19" 2RU Black Steel
Practical 1 mm steel in a satin black factory finish. The most popular option: straightforward, economical, and ready to use or customise with paint, powder coat, or vinyl wrap.
Custom innovation and fabrication
Custom Steel or Aluminium 2RU 19" Rack Panel for Waveshare 11.9"
Give your full-size rack the touchscreen it deserves. CNC-machined 2RU panels mount a Waveshare 11.9" capacitive touchscreen directly into a standard 19-inch rack, with a clean front and a secure retaining system behind the panel.
Built for the full-size rack crowd
This is for the slightly obsessive end of the technology community: the people with a rack at home, more VLANs than family members, a suspicious number of Raspberry Pis, and cable management that somehow became a weekend project.
Designed for homelabbers, Home Assistant enthusiasts, Grafana users, network engineers, creative professionals, and anyone building a serious home or commercial rack, these panels are machined to mount a Waveshare 11.9" capacitive touchscreen directly into your rack with installations suitable for both Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 configurations.
Use cases and ideas
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What is included
- 1 × 2RU rack panel with Waveshare 11.9" capacitive touchscreen CNC cut-out
- 1 × custom designed and 3D-printed screen retaining bracket
- 4 × stainless-steel retaining screws for the screen retainer bracket
- 4 × stainless-steel retaining screws for Raspberry Pi 4 / Pi 5 to screen attachment
The retaining system secures the display from behind the panel, leaving a clean, secure installation with no visible mounting hardware from the front.
Not included
- Waveshare 11.9" touchscreen
- Raspberry Pi, power supply, or cables
- Display or DSI cables
- Other electronics
- Rack cage nuts or rack mounting screws
This listing is for the rack panel, screen retaining bracket, and eight stainless-steel retaining screws only.
Panel options
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19" 2RU Silver Steel
1 mm steel with premium silver powder coating selected to complement popular silver prosumer networking hardware. Ideal when your rack already matches Ubiquiti-style gear.
19" 2RU Brushed Aluminium
High-quality brushed aluminium with a clean industrial appearance. Natural metal finish, ready to use or finish to your own specification.
19" 2RU Silver Aluminium
Aluminium panel professionally powder-coated in silver to closely complement major prosumer networking equipment colours. Premium tactile finish.
Good to know: All panels are remanufactured from high-quality commercial OEM-style rack panels with folded return edges for rigidity. The touchscreen opening accounts for Waveshare display geometry, ribbon cable clearances, screen retention, and dimensional changes from paint, powder coating, or vinyl wrapping. Steel panels have slightly more rounded corners than aluminium. Aluminium panels use a different retainer bracket due to material thickness. Silver powder coating is applied in Australia and is a complementary colour match, not a guaranteed OEM colour match.
Why put an 11.9" touchscreen in your rack?
Because once you have one, you will find uses for it.
- Home Assistant dashboard
- Network and WAN monitoring
- UniFi or controller dashboards
- UPS and server health
- Proxmox and virtualisation monitoring
- CCTV and NVR viewing
- Power and energy monitoring
- Environmental sensors
- Grafana dashboards
- Media and lighting control
- Raspberry Pi kiosk applications
- Custom status displays
Compatibility
This panel is designed specifically for the Waveshare 11.9" touchscreen SKU 22295. Installations suit Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and Raspberry Pi 5. The Waveshare display, Raspberry Pi, power supplies, cables, and any additional electronics are not included.
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