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I have an ulterior motive here.
My computers balky fan whines then goes silent as the systems temperature rises and gets out of control.
Best of all, it cost me just $1.62.
Finding the phone
Chances are theres an older phone sitting around your home.
For me, the hardest part for me was finding my retiredPixel 6handset.
With no SIM card, the phone will use Wi-Fi.
It works as a data server with Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11.
The RSM server uses minimal system resources and wants to use port 19150.
I took a trip to the Play Store and installed the $1.49Trigone Android app.
(Sales tax accounted for the rest of my expenses.)
The dashboard runs in landscape or portrait mode.
Unfortunately, the Pixel 6 wants to go into its lock screen after 30 minutes.
Waking the screen up is one of the first things I do every morning.
Confirming my fears, I could see that the systems fan speed dipped causing the temperature to quickly rise.
Clearly, a new fan was in order.
After the replacement, the two fan speed line graphs are now as flat as last nights beer.
Still, its a small price to pay for seeing whats going on inside my computer.
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