Why do the vast majority of these seem to either block off the 40pin header or convert it to female header that’s incompatible with further hats? And why are they full sized, despite having minimal circuitry on them? I can appreciate the ones that build in a cooling system, but that doesn’t need to block off all the pins that aren’t being used by the hat.

It seems like all this could be accomplished with a small board that doesn’t interfere with everything else one intends to do with a Pi or Pi-clone. In fact, I’m surprised at the lack of built-in POE Pi boards out there.

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    3 months ago

    No problem! I love wired security cams, so I have a bunch of these sets to power camera’s. Try to jam that thugs! Just an old raspberry pi + network switch and a bunch of PoE powered cameras. Very cheap, very secure

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      3 months ago

      +1 on wired cams. I put in cameras for neighbors that use them for calving barns or monitoring pens, and I would never use wireless, even though there’s no interference sources when you’re 2 miles from the nearest neighbor. It’s just so much more reliable. That’s where I’ve used POE switches and injectors, but I’ve never encountered a version that sits inline for pigtailing off the power leads, but I guess I should have predicted that they’d exist.

      Cheers!

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        3 months ago

        No problem! I am sure this solution will work for you, especially for the price you cant go wrong! Shoutout to team wired!