Install Quadrans on Orange Pi

What is Orange Pi

The Orange Pi is an open-source single-board computer developed by Shenzhen Xunlong Software CO.. It can run Android 4.4 or Linux. Recent models use the Rockchip RK3399, AllWinner Technology H6 SoC, and could have 1, 2 or 4 GB of RAM.

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Orange Pi with Rockchip RK3399

Quadrans Technical Team tested the arm64 binary (64 bit) in combination with official Ubuntu Image operating system with these devboards:

  • Orange Pi 4

Orange Pi with AllWinner H6 SoC

Quadrans Technical Team tested the arm64 binary (64 bit) in combination with Armbian for Orange Pi operating system with the AllWinner H6 devboards.

Models tested are:

  • Orange Pi 3

  • Orange Pi One Plus

  • Orange Pi Lite 2

Orange Pi with other SoC

Quadrans Technical Team tested the arm7 binary (32 bit) in combination with Armbian for Orange Pi operating system with these devboards:

  • Orange Pi Zero Plus

Self-installing go-quadrans binary via Quadrans Installer

This bash script allows you to install or update your node on various Linux distributions.

wget http://repo.quadrans.io/installer/gqdc-installer.sh
sudo bash gqdc-installer.sh

The installation process will ask for a node name and a password if you want to create a wallet to became a Quadrans Miner.

This tool allow you to update your node if needed.

Enable your node for mining

Go to Mining and Reward chapter of this Wiki.

Manually build go-quadrans from source

Please refer to the guide build go-quadrans from source to compile the binary from the source code.

Useful command line options

After downloading, run gqdc to connect your node to the Quadrans Network. Make sure to check the different options and commands with gqdc --help

To set your data directory:

gqdc -datadir datadir_path

To show your node in the Quadrans Network Status page:

gqdc --ethstats "Your Node Name":QuadransStatsNetwork@status.quadrans.io:3000

To create a new Quadrans wallet create a password inside a text file and execute the following command:

gqdc account new --password Your_Password_File.txt

To execute the node as a Miner:

gqdc --mine --unlock 0xYour_Wallet_Address --password Your_Password_File.txt

To connect to Quadrans Testnet (download the last test Quadrans node binary).

Connect the node to Testnet

Please read the How to setup your node for testnet documentation.

Important

You can move from Testnet to Mainnet at any time but you can’t connect to the two networks at the same time.