NanoPi M6 wifi antenna

[broodwich82]

I see from photos of the FriendlyElec metal case (without display) for the NanoPi M6 that there appear to be two holes for wifi antennas.

 

Does anyone know if the optional wifi card sold by FriendlyElec comes with antennas? If not, are they a standard size which I can buy somewhere else?

Edited yesterday at 12:56 AM by broodwich82

[eselarm]

I see from:https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_M6

M.2 Connectors

    one M.2 M-Key connector with PCIe 2.1 x1 for SSDs
    one M.2 E-key connector with PCIe 2.1 x1 and USB2.0 Host for Wi-Fi&BT

So any E-Key WiFi 2230 sized card should work if it has the correct and needed signals. Of course there must be the correct kernel driver modules.

I have a NanoPi-R6C, sofar I only unscrewed the bottom plate to put a 2280 M-key NVMe SSD in it. But I might drill a hole somewhere for a GPIO 1-wire or so later this year.

Edited 23 hours ago by eselarm

[broodwich82]

I'm asking specifically about the antennas, not the card.

 

There are holes in the metal case offered by FriendlyElec which appear to be for antennas. I'm asking what antennas, specifically, would be compatible with those holes.

[eselarm]

I took a closer look at my R6C

https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/File:NanoPi_R6C_02.jpg

The round thing above the USB-C PD is plastic lid/cover that can be pulled out and that leaves a hole of about 5.85 mm, so 6 mm  I guess as I could not measure it well. So you can guess that one can stick a uFL connector through it.

 

I don't see how that can be used for R6C, but at least your question answers mine a bit as well as it seems that hole is good for some (random) GPIO wires as well.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by eselarm