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Asus Tinker Board

Supported Hardware

DeviceRelease DateSupportConfig
Tinker RK3288April 2017yestinker
Tinker S RK3288January 2018yestinker
Tinker Edge TNovember 2019no?
Tinker Edge RNovember 2019no?

eMMC

eMMC support is provided with the same image. Just flash the image to the eMMC by connecting your Tinker Board S to your PC via Micro-USB. Refer to the Tinkerboard documentation how-to flash using Micro-USB and UMS.

The Home Assistant OS provided U-Boot does support UMS as well, however manual intervention is necessary:

  1. Set the jumper between Micro-USB and HDMI the maskrom mode
  2. Insert SD card and connect the board via Micro-USB to your PC
  3. Continusly press Ctrl+C to interrupt boot
  4. Set the jumper back to the park position
  5. Start UMS using:
ums 0 mmc 0
  1. A mass storage device should appear. Flash Home Assistant OS to it.

Serial console

To access the terminal over serial console, add console=ttyS2,115200 to cmdline.txt. GPIO pins are: 34 = GND / 32 = UART TXD / 33 = UART RXD.