Uconsole cm4 lite with rpi emmc cm4

@jhaggard What specs did you chose ?

uConsole Kit RPI-CM4 Lite
SKU: UCCM4BN
Color: Matte Black
Type: WIFI+4G cellular
Core: Raspberry Pi CM4 104000 lite

@jhaggard oh, you chose the full package, based on the information from shipping related topics, it is very possible that the delay will be over 6 months.

Check out the messages in this topic Update: uConsole shipping related - #3048 by doctorlumpy

lol, thanks. I guess it will get here when it gets here.

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The wait is worth it.

you can write Alex and ask him to refund core (70$),
seems like it increase delivery date drastically and you can buy module locally later (+ you can buy 8gb module / potentially cm5)

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So I finally got the carrier card and imaged the cm4 card. It successfully booted and works. I finally got it working again. I had to let it charge first. So thanks for all the help everyone. If I can help others avoid some pitfalls. I noticed wifi stopped working after updates. But worked that out in raspi-config.

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Yes. I got my emmc cm4 flashed with USB on a separate piduino board. It is the cm4 that uses the uSD pins for the emmc interface and not the uconsole that is to blame. I ended up buying a new cm4 because I wanted to play with different distros on uSD cards.
It would be nice if uconsole allowed USB boot but as others mentioned it can’t Because Reasons

Jv

Has any1 managed to get the uSD card working in tandem with the eMMC?
I was thinking about using it as a ā€œpermanently attached pendriveā€ :smiley:

I don’t think it is physically possible without hardware modification. As I understand it (and the documentation and schematics support this) the connections on the CM4 package that would go to output pins that would then connect to the uSD on a lite CM4 board are physical connected to the eMMC instead.

The only way I can see to use the uSD with an eMMC would be to connect USB/uSD interface circuity between the uSD hardware and a spare USB. This would be very tricky! It would be much simpler to use one of the USB expansion cards and attach your pendrive there

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