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).
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
63 Compilation requires the following packages:
64 gcc libgtk2.0-dev libsensors4-dev libgconf2-dev help2man
65 libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libgtop2-dev
70 Notes about installation on Ubuntu is available at:
71 http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration
73 Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe
76 For other Ubuntu releases, the easy way to install Psensor and
77 Psensor-server is to use the dedicated PPA.
79 For the last stable version:
80 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor
82 sudo apt-get install psensor
84 For the last development version:
85 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable
87 sudo apt-get install psensor
88 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
90 Alternatively, you can download Ubuntu binary packages from:
91 http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files/ubuntu/
92 The manual installation of the psensor and psensor-server packages
93 requires also the installation of psensor-common which contains
94 the multiple languages support.
99 psensor can be compiled on Centos 6.0, by installing the following
101 gcc gtk2-devel GConf2-devel help2man gettext-devel libnotify-deval
102 lm_sensors-devel libgtop2-devel
104 As microhttpd and json-c libraries are not available in the standard centos
105 repository, psensor-server cannot be compiled and the remote
106 monitoring feature of psensor will not be available.
111 To compile Psensor with ATI support on Ubuntu:
113 * installs the usual Psensor build dependencies and fglrx ubuntu
116 * downloads the ATI ADL SDK from:
117 http://developer.amd.com/sdks/ADLSDK/Pages/default.aspx and
118 extracts the files of the archive into a directory [dir].
120 * configure the build environment:
121 ./configure --with-libatiadl=[dir]
122 where [dir] must be the directory where you have extracted the ATI
125 * then follow usual GNU autotools compilation:
129 Installation from source archive
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132 Psensor compilation requires:
137 * library gtk2 (>= 2.18)
140 * library libnotify (optional)
141 * library libappindicator (optional)
142 * library libXNVCtrl (optional)
143 * library json0 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
144 * library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
145 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
147 Psensor-server compilation requires:
152 * library libmicrohttpd
154 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
156 Compilation and Installation Steps
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159 * Extract files from the source archive
167 * Start the sensor detection script: 'sensors-detect' and follows the
170 * Verify the sensor detection by running: 'sensors'
176 Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com
177 Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor