Using OTG for ROCK Pi S
This Tutorial describes how to Using OTG for ROCK Pi S. Nowadays Rock Pi Boards are popular. Rock Pi is the best alternative of Raspberry Pi. Rock Pi 4 is a most popular SBC. Rock Pi Developed and Manufactured by Radxa. Radxa is a startup founded 2013, focusing on design, manufacture and sell Open Source Hardware products. Radxa also provides custom designing, prototyping and software/hardware integration services. Radxa® is pronounced as [reksə]. The name is from the Latin word radix which means root. Radxa® is a registered trade mark by Radxa Limited in Shenzhen, China(深圳市瑞莎科技).
Here a info post about Rock Pi Boards – Rock Pi Boards | Rock Pi 4 | Rock Pi X | Rock Pi N10
Using OTG for ROCK Pi S
What we need ?
- ROCK Pi S Board
- USB Type C to USB-A cable
1: Connecting your ROCK Pi S on PC
Using USB Type C to USB-A cable connect your ROCK Pi S and PC.
2: Make sure rkdeveloptool is set up on host computer Linux
For Linux
To build rkdeveloptool on a debian based Linux distribution, follow the instruction below:
Install build dependency:
sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev dh-autoreconf
Clone the source code and build:
git clone https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkdeveloptool cd rkdeveloptool autoreconf -i ./configure make
If you encounter compile error like below
./configure: line 4269: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBUSB1,libusb-1.0' ./configure: line 4269: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBUSB1,libusb-1.0)'
You should install pkg-config libusb-1.0
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libusb-1.0
Then re-run
autoreconf -i ./configure make
Now you have rkdeveloptool executable at the current directory.
sudo cp rkdeveloptool /usr/local/bin/
For MacOS
To build rkdeveloptool on macOS, you need homebrew(or similar package manager) to install required packages.
Install build dependency:
brew install automake autoconf libusb
Clone the source code and build:
git clone https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkdeveloptool cd rkdeveloptool autoreconf -i ./configure make
If you encounter compile error like below
./configure: line 4269: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBUSB1,libusb-1.0' ./configure: line 4269: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBUSB1,libusb-1.0)'
You should install pkg-config libusb-1.0
brew install pkg-config
Then re-run
autoreconf -i ./configure make
Now you have rkdeveloptool executable at the current directory.
sudo cp rkdeveloptool /usr/local/bin/
3: Testing connected and get help
On linux host:
$ rkdeveloptool ld
If you can see the information for device your connection is successful, if you want to get help you can type:
$ rkdeveloptool ?
Source – https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS/dev/otg (official radxa wiki)
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