Temperature is the amount of heat energy in the air. This is for questions pertaining to the best temperature ranges for the Pi and its respective parts.
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What is the “AP” on the Raspberry Pi, from the FAQ?
In the temperature FAQ, it "the LAN9512 is specified by the manufacturers being qualified from 0°C to 70°C, while the AP is qualified from -40°C to 85°C."
Does anyone know what the "AP" is? Is it the ...
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PiFace module and sensors
I'm looking all over the forums in order to be sure that I'm able to have two sensors (temperature in my case) and a proximity sensor.
Can anyone guide me to a compatibile sensor (I'd prefer a ...
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Temperature sensor appears to be reading too high
I've recently bought an outdoor temperature sensor, specifically this one off of eBay.
I then went on to use this tutorial to hook it up using a breadboard and such. The only difference being I used ...
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What should I take into account when trying to decide between an Arduino Uno or a Raspberry Pi for my application?
I am designing a device that will have an accelerometer and temperature sensors.
This device is intended to record patterns in activity of individuals throughout the day. The data collected will be ...
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Get PI's temperature using C
I know you can get the temperature using the tool vcgencmd but I was wondering if there is any API I can use in C to get the temperature programatically without reading the stdout of vcgencmd ?
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Is it a bad idea to do distributed computing?
Like many users, my RPi will be used as a low-consumption micro server and will be powered continuously. All the computing time is not used and could help distributed computing projects like ...
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How to turn on a high current electrical device? (water heater)
I am looking into a project to measure the temperature inside a water heater and turning it on based on: time, temp, etc.
I am only on the theoretical phase since I am not sure it is possible.
I ...
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How do I connect a DS18B20?
I'm trying to connect a DS18B20 to the GPIOs. I have successfully done so electronically, but I could only code the reset function because it's not that time critical. It is OK for that function to ...
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How to use a DS18B20 temperature sensor in my Pi?
I have a few DS18B20 temperature sensors. These are normally used in Arduino but I don't see why not to use them in a Pi. There is a software called DigiTemp that seems to drive the device and I have ...
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How to measure temperature?
What can I connect to the RPi to measure temperature? I think devices connected to the I²C or SPI would make most sense.
Here is a question about DHT-22 and other 1-wire devices. But at this stage it ...
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Can I use a DHT22 as a temperature sensor for my Pi?
Is it possible to use a cheap temperature sensor such as the DHT-22 with the Raspberry Pi? I have found Arduino drivers for this and many similar things, and would be comfortable porting the code to ...
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What are the maximum operating temperatures of the components?
What are the main sources of heat on the board?
What temperatures do these components reach under load?
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What is the temperature behaviour of a Raspberry Pi in an enclosure?
There has been some comment about suitable enclosures for the Pi and its temperature behaviour.
Are there measured data for this?
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How do I monitor and/or control the temperature of the SoC?
Is there a way to programmatically monitor the temperature of the BCM2835 SoC?
If so, would it do any good? i.e. would temporarily suspending CPU-intensive processes have any chance to reduce the ...
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What's the maximum / minimum running temperature?
As per the title, what are the maximum and minimum operational temperature ratings of the Pi before it stops reliably working? Could this also depend on the SD card in use?
