I wanted to monitor the temperature of my pi while I was playing games so that I can see the change caused by some new heat sinks that I just got today. I wanted to do this via SSH so that I could play on one monitor while still seeing the new temperature every 3 seconds or so on my other monitor which is connected to my desktop compy. I ended up creating a little script that I placed in the ~/bin directory (since ~/bin gets added to the systems PATH with each new login shell) called monitor-temp which works like a charm. Just thought that I’d share it with any others who might find it useful.
A full explanation of what I did can be found here: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/24206/22221
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Press [ctrl+c] to end monitoring"
echo ""
while true
do
vcgencmd measure_temp
sleep 3s
done
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