I bought the Pi 5 + PoE HAT + NVMe Base thanks to this video, cheers! The lack of a proper enclosure inspired me to learn to design a custom case for it in Fusion 360. It took a lot longer than I expected going in (3 days 😅) and I'm at version 68 now, but I learned a ton and I'm really happy with the result! My goals were: - A perfect fit for the Pi 5 + Waveshare PoE HAT + Pimoroni NVMe base stack - No taking apart the stack to mount it, just slot it right in and have the case hold it in place - 75x75mm VESA mounting points so you can mount the case anywhere: a TV, a monitor, wall, etc. - Plenty of ventilation - Hexagons. Because they're the bestagons. I've also created a 75x75mm VESA to DIN rail adapter to mount the Pi sideways, sized to perfectly center this case on the rail to take up the least amount of horizontal space in my utility closet. I plan on eventually getting another two of these Pi stacks to put on the rail next to the first so I can have my own PoE powered, SSD-booted cluster to run Kubernetes on 😄 I've published the 3D model for the custom case for free on MakerWorld, and it's also CC-BY-NC-SA licensed so feel free to remix it! makerworld.com/en/models/413567#profileId-315577 The print profile I used is included, so if you have a Bambu Lab printer you can print one with a couple clicks. I recommend PETG in general (sturdier than PLA) and I used white Creality PETG myself at 0.2mm layer height. If you don't have a 3D printer, there are plenty of online services and local enthusiasts who could print it for you. Check out /r/3Dprintmything. This was my most complex design to date, so I'm looking forward to any feedback or remixes from the community! Full disclosure: the model is completely free to download, but the download count stats do support me through MakerWorld's points system.
Very nice! Though I'm sure some people will be amazed you found four Pi 5s! (I have noticed more availability this month so far, though... at least one place in the US has stock any given day)
@@JeffGeerling It took me a few months, but then I had four. I saw the PoE hats a few weeks ago. Now I have to decide whether to use Docker Swarm or K3S for my cluster. I was inspired by your PI cluster videos but then the PI's were no longer available. But now the party can begin!
@@JeffGeerling in the UK we can order an unlimited amount pretty much. I checked and I can buy 577 8GB models I currently have 8 in my basket considering if I *really* need them, as I already have 8 Pi 4s
Not sure why my comment was deleted, maybe I was a bit ambiguous. I was just saying that in the UK when considering buying 8Ø 8GB Pi 5s (I didn't buy any as I already have 8× Pi 4s) I checked to see how many I could buy and I was able to buy 577. There didn't seem to be any limits per person
I was always curious about a PoE pi's power draw. The fact that it idles at 4 watts and stays below 10 watts under load is mind blowing. 15 years ago we were running 100W light bulbs in every lamp in the house. Now we can power 10 mini computers with less power consumption. I feel a lot better about having half a dozen pi running all the time doing various home automation and network storage.
Yeah not only that, but 10 Watts for a computer that's pumping through more data than an old 300W PC from just 10-15 years ago! Efficiency is wild these days.
anyway, we'll all come to the Framework... or to a mini PC... when the requests grow. Mini PCs can run on 8 watts and up to 65 watts... perhaps it is worth using a type-c cable somewhere...? poe+ - only 30
It reminds me of one of the first King of the Hill episodes where Hank, after catching bobby smoking, ends up addicted again himself. During withdraws he starts labeling everything in his office, including labeling the label maker.
@@TheEulerID If your first label isn't "cat" or "dog" or "label maker" what are you even doing?! Oh yeah "spouse" works too.
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Honestly, "black magic" is a pretty apt description of PoE. The latest PoE++ specification supports pushing up to 99.9W down 100m of Cat5 cable, which means that even after all the transport losses, the end device still can negotiate to draw up to 71.3W. Additionally, the PoE++ specification supports up to 10GBASE-T speeds, i.e., 10 Gbps Ethernet. If that's not black magic, I don't know what is. (Well, except USB-PD now supporting up to 240W. That's just nuts.)
I run a cluster of 8 raspberry pi4s using Poe in a cluster rack. My favourite twist is I used pxe boot off Synology. It means all the pi does in provide computer and ram. I manage the pxe configs and Poe power cycles using some neat scripts so I can assign hosts to slots and reboot etc
I have a pi4 4GB on POE, and its powering a 5TB 2.5" spinning metal hard drive for "offsite" backups (the woodshed is at least out of the house) Works great.
For the usb3-nvme i'd go for a usb3-hub in between and grab power from another usb2.0 port for it. Helps those little contacts to less voltage drop and heat/load in the RPi
Wonderful! Been looking for a Pi 5 POE solution, and validation that it works -- ordered 2, and they will arrive when I have some time to work with them. Thank you for the very good evaluation!
