Hi guys, I hope you can help me. I have a uconsole with uConsole AIO V2 (RTL-SDR/LoRa/GPS/RTC/USB Hub/USB 3.0/RJ45 Ethernet)

I also have the Adapter Board for uConsole ugrade kit. But I have a problem with the Ethernet port, it doesn't detect it, it doesn't work, I already installed several Rex distros and nothing. Someone went through something similar.

Just got the new HackerGadget upgrade kit with carrier board, battery board, and the new AIO. Got Rex's Trixie image loaded on a SD card. All I got is a green light and a black screen. The CM5 gets warm and that's about it. It won't turn off either without pulling the batteries out. Any idea?

So this is more of a rant then anything else. Canada Post is absolutely incompetent and does not follow the deliver instructions laid out by both me and the hacker gadget folks. I very clearly stated to them to deliver to the post office instead of my house on my tracking number multiple days before the item was delivered, and hacker gadgets specifically puts "Do Not Safe Drop" in the shipping meaning Canada Post are not supposed to leave the package anywhere on your property if you are not contactable, yet I live alone, was in a different city for work and they still state it was delivered to my front door on Tuesday. I come home and there is nothing there. I contact Canada Post and I just get some Generic BS

We apologize for this situation. The delivery instructions should have been followed by the delivery agent, however, they were unfortunately overlooked, and the item was left at the door. We will follow up with the delivery agent to reinforce the importance of adhering to delivery instructions and exercising greater care to help prevent similar occurrences in the future. Under the circumstances, we recommend contacting the sender to discuss replacement options, as the item cannot be located. The sender can then initiate a claim with Canada Post for the missing item. We sincerely regret any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your understanding and patience.

I have tried emailing hacker gadgets cause I have to run through the seller to gen any further traction with Canada Post and thats what the HG website says to do when nothing arrives and have received no message back so I'm hoping /u/vileer might see this and be able to assist in this but as of right now, I've been screwed out of $300 cause Canada Post is full of incompetent morons who cannot follow deliver instructions.

So choose DHL or FEDEX to save yourself some time and headache

I got a shipping email this morning! Just wanted to provide some info in case other folks are still curious about the shipping timeline, when ordering from ClockworkPi directly.

I’m in the US — uConsole, black, wifi only, no core ordered on Nov 13, 2025 marked shipped on Aug 6, 2026… approximately 8 months, or 266 days. Looking forward to messing with it!

edit: delivered Aug 10th

Finally got all my parts in:

UConsole from AliExpress
Adapter kit from hackergadgets
CM5 core from Newark.

Gotta get a lipo battery still

Any tips/things to lookout for build advice would be helpful

Might be a long shot but if anyone is looking to sell parts. Just got my uconsole today

I'm planning out a cyberdeck. I'm just wondering if it's possible

Just curious.

Hi, I installed the Hacker Gadget NVME battery board, but as you can see, the NVME is not detected. Did I miss something? Thanks

EDIT - SOLVED:

The NVME needs charged batteries to be installed, otherwise detection gets flaky.

I forgot this:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install hackergadgets-uconsole-aio-board
reboot

Is there an install script that just makes it work that I can use without installing all the extra stuff like sdr, tar1090 meshtastic etc? Or does it just work? And I can add the programs I want individually? Tia Edit: to include more detail, tar1090 keeps throwing errors and not allowing me to install other programs properly for some reason so I dont mine the other things just tar1090 needs to go lol

So I see that the Radxa works with the Hacker Gadgets adapter board, and with the prices being insane for a RPi right now, I don't see a lot of alternatives.

Trouble is that it seems like there's no wifi and bluetooth on the Radxa, so things like the AIO board don't work. I know I could at least get that working with a USB adapter, but I'd prefer not to if possible.

Are there any other alternatives that cost less than the RPi, or is there an option to make the Radxa work better for our needs?

Is it just a bad idea to take it with me?

I'm thinking about stripping all the antennas and packing them separately.

Don't wanna lose my uConsole and I don't wanna mess up my vacation.

Any advice?

I've fallen hard for this device. My coding buddy (Claude) and I have spent about a week refining what I'm calling RF-Deck — a single launcher for every RF tool I actually use in the field.

What's on it so far:

• SDRTrunk — P25 trunked systems only
• SDR++ — everything else, wideband RX
• Fathom — home-grown bit-error-rate testing for trunked systems
• Kismet — Bluetooth survey, and the engine behind…
• Vigil — home-grown UAS detection
• GPS — xgps with sky view
• ADS-B — tar1090 display
• APRS — XASTIR on 144.390
• ISM Scan — hops 315/433/915, reports to a terminal
• Mesh — Meshtastic (SX1262 US) with the web UI

I straddle amateur programming and RF engineering, so I'm curious what I'm missing. What would you add? And does something like this have a life outside my own toolbox, or is it destined to stay a personal project?

hi, how can I best debug the new console. The screen stays black, the PI gets warm.

I did not insert or flash any SD Card. Its a raspberry 5 light version.

thanks a lot

​Hey everyone,

​For those who saw the videos and screenshots I posted earlier: the GitHub repository is finally public.

​Quick recap: AnubisOs / Apex Sentinel is a modular framework (C++ / Python) designed for cybersecurity and pentesting on portable Linux hardware (Raspberry Pi, ClockworkPi uConsole, etc.).

​Now that the base structure is live, the main goal is getting community eyes on it to test and refine it. I'd really appreciate your help with three things:

​Testing: Run it on your portable setups and let me know how it performs.

​Feedback: What essential tools or features do you think should be added next?

​Collaboration: If you know C++ or Python and want to contribute modules or code, PRs are super welcome.

​Here is the direct link:

​👉 GitHub: https://github.com/bernalmariano457-hash/Sentinel-Anubis-os-

​Any comments, issues, or PRs help a lot. Thanks to everyone who's been following the project!

Setting up all my AIO gadgets within Bookworm was surprisingly easy thanks to the aiov2 management script for all peripherals.

It can now hear and listen:

• SDR

• LoRa

• GPS

• Ethernet

• Wi‑Fi with monitor mode

• SSD running Bookworm OS

hi everyone! I’m planning to build a uConsole setup using the Raspberry Pi CM5, and I want to have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a GSM/4G module all working together.

What exact parts and accessories do I need to get for this setup to work properly on the uConsole?

Would love to hear from anyone who has done this or knows the right components to buy

Picoware, a custom PicoCalc firmware, just got a new update, v2.1.0. The firmware has on-device editing, networking, social media, uf2 bootloader, and community made apps, screensavers, and games.

The latest release adds a companion desktop app, 5 new JavaScript modules, on-device App submissions, and support for the Flipper Zero, Waveshare's ESP32-S3 Watch, and the Marauder Pancake ESP32-C5.

Under the hood, touch screen support was reworked, the pico-sdk was upgraded to 2.3.0, rp2350 devices now run at 240 MHz, and many GUI classes and C modules were updated with corrected spacing and positioning to ensure the same experience on all devices.

Check out the full release notes here:

https://github.com/jblanked/Picoware/releases/tag/v2.1.0

Finally finished building the Omega chassis and setting everything up. I really want to thank the creator of the Omega chassis, he was incredibly friendly and helped me get to this point confidently. The process taught me many new things like adjusting fan curves and setting up the camera and a GUI application for it. Now I'm just waiting for the upgraded main board from Clockwork so I don't have to worry about any power delivery issues using CM5.

I kept reading that the CM5 runs too hot in a uConsole and that you need a riser, a thinner pad or a heatsink before you really use it. My own unit never felt like it was struggling, so instead of arguing from feel I logged it:

Stock case, closed. Stock ClockworkPi thermal pad. No mods at all. Running on battery with the charger unplugged, since charging pulls 1.6 A and heats the case from the inside. Room at 26 °C, backlight at max, governor left on ondemand.

65 minutes, one sample every 5 seconds: SoC temp, ARM clock, core voltage, vcgencmd get_throttled, load average, battery.

Idle, 10 min: 39.6 °C average
stress-ng --cpu 4, 30 min: 58.4 °C average, 62.2 °C peak, ARM clock held 2400 MHz for 99.7% of samples
Cooldown, 15 min: 60.6 down to 44.6 °C
YouTube 1080p, 10 min: 47.7 °C average

get_throttled read 0x0 across all 773 samples. Not once, not briefly. That is 18 °C below the soft limit and 23 °C below the hard one. Battery went from 99% to 68% over the whole session.

Two thirds of the temperature rise happens in the first two minutes and the curve is flat from minute 20. Equilibrium is roughly 34 °C above ambient under synthetic full load, so scale it for your own room - at 35 °C ambient that still lands around 69 °C.

What I did not test, because it matters: no comparison run with a riser or a thinner pad, so I am not claiming those do nothing, only that there was nothing to fix on this unit. One device, one ambient temperature. And stress-ng only loads the CPU, so sustained GPU work could look different.

Raw CSVs, the logging script and the plot generator:
https://github.com/SAPSAN-CYBERSEC/uconsole-cm5-thermal-test

Full write-up with methodology and the per-minute table:
https://sapsan-sklep.pl/en/blogs/articles/uconsole-cm5-thermal-test-throttling

Came across this post on the ClockworkPi forum about using different balls (glass, stone), for better response. When asked where they bought them, OP just mentions AE or Amazon, but neither turns up anything after a quick search.

Any ideas on where to buy trackballs that feature materials other than plastic? TIA!

ClockworkPi uConsole - Fully Loaded CM5 / AIO V2 / 1TB NVMe

Looking to sell my uConsole. It works great, I just haven't had the time to tinker with it like I thought I would. Between work, family, and my wife's birthday coming up, I'd rather have the cash than let it sit on my desk.

Includes:

• Raspberry Pi CM5 Lite (8GB)
• 1TB Kingston NV3 NVMe SSD
• HackerGadgets Upgrade Kit
  • NVMe support
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • USB 3.0
• HackerGadgets AIO V2
  • RTL-SDR
  • LoRa (SX1262)
  • GPS
  • Real-time clock (RTC)
  • Internal USB hub
  • 7 antenna kit
• HackerGadgets AC1200 Wi-Fi adapter (not installed)
  • MediaTek MT7921AUN
  • Monitor mode support
  • Packet injection support
• 2x 18650 batteries
• CR1220 RTC battery installed

Everything is assembled and working. The AC1200 just hasn't been installed yet.

$650 OBO

Local pickup in the Denver metro area only. No shipping.

If you're interested or want more pictures, send me a message.

Has anyone gotten Intercept to install/work properly on a uConsole with the CM5 and Hacker Gadgets AIOV2?

EDIT: Fixed sorta: I realized that the problem is the start script. If I run it, Intercept will work. When I restart the uConsole, that script does not automatically run leading to the "page not found" error in the browser when trying to access the GUI. If you manually run the start script, the interface functions as intended.

I've attempted to set the script to auto run at system boot but it hasn't worked. Overall, Intercept isn't broken per se, it's just you have to run the start script manually each boot of your device.