Tried using Argon One script. It sort of works with some limitations but does and can break if you ever want to change or upgrade your OS. If you want to fix this issue, don’t go with Argon’s fan software as it is, at best, sort of clumped together to work instead of actually being well written and robust. It also breaks when you modify much of anything. Plus it literally cannot do some basic things and this sets aside hardware issues with the fan trying to work but cannot do so.
If you are moving to Ubuntu 22.04 or really much of anything except RPi, you will probably want to upgrade. Here is open source software to actually handle the fan on the Argon One units.
Obviously only helps but so much if you are running Windows and not Linux but it is actually pretty well coded from the ground up.
OS Support
The installer now requires you to run ./configure before you run make. This will set up the installer so that it should be able to install on multiple OS’s. The current list of supported OS’s are
- Raspberry Pi OS 32bit or 64bit
- RetroPi
- Gentoo
- Manjaro-arm
- Arch Linux arm (ARMv7 installation ONLY)
- Ubuntu
- OSMC
- TwisterOS
- Lakka *
- LibreElec *
- [OpenWRT] EXPERIMENTAL*
- [Alpine Linux] SEE LINK
*Support for this OS is with the self extracting package system. SEE BELOW
The Argon One CLI tool
This is the new command line tool that lets you change setting on the fly. It communicates with shared memory of the daemon, so the daemon must be running for this tool to be of use. It also introduced new modes for the daemon such as Cool Down and Manual control over the fan.
Cool Down Mode
In cool down mode the fan has a set temperature you want to reach before switching back to automatic control. This is all set as follows argonone-cli --cooldown <TEMP> [--fan <SPEED>]
NOTE: The speed is optional and the default is 10% it’s also import to note that if the temperature continues to climb the schedules set for the fan are ignored.
Manual Mode
As the name implies your in control over the fan the schedules are ignored. To access this as follows argonone-cli --manual [--fan <SPEED>]
NOTE: The fan speed is optional and if not set the fans speed is left alone.
Auto Mode
This is the default mode the daemon always starts in this mode and will follow the schedules in the setting. If you want to change to automatic you do so as follows argonone-cli --auto
Off Mode
Yes an off switch, maybe you want to do something and you need to be sure the fan doesn’t turn on and spoil it. You can turn off the fan as follows argonone-cli --off NOTE: When the fan is off nothing but turning to a different mode will turn it back on
Setting setpoints
Want to adjust the when the fan comes on, maybe it’s not staying on long enough you can change all set points in the schedules from the command line without rebooting. the values are fan[0-2] temp[0-2] and hysteresis. It’s important when changing these values that you remember that the daemon will reject bad values and/or change them to something else. It’s also important to commit the changes you make otherwise they won’t do anything. The value rules are simple each stage must to greater than the one before it and there are minimum and max values.
For temperature the minimum value is 30° the maximum is currently undefined.
For the fan the minimum speed is 10% and the maximum is 100%.
For Hysteresis the minimum is 0° and the maximum is 10°
You can set your values like in this example.
argonone-cli --fan0 25 --temp0 50 --hysteresis 10 --commit
OR
argonone-cli --fan0 25
argonone-cli --temp0 50
argonone-cli --hysteresis 10
argonone-cli --commit
The changes don’t have to made in one shot but you MUST commit them for them to take effect.
Package System
This isn’t a traditional package system for mainstream OS support this is meant to make an installer for an OS that otherwise isn’t able to build the project locally.
To generate a package you need to follow this procedure.
make mrproper
TARGET_DISTRO=<NAME OF DISTRO> ./package.sh
If successful the package will be in the build directory.
Screenshot of the packager
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PACKAGER
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ARGON ONE DAEMON CONFIGURING ...
Distro check [libreelec] : OK
SYSTEM CHECK
gcc : OK
dtc : OK
make : OK
Dependency Check : Successful
INFO: Preparing build environment ... OK
INFO: Building Source Files ... OK
INFO: Checking files ... OK
INFO: Building Installer ... OK
INFO: Packing files ... OK
INFO: Verify package ... OK
INFO: Package build/libreelec.pkg.sh is complete