Argon One cooling and Umbrel together

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Hi all…
I am not a technical person and I have just set up a raspberry pi 4 in an Argon One with Umbrel.
I am confused how to get the active cooling to work while running Umbrel.
I am able to activate the cooling by running the Argon script when I have the Raspberry OS loaded onto my microSD card.
However, in order to run Umbrel, I need to load the Umbrel file onto my microSD card, which erases the Raspebrry OS (or at least prevents me form accessing it) and deactivates my Argon cooling script.
Can anybody help me please!?

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I use the same thing, and what you can do to get the Argon script working with Umbrel:

  1. Flash Umbrel using the usual way
  2. SSH into the Raspberry Pi (umbrel@umbrel.local or umbrel@IPaddress (example: umbrel@192.168.0.105)
    2a) If you haven’t set the password, the default password is moneyprintergobrrr
  3. Install the Argon script and it should be running alongside with Umbrel.
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Thanks DHD.
Again, not being a technical person, could you please break down points number 2 and 3 for me further?
What I currently have running is the Umbrel file flashed to my micro SD card and running on my PI.
Does that mean I still need to do point number 2? If so, how do I run the SSH? Is this done from my PI or on a separate computer?
If on the PI, as the umbrel script is already running on my PI, do I type this (umbrel@umbrel.local or umbrel@IPaddress (example: umbrel@192.168.0.105) into my PI? Side note - I previously tried to type an ‘@‘ sign into my pi terminal and couldn’t get it to come up).
With point number 3, again is this done on my PI or on a separate computer?
Hope this makes sense and thank you :pray:t2:

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Not DHD but…

You run the ssh command from your PC in order to access the raspberry pi remotely… Then you can install the script from there.

Of course, the script must be available on your pi, so you either have to copy it there via ssh (look up the “scp” command for that) or store it on the SD card before plugging it into your pi. For example, if you copy it to the boot directory, you can find it at ‘/boot/’ once you log into your raspi via ssh.

If on the PI, as the umbrel script is already running on my PI, do I type this (umbrel@umbrel.local or umbrel@IPaddress (example: umbrel@192.168.0.105) into my PI? Side note - I previously tried to type an ‘@‘ sign into my pi terminal and couldn’t get it to come up).

Not sure if I get your point, but as I said before, you do ssh umbrel@umbrel.local or ssh umbrel@<your_ip> on your local PC in order to access the pi remotely

Hope that helps.

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Thank you for the info. Follow-up question as I am trying to run these Argon scripts as well. What is the username, admin doesn’t appear to work. I have attempted to use the following already, I’m running Umbrel 0.3.14

Username - Admin, Password - moneyprintergobrrr
Username - Admin, Password - password setup during setup wizard

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Sorted this out… it’s umbrel lol

hence the umbrel@umbrel.local which is {user}@{host}

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lol I was going to say you can use the username umbrel, and I’m glad that you figured it out. The Argon One case is a very good case, I found out that it works the best if you leave the magnetic flap off.

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Nice, thanks for the tip. Did you just run the following command after logging in via SSH?

curl https://download.argon40.com/argon1.sh | bash

Also, did you mess with the default fan settings at all?

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Yes, I did all that, and I configured the fan to be on at 100% all the time. That’s because I’m also running a different application that consumes all the idle CPU to do World Community Grid projects.

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Thanks for the info. It’s been very useful. Although it took me further research because I had never heard off SSH before, it has been nice to learn something new.

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