Orange Pi Setup For Mac
Insert micro SD card to Orange Pi Zero, connect to a router you are using ethernet cable. Open router’s control page, find Orange Pi Zero’s Mac Address (which is most newly added by DHCP) and write down is’s IP address.
I recently bought the very cheap and proportionally powerful Orange Pi Lite from. There’s not much info on the Orange Pi, but for around 20 AUD delivered, including a mini camera, I thought it was worth a try. A word of warning though, they are not trivial to get up and running and the documentation is quite unclear.
To make this tricker, at the time of writing, the Orange Pi Lite isn’t even listed in the model list on orangepi.org. Setting up the SD card There are plenty of instructions out there including on the Orange Pi on how to setup the micro SD card with an operating system image on Windows, Linux and Mac, so I won’t reiterate here. The process is the same for all the Orange Pi models (or burning any image to SD card for that matter), just make sure you use the correct image – I downloaded the build for mine. Other images, including for other Orange Pi models, can be found. If you are using a Mac (which I am) you’ll need to follow the Linux instructions from the OSX Terminal. Once the SD card is setup with the image don’t be concerned when you are told that the SD card couldn’t be read, it should still work on the OPi.
Powering up for the first time It’s recommended that you run your Orange Pi from a 2A power supply. Power is connected through a 4mm DC plug, although it can also be run through the 5V and GND pins of the GPIO, but I’m not sure if this is a good idea since the board is unlikely to be designed to handle 2A through the pins. That said, my analysis of the Lite would suggest it may need significantly less than 2A in typical use. I purchased a cheap $2 “Apple” 2A USB charger and USB to 4mm DC charging cable on eBay. I booted from this the first time, but haven’t had a successful boot since. After a lot of playing around with multimeter and oscilloscope I discovered that the power supply couldn’t handle anywhere near 2 amps (the voltage dropped to 4V with a 1.5A draw), and the voltage ripple (peak-to-peak voltage) was around 500mV.
This was nowhere near acceptable for the Orange PI. I instead tried a genuine 1A Apple USB charger and found it had around 20mV ripple and maintained the 5V during startup.
The 1A rating was more than enough with bootup requiring no more than about 500mA. So the moral of the story is, don’t believe the ratings on any power supplies/adapters/chargers, test them to be sure.
Once you’ve sorted out the power supply, simply plug into an HDMI display and a USB keyboard, connect power, and be patient – it takes a while to see a picture and for the green LED on the Orange PI to light up. Also, if there is anything wrong with your SD card the LED will not turn on even though power is adequately supplied. Setting up the wifi If you’ve used an Orange PI Lite image such as the Armbian build then the wifi drivers should already be installed. All you have to do is follow the Debian wifi.
Since my setup is headless (no graphical user interface installed) I followed the command line setup. When configuring /etc/network/interfaces I simply set the name of the network and password: # Wireless adapter #1 allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid my-wifi-id wpa-psk my-wifi-password These setting will vary somewhat depending on your wifi setup. Hi Vinod, I had the same issue and asked the seller on Aliexpress. The green LED will light up only when a valid OS is detected, and that can take a while. So even if the board is working perfectly, there may be no LED lit up if there is an issue with image on the SD card. In my case I hadn’t correctly imaged the SD card. The solution was to reimage the SD card, power up the PI and wait patiently.
Regarding the 2A rated power supply, these can be an issue too. Microsoft office 2011 free download. I also bought a 2A rated supply, but upon testing found that it couldn’t maintain a stable 5 volts during bootup, and even under low current the voltage was very jittery. The issue is that while these cheap supplies might be fine for charging a phone at 2A, they are unstable, and a computer needs a stable reference voltage. Some testing showed that the Orange Pi lite peaked at around 0.5A on startup, at which point the cheap power supply dropped well under 5 volts – in fact when I tested it at 2A it dropped consistently below 4V. So I complained, got my money back, and used a 1A iPhone power supply instead.
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So far the 1 amp has been more than enough and the better quality supply has provided a stable 5V. Hope that helps. I had some problems with first booting: The red led (power I suposse) will never light on when no sd-card is installed or if a non special Orange-Pi image is on the sd-card (i.e. Rasbian for Raspberry-Pi). Only after downloading a new Raspbian for Orange-Pi image and installed following the instructions carefully, I got the led lighting and the HDMI signal. I had tested by powering directly from my laptop USB, and from my Tv USB ports without problems.
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Also be careful with the (power?) button fittted in the board: any box cases when closed keep the button premanently pressed. I have not seen the button mission however: not for powering off or reset. Hi Diego, Sorry for the slow reply (I didn’t see a notification about this one for some reason). Anyway, thanks for your comments – I think your journey in getting things up and running is similar to mine and many others. While your laptop and TV were capable of booting things up fine, I would caution others to make sure your supply is rated at 500mA to be on the safe side, especially for the Orange Pis beefier than the Lite. I too have not found any use for the ‘power’ button. Thanks again for your comments.