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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## PINE64 January 2025 Update Covers PineVox Firmware, PineNote Software, and Community Projects DevFeed: [PINE64 January 2025 Update Covers PineVox Firmware, PineNote Software, and Community Projects]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2025-01-11T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Software](), [Embedded Software Dev](), [Development](), [Home Assistant](), [lora](), [meshtastic](), [USB](), [Bluetooth LE](), [Wi-Fi](), [.NET Conf]() Tags: [2025](), [bluetooth-le](), [community-update](), [firmware](), [fosdem](), [home-assistant](), [infinitime](), [lora](), [meshtastic](), [news](), [pinebook-pro](), [pinenote](), [pinetime](), [pinevox](), [release](), [right](), [streaming](), [update](), [usb]() ### AI overview PINE64's January 2025 community update covers planned PineVox public release work, continued PineNote software improvements, developer devices, the second PineDio USB LoRa adapter project, FOSDEM attendance, and PineVox firmware progress. ### Source excerpt This month we report on some news concerning the PineVox, what the community have been up to with their PineNotes and the brand-new 1.15 InfiniTime update. We would like to wish our community a happy New Year and hope you all had a good end of 2024. But since it's now the beginning of 2025, we'd like to fill you in on what we have planned for the first part of the year. We plan to release the PineVox to the public thanks to Gamiee's recent progress and we plan to continue improving the software for the PineNote, thanks to Maximilian, Diederik and our testers in the community. We have some exciting devices coming as well, mentioned in previous community updates. The PineCam and StarPro64 have been sent to developers in our community, so we hope to report on these devices in the coming months. Gamiee has also been working with a group of our friends over at Meshtastic on an independent project which will become the second version of the PineDio USB LoRa adapter. We plan to talk more about the progress of that project more in the February update. Table of contents FOSDEM PineVox PineNote Important - Software Update Issue Development updates PineNote Community Spotlight Inkput Pinescreen InfiniTime 1.15 Pinebook Pro Community content PineNote CE first month review Want to contribute to the next community update? FOSDEM Author: Caffeine Unfortunately, a stand at FOSDEM hasn't been allocated for us this year. But that doesn't mean we won't be there to represent PINE64! Gamiee, Ralimtek, JF, TL Lim and Lukasz will be attending in person this year and will be planning a get-together. We will announce on our social-media when we have confirmed the time and place. Of course, our PINE64 community members will still be wandering around the event, we love talking to all our friends at other projects and meeting the members of our community! So we hope we'll see you there! PineVox Author: Caffeine, Gamiee Gamiee has been working on the firmware for the PineVox recently (haha, now ## Please refrain from installing WASP-OS on new PineTimes for the moment DevFeed: [Please refrain from installing WASP-OS on new PineTimes for the moment]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2024-12-29T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Software](), [Hardware](), [GitHub](), [Documentation]() Tags: [bootloader](), [documentation](), [end-of-life](), [eol](), [github](), [hardware](), [infinitime](), [pinetime](), [version]() ### AI overview The article warns users not to install WASP-OS on PineTime devices with factory bootloader v1.0.1 because the reloader tool does not yet support a replacement flash chip, which can soft-brick the device when reverting to InfiniTime. ### Source excerpt In July 2024, PineStore notified the community that a small hardware change was needed on the PineTime: the current flash chip was end of life (EoL) and needed to be replaced by a new one. From the software point of view, the new chip behaves exactly like the old on so very few code changes were required to support it. The new chip exposes different identifiers (manufacturer ID, for example) than the previous one. Which means that if the software checks those IDs, it would need to be updated to take the new ones into account. No change was needed in InfiniTime, but we however added a new field in the SystemInfo app to display the IDs of the chip. We figure this could be useful in the future. The bootloader does check against those IDs so we released a new version of the bootloader (v1.0.1) as well. We provided the new software to PineStore so they could test them and use them to flash the new batch of PineTimes at the factory. Everything went well and PineTimes equipped with the new memory chip and software are being delivered to happy users. Everything? Well, not really: a few users reported soft-bricked PineTimes after switching to WASP-OS and then reverting to InfiniTime again. This is a bummer: the "reloader" tool that reinstalls the InfiniTime bootloader also needed to be upgraded to support the new memory chip! An issue has already been opened on the WASP-OS GitHub repo and a new reloader tool will hopefully be released soon to tackle this issue. We also added a big red warning on the documentation page that explains how to switch to and from InfiniTime and WASP-OS to ensure that users won't try to switch OS until the issue is fixed and the documentation updated. Warning In the