1 Psensor - Temperature Monitoring For Linux
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4 Psensor is a graphical temperature monitor for Linux.
8 * the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using
10 * the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
11 * the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).
12 * the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
13 * the temperature of a remote computer.
16 Alarms using Desktop Notification can be set to each sensor to notify
19 For Ubuntu users, Psensor is providing an Application Indicator to
20 alert users when a temperature is too high.
22 To monitor the temperature of a remote computer:
24 * start psensor-server on the remote computer. The default port is
25 3131 and can be changed by using the '--port=PORT' command line
28 * start psensor with the '--url' option: psensor
29 --url=http://hostname:3131
32 psensor-server does not provide any way to restrict the connection to
33 the HTTP server, worst, no effort has been made against malicious HTTP
34 attacks. You should make the psensor-server port available only to a
35 network or computer you trust by using the usual network security
36 tools of the system (for example, iptables).
42 Psensor can be compiled and installed on any modern linux
48 For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the wheezy
49 (testing) and sid (unstable) repositories.
51 Debian package information are available at:
52 http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html
54 Compilation requires the following packages:
56 gettext libgtk-3-dev libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev libsensors4-dev
57 help2man libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev
58 libgtop2-dev libatasmart-dev
63 Compilation requires the following packages:
64 gcc libgtk3.0-dev libsensors4-dev libgconf2-dev help2man
65 libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libgtop2-dev
71 Notes about installation on Ubuntu is available at:
72 http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration
74 Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe
77 For other Ubuntu releases, the easy way to install Psensor and
78 Psensor-server is to use the dedicated PPA.
80 For the last stable version:
81 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor
83 sudo apt-get install psensor
85 For the last development version:
86 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable
88 sudo apt-get install psensor
89 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
94 To compile Psensor with ATI support on Ubuntu:
96 * installs the usual Psensor build dependencies and fglrx ubuntu
99 * downloads the ATI ADL SDK from:
100 http://developer.amd.com/sdks/ADLSDK/Pages/default.aspx and
101 extracts the files of the archive into a directory [dir].
103 * configure the build environment:
104 ./configure --with-libatiadl=[dir]
105 where [dir] must be the directory where you have extracted the ATI
108 * then follow usual GNU autotools compilation:
112 Installation from source archive
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115 Psensor compilation requires:
123 * library libnotify (optional)
124 * library libappindicator (optional)
125 * library libXNVCtrl (optional)
126 * library json0 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
127 * library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
128 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
129 * library atasmart (optional, for disk monitoring)
131 Psensor-server compilation requires:
136 * library libmicrohttpd
138 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
139 * library atasmart (optional, for disk monitoring)
141 Compilation and Installation Steps
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144 * Extract files from the source archive
152 * Start the sensor detection script: 'sensors-detect' and follows the
155 * Verify the sensor detection by running: 'sensors'
159 Compilation on Fedora 17
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162 * install mandatory packages:
163 sudo yum install gcc gtk3-devel GConf2-devel lm_sensors-devel
165 * install additional recommended packages:
166 sudo yum install libatasmart-devel libcurl-devel json-c-devel
167 libmicrohttpd-devel help2man libnotify-devel
170 * follow instructions from 'Compilation and Installation Steps'
174 Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com
175 Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor