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aks-2
Aug 08, 2023Apprentice
ReadyNas 214 new system fan / fan control
The fan in my RN214 is too lound once it gets going, so I took a chance at replacing it with a Noctua NF-A9. It usually works fine, the resported RPM in the dashboard is typically a bit lower than t...
StephenB
Aug 09, 2023Guru - Experienced User
aks-2 wrote:
options for finer control over the fan speed (minimum voltage setting)?
Not something I've ever played with, so you are of course on your own.
That said,
ls -all /etc/sensors.d
will show you what conf file your system is using.
On my RN526 it shows
root@NAS:~# ls -all /etc/sensors.d
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46 Jul 28 07:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2800 Jul 20 09:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 2012 .placeholder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 28 07:04 system.conf -> /etc/frontview/sensors/RN526.conf
There should be a fan minimum speed setting in there.
root@NAS:~# cat /etc/frontview/sensors/RN526.conf
chip "coretemp-*"
label temp1 "CPU"
compute temp1 @%35, @%35
ignore temp2
ignore temp3
ignore temp4
ignore temp5
chip "it8732-*"
label in0 Vcore
set in0_min 0
set in0_max 10
ignore in0
label in1 V1_2
set in1_min 1.08
set in1_max 1.32
ignore in1
label in2 V3_3
compute in2 @*1.649, @/1.649
set in2_min 2.97
set in2_max 3.63
ignore in2
label in3 V5_0
compute in3 @*2.74, @/2.74
set in3_min 4.7
set in3_max 5.3
label in4 "V+12"
compute in4 @*6.6, @/6.6
set in4_min 10.8
set in4_max 13.2
ignore in5
ignore in6
ignore in7
ignore in8
label fan1 "System"
set fan1_min 400
ignore temp1
ignore temp2
label temp3 "System"
set temp3_min 1
set temp3_max 80
ignore intrusion0
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