Free Solar Charging Tesla with Local Control - 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
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
