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Troubleshooting

Argon ONE M.2 PCB version 2,2 with WiFi symbol overlay
Argon Forty Case Reviews Troubleshooting 

Argon ONE M.2 SSD Case – WiFi Issues Resolved

20th June 202120th June 2021 Martin 21 Comments Case Review, Testing, WiFi

My initial review of the Argon ONE M.2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 was fairly positive, with the exception of

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Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT: Responding to Pi Foundation

17th June 202117th June 2021 Martin 0 Comments PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

On 17th June 2021, Jeff Geerling released a video showing his experiences with the new PoE+ HAT. His experiences are

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Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Review – Part 2: Problems

8th June 20214th May 2022 Martin 17 Comments PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

In Part 1 of this review series, I looked at some high-level changes of the new Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT.

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Raspberry Pi 4 with Blue WiFi symbol overlay
Comparisons Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi WiFi Performance Revisited

21st February 202121st February 2021 Martin 0 Comments Raspberry Pi, Testing, WiFi

Back in 2019, I attempted to characterise the impact on WiFi performance of various different Raspberry Pi 4 cases. The

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Power station
Comparisons Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi 4 Software Updates – Reduced Power Consumption & Heat!

5th November 20195th November 2019 Martin 2 Comments Benchmarking, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Stress, stressberry, Testing

I’ve been pretty scathing about the Raspberry Pi 4, specifically the official case, which due to the increased power consumption

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Raspberry Pi 4 Temperatures under load
Comparisons Guide Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi 4 Cases, Temperature and CPU Throttling Under Load

4th September 201919th March 2021 Martin 30 Comments Benchmarking, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Stress, stressberry, Testing

So far I’ve examined the following topics relating to the Raspberry Pi 4, especially the issues with the temperature: Initial

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WiFi Signal Comparison
Comparisons Reviews Troubleshooting 

WiFi Signal Strength with Raspberry Pi 4 Cases

29th August 201919th March 2021 Martin 5 Comments Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Testing, WiFi

Note: You may want to check out a more recent article I wrote on WiFi performance: Raspberry Pi WiFi Performance

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Raspberry Pi 4 Cases
Comparisons Reviews Troubleshooting 

Cool Cases for the Hot Raspberry Pi 4

21st August 201926th July 2020 Martin 3 Comments Case Review, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Testing

Whilst we await Software/Firmware updates from the Raspberry Pi team to reduce power usage and thus reduce temperatures, I’ve continued

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Idle Power Usage Chart
Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi 4 – Power & Temperature at Idle

7th July 20196th July 2020 Martin 3 Comments Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Testing

In my previous post, I examined how to attempt to cool the hot running Raspberry Pi 4. Here I wanted

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Modified PoE HAT
Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi PoE HAT – Official Modified Version

8th November 201830th January 2020 Martin 12 Comments Automation, Networks, PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

As I covered in depth in my previous post Raspberry Pi Official PoE-HAT – FAIL! If you want to use the

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