Orange Pi 4 LTS

Orange Pi 4 LTS

a viable, lower-cost alternative for Raspberry Pi 4

• OrangePi 4 wiki
• OrangePi 4 LTS on Amazon

Description

From the Orange Pi website:

Orange Pi is an open source single-board card computer, a new generation of arm64 development boards, which can run operating systems such as Android 8.1, Ubuntu and Debian. Orange Pi development board (Orange Pi 4 LTS) uses Rockchip RK3399 or RK3399-T SoC, and has 3GB or 4GB LPDDR4 memory

Top & Bottom

For context, the footprint is 91mm x 55.7mm.

Layout

Pinouts

Software

Orange Pi OS

Using Balena Etcher, follow these instructions to install the OS on an SD card. However, at the time of this writing, the Orange Pi software page says "Coming Soon", so apparently an update is in progress.

Linux

Read this before trying to flash a Linux image for Orange Pi.

• Linux on Orange Pi's GitHub is out of date. Use a distro directly from it source instead.
• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Linux Mint
• DistroWatch a list of virtually all available Linux distros

Android

• The Android 8.1 image is not presently available on the Orange Pi website, despite what the video says. This Reddit page has comments on finding and installing Android 9, although the writer is having problems with it.

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