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PoE support has always been available with a seperate PoE Hat [0], I found it to be a strange announcement. 0: https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/pi-poe-swi
by cuonic 9y ago
PoE support has always been available with a seperate PoE Hat [0], I found it to be a strange announcement.
0: https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/pi-poe-switch-hat-power-over-ethernet-for-raspberry-pi https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/pi-poe-switch-hat-powe...
- loxias 9y agoI was confused by that too. "You used to require a separate board to use PoE. Now you... still need a separate board to use PoE." Oh well. Also, as possibly the only person left who really doesn't care at all about wireless... I'm glad there's a refresh, sure, but... I'm meh. I've been pxe booting my pi3s for a while now. Now, if it had official "clean" debian support (not "raspian") that would be something!
- robotmay 9y agoPossibly it will make the official PoE board cheaper? The existing one I have, which works rather well actually, cost almost the same as the Pi, which kinda limits its usefulness (when a PSU costs ~£6 max)
- pi-rat 9y agoThis is much cleaner[1] though. It seems to just do 48/24v -> 5v via 4 pins. No more ethernet pass-through. [1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/app/uploads/2018/03/770A6339-1619x1080.jpg https://www.raspberrypi.org/app/uploads/2018/03/770A6339-161...
- TorKlingberg 9y agoYes, the old PoE hats had two RJ45's on them, and you needed a short cable between that and the Pi. It's unfortunate they had to put a fan on the new hat though.