Edited by bronco at 2015-12-23 23:09

UPDATE: A newer version that is easier to install can be found in this thread (the following might be worth a read though)

Hi,

I'm still waiting for 2 Orange Pi PC to arrive but prepared already a template for RPi-Monitor to get a clue what's going on. The get an idea what RPi-Monitor can do for you have a look at this A20 adoption (works on Orange Pi and Orange Pi Mini): http://forum.armbian.com/index.p ... ts-for-rpi-monitor/

With the H3 there's no need to run temperature daemons so it's just template stuff. Here's a draft template for H3 suitable to record and display the following:


Installation (for experienced users!) is easy and takes just a couple of minutes:

1) Follow the simple instructions to install RPi-Monitor

2) Stop rpimonitor: "systemctl stop rpimonitor" ("service stop rpimonitor" prior to Jessie)

3) Save the draft template as /etc/rpimonitor/template/Allwinner_H3.conf

4) Create /etc/rpimonitor/template/OrangePi_H3.conf with the following contents
5) Relink data.conf:
6) Start rpimonitor: "systemctl start rpimonitor" ("service start rpimonitor" prior to Jessie)

You can then connect with any modern browser to port 8888 of your OPi (cookies needed).

Caveats: I have no idea whether the template I hacked together works, which data sources thermal_zone0 and thermal_zone1 use and also no idea whether the check for active CPU cores works. Therefore this is currently something for more experienced users willing to fix stuff on their own.

EDIT: Template works, thermal values do now work, check for active CPU cores also works. Simply try it out using "echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online" (1 to re-enable).

In case you use Arch Linux a different RegEx to read-out available Memory is needed -- see below. Feedback regarding the template welcome.

Numbers sell.

This is how it looks with your configuration (unchanged):


PS. Your posting style reminds me a certain "emperor".

Thanks for the feedback. The first thing that's strange is the temperature readout. What do you get when you do a
On every platform these thermal values have to be divided by 1000 to get degree Celsius. Seems like this is patched somewhat and outputs already the divided value? In case you get degree celsius then the postprocessing filter has to be changed from "sprintf("%.1f", $1/1000)" to "" instead.

Then memory stats aren't working (this is Xavier's original stuff I never touched in /etc/rpimonitor/template/memory.conf) and since loboris' images doesn't seem to define swap you might comment out the "include=/etc/rpimonitor/template/swap.conf" in OrangePi_H3.conf and also adjust /etc/rpimonitor/template/sdcard.conf and comment out the /boot section.

Apart from that it seems it's working. After adjusting the temperature readouts it should be ready to tweak clock speeds (the far more interesting stuff doesn't happen on the status page but on statistics -- this is where you easily see how adjustments work when correcting clockspeeds of DRAM and CPU cores).

I have now commented out the postprocessing filter for the thermal values.
memory stats does not work while there is no "MemAvailable" in /proc/meminfo
in memory.conf:

Edited by bronco at 2015-11-23 03:16

Thx for the confirmation regarding thermal values. I already had a look through loboris' kernel sources and by looking into it I felt like the reporting is different due to thermal throttling values being specified "wrong" (already divided by 1000 in script.bin). Anyway, I corrected the template and exchanged the link in the original posting.
Regarding the memory stats: What's not working is to get "memory_available". Xavier tries to parse the output of "/usr/bin/free -mk" and Arch Linux requires another RegEx (I knew why I posted this into the Debian subforum ): https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor/issues/89


After the corrections made and rpimonitord being restarted it would be great if you could install the 'stress' tool and then execute the following:
And then directly a second time while in another shell there's running "stress -c 4 -m 2 -i 2" and then provide the "Load / Clockspeeds / Temperature" graph from the statistics page. Really curious how temperatures (consumption) differ.