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+====== Orange Pi ======
+There is no armel build of grafana for the Raspberry Pi, and compiling it from source wasn't possible because 256MB of RAM aren't enough.
+Thus I tried to use a Orange Pi since it was also lying around.
+The [[http://www.orangepi.org/orangepipc/|Orange Pi PC]] is a cheap [[http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Orange-Pi-PC-ubuntu-linux-and-android-mini-PC-Beyond-and-Compatible-with-Raspberry-Pi-2/32448079125.html|$15 alternative]] to the Raspberry Pi 2.
+This single board computer is based on an [[https://linux-sunxi.org/H3|Allwinner H3 (sun8iw7p1)]] SoC with ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.8GHz, and 1 GB of RAM.
+That should be plenty to compile and run grafana.
+For this price the hardware is unbeatable, but the software support is quite poor (outdated but indicating [[http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/FAQ.html|FAQ]]).
+Only Android supports the video hardware acceleration currently.
+The official [[http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/|images]] are old (e.g. Android 4.2.2), but there are newer images made available by the community:
+  * such as [[http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=755|Android]], with weird [[http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/SDcardinstallation.html#Install_Android_OS_image|installation process]]
+  * various [[http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342|linux]]
+Since I'll only use it as server I decided to go with debian jessie minimal.
+The pin header is the same as the [[http://www.raspberry-projects.com/pi/pi-hardware/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/rpi2-model-b-io-pins|40-pin Raspberry Pi]].