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CM5 Compute Board

About the CM5 Compute Board

The CM5 Compute Board is our latest hardware for running SPR. Built on the Raspberry Pi CM5 platform, it delivers improved performance with 2.5 Gbps Ethernet and PoE+ support.

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Key Features

  • 2.5 Gbps Ethernet plus 1 Gbps Ethernet port
  • PoE+ (802.3at) powered on the 2.5 Gbps port, or USB PD Power
  • WiFi 6 or WiFi 7 — MT7916 3x3 802.11AX or Qualcomm 802.11BE
  • Raspberry Pi CM5 with 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, built-in WiFi
  • 2x USB 3.0 ports, 1x USB 2.0 port
  • PCIe Gen 2 with ASM1182e packet switch for WiFi and 2.5GbE

Performance

Combined throughput of over 3 Gbps running simultaneous WiFi 6 and 2.5 Gbps Ethernet traffic. See the benchmark blog post for details.

What's Included

  • Raspberry Pi CM5 Carrier Board with CM5104032 (4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, WiFi)
  • MT7916 3x3 802.11AX WiFi 6 card
  • 1x 1 Gbps Ethernet port, 1x 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port
  • 2x USB 3.0 ports, 1x USB 2.0 port
  • PoE+ (802.3at) capable on 2.5 Gbps port

Extendability

  • Can be augmented with a WiFi 6 USB Dongle for tri-band support
  • USB 3.0 ports available for additional peripherals

Setup Guide

Getting Started

  1. Plug in your CM5 board to your local network using an ethernet cable, and power it on
  2. The built-in WiFi hosts an open AP "sprlab-setup". Join the open AP and go to https://192.168.2.1 or https://spr.local
  3. Alternatively, visit https://spr.local to run through the UI setup. If the mDNS name does not resolve, check your router DHCP table or scan with ping/nmap
  4. The setup will guide you through configuring your SPR networking and adding your first device, as well as setting a UI password

Post Setup Tasks

  1. Optional: Enable a WiFi uplink
  2. Enable DNS Ad Blocking and other DNS Blocklists for the network
  3. Configure VPN Devices
  4. Configure service reachability under the Firewall Services tab

Follow the SPR Setup Guide

If you prefer to run on an existing image, or run from a fresh Ubuntu server install, you can Follow the SPR setup guide

Need Help?

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