HackerGadgets' uConsole Upgrade Kit - adding NVME SSD(PCIe), RJ45 Ethernet and USB 3.0 to your Uconsole

The boards arrived today!!!

I installed the adapter board, NVME/Batt., inserted a Crucial 2TB, no issues.

Assembled the console.

Booted up, everything seems ok, changed boot order to SD-NVME-USB-Network, loaded pi imager, selected cm5 → custom image (Rex Bookworm, which is on my inserted 256Gb SD) and when i had to select drive, the NVME didn’t show up..

Doesnt show in file manager either.

What else do I need to change?

Thanks for any help!

I contacted Alex… and the backplate was $14 including shipping. I did also tell him my original order number as well.

do you have a red power light next to the nvme socket? have you changed your config.txt to turn the nvme port on so it shows in imager?

All I did is what i described, basically put it together, changed boot order.

And hoped for the best.

You can mess up things fast(er then you can fix them lol) Don’t ask how I know.

My hardware/assembly skills are great, the software side…. Not so much.

Lets have a laugh about my attempts;

I did sudo nano config.txt (that created a new file..)

I did that, hoping to find the initram(sp?) string that I had to change…

Searched with file manager for the config file, it found several (lol?)

Sleep deprived for 2 days and I just gave up.

I really need a command I can just copy&paste to open the correct config..

If that doesn’t work I will check for bad connection(s) inside.

I see more people having same issue with getting the NVME recognized, so the answer can and will help others as well.

Thank you for your reply :blush:

sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt and change dtparam=pciex1=off to just dtparam=pciex1

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when ppl refer to config.txt in the context of linux they are referring to /boot/firmware/config.txt

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Once the courier agent uploads the tracking number to our webshop, our system will automatically send a notification email containing the tracking number.

Make sure PCIe was enable in the config.txt. Then use lspci to see if the system can reconigze the device.

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Legend!

Burning the image as I type this.

It all works now!

Awesome engineering, fan of your work!!

Excellent, so glad it is up and running now.

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Camera: @vileer Are there any instructions or documentation on getting the camera up and running? I have been attempting this for a while and so far have not been successful.

Module: CM4

OS: Bookworm 6.12.45 from ClockworkPi - Google Drive

Camera: Raspberry Pi Camera v2.1 (imx219)

I tried adding:

dtoverlay=imx219,cam1
camera_auto_detect=0

to /boot/firmware/config.txt, but the camera doesn’t appear to be detected (dmesg shows it looks for it on I2C address 0x10, but it isn’t found).

Simple things I’ve tried:

  • Swapping the orientation of the camera connector
  • cam1 → cam0
  • Other simple bits like that, without success.
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when might the orders with the radxa rockchip board ship?

Hi,

All good — order #5462 is on its way.
Do you have any updates regarding the AIO V2? Will the orders be shipping soon?
For reference, my order number is #5172.

Thanks in advance.

Is the standard rpi5 pinout used?

It possible to use this compact adapter?

how are things? Did they find the mistake / reworked it? Ready to ship soon?

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yes i am using this very adaptor right now and it works with the upgrade kit.

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My replacement battery board has arrived and is working thanks for the fast delivery, I worked out what the issue was and it was this board that i was using to build up the space so it keeps cooler when using a CM5 but for some reason it doen’t like your upgrade kit. so if anyone is having this issue remove this if you have it installed.

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I wonder if the CMX-Adapter which is suppose to be compatible with the CM5 board will work or have the same issue.

it’s strange as it works with all my other NVME boards