meantime, do not try to install WASP-OS on your PineTime if it's running bootloader v1.0.1 from the factory (unless you know exactly what you are doing), this WILL brick your PineTime! Be sure that the community will try to fix this as soon as possible, but please remember that develope ## PINE64 August Community Update Covers Collaborative Publishing and Hardware and Software Progress DevFeed: [PINE64 August Community Update Covers Collaborative Publishing and Hardware and Software Progress]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Pinephone-Pro](), [Embedded Software Dev](), [Pinephone](), [Ubuntu](), [NVMe](), [pcie](), [USB](), [ui]() Tags: [blog-post](), [community](), [community-update](), [devices](), [firmware](), [infinitime](), [news](), [update]() ### AI overview PINE64's August community update introduces collaborative authoring for future monthly posts and reviews recent progress across its devices and software. It covers PineTab2 and PineTab-V development, PinePhone Pro thermal-camera use, Ubuntu Touch, Quartz64 and SOQuartz, U-Boot support, PineTime and InfiniTime improvements, and related firmware and battery-life work. ### Source excerpt We apologize for the lack of regular community updates during the past few months. In short, the people who usually wrote them became very busy. However, we have a new way to write and publish these updates, involving you: the community. Let's talk about it, and about so much more of what's been happening. This community update consists of contributions by Caffeine, CounterPillow, Funeral, gamiee, JF002, and mpreditor. N.B. Comments on the blog post need to be in English and follow our Community Rules and Code of Conduct. TL;DR Housekeeping Community updates are now written collaboratively by several members of the community The public is invited to contribute to the monthly update posts Rework of the community website and logo Newsflash megi released rk2aw: a loader for your bootloader Progress on the PineTab2 and PineTab-V A PinePhone Pro connected to a thermal imaging camera Oren Klopfer's progress on Ubuntu Touch Quartz64 and SOQuartz U-Boot improvements thanks to Kwiboo and CounterPillow: USB, NVMe, and soon PXE Improved SOQuartz CM4 baseboard compatibility Improved PCIe devices compatibility QuartzPro64 What it means to "mainline" things, and why it takes time Things that have been mainlined: SATA, PCIe, USB, AV1, and more! Things still being worked on: cpufreq, GPU, video output InfiniTime 1.13 and other PineTime news Heart rate monitoring improvements thanks to Ceimour! Did you know that InfiniTime has a BLE weather service feature? Improved memory management Huge improvements to battery life (with help from Ayke!) InfiniSim UI update Improvements to ITD, the InfiniTime daemon Ayke is developing a brand new firmware for the PineTime Housekeeping You might have been wondering why nothing new has been posted on the PINE64.org community blog in quite a few months. As was already revealed in the opening section, the reason is that previously blogs were mainly authored and edited by one person (Lukasz) and said person is extremely busy these days. Going forward, ## InfiniTime 1.11 DevFeed: [InfiniTime 1.11]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Embedded Systems](), [Filesystems](), [Pine64]() Tags: [contributors](), [embedded-systems](), [file](), [infinitime](), [new-features](), [pine64](), [pinetime](), [release]() ### AI overview Pine64 announces the InfiniTime 1.11 release, which includes two new watch faces and improvements developed over three and a half months. The release adds support for using the PineTime's external flash memory to store fonts and pictures for applications and watch faces. ### Source excerpt We released InfiniTime 1.11 a few days ago. The timing of the release did not align with the monthly community update, so we decided to write a small blog post to highlight a few new features and provide new about the PineTime community! InfiniTime 1.11 is the result of three and a half months of work from many contributors. 59 pull request have been merged with changes ranging from new watch faces to small bug fixes passing by improvements in multiples area of the project. I'll highlight a few of these new changes in this post, and feel free to read the whole release note for more information! InfiniTime 1.11 brings 2 new watch faces! External resources As you may know, InfiniTime is currently quite constrained by the memory space available in the PineTime. Both RAM and flash memories are quite well packed, and we have to ensure that the changes we include in the project will actually fit in the remaining memory available. But we are not doomed to save any byte in memory forever, and we have multiple options to give InfiniTime a bit of fresh air! If you read the Pine64 monthly community updates, you may have noticed that I wrote about the usage of the external flash memory of the PineTime for some time now. Remember the blog post from December 2021 where I teased a few watch faces with custom backgrounds ? Nearly a year, that's the time it took to put all things together to make this happen : InfiniTime can now use the external flash memory to store fonts and pictures and make them available to applications and watch faces! Testing custom backgrounds back in December 2021 This feature will bring a lot of possibilities in the future : the external memory is a 4MB flash memory. It's really huge compared the the 512KB available in the main memory of the PineTime. In the future, we'll