NanoPi M1

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1 Introduction
2 Hardware Spec
3 Diagram, Layout and Dimension
- 3.1 Layout
- 3.2 Board Dimension
4 Get Started
5 Working with Debian
6 Make Your Own Debian
7 Applications under Android
- 7.1 USB WiFi
- 7.2 IR Controller(RC-100)
8 Make Your Own Android
9 More OS Support
10 3D Housing Printing Files
11 Matrix Compact Kit B:A Good Kit for Starters
12 Resources
13 Update Log

1 Introduction

Overview

Front

Back

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The NanoPi M1 is an Allwinner H3 based ARM board designed and released by FriendlyARM for hobbyists, makers and electronic fans. It is only two thirds the size of the Raspberry Pi. It is open source. It works with Ubuntu MATE, Debian and etc.
The NanoPi M1 uses the Allwinner H3 Soc. It integrates Ethernet, IR receiver, video/audio output and supports HDMI and AVOUT. It can be powered via the MicroUSB port
In such a small board it still integrates rich interfaces and ports. Besides the popular HDMI, Ethernet, USB-Host, USB-OTG, DVP camera interface and AVOUT (audio and video) it has an onboard Microphone, IR receiver, a serial debug port and a Raspberry Pi compatible 40 pin GPIO pin header.

2 Hardware Spec

CPU: Allwinner H3, Quad-core Cortex-A7@1.2GHz
GPU: Mali400MP2@600MHz，Supports OpenGL ES2.0
DDR3 RAM: 512MB/1GB
Connectivity: 10/100M Ethernet
Audio: 3.5mm audio jack/Via HDMI
Microphone: Onboard microphone
IR Receiver: Onboard IR receiver
USB Host：Type A, USB 2.0 x 3
MicroSD Slot x 1
MicroUSB: for data transmission and power input, OTG
Video Output: HDMI 1.4 1080P, CVBS
DVP Camera Interface: 24pin, 0.5mm pitch FPC seat
Debug Serial Port: 4Pin, 2.54mm pitch pin header
GPIO: 2.54mm spacing 40pin, compatible with Raspberry Pi's GPIO. It includes UART, SPI, I2C, IO etc
User Key: Power LED x 1, Reset x 1
PC Size: 64 x 50mm
Power Supply: DC 5V/2A
OS/Software: u-boot，Ubuntu MATE，Debian

3 Diagram, Layout and Dimension

3.1 Layout

NanoPi M1 Layout

GPIO Pin Spec

Pin#	Name	Linux gpio	Pin#	Name	Linux gpio
1	SYS_3.3V		2	VDD_5V
3	I2C0_SDA		4	VDD_5V
5	I2C0_SCL		6	GND
7	GPIOG11	203	8	UART1_TX/GPIOG6	198
9	GND		10	UART1_RX/GPIOG7	199
11	UART2_TX/GPIOA0	0	12	PWM1/GPIOA6	6
13	UART2_RTS/GPIOA2	2	14	GND
15	UART2_CTS/GPIOA3	3	16	UART1_RTS/GPIOG8	200
17	SYS_3.3V		18	UART1_CTS/GPIOG9	201
19	SPI0_MOSI/GPIOC0	64	20	GND
21	SPI0_MISO/GPIOC1	65	22	UART2_RX/GPIOA1	1
23	SPI0_CLK/GPIOC2	93	24	SPI0_CS/GPIOC3	67
25	GND		26	SPDIF-OUT/GPIOA17	17
27	I2C1_SDA/GPIOA19	19	28	I2C1_SCL/GPIOA18	18
29	GPIOA20	20	30	GND
31	GPIOA21	21	32	GPIOA7	7
33	GPIOA8	8	34	GND
35	UART3_CTS/SPI1_MISO/GPIOA16	16	36	UART3_TX/SPI1_CS/GPIOA13	13
37	GPIOA9	9	38	UART3_RTS/SPI1_MOSI/GPIOA15	15
39	GND		40	UART3_RX/SPI1_CLK/GPIOA14	14

