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Revision as of 11:29, 14 October 2022

PI4B Mini Tower NAS Acce
PI4B Mini Tower NAS Acce
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Introduction

Mini Tower NAS Kit For Raspberry Pi 4B, Support Up To 2TB M.2 SATA SSD, Strong Heat Dissipation, OLED Screen Display.

Overview

Dedicated Mini Tower NAS Kit for Raspberry Pi 4B, including M.2 SATA SSD Expansion Board, ICE Tower Cooler, Mini Tower Case, 0.96inch OLED, and GPIO Edge Extension header. It can perfectly match your Raspberry Pi 4B and can be assembled into a mini and good looking Desktop NAS which supports up to 2TB M.2 NGFF SSD solid-state drive, with an excellent cooling system, OLED screen, cool RGB LED lights, speed-adjustable PWM fan, and 40PIN GPIO extension header.

Features

  • Comes with the SATA SSD expansion board which can expand the mass storage for your Raspberry Pi
  • ABS material case and two sides transparent acrylic baffle
  • With 0.96 inch OLED screen already mounted on the case, 28 x 64 pixels, default I2C address: 0x3C
  • M.2 SATA SSD 2280/2260/2240 mass storage adapter board, supports up to 2TB M.2 SATA SSD solid-state drive.
specific driver is required for the RGB lights on fan and mood lights on OLED screen driver board.
And OLED display needs to enabled to display information. Please read the manual carefully and follow the steps to enable it.

Front Side

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More details

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User Guide

How to Assemble the Case

Package content

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Installation steps

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How to enable OLED Display

  • We assume you are using Raspberry Pi OS,(32bit/64bit).

1. Turn on `i2c function` by using `sudo raspi-config` -> `interface options` -> `i2c` -> `enable` -> `yes`. 2. Check if the screen has been recognized by Raspberry Pi

i2cdetect -y 1 

if encount `command not found` error, please install `i2c-tools` by using `sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install i2c-tools`.
3. Install dependencies libraries:

sudo apt -y install python3 python3-pip python3-pil libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libopenjp2-7 libtiff5

4. Grant privilleges to user `pi`

sudo usermod -a -G gpio,i2c pi

5. Download sample code from this repo:

git clone https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.examples.git
cd luma.examples/

6. Install the dependencies

sudo -H pip3 install -e .

7. Entering into example folder and test it.

cd examples/
python3 clock.py

8. At this time, the OLED screen is displaying a clock.

If there is black screen or have nothing display on the screen, please check whether the cable is connected properly, and then check if you have enable the I2C function, and you can just typing : i2cdetect -y 1 in a terminal and check if there is an address like "3C" on screen. if not, please reconnect the cable and reboot raspberry pi. If you can not download the repository from github, please check the internet connection and please make sure you can access to github.com. If you have issue with using the OLED display, please contact us first.

Minitower clock.jpg


How to enable fan light and mood light

Connection Details

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NOTE: The RGB lights in the fan are connected to the ambient lights on the screen driver board. Turn on any one of the lights is equivalent to turn on the entire light group.
  • 1. The lights are connected to GPIO18 which can found by typing: pinout in a terminal.
GPIO18.png


  • 2. Make sure your Raspberry Pi can access internet.
  • 3. Download demo code projects sources from github.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x
  • 4. Build:

Build with SCons

  • Install Scons (on raspbian)
 sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install scons 
  • Make sure to adjust the parameters in main.cto suit your hardware.
  • Signal rate (400kHz to 800kHz). Default 800kHz.
  • ledstring.invert=1 if using a inverting level shifter.
  • Width and height of LED matrix (height=1 for LED string).
  • Type scons from inside the source directory.
cd rpi_ws281x/
sudo scons

Build and install with CMake

  • Install CMake
  • Configure your build:

For example:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -D BUILD_SHARED=OFF -D BUILD_TEST=ON ..

See also for available options in CMakeLists.txt.

Type
cmake --build .
to build
  • To install built binaries and headers into your system type:
sudo make install
  • Running:
Type
sudo ./test 
(default uses PWM channel 0).

That's it. You should see a moving rainbow scroll across the display.

