Bodhi When using the Pogoplug, it was very sluggish in operation. Transcoding and recording was disabled to try and speed things up. I did not spend much time trying to understand the causes because I had an alternative device (not a RPi) to hand with a faster CPU and a lot more RAM. The alternative system does not appear to significantly load the CPU, but it uses a lot of the available RAM. Tby pmiller056 - Debian
Answering my own question. I ended up assembling an Armbian based embedded system to run TVheadend. Observing this system in operation strongly suggests that a Pogoplug V3/Pro is unlikely to have enough RAM for the task, particularly when working with several hundred channels from a satellite dish (Astra 2 at 28.2E). Lesson learned. Peterby pmiller056 - Debian
I have a Pogoplug Pro (Oxnas CPU). I have Debian running on it. I have a spare USB TV receiver stick which I wish to use with the Pogoplug so if I wish I can stream broadcast TV down my home network. I can get the USB TV receiver stick to work correctly with a Raspberry Pi using the 'TVheadend' package. I am aware that the Pogoplug has more limited resources available than a RPi so I haby pmiller056 - Debian
Rynax, In my experience, netconsole will only work if everything is correctly configured. Getting the u-boot environment set up correctly can be an art, taking several attempts to get it right. The best thing you can now do is connect to the internal serial port and use a serial terminal emulator for debugging. Getting a serial terminal emulator connected is a bit of hassle, but it is well worby pmiller056 - uBoot
Just to say, using the instructions on the first page with minimal alterations, I've got my Pogoplug Pro with internal wifi working as a bridge. Using latest version (4.0.0-oxnas-tld-2) of debian and u-boot. It's early days, so I don't know yet about long-term stability. Peterby pmiller056 - Debian
Hi Sorry for the delay in replying to your suggestion. I tried your suggestion and some other different things in the U-Boot environment to try and get the Pogoplug to boot Debian from a Sata disk first and got nowhere. I gave up trying to be clever and I have gone back to the environment listed in this post - http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,16017,21933#msg-21933 which works as dby pmiller056 - uBoot
I've updated my pogoplug pro to the latest uboot and debian version booting reliably off a USB memory stick. I have serial port access. The USB memory stick has no /boot/uEnv.txt file present, so the internal u-Boot environment (which defaults to USB) variables are used to configure the boot process. I've tried to build the same system onto a Sata hard disk, but it fails to start the boby pmiller056 - Debian
Bodhi, Thank you for your helpful reply. The secret bit I did not know was to put the long, complex lines 'in single quotes'. Once I did this I was able to get the all the environment variables set correctly and it now boots correctly. Now to sort out the rest of it. In the example printev shown further up this page, (2001 bytes) there's an error message caused by the lineby pmiller056 - uBoot
A request for help. I have a Pogoplug Pro (Oxnas CPU, Internal SATA port, Internal WiFi via PCI-e card). I have access to the internal serial port. I set out out update my Pogoplug system completely, it was running an older version of Debian off a USB stick but not very well. I have followed the instructions in the first post and successfully updated U-boot. Unfortunately something went wroby pmiller056 - uBoot
Thank you for your helpful reply. I'll stick with debian because I'm more familiar with it. I'll go away and play... Thanks Peterby pmiller056 - Debian
I have come back to Pogoplug Pro hacking from a long time away. I have a previously hacked Pogoplug Pro (Oxnas CPU, internal SATA port and internal Wifi) and working access to the internal serial port. It boots correctly to a system that I can SSH into with the correct, carefully crafted USB memory stick attached. It hangs and does nothing useful with no or a random USB memory stick attached.by pmiller056 - Debian