Jeff, i don't have much input here cause my skills range from mildly below the level in your videos to significantly below lol But, that said, I do wanna say, I just love seeing your messages in reply to people. Genuine, thoughtful responses and discussion. At a channel your size, that's almost unheard of! I hope it doesn't take too much out of you 💜 I'm sure it can be exhausting. But it's appreciated by at least one :]
Although a great idea for running a Pi without using a power cube and routing a power cable, I find that PoE hats only run for so long before the fan starts getting noisy and eventually slows down or gives out entirely and I had to replace the fan every few months or so. I've never had a fan run longer than 4 months before having to replace it. I ran my Pi's vertically and horizontally in my rack as well as in an acrylic case vertically mounted to the back of a monitor, but eventually experienced the same issue each time. I ended up redoing most of my Pi's as either VMs and one or two on NUCs or other SFF computers.
Oddly enough I ended up assembling this exact combo stack before running into your video. I had a spare SSD kicking around after I swapped out the one in my ROG Ally with a 2TB one. Now my Pi5 runs a 512GB SSD and I'm trying to setup two NoIR Wide v3 cams on it for concurrent video recording for mocap. Lots of hacking left to do. Thanks for these great videos.
I want that nvme hat. Not for the cable, but because it has no LEDs. I hate the LEDs, blinking, all night. Waveshare's poe hats are the best, and historically have been the best.
PoE machines are getting really capable nowadays. There was even a PoE mini-PC with the Intel N100 chip from Minisforum at CES that's supposed to be releasing soon.
Looking forward to the comparison, especially the powerdraw. Would be interesting to see both poe hats doing the same tasks and a comparison between the powerdraw. If one had less powerdraw, it would mean it was more efficient and thus made less heat..
I'm running a Pi 4 with a PoE hat as the main system for my All Sky Camera. All Sky Camera is a system designed to photograph the night sky, take pictures every 60 seconds, create time lapses, and more. I have a ZWO ASI178mc color CCD camera plugged into USB 3.0 port. Plus a temperature activated 12V dew heater (a custom printed circuit board with a bunch of resistors) to generate heat to melt ice and keep the acrylic dome clear, runs off the PoE hat 12V header that you pointed out in the video. Works great. Not sure I'll upgrade to a Pi 5 as this setup works fine. But yeah amazing to be able to do all of this from a Pi and PoE.
I'm just now getting my Pi5 backorder. This looks great, but given the supply uncertainty for Pi5s I think I'm gonna be looking more at the Pi4 hats for my current projects.
I run 4x Pi 4-4GB with Waveshare POE Hat (E) models. They're running into my Unifi UDM Pro SE. I control the POE ports from Home Assistant, and built out a control panel in the HA interface so I can toggle on the ports to boot up my RPis. This is the best solution I could find, since they can't do Wake on LAN.
I tried this hat recently and was not impessed at all. a) I got an undervoltage warning once, but this might have been a glitch, never happend again. b) the fan is way too loud for my application. c) With my unit there was a substantial amount of coil whine, especially at idle (quiet powered of or at full load). I'm going to send it back. Gone is the most interesting argument for an pi vs. a mini PC for my application...
Another great video, Jeff. I'm running my Pi5 with the Pimoroni NVME board, the cable is fiddly I found it easiest to connect it to the Nvme board then the Pi and then put the stand-offs in. But I do need the PoE Hat next
As I was wondering this myself also, I mounted the three wire fan found on the Raspberry official active cooler to the Waveshare POE board as a test by using 2x 12mm M2 screws and bolts (the orginal fan on the Waveshare comes with 12mm M.2.5 screws so I had to order some) and then connected the fan to the Raspberry Pi5 fan header. It seems to work as the fan is not on all the time and only switches on when temps are going up above 51-52C-ish temps With the original Waveshare fan on the POE board that is always spinning 100%, I have idle temps of 32/34.0C with them going up to 56.5/57.0C average when running Stress/CPUburn-a53. With the three wire fan of the official active cooler connected, I have idle temps of 43.0-47.5 without the fan spinning and around 62.0/67.0 when running Stress/CPUburn-a53 with the fan spinning trying to keep all cool enough. Although this is well below the 80-85C max. temp recommended for the Raspberry Pi5, it does mean about 10-11C more than using the Waveshare fan on the POE board which runs on 100% all the time. Since I have 5 pi's running in an 19"/1U enclosure I am not sure yet if I am going to replace all the fans on the POE HATs for the active cooler ones. I think for now I am going to stick with the Waveshare ones running at 100% all the time as they are not really bothering me but it does keep the Pi's about 10-11C cooler overall. Would be interesting to see once Raspberry Pi comes with their own POE HAT if they include a 3-pin fan that only goes on and regulates it's speed when it needs to.
PoE! Thanks for the video. You covered everything I would have tested once I reached the "upgrade existing tech" portion of my home lab budget this year. Thank you!
I got really unlucky with the waveshare PoE F hat. Massive coil whine and weird screechy noise when it's powered on, and the cheap little fan started rattling real fast. About to buy another one to test if it was just a bad production batch, and then design and 3D print a mount for a proper bigger noctua fan since there is that 12V header.
Seeing the PoE usage really drives home how much power the pi5 uses. While it's technically still not much power usage that's a bigger number than I expected when I'm building an offgrid power system.
