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vcgencmd — Print system information for a Raspberry Pi. More information: <https://www.raspberrypi.com/document

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Problem

How to use the vcgencmd command: Print system information for a Raspberry Pi. More information: <https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/os.html#vcgencmd>.

Solution

vcgencmd — Print system information for a Raspberry Pi. More information: <https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/os.html#vcgencmd>.

List all available commands:

vcgencmd commands

Print the current CPU temperature:

vcgencmd measure_temp

Print the current voltage:

vcgencmd measure_volts

Print the throttled state of the system as a bit pattern:

vcgencmd get_throttled

Print the bootloader configuration (only available on Raspberry Pi 4 models):

vcgencmd bootloader_config

Display help:

vcgencmd --help

Code Snippets

List all available commands

vcgencmd commands

Print the current CPU temperature

vcgencmd measure_temp

Print the current voltage

vcgencmd measure_volts

Print the throttled state of the system as a bit pattern

vcgencmd get_throttled

Print the bootloader configuration (only available on Raspberry Pi 4 models)

vcgencmd bootloader_config

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