HATs and other add-ons • Re: Trying to find usable 5.1V/5A Power Bank for Pi5
I'm asking about a power bank as you're sticking it in a backpack and your plug phones into it through a USB cable. Any thoughts?Do you need to edit your post or is that what you meant?Statistics:...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Trying to find usable 5.1V/5A Power Bank for Pi5
Title pretty much says it. Alexa for Amazon is pretty useless. I finally found a power bank that hits the voltage requirements, but when the CPU revs up, the power bank drops the connection. So I...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Disable Broadcom, keep Realtek wifi
That disables the onboard wifi.Statistics: Posted by jamesh — Tue Sep 15, 2026 4:34 pm
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Disable Broadcom, keep Realtek wifi
I bought a USB wifi dongle, mainly for the external antenna. it is dramatically faster than the onboard Broadcomm connector. I want to disable the Broadcomm and retain the Realtekwill editing...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Problems with attaching AI Hat+ to Rpi5
Note: I have abandoned my attempt to attach the AI Hat+ to my rpi5 and have purchased a 'CanaKit Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Quick-Start AI Kit - 26 TOPS (Assembled)' and am in the process of configuring it.I...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: How to use Pimorini Automation HaT outputs for...
The board has relays with NO/NC contactsCuriously the text says"... should be switched on the high side rather than the low. Plus, they have the advantage of having both normally open and normally...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • How to use Pimorini Automation HaT outputs for...
I have a pimorin automation hat mini and there are three output terminals. I want to use these terminals to control 12V load. Like ON/OFF the load. Can I do that? The documentation to me is very...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Problems with attaching AI Hat+ to Rpi5
Hi.I'm trying to follow the instructions for mounting the AI Hat+ to my Raspberry Pi 5: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... -plus.html. But it seems to me that the instructions are missing a...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: UPS HAT with in/out USB-C connection for powerbank.
Does the power bank do PD on the output side? If so what set of Volt/Amp combinations does it support?Statistics: Posted by Pi5_User — Mon Aug 31, 2026 3:11 pm
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • UPS HAT with in/out USB-C connection for powerbank.
Does anyone know if there's a UPS HAT that uses a 5v USB-C interface as opposed to the standard 3.7v circuit? I'm looking for a way to reliably use my Powerbank as a high-capacity battery backup...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Waveshare UPS HAT D Height
Hi all, first postIs there any reason Waveshare doesn't specify anywhere what the height of the HAT is?For all of them you can find width/length, which can just be inferred from the dimension of RPi...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Are DVD Roms Supported by Raspberry Pi 5?
i have a couple of those usb CD/DVD players.yes they work, but the issue i have had is power. Most of those pull more power than the PI can provide over usb.i finally bought one that has its own power...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Are DVD Roms Supported by Raspberry Pi 5?
Sorry if I'm asking an easy question. I'm recycling an old DVD Rom player from 2013, and it works fine on my windows laptop, but does not work so well ( other than flashing a few lights) on my Pi...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: ADS1263 HAT from waveshare Not working
Have you enabled the SPI interface on the Pi and rebooted?Statistics: Posted by neilgl — Fri Aug 21, 2026 10:24 am
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • ADS1263 HAT from waveshare Not working
Im currently using the ads1263 hat from waveshare with rpi4.i have connected the setup as mentioned and am using the example code from the library but unable to get any read from the photosensor setup...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Swapping single NVME board for dual
That board (and all other board that support multiple M.2 drives) includes a PCie switch. I've no idea if a Pi5 can boot from a drive behind one but I know the CM4 cannot.They also split the available...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Swapping single NVME board for dual
I have a Rpi5 with a single NVME board and would like to replace this with a dual board, keeping the OS and data on the current NVME on the single board and booting from this too, using the second...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Configuring Pi 5 OS to Use USB Antenna Dongle
Do you need drivers?I just used one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Archer-T2U-Plu ... r=1-2&th=1Just plugged it in... works OK.Statistics: Posted by gordon77 — Thu Aug 20, 2026 7:49 am
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Re: Raspberry Pi OS 6.2 ("Trixie") on Pi...
why not stick with that old OS?well, I have some doubts their wiki is correct.that 'HAT' can be compared to a USB hub with an Ethernet port. why should that block WiFI?Not a Zero 2W but nothing...
View ArticleHATs and other add-ons • Raspberry Pi OS 6.2 ("Trixie") on Pi Zero...
I have the older version of this https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/ETH/USB_HUB_HAT but I see on the (B) version Wiki page https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/ETH/USB_HUB_HAT_(B) that For Raspberry Pi OS...
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