⚡Powering Up Your WLAN Pi

Powering On

There is no power button, the WLAN Pi M4 will boot up as soon as power is provided via either integrated PoE (802.3af) or USB Type-C port.

1. Connect the Ethernet cable present on your desk

2. The red activity LED indicates that the unit has been powered on

3. Look for the green activity LED blinking, this means the OS has been initiated

4. After a few moments, the screen will come to life.

Activity and Power LEDs

When you insert a freshly imaged SD card, the initial boot can take up to 120 seconds!

Why? During this time, the WLAN Pi will resize the SD card partition and configure parameters specific to the hardware platform (M4 / R4 / Pro).

The SD card present within your WLAN Pi M4 provided at WLPC should already have been initialized, theoretically you will not experience this long initial boot period.

The USB Type-C port can be used to power the WLAN Pi M4 from a laptop, battery pack, or 5V power supply.

Note that some older laptops might not be able to provide enough power via USB.

Powered via USB-C

Unfortunately, the USB Type-C port on the M4 does not offer OTG (Ethernet over USB Type-C port) data connection.

Interacting with your WLAN Pi

There are several ways to interact with your WLAN Pi:

• Physical display and buttons (FPMS)

• WebUI

• Ethernet

• Wi-Fi

• Bluetooth (Experimental)