PoE hats are really the only way to run a Pi cluster. Otherwise, it's just a mess of cables everywhere. Glad to see 3rd parties taking care of this since Raspberry Pi is so slow to get things out.
I'm trying to set up a fan-less pi5 with an nvme drive, but I need it to run on a 'C' connection, without the wall-wart. Don't know if it will, but that's my aim... I'm shooting for a draw of about 6 watts? Linux, with VDE in a dosbox, for word processing; that's my aim.
This one has a nice wide empty space in the PCB between the power input side and the rest of the board-it seems to follow the proper design guidelines at least, but I didn't do any specific testing for it.
Hat Have you looked at the GeeekPi M.2 NVME M-Key PoE+? NVME and PoE in one hat. My only critique is that it may have added a bit too much height to fit easily into tower solutions.
Great and thorough testing of POE near power source. But, what could one actually do with it? Given your office cabling could you run Pi at remote corner of office? Could the office corner Pi run a room temperature sensor or a Pi camera? Or perhaps both for a science experiment monitoring a small seedling? You have demonstrated that it does improve the cabling at the rack. And that a managed POE switch is useful. Would a Ubiquiti Dream Router POE work as a POE power supply?
Yeah I have a UDM SE which powers a Pi sitting on top of it in a rack, then also one ~20m away in the garden running BirdNET, getting power to that location would have been a massive pain, but easy to run a bit of Cat6.
I have been considering adding a Pi-based PoE cam to my NVR system using a Pi running far from the network closet, but that project has to wait a bit for now.
Crazy that it's taking this long for an official PoE and M.2 HAT from Raspberry Pi themselves. What else are their hardware eng team working on thats causing the delay...
Rumor has it that April 2024-ish is when we might expect to see it. I’m curious how well it does for power efficiency (more for PoE power ranges than PoE+), especially compared to the other hats coming out now.
It's about the market..... POE hat is going to sell a few thousand is all... When ur building a company to sell, a few thousand aint gonna add millions or billions to the sale price
Great video! I am looking for a hat for my pi 4. I plan to add an external ssd over usb. I watched your other video about the official poe+ hat. What do you recommend for my use case? Thank you much.
Is there anyway of using WoL to turn the RPI on/off and keeping the fan off when the RPI is off? This would be useful if using as an HTPC. I'm assuming it may come down to "If POE powered, fan = On." :)
Thanks for the video as I was debating buying these over waiting for the RPi official ones. I cloned the exact previous setup you had. I grabbed the HP version of the same switch. I wonder if the NVMe HAT you used + the PoE hat will fit in the 3D printed rack.
@@JeffGeerling I got this on my Pi3: error=1 error_msg="Command not registered" Use 'vcgencmd commands' to get a list of commands Is that command only works on Pi5?
I have added a Pimoroni NVMe drive kit. I noticed the Pi 5 CPU temperature has increased (+10 degrees C) possibly conducting additional heat from the bottom NVMe board. I recently watched your video on the Pi Camera module 3 Wide Angle. The camera does make excellent photos, but I can not get the VLC Media Player to play any of the videos produced unless I use terminal command ffplay *.h264 or *.mjpeg. I think maybe VLC needs to be configured in a special way. The Pi 5 is 8g with the Pimoroni -NVMe board added. I have not been able to solve this issue. If you know the answer, please let me know. Thanks..............
I love watching your insightful videos. My first project with my pi 5 was to add a 7 inch screen and a m.2 nvme hat. I wanted to trying setting up retropi on it but got a couple errors when finishing the manual install instruction that is on the retropi site. When rebooted I just get the login prompt for the pi. I tried xstart command and startx command. not sure which one is correct. either way I could not get the retropi to work. Any suggestions?
Can you fit both the PoE hat and the NVMe hat into a rack mount enclosure? I have those same PoE hats on the way, but they barely fit into my rack enclosure, and I've love to run NVMe as well.
Thanks Jeff for another great video! Would you consider to do a review on Vivid Unit? It has PoE built-in, seems too good to be true for such a compact device.
Speaking of Waveshare, I have Waveshare UPS Hat version (D) on RPI 4. If I run command "dmesg", I see a lot of "hwmon hwmon1: Undervoltage detected!". Do you happen to know why that's happening? I use the RPI 4 for Home Assistant with SSD connected in USB, along with a ZigBee coordinator on USB and an air-mouse connected as well in USB.
Not anymore-I was learning guitar, but have given up and the Squier is now in the hands of someone who plays a lot more guitar and is teaching his daughters.
Hey man, love your videos! Would you every do a 19" rack mount review for the pis? Looking for one myself and seem to have difficulties coming up a solution that fits for me...
Could be used for that, but you'd have to use a drive that only runs on 12V power (some do, some don't)-it's more for specific accessories that run off 12v.
I do not get only one thing. Why this PoE hat does not have 3 wires. PWM fan would be a nice thing to have that could be controlled via some Python 3 script.
