Raspberry Pi - Temperature Monitor

Morning all, sometimes we need to test if your Pi is getting too hot and if you need a fan or upsize your fan or mega size your fan. Let's look at a quick script so we can do this easily

Of course I still love the one liners and can just copy the line below and github is at

https://github.com/LukeKeam/pi-temperature_monitor

sudo apt-get install git -y && git clone https://github.com/LukeKeam/pi-temperature_monitor && cd pi-temperature_monitor && python3 temperature_monitor.py
 

Or we can take the longer approach and put this in a .py file

import os
import time
import datetime


def measure_temperature():
        while True:
                temperature = os.popen("vcgencmd measure_temp").readline()
                temperature = (temperature.replace("temp=",""))
                now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
                print(now, ' Temperature:', temperature)
                time.sleep(1)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    measure_temperature()

How about that? Super easy aye? The github link also has logging

https://github.com/LukeKeam/pi-temperature_monitor