Fan control?

[jaker]

Fan was still spinning in standby.

[fvdw]

Fan was still spinning in standby.

this because the fan controller is not loaded when being in WOL. We need to adapt a startup script.

[jaker]

Perhaps it's the standby routine (going to standby) that should stop the fan? Is the WOL state in bootloader?

And then start the script again during startup or coming back from standby?

[fvdw]

When the nas goes to WOL it in fact reboots and only loads some daemons to be able to respond to wol magic package. In fact the wol of the these devices is not a real wol as the network card doesn't have that capability in hardware. In fact power is reduced by only loading critical drivers and daemons and spinn down the disks. As magic packet is received boot continuous to load all stuff.
Because in the boot scripts no fan controller is loaded for this device the fan will run at default speed. I will make some adapted scripts to solve this issue. Be aware that if the device switches to wol and diks are above temp threshold the fan will be activated until they are below the threshold.

[jaker]

Ok now I got it. Sounds good. It's all right if it's temp controlled. It is a bit odd if you select manually to go to standby with WOL and the fan still keeps spinning, but as long as one is aware of this functionality, then it is allright.

Perhaps a small note next to "NAS Standby WOL" button could be in place like "fan keeps spinning until hard drive temperature is below threshold level."

Actually it works just the same way with car engines.

[fvdw]

Hi attached a patch file which should enable fan control on nwspmax (requires fvdw-sl 18-2)

The patch includes a warning in web interface in case fan is not running

To install it use the webinterface firmware update > upload patch (read help file)
and use code unzip

Nas must be rebooted after installing the patch.

[jaker]

Hi and sorry for long delay. I finally got opportunity to try this. Patching seemed to go through without any problems. I restarted NAS and web interface shows
"fvdw-sl firmware version 18-2 Current System Status: Warning: Fan control is not running!
Warning: Fan control is not running!"
on top of the page. So clearly something happened. Anyway I couldn't find anything more from web interface about fan and checking contents of the patch file didn't bring more hints about where to look.

What this patch should do? Add script and add it to be run in startup to enable in every startup and also in WakeOnLan?

Perhaps Boot Jobs has something to do with it.

Boot jobs page shows:

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User commands at booting
 
Status:   Feature installed
 
Status:   disabled
Discovered scripts :
 
Jobs List :
at Next booting   Type   File Name    Comment"

Clicking on "Enable/Disable Boot Jobs" does not do anything. It shows briefly "Saving Changes" but status does not change from disabled to enabled.

[fvdw]

sorry, think we made an error with device name
Can you post output of

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cat /etc/platform

[Jocko]

Hi

@fvdw
Indeed the error is on rcS which uses as platform name nwspm instead of nwspmax and then the the daemon is not started

[jaker]

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root@ZENfvdwsl-base:/ # cat /etc/platform
nwspmax
root@ZENfvdwsl-base:/ #


Jocko seems to be on the right track.