Power up with POE
The OAK eLite supports IEEE802.3AT mode POE power supply, it provides a 5V/2A power feeds RPi 3B+ or 4B module. Please follow below steps to power up your module with POE power supply.
Connect POE cable of OAK eLite to your RPi3B+ or 4B POE header like below shows
Once the POE cable inserted, plug the OAK eLite module to RPi3B+ or 4B as below shows
Connect your POE power supply and plug RJ45 cable to RPi3B+ or 4B, the OAK eLite module should start booting up.
Be noticed that, you don’t have to plug the USB power cable of RPi3B+ or 4B once you connected POE.
Power up with extra 9V – 12V power supply
The OAK eLite also support boot up from an extra 9V – 12V DC power supply, you can plug it to OAK eLite DC jack as below shows (inner is positive electrode)
Be noticed that, you don’t have to plug the USB power cable of RPi3B+ or 4B once you connected DC jack.
Boot up OAK eLite with SwitchPi experience firmware
RPi3B+ Switchpi OAK eLite firmware – switchpi-oakelite-with-gui-1.0.1.img.zip from here. The firmware currently version is 1.0.1, built-in Asterisk-13.20, and Dahdi-2.11.1.
RPi4B firmware you can download it from here
For the RPi4B, you can find it out in here.
Put the downloaded firmware to a Linux distro PC, then following below steps to clone it to an 8G SD card (we strongly suggested to use a class 10 HC SD card such as below SanDisk one), insert micro SD card to your PC with a USB SD card adaptor, the Linux will recognized it like /dev/sda or /dev/sdb which depends on your OS how many drives, you can check it out with command “dmesg”, we are using the /dev/sdb in here.
root@oakelite:~/pitdm# unzip switchpi-oakelite-with-gui-1.0.1.img.zip root@oakelite:~/pitdm# dd if=switchpi-oakelite-with-gui-1.0.1.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
Compile driver by yourself
Please follow the OAK eLite module README.md to compile the driver, https://github.com/lixinswitchpi/oakelite
Configure your OAK eLite module through SwitchPi GUI
The OAK eLite RPi3B+ SSH login default static IP address is 192.168.1.99/24, the default username/password is pi/raspberry
The OAK eLite RPi4B uses DHCP to get an IP address, check here to find out where you can get the IP address assigned by your GW or router. the default username/password is pi/raspberry
The OAK eLite WEB GUI default username/password is admin/admin123
Please reference to these links for how to configure OAK eLite module