Out of curiosity: why are people so interested in an official Pi 5 PoE HAT when there are many non-official ones?
Is there something wrong with (for example) the WaveShare PoE HAT F/G/H?
Do we expect the official ones to be safer? higher efficiency? etc.
Better suited for cases? It does seem very hard to find a good passively cooled case for rpi5 with poe (and possibly nvme ssd).
Will the official one deal better with reporting available power to the board?
For example, I'm running off of an 802.3af switch (GS110TP), so PoE is limited to 15.4 W / 12.95 W, which is less then required (in theory), but the ethernet cable is very short (2m)... Either way, I'm not sure what the actual power budget I have is (but USB is limited to an occasional single logitech bolt dongle, and I'm not using wifi/bluetooth at all, can I use pcie?)... I've not been able to figure out what the actual power budget for various components is... currently the switch claims the Pi has never gone above 9.3W (202mA@46V)...
What is the currently recommended way to do rpi5 poe?
Is there something wrong with (for example) the WaveShare PoE HAT F/G/H?
Do we expect the official ones to be safer? higher efficiency? etc.
Better suited for cases? It does seem very hard to find a good passively cooled case for rpi5 with poe (and possibly nvme ssd).
Will the official one deal better with reporting available power to the board?
For example, I'm running off of an 802.3af switch (GS110TP), so PoE is limited to 15.4 W / 12.95 W, which is less then required (in theory), but the ethernet cable is very short (2m)... Either way, I'm not sure what the actual power budget I have is (but USB is limited to an occasional single logitech bolt dongle, and I'm not using wifi/bluetooth at all, can I use pcie?)... I've not been able to figure out what the actual power budget for various components is... currently the switch claims the Pi has never gone above 9.3W (202mA@46V)...
What is the currently recommended way to do rpi5 poe?
Statistics: Posted by MaZePallas — Sat Dec 06, 2025 9:12 pm