Raspberry Pi CPU Temperature

Note

This documentation is deprecated in favor of CPU Temperature.

For all the programs that upload to databases, they support the ability to add the Raspberry Pi’s CPU temperature as a packet. You just have to add this json to your base.json:

{
  //...
  "request": [
    { "type": "rpi-cpu-temp" }
  ]
}

Restarts your application, and you should see that CPU Temperature packets are being uploaded.

It’s not working

Note

This only applies to versions 2023.2.1 and before. 2023.3.0 and above is not affected by permission issues for CPU temperature measurements.

First, if you are using the systemd service, make sure that you installed it correctly and did not try to install it yourself. If you are running SolarThing using ./run.sh, you should instead do sudo -u solarthing ./run.sh. This is because the solarthing user should be set up to have the group video. You can make sure this is the case by running groups solarthing.