More options are available,
./test -h 
should show them:
./test version 1.1.0
Usage: ./test
-h (--help)    - this information
-s (--strip)   - strip type - rgb, grb, gbr, rgbw
-x (--width)   - matrix width (default 8)
-y (--height)  - matrix height (default 8)
-d (--dma)     - dma channel to use (default 10)
-g (--gpio)    - GPIO to use
                 If omitted, default is 18 (PWM0)
-i (--invert)  - invert pin output (pulse LOW)
-c (--clear)   - clear matrix on exit.
-v (--version) - version information

How to Install All Drivers Automatically

cd 
git clone https://github.com/geeekpi/absminitowerkit.git 
cd absminitowerkit/
sudo ./install.sh 

How to change display information

 If you want to change the display information, please follow the steps below.
  • Open a terminal and navigate to /lib/systemd/system/ folder.
  • Edit 'minitower_oled.service' file and adding your script.
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And the demo codes are located at: /usr/local/luma.examples/examples/, or you can put your own code in the same location and change the parameter of ExecStart variable and restart the service.

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For example, Default ExecStart's parameters is called /usr/local/luma.examples/examples/animated_gif.py file, we can just comment it out with # (hash tag) and remove the hast tag before ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'python3 /usr/local/luma.examples/examples/sysinfo.py &' and save it and quit.

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you can also replace the file name with the file names in folder: /usr/local/luma.examples/examples/

  • Reload systemd service and minitower_oled.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart minitower_oled.service
  • You will find the content of OLED display has been changed.
Minitower infor.jpg


  • More demo code please access your local folder in: /usr/local/luma.examples/examples/ folder, there are plenty funny code inside the folder.
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How to parted disk and mount it

  • Detect the disk which recognized by Raspberry Pi.
sudo lsblk

if you can see there is a device called:"/dev/sda", which is recognized by Raspberry Pi as first hard disk device.

  • Create new partition by using: fdisk command.
 sudo fdisk /dev/sda 

and create a new partion by using following command: press "n" and press "enter", and then input "p" and then press "enter", input "1" and then press "enter", and press "enter" again, means make the whole disk as an partition. finally, press "w" to write the partition table to your disk.

  • Update kernel info for your device.
 sudo partprobe /dev/sda 
  • Format disk to ext4 file system.
 sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1 
NOTE: /dev/sda1 means the first partition of the device /dev/sda 
  • Create mounting point.
 mkdir /home/pi/mydata 
  • Grant access permission to the location.
chmod +rwx /home/pi/mydata
chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/mydata
  • Mount the device to mounting point:
sudo mount -t ext4 -o rw -v  /dev/sda1 /home/pi/mydata 
  • Check if the device is mounting properly.
df -Th 

How to enable automount the device when reboot the Raspberry Pi

 NOTE: wrong configure in /etc/fstab will crash your OS, please beware of the operations.
  • If you want to mounting the device automatically, please modify "/etc/fstab" and adding following line.
 /dev/sda1    /home/pi/mydata     ext4     defaults,noatime    0   0  
  • Check if the file is correctly.
 
sudo mount -a 
df -Th

FAQ

  • Why does my fan lights up when I was booting up my Raspberry Pi?
  1. Please check if the cable is connected properly as wiki instructions assembling steps.
  2. please check if you have installed the driver and make it running at booting time?
  3. Could you please try to setup your lights by following this repo: https://github.com/geeekpi/absminitowerkit
  • How to check if the OLED display is dead or not configured well?
  1. Please check the cable's connection, make sure the cable connected to raspberry pi's GPIO in right postion and direction.
  2. Please make sure you have enable I2C by using 'raspi-config' tool.
  3. Please typing 'i2cdetect -y 1' in a terminal and check if there is '3c' mark in the address table.
  4. Please download demo examples code from :https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.examples.git and set it up according to wiki instructions.
  • Why my SSD could not recognized by my Raspberry Pi?
  1. Please make sure you have using M.2 SATA SSD but not M.2 NVME SSD.
  2. Please make sure you have connect the USB adapter to Raspberry Pi and NAS adapter board.
  3. Please try to check the device information by using: "lsblk"  command or "sudo fdisk -l" command.
  • How can I stop the light stream, just make it stay on one status?
  1. open a terminal.
  2. typing: sudo systemctl stop minitower_moodlight.service
  • Why does my mood light stack on one color and does not spinning like a rainbow?
  1. please try to open a terminal.
  2. Typing: sudo systemctl restart minitower_moodlight.service

Support

If you require technical support, please go to the Support page and open a ticket.