Circling back now I have been running the Pi 4 for two weeks. With regard to hear this article has a good write up and I agree in general: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-4-needs-fan-heres-why-and-how-you-can-add-one
But for weather users I have found the is a more heat significant issue if you use an RTL-SDR to listen to the weather stations's RF. I found that both the USB ports and RTL-SDR itself on the 4 become uncomfortably hot to the touch and the CPU will report about 60C or so--no enclosure. Perhaps overly cautious, but I did not let it run unattended so maybe 6-8 hours at that measure point. Adding heat sinks to the RTL-SDR (I had a pair of 7mm and a pair of 14mm I attached) and a fan keeps me around 50C (49-51C) with an ambient temperature of 78F. I do not have the case yet so the fan is clamped (positioned) just inside of the usb ports so that it blows towards them (out) and over the RTL-SDR. Temperature has been stable; but waiting for the case makers to catch up and accommodate a touch screen. Cheers, Jack On Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 11:13:48 AM UTC-4, Mike Harold Chan wrote: > > the side effects is much more HEAT XD > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:48 PM kar ss <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I managed to install Weewx on a Raspberry Pi 4 (1GB) with Raspbian Buster >> and the installation went without any issue. The board temperature (with a >> heat sink on the processor) is around 50 +/- 2C on continuous running of >> weewx and broadcasting data to Wunderground. I don't get what you mean by >> time to process skins as I am not familiar with Raspbian OS and also new to >> Raspberry Pi. >> >> On Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:32:08 UTC+5:30, vince wrote: >>> >>> Anybody have a raspi4 yet ? I'm curious what the time to process skins >>> is on this one vs. a pi3b+ since the new one is reportedly much faster in >>> general. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d5ff3df3-edaf-441e-ad5b-d438f5426b80%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d5ff3df3-edaf-441e-ad5b-d438f5426b80%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f3a34dc5-a8bf-46ab-8888-d8a46bf9f343%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