@@JeffGeerlingI agree, but I suppose that this is more complicated than 3 wires. Besides Waveshare already has similar hats for Raspberry Pi that work with PWM fan. But maybe they were afraid that someone could overheat Raspberry Pi 5 , or the radiator is to thin and it requires a fan working with full speed? I do not know this. I am wondering will Noctua NF-A4x10 fit; it has dimensions 32x32 mm (for screw holes). I think Noctua should think about quiet PWM fans for Raspberry 5. I am sure that such quality fans would be a nice deal towards people interested in not only Raspberry Pi but other IoT devices.
I was just asking for something like this!! Now I have to update to RPi 5? lol And Jeff, were you able to use the 1U rack mount with both PoE and nvme HATs?
No, right now I haven't found a good solution for the 'Bottom' HATs and rackmount designs that exist right now. There are some DIN rail mounts that are compatible, though you might have to supply your own screws.
@@JeffGeerlingWhat DIN rail mounts or DIN rail cases do you recommend for Raspberry Pi 5 (with and without HAT's)? Just found some for Raspberry Pi 4. Not sure if they are working.
My concern is the GPIO header pins sticking out the top, and figuring a case it'll all fit into... After my Google searches led me to this particular hat still being apparently the only one available, I searched UA-cam and ended up here. Could I just cut those pins off flush with the top of the board?
Can we have one vendor with a bottom PCIe, m2 NVMe board that has the LED lights like the PineBerry, and with the Pimoroni PCIe connection offset. And the “pogo”pins that grab additional power from the bottoms of the grip pins.😊 please?
I bought the Pi 5 + PoE HAT + NVMe Base thanks to this video, cheers! The lack of a proper enclosure inspired me to learn to design a custom case for it in Fusion 360. It took a lot longer than I expected going in (3 days 😅) and I'm at version 68 now, but I learned a ton and I'm really happy with the result!
My goals were:
- A perfect fit for the Pi 5 + Waveshare PoE HAT + Pimoroni NVMe base stack
- No taking apart the stack to mount it, just slot it right in and have the case hold it in place
- 75x75mm VESA mounting points so you can mount the case anywhere: a TV, a monitor, wall, etc.
- Plenty of ventilation
- Hexagons. Because they're the bestagons.
I've also created a 75x75mm VESA to DIN rail adapter to mount the Pi sideways, sized to perfectly center this case on the rail to take up the least amount of horizontal space in my utility closet. I plan on eventually getting another two of these Pi stacks to put on the rail next to the first so I can have my own PoE powered, SSD-booted cluster to run Kubernetes on 😄
I've published the 3D model for the custom case for free on MakerWorld, and it's also CC-BY-NC-SA licensed so feel free to remix it!
makerworld.com/en/models/413567#profileId-315577
The print profile I used is included, so if you have a Bambu Lab printer you can print one with a couple clicks.
I recommend PETG in general (sturdier than PLA) and I used white Creality PETG myself at 0.2mm layer height.
If you don't have a 3D printer, there are plenty of online services and local enthusiasts who could print it for you. Check out /r/3Dprintmything.
This was my most complex design to date, so I'm looking forward to any feedback or remixes from the community!
Full disclosure: the model is completely free to download, but the download count stats do support me through MakerWorld's points system.
I have a PI cluster with 4xPI5-8gb with these PoE hats. I’m very satisfied with it.
Very nice! Though I'm sure some people will be amazed you found four Pi 5s!
(I have noticed more availability this month so far, though... at least one place in the US has stock any given day)
@@JeffGeerling It took me a few months, but then I had four. I saw the PoE hats a few weeks ago. Now I have to decide whether to use Docker Swarm or K3S for my cluster. I was inspired by your PI cluster videos but then the PI's were no longer available. But now the party can begin!
As of this moment Digikey has thousands of them in stock. @@JeffGeerling
@@JeffGeerling in the UK we can order an unlimited amount pretty much. I checked and I can buy 577 8GB models
I currently have 8 in my basket considering if I *really* need them, as I already have 8 Pi 4s
Not sure why my comment was deleted, maybe I was a bit ambiguous. I was just saying that in the UK when considering buying 8Ø 8GB Pi 5s (I didn't buy any as I already have 8× Pi 4s) I checked to see how many I could buy and I was able to buy 577. There didn't seem to be any limits per person
I was always curious about a PoE pi's power draw. The fact that it idles at 4 watts and stays below 10 watts under load is mind blowing. 15 years ago we were running 100W light bulbs in every lamp in the house. Now we can power 10 mini computers with less power consumption. I feel a lot better about having half a dozen pi running all the time doing various home automation and network storage.
Yeah not only that, but 10 Watts for a computer that's pumping through more data than an old 300W PC from just 10-15 years ago! Efficiency is wild these days.
anyway, we'll all come to the Framework... or to a mini PC... when the requests grow. Mini PCs can run on 8 watts and up to 65 watts... perhaps it is worth using a type-c cable somewhere...? poe+ - only 30
@@Empty_Vima There's POE++ with 75W, but yeah. Pi 5 should abide USB-PD standards and not just get everything from 5V
Drawer labeled “Drawer”.
