I know you have quite a bit on your plate but an LTE dongle would be a very easy buy for me as my uConsole took the place of my phone some months ago except for mobile data, since I prefer the AIO v1 (4xUSB!).
I have already broken a $20 board meant to adapt a laptop modem to USB, by lifting a pad while desoldering the USB-A plug to make it fit in here. Rather than doing so again I’ll be waiting to hear from HG.
That’s the real business looks like. It’s hard to find third part distributor who sell the R860 for small quantity. I tried to contact Rafael Micro, but they just redirect the inquiry to the official distributor in China, which only do business for buck volume.
How will it be possible to order/reserve one of the 150 AIO V2 units after Chinese New Year? I’d be happy to join the waiting list, as I’m interested in buying one.
And could you please tell me whether you’re planning to release an AIO version based on the R828D in the future, similar to the one used in the RTL-SDR V4?
Best regards, Ihar Yatsevich
Got any results for the 954390 5000mah batteries?
I know the high efficiency SSDs are preferable, already read the earlier posts, just seeing if anyone has any more info about using these or similar?
Can people please post what nvme drives work? BC511 NVMe SK hynix 256GB is confirmed but I can’t really find one to buy. Is it a power thing? I assume the Black drives for gaming draw more power to be faster? The prices have really spiked the last months, they cost double so I don’t want to spend a lot of money for something I don’t need / can’t use.
it won’t work, it requires too much power and cooling
I have 2 “Crucial p3 (ct2000p3ssd8) 2TB in my uConsoles that are working as intended fwiw.
I am also running a Crucial P3 with no issues.
Yesterday I did a “mega-upgrade” … installed the HackerGadgets NVMe/battery board, ethernet/USB expansion board, and CPU adapter board, and at the same time swapped out the CM4 for a CM5 (16GB RAM and 64GB eMMC). It took me a bit to figure out how to write @Rex 's “Trixie” image to the eMMC, and after that the ethernet and USB3 ports seem to be working as expected.
The problem I’m running into is, it doesn’t seem to recognize the NVMe SSD - specifically, fdisk -l doesn’t show an empty device that I can partition and format, and /proc/partitions doesn’t show any block devices that aren’t listed by fdisk -l. (My plan, at least for now, is to boot from the eMMC and use the SSD for storage.)
Before I wrote the OS image to the eMMC, the bootloader was showing progress messages as it tried to boot from different sources. One of the things it tried was the NVMe SSD, and I did see “Acer FA100 512GB” in that output, so the bootloader at least is able to see the SSD.
The /boot/firmware/config.txt file contains the following:
[pi5]
dtoverlay=clockworkpi-uconsole-cm5
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d-pi5,cma-384
dtparam=uart0
dtparam=pciex1
dtparam=pciex1_gen=3
[all]
ignore_lcd=1
max_framebuffers=2
disable_overscan=1
dtparam=audio=on
dtoverlay=audremap,pins_12_13
dtoverlay=dwc2,dr_mode=host
dtparam=ant2
From what I’ve been been able to find online, it looks like the dtparam=pciex1 and dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 lines should set things up so the kernel recognizes the SSD.
Does anybody have any pointers as to what I might be missing here?
I know raspberry pis have problems with some NVME drives mostly WD drives but it might be worth checking the compatibility list. You could also try flashing the image to the NVME and booting from it.
yeah. is lsblk doesn’t show the device, its very likely hardware related.
i do not have the gen=3 option enabled, just pciex1. but i’m using sk hynix 512GB. so it might be a SSD issue. i would try changing to another drive and see if that works.
Is anyone else running into this problem, I can only get the Nvme to work with the sd card inside the device and shut it down then start it back up only then it reads of the nvme but without the sd card it never boots on its own
Just to report the 2tb WD Black 770M works on Trixie but I will be keeping an eye on the temperature as I know this drive can get quite warm!
you can also limit the nvme operational state to reduce the power draw.
Thanks for the info that will come in handy 
Hello. If my AIO board has a RTC battery do I also need to plug in the RTC battery on the new adapter board?
Yes, just one RTC need to be powered.
