Unable to use service with raspbian lite about fanshim-python

[Gadgetoid]

I think I just ran into exactly this problem- the code was structured in such a way that- if psutil was already installed- it would never install the Fan SHIM library. I've fix it now, but for your setup you should just be able to sudo pip3 install fanshim to get it up and running. Assuming you're having the problem I just discovered!

[gh3rann]

Hello, did you manage to solve this? I am having the very same problem.

[gh3rann]

I think I just ran into exactly this problem- the code was structured in such a way that- if psutil was already installed- it would never install the Fan SHIM library. I've fix it now, but for your setup you should just be able to sudo pip3 install fanshim to get it up and running. Assuming you're having the problem I just discovered!

I am gettting:
pi@raspberrypi:~/fanshim-python $ sudo pip3 install fanshim
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: fanshim in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/fanshim-0.0.2-py3.7.egg (0.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: plasmalights in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/plasmalights-0.0.1-py3.7.egg (from fanshim) (0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: RPi.GPIO in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from plasmalights->fanshim) (0.7.0)

And still I cannot seem to fin out the issue.

[Gadgetoid]

@gh3rann did you find a solution to your problem? It might be that something else is causing the automatic.py to fail, and you should probably run the example file directly to see if it outputs any errors.

[gh3rann]

Hello Philip, I did not try any longer, since I could not figure it out after many attempts and days. I bought a different passive-massive cooling method which is working according to my needs. Good luck to anyone with this issue.

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[Gadgetoid]

@gh3rann thanks for letting me know- I'm sorry it didn't work out for you!

[BButner]

Just as a heads up, I ran into the exact same issue. I think it just randomly happened after I ran an apt upgrade.

The way I was able to get it back up and running was to modify the service file entry, and comment out the "After" line:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/pimoroni-fanshim.service

Then here's my new entry:

[Unit]
Description=Fan Shim Service
#After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/FanShim/examples
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/FanShim/examples/automatic.py --on-threshold 65 --off-threshold 55 --low-temp 55 --high-temp 65 --delay 2 --brightness 255 
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Once you change the file:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart pimoroni-fanshim.service

And that got the service back up and running. (So now I can actually set it up properly now that I know how to get it functioning!)