be able to move more and more data from the internal to the external memory, which will free very precious space to add more and more features to InfiniTime! What did it take to build thi ## March Update: Introducing the QuartzPro64 DevFeed: [March Update: Introducing the QuartzPro64]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Single Board Computer](), [SOC](), [Development]() Tags: [announcements](), [community-update](), [embedded](), [infinitime](), [pinephone](), [pinephone-pro](), [pinetime](), [quartz64](), [quartzpro64]() ### AI overview PINE64 announces the QuartzPro64, a new single-board computer based on Rockchip's RK3588 SoC. The developer-focused board is expected in the coming weeks, with 16GB of RAM, 64GB of expandable eMMC storage, extensive I/O, and an initial price above $300. The update also covers Quartz64 model-B availability, community changes, and Pine-branded device updates. ### Source excerpt This month we're announcing the QuartzPro64 - a new single-board computer based on Rockchip's powerful RK3588 SoC. This is our first Pro-grade SBC since the introduction of the ROCKPRo64, and I believe it to be a worthy successor to the much revered Pro lineup. I am also happy to let you know that the Quartz64 model-B will be arriving at the Pine Store in the coming weeks, with all of its features supported in the most recent Manjaro OS image. We've got much to discuss, let's get into it. You can watch the synopsis of this month's community update on YouTube (embedded below) as well as on Odysee and PeerTube. To stay up-to-date with PINE64 news make sure to subscribe to this blog (subscription widget at the bottom of the webpage), follow PINE64 Telegram News channel, the announcements channel on Matrix, the announcements channel in Discord as well as our Twitter and Mastodon. I'd like to thank JF, Alex (clover), Brian (33YN2), Danct12 and PizzaLovingNerd for their contributions to this community update. N.B. Comments on the blog post need to be in English and follow our Community Rules and Code of Conduct. Note: This image preview protects your privacy. Click to load the video from the Google servers. Link to the video & Synopsis of this month's update in video format TL;DR Housekeeping A new episode of PineTalk is out - listen to the hosts' suggestions for future PINE64 devices Improvements to the chats have been made over the last few weeks which should significantly reduce spam PineTab and Pinebook Pro will sadly remain unavailable for a while longer PINE64 EU is on track for May 1st launch QuartzPro64 We're introducing the QuartzPro64 based on RK3588 - available in the coming weeks to developers It will cost North of $300 and will initially only be available to developers via a coupon system With development in mind, the QuartzPro64 exposes as much I/O as possible Equipped with 16GB RAM and 64GB of expandable eMMC Will only be available publicly when BSP release ## October Update: Introducing the PinePhone Pro DevFeed: [October Update: Introducing the PinePhone Pro]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Pinephone-Pro](), [Pinephone](), [Pinenote](), [SOC](), [USB]() Tags: [announcement](), [community-update](), [experience](), [firmware](), [infinitime](), [news](), [pinenote](), [pinephone](), [pinephone-pro](), [pinetime](), [soc](), [usb]() ### AI overview PINE64's October 2021 community update introduces the PinePhone Pro and announces developer pre-orders for the PinePhone Pro and PineNote. It also reports InfiniTime firmware improvements, including better user experience and BLE connection stability. ### Source excerpt Welcome to what will likely be remembered as the most important community update of 2021. Today we're introducing the PinePhone Pro and announcing that both PinePhone Pro and PineNote pre-orders are now open to developers. I am well aware that this announcement will overshadow everything else that I may wish to report on, so I intentionally chose not to include other exciting news in this post. I will write a follow-up piece covering other topics later this month - stay tuned. But that's not all. All PineTime owners ought to read this month's update concerning InfiniTime. The firmware recently received updates which significantly improve the user experience and BLE connection stability. JF also writes about the project's growth and ongoing project management restructuring. You can watch the synopsis of this month's community update on YouTube (embedded below) as well as on Odysee and PeerTube. To stay up-to-date with PINE64 news make sure to subscribe to this blog (subscription widget at the bottom of the webpage), follow PINE64 Telegram News channel, the announcements channel in Discord as well as our Twitter and Mastodon. I'd like to thank JF, Alex (clover), Brian (33YN2) and PizzaLovingNerd for their contributions to this community update. N.B. Comments on the blog post need to be in English and follow our Community Rules and Code of Conduct. Note: This image preview protects your privacy. Click to load the video from the Google servers. Link to the video & Community Update video synopsis TL;DR Housekeeping Wiki getting started and orphaned Wiki pages help needed KDE turns 25! Happy birthday! Good job on the PinePhone Pro launch team! PinePhone Pro PinePhone Pro announced - start by reading the PinePhone Pro website Features RK3399S SoC made by Rockchip for to the PinePhone Pro Ships with 4GB LPDDR4, 128GB eMMC, Gorilla Glass 4™ IPS panel, 13MP main camera, USB 3.0 via USB-C, native video out via USB-C + countless improvements Pogo pins & privacy switches are pre ## It's Time: InfiniTime 1.0 DevFeed: [It's Time: InfiniTime 1.0]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2021-04-22T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Pinephone](), [Open Source](), [Embedded Software Dev](), [Hardware](), [Software](), [Development]() Tags: [community](), [development](), [embedded](), [firmware](), [hardware](), [infinitime](), [open-source](), [pine64](), [pinephone](), [pinetime](), [release](), [software]() ### AI overview PINE64 announces the release of InfiniTime 1.0 for the PineTime smartwatch after 18 months of development. Future production runs are planned to ship with the firmware, and the project is being introduced to the Pine Store as an enthusiast-grade end-user product. ### Source excerpt When we announced the PineTime in late 2019 we couldn't have imagined how popular of a project it would end up becoming. From the very start, it was evident that this will be a project like no other in our lineup. Following 18 months of intense development, the InfiniTime has now reached a release version, and the development community has made a decision; the Pinetime will be introduced to the Pine Store as an enthusiast-grade end-user product. Future production-runs (succeeding the one currently available) will ship with InfiniTime 1.0 and will be considered ready for daily use. This is a monumental achievement not only for PINE64 and the PineTime development community, but also for the open source at large. I'd like to thank all of you who made this a reality, my mind is blown. ~Lukasz Erecinski Today I'm thrilled to announce the release of InfiniTime 1.0! Before we go into more details about this release, let me introduce you to the PineTime project and its history. A brief history of the PineTime project The PineTime was first introduced in October 2019 as a completely community driven side-project, and positioned as a complementary device to the PinePhone. PINE64 decided on a simple hardware platform - a square body and a FOSS-friendly SoC, to make the developers life a bit easier. At the time, PINE64 was just tossing a bottle into the sea and waiting to see what will happen. Will the community like the idea? Will developers be interested in working on such a project? Well, we now know how the story unfolded; prospective users and developers turned out to be very interested in the idea of a FOSS smartwatch. I too was really excited about this project the moment I read about it in an article, and I was really happy to be one of the first developers to receive a PineTime development kit. It wasn't long before a significant community of users and developers gathered in the community chat rooms. People from all around the world joined the chat to discuss the PineT ## December Update: The Longest One Yet DevFeed: [December Update: The Longest One Yet]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Community blog on PINE64]() Topics: [Pinephone](), [Users](), [Mastodon]() Tags: [battery](), [community](), [community-update](), [infinitime](), [kde](), [manjaro](), [notifications](), [pine64](), [pinebook-pro](), [pinecil](), [pinephone](), [pinetab](), [pinetime](), [postmarketos](), [ubports]() ### AI overview PINE64's December 2020 community update thanks contributors, partner projects, and logistics teams while reviewing the year's progress. It previews RK3566 boards for developers, community infrastructure work, retail stores, and updates to PineTime's InfiniTime software. ### Source excerpt Welcome to the last community update of the year. I want to start this month's update by thanking everyone who helped us make this challenging year a fruitful and successful one. A special thanks goes to the core community team - our mods and admins - who keep the cogs spinning on a daily basis. Marek (gamiee) and Matthew (fire219) have done an incredible job this year reworking our community-facing infrastructure; this is something which was long overdue and is now appreciated by tens of thousands of end-users. I also want to thank our partner projects - UBports, postmarketOS, Manjaro and KDE Community in particular - for working with us tirelessly to make the PinePhone, PineTab and Pinebook Pro a success. We literally couldn't have done it without you. Special thanks also goes out to the independent contributors whose work continuously assists partner projects in building OSes for our platforms. Finally, I want to say thank you to the Pine64 community at large. We deeply appreciate you all for being the end-users who make this project thrive. I would be remiss not to acknowledge and thank the members of Pine Store's logistics, sales and shipping teams who delivered tens of thousands of PinePhones and Pinebook Pros throughout 2020; this was no small feat I assure you. You can watch a synopsis of this month's community update on Youtube (embedded below) but also on LBRY and Peertube. To stay up-to-date with PINE64 news make sure to subscribe to this blog (footer at the bottom of the webpage), follow PINE64 Telegram News channel as well as our Twitter and Mastodon. I'd like to acknowledge JF, Marek (gamiee), Alex (clover) and PizzaLovingNerd for their contributions to this community update. Thank you. From all of us at PINE64, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! Note: This image preview protects your privacy. Click to load the video from the Google servers. Link to the video & Video synopsis of the Community Update by PizzaLovingNerd TL;DR for thi