I know there are third party solutions, just waiting for what they said would be coming soon when they announced the pi 5. That was almost a year ago now, right?

[–] gregor 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why would you use PoE? Can't one connect a raspberry pi to an outlet?

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Allows me to run my pis in my rack with only one cable for network and power. It’s how I run all my SoCs, I hate cable management, so I reduce cables as much as possible.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone who is (somewhat) interested in doing a similar setup like yours -- does it stack? As in, energy is divided between all pis that are connected to that single cable?

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Not quite. You need to run a cable from a PoE(power over Ethernet) port on a capable switch to each pie. You just need power to the switch and the switch will power all the pis through their own individual cable. You are only limited to the power supply on the switch you use.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

thousand reasons to use Poe for tiny devices like this. Ethernet is easier to run for cameras, security setups. don't need a plug if you've got a switch on your workbench. one less cable to run.

[–] gregor 1 points 2 years ago

Makes sense

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I don't think that'll be a good idea to promote the usage of microsd's considering the competition is (almost) going full nvme -- which is (obviously) miles better than any microsd.