Armbian / Orange Pi Plus 2 - getting started issues

Misc. issues like when sound over HDMI doesn’t work or time is wrong

Sound over HDMI doesn’t work

Click the Volume icon in the top-right menu bar. Set the Default Sink to sndhdmi Analog Stereo

HDMI Volume too low

Click the Volume icon in the top-right menu bar. Open Volume Control... Select the Output Devices tab. Under sndhdmi Analog Stereo drag the volume bar to the far right (mine goes up to 153%, 11.0dB)

Time is wrong, shows UTC instead of local time

Time shows wrong even after updating system time from Armbian config as well as sudo dpkg-reconnfigure tzdata. Shows time in UTC instead of local time (UTC +5)

It’s probably the RTC. Set the correct system time with sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and then manually write the time to RTC hwclock -w. Now sudo reboot.

Bluetooth keyboard won’t pair, Bluetooth Device manager would crash/never load

1bluetoothctl

Run the following commands:

[bluetooth]# agent off
[bluetooth]# agent KeyboardOnly 
[bluetooth]# scan on
[bluetooth]# pair 34:XX:XX:XX:D8:F3
[bluetooth]# trust 34:XX:XX:XX:D8:F3
[bluetooth]# connect 34:XX:XX:XX:D8:F3