Pironman 5 - Mini PC Case for Raspberry Pi 5

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    good afternoon.

    i've been using libreelec on various raspberry pi versions for several years now and love it.

    i recently got the pironman 5 case and have been messing around with it. i see one of the files provided for it is already in place in the overlays folder in the latest libreelec image - sunfounder-pironman5.dtbo

    is there some way of activating the full/partial case functionality within libreelec?

    thanx

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    the instructions and links for installing the software are located here - https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/piron…_pironman5.html

    while i am not completely without computer skills, my programming experience is primarily in iron age languages such as cobol and fortran. as such i am unable to determine if it is even possible to create an add-on to implement any/all of these functionalities in libreelec.

    any direction would be greatly appreciated. thanx.

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    The HomeAssistant "add-on" seems to be running things in a Docker container, see https://github.com/sunfounder/hom…man5/Dockerfile - which might be a simple (albeit heavy) way to run things. The Dockerfile needs minor tweaks to replace variables with content to be used on LE.

    From a quick glance at https://github.com/sunfounder/pironman5 it's probably not that hard to make a simple Python script to poke the GPIO bits required to change fan speeds. Elsewhere in this forum you'll find an add-on for the Argon40 case which also comes with a fan and will be doing essentially the same things, though possibly with different GPIO pins being toggled.

    Sunfounder seem to be maintaining the integrations for other OS, so might be worth asking them to look at LE too.

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    thanx for your reply.

    i'm not really familiar with the docker thing, but in the documentation on the sunfounder site i do find this sentence - "This only works for Home Assistant OS, running on Raspberry Pi. Not for Home Assistant Container.". unless i am corrected, i will have to assume this to be a dead end.

    i'll check with sunfounder on possibly supporting le, but their similar case for the rpi4 does specifically exclude support for le.

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    Quote from parkay6666

    "This only works for Home Assistant OS, running on Raspberry Pi. Not for Home Assistant Container."

    ^ simply means you cannot run the Pironman add-on container inside the HAOS container; because the Dockerfile for the add-on assumes a desktop OS is present, and the HAOS container is (like most containers) a stripped-down/minimal OS environment.

    Adapting one of the existing Pi case GPIO fan-poking add-ons is probably the easiest option.