Psensor - Temperature Monitoring For Linux
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Psensor is a graphical temperature monitor for Linux.

It can monitor:

  * the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using
    lm-sensors).
  * the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
  * the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp).
  * the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
  * the temperature of a remote computer.

Alarms using Desktop Notification can be set to each sensor to notify
high temperatures.

For Ubuntu users, Psensor is providing an Application Indicator to
alert users when a temperature is too high.

To monitor the temperature of a remote computer:

  * start psensor-server on the remote computer. The default port is
    3131 and can be changed by using the '--port=PORT' command line
    option.

  * start psensor with the '--url' option: 
  psensor --url=http://hostname:3131

WARNING: 
psensor-server does not provide any way to restrict the connection to
the HTTP server, worst, no effort has been made against malicious HTTP
attacks.  You should make the psensor-server port available only to a
network or computer you trust by using the usual network security
tools of the system (for example, iptables).

  
Installation
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Debian
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For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the wheezy
(testing) and sid (unstable) repositories.

Debian package information are available at:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html

Ubuntu
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For Ubuntu, the easy way to install Psensor and Psensor-server is to
use the dedicated PPA.

For the last stable version:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install psensor

For the last development version:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install psensor
sudo apt-get install psensor-server

Alternatively, you can download Ubuntu binary packages from:
http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files/ubuntu/
The manual installation of the psensor and psensor-server packages
requires also the installation of psensor-common which contains
the multiple languages support.

Installation from source archive
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Psensor compilation requires:

 * make/gcc	
 * lm-sensors
 * library sensors4
 * library gtk2 (>= 2.22)
 * library gconf2
 * help2man 
 * library libnotify (optional)
 * library libappindicator (optional)
 * library libXNVCtrl (optional)
 * library json0 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
 * library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)

Psensor-server compilation requires:
 * make/gcc	
 * lm-sensors
 * library sensors4
 * help2man 
 * library libmicrohttpd 
 * library json0
 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)

Compilation and Installation Steps
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 * Extract files from the source archive
 * Compilation:
   ./configure
   make clean all
   
 * Installation:
   make install

 * Start the sensor detection script: 'sensors-detect' and follows the
instructions

 * Verify the sensor detection by running: 'sensors'

 * Run 'psensor'

Contact
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Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com
Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor