Error with Argononed

1

I want my Argon fan to stay off as long as the temperature stays below 50 degrees.

i tried:

curl https://download.argon40.com/argon1.sh | bash
sudo systemctl enable argononed
sudo service argononed start

nano /etc/argononed.conf

#
# Argon One Fan Speed Configuration
#
# Min Temp=Fan Speed
0=0
55=10
60=55
65=100

I get the following error message

root@DietPi:~# systemctl status argononed
● argononed.service - Argon One Fan and Button Service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/argononed.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2023-02-09 12:02:10 CET; 56s ago
    Process: 601 ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/argononed.py (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 601 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 84ms

Feb 09 12:02:10 DietPi systemd[1]: argononed.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Feb 09 12:02:10 DietPi systemd[1]: Stopped Argon One Fan and Button Service.
Feb 09 12:02:10 DietPi systemd[1]: argononed.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Feb 09 12:02:10 DietPi systemd[1]: argononed.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 09 12:02:10 DietPi systemd[1]: Failed to start Argon One Fan and Button Service.

I have reinstalled Argononed twice and still get the error

2

Looks like it is missing a package. Try:

sudo python3 -i /usr/bin/argononed.py SERVICE

This will attempt to start the service interactively so… you may be able to see an error message. Please post that message. I suspect that the install script is not downloading everything needed for DietPi

3

Hi,

NHHiker suggestions give nothing as python script works in user interactive mode

You can troubleshot service context with journalctl :

May 03 23:23:21 LibreELECP4 systemd[1]: Started Argon One Fan and Button Service.
May 03 23:23:21 LibreELECP4 python3.8[4245]: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 03 23:23:21 LibreELECP4 python3.8[4245]:   File "/storage/.config/argononed.py", line 4, in <module>
May 03 23:23:21 LibreELECP4 python3.8[4245]:     import smbus
May 03 23:23:21 LibreELECP4 python3.8[4245]: ImportError: libi2c.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After some hours searching for a fix i found this one on libreelec forum

The environment is not set in service :

ADAPT path for your distrib, here is for libreelec
eg: replace /storage/.config/ with /usr/bin/

nano /storage/.config/system.d/argononed.service

change this line :
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /storage/.config/argononed.py

to :
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c ". /etc/profile; exec /usr/bin/python /storage/.config/argononed.py"

then reload services, start argononed :

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start argononed.service

source: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/23933-argon40-case-python-script-for-fan-control-problem-with-le-10-beta/

Thanks to mglae

Worked for me :ok_hand:

systemctl status argononed.service

argononed.service - Argon One Fan and Button Service
     Loaded: loaded (/storage/.config/system.d/argononed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-05-03 23:37:17 CEST; 28min ago
   Main PID: 4725 (python)
     CGroup: /system.slice/argononed.service
             └─4725 /usr/bin/python /storage/.config/argononed.py

May 03 23:37:17 LibreELECP4 systemd[1]: Started Argon One Fan and Button Service.
4 
May 03 23:23:21 LibreELECP4 python3.8[4245]:     import smbus
May 03 23:23:21 LibreELECP4 python3.8[4245]: ImportError: libi2c.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is showing that smbus could not be found.