There is an alternative for the deprecated WiringPi https://github.com/vsergeev/c-periphery which works fine on my NanoPi devices - Nano Pi (ARMv7/ARMv8) and NanoPI M1. I am the author of the Dart port of c-periphery: https://pub.dev/packages/dart_periphery The GPIO numbering is a little challenging...
Hi Kenneth!
My theory - the hub was sent without any firmware. Due the hardware change of the chip on the hub installing the firmware failed and nobody had controlled the result of the firmware installation.
with best regardrs
Peter