Smart Home at +46°C

The average temperature in Sinai has crept up to 40°C, today’s record is +46°C at night, and the smart home in the Egyptian branch of Symbiosei (Home Assistant + Raspberry Pi 5) has started to noticeably slow down.

Fortunately, the choice of cooling systems in Egypt is like nowhere else in the world.
In the end, we settled on a set of additional heatsinks (in the photo).

We had to abandon the options with fans, since from our office to the shore of the Red Sea is only a few meters, and salty dust is constantly hanging in the air. In such conditions even specially prepared metal structures are destroyed within a few years.