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.
15 Alarms using Desktop Notification can be set to each sensor to notify
18 For Ubuntu users, Psensor is providing an Application Indicator to
19 alert users when a temperature is too high.
21 To monitor the temperature of a remote computer:
23 * start psensor-server on the remote computer. The default port is
24 3131 and can be changed by using the '--port=PORT' command line
27 * start psensor with the '--url' option:
28 psensor --url=http://hostname:3131
31 psensor-server does not provide any way to restrict the connection to
32 the HTTP server, worst, no effort has been made against malicious HTTP
33 attacks. You should make the psensor-server port available only to a
34 network or computer you trust by using the usual network security
35 tools of the system (for example, iptables).
44 For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the wheezy
45 (testing) and sid (unstable) repositories.
47 Debian package information are available at:
48 http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html
53 For Ubuntu, the easy way to install Psensor and Psensor-server is to
54 use the dedicated PPA.
56 For the last stable version:
57 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor
59 sudo apt-get install psensor
61 For the last development version:
62 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable
64 sudo apt-get install psensor
65 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
67 Alternatively, you can download Ubuntu binary packages from:
68 http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files/ubuntu/
69 The manual installation of the psensor and psensor-server packages
70 requires also the installation of psensor-common which contains
71 the multiple languages support.
73 Installation from source archive
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76 Psensor compilation requires:
84 * library libnotify (optional)
85 * library libappindicator (optional)
86 * library libXNVCtrl (optional)
87 * library json0 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
88 * library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
89 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
91 Psensor-server compilation requires:
96 * library libmicrohttpd
98 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
100 Compilation and Installation Steps
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103 * Extract files from the source archive
111 * Start the sensor detection script: 'sensors-detect' and follows the
114 * Verify the sensor detection by running: 'sensors'
120 Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com
121 Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor