Issue with the Orange Pi 5 & 5 B – where is the manufacturer Orange who resolves issues, the users who build a community & and where are the resellers?

Last Updated on May 10, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

• Are the Orange Pi 5 and 5 b not devices full of issues?
• We have listed issues of those devices in our journal.
• The issues of Orange Pi 5 and 5 b can be resolved, we discribed this also.
• But this requires a community which writes issue lists for those device, but where is it?
• Another issue with the Orange Pi 5 that we can hardly find any shops who sell this device.
• This forces us to buy the device directly from China.
• But by doing so we risk to buy a faulty device which is not worth to send it back as in this example:

• Are there more expensive SBCs which do not have these issues?
• If there are, we do not know about those.

There are a lot of youtube video review demo maker which reviewed the Orange Pi 5 with the many features it supports. But where is the manufacturer Orange who resolves issues, the users who build a community for the device, and the shops reselling the Orange Pi 5? The Orange Pi 5b seems to be an updated Orange Pi5 which resolves the issue of lack of WIFI and Bluetooth, but causes another which is the lack of an NVMe device.