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pimoroni / fanshim-python

Python library for the Fan SHIM for Raspberry Pi
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/fan-shim
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commands work but fan doesn't start #106

Closed dchmelik closed 1 year ago

dchmelik commented 2 years ago

On Slackware-ARM32 15 Raspberry Pi 4, installation (after uncommenting Debian CODENAME lines from current commit install.sh) and commands work, but don't actually start fan. Here's output. Should I paste installation log also? Maybe it only works on RaspiOS?

root@1.darwinheim:~# python3
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 17 2022, 21:15:54) 
[GCC 11.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from fanshim import FanShim
>>> fanshim = FanShim()
>>> fanshim.set_fan(True)
True
dchmelik commented 1 year ago

This wasn't completed!

Gadgetoid commented 1 year ago

If it's not Raspberry Pi OS I'm afraid I can't be of much help. If we support one alternate OS we'd have to support them all. Sorry.

The fan should default to on, IIRC, though, so you might have a service or driver that's messing with BCM 18 and preventing control. This library is just toggling a GPIO pin.