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I wanted to charge my car with excess solar, rather than letting the solar export to the grid. I also prefer to have local control and not rely on 3rd party cloud services. Whilst many people can take advantage of smart energy tariffs to use lower price electricity overnight to| Martin Rowan
Excess Solar Charging a Tesla instead of exporting it to the grid. ESPHome and BLE provides dynamic charging local control without reliances on Tesla online services| Martin Rowan
I recently reviewed the latest flagship case from Argon Forty, the Argon ONE V5 and I was pretty impressed by this latest design. At the time I didn’t get round to testing the storage performance, but now I have and it’s turned up a disappointing surprise. The Argon ONE V5 The post Double the Slots, Half the Performance – Argon ONE V5 Disappoints appeared first on Martin Rowan.| Martin Rowan
Argon ONE v5 Raspberry 5 case is the latest flagship case from Argon Forty with a new design and new storage and IOT/Home Automation capabilities.| Martin Rowan
Firstly, none of this is original. I was inspired by Jeff Geerling’s blog post on hacking firmware to get the fastest overclock. With 3 Raspberry Pi 5’s lying around waiting for the next project I was curious how I’d fared in the silicon lottery. Could any of my Raspberry Pi The post Raspberry Pi 5 Overclocking to Beat Geekbench Record appeared first on Martin Rowan.| Martin Rowan
Case review of the affordable Argon Poly+ 5 Cases for the Raspberry Pi 5. Including comparison against the Raspberry Pi Official case.| Martin Rowan
The EDATEC ED-IPC3020 isn't just an industrial case, it's a full product including a Raspberry Pi 5 along with a custom board for RS-485 & RS-232 industrial control| Martin Rowan
With the introduction of PCIe connections on the Raspberry Pi 5, we are seeing the launch of new products that use this interface for fast NVMe storage. I previously documented my Home Assistant migration from SD-card to SSD on my Raspberry Pi 4 using an Argon ONE M.2 SSD case.| Martin Rowan
PCIe connected NVMe storage is available with the Pimoroni NVMe base for Raspberry Pi5. Faster than USB connected NVMe, but still some compatibility issues.| Martin Rowan
The beautifully designed passively cooled EDATEC CNC cases buck the trend and without a fan for the Raspberry PI 5 deliver great performance.| Martin Rowan
With each Raspberry Pi generation, this style of aluminium armour/radiator case appears on the market and is sold under a range of names/brands. The release of the Raspberry Pi 5 is no exception, I ordered 4 variations from AliExpress to see how they performed. The cases chosen were purchased on| Martin Rowan
A new FLIRC case for the Raspberry Pi 5, looks great, but will throttle of intense workloads.| Martin Rowan
Argon NEO 5 case review. Three piece case design using aluminium sections to cool the Raspberry Pi 5, whilst providing easy access to GPIO and other connections.| Martin Rowan
The Raspberry Pi 5 maintains the familair appearance of previous generations, though with the relocation of several ports/connectors, the Raspberry Pi5 won’t fit in many cases designed for older versions. The new Raspberry Pi 5 has increased power and cooling demands compared to the Pi 4, with a new uprated| Martin Rowan
Updated firmware for the Argon ONE NVMe board improves performance by over 150% and fixes SMART statistics reporting in OpenMediaVault.| Martin Rowan
The Argon ONE NVMe expansion board should provide high speed storage to your Raspberry Pi 4, however its performance is lower than expected| Martin Rowan
Migrating Home Assistant to Argon ONE M.2 SSD. Enabling Fan Control and optimising SSD performance with Trim Support| Martin Rowan
Updated review with new M.2 board to address poor WiFi performance of the Argon ONE M.2 Raspberry Pi 4 case.| Martin Rowan
Installing and configuring pfSense 2.6 on Zimaboard Single Board Server.| Martin Rowan