Temperature Controlled Fan

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Not sure if this is the right place to post.

I have Volumio 3 Installed with an IQaudIO DAC Pro board and its working great. I just ordered a 7inch display to hook up over HDMI, but I may also want to add a Noctua fan and use the RPi’s built in temperature sensor to control the fan. Usually I set this up in raspi-config but since there is no raspi-config in Volumio is there any way to do this through Volumio or a plugin or do I have to write a startup script in python?

I also I think I found a bug with Volumio3 and the ‘Raspberry Pi Imager’ I went into settings config (the
gear icon) in Imager and pre-configured the SSID and password before imaging the microsd sd card. The installed image never connected to wifi. I hooked up a monitor and saw the Volumio logo come up during boot and then it went dead. I tried this 3 times and then I just did the standard install and let Volumio create it’s own network, I was able to connect via the Volumio net and setup my local SSID and credentials from there and everything is now working great.

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changing settings from Rasperry Pi Imager works only with RaspiOS, it won’t work with Volumio

please flash the image as-it-is, without changing any setting

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Thank you for the clarification. It looks like my error but that option should be disabled for other OSs for people like me that don’t RTFM :laughing:

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Volumio has no control over the Raspberry Pi Imager app…

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As there’s no such thing as a completely silent fan for audio it might be better to look for passive cooling options. Volumio is very well tuned to run cool without a fan. You can even run Volumio on the normally toasty Rpi5 without a fan.

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Technically you are correct but Noctua fans are very, very quiet. Also the model I use supports PWM so at 2 feet away in a quiet room they are undetectable. I agree passive cooling is always the best way. Decades ago when I built my own PCs I never used CPU fans I used big heatsinks to cool and never had to worry about a fan burning out. But the raspberry pi with a DAC daughter board and an integrated 7" display there are a lot of components that could get warm. I am thinking of leaving the setup on 24x7 and have a PWM fan only kick in when necessary. That’s good to know about Volumio tuned to run cool without a fan. Thank you.

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Maybe just try it and see how hot it gets when playing/searching. Worst that will happen is that the Pi will throttle back. I had a Pi4 with DAC hat mounted on the back of the official RPi screen and that kept cool, admittedly I was not using a case. You can also use longer stand-offs to increase the space between Pi and the hat, also allowing room for a bigger heat-sink if needed.