You kill me Jeff. Now it needs a label pointing to the label, that says “Drawer Label”.
Hehe
To quote "Did you know *everything* in his apartment has a label on it. Including his label-maker which has a label that says 'label-maker'. ... "
It reminds me of one of the first King of the Hill episodes where Hank, after catching bobby smoking, ends up addicted again himself. During withdraws he starts labeling everything in his office, including labeling the label maker.
@@TheEulerID If your first label isn't "cat" or "dog" or "label maker" what are you even doing?! Oh yeah "spouse" works too.
Honestly, "black magic" is a pretty apt description of PoE. The latest PoE++ specification supports pushing up to 99.9W down 100m of Cat5 cable, which means that even after all the transport losses, the end device still can negotiate to draw up to 71.3W. Additionally, the PoE++ specification supports up to 10GBASE-T speeds, i.e., 10 Gbps Ethernet. If that's not black magic, I don't know what is. (Well, except USB-PD now supporting up to 240W. That's just nuts.)
I run a cluster of 8 raspberry pi4s using Poe in a cluster rack. My favourite twist is I used pxe boot off Synology. It means all the pi does in provide computer and ram. I manage the pxe configs and Poe power cycles using some neat scripts so I can assign hosts to slots and reboot etc
very nice, what do you run/use on the cluster? kubernetes?
@@ikaros4203 a couple of pi holes, asterisk pbx running about 30 Cisco phones, home assistant, homebridge and some cctv relays.
Cool.
@@ikaros4203 Generally on a Pi cluster, you run MicroK8s or K3s.
I have a pi4 4GB on POE, and its powering a 5TB 2.5" spinning metal hard drive for "offsite" backups (the woodshed is at least out of the house) Works great.
Thanks Jeff, nice to see the PoE in play, will consider!
For the usb3-nvme i'd go for a usb3-hub in between and grab power from another usb2.0 port for it. Helps those little contacts to less voltage drop and heat/load in the RPi
This is exactly the setup I was looking for.
Fantastic video, I've been waiting for the official PoE hat forever
Wonderful! Been looking for a Pi 5 POE solution, and validation that it works -- ordered 2, and they will arrive when I have some time to work with them. Thank you for the very good evaluation!
Jeff, i don't have much input here cause my skills range from mildly below the level in your videos to significantly below lol
But, that said, I do wanna say, I just love seeing your messages in reply to people. Genuine, thoughtful responses and discussion. At a channel your size, that's almost unheard of! I hope it doesn't take too much out of you 💜 I'm sure it can be exhausting. But it's appreciated by at least one :]
The YT community is the main reason to make videos here. Missing out on that aspect of UA-cam would be such a waste! Thanks :)
I was thinking about buying this same exact hat setup. Now I’m convinced. That tip about upping USB wattage is ace. Thank you!
Although a great idea for running a Pi without using a power cube and routing a power cable, I find that PoE hats only run for so long before the fan starts getting noisy and eventually slows down or gives out entirely and I had to replace the fan every few months or so. I've never had a fan run longer than 4 months before having to replace it.
I ran my Pi's vertically and horizontally in my rack as well as in an acrylic case vertically mounted to the back of a monitor, but eventually experienced the same issue each time.
I ended up redoing most of my Pi's as either VMs and one or two on NUCs or other SFF computers.
Oddly enough I ended up assembling this exact combo stack before running into your video. I had a spare SSD kicking around after I swapped out the one in my ROG Ally with a 2TB one. Now my Pi5 runs a 512GB SSD and I'm trying to setup two NoIR Wide v3 cams on it for concurrent video recording for mocap. Lots of hacking left to do. Thanks for these great videos.
Fascinating and informative, as always - many thanks
I'm glad to see the OpenSUSE shirt!
yeah.. I'm distracted by openSuSE shirt.. 😅
Thank you for the video. This is something I was looking for.
Thanks, Jeff! My pi5 hat will arrive in a few days, can't wait!
I want that nvme hat. Not for the cable, but because it has no LEDs. I hate the LEDs, blinking, all night. Waveshare's poe hats are the best, and historically have been the best.
PoE machines are getting really capable nowadays. There was even a PoE mini-PC with the Intel N100 chip from Minisforum at CES that's supposed to be releasing soon.
I don't want a PoE hat. I want a hat that says I subbed to Jeff Geerling.
Same
@@the_block-99 he #red your mind
Red shirt Jeff watches over you
Sounds like someone wants a free hat. Flattery will get you everywhere.😅
Why not both?
Looking forward to the comparison, especially the powerdraw.
Would be interesting to see both poe hats doing the same tasks and a comparison between the powerdraw.
If one had less powerdraw, it would mean it was more efficient and thus made less heat..
Oh, and those little feet are awesome, thanks Pimoroni, PineBerry, please add that to your kit .
Awesome work as always.
It's nice that they added a 12V header in case you want to run a 12V fan (like a noctua) instead of a 5V one.
Agreed, but still only 2 pin so still fan at full blast all the time sadly.
I'm running a Pi 4 with a PoE hat as the main system for my All Sky Camera. All Sky Camera is a system designed to photograph the night sky, take pictures every 60 seconds, create time lapses, and more. I have a ZWO ASI178mc color CCD camera plugged into USB 3.0 port. Plus a temperature activated 12V dew heater (a custom printed circuit board with a bunch of resistors) to generate heat to melt ice and keep the acrylic dome clear, runs off the PoE hat 12V header that you pointed out in the video. Works great. Not sure I'll upgrade to a Pi 5 as this setup works fine. But yeah amazing to be able to do all of this from a Pi and PoE.
Gotta love waveshare!
I'm just now getting my Pi5 backorder. This looks great, but given the supply uncertainty for Pi5s I think I'm gonna be looking more at the Pi4 hats for my current projects.
I run 4x Pi 4-4GB with Waveshare POE Hat (E) models. They're running into my Unifi UDM Pro SE. I control the POE ports from Home Assistant, and built out a control panel in the HA interface so I can toggle on the ports to boot up my RPis. This is the best solution I could find, since they can't do Wake on LAN.
I just got my 5 pi5 yesterday!!!! Time to play!!!
I tried this hat recently and was not impessed at all. a) I got an undervoltage warning once, but this might have been a glitch, never happend again. b) the fan is way too loud for my application. c) With my unit there was a substantial amount of coil whine, especially at idle (quiet powered of or at full load). I'm going to send it back. Gone is the most interesting argument for an pi vs. a mini PC for my application...
Another great video, Jeff. I'm running my Pi5 with the Pimoroni NVME board, the cable is fiddly I found it easiest to connect it to the Nvme board then the Pi and then put the stand-offs in. But I do need the PoE Hat next
Good to see solid LRF support for the nVME Base!
I made my own POE pcb :)
A quick question can you remove the fan and plug in the three wire fan into the header on he pi then it would control the fan speed.
Yes; though I haven't found a good 4-pin to 3-pin or 4-pin adapter to go from the tiny Pi fan header yet.
As I was wondering this myself also, I mounted the three wire fan found on the Raspberry official active cooler to the Waveshare POE board as a test by using 2x 12mm M2 screws and bolts (the orginal fan on the Waveshare comes with 12mm M.2.5 screws so I had to order some) and then connected the fan to the Raspberry Pi5 fan header. It seems to work as the fan is not on all the time and only switches on when temps are going up above 51-52C-ish temps
With the original Waveshare fan on the POE board that is always spinning 100%, I have idle temps of 32/34.0C with them going up to 56.5/57.0C average when running Stress/CPUburn-a53.
With the three wire fan of the official active cooler connected, I have idle temps of 43.0-47.5 without the fan spinning and around 62.0/67.0 when running Stress/CPUburn-a53 with the fan spinning trying to keep all cool enough.
Although this is well below the 80-85C max. temp recommended for the Raspberry Pi5, it does mean about 10-11C more than using the Waveshare fan on the POE board which runs on 100% all the time. Since I have 5 pi's running in an 19"/1U enclosure I am not sure yet if I am going to replace all the fans on the POE HATs for the active cooler ones. I think for now I am going to stick with the Waveshare ones running at 100% all the time as they are not really bothering me but it does keep the Pi's about 10-11C cooler overall.
Would be interesting to see once Raspberry Pi comes with their own POE HAT if they include a 3-pin fan that only goes on and regulates it's speed when it needs to.
PoE! Thanks for the video. You covered everything I would have tested once I reached the "upgrade existing tech" portion of my home lab budget this year. Thank you!
Been waiting for this the man delivers!!!
have you seen the geekworm x1004 hat+ dual m.2?
I’ve seen it. Can’t boot from it, but it’s a cool option.
I know the first thing i thought about when i seen the title 😂🤦♂️
does the rack at 3:42 fit the bottom board for the SSD along with the POE hat?
I got really unlucky with the waveshare PoE F hat. Massive coil whine and weird screechy noise when it's powered on, and the cheap little fan started rattling real fast.
About to buy another one to test if it was just a bad production batch, and then design and 3D print a mount for a proper bigger noctua fan since there is that 12V header.
Seeing the PoE usage really drives home how much power the pi5 uses. While it's technically still not much power usage that's a bigger number than I expected when I'm building an offgrid power system.
Sweet, perfect for the mailbox sensor I plan on building one day 😅
PoE hats are really the only way to run a Pi cluster. Otherwise, it's just a mess of cables everywhere. Glad to see 3rd parties taking care of this since Raspberry Pi is so slow to get things out.
I'm trying to set up a fan-less pi5 with an nvme drive, but I need it to run on a 'C' connection, without the wall-wart. Don't know if it will, but that's my aim... I'm shooting for a draw of about 6 watts?
Linux, with VDE in a dosbox, for word processing; that's my aim.
One problem some of these third-party hats have is a lack of isolation. Did you try connecting the PoE powered Pi to a monitor with HDMI?
