Drawer labeled “Drawer”. You kill me Jeff. Now it needs a label pointing to the label, that says “Drawer Label”.

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

Hehe

@TheEulerID

5 ай бұрын

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'. ... "

@handles_are_dumb_01

5 ай бұрын

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.

@criggie

4 ай бұрын

@@TheEulerID If your first label isn't "cat" or "dog" or "label maker" what are you even doing?! Oh yeah "spouse" works too.

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.

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

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)

@willembos01

5 ай бұрын

@@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!

@MinorFool

5 ай бұрын

As of this moment Digikey has thousands of them in stock. @@JeffGeerling

@precumming

5 ай бұрын

@@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

@precumming

5 ай бұрын

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

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 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.

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

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.

@Empty_Vima

5 ай бұрын

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

@saiv46

5 ай бұрын

​@@Empty_Vima There's POE++ with 75W, but yeah. Pi 5 should abide USB-PD standards and not just get everything from 5V

This is exactly the setup I was looking for.

I'm glad to see the OpenSUSE shirt!

@rmdjapri

5 ай бұрын

yeah.. I'm distracted by openSuSE shirt.. 😅

Awesome work as always.

Fantastic video, I've been waiting for the official PoE hat forever

Thank you for the video. This is something I was looking for.

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!

Thanks Jeff, nice to see the PoE in play, will consider!

I was thinking about buying this same exact hat setup. Now I’m convinced. That tip about upping USB wattage is ace. Thank you!

Fascinating and informative, as always - many thanks

Thanks, Jeff! My pi5 hat will arrive in a few days, can't wait!

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.

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

@ikaros4203

5 ай бұрын

very nice, what do you run/use on the cluster? kubernetes?

@marksterling8286

5 ай бұрын

@@ikaros4203 a couple of pi holes, asterisk pbx running about 30 Cisco phones, home assistant, homebridge and some cctv relays.

@SchoolforHackers

5 ай бұрын

Cool.

@fakecubed

5 ай бұрын

@@ikaros4203 Generally on a Pi cluster, you run MicroK8s or K3s.

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.

@the_block-99

5 ай бұрын

Same

@whothefoxcares

5 ай бұрын

@@the_block-99 he #red your mind

@The_Potato_Boi

5 ай бұрын

Red shirt Jeff watches over you

@BrianThomas

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like someone wants a free hat. Flattery will get you everywhere.😅

@nikobellic570

5 ай бұрын

Why not both?

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 :]

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

The YT community is the main reason to make videos here. Missing out on that aspect of KZread would be such a waste! Thanks :)

Oh, and those little feet are awesome, thanks Pimoroni, PineBerry, please add that to your kit .

Been waiting for this the man delivers!!!

Gotta love waveshare!

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.

I made my own POE pcb :)

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

I know the first thing i thought about when i seen the title 😂🤦‍♂️

Finally! I hope this fits in my rack mount

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

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.

Good to see solid LRF support for the nVME Base!

I just got my 5 pi5 yesterday!!!! Time to play!!!

Thanks 👍

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

@JohnDoe-bd5sz

17 күн бұрын

Agreed, but still only 2 pin so still fan at full blast all the time sadly.

Needless to say, loving your OpenSUSE t jeff! :)

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.

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...

Oh boy that title, references LOL Another nice video!

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Can you tell us all chip markings on that poe hat? Im intrested in chips that are next to transformer and under it

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...

@Atylonisus

5 ай бұрын

We're all waiting for the DVD logo to hit the exact corner

@MrFoof82

5 ай бұрын

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.

@stevesteve8098

4 ай бұрын

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

I would love to have a PoE HAT with SSD on one hat. Perfect for rack mount servers.

POE all the things!

Being an SBC weirdo is the best part! I have 3 GNSS PPS Pi NTP servers (2 Zero 2W and 1 Pi5B 4GB).

does the rack at 3:42 fit the bottom board for the SSD along with the POE hat?

Cool! Does the power clip when it plays Doom?

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.

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.

Hi Jeff, Is there a case available for this configuration you think?

Anyone noticed that there's no thermal pad for the memory on the official Pi5 active cooler? Favors the wifi module. Interesting.

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.

PoE hat could be use in combo with the Geekworm Raspberry Pi 5 UPS (X1202) or Geekworm X-UPS1 12V/5V?

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.

Do you know of any case that will support both the ssd and Poe adapter

Around 10W at max in your setup? So good to go with standard POE 802.3af?

Early gang! its a good day when Jeff has uploaded 😁

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.

Is there a case to fit the pi5 with Poe hot and nvme base?

"Plug n' play" local LLM via a PoE HAT and a M.2 or USB Coral TPU?

What is the best POE hat for the PI4?

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.

Why didn’t Red Shirt Jeff trim away a bit of the case and make it fit?

I want a water cooled PI 5! 8GB running on a ssd!

Is it possible to use this in addition to the USB-C power supply? Mainly as a redundancy measure.

What model of Aruba switch is that?

how do i update the config file to not halt on power like you did but I am running HAOS on the PI? Can I do it remotely?

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.

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.

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

@carlosrmendes

3 ай бұрын

I'm also searching for a case to fit that setup. Did you already find any @serdalo5035?

have you seen the geekworm x1004 hat+ dual m.2?

@JazzTechie

5 ай бұрын

I’ve seen it. Can’t boot from it, but it’s a cool option.

I'd really like to test PoE on Pi5 8Gb using a PCIe nvme drive hat and running a local LLM at full CPU.

Seams that pmic_read_adc is not avaibale in last version od piOS. Any similar command?

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?

@collodionpositive554

5 ай бұрын

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.

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

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.

Can you do a video for kali Linux booted with PCIe ssd please?

This like a network attach storage sulution? They work reliably?

@idiotsniff

5 ай бұрын

Buy a hat and make one 👌

Do you have a poe switch you recommend?

Could you please give me the model of your networking switch and UPS? I need a managed switch and a UPS for my rack :)

Cool

What was that cool program you were running to monitor disk I/O?

@JeffGeerling

4 ай бұрын

iotop - one of the many wonderful *top family, like atop, htop, iftop... :)

I wonder if it works with the Radxa Penta HAT. 2.5 inch SATA drives don't use 12V so it'll be nice if it works. Imagine running a 4-bay SSD NAS with only one cable

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 KZread and ended up here. Could I just cut those pins off flush with the top of the board?

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.

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

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.

@desperado1980

20 күн бұрын

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.

Jeff, may i ask you: what product/type of these slim patch cables are you using? Many thanks - Alexander

@JeffGeerling

Ай бұрын

Those are I think Monoprice slim patch cables

Anyone have a reccomendation for a manged switch, for a cluster?? Im trying to find a switch that can power 12 8gb pis

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 guess this doesn’t work with official pi active cooler, does it?

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?

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

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.

@marcandrewyss

5 ай бұрын

​​@@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.

Question: the 12v pins are for powering an external 3.5" hard drive?

@JeffGeerling

5 ай бұрын

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’ll wait for your comparison with RPi’s own PoE Hat.

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?

@thegreeneyej

5 ай бұрын

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!

Hi Jeff, I am s great fan of yours and request you to make some videos on some other boards instead please. We want some alternatives here now since, I don't see the foundation to be heading the same direction as before. Regards

I think i'm gonna get one, when i got my python datalogging for my 12x coolers running.. Maybe even an external one. Then i dont have to care about power failure in my room (or EMO) and can send out alert mails while IT still has backup power running.