Is your PINE64 RSS feed sad and lumpy? (It doesn't contain the full blog post, only a description) Well we have great news for you! We now publish the full blog post in your RSS feed (that's 65% more blog post per blog post!), don't know why it wasn't like that before, but there we go.

If you don't see this change already please update your RSS feed: https://pine64.org/blog/index.xml

Also appending the previous update with some new content in a blog post: https://pine64.org/2026/05/18/may_2026_quick/

The PineDio USB LoRa Adapter is at the focus of a new effort to begin progress on potential new LoRa devices. MeshCore is the current protocol target for the USB LoRa Adapter along with help from the pyMC_core library project.

The current problem with the device is that the crystal oscillator is heating up too much and can cause clock frequency drifting instability. In a nutshell that means your messages come out garbled. This may eventually be fixed with a TXCO (Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator) to maintain a stable clock frequency.

#pine64 #pinedio #lora #meshcore

Hello everyone, wanted to do a quick overall update on what's been happening recently. Life has been pretty busy but there's lots of nice stuff happening in the background that we'd like to share.

The PineVoice Home Assistant speaker (formally PineVox) is in its final stages. Production begins. Further on this, there will be limited bundle with this device which will include a PineVoice, Zigbee dongle, power supply and two matter modules. Pair it with a SBC of choice and run your Home Assistant instance locally!

The current PineTime LCD is EOL and a new one is replacing it, though it is essentially the same display. These will be shipping in the next PineTime batch.

New PineTime Pro samples have been received by developers. Shiny!

We are also interested to know if people are still interested in LoRa hardware. Specifically nodes targeting firmware like MeshCore rather than LoRaWAN. What form factor of nodes interest you the most?

Important recent community updates:
@danctnix PineTab2 updates (including factory image): https://social.treehouse.systems/@danctnix/116493536602596537

@piggz PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, PineTab2 all updated to kernel 7.0, and improved USB config. Zypper ref and dup to update.

@machaddr with their new Gentoo PineTab-V image: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mach[email protected]/116550551558106497

Thanks for reading!

@machaddr has released a Gentoo based image for the #pinetabv . Make sure to flash to an SD card if you wish to test it out!

https://github.com/machaddr/pinetabv/releases/tag/2026.05.10

#pine64 #pinetab #mobilelinux #linuxmobile