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Banana Pi is a single-board computer made in China. It can run Android, Ubuntu and Debian. Raspbian can be run, though the CPU complies with the requirements of the Debian armhf port. It uses the Allwinner A20 SoC and as such is mostly covered by the linux-sunxi port.

Banana Pi is a single-board computer made in China. It can run Android, Ubuntu and Debian. Raspbian can be run, though the CPU complies with the requirements of the Debian armhf port. It uses the Allwinner A20 SoC and as such is mostly covered by the linux-sunxi port.

Banana Pi has no direct relationship to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, though its similarities are clear. "Linux user & Developer" does not consider it a "direct clone, but a considerable evolution," whilst linux.com similarly sees it as a clone with improved performance. The board layout is very similar to the Raspberry PI board, though it's about 10% larger and the relative spacing of some connectors varies. Not all Raspberry Pi accessories will fit as a result.

Banana Pi

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Banana Pi Specification

SoC           |                              Allwinner A20*
              |               (ARM Cortex-A7 dual-core, 1GHz, Mali400MP2 GPU)
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System Memory |                              1GB DDR3 DRAM
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Storage       |                               SD card slot,
              |            Extensible with SATA connection (2.5" SATA HDD with 5V)
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Video output  |                                  HDMI,
              |                                Composite,
              |                  Extensible with on-board LVDS connector
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Audio I/O     |                                  HDMI,
              |                        3.5mm stereo jack output,
              |                        On-board microphone input
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Connectivity  |                             Gigabit Ethernet
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USB           |                             2* USB 2.0 ports,
              |                          1* OTG micro USB port,
              |                       1* micro USB for power supply**
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Expansion     |                         Extensible 26-pin headers,
              |                             Camera connector,
              |                Display connector for LVDS and touch screen
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Misc.         |                3* on-board buttons, (Power, Reset, Uboot key),
              |                                IR receiver
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Dimensions    |                               92mm X 60 mm
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Weight        |                                   48 g

* Allwinner http://www.allwinnertech.com/en/

** Due to limited power amperage from computer USB port , we suggest using 5V 2A external power adapter.

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Cannot set GPIO pins on banana pi-m3 to output (python)

I recently aquired a banana pi-m3 and after a very rough start I managed to get it to boot. I have now come across another problem being that whatever I try, I cannot get the gpio pins to say OUT rather than IN and I get no errors. I am using…
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Can Banana Pi M3 act as a Bluetooth beacon

I am planning to engage in a DIY project which needs a programmable android beacon. The beacon's task would include connecting to android devices (mostly mobile phones) and calling web services etc. After some research I think the Banana Pi M3 would…
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multiprocess on Raspbian(Debian) on BananaPi hangs with no error

I am using a BananaPi M3 running a Raspbian on it and a Python 2.7. I am trying to make a short demo on how to open separate Process on it: from multiprocessing import Process def f(name): print 'hello', name if __name__ == '__main__': …
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How to determine BananaPi M3 UART specifications

I have a BananaPi M3 device and I am trying to read from UART port some data coming with 4Mb baudrate. I have a harware connected to the UART that generated data with 4Mb baudrate. I made a short script in Python to read the data, but if I set up…
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Detect UART port names on BananaPi M3

I'm trying to detect the UART port names for a BananaPi M3 device running a Raspbian so I can do a simple test to send and receive some data on it. I connected the RX and TX pins of the UART connector with a simple jumper but I cannot detect the…
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"No such file or directory" in bash script

FINAL EDIT: The $DATE variable was what screwed me up. For some reason when I reformatted it, it works fine. Does anyone know why that was an issue? Here's the final backup script: #!/bin/bash #Vars OUTPATH=/root/Storage/Backups DATE=$(date…
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Banana Pi & Buildroot

I'm trying to create a customized FS and eventually a kernel for my Banana Pi using BuildRoot. The fact is I'm new to it. Banana Pi isn't part of the pre-made configurations. My main problem is that can't find the specific hardware specs I'm…
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Start JavaFX application on Banana Pi Pro

I have problem with starting JavaFX application on Banana Pi Pro(Bananian OS) system. From my view the problem in GPU configuration. I have configured it by this instruction http://wiki.lemaker.org/BananaPro/Pi:GPU All things configured for…
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Visualization of data process on BananaPI (in C/ C++)

My visualization will show booking status of seats in the bus. You can see whole bus with seats which should change colours and also numbers of free/ busy seats below the main picture. For example: at first there are 42 free green seats so we can…
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ssh Banana pi with mac

So I want to control my banana pi with my macbook pro using SSH. It is the first I am using ssh. So I followed a lot of different tutorials and it still does not work. If I run : pi@172.25.54.12 or bananapi@172.25.54.12 or whatever name I try it…
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sh 1 sudo not found python script done on ubuntu does not work on bananian

I made a script on ubuntu and now I want it to run on my banana pi with bananian (raspbian for banana pi). Here is the part where of my script I have some problems: foundmob= False foundusb= False sudoPassword='figaro'#my sudo…
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Banana Pi M2 Ultra no HDMI output

I have Banana Pi M2 Ultra, I bought Samsung Micro SD Card (Class U1), uploaded image I downloaded from Allwinner's site, but I can't recieve HDMI output. I can connect to the board via SSH, and the system (debian) seems to be running fine, however…
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Banana Pi Static IP

I have a BananaPi running with Linux as my NAS. It is running really perfect for me. Now, I want to configure to connect it from the internet. But, when i try to give the device a static IP address, router gave the following error message This…
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