The Active Cooler works great. I have one on every one of my Pi5s, and they just work.OK I think I have found the issue
After reading other posts from the past about pi crashing due to heating I came to the conclusion that overheating may be my issue.
I removed the plastic cover I had on the pi (had plenty of ventilation holes) and did some work; I was working with an AI bot (because I am pi, Linux and python illiterate so it was doing the work and I was instructing it about what I wanted to do) to make the pi an access point I have found that I cannot put my finger on what I think is the CPU (under a metal shield) for more than about 5-10 seconds before it starts to burn my finger.
I am now going to add some cooling to the pi to keep it cool.
I am looking at the Raspberry Pi Active Cooler or Raspberry Pi Case for Raspberry Pi 5.
Anyone had experience with these?
After reading the recommended documentation I am leaning toward the active cooler because of where the pi will be mounted when the project is up and running.
It will be in a plastic box inside a steel shed in Queensland Australia where summer temps can reach 35C outside. Most likely put a fan on the box for additional cooling.
At the moment the pi is sitting where a fan is blowing over it with no top case, we'll se how it goes.
Power is supplied with an official RPi power supply supposedly for running a Pi5, its the white one as opposed to the black ones I have for my 3B+ pi's.
Re Adding an access point: sdm can install an Access Point on your already-installed Pi using two commands:
Code:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gitbls/sdm/master/EZsdmInstaller | bashsudo sdm --runonly plugins --plugin hotspot:"device=wlan0|hsname=myhotspot|ipforward=eth0|type=routed|hsenable=y|wifipassword=myhspassword|wifissid=myhsssid"
Full documentation for the hotspot plugin is here and full sdm documentation is here
Statistics: Posted by bls — Sat Feb 08, 2025 12:28 am