Recently got some parts from digikey so I could create my own PHD cable since mine was missing. Bought a bunch of extra female housings and jumper cables in case I messed up. Have currently tested with 2 separate homemade cables with the same result: top hat fan will spin up, but nothing will display on the OLED and the button doesn’t seem to do anything currently. Set up the software and top hat config by following the wiki.
Fairly certain the cables are good, so it must either be software or possibly a bad top hat?
Do you mean how do I connect to the NAS. I typically will SSH into it, but also have directly connected with micro hdmi and a keyboard and mouse.
If you’re talking about how I connected the top hat to the sata board, I used two 2x5 PHD connectors and 10 jumper wires to create a cable. Same as the stock cable.
It isn’t pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2 etc.
If row 1 is pins 1-5 and row 2 is 6-10 the wiring is 1-5, 2-4, 3-3, 4-2 and 5-1, 2nd row is 6-10, 7-9, 8-8, 9-7 and 10-6