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As you may have noticed the BPi has a green LED, which starts blinking as soon as the Pi is powered on: i.e. as soon as something happens with the SD card. It is possible to program the behavior of the LED such as switching it off.

To list the available options open a terminal and enter cat /sys/class/leds/green:ph24:led1/trigger. The default value is heartbeat. If you want to permanently switch it off the trigger needs to be set to none.
user@lemaker ~ $ cat /sys/class/leds/green:ph24:led1/trigger none battery-charging-or-full battery-charging battery-full battery-charging-blink-full-solid ac-online usb-online mmc0 timer [heartbeat] backlight gpio cpu0 cpu1 default-on user@lemaker ~ $ sudo su root@lemaker:~# echo none > /sys/class/leds/green:ph24:led1/trigger The LED may be manually turned on and off using the brightness file. The minimum is 0 (i.e. off), and the maximum is 255. To switch it on:
root@lemaker:~# echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/green:ph24:led1/brightness Let it…

Given that I finally received my Banana Pi, it is time for a little review of the Chinese Raspberry Pi "competitor". Before I tell you about my first experiences with the board, let's have a quick look at its hardware specs and how they compare to the newly released Raspberry Model B +.


Hardware
The first thing that sticks out is the Banana Pi's much faster dual-core, Cortex-A7-based Allwinner A20 system-on-chip running at 1GHz, which definitely beats the Raspberry's "well-known" 700MHz, ARM11-based Broadcom BCM2835 processor.

The Banana Pi is also equipped with 1GB of RAM and built-in Ethernet that can handle up to 1Gbps, which is approximately ten-times as fast as the Raspberry Pi's.

The only area where the new Model B+ can really shine, next to the 4 x 2.0 USB ports, is the additional GPIO headers. There are now 40 compared to 26 on the Model B. The Banana Pi's GPIO layout is the same as the Raspberry Pi Model B, which makes most projects …

Steps should be performed with root access: i.e. sudo su

Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/i2p.list

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/i2p.list  deb http://deb.i2p2.no/ stable main  deb-src http://deb.i2p2.no/ stable main  Download the key used to sign the repository and add it to apt
apt-key add debian-repo.pub   Update repositories and install i2p
apt-get update  apt-get install i2p i2p-keyring   Run i2p (NEVER AS ROOT!)
i2prouter start