Debug Port（UART0）

Pin#	Name
1	GND
2	VDD_5V
3	UART_TXD0
4	UART_RXD0

DVP Camera IF Pin Spec

Pin#	Name	Description
1, 2	SYS_3.3V	3.3V power output, to camera modules
7,9,13,15,24	GND	Gound, 0V
3	I2C2_SCL	I2C Clock Signal
4	I2C2_SDA	I2C Data Signal
5	GPIOE15	Regular GPIO, control signals output to camera modules
6	GPIOE14	Regular GPIO, control signals output to camera modules
8	MCLK	Clock signals output to camera modules
10	NC	Not Connected
11	VSYNC	vertical synchronization to CPU　from camera modules
12	HREF/HSYNC	HREF/HSYNC signal to CPU from camera modules
14	PCLK	PCLK signal to CPU from camera modules
16-23	Data bit7-0	data signals

Note:

SYS_3.3V: 3.3V power output
VDD_5V: 5V power input/output. When the external device’s power is greater than the MicroUSB’s the external device is charging the board otherwise the board powers the external device. The input range is 4.7V ~ 5.6V
All pins are 3.3V and output current is 5mA. It can drive small loads. No IO pins can drive a load.
For more details refer to the document: NanoPi-M1-1603B-Schematic.pdf

3.2 Board Dimension

For more details please refer to: pcb file in dxf

4 Get Started

4.1 Essentials You Need

Before starting to use your NanoPi M1 get the following items ready

NanoPi M1
microSD Card/TFCard: Class 10 or Above, minimum 8GB SDHC
microUSB power. A 5V/2A power is a must
HDMI monitor
USB keyboard and mouse
A host computer running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit system

4.2 TF Cards We Tested

To make your NanoPi M1 boot and run fast we highly recommand you use a Class10 8GB SDHC TF card or a better one. The following cards are what we used in all our test cases presented here:

SanDisk TF 8G Class10 Micro/SD TF card:

SanDisk TF128G MicroSDXC TF 128G Class10 48MB/S:

川宇 8G C10 High Speed class10 micro SD card:

4.3 Make an Installation TF Card

4.3.1 Get Image Files

Visit this link download link to download image files and the flashing utility:

Image Files
nanopi-m1-debian-sd4g.img.zip	Debian Image File
nanopi-m1-android.img.zip	Android Image File
Flash Utility:
win32diskimager.rar	Windows utility for flashing Debian image. Under Linux users can use "dd"
PhoenixCard_V310.rar	Windows utility for flashing Android image. Attention: the "dd" command under Linux doesn't work for flashing Android image
HDDLLF.4.40.exe	Windows utility for formatting a TF card

4.3.2 Make Debian Image Card

Uncompress the nanopi-m1-debian-sd4g.img.zip and win32diskimager.rar files. Insert a TF card(at least 4G) into a Windows PC and run the win32diskimager utility as administrator. On the utility's main window select your TF card's drive, the wanted image file and click on "write" to start flashing the TF card.
Insert this card into your NanoPi M1's BOOT slot and power on (with a 5V/2A power source). If the green LED is on and the blue LED is blinking this indicates your NanoPi M1 has successfully booted.

4.3.3 Make Android Image Card

On a Windows PC run the HDDLLF.4.40 utility as administrator. Insert a TF card(at least 4G) into this PC and format it. After formatting is done take out the TF card, insert it into the PC again and format it with Windows internal format utility to format it to FAT32. After this formatting is done take out the card.
Uncompress the nanopi-m1-android.img.zip and PhoenixCard_V310.rar files. Insert the TF card you made in the previous step into a Windows PC and run the PhoenixCard_V310 utility as administrator. On the utility's main window select your TF card's drive, the wanted image file and click on "write" to start flashing the TF card.
Insert this card into your NanoPi M1's BOOT slot and power on (with a 5V/2A power source). If the green LED is on and the blue LED is blinking this indicates your NanoPi M1 has successfully booted.

Note: you must format your TF card before you start making it an Android image card.

5 Working with Debian

5.1 Run Debian

Insert a TF card with Debian image files into your NanoPi M1, connect the NanoPi M1 to an HDMI monitor and a 5V/2A power source the NanoPi M1 will be automatically powered on. If you can see the blue LED flashing it means your board is working and you will see Debain being loaded on the HDMI monitor.

