NavoLabs Raspberry Pi 3B+ POE hat

How to install your New hat on the Pi 3B+

[RicardoCooper]

Ordered mine today, been waiting on the official PoE hat from the Raspberry Pi foundation but this is taking too long.

[timonx]

I was excited to see this board HOWEVER I don't see how I can use the ExpressControls EZZee-US Z-Wave interface, or any other HAT for that matter, with the board plugged in. Although the most HATs should be able to share the I2C pins there isn't anyway to get to those pins since the your board is blocking them. Do you have any solution for this issue????

BTW, I'm surprised the RPi foundation didn't put a second connector on the pi just for the POE interface to be able to use the I2C lines and return +5V without using the GPIO connector. That would have been the smart way to do it.

[MilosIvanovic]

This is a great device and works just as it should, however I'm really disappointed that it doesn't work with passive PoE, i.e. it blatantly ignores unsolicited power rather than just simply using it. My Mikrotik RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT can output whatever voltage I'm passing through it, but the single ethernet port on it that can do PoE doesn't speak the 802.3af standard, and when this PoE hat receives that power, it just ignores it (I can see +48V on the PoE header pins on the PoE hat but it does not want to output the +5V on the GPIO header.) The whole reason for getting this PoE hat is to minimise clutter on my desk and getting an active PoE injector - which I also have, and it does work - results in more wires, AC adapters and loops than just plugging the Raspberry Pi 3B+ via USB as before. Is there some circuit path I can short on the PoE hat to force the power into the step-down converter thus bypassing negotiation, or anything I can do to modify this to make it do what I want?

[BassSpy]

Is there a script that you have to run with this hat?

[SectorZeroOne]

Would this work with the libre computer?