Orange Pi computer boards introduction
Created 11/02/2017 | Expansion boards work with the Orange Pi computers using Armbian linux
The Orange Pi range of computer boards are available from http://www.orangepi.org/
We have tested our range of expansion boards on three of their models:
Orange Pi Plus2 http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiplus2/ which has a uses the AllWinner H3 SoC, 2GB DDR3 SDRAM, 16GB flash memory and gigabit Ethernet
Orange Pi One http://www.orangepi.org/orangepione/ which uses the AllWinner H3 SoC, and has 512MB DDR3 SDRAM
Orange Pi PC http://www.orangepi.org/orangepipc/ which uses the AllWinner H3 SoC, and has 1GB DDR3 SDRAM. All I2C boards checked but could not find a way to use the UART pins for the Serial Pi and RS485 Pi boards.
The boards have a 40 pin gpio connector which can be used with a selection of our expansion boards.
The Orange Pi computers can run a range of operating systems including:
- Raspbian
- Armbian
- Lubuntu
- Android
- Fedora
- OpenSuse
- ArchLinux
- OpenWrt
- Berryboot
- XBMC
For our own testing we used Armbian from www.armbian.com which has I2C and UART support without additional configuration.
We have tested our Python 2 libraries on the Orange Pi computers, to download our libraries from our GitHub account you first need to install git with:
sudo apt-get install git
Next you need to navigate to the directory you want to download the libraries into and use the following command to clone the files to your local directory:
git clone https://github.com/abelectronicsuk/ABElectronics_Python_Libraries.git
Compatible expansion boards
The following expansion boards have been tested are compatible with the Orange Pi boards listed above when using Armbian Linux and our Python 2 libraries or OWFS for 1 Wire support:
1 Wire Pi Plus https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/60/1-Wire-Pi-Plus
1 Wire Pi Zero: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/76/1-Wire-Pi-Zero
ADC Differential Pi: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/65/ADC-Differential-Pi-Raspberry-Pi-Analogue-to-Digital-converter
ADC Pi Plus: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/56/ADC-Pi-Plus-Raspberry-Pi-Analogue-to-Digital-converter
ADC Pi Zero: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/69/ADC-Pi-Zero-Raspberry-Pi-Analogue-to-Digital-converter
IO Pi Plus: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/54/IO-Pi-Plus
IO Pi Zero: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/71/IO-Pi-Zero
RTC Pi Plus: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/52/RTC-Pi-Plus
RTC Pi Zero: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/70/RTC-Pi-Zero
RS 485 Pi: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/77/RS485-Pi
Serial Pi Plus: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/51/Serial-Pi-Plus
Serial Pi Zero: https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/75/Serial-Pi-Zero