This one has a nice wide empty space in the PCB between the power input side and the rest of the board-it seems to follow the proper design guidelines at least, but I didn't do any specific testing for it.
Being an SBC weirdo is the best part! I have 3 GNSS PPS Pi NTP servers (2 Zero 2W and 1 Pi5B 4GB).
Hat Have you looked at the GeeekPi M.2 NVME M-Key PoE+? NVME and PoE in one hat.
My only critique is that it may have added a bit too much height to fit easily into tower solutions.
Finally! I hope this fits in my rack mount
Great and thorough testing of POE near power source. But, what could one actually do with it? Given your office cabling could you run Pi at remote corner of office? Could the office corner Pi run a room temperature sensor or a Pi camera? Or perhaps both for a science experiment monitoring a small seedling? You have demonstrated that it does improve the cabling at the rack. And that a managed POE switch is useful. Would a Ubiquiti Dream Router POE work as a POE power supply?
Yeah I have a UDM SE which powers a Pi sitting on top of it in a rack, then also one ~20m away in the garden running BirdNET, getting power to that location would have been a massive pain, but easy to run a bit of Cat6.
I have been considering adding a Pi-based PoE cam to my NVR system using a Pi running far from the network closet, but that project has to wait a bit for now.
Crazy that it's taking this long for an official PoE and M.2 HAT from Raspberry Pi themselves. What else are their hardware eng team working on thats causing the delay...
We're all waiting for the DVD logo to hit the exact corner
Rumor has it that April 2024-ish is when we might expect to see it. I’m curious how well it does for power efficiency (more for PoE power ranges than PoE+), especially compared to the other hats coming out now.
It's about the market..... POE hat is going to sell a few thousand is all...
When ur building a company to sell, a few thousand aint gonna add millions or billions to the sale price
Why didn’t Red Shirt Jeff trim away a bit of the case and make it fit?
Do you know of any case that will support both the ssd and Poe adapter
Have you tried using F2FS on your SSD? I'm curious if that would make it any faster. Also, try using FDE since the new Pi has AES acceleration.
Did you ever test the 12V output as i'm currently unable to get any power from it?
Cool! Does the power clip when it plays Doom?
Needless to say, loving your OpenSUSE t jeff! :)
Fairly new to this, how do you go about changing the usb power consumption on a raspberry pi home assistant installation?
Around 10W at max in your setup? So good to go with standard POE 802.3af?
Anyone noticed that there's no thermal pad for the memory on the official Pi5 active cooler? Favors the wifi module. Interesting.
I am trying to replace RJ45 connectors with smaller SPE connectors, which also have POE functionality
Hi Jeff,
Is there a case available for this configuration you think?
PoE hat could be use in combo with the Geekworm Raspberry Pi 5 UPS (X1202) or Geekworm X-UPS1 12V/5V?
Great video! I am looking for a hat for my pi 4. I plan to add an external ssd over usb. I watched your other video about the official poe+ hat. What do you recommend for my use case? Thank you much.
Early gang! its a good day when Jeff has uploaded 😁
Jeff, may i ask you: what product/type of these slim patch cables are you using? Many thanks - Alexander
Those are I think Monoprice slim patch cables
What is the best POE hat for the PI4?
I would love to have a PoE HAT with SSD on one hat. Perfect for rack mount servers.
Is there anyway of using WoL to turn the RPI on/off and keeping the fan off when the RPI is off? This would be useful if using as an HTPC. I'm assuming it may come down to "If POE powered, fan = On." :)
I'm wondering: does PoE allow me to use the OTG functionality of the Pi 5 USB-C port? I'm concerned about power sharing when using it.
Thanks for the video as I was debating buying these over waiting for the RPi official ones. I cloned the exact previous setup you had. I grabbed the HP version of the same switch. I wonder if the NVMe HAT you used + the PoE hat will fit in the 3D printed rack.
Can you tell us all chip markings on that poe hat? Im intrested in chips that are next to transformer and under it
Any chance you could let me know how well the Pi5 with both hats fits into the 3d printed 6 bay rack? That is what I am building this spring.
What's that command to constantly monitor Pi voltage etc? Thanks! (that in 4:16 I mean)
I just ran the command:
watch vcgencmd pmic_read_adc
@@JeffGeerling I got this on my Pi3: error=1 error_msg="Command not registered"
Use 'vcgencmd commands' to get a list of commands
Is that command only works on Pi5?
Yeah, only Pi 5 - it reads the values from the new PMIC in the Pi 5@@pfabiszewski
@@JeffGeerling thanks!!! Do you know about any command that would work on pi 3 and 4?
I have added a Pimoroni NVMe drive kit. I noticed the Pi 5 CPU temperature has increased (+10 degrees C) possibly conducting additional heat from the bottom NVMe board. I recently watched your video on the Pi Camera module 3 Wide Angle. The camera does make excellent photos, but I can not get the VLC Media Player to play any of the videos produced unless I use terminal command ffplay *.h264 or *.mjpeg. I think maybe VLC needs to be configured in a special way. The Pi 5 is 8g with the Pimoroni -NVMe board added. I have not been able to solve this issue. If you know the answer, please let me know. Thanks..............