1）If you connect the NanoPi M1 to an HDMI monitor you need to use a USB mouse and a USB keyboard to operate.
2) If you want to do kernel development you need to use a serial communication board, ie a PSU-ONECOM board, which will allow you to operate the board via a serial terminal.

Here is a setup where we connect a NanoPi M1 to a PC via the PSU-ONECOM and you can power on your M1 from either the PSU-ONECOM or M1's MicroUSB:

The password for "root" is "fa".
Update packages

sudo apt-get update

5.2 Extend TF Card's rootfs Section

We strongly recommend you to do this right after you have made an installation TF card since this will greatly enhance your M1's experience.
Insert your TF card into a host PC and run the following commands on your PC's terminal:

sudo umount /dev/sdx?
sudo parted /dev/sdx unit % resizepart 2 100 unit MB print
sudo resize2fs -f /dev/sdx2

Note: you need to replace "/dev/sdx" with the device name in your system

If you want to resize the rootfs section of the TF card run the following commands on the NanoPi M1's Debian terminal:

sudo fs_resize

Following the prompt type in "y" to start re-sizing the file system and a second "y" to reboot the M1. After the M1 is rebooted check the new section by using the following command：

df -h

5.3 Ethernet Connection

If the NanoPi M1 is connected to a network via Ethernet before it is powered on it will automatically obtain an IP after it is powered up. If it is not connected via Ethernet or its DHCP is not activated obtaining an IP will fail and system will hang on for about 15 to 60 seconds

Setup MAC Address

The NanoPi M1 by default doesn't have a valid MAC address. If the board connects a network successfully it will automatically generates a random MAC in "/etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0". Users can change it to a self-defined valid one:

vi /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0

Here is the content of a sample configuration file:

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hwaddress 76:92:d4:85:f3:0f

The "hwaddress" specifies the MAC address. Here the "76:92:d4:85:f3:0f" is a random MAC. We suggest users change it to a valid one.
Note: when you reset the MAC please make sure your MAC meets IEEE's definition otherwise it will cause unexpected issues. After you make your change, save, exit and reboot your board or run the following commands to restart the network:

systemctl restart networking

5.4 Login to Debian via VNC and SSH

If your NanoPi M1 is not connected to a display device you can login to your NanoPi M1 from a mobile phone. You need to download and install a "VNC Viewer" from here on a mobile phone and login to the NanoPi M1 via VNC at port 1. Its default password is "fa123456".
Here is a screenshot which shows how it looks like when users login to the NanoPi M1 from an iPhone via VNC:

You can login via "SSH -l root 192.168.8.1" and the default password for "root" is "fa". You need to replace "192.168.8.1" with your actual IP address.

5.5 HDMI Resolution

Our Debian system's HDMI resolution is set by a script.bin file in the root directory of the installation TF card's boot section. By default the resolution is 1080P60. There are multiple script.bin files under that directory for different resolutions. For example if you want to modify the resolution to 720P60 you can use the script-720p-60.bin file to replace the existing one by using the following command:

# in TF card boot partition
cp script/script-720p-60.bin ./script.bin

5.6 HDMI Audio Output

Our Debian system's default audio output is the 3.5mm audio jack. You can turn on the HDMI audio by editting the /etc/asound.conf file:

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
    device 0
}
 
ctl.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
}

card 0 points to the 3.5mm audio jack and card 1 points to the HDMI audio. You need to save your changes and reboot your system to make your changes take effect.

5.7 Test GPU

After Debian loads please login from a terminal and run "glmark2-es2":

glmark2-es2

5.8 Test VPU

Visit this link download link to download files
After Debian is loaded login from a terminal and run "mplayer":

mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau, ./big_buck_bunny_1080p_H264_AAC_25fps_7200K.MP4

In our test it could do hard coding and play 1080P video fluently.

5.9 Test USB WiFi

Our Debian system has support for popular USB WiFi drivers. Many USB WiFi modules are plug and play with our system. Here is a list of models we tested;

Number	Model
1	RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
2	RT2070 Wireless Adapter
3	RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter
4	RTL8192CU Wireless Adapter
5	mi WiFi mt7601

If you NanoPi M1 is connected to a USB WiFi and is powered up you can log into M1 and run the following command to check if the USB WiFi is recognized. If "wlan0" is listed it indicates your USB WiFi has been recognized:

ifconfig -a

Open the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file and append the following lines:

network={
        ssid="YourWiFiESSID"
        psk="YourWiFiPassword"
}

The "YourWiFiESSID" and "YourWiFiPassword" need to be replaced with your actual ESSID and password.
Save, exit and run the following commands to connect to your WiFi router:

ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0

If your WiFi password has special characters or you don't want your password saved as plain text you can use "wpa_passphrase" to generate a psk for your WiFi password. Here is how you can do it:

wpa_passphrase YourWiFiESSID

Following the prompt type in your password and you will get a new password in the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file. Now you can replace the existing password in the wlan0 file with the new one.

5.10 Connect NanoPi M1 to DVP Camera CAM500B

The CAM500B camera module is a 5M-pixel camera with DVP interface. For more tech details about it you can refer to Matrix - CAM500B.

Boot Debian, connect your M1 to a network, log into the board as root and run "mjpg-streamer":

cd /root/mjpg-streamer
make
./start.sh

The mjpg-streamer application is an open source video steam server. After it is successfully started the following messages will be popped up:

 
 i: Using V4L2 device.: /dev/video0
 i: Desired Resolution: 1280 x 720
 i: Frames Per Second.: 30
 i: Format............: YUV
 i: JPEG Quality......: 90
 o: www-folder-path...: ./www/
 o: HTTP TCP port.....: 8080
 o: username:password.: disabled
 o: commands..........: enabled

In our case the M1's IP address was 192.168.1.230. We typed 192.168.1.230:8080 in a browser and were able to view the images taken from the camera's. Here is what you would expect to observe:

The mjpg-streamer soft-encodes data with libjpeg and you can hard-encode its data with ffmpeg which will greatly increase CPU's efficiency and speed up data encoding:

ffmpeg -t 30 -f v4l2 -channel 0 -video_size 1280x720 -i /dev/video0 -pix_fmt nv12 -r 30 \
        -b:v 64k -c:v cedrus264 test.mp4

By default it records a 30-second video. Typing "q" stops video recording. After recording is stopped a test.mp4 file will be generated.

5.11 Connect NanoPi M1 to USB Camera(FA-CAM202)

The FA-CAM202 is a 200M USB camera.
In this use case the NanoPi M1 runs Debian. Connect your NanoPi M1 to an HDMI monitor. After Debain is fully loaded open a terminal and run the following command:

xawtv 0

You will be able to preview with your camera Note: "0" in our case stands for the camera's device name "/dev/video0". You need to use your camera's index in this command.

5.12 Use OpenCV to Access Camera

The full name of "OpenCV" is Open Source Computer Vision Library and it is a cross platform vision library.
Make sure your NanoPi M1 is connected to the internet and an HDMI monitor. Boot Debian on the NanoPi M1 and login
Install OpenCV libraries:

apt-get update
apt-get install libcv-dev libopencv-dev

Refer to the instructions in the previous sections to make sure the camera works
Compile and run a code sample（Official Code Sample in C++ provided by the OpenCV organization):

cd /home/fa/Documents/opencv-demo
make
./demo

Here is what you expect to observe:

5.13 Check CPU's Working Temperature

You can use the following command to read H3's temperature and frequency

cpu_freq

6 Make Your Own Debian

Visit this link [1] and enter the sources directory to download the nanopi-H3-bsp source code.Use the 7-zip utility to uncompress it and a lihee directory and an Android directory will be generated. Or you can get it from our github:

git clone https://github.com/friendlyarm/h3_lichee.git lichee

Note: "lichee" is the project name named by Allwinner for its CPU's source code which contains the source code of U-boot, Linux kernel and various scripts.

