rkdeveloptool

Used to pull images and push images on the ASIAIR Mini/Plus RockChip

Install the default apps to compile the application

sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev dh-autoreconf build-essential git

Download repository

git clone https://github.com/open-astro/rkdeveloptool.git

Change the directory to rkdevloptool and run commands

cd rkdeveloptool
aclocal
autoreconf -i
autoheader
automake --add-missing
./configure
make

Run help tool commands

./rkdeveloptool -h

Tip

You will need a USB Type-C to USB-A 2.0 Male cable and no power cable connected to boot the ASIAIR into Loader mode.

1. First, plug the USB-C end into the ASIAIR
2. Hold the Reset button down
3. Now plug in the USB-A 2.0 Male cable to your Linux computer and then let go of the reset button. The lights should not be lit up if done properly and the system will be in Loader mode.
   

Backing up the ASIAIR device

First we want to figure out how many sectors our device has. To check it we need to run the following command

sudo ./rkdeveloptool rfi

If you done properly we should see the following information

Now we need to backup the image. This command is telling the system to us 'rl' (ReadLBA), the 0 means first block, the 61079552 is our complete sector size and the image.bin is the backup for our ASIAIR to a file.

sudo ./rkdeveloptool rl 0 61079552 image.bin