Pironman 5 + Raspberry pi 5 - Night Mode

General
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Hello friends,
I am a new owner of Pironman 5 + Raspberry pi 5 and I want to ask if it could be programmed, for example, in the web management - localhost:34001, so that the OLED display, FANs or RGB LED turns on and off at a certain time that the user could choose/set. Something like Night Mode, like some Routers or NASes have.

Thank you for your time and ideas.

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Sorry, there is no way to set a specific time to turn on or off the OLED display, fan, or RGB LED.
However, there are settings to turn on or off the OLED display, fan, or RGB LED.

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Thanks for the reply.
That was just my idea, in the evening and at night all the light is quite disturbing and that’s why I thought it could be set so that these light effects would automatically turn off at that time and turn on again in the morning. If it can be turned off and on again manually, then there must be a way to set it automatically.

4

Sorry we currently do not have this plan.

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Anyway, thank you for your time and information.

6

There is a way…CRONTAB and Pironman5 command line.

There is a pironman5 command line tool where you can change the various settings including changing colours etc. See the documentation at this link:
(Control with Commands — SunFounder Pironman 5 documentation)

Once you’ve created a command that does what you want: 1) Turn off Colours; 2) Turn on Colours, you can then put that in the Crontab (Cron Expression Examples - Crontab.guru) to be scheduled at the right time of day or night. e.g.

pironman5-service -re false (turn off the RGB)
or
pironman5-service -re true (turn on the RGB)

You may need to use sudo to get this to work depending on how you installed the tools. See the page quoted above for more examples…

While you can change the fan speed you cannot turn off the fans completely. I’ve never needed to move away from “quiet” mode. One wonders if, as there is an option to change the GPIO of the fan pin, you could disable the fans by picking an unused pin? Or would that cause a system crash of some kind…?

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@jmfweather
Thank you very much.
Can I please ask you for the command to turn the OLED on and off ?