02-04-2023, 02:44 PM
(02-04-2023, 01:51 PM)Tonewheelkev Wrote: Hello from Leeds/UK
Hoping for some direction here please!
Using latest version of MoOde.....playing files held on SSD....all good.
However....I haven't setup the fan in the Argon40.
I understand from YouTube that this can be done using a 'script' and a fresh install of the RPi OS.....but that setup is surely lost when I remove the Pi OS and replace it with MoOde....??
I know I can open an SSH 'terminal' in MoOde......is this the way forward, or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
After a couple of months....I'm noticing the unit gets quite hot to the touch...and it would be good to know if the fan is actually working...
...as I haven't actually heard it yet
Not sure what you mean by "quite hot". I have two Pi4 model Bs in Argon One cases. Both feel warm-ish but not uncomfortably hot to the touch when running moOde. This is normal.
If you SSH into moOde, you can run Tim's moodeutl command with the -m option to see what the CPU core temperature is. This command runs continuously until killed with a ctrl-C. Whether you see a single line of output being updated or a scrolling output of lines depends on the size of your terminal screen.
Here's an example for one of my Pi4Bs running moOde 8.2.5 and playing some rando hiphop radio station.
Code:
pi@m825p4b:~ $ moodeutl -m
CPU: 1.5 GHz, LOAD: 2% 38C | MEM: 15% used | DISK: 33% used, 9.2G free | PHP: 30 workers
#and I hit ctrl-C to abort38C is the CPU core temperature, not the surface temperature. The Pi firmware will start throttling the CPU frequency when the temp gets too high, around 80C IIRC (where exactly varies according to firmware). If you're curious to see if your Pi is throttling, you'll have to explore the wonders of the Raspberry Pi vcgencmd command.
I haven't bothered investigating the Argon fan script but I would imagine it could be downloaded to moOde and the moOde/Linux initialization scripts modified somewhere (such as /etc/rc.local) to set it running in the background.
Regards,
Kent
