fan-control

Control the pwm fan with the change of the CPU temperature of any Jetson Machine (Jetson Nano, Jetson TX1, TX2, Jetson Xavier). This fan control script has three modes 0 , 1 , 2 and its set to different value of pwm.

You may modify the pwm value associated with the mode in the script.

The default pwm values associated with mode 0 , 1 , 2 are 80, 150 , 255 accordingly

Check out the demo below:

How to use

Step #1: Download the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/yqlbu/fan-control/

Step #2: Modified parameters to adjust your needs

$ cd fan-control
$ vi fan.sh 

Step #3: Set autostart at boot

$ sudo chmod +x fan.sh
$ sudo scp fan.sh /etc/init.d
$ sudo crontab -e
# add  @reboot /etc/init.d/fan.sh  at the very top lane \
$ sudo reboot

(Optional) Install Jetson-Stat to constantly monitor the temperature changes

The installation required python and pip pre-installed in the system, if you have not done so, do the following:

$ sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-dev python3-setuptools
$ pip3 --version

Installation

$ sudo -H pip3 install -U jetson-stats
$ sudo jtop