02-04-2023, 09:34 PM
@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
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
