Thanks for your comment, Steve. Haven’t tested any of those out before, but the more solutions the merrier — would you mind sharing the scripts you found?
There are also scripts available for this that can run all these commands and set fan speeds based on an available temperature reading and be run via a cron command at minute, five minute, etc intervals.
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