It happens to all of us; you’re sitting there tinkering away on your Raspberry Pi and the thought enters your head: I wonder how warm this thing is right now.
It’s a good question and easy to answer. From the command line, simply enter this command:
sudo /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
For a nice, human-readable output in centigrade. You can take it a step further and write the command into a shell script and for easy execution. For example, I created a script called temp.sh and added the following:
#!/bin/sh
sudo /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
After saving, I made it executable for only my user with:
chmod 700 temp.sh
And now I can pull up the temperature at any time by executing:
~/temp.sh
from the command line.
Questions? Comments? Let me know below or at @goestocollege on twitter.
Cheers!