Xunlong Orange Pi Plus 2

Orange Pi Plus 2 is a development board produced by Xunlong, based on the H3 SoC. It is very similar to Orange Pi Plus 2E, but comes with an older RTL8189ETV implementation of WiFi, with an onboard SATA bridge connected to of the USB ports, and with four USB ports connected to an internal USB hub. This design significantly reduces the available total USB bandwidth of the device.

= Identification = The PCB has the following silkscreened on it: Orange Pi Plus 2 V1.1

= Expansion Port =

The Orange Pi Plus 2 has a Raspberry Pi model B+ compatible 40-pin, 0.1" connector with several low-speed interfaces.

= Tips, Tricks, Caveats =

FEL mode
The button triggers  FEL mode.

Compatibility
Device should be compatible with images for Orange Pi Plus with some minor issues (notably - Wi-Fi chip not working), but all other major components should work out of the box:
 * Ethernet
 * USB Devices
 * eMMC Storage
 * Internal Audio
 * USB-SATA Chip

Overheating
Due to quite high frequency (around 1.6 GHz) it's possible to easily overheat chip which may lead to decreasing CPU / DDR frequency or disabling one or more CPUs. Installing heatsink and using cpufreq should help to avoid this problem.

= Serial port =

Locating the UART
Serial port is located near power jack, between SW3 and SW4 buttons. Pins are marked as Tx / Rx / GND on PCB. Please refer to UART Howto in case of any problems.

= Pictures =

= References =

= Variants =
 * Orange Pi Plus is pretty similar regarding USB/SATA but has half the amount of DRAM and eMMC storage
 * Named pretty similar the cheaper Orange Pi Plus 2E adds Realtek RTL8189FTV SDIO-based WiFi directly on the board (as opposed to a soldered-on module), exposes all USB host ports without an internal hub and saves the slow GL830 USB-to-SATA bridge.

= See also =

http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php