Controling the Fan from the CLI

VIM4
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Hello All,

I can read the VIM4 CPU temperature by typing cat /sys/class/fan/temp

How can I control the fan from the CLI? let’s say I want to set speed to low/medium/high nothing else. I want to override the “auto” mode.

thanks,

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have a look at the fan.sh script.
If you want anything persitently changed (I think) you need to do it in the /etc/rc.local file

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where is the fan.sh script located?

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It is available on your PATH, so just type “./fan.sh” or look at it using “nano fan.sh”
Never actually checked where it is stored.

5

Odd.

nano ./fan.sh brings up a blank file.

Maybe it moved?

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In a terminal try: find / -name fan.sh 2>&1 >/dev/null

Larry

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it is in /usr/local/bin

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I got sick of the simplistic three-level fan speed so I wrote a daemon to fine-tune the behavior: GitHub - msandy/vim4-fanctl

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