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The system is automatically logged in as "pi". You can do "sudo npi-config" to disable auto login. The npi-config is a commandline utility which can be used to initialize system configurations such as user password, system language, time zone, Hostname, SSH switch , Auto login and etc.

Type the following command to run this utility. Here is how npi-config's GUI looks like:. The Qt 5. FriendlyCore has four scripts for setting Qt environmental variables for users and here is a table:.

This performance is achieved by hardware and software optimization. You can start it in a commandline utility by running the following commands:.

Here is what it looks like:. You can start it by running the following commands:. The qt5-player works with Rockchip's gstreamer plug-in and supports 4K video playing.

Since Rockchip's plug-in only supports output images to an X11 window the qt5-player needs to use XCB for display. You can start the demo by running the following commands:. Here is what it looks like. You can set it to display in full-screen and adjust the voice's volume:.

Qt WebGL allows you to remotely access a Qt program running on your board. Before you run the demo you need to connect your board to the internet and run the following commands:. You can open a browser on another device, type the IP address of your board on the browser's address bar, enter and you will be able to see a Qt GUI. Start a VNC viewer on a smart phone or mobile device and type your board's IP address and port number For instance if your board's IP address is This sample shows how to connect dual cameras to the board and play with them.

Before run the sample make sure you connect dual cameras and an LCD to your board. In general popular UVC cameras should work however we suggest users use the following modules which we have tested:.

Here is what you expect to observe:. When FriendlyCore is loaded the TF card's section will be automatically extended. You can check the section's size by running the following command:. Take the example of transferring files to the mobile phone. First, set your mobile phone Bluetooth to detectable status, then execute the following command to start Bluetooth search. This command will detail the protocols supported by Bluetooth for mobile phones.

Note: Please replace the MAC address, channel and file name in the above command with the actual one. After executing the above commands, please pay attention to the screen of the mobile phone. The mobile phone will pop up a prompt for pairing and receiving files.

After confirming, the file transfer will start. You can use the NetworkManager utility to manage network. You can run "nmcli" in the commandline utility to start it.

Here are the commands to start a WiFi connection:. Note: if the status of a device is "unmanaged" it means that device cannot be accessed by NetworkManager. If you have multiple WiFi devices you need to specify the one you want to connect to a WiFi source with iface If a connection succeeds it will be automatically setup on next system reboot. For more details about NetworkManager refer to this link: Use NetworkManager to configure network settings.

For a Debian system you can get a driver from Debian-WiFi and install it on your system. For a Ubuntu system you can install a driver by running the following commands:. If a board is connected to a network via Ethernet before it is powered on it will automatically obtain an IP with DHCP activated after it is powered up.

You can set the system default audio device by following the steps below. Use the following command to view all the sound card devices in the system Note: different development boards will have different results :.

To configure the audio output to the 3. To configure to output audio to HDMI, change the defaults. Note that some boards do not have a Realtek sound card no 3. By default, the speed of the fan is dynamically adjusted according to the CPU temperature. Note that there is a space between ". In addition, the resolution after -geometry should be changed to the actual resolution of your screen.

FriendlyCore comes pre-installed with the ffmpeg-based command line video player mpv, which also includes libmpv. There are many parameters of mpv. In order to simplify the use, we provide a script start-mpv. After simplification, there is only one parameter: video file name, as follows:. It should be noted that the pi user needs to log in during playback, because there are no mpv related settings in other users' directories. Of course, you can copy one from the pi user directory. These will be passed as parameters to mpv.

When the value of hwdec is rkmpp, it means using hardware decoding, audio-device is used to specify the audio output device, and the default output is to HDMI. Another important parameter is drm-osd-size. When playing video in full screen, drm-osd-size is specified as the resolution of the screen.

This parameter is automatically obtained by start-mpv and passed to mpv, start-mpv script will do one more important thing. It needs to ensure that the libmali library in the system uses the correct version, because mpv renders the image through gbm, so libmali. FriendlyELEC provides some scripts use to test a camera's functions. You can run it in a commandline to test picture taking and video recording. You may try update this script to the lastest version by using the following commands:.

There are three scripts: gst-camera. The script gst-camera. You can run the following command to record video and save your video to a "1. Hardware encoding is activated when it is recording video.

The results are shown below: To play the video, you can use the ffmpeg-based player mpv. The 4K video used for the above test can be found in the test-video directory of the network disk. For more detail about this command refer to the fdisk's manual.

You can check it by running "blkid":. Therefore we create it and change its access right by running the following commands:. The fan uses PWM to automatically adjust the speed.

It determines the fan switch and the fan speed according to the current CPU temperature. If the current CPU temperature is not high, the fan will be turned off or rotated at a lower speed reducing unnecessary environmental noise.

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. It contains a boot-loader, kernel, rootfs, various libraries and utilities e. For a more detailed description of the Buildroot system, please refer to: Buildroot for RK See here: Lubuntu desktop FriendlyElec provides a full Android8.

The source code is hosted at gitlab. You can use this camera to take pictures and record video. The operation is straightforward. You just need to connect the camera at your board's MIPI interface, boot your board to Android and start Android's camera app. After the application is installed, you need to Set Android permissions to make the demo run normally.

The default system language of Android system is English. Drag the Chinese item to the top of the list. Note that if you are using a mouse, drag it by placing the mouse pointer on the right side of the list item. On the icon and then press the middle mouse button to drag;. For details, please refer to the following two documents. The first time you start the system, if you need to change the system files, you need to turn off security verification note: apk installation does not need to be closed , and restart after turning off security verification.

If the Force audio output menu item is gray, that is, it is in an unselectable state, the hardware you are using will automatically detect the headphone plug-in status and automatically switch the audio channel without setting.

The following cards are what we used in all our test cases presented here:. Visit download link to download image files and utilities. It is open source and well suitable for developing IoT applications, NAS applications, smart home gateways etc. The default password is password empty password in some versions. Please set or change a safer password for web login and ssh login. Enter the ttyd terminal, enter the poweroff command and hit enter, wait until the led light is off, and then unplug the power supply.

You will see a new device is detected. In our case the device we got was Realtek CU. By default the password is "password". After you make your changes click on "Save" to save 6 After you change the settings you can use a smartphone or PC to search for WiFi.

After installation, visit port and here is what you would find:. Download and run the following script on bit Ubuntu version After the compilation is successful, you can find the ipk file in the bin directory, as shown below:. By default "eth0" is assigned an IP address obtained via dhcp.