iMac Fan control (CLI)

Simple shell script to control hdd and cpu fans of a 12,1 iMac in linux

iMac Fan control

Note: This script has been tested on a 2011 iMac 21.5 inch running Ubuntu 20.04, if you have problems with this script on other iMacs please open an issue

Usage:

Option A

(here you don't create the actual command, just an alias, but it's more updatable, just git pull will get the job done)

1. Clone the repo in home

cd ~/ && git clone https://github.com/juampapo546/Fan-control/

1. Create the alias for this script

sudo echo  'alias fan="sudo sh /home/$USER/fan-control/fan.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

Option B

(here you create the command but you'll have to repeat the whole process every time you want to update)

1. Clone the repo in home

cd ~/ && git clone https://github.com/juampapo546/Fan-control/ fan-control

1. Move the script to /bin and make it executable

sudo mv ~/fan-control/fan.sh /bin/fan && sudo chmod +x /bin/fan 

1. (optional) Clean remainings of the repo

rm -rf ~/fan-control 

Run fan!

sudo fan [ SELECT FAN TO CONTROL ] [SELECT THE PERCENTAGE YOU WANT THE FAN TO RUN ] 

   	-hdd				-value (nummber from 1 to 100)  
   	-cpu 				-auto 	
   	-auto 

For example if you want cpu fan to run at it's 65% the input should be:

sudo fan cpu 65

Latest release :

Init release

v1.0

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Download : https://github.com/juampapo546/Fan-control/releases