Reddit reviews MakerFocus Raspberry Pi 3 Battery Pack, Raspi UPS HAT Board(USB Battery Pack Raspberry Pi) Expansion Board Power Supply with 2600mAh Lithium Battery for Raspberry 3B+ 3B 2B+
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Can be charged and supplied power to raspberry pi at the same time. Wiki link to refer: http://www.raspberrypiwiki.com/index.php/Raspi_UPS_HAT_BoardPls note: Once the battery is exhausted, a manual restart of the power supply is required.Support up to 2A quick-charge technology, can rapidly charge full the battery. ★★★Special attention: when you use this UPS HAT Board for Raspberry Pi 4, please note that your load needs current only within 1.5A, otherwise it will not be used for Raspberry Pi 4.Cascading design saves space while powering raspberry pi and expansion boards without affecting GPIO expansion; Standard dimension of Raspberry Pi HAT, and it's compatible with all of the expansion board.With 4 LED power indicator, Removable battery, user can choose a more larger capacity lithium battery pack (NOTE: voltage must be 3.7V)
I did some additional research and I'm thinking I also like this item: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQYX4UX
You can remove that battery and stick a fatter 3.7V battery on that UPS and get all the features we're both looking for! Bigger battery + cool features like voltage detection.
Yeah, I did a bunch of research on available UPS hats to make my Pi CUPS print server more reliable last week.
There are a bunch of clones based on the same design on Amazon and other sites, at the moment they all share the same design and software and all are affected by the same issues. The clones I've seen are UGeek, Geekworm and Makerfocus. Check out some of the reviews if you're curious.
I have and currently use these:
Makerfocus UPS HAT has a 2500 mah Battery and is pretty good if you only need the pi to be powered (via GPIO), it has 4 LEDs that show the power left on the battery, will not reset the pi with power outage.
SunFounder Lithium Battery Pack Expansion Board is good if you want two usb's plugged in, has a bigger battery than the first one (3800 mah), but no LED indicators, also will reset the pi if power outage.
Vilros Raspberry Pi Back Up Battery has a 8800mah battery, will not reset the power on power outage, is only 1amp output though, can also be used for other things.
PowerBoost 500 & 1000 from Adafruit, both are good for projects, won't reset during power outage and have a LED indicator for low power.
If you have any questions about any of those, I'll be happy to help you out.
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Hey. Any way to tell if this battery module is compatible with the Pi 4 B in terms of voltage/power consumption etc? Thanks!
battery module
If you go the path of a Raspi, use a power control circuit hat that makes it portable to an extent, make a large battery pack using your choice of battery media something like this but get a bigger battery, a USB wireless adapter with an external antenna port so you can get better reception.
There are uninterruptible power supplies for the Pi's.
buy a Google AIY voice kit (https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/) and this Raspberry pi battery https://www.amazon.com/Makerfocus-Raspberry-2500mAh-Lithium-Battery/dp/B01MQYX4UX/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1517536401&sr=8-7&keywords=raspberry+pi+battery then put the battery on first. then bam you have a portable google home