New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/tp2-fw-update/

This time about updating the firmware on my Turing Pi 2 boards.

I had to touch hardware for this one. *shudder*

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Here is the offending SD card slot. I really don't know why they couldn't at least put it on the edge, so it is accessible without taking the board out of the case.

Also: Every time I have to do something with the Homelab hardware, I'm thinking to myself: How expensive can a bundle of VMs with a cloud provider really be?

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Today's fun Homelab activity: Finally updating the Firmware on my Turing Pi 2 boards (https://turingpi.com/product/turing-pi-2-5/). I've already prepared the SD card. My biggest worry is that it looks like the SD card slot is on the back of the board. So I might need to take it out of the case. 😔

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Turing Pi 2 - Retrofitting an EMC2301 Fancontroller
The Turing Pi 2 (v.2.4) has actually some secrets that just start to get uncovered. Looking closely at the board, you will find the red marked area with what seems to be an unpopulated 4-pin fan header (J16) and an unpopulated IC spot (U109).

These spots were, as found out by Sam Edwards (CFSworks) actually a place to install Molex 47053-1000 4-p
https://www.nico-maas.de/?p=2702
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Been running K3s on four RK1 compute modules plugged into a TuringPi2 board for almost two weeks now. Everything except media stuff has been moved over, including this Mastodon instance.

It's been working a lot better than when I had previously tried RaspberyPis. Being able to use NVME storage (I'm using Longhorn) is a huge improvement to the RPi’s USB.

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Parts for my Turing Pi v2 finally showed up. I've had the board for over 12 months but never had Pi's to stick in it. I now have 2 32GB Pi4's for it, and I think I will get a NVIDIA Jetson to go in the other board and essentially turn it into 1 node for general containers/API's and stuff, and the Jetson for running ollama with local models and doing some light model training/customization experimentation.

Before I get to that, I need my 20core Xeon Proxmox box up and running, my Ubiquiti gateway updated so I can run dual failover connections (NBN and Starlink) and my wifi hot spots for the house cabled and mounted in the right places.

time to get in the roof I think.

Oh and I got the latest protocol spec PDF from Polyaire for my AirTouch2+ and need to get my #AI powered aircon client functioning.

If I ever hit lotto, I might be able to get to some of this.. heh.

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I've had the TuringPi2 (v2.4) for over a year, but never got around to setting it up until recently. The build is a WIP, waiting on two additional Jetson Orin NX 16GB modules and am testing different arrangements for the node storage, networking, and oob/remote access functions.

There are also several CM4 8GB modules, one presently installed, but the final deployment will be 3x Orin NX + 1x Xavier NX (16GB on all).

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