Jeff Geerling
Jeff Geerling
Not stale; the network cables should be part of the cluster build items.
Testing the first HAT on my top Pi, since I can't put them all on and still mount them in the rack... so far it works great. But no LED...
One thing to mention in setup: all my HATs came with a little anti-static sticker over the 4x4 PoE female header. I had to remove that little sticker before I...
I have the HATs all working now. Interestingly, the temperature-controlled fan seems to work even after shutdown... at least AFAICT.
Nevermind, that Pi just hadn't actually _shut down_ all the way yet. I am noticing a bit of [coil whine](https://www.xoticpc.com/coil-whine) when the Pis are shut down. It's loud enough that...
@poon64 - ooh, that does look nice. I'm full-bore ahead with the Blinksticks for now, though, and may revisit the PoE HAT later... we'll see. For now I can live...
Just a quick note—while I was _disassembling_ the Pi 3 model B+ edition of the cluster, the first PoE HAT I removed had its PoE header separated on one side...
@shailensukul - I am using the official Pi PoE HAT without issue on all my Pi 4s. See the official product page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/poe-hat/
I'd count it as a bug. I need to run through the playbook soon and make sure to update the things like this that need updating!
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