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:
29 psensor --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).
45 For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the wheezy
46 (testing) and sid (unstable) repositories.
48 Debian package information are available at:
49 http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html
51 Compilation requires the following packages:
53 gettext libgtk-3-dev libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev libsensors4-dev
54 help2man libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev
60 Notes about installation on Ubuntu is available at:
61 http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration
63 Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe
66 For other Ubuntu releases, the easy way to install Psensor and
67 Psensor-server is to use the dedicated PPA.
69 For the last stable version:
70 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor
72 sudo apt-get install psensor
74 For the last development version:
75 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable
77 sudo apt-get install psensor
78 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
80 Alternatively, you can download Ubuntu binary packages from:
81 http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files/ubuntu/
82 The manual installation of the psensor and psensor-server packages
83 requires also the installation of psensor-common which contains
84 the multiple languages support.
89 psensor can be compiled on Centos 6.0, by installing the following
91 gcc gtk2-devel GConf2-devel help2man gettext-devel libnotify-deval
92 lm_sensors-devel libgtop2-devel
94 As microhttpd and json-c libraries are not available in the standard centos
95 repository, psensor-server cannot be compiled and the remote
96 monitoring feature of psensor will not be available.
98 Installation from source archive
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101 Psensor compilation requires:
106 * library gtk2 (>= 2.18)
109 * library libnotify (optional)
110 * library libappindicator (optional)
111 * library libXNVCtrl (optional)
112 * library json0 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
113 * library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
114 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
116 Psensor-server compilation requires:
121 * library libmicrohttpd
123 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
125 Compilation and Installation Steps
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128 * Extract files from the source archive
136 * Start the sensor detection script: 'sensors-detect' and follows the
139 * Verify the sensor detection by running: 'sensors'
145 Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com
146 Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor