Getting Started with R1
Contents
Introduction
BPI-R1
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Banana Pi BPI-R1 Allwinner A20
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Banana Pi BPI-R2 with MTK MT7623N chip design
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Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro Rockchip RK3568 design
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Banana Pi BPI-R64 MTK MT7622
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Banana Pi BPI-W2 with Realtek RTD1296 chip design
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Banana Pi BPI-R3 with MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830)
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Banana Pi BPI-M2S Amlogic A311D chip
The Banana Pi R1 is a router based Banana Pi running on the same SoC as the M1 Classic Pi. The R1 is a open hardware router that can run on a variety of open source operating systems including OpenWrt, Android, and Bananian. The R1 has slim router form factor with a bay for 2.5" HDDs. It also has 4 Gigabit LAN ports, 1 Gigabit WAN, and 300Mbs wireless N capabilities.
- Read more about : Banana Pi BPI-R1
Key Features
- Dual-core 1.0GHz CPU
- 1 GB DDR3 memory
- Mali-400 MP2 with Open GL ES 2.0/1.1
- 4x Gigabit LAN 1x Gigabit WAN
Development
Basic Development
Prepare to develop
* Prepare 16G/above TF card, USB-Serial interface, Ubuntu System * Using your USB-Serial Connect debug console on R1
Load your first image on R1
1.You could download latest image from our forum 2.Install bpi-tools on your Ubuntu. If you can't access this URL or any other problems, please go to bpi-tools repo and install this tools manually. * apt-get install pv * curl -sL https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/bpi-tools/raw/master/bpi-tools | sudo -E bash 3.After you download the image, insert your TF card into your Ubuntu * Execute "bpi-copy xxx.img /dev/sdx" to install image on your TF card 4.After step 3, then you can insert your TF card into R1, and press power button setup R1