6.1 Compile lichee Source Code

Compilation of the H3's BSP source code must be done under a PC running a 64-bit Linux.The following cases were tested on Ubuntu-14.04 LTS-64bit:

sudo apt-get install gawk git gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
zip curl libc6-dev libncurses5-dev:i386 x11proto-core-dev \
libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 \
libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos \
python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc zlib1g-dev:i386

Enter the lichee directory and un the following command to compile the whole package:

cd lichee
./build.sh -p sun8iw7p1 -b nanopi-h3

After this compilation succeeds a u-boot, Linux kernel and kernel modules will be generated
Note: the lichee directory contains a cross-compiler we have setup. When the build.sh script runs it will automatically call this cross-compiler.

6.2 Package System Modules

./build.sh pack

This command copies the generated executables including u-boot and Linux kernel and configuration files to the "lichee/tools/pack/out/" directory and generates a script.bin.
The script.bin file is designed by Allwinner for its CPUs. For more details refer to script.bin。

6.3 Compile U-boot

./build.sh -p sun8iw7p1 -b nanopi-h3 -m uboot

After a u-boot executable is generated some extra patches need to be patched to it. Run "./gen_script.sh" to patch this executable.
If you want to manually patch the executable refer to H3_Manual_build_howto and run the following commands to update the u-boot in the TF card:

./fuse_uboot.sh /dev/sdx

Note: you need to replace "/dev/sdx" with the device name in your system.

6.4 Compile Linux Kernel

If you want to compile the Linux kernel run the following command:

./build.sh -p sun8iw7p1 -b nanopi-h3 -m kernel

After the compilation is done a uImage and its kernel modules will be generated under "linux-3.4/output".

6.5 Clean Source Code

./build.sh -p sun8iw7p1 -b nanopi-h3 -m clean

7 Applications under Android

7.1 USB WiFi

The rtl8188etv/rtl8188eu USB WiFi modules are supported in Android.

7.2 IR Controller(RC-100)

You can use FriendlyARM's IR controller(RC-100) to navigate the Android system.
Here is a list of the function keys on the RC-100 IR controller

Key	Function
POWER	On/Off
F1	Search
F2	Open Browser
F3	Enable/Disable Mouse
UP	Move Up
DOWN	Move Down
LEFT	Move Left
RIGHT	Move Right
OK	OK
Volume-	Turn Down Volume
Mute	Mute
Volume+	Turn Up Volume
SETTING	Go to Setting Window
HOME	Go to Home Window
BACK	Go Back to the Previous Window

After Android is loaded for the first time you need to follow the prompts on Android's GUI to enter the main window and then press F3 to enable mouse and complete the setup process by navigating "up", "down", "left", "right" and "OK".

8 Make Your Own Android

Visit this link [2] and enter the "sources" directory to download the nanopi-H3-bsp source code.
Use the 7-zip utility to uncompress it and a lihee directory and an Android directory will be generated. Or you can get it from our github:

git clone https://github.com/friendlyarm/h3_lichee.git lichee

Note: "lichee" is the project name named by Allwinner for its CPU's source code which contains the source code of U-boot, Linux kernel and various scripts.

8.1 Compile lichee Source Code

Compilation of the H3's BSP source code must be done under a PC running a 64-bit Linux.The following cases were tested on Ubuntu-14.04 LTS-64bit:

sudo apt-get install gawk git gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
zip curl libc6-dev libncurses5-dev:i386 x11proto-core-dev \
libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 \
libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos \
python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc zlib1g-dev:i386

Enter the lichee directory and un the following command to compile the whole package:

cd lichee
./build.sh lunch

Select 2. sun8iw7p1-android-dolphin to compile the whole package and generate U-boot, Linux kernel and kernel modules.
Note: the lichee directory contains a cross-compiler we have setup. When the build.sh script runs it will automatically call this cross-compiler.

8.2 Compile Android Source Code

Attention: before you start to compile the Android system you must compile the lichee.

Setup Compiler

Run the following commands on a host PC running 64-bit Ubuntu-14.04 LTS-64bit:

sudo apt-get install bison g++-multilib git gperf libxml2-utils make python-networkx zip
sudo apt-get install flex libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk minicom

For more details refer to :android_initializing。

Install JDK

We used the JDK1.6.0_45. You can get it from Oracle: Oracle JDK . In our test we installed it in the /usr/lib/jvm/ directory.

