Xunlong Orange Pi Mini 2

Orange Pi Mini 2 is H3 based development board produced by Xunlong. The concept is based on the original Orange Pi Mini. Both, Orange Pi 2 and its smaller cousin Orange Pi Mini 2 were released in March 2015. The board is based on a quad-core H3 CPU, and offers a TF card slot, onboard Ethernet (10/100M Ethernet RJ45), 40 pin GPIO and 4 x USB type A connectors, but does not come with WiFi or a SATA port like the A20 based original Orange Pi Mini did.

= Identification = The PCB has the following silkscreened on it: Orange Pi mini 2

= Tips, Tricks, Caveats =

FEL mode
The button marked SW3, located between the HDMI and TTL UART, triggers FEL mode when pressed during boot.

To verify you have successfully entered FEL mode, check the output of. For the Orange Pi Mini 2, it should look like: AWUSBFEX soc=00001680(unknown) 00000001 ver=0001 44 08 scratchpad=00007e00 00000000 00000000

LEDs
For those with a transparent case (or no case at all) the Orange Pi Mini 2's LED activity is good. The red power LED (D7) can be turned off.

= Adding a serial port =



Locating the UART
The UART pins are located between DC input and Uboot Button(SW3) of the board. They are marked as TX, RX and GND on the PCB. Just attach some leads according to our UART Howto. Do not connect the red wire (VCC or 3.3V/5V), as that might damage your board.

= Pictures =

= Variants =


 * The original Orange Pi and Orange Pi Mini were released in November 2014.
 * The Orange Pi 2 variant was also released in March 2015. This version also comes with onboard WiFi.

= Also known as =

= See also = There are several websites about Orange Pi Mini 2 and claiming to support it. It has to be clarified, what is "official" and who is behind this sites.


 * Xunlong Orange Pi site
 * "Official" Github Repository.
 * "Official" Orange Pi Form.
 * H3_Manual_build_howto.

Manufacturer images
A various amount of prebuilt images is provided via OrangePi's Website.