Hello, I have searched the interwebs for a bit and havent found a solution to having a switch and a fan running dietpi. I can turn off the GPIO pins(3v3 turns off) but then i wont be able to wake the device up from a button. Also currently dont have pwm control only turn on at set temps.
I was poking around and i saw that in the github under meta, there is a dietpi fan control file with what seems to be like a pwm control. Is this not enabled(i couldnt find it on my pis)? Is there an eta on this if not? Really like dietpi but feels like i should be able to use pwm pretty easily on an rpi4
And I guess some donations are also always welcome. Please donate generously. A dollar a month will be great contribution for anyone who can afford. I have done my share few times and will do as and when I have some spare money. Thanks for pitching in.
The dietpi-fan_control script as it is now works/worked with the legacy-kernel Odroid C2. Sadly every SBC has it’s own fan sysfs API. Some logics seem to emerge with newer mainline kernel, but it requires still a complex auto-detection to get it working in a genetic way.
Investigating/testing the sysfs API for controlling the fan of an SBC you own would be a good start.
Another approach is testing apt install fancontrol. I’m not sure how reliable it works with SBCs, but if it does, it seems much better than re-inventing the wheel.
