[Garman]

I have considered that and will probably be ordering a cable and a case for the RPi, but my thought is that the additional expense would be totally unnecessary if the HDMI port was not blocked by the capacitors, all I would have had to do is to cut an opening in the case so that the HDMi cable could be connected; a more elegant solution IMHO

[Garman]

The problems is that there is no way to attach a monitor, so if I cannot connect to the OSPi with SSH, then I m running blind. SO I have to shut it down by pulling the power cord, this is a bad thing to and can corrupt the card. It is not easy to see if the leds are blinking, SO I plug in a monitor, enter to key strokes to log in, hoping that it is working, I then enter the Sudo Halt, wait a bit then pull the plug. That is where a lack of a monitor comes in. I don’t know if I logged in successfully or if the Halt command was executed. If those two caps were not in the way I could plug in a monitor and troubleshoot if I cannot SSH to the OPSI. In fact today I removed the PI from the SO board plugged in a monitor and was able to do some trouble shooting.

[Garman]

I actually tried another card (Patriot), took the OPSI to my desk, connected it to a monitor that had a composite input, re-installed the firmware, rebooted, configured, then rebooted to make sure everything works. I then shut down, disconnected the network & monitor and took it to the garage and reconnected it there and powered it up. Now I cannot reach it on my network (it is hard wired) I connected other network device to switch and they can be reached, moved the Ethernet cable to the port on the switch that the other device that worked was connected to and nothing.
I even tried blindly logging in and doing a doing a reboot, but with no screen I have no idea what state the OPSI is in. If only those two capacitors (not resistors) were not blocking the HDMI port I would just cut a hole in the case for a HDMI cable and I would know was going on ~sigh~, I am dreading disconnecting and and taking it back down to my office to start over <again>.

[Garman]

Would it then still fit in the case, the reason this is a problem for me is that whenever I lose connection to the OSPI, I have no way of doing a “safe” shut down, so I get a corrupt SD card and have to re-image the SD card losing all my settings and logs.

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