Be cool Part
4 - setting up a cron job and shell command script
This script will make the Pi load and execute our fanControl script automatically at startup every time. To
make the fancontrol.py program run at startup the first thing that we
need to do is to create a shell script.
You
can also download this from Dropbox
#!/bin/sh
# copy this file to /scripts
cd /
cd home/pi/scripts
sudo python fanControl.py
cd ~
# copy this file to /scripts
cd /
cd home/pi/scripts
sudo python fanControl.py
cd ~
do
this by typing into the terminal screen -
(if
you do not have nano you can use another editor, or use sudo apt-get
install nano to get it)
go
to our /scripts folder
cd
/scripts
sudo
nano launcher.sh
now
we need to make the shell script executable
sudo
sudo
chmod +x launcher.sh
they
are the same in function.
Test
the script
sudo
sh launcher.sh
the
fan should run for 5 seconds, or longer of the CPU is hot
use
'ctrl' + c to exit it
Make
a cron job for itthis
will make it run at startup
cd
~
mkdir
logs
sudo
crontab -e
in
the cron program type
and
reboot
sudo
reboot
If
the fan does not run for 5 seconds at boot up, type
cat
cronlog
from
a terminal and read the log.
See
part 5 to find how to install it on OSMC installs
Good
luck!
