{"id":409,"date":"2019-10-14T04:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2019-11-27T04:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T04:42:34","slug":"getting-rid-of-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/getting-rid-of-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting rid of the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when I use the Pi to watch movies on our TV it tends to get a bit hot under the collar &#8211; up to around 81 or 83degC. Something needed to be done about that state of affairs so I installed it in a heatsink case with fans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BIRU-WP-20191014T150207GMT1100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BIRU-WP-20191014T150207GMT1100.jpg 960w, https:\/\/jandmf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BIRU-WP-20191014T150207GMT1100-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jandmf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BIRU-WP-20191014T150207GMT1100-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pi with heatsink case with fans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much better. No matter what I do I can&#8217;t get the temperature over 55degC.<\/p>\n<p>While I was at it I decided to go with the 64 bit kernel so I added arm_64bit=1 to config.txt so now uname -a gives me :-<\/p>\n<p>Linux markpi 4.19.75-v8+ #1270 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 24 18:59:17 BST 2019 aarch64 GNU\/Linux<\/p>\n<p>Everything still works as it should &#8211; Apache2, PHP, MySQL and VLC which we use a lot for movies, tv series, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is a TV HAT or a TV USB dongle &#8211; probably the dongle as that won&#8217;t mean messing around with GPIO standoffs, etc to get it to fit with the heatsink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when I use the Pi to watch movies on our TV it tends to get a bit hot under the collar &#8211; up to around 81 or 83degC. Something needed to be done about that state of affairs so I installed it in a heatsink case with fans. Much better. No matter what I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/getting-rid-of-the-heat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting rid of the heat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pi"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}