A quick Pi5 Temperature monitor

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A quick and dirty terminal application that continuously prints the six second rolling average tempurate and fan speed of a RaspberryPi 5.

pi5_temp.py

import time
import statistics

from collections import deque

TEMP_PATH = "/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp"
FAN_PATH = "/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0/cur_state"

def main():
    temp = deque(maxlen=3)
    while True:
        temp.append(get_temp())
        av_temp = statistics.mean(temp)
        print(f"Temp: {av_temp:.1f}C; Fan: {get_fan_speed()}", end="\r")
        time.sleep(2)


def get_temp() -> int:
    with open(TEMP_PATH, "r") as f:
        data = f.read()
    return int(data) // 1000


def get_fan_speed() -> str:
    with open(FAN_PATH, "r") as f:
        return f.read().strip()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()