Raspberry Pi FanControl Service
Enables fan/cooler that pluged in Raspberry Pi when CPU is too hot and disables it when CPU got cold.
Instruction how to install Fan Control python application as executable service for Raspberry Pi with OSMC
- Download program and place it into /opt folder
sudo wget -P /opt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vgooz/FanControl/master/fancontrol.py
sudo chmod 774 /opt/fancontrol.py
- Update Python setuptools
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools
- Install GPIO python library for Python 2.7
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo pip install wheel
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo pip install rpi.gpio
- Create fancontrol.service file with following text below
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/fancontrol.service
[Unit]
Description=run fan when hot
After=meadiacenter.service
[Service]
#If User and Group are not specified, then by default systemd ExecStart runs as root
User=root
Group=root
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /opt/fancontrol.py
ExecStop=/usr/bin/pkill -f /opt/fancontrol.py
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
- Register and enable FanControl service
sudo systemctl enable fancontrol
sudo systemctl start fancontrol
sudo systemctl status fancontrol
- Use sysbench for CPU hiting
sudo apt-get install sysbench
sysbench --num-threads=4 --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=200000 --validate run
- Keep script runing after logout in the terminal
nohup python fancontrol.py &