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## [Monitoring LiDAR Thermal States and Shot Limiting in Real Time via Ouster SDK](https://community.ouster.com/t/monitoring-lidar-thermal-states-and-shot-limiting-in-real-time-via-ouster-sdk/493)

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**Author:** [@alex\_chua](https://community.ouster.com/u/alex_chua)\
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**Last updated:** [May 26, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://community.ouster.com/t/monitoring-lidar-thermal-states-and-shot-limiting-in-real-time-via-ouster-sdk/493 "2026-05-26T07:54:14Z")

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Hello community! I wanted to share a Python script I put together for monitoring the thermal status of Ouster sensors. While you can always poll the HTTP telemetry API to check sensor temperatures, polling too frequent…

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## [Fast approximate nearest neighbor counting on depth images](https://community.ouster.com/t/fast-approximate-nearest-neighbor-counting-on-depth-images/241)

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**Author:** [@yggdrasil](https://community.ouster.com/u/yggdrasil)\
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**Last updated:** [November 29, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.ouster.com/t/fast-approximate-nearest-neighbor-counting-on-depth-images/241 "2024-11-29T19:53:37Z")

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Overview This post describes how the Ouster python SDK and numpy can be used to efficiently process Ouster structured LidarScans with 2D convolution-style algorithms. Skip to the end of this post to see the code which …