I’m probably doing something wrong.
I am running Ubuntu on my Raspberry Pi 5 in my snazzy Pironman5 case. But I was anxious about thermals. At first the CPU fan was running and the RGB case fans weren’t. So, I fussed, installed Psensor, and rebooted and now the RGB fans run, but the CPU doesn’t.
I looked at the pironman5.service and saw that it failed. Running pironman5 -c from the command line gave me an error at Import RGB_STYLES b/c it could not find module ‘pm_auto.ws2812’. A quick google and I did a git clone of pm_auto to ~/Projects/pm_auto and followed the instructions to set venvironment and pip3 install it. I did a reboot and it didn’t help.
I went back to where I’d cloned pironman5 (~/Projects/pironman50 and set the venvironment and reran the pironman5 install script. I did another reboot and… no joy.
I’m relatively sure I’m doing something wrong. I’d like a nudge in the right direction. Thanks in advance,
steve
It is very likely that you have installed the wrong software.
We recommend reinstalling the system and then following our tutorial steps to install the https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/pironman5/en/latest/pironman5/set_up/set_up_rpi_os.html#downloading-and-installing-the-pironman5-module
Download and Install the pironman5 Module
After the software is successfully installed, reboot the system and check if all functions of the case are working properly.
If it still doesn’t work, please provide the log information for us to help analyze and resolve the issue:
cat /var/log/pironman5/pm_auto.oled.log
cat /var/log/pironman5/main.log
cat /var/log/pironman5/pm_auto.ws2812.log
Is the CPU cooler not working?
The tower cooler may not be working because the CPU temperature has not exceeded 50 degrees Celsius, so the fan speed is 0 and the fan remains off.
Please refer to our tutorial:
CPU Fan Not Working?
The PWM fan operates dynamically, adjusting its speed according to the Raspberry Pi 5’s temperature:
Below 50°C: Fan remains off (0% speed).
At 50°C: Fan operates at low speed (30% speed).
At 60°C: Fan increases to medium speed (50% speed).
At 67.5°C: Fan ramps up to high speed (70% speed).
At 75°C and above: Fan operates at full speed (100% speed).
If you want to verify whether the cooler fan is working, you can change the RGB fan mode to Quiet mode. The RGB fan will turn off, and after a while, when the CPU temperature rises above 50 degrees Celsius, check if the cooler fan starts working.