# HDMI doesn't work for BalenaDash on Orange Pi One

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809 "2020-06-01T04:48:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![thanh\_tan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/thanh_tan/32/2267_2.png) [@thanh\_tan](https://forums.balena.io/u/thanh_tan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809/1 "2020-06-01T04:48:09Z")

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Hello,

I have install BalenaOS on Orange PI One and push code of Balena Dash successfully on it.

Everything is fine and i can see the Tohora link to launch the link on Dash

However, the HDMI is not work, i can’t see anyhitng on my screen. The boot log is appear while the board boots, but after that the screen goes dark

Please help

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**Author:** ![nghiant2710](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nghiant2710](https://forums.balena.io/u/nghiant2710)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809/2 "2020-06-01T07:46:16Z")

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Hi,

Did you set any contents to display on balenaDash? You can choose any URL to be displayed on the screen. The easiest way to change the URL is by adding a variable into the device variables (LAUNCH\_URL) inside balenaCloud. More details can be found here [https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-dash#controlling-content](https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-dash#controlling-content)

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**Author:** ![nghiant2710](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nghiant2710](https://forums.balena.io/u/nghiant2710)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809/4 "2020-06-01T07:51:18Z")

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Just be aware that balenaDash requires that you allocate more memory to the GPU. This is achieved by adding (or editing the existing) the Device configuration variable RESIN\_HOST\_CONFIG\_gpu\_mem, for this project we recommend setting it to 128.

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**Author:** ![thanh\_tan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/thanh_tan/32/2267_2.png) [@thanh\_tan](https://forums.balena.io/u/thanh_tan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809/6 "2020-06-01T08:03:43Z")

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Hi,

I have set RESIN\_HOST\_CONFIG\_gpu\_mem to 512 and the URL to display i have put it on Tohora but the screen still dark ☹

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**Author:** ![roman-mazur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/roman-mazur/32/2194_2.png) [@roman-mazur](https://forums.balena.io/u/roman-mazur)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809/7 "2020-06-01T13:52:33Z")

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Hi,  
Did you check the logs on the device? They may have pointers to the root cause of the problem.  
I would start with application logs that you can can find in the web dashboard or invoking the CLI command `balena logs <deviceUUID>`:  
[https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/balena-cli/#logs](https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/balena-cli/#logs)

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**Author:** ![thanh\_tan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/thanh_tan/32/2267_2.png) [@thanh\_tan](https://forums.balena.io/u/thanh_tan)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809/9 "2020-06-02T03:17:41Z")

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Here is my log. I am not familiar with balena then i cannot understand it.

Could you please check it for me?

[https://pastebin.com/cDR6ZUh8](https://pastebin.com/cDR6ZUh8)

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**Author:** ![jviotti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/jviotti/32/220_2.png) [@jviotti](https://forums.balena.io/u/jviotti)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/hdmi-doesnt-work-for-balenadash-on-orange-pi-one/122809/12 "2020-06-02T11:48:22Z")

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What is the output of `vcgencmd get_mem gpu`? How are you exactly setting `RESIN_HOST_CONFIG_gpu_mem` ?
