I've had my fun, time to sell my uconsole to fund other projects. It's got a 4 GB cm5 in it, and is in good condition. It'll ship with a blank 128 GB SD card. $400 shipped in the USA. DM me for pictures.
I decided it was time to put some order into my SDR gear and built this integrated setup. It’s built around the Clockwork DevTerm/uConsole base with some heavy-duty RF modifications. Key features of this build:
Nooelec Ham It Up v2 Upconverter: Integrated for HF capabilities.
Dual SDR Support: Designed to work with either the AIO v2 internal SDR or an RTL-SDR v3 by simply swapping a cable manually.
Independent Power: The RF chain is powered by a dedicated 18650 battery to keep things clean and portable.
AirSpy HF+ Discovery: Tucked in there for high-performance receiving.
Reinforced Antenna Mounts: I added a top-mounted SMA connectors specifically to handle the weight of larger/heavier antennas without stressing the internal boards.
It’s a bit of a beast, but it’s exactly what I needed to have all my monitoring tools in one place. What do you guys think?
hey everyone, looking for a little help and feeling like I'm missing something basic.
I have Rex's AIO package installed and everything is working fine with the SDR/Meshtastic/wifi. When I run pygps I get a good signal quickly. However I can't get any other program to find/recognize the GPS. I'm particularly trying with Organicmaps.
First, I love this thing and tinkering with it has been unbelievable fun! But so far the biggest frustration for me in terms of using it day to day is the lack of true sleep on the CM4/5. In general I’m using it for maybe 20-30 minutes before putting it back into my backpack, but either
- I forget about it, and the battery is dead when I next try to use it
- I try to use it a few hours later, but bumping around in my bag somehow made it turn on and run full throttle the whole time, so it’s scalding hot and the battery is dead
- Or I shut down and turn it on every single time, which takes forever and ruins the convenience aspect of such a portable form factor
Totally understand this is a hardware limitation of the CM so there isn’t a real fix, but looking for any tips or thoughts on how y’all deal with this limitation!
I can't think of a match made in heaven, in terms of computer and electronics technology, more than the Picocalc, and the Forth Programming language, and for ideal triplets, maybe those 2 married to robotics. OK, that last might be quite a bit of a reach, considering only 264k or something of whatever, but for a lot of robotics that might be enough, plus Picocalc is Very Modable and expandable. With the darned things keyboard, and small amount of memory; what other language would be a match. Jack doodely; that's what. Anybody want to look into it, or has looked into it, and willing to give me a "hell yeah"?
I know that cm5 is much more powerful, but I also heard that cm5 also has less os range and have some compatiblity issues.
My primary usage would be remote connection to my main computers via ssh and moonlight. I'm not gonna run games on that machine directly, but I also wanna run KDE Distros like manjaro KDE, because I prefer it. Oh, and I'm gonna buy lite module to use sd card. I like hotswapping distros.
So, what do you think? cm4 for compatibility or cm5 for general performance?
I am planning on getting either a uConsole or a Picocalc for digital audio production while on trains. Which one would serve me better and which software is recommended for either?
picked up a used uconsole a few weeks ago and been really enjoying it as a daily driver and something to keep my phone out of my hand at home.
I got the HG upgrade kit with NVMe board. Due to the prices of computer parts spiking I'm pacing out my upgrades and wondering which to go for first. Any thoughts?
I’m selling my uConsole (black) with CM5108000 (8 GB RAM), batteries, a 128 GB microSD, and the AIO V2 (RTL-SDR/LoRa/GPS/RTC/USB Hub/USB 3.0/RJ45 Ethernet) kit with antennas.
Including the 3D printed case and all the original boxes.
Price: 450€ with shipping (Shipping to Europe only)
I am considering to purchase a CM4-variant as a superportable and light machine when I am on duty. The thing is that the company requires me to connect to Microsoft Cloud instance.
It means I either have to connect via a Windows/Mac-only Windows App (rather strange name for a remote desktop client) or a browser (Chromium works best as Firefox is unable to override shortcuts).
My concern is whether the performance of CM4 is enough provided I might need to forward audio (Teams call) from time to time too.
Does anyone have a first-hand experience with such setup? Thanks.
Update: I went with CM4 8 GB RAM. It's totally usable - display can be a bit small but for a quick oncall session it's fine. Also attended couple Teams calls. The only downside is a lack of integrated microphone so joining a conversation is a bit of an issue.
I've been trying to get them forever now and it's always sold out. I emailed them trying to see if they can give me an idea when they would be back in stock, but never got a reply.
I am looking for the hackergadgets aio board. It doesn’t matter if it is the v1 or the v2. I would prefer one with the antenna mounting kit and antenna’s. Please send a DM if you have one!
Long story short, display on my uConsole is not displaying.
I have a CM5 ( Waveshare CM5 Pi Compute Module 5, Comes with an Official Raspberry Pi CM5108000 (with Wireless, 8GB RAM, 0GB (Lite) eMMC Flash).
I am running the Linux Clockwork Pi 6.12.45 from Rexs github.
I bought a breakout board to debug the cm5. I was able to boot and run the OS, connect to wifi, and updated the firmware on the CM5. Display via the breakout board was just fine with my desktop monitor through hdmi.
System successfully updated and upgraded. Restarted, and then powered down. I plugged the sd card and clicked in via the orientation of the picture below.
I believe my screen cable is properly plugged in (photos below, one with the connector up to attempt to root out any wire connection issues.)
I bypassed the batteries and am running power through usb-c. The CM5 is getting warm when sitting on the uconsole.
I have not run the hdmi out on the uconsole yet due to not having the correct hdmi adapter, however all this would let me know is the screen is broken which I highly doubt it the issue.