Juice Portable Power Platform for Raspberry

Allows for different options for power, adds UPS using supplied battery or add your own. Also includes real time clock and options for booting up on a schedule, useful for remote devices that might need a nightly reboot to help prevent locking up.

I ordered this portable power supply for my Raspberry PI to perform range testing for a LoRaWAN solution. Battery lasts a long time and has a lot of options to program behaviours. I recommend the product.

This is probably one of the best UPS hats on the market, the unit is configured by a GUI to support the button presses and control the on board LED. Other HATS are available however use standard 18650!batteries or an external Lithium Ion battery. The latter can be a plus if you need more than a few hours of backup. The on chip battery is in the form of a common mobile phone battery. One should note that it is quite easy to brick the SD card by removing the power to the PI without an orderly power shut down an as such any backup HAT with a power down button that shuts the Kernel down properly is always going to be a wise addition.

I like that this hat fits well on the Pi and it also has pins so that another device can be hatted on top. I also like that it has external power pins. The only thing that I don't like is that there doesn't seem to be any way of powering it on physically without using the tiny buttons. Yes, the buttons are programmable, but it would be great to be able to hook up an external power switch. If there is a way of doing that, I'm not aware of it. The vendor should have the option to buy it with a stronger battery.

Everything worked well except the rtc. The time was off by a few seconds in only a few days. Not good enough for digital jam radio. I use a gps dongle for time now.