Add Temperature Display to Raspberry Pi OS Desktop
#Raspberry pi temperature and light logger update
This will show the temperature and update the value every 2 seconds. If you want to constantly monitor the temperature you can use the watch command: watch -n 2 vcgencmd measure_temp
#Raspberry pi temperature and light logger full
This then outputs only the characters that are numbers surrounding a full stop (period) character.
This feeds the output of vcgenmd to egrep.
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