Well, I thought it was interesting if no one else did! 
It’s been running Home Assistant, just to see if it’s something I should invest more time in / am mentally capable of using!
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Is that the USB control chip?
And doe the flir get adversely affected by reflections?
the CPU has a metal shell, as well as the usb/ethernet sockets. I wonder if they are actually hotter, but it;s not showing because of the reflectivity?
Proper cool pic tho
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Yes. any metal components are unlikely to show accurately.
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That’s a very good point - I just checked and the hot part isn’t metalic / reflective, so I’m guessing it’s the true temp. My camera is the cheap type of infrared…price goes up quite a bit for the other type 
I believe there are “hacks” to make things slightly matte and wipe off after to help get proper temps, might check around YouTube for it?
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Oooh, didn’t know that, might look into that 
May or may not be actually useful or appropriate to the item.
Doesn’t really matter, and it is super cool (lol) just wondered if the CPU really was that cold.
I wonder if something like toothpaste or masking tape would allow the heat to show through? Presuming there is any; the metal ports at the back could well be as cool as they look
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That’s really interesting! It reminds of the wacky experiments that led people to find out that the Pi 2 had some exposed silicon that could be reset with a xenon flash off of a camera.
That ethernet over USB port is really toasty, I didn’t expect that. Is there much traffic going on through the Pi by chance? Not critical temperature, but surely looks high to me for such a device. You can put one of those metal heatsinks on it if it’s an uncomfortable high temperature for you.
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@Trooper_ish @MetalizeYourBrain
Glad it’s cool to see!
I did try some very thin paper that wasn’t adhesive, just in case it made it worse somehow! Here’s a very tedious video!
You’re right though, that ethernet is hot, it’s really not doing much at the moment, just allowing a switch on/off for a heater, on/off for a kids wifi…and, oh, checking a few temps of my cameras!
Glad it’s interesting, and that’s equally interesting about exposed silicon.
You’re right though, that ethernet is hot, it’s really not doing much at the moment, just allowing a switch on/off for a heater, on/off for a kids wifi…and, oh, checking a few temps of my cameras!
I really need to move off the Micro SD and use an external SATA / USB SSD 
The Tasmota is only set to check status every 30 seconds.
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This one’s been working well for me: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VD5L1VY
more 🎄 shopping list ideas for Home Assistant on Pi
This one too, has my Pi POE powered off of my POE switch: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HS6NDM2
And I’m using an old 240G SATA SSD I had lying around instead of an SD card with this UAS/UASP compatible adapter: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N2JIQR7
Boot Raspbian to update the firmware, it might make everything colder, and you’ll be able to more easily set boot priority.
… and setup daily Google Drive backups
GitHub - sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup: Automatically create and sync Home Assistant backups into Google Drive
… more things, I use mosquitto and zigbee2mqtt, it’s awesome, but when I switched from microsd, USB3 interferes with ZigBee (basically zero range) I have my ZigBee adapter stick at the end of a 3 foot USB-A extension… get one of those for your drawer if you don’t have one on hand.
… also “geekworm” and “revotech” have more stuff these days, the links are literally from my shopping history from 2019 early 2020 … but I’ve been really happy with those… safe choice in case you’re looking for any of those.
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That looks good…and Christmas is coming up 
Tried one of thoise for work, it is okay for light work but really need active cooling if you are going to push a lot of work onto the RPi.
We managed to CPU throttle all the same with some of our workflows!
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