Hi All. receiveshd my new console a couple of days ago. I would like to get any updates available. tried to use ‘Preferences: Recommended Software’ and got ‘Error updating data - cannot refresh cache whilst offline.’ The web browsers works of and shows I am online. Any ideas. Thanks
The stock distros are all out of date if you have a CM4 here are some of the updated community distros: PostmarketOS, Arch, Debian Bookworm, Ubuntu 22.04, ParrotOS Security & Home, RetroPie
With the community distros you’ll get updated kernels, newer software, and some bug fixes.
Rex. I would like to use Ubuntu on this device. would you recommend a larger sd card and can you make a usb stick to install from. thanks
Depends on how you use it but I think 64gb is the minimum you should use. You can’t boot from the USB you need to just flash the sd card.
Actually you should be able to boot from USB. At least on devterm it works and if i remember right, devterm and uConsole have same mainboard. I have Ubuntu on USB too, never booted it from SD card. But all this is only applicable to CM4
The V4 Mainboard can boot from USB but the V5 can’t, all the uConsoles have V5 Mainboards.
I only know the one from the devterm, but why should the uConsole mainboard not be able to boot from USB? All it need to do is to provide USB to the outside. Doesn’t have the uConsole mainboard USB?
the only thing that changed from v4 to v5 was the usb system now the usb won’t start up till the kernel is loading. It has to do that in the v4 on shutdown a CM3 wouldn’t fully power off draining the battery. only on the CM3 so not we can’t have usb booting anymore.
My recommendation is to spend ~$30 on an SD card.
$3 is too little. $300 is too much.
I’m currently switching between two of the Amazon Basics 256 GB cards for PostmarketOS and RetroPie, but any relatively modern card from a brand you’ve heard of should be okay.
The SD card slot operates at USB 2.0 speeds (~43 MB/s) so you don’t get much benefit out of the high end photography cards. You just want a card that’s reasonably sized and won’t burst into flames when you write to it.
eMMC on the CM4 also seems to have a bottleneck around ~43 MB/s. As does anything connected to the USB 2.0 ports.
I generally buy the endurance type cards for these devices, they seem to last really well. Also used them in my dash cam, was going through regular cards every 6 months, now lasting over a year (might be 3 years on the one in my dash cam).
High endurance are slower and are mostly for surveillance cams and dashcams. Team group makes an ultra model that does 200mb/s .
Samsung evos arefaster than samsungs high endurance.
High endurance doesnt mean swap if enabled would trash the sd less, it just means ill keep writing if it encounters a problem, but again not better survivality when using a system like linux on it.
A2 v30 is what you should look into and decent speeds , not endurance only. Plus paying the double for a smasung evo than a team group doesnt makes much sense the day the system goes they wont refund your data. Hense get a second as backup for the same price than one of the named compagny , will get you further for the same buck and by the looks of the reads and writes the team group ultra or pro is probably the best deal atm
the cm4 sd interface is limited at ~50mb/s, so any recent card is fine
I have a cm5 carrier board . And changing the internals of the uconsole entirely because theres a lot of options that can fit in there. Your call i prefer to keep on the SOTA side and versatile.
And honestly i would disagree , since a2 v30 internals are much more resilliant and faster than anything prior to it. Even on my pi400 i see a diff, even on my tx16s (and plurial) i see it way more prime on axcessing data. You do you but from what ive tested its way better. So yea it does a diff
