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Check the Raspberry PI CPU temperature

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Jul 1, 2020

Noticed that the Raspberry PI 4 runs a bit hotter than previous models? That is the unfortunate side effect of packing an increased amount of processing power in the same small board form factor. This article presents you with code snippets in several programming languages for obtaining the Raspberry PI CPU temperature. You can use these to build functionality into your own software programs for monitoring the Raspberry PI CPU temperature.

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