Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Reviews

4.7 Rating 110 Reviews

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“I bought 2 POE hats. Took them out of the box, attached one to a Pi4B plugged in the ethernet cable from my POE switch and it worked 1st time. I attached the other to a raspberry Pi3B again it just worked. What more is there to say? It is reasonably quiet, the variable speed fan sees to that. I would recommend that anybody considers using a PEO switch together with this HAT. Note that I have another attached to another Pi and was so pleased with the performance One of the new Hats replaced another POE hat that while still working did not perform as well and the fans were much louder.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Works well as PoE enabling my Pi4 IOT server and installation is very simple, but the fan is quite whiney, even with a hack to alter the out of the box temperature/speed settings. I've not tried any heat sinks yet, but on the other hand, my Pi is barely breaking into a sweat running my home server code.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“The hat works very well powering the Pi. However, the fan needs configuring and there is a squealing noise when the Pi powers up, is rebooted and/or shutdown. Minor things but overall very happy and would have no hesitation in buying another. Delivery was fast, next day I think and everything was well packaged with good communications from ordering and tracking.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Works great, better than POE standard hat - 4 amps is so nice to have on a pi 3b+ !”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Great to have fewer wires to deal with and the quality of the board is excellent. This is especially the case with the new transformer which looks miles better than the wound copper one on the first iteration of the PoE hat. The extra power budget is also nice, although I use these without any peripherals plugged into the Pi. The issue that stopped me awarding five stars is that the fan doesn't work out of the box. I needed to add dtparam=poe_fan_temp... lines to config.txt and then fine tune with vcgencmd measure_temp to strike a balance between noise and heat. The mounting screws at the bottom of the Pi also stop these from fitting into the standard case. Not that you would do that anyway, given that its cooling would not be adequate. I combined these with an acrylic stand which is technically and aesthetically pleasing.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“It requires updating the firmware on the pi4 to get the fan to actually spin. This is a little worrying as the docs tell you not to update the firmware because it can brick your device. Having updated the firmware it works great though. The fan has a massive impact on the CPU temps even without any heat-sink, and I've had no trouble running the Pi over PoE. I have one running a PiHole DNS resolver, and another running Home Assistant. Both are powered by PoE.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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“The Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT works well after some work with the spacers provided and the fan. The bolts through the fan stop the HAT from seating properly on the Pi and the spacers provided didn't appear to be the correct size for the job at hand. After reversing the fan bolts and locating some spare spacer bolts managed to fit the board successfully. Next issue fan didn't appear to kick in at 65+ degrees. Update to Pi OS and a reboot fixed this, check Google for details .”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Worked as expected. Completely happy with the folks over at Pi Hut. Order processed quickly and arrived in time. AA+++”

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Posted 3 years ago