RPi5 Penta hat top board Fan On and Button Issues

#1

I just got and installed the top board for my RPi 5 Penta Hat NAS. All went smoothly, the fan and the LED work. But even after modifying the rock-pi-penta.conf file, and restarting the service the fan continues to run (loudly) and while the button does work to slide info screens, double-clicking and long-pressing do nothing – even when configured to power off the fan.

I tried searching extensively (apologies if I missed the answer) but didn’t see a definitive way to address these problems. Any advice or direction would be welcomed as it’s now so much louder than my pre-top board setup. Thanks in advance!

#2

Found it! This modification worked for me

Thank you @michael!

#3

I want to be clear that the while the fan is now respecting the temps I’ve modified in the .conf file, the button still isn’t doing what it should, but that’s a minor issue for me now that the fan is mostly silent. I just wanted a way to shut off the fan prior to the fix. Now that it’s working, I probably won’t have much interest in playing with the button (but I still think it should work as advertised :wink: )

#4

And since I’m enjoying this conversation with myself…
Since this change the fan runs at 100% when the unit is shutdown, which is weird. Since it’s a NAS I don’t expect to turn it off with any regularity, but just another Radxa-ism to report.

#5

Hi, happy to help.
As I do not face any of the issues described - just as a chance revert the change and see what happens and if you like mail the *.py and I can have a look.
And the conf file, maybe this is broken, the python is crashing and fans are not controlled.

Regards
Michael

#6

Hi @michael
To be clear, the modification to the tr function you suggested elsewhere solved most of my issues (except for the button, and the power off/top speed fan thing). I’ll PM you the files. The only thing that I changed in the conf file was the trigger temps.

Thanks so much for the look – I appreciate it.

#7

I checked your files and they are like the original ones, except the mods you listed, this should cause no issue.
With that as button and fan related it seems to deal with that:


A full-upgrade likely fix it.

#8

Thanks for checking so quickly!
A full upgrade of the Pi OS? Or of the Radxa components?

I’m kind of a linux newb, sorry. I ran sudo apt full-upgrade and it looks like I’m up to date there, nothing new installed.

#9

According to the thread I would expect an apt upgrade solve the issues.
If not than might other in the forum could support.

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