The Raspberry Pi is a small and affordable computer for student and hobbyist. You can us it to learn programming, Linux, sysadmin and devops stuff. One can easily find out the Raspberry Pi GPU and ARM CPU core temperature using the following commands.
Show Raspberry Pi GPU temperature
Open the Terminal application and type the following command to view GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) temperature:
vcgencmd measure_temp
OR
/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
Sample output:
Fig.01: Find Raspberry pi GPU temperature
Display Raspberry Pi ARM CPU temperature
Type the following cat command:
cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
Divide it by 1000 to get the ARM CPU temperature in more human readable format:
cpu=$(</sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp) echo "$((cpu/1000)) c"
Sample outputs:
Fig.02: Check on the ARM CPU temperature of Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi get temperature – Putting it all together
Create a simple bash script called my-pi-temp.sh to see both ARM CPU and GPU temperature of Raspberry Pi. Type the following command:
nano my-pi-temp.sh
OR
vi my-pi-temp.sh
Append the following code:
#!/bin/bash # Script: my-pi-temp.sh # Purpose: Display the ARM CPU and GPU temperature of Raspberry Pi 2/3 # Author: Vivek Gite <www.cyberciti.biz> under GPL v2.x+ # ------------------------------------------------------- cpu=$(</sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp) echo "$(date) @ $(hostname)" echo "-------------------------------------------" echo "GPU => $(/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp)" echo "CPU => $((cpu/1000))'C"
Save and close the file. Set permission:
chmod +x my-pi-temp.sh
Run it as follows:
./my-pi-temp.sh
Sample outputs:
Thu 10 Mar 01:02:19 IST 2016 @ raspberrypi ------------------------------------------- GPU => temp=44.4'C CPU => 44'C
Conclusion
This page explained how to monitor the core temperature of your Raspberry Pi. For more info see this VideoCore-Tools page.
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The temperature sensor for the SoC is on the same silicon. Your reading the same sensor for CPU when you say access to GPU. Propagation(delay) is what you are seeing when accessing the temperature for the CPU when you are assigning for the GPU temperature. Same sensor, CPU temperature access is correct but your GPU does not have a sensor independently. Just a CPU temperature can be truly accessed. Leave out the GPU temp and you will be correct. Same metric for temperatures.
You are right, no need for measuring CPU and GPU separately for SoC.
best way to see thermal temps and arm_freq via terminal command:
while true; do vcgencmd measure_clock arm; vcgencmd measure_temp; sleep 1; done
To check it under 100% CPU load:
sudo apt-get install sysbench
while true; do vcgencmd measure_clock arm; vcgencmd measure_temp; sleep 1; done& sysbench –num-threads=8 –test=cpu –cpu-max-prime=10000000000 run
For optimizing, benching, and overclocking, see:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=138840
to see all cores and load % (hit ‘1’), enter in terminal:
top
In one line:
echo -e "CPU => $(echo "scale=1; $(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)/1000" | bc)'C\nGPU => $(/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp | sed "s/^.....//g")"Thank you, great post!
Just a simple addition to your ‘my-pi-temp.sh’ script:
echo "GPU => $(/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp | cut -d = -f2)"Makes the output a little cleaner ;-)
Below is the script I use for displaying RPi temperature and frequencies. It’s a hack, but usable.
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Larry, very useful script! I hope you don’t mind a few changes that I made.
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Somehow, I lost some spacing in the script even though my copy has them. Aargh!
You need to wrap script between <pre> and </pre> . I edited out to add <pre> and </pre> in your comment. Cheers.
Vivek – thanks (belated!).
Thanks mate, this is really helpful !
enola
worked nicely.
My question is: is there such a nice code to do it in python, too?
def get_temp():
with open('/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp', 'r') as infile:
return float(infile.read()) * 1e-3
To WATCH cpu temp:
watch -n 1 vcgencmd measure_tempTo WATCH clock speed in hertz:
watch -n 1 vcgencmd measure_clock armThree and a half year later…