pi-fanctl

Raspberry Pi daemon for PWM fan speed control

Functionality

• Daemon for creating a PWM signal for a fan depending on the CPU temperature
• Command-line tool for managing the fan curve and optionally toggling the daemon into manual mode
• Daemon for a shutdown button

Installation

Software

pigpio

This daemon requires pigpio for the GPIO access, both for development as well as for running the daemon.

• Arch: sudo pacman -S libpigpiod
• Debian: sudo apt install pigpio

pi-fanctl

You can choose between these options:

• Use Kagero to install it from my personal repository.
• Download the pre-built binary from the release page. (recommended)
• Build it from source. (recommended for customized layouts)

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As the other options are straightforwards, this section describes how to build it from source. You'll need in addition to pigpio:

• A C compiler like gcc.
• git for cloning the source code.
• cmake for the build process
• GNU make

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Stridsvagn69420/pi-fanctl.git
2. Go into the cloned repo: cd pi-fanctl
3. Run the build command: make
4. Install pi-fanctl and the systemd service: sudo make install
5. Remove build artifacts with make clean

More things will follow. This is WIP.

Hardware

WIP.

Usage

Daemon

WIP.

CLI

WIP.