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RE: Fan config. using Pi4 in Argon40 One V2......help please? - Tonewheelkev - 02-04-2023
(02-04-2023, 03:03 PM)Nutul Wrote: Urgh,Thanks again Al.
I reply separately not to pollute. That's huge; I need to copy-paste it out and look at it more in detail.
This I'll do later this evening, or even tonight (unless someone overtakes me, of course).
See what can be done. I presume this script will take care of turning the fan on or off according needs, but as I said, haven't even looked into its 2nd line.
Till later.
When you said 'overtake'...I initially thought "....Jeez....this fella is driving!"
I have to laugh.
RE: Fan config. using Pi4 in Argon40 One V2......help please? - TheOldPresbyope - 02-04-2023
@Tonewheelkev
The good news is, you can go ahead and blindly run the install script on a moOde player.
It creates and installs a number of files and one system sym-link (to manage the fan service via systemd), but they don't interfere with moOde's normal operation...at least as far as I've had time to test things. No problem that moOde isn't built on a desktop OS. You can pore through the script and the created files at your leisure. Read the docs, naturally. Don't forget to reboot after running the script.
The bad news from my perspective is, the fan noise from my (old-ish) Argon One case turns out to be really obnoxious. For the most part, I suppose this doesn't matter because with the default temp threshold settings the fan won't kick on until the CPU core temp reaches 55C and on my system it's only around 40C (I had to reduce the threshold setting in order to test the function). Still, this renders the script rather pointless for me.
Of course systems vary and YMMV. Perhaps with more complex computing demands---transcoding, say, or running active filters---the CPU temp will rise and the fan will become a practical necessity to avoid throttling, or perhaps you'll be lucky and have a fan that's not as noisy as mine.
Don't forget you'll have to rerun the install script every time you install a new moOde release, but that's not a showstopper.
Regards,
Kent
RE: Fan config. using Pi4 in Argon40 One V2......help please? - DRONE7 - 02-04-2023
Some other threads for the case and fan here
https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=2227&page=2&highlight=argon+one
https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=2097&highlight=argon+one
RE: Fan config. using Pi4 in Argon40 One V2......help please? - Sehnsucht - 02-05-2023
I'm not sure how much use a script to control the fan is - surely the temperature's going to be pretty constant as the Pi is doing the same thing all the time? I have the geekpi case and I found that the fan, when it was located near my ears anyway, was a little too loud at 5v so I connected it to the 3.3v pins instead which was almost silent, and inaudible when I was playing music. htop reports the temperature as 42C so probably didn't need a fan in the first place but it was pretty hot when I built the player and next to no airflow and pis are pretty rare and/or expensive these days so I thought I'd treat it!
RE: Fan config. using Pi4 in Argon40 One V2......help please? - Tonewheelkev - 02-05-2023
Thanks All for your efforts here!
Have now established that Core temp. hovers around 37 deg. C.....so that's why the fan isn't being triggered
I hadn't spotted the links suggested in #13.... whoops! .....
I'm placing quite low demands on the Pi.....merely using it as a streamer to output via USB to a DAC.
Suspect that I was overly worrying....and will now just continue as before.
RE: Fan config. using Pi4 in Argon40 One V2......help please? - TheOldPresbyope - 02-05-2023
(02-04-2023, 11:40 PM)DRONE7 Wrote: Some other threads for the case and fan here
https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=2227&page=2&highlight=argon+one
https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=2097&highlight=argon+one
Well, that's embarrassing. Those threads are dated 2020 and even I posted to at least one of them.
One of my dad's favorite jokes was
Quote:They say three things happen as you get old
- the first is you begin to forget things
- and...uh...what was I talking about?
Live long and prosper!
Regards,
Kent