What is that rack you are using to hold your spare patch cables? Genius!
That's a patch cable holder I think it's from Gatorworks? They are popular in audio for patch cables but they work well for most any type!
Thanks! You're the man. @@JeffGeerling
I love watching your insightful videos. My first project with my pi 5 was to add a 7 inch screen and a m.2 nvme hat. I wanted to trying setting up retropi on it but got a couple errors when finishing the manual install instruction that is on the retropi site. When rebooted I just get the login prompt for the pi. I tried xstart command and startx command. not sure which one is correct. either way I could not get the retropi to work. Any suggestions?
Is it possible to use this in addition to the USB-C power supply? Mainly as a redundancy measure.
Can you fit both the PoE hat and the NVMe hat into a rack mount enclosure?
I have those same PoE hats on the way, but they barely fit into my rack enclosure, and I've love to run NVMe as well.
What was that cool program you were running to monitor disk I/O?
iotop - one of the many wonderful *top family, like atop, htop, iftop... :)
Hey Jeff, Did you by any chance have a case for this setup? Have the NVME Base and the PoE Hat. Cant seem to find a case for it
I'm also searching for a case to fit that setup. Did you already find any @serdalo5035?
Thanks Jeff for another great video! Would you consider to do a review on Vivid Unit? It has PoE built-in, seems too good to be true for such a compact device.
Speaking of Waveshare, I have Waveshare UPS Hat version (D) on RPI 4. If I run command "dmesg", I see a lot of "hwmon hwmon1: Undervoltage detected!".
Do you happen to know why that's happening?
I use the RPI 4 for Home Assistant with SSD connected in USB, along with a ZigBee coordinator on USB and an air-mouse connected as well in USB.
POE all the things!
Thanks 👍
That Squier get played from time to time ?
Not anymore-I was learning guitar, but have given up and the Squier is now in the hands of someone who plays a lot more guitar and is teaching his daughters.
Hey man, love your videos! Would you every do a 19" rack mount review for the pis? Looking for one myself and seem to have difficulties coming up a solution that fits for me...
Question: the 12v pins are for powering an external 3.5" hard drive?
Could be used for that, but you'd have to use a drive that only runs on 12V power (some do, some don't)-it's more for specific accessories that run off 12v.
Do you know what server rack mounts this configuration can fit in?
But is the RPi5 not getting close to the price of an Intel Nuc (with vPro), and the Nuc can be powered using an POE splitter.
I do not get only one thing. Why this PoE hat does not have 3 wires. PWM fan would be a nice thing to have that could be controlled via some Python 3 script.
Or have the fan able to plug into the Pi's built-in fan header, that would be quite nice!
@@JeffGeerlingI agree, but I suppose that this is more complicated than 3 wires. Besides Waveshare already has similar hats for Raspberry Pi that work with PWM fan. But maybe they were afraid that someone could overheat Raspberry Pi 5 , or the radiator is to thin and it requires a fan working with full speed? I do not know this. I am wondering will Noctua NF-A4x10 fit; it has dimensions 32x32 mm (for screw holes). I think Noctua should think about quiet PWM fans for Raspberry 5. I am sure that such quality fans would be a nice deal towards people interested in not only Raspberry Pi but other IoT devices.
will this PoE Hat fit with the UCTRONICS Pi 5 Rack Pro ?
I was just asking for something like this!! Now I have to update to RPi 5? lol
And Jeff, were you able to use the 1U rack mount with both PoE and nvme HATs?
No, right now I haven't found a good solution for the 'Bottom' HATs and rackmount designs that exist right now.
There are some DIN rail mounts that are compatible, though you might have to supply your own screws.
@@JeffGeerlingWhat DIN rail mounts or DIN rail cases do you recommend for Raspberry Pi 5 (with and without HAT's)? Just found some for Raspberry Pi 4. Not sure if they are working.
My concern is the GPIO header pins sticking out the top, and figuring a case it'll all fit into... After my Google searches led me to this particular hat still being apparently the only one available, I searched UA-cam and ended up here. Could I just cut those pins off flush with the top of the board?
Is there a way to water cool it - aside from soaking it in the tub?
leepspvideo received a water cooling kit for the pi 5 he's been testing.
Yes! And that's coming up soon ;)
Though it would not be compatible with the top-mounted HATs.
I want a water cooled PI 5! 8GB running on a ssd!
Can we have one vendor with a bottom PCIe, m2 NVMe board that has the LED lights like the PineBerry, and with the Pimoroni PCIe connection offset. And the “pogo”pins that grab additional power from the bottoms of the grip pins.😊 please?
Looks like Geekworm has a X1004, dual m2, power off the gpio pins (top hat) .. oh I love how we have a choice of PCIe accessories!
"Plug n' play" local LLM via a PoE HAT and a M.2 or USB Coral TPU?