The Pironman5 service on my Raspberry Pi OS system functions properly. But it loads up the system logs with a large number of messages. This makes it difficult to find important messages, wastes disk space, shortens the life of solid-state storage devices, and incurs unnecessary overhead.
It’s as if the script has a debug mode that is active.
It also maintains a historical database of temperatures and cpu usage which is of no interest to me.
I would like to turn off all of this disk activity and just have the service control the RGB, fans, and OLED display. Is this possible?
I wrote to Sunfounder tech support and am waiting for a response (other than “send us your order number.”) But meanwhile I seem to have solved the problem myself. I put an end to the influxd service. It doesn’t affect the functionality but stops the logging.
sudo systemctl stop influxd
sudo systemctl disable influxd
and just to be 100% sure
sudo systemctl mask influxd
If you do not need the web dashboard feature, you can add --disable-dashboard when installing the Pironman 5 software. This way, the dashboard will not be installed, and historical data will not be recorded, which can save some disk read/write and reduce CPU and RAM usage.
If you have already installed the Pironman 5 software, you can uninstall the dashboard module and InfluxDB, then restart Pironman 5 using the following commands:
/opt/pironman5/env/bin/pip3 uninstall pm-dashboard influxdb
sudo apt purge influxdb
sudo systemctl restart pironman5
Update: As of 1/29/2025, the path has been updated, and this command throws a warning (and does not execute). Will NOT follow this advice.
Thanks for your feedback, we will test it afterward.
Sorry, our testing revealed that the tutorial has a path misspelling /opt/pironman5/env/bin/pip3 should be: /opt/pironman5/venv/bin/pip3, this is the tutorial link https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/ pironman5/en/latest/faq.html#how-to-disable-web-dashboard
Is there a way how to reduce excessive log activity of pironman max in HA OS Supervisor logs?
My Supervisor log is full of pironman info logs:
2026-02-13 10:41:07.969 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:08.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:08.969 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:09.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:09.968 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:10.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:10.975 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:11.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:11.969 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:12.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:12.971 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:13.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:13.970 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:14.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:14.970 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:15.942 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max
2026-02-13 10:41:15.969 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from 6fa7f6d2_pironman5-max