Compile System

cd android
export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_45/bin:$PATH
source ./build/envsetup.sh
lunch nanopi_h3-eng
extract-bsp
make -j8          
pack

After the pack command is finished an Android image "sun8iw7p1_android_nanopi-h3_uart0.img" will be generated under the lichee/tools/pack/ directory

8.3 Clean Source Code

./build.sh -p sun8iw7p1_android -b nanopi-h3 -m clean

9 More OS Support

9.1 Ubuntu-Core with Qt-Embedded

Ubuntu Core with Qt-Embedded is a light Linux system without X-windows. It uses the Qt-Embedded's GUI and is popular in industrial and enterprise applications.

Besides the regular Ubuntu core's features our Ubuntu-Core has the following additional features:

it supports our LCDs with both capacitive touch and resistive touch(S700, X710, S70)
it supports WiFi
it supports Ethernet
it supports Bluetooth and has been installed with bluez utilities
it supports audio playing

For more details refer to Ubuntu Core with Qt-Embedded.

Flash Ubuntu-Core with Qt-Embedded to TF Card:

Download the firmware nanopi-m1-core-qte-sd4g-20160628.img.zip (under official-ROMs) click to download
Uncompress the file and flash the image to a TF card with win32diskimager.
Insert this card to your NanoPi M1, power on the board and you will be able to play with your UbuntuCore
Login name is root or fa and the password is fa

For more details visit Ubuntu Core with Qt-Embedded.

9.2 Ubuntu-MATE

Ubuntu-Mate is a Ubuntu variant and its GUI is Mate-desktop. You can login via SSH when you connect a NanoPi M1 to an HDMI monitor
FriendlyARM doesn't provide technical support for it

Go to this link download link to download the image file nanopi-m1-ubuntu-mate-sd4g.img.zip
Uncompress it and flash the image file to a TF card with win32diskimager under Windows
After it is done you can boot your NanoPi M1 with this card
Login name: "root" or "fa", Password: fa

9.3 Debian8(Jacer)

Debian8(Jacer) is a Debian 8 variant developed by a developer "Jacer". It uses Debian 8's desktop and has good support for the Chinese language. Users need to run this OS with an HDMI monitor and can login to the system via SSH.
FriendlyARM doesn't provide technical support for it.

Please visit here :download link to download its image file Debian8(unofficial-Jacer).rar.
Uncompress it and flash the image file to a TF card with win32diskimager under Windows.
After it is done you can boot your NanoPi M1 with this card
Login name: "fa", Password: fa

Note: When the NanoPi M1 is connected to an HDMI monitor and runs Debian8(Jacer) we don't suggest login to the system as root. If you do that the HDMI monitor will show black instead of a Debian8 GUI;
Debian8(Jacer) is integrated with GPU drivers, H264 and H265 hard decoding code. It defaults to the HDMI 720P configuration. If you want to modify its resolution to 1080P you can set the "HDMI MODE =" setting in the script.fex (under the "/boot" section) to the 1080P definition and use the corresponding script.bin file. For more details refer to the h3disp.sh file;
Debian8(Jacer) supports these WiFi card models: 8192cu, 8188cus, 8188eu, rt3070.
Debian8（Jacer）has the following support too:

1.Mali400 GPU driver
2.mpv hard decoding H264, H265
3.Chromium and flash
4.Netease's feeluown
5.Games such as Chess and Minesweeper
6.retroarch game simulator
7.Virtual memory
8.Dynamic frequency scaling
9.aria2 download utility
10.samba
11.WiFi cards: 8192cu/8188cus/8188eu/rt3070/rt2800/rt5370
12.GIMP utility
13.SSH
14.xrdp and vnc
15.HTML5 media player
16.goldendict
17.audacious music player
18.pulseaudio volume control utility
19.USB bluetooth

9.4 Android(Jacer)

Android(Jacer) is an Android4.4.2 variant developed by a developer "Jacer". It uses Android's desktop. Users need to run this OS with an HDMI monitor and can login to the system via SSH.
FriendlyARM doesn't provide technical support for it.

Download image files and utilities

1. Please visit here :download link to download its image file Android(Beelink_X2_v205k4_for_NanoPiM1).
2. Download Windows utility (HDDLLF.4.40)download link for formatting a TF card.
3. Download Windows utility (PhoenixCard)download link for flashing Android image files.

Make Android TF Card

1. On a Windows PC run the HDDLLF.4.40 utility as administrator. Insert a TF card(at least 4G) into this PC and format it. After formatting is done take out the TF card;
2. Insert it into the PC again and format it with Windows internal format utility to format it to FAT32. After this formatting is done take out the card;
3. Insert the TF card you made in the previous step into a Windows PC and run the PhoenixCard_V310 utility as administrator. On the utility's main window select your TF card's drive, the wanted image file and click on "write" to start flashing the TF card.
Note: none of the above steps should be missed otherwise the TF card you made may not work.

Boot Android

1. Insert an installation TF card into an M1, power on the board and you will be able to work with it
Android(Jacer) supports these WiFi cards: rtl8188etv, rt8188eus and rt8189.
Android(Jacer) has the following features:

1. the menu bar can be set hidden; a power button can be added; dynamic frequency scaling is enabled
2. GAAPS
3. it supports rtl8188etv/eus 8189 WiFi cards and CSR bluetooth
4. relative low working voltage and low working temperature

For details about its full features try it by yourself:)

9.5 Armbian

For image download links and instructions visit Armbian's page for the NanoPi M1:armbian-m1
Armbian provides a server and a desktop versions. Here is how the desktop GUI looks like:

9.6 OpenWRT

OpenWRT was migrated to the M1 by one hobbyist "Tom".
FriendlyARM doesn't provide technical support for it.

Visit download link to download openwrt-sunxi-NanoPi_M1-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img(unofficail-ROMs directory).
Uncompress the file and you will get openwrt-sunxi-NanoPi_M1-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img.
Insert a microSD to a host PC running Ubuntu and check the SD card's device name by using the following command

dmesg | tail

Search the messages output by "dmesg" for similar words like "sdc: sdc1 sdc2". If you can find them it means your SD card is recognized as "/dev/sdc". Or you can check that by commanding "cat /proc/partitions"

Go to the directory where openwrt-sunxi-NanoPi_M1-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img is located and run the following command to flash the image to your MicroSD card:

dd if=openwrt-sunxi-NanoPi_M1-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img  of=/dev/sdx

(Note: you need to replace "/dev/sdx" with the device name in your system)

After it is done insert the card to your board and power on. Here is what you expect to observe.

10 3D Housing Printing Files

NanoPi M1 3D housing printing files:[3]

11 Matrix Compact Kit B:A Good Kit for Starters

Matrix - Compact Kit B:click to visit

12 Resources

Schematic
- NanoPi-M1-1603-Schematic.pdf
- NanoPi-M1-1603B-Schematic.pdf
Dimensional Diagram
- NanoPi-M1-1603-dimensions(dxf).zip
- NanoPi-M1-1603B-dimensions(dxf).zip
Allwinner H3 datasheet Allwinner_H3_Datasheet_V1.2.pdf
Matrix Modules & Wiki Sites:

13 Update Log

13.1 March-22-2016

Released English Version

13.2 March-29-2016

Corrected expression errors

13.3 Apr-02-2016

Rewrote sections 4.3, 5, 6 and 8

13.4 Apr-15-2016

Added sections 5.10, 5.11, 7 and 9
Rewrote sections 5.9, 6.2

13.5 Apr-18-2016

Update Features sections, "DDR3 RAM: 512MB" to "DDR3 RAM: 512MB/1GB"
Update Board Dimension to 1603B
Add dxf file and Schematic of 1603B to Resources section

13.6 July-07-2016

Added sections 7, 9.5, 9.6 and 11

13.7 Sep-08-2016

Added sections 5.10
Updated sections 5.11

13.8 Nov-03-2016

Updated section 5.10