The setup video suggested a cooling mechanism, have people been using cooling or going without? What cooling options do you suggest on Amazon?

Geekworm enclosure with their fan, followed the steps to SSH into the RPi / Umbrel unit and create the x-c1 directory per their instructions, but I can’t tell if the fan is running, and my temperature is at 78 degrees celsius and climbing (so I think it’s not working). I’ve tried the command shown …

@Hdg Where did you get the script from? I’m reading the instructions right now, and it’s completely different than what you described, but here is what I’m seeing: https://wiki.geekworm.com/X-C1_Software Let me know if you need me to make a script for you to copy and paste easily and not to worry …

Thanks - yes, I got the “steps” (not a script, I don’t think, as you have to enter each command separately) from that exact webpage. I don’t know enough about RPi / Linux to know which set of steps to use, so I used the first set (“For Raspbian / RetroPie / Twister OS v2.0.2”), which seemed to work…

@Hdg The “[1] 30218” thing shows that the python script is running in the background, and I see the instructions on how to run it as a crontab job. It looks a little confusing – but I think this guide should help you: First we need to get rid of the background process, as we don’t need it interferi…

Thanks so much - this is very helpful. I used your commands verbatim, and got this far, and but then these error messages came up: umbrel@umbrel:~/x-c1 $ sudo bash install.sh install.sh: line 77: /home/pi/.bashrc: No such file or directory 2021-09-19 14:33:26 initInitialise: Can’t lock /var/run/…

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[image] Hdg: umbrel@umbrel:~/x-c1 $ sudo bash install.sh install.sh: line 77: /home/pi/.bashrc: No such file or directory 2021-09-19 14:33:26 initInitialise: Can’t lock /var/run/pigpio.pid Can’t initialise pigpio library @Hdg Blah… that’s what I was afraid of, the install.sh script literal…

No worries - much appreciate the attentive, specific help. I’ve done the crontab work now several times - I can see the command I’ve created in there ("@reboot python /home/pi/x-c1/fan.py") every time I run the nano editor. I’ve even tried changing the instruction to @reboot python /x-c1/fan.py, o…

Same here–I didn’t want any moving parts on my Umbrel, and the CoolPi heatsink keeps the temp stable without having to worry about a fan going bad when I can least afford it. It’s silent, too!

Geekworm support is saying via email “disconnect the yellow wire” so that the fan will run continuously…so I did that this morning…still can’t tell if the fan is running, but my temp is still 83-85 degrees celsius, so I’m guessing not. Maybe I have a bad fan? Maybe my power supply is not powerful …

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