As you may know, I have been running a BrewPi controller for some time.   I built one of the old school Arduino controllers and ran BrewPi on a VM.   It was time to upgrade. Part of it was driven by the fact that the Legacy branch was no longer supported.  I was looking to move from VM to hardware - the server I ran it on was noisy, power hungry, and had to relocate. I was looking at OrangePi devices.  Think RaspberryPi but less expensive.   I needed something along these lines to run my brewery controls anyway so I ordered one.  

When it came in I threw a quick image on it. Use the Armbian ones, not the OrangrPi supplied ones.  Fired it up.  Installed Fermentrack and plugged in my Arduino controller by USB.  Added the controller, and wa DONE.  20 minutes total. 

I have not yet added my iSpindel (It has both iSpindel and Tilt support) but will do that soon - building a new iSpindel so starting fresh.  It's been rock solid and not one issue with it.