Hi Giles I have it running on the tinker board. But the Ubuntu desktop is in French. What is the password so I can change the language? Or do I need to ask the French blokes?

Hi
I think default root password of tinkerboard is 1234
Have you tried that ?
Anyway, feel free to join us on french forum
Or i can try to help you here if you prefer

@Petarm
If you do installed the ELARSystem image the password is the one used to sudo commands.
Otherwise, just install the legacy armbian image : www.armbian.com/tinkerboard/
Git clone the scripts. Be aware that the first menu prompts you if you want to continue the install in french.
I suggest you to check the mate desktop install and not to check the french install.
I must admit that I didn't tested the install in english. I will test it tomorrow.
Good luck

The password may have changed.
For the tinkerboard NAFA box image burnt on the microSD card, last I checked the admin password was: nafa
For the microSD card, created from Armbian image, root password should be 1234 (qwerty keyboard).

Let us know if you managed to get back to a shakespearean environment.

The english version of the french Tinkerboard site should be available soon, being translated "properly" not googled translated....

hi Gilles, patdut and Sebriviere. Thanks for all your suggestions and help.

So i managed to change everything to English. Just looked at the menus on my rpi3 which runs ubuntu mate.

I discovered the the password for the NAFABox flash is nafa. The img flash does not use a qwerty keyboard, so i was typing "nqfq" not "nafa".

I confirgured VNC and could see the NAFABox on my mobile phone and could control the NAFABox desktop (still no luck configuring it on my laptop using remmina, i dont have a tablet).

The only issue i now have with the NAFABox flash is there is no bluetooth. I installed blueman, it opens but all the pull down menus are inactive. I tried bluetoothctl, but it cant find the bluetooth radio on the tinker board. I run a shoestring BT adapter on my HEQ5 and a BT joystick. Funny thing is that the ELARSystem image BT works out of the box.

My initial flash was the ELARSystem image and i managed to manually install kstars.ekos/indi/phd2/ everything and everything works fine (my very first post). But i need to work out how to VNC to control the thing. Still have not managed to do this. I wonder if i can run the hotspot.sh tool from NAFAbox flash on this flash?? to automatically configure the VNC on the ELARSystem flash?? Or the other way i can do it is to create a static IP and wifi direct (as i now do on my rpi3). But the issue with this is i cant connect to the internet via wifi.

So this is where im at. Again thanks for all your help.

Hi everyone, its all working now. The Nafabox config on git works very well.
Thanks for all your help

Did you installed all with the sripts included in NAFABox config ?
And what about bluetooth. Did it worked just "out of the box" after installation ?

Thanks for the feedback Petarm, we do need it to improve and cover various issues that may arise.

Could you confirm as Patrick mentioned that the Nafa image worked fine? Or how you managed to get keyboard / bluetooth resolved?

Is the ethernet port on the USB bus?

What does lsusb command say?

ok, Ill go through my process:

1. The first thing i tried was your image NAFABox.img. That all worked ok except for BT and I still cant get BT to work.

2. I then flashed the ELARSystem image, downloaded the NAFA confi zip from git and installed it via ./go/sh went through the whole install process fine. I could VNC to the tinkerboard. After a restart, the VNC would not work, so i tried to reconfigure it with the desktop scripts that were create and the scripts would not run, see images below. Doing this on the NAFABox install (point 1 above) the scripts ran ok and I could reconfigure my hotspot. Other than the hotspot issue with this install method, everything else worked, i could connect to the mount and joystick via BT, my CCD worked etc.

3. In both installations what it did notice was that when my mount connected, it would automatically start to slew at about 64X slew rate, so i had to manually Abort the process. Could not work out why.

Anyways, thank you all for your help.

Hi Sebriviere, only BT did not work for me on the NAFABox.img and i still have not resolved this.

To change the language, i looked at my rpi3 ubuntu mate install to help me navigate through the French version on NAFABox. I noticed that English was installed on the NAFABox image. So i did this and was able to change the language. Again, all manually.

Hi kecsap,
Ill check this as soon as i can and post the output of lsusb.