 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399506"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399505">Subject:</span></b> Re: [arm-allstar] Banana Pi - BPI Single Board Computers Official Website<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399462"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1518065471444_399461"><br clear="none">Hi Pete,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Take a look at the reviews for any of these boards. Most (all?) of the<br clear="none">Banana Pi boards use AllWinner SoC chips which have ZERO manufacturer<br clear="none">support and a tiny user support community as well; at least in the USA.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">After spending hours and hours trying to resolve USB problems with Odroid<br clear="none">hardware and having the manufacturer NEVER release a solution, I'm rather<br clear="none">uninterested in most of the clone boards which are trying to grab some of<br clear="none">the glory, attempting to ride the Raspberry Pi 3 coat tails.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For now, unless you're a Linux systems guru, have got man-weeks of time<br clear="none">available and just want to experiment for heck of it, the RPi3 is without <br clear="none">any doubt the small board of choice.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Just my $0.02, your mileage may vary!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">73, David KB4FXC<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt3180623022" id="yqtfd60978"><br clear="none">On Sat, 10 Feb 2018, "Pete Fierro via arm-allstar" wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Anyone have any experience with a banana pi? Wondering if it will work for<br clear="none">> Allstar.I have yet to tinker with one<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Pete<br clear="none">> KD2ARB<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.banana-pi.org/" target="_blank">http://www.banana-pi.org/</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none">arm-allstar mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar" target="_blank">http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Visit the BBB and RPi2/3 web page - <a shape="rect" href="http://hamvoip.org/" target="_blank">http://hamvoip.org</a><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>