Install pi-fancontrol
on Ubuntu

pi-fancontrol

Oliver Grawert (ogra) Publisher

Install

Control a raspberry pi fan attached to a GPIO

Control a fan attached to a GPIO via NPN transistor (defaults to GPIO 14 (pin 8))

For more info see https://ograblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/attaching-a-cpu-fan-to-a-rpi-running-ubuntu-core/

Make sure to connect the snap interface for the correct GPIO that your fan is attached to (see https://pinout.xyz for correct mapping)

 snap connect pi-fancontrol:gpio pi:bcm-gpio-14

The snap allows a few configurations to be set

Pick a different GPIO to swithc the fan on/off (do not forget to use the above connect command to enable access to this changed GPIO)

 snap set pi-fancontrol gpio=23

Set the temperature threshold (in degrees celsius) at which the fan turns on

 snap set pi-fancontrol threshold=40

Set the interval (in seconds) at which the temperature gets scanned

 snap set pi-fancontrol interval=60

Indeed you can set all these also from a gadget.yaml file in the ```defaults:``` section.

Details for pi-fancontrol

License

GPL-3.0

Last updated

9 March 2021 - latest/stable
18 March 2021 - latest/edge

Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install pi-fancontrol

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.

Enable snapd

If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.

Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line: