Hi, Beginner here… If not in the right place, please move. I followed THIS guide to turn a Raspberry Pi 4 into a webcam device I can give my parents so they can videocall with their granddaughter during this Corona crisis… Works perfectly. But the Pi4 runs pretty hot. I have an Argon One case …

Hey Dim - welcome to the forums and to balena! It’s great to hear that balenaOS and this project is doing it’s job and keeping people connected during the pandemic. The Pi4 will get warm, because it’s having to work pretty hard to decode the video stream from the call. This will be done in softwar…

Hi Phil, thanks for the explanation. I could probably learn how to add another service and change the dockerfile to control the fan, but I’m afraid the pandemic will be over by then… :slight_smile: However, I checked the pre-installed board in the case, thinking I could maybe extend the wires of …

Hey Dim, Glad Phil’s explanation helped you out and hope the solution works for you. Let us know if you face any issues with it. Vipul

According to THIS thread, the fan is controlable with I2C commands. But then I would need to enable I2c communication in the Dockerfile? And then add a fan script. To have it booting to 50% speed for example. Correct?

Yeah…sorry, but that didn’t really make me any wiser… :confused: Again, beginner… Need to do some more research. In using balenaDASH, am I correct in assuming that “Deploy with Balena” (like in the tutorial) or getting the code from Github and using balenaCLI to push it to balenacloud and my dev…

Hi there – in answer to your questions: In using balenaDASH, am I correct in assuming that “Deploy with Balena” (like in the tutorial) or getting the code from Github and using balenaCLI to push it to balenacloud and my device is the same? The end effect is the same; however, the “Deploy With Ba…

After reading the links and some more research, I’ve added io.balena.features.kernel-modules: '1' under labels in the docker-compose.yml version: '2' volumes: settings: services: kiosk: restart: always build: ./kiosk privileged: true ports: - 8080:8080 volumes: -…

Hi. Just had a look at the containers in balena-dash and it looks like they should already have i2c-dev set-up. So in order to test your i2c fan, you could do a quick test manually from the dashboard. Just open a webterminal in either the photos or wifi-connect containers and run your i2cset command…

Well bloody hell. For some strange reason, I only tried i2cset -y 1 0x01a 0x64, which turns the fan fully on, in the Host OS terminal and Kiosk terminal. And got the result bash: i2cset: command not found But it does work in Photos and Wifi-Connect. Thanks. I can control the fan with: i2cset -y…

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floion September 24, 2020, 6:26pm 13

Hi, see here a forum post that explains how to set-up i2c for the rpi: Modprobe error when trying to enable i2c on rpi

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