From this command you should get a result like we have below with specifying the temperature of your raspberry pi. There are two different types of thermistors. Negative temperature coefficient ntc and positive temperature coefficient ptc. This subreddit also lists tutorials and guides for the newbies to make the best use of their raspberry pi for learning and understanding about computers and software. Few sensors are this easy to set up on the raspberry pi. A thermistor is a type of resistor whose resistance is based on temperature.
Officially the raspberry pi foundation recommends that the temperature of your raspberry pi device should be below 85 degrees celsius for it to work properly. In this article i will show you how to monitor the temperature of your raspberry pi. So it doesnt have fans to cool it down like other desktoplaptop cpus. Theyre also extremely accurate and take measurements quickly. The following will show you how to build and program the raspberry pi to use a thermistor to take temperature measurements of a room. Healthypi raspberry pi hat measures ecg body temperature and oxygen saturation crowdfunding bangalore based protoncentral has launched the third version of healthy pi a vital sign monitor using the raspberry pi as its computing and display platform and capable of measuring body temperature oxygen saturation and ecgrespiratory data.
The makers even provide software that triggers the fan when the cpu temperature rises above a certain threshold eg. Precise temperature control on the raspberry pi 4. Theyre the same size as a transistor and use only one wire for the data signal. But you can also switch several sensors in series because it is based on the 1 wire protocol. This is a subreddit dedicated to raspberry pi owners listing all available projects that could be done on their raspberry pi. But it would start throttling at 82 degrees celsius.
To retrieve the temperature of your raspberry pi we can utilize the following command. Raspberry pi is a low end mobile computer. However this is so far only possible on gpio pin 4 pin 7. The pimoroni fan shim is a great solution for reducing the temperature of your pi when it runs hot. Description of the 1 wire raspberry pi temperature sensor the temperature sensor returns a 9 to 12 bit long value which can be read and converted. If your temperature rises above 80c you will see a little thermometer on you.
Thats the maximum limit. The ds18b20 temperature sensor is perfect for projects like weather stations and home automation systems.