= psensor

== A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application

Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.

It can monitor:

- the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using http://www.lm-sensors.org/[lm-sensors]).
- the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
- the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs or official
  distribution repositories, see the http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/doc/README.html#_ati_amd_gpu_support[instructions for enabling its support]).
- the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).
- the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
- the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).

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The application is designed to be simple and easy to use. The CPU and memory consumption are not significant.

Psensor is released under GPLv2 license terms.

== Usage Information

First step is to install `lm-sensors`.

For Ubuntu:

[source,script]
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sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
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Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:

[source,script]
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sudo sensors-detect
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Verify that it works:

[source,script]
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sensors
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It should display something like:

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coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:      +46.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1:      +44.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)

...
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Then you can proceed to the installation of `psensor`. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
 you should look at the link:psensor_ubuntu.html[Ubuntu support page].

And finally launch the `psensor` executable.

More information are available in the Psensor FAQ.

== Source Code

* link:files[Download psensor]
* Get source from the GIT repository:
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git clone http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git
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* link:http://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb?p=psensor.git[Browse source code]

== Linux Distribution Support

`psensor` should compile on any modern distribution including `GTK+`` v3 and
`lm-sensors` which are quite common. For Linux Distribution still stuck on
 `GTK+`` v2, the old 0.6.x releases of `psensor` can be used.

If you have trouble compiling `psensor` on a specific Linux distribution,
don’t hesitate to report it.

Binary packages of `psensor` are available for few Linux distributions:

* Psensor is in the official universe repository of Ubuntu since version 11.10 (Oneiric)
* Psensor packages for Debian, Psensor is in the standard repository of Debian since 7.0.
* link:https://launchpad.net/~jfi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa[PPA for Ubuntu]
* link:http://software.opensuse.org/package/psensor[package for OpenSuse]
* link:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psensor/[Package for ArchLinux]

== Contact

The Google Group psensor-users can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.

For announces or general information subscribe to Psensor Google+ page.

Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: jeanfi@gmail.com.