Nvidia GPU temperature shown twice in conky

Question

My problem is, that in Ubuntu 14.10 the old ${nvidia temp} code is not working, I use this code instead: ${execi 60 nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp | perl -ne 'print $1 if /GPUCoreTemp.*?: (\d+)./;'} °C But this code shows the temperature twice, why could that be?

Here's a screenshot

The output of nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp:

slaci@slaci-comp:~$ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp

  Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (slaci-comp:0.0): 63.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is an integer attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is a read-only attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' can use the following target types: X Screen, GPU.
  Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (slaci-comp:0[gpu:0]): 63.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is an integer attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is a read-only attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' can use the following target types: X Screen, GPU.

Answer 1

Try your code/shell script in a terminal to see exactly what it will output. It's probably supplying the double results, then you can troubleshoot it in a terminal.

nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp | perl -ne 'print $1 if /GPUCoreTemp.*?: (\d+)./;'

Just saw your updated Q, with the output from nvidia-settings it's printing the temperature twice for some reason. One of them contains "gpu" which is easy to grab with a grep to then pipe only one temp into your perl script, so this should work

nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp| grep gpu | perl -ne 'print $1 if /GPUCoreTemp.*?: (\d+)./;'

And if it all gets put together into the conkyrc it should look like this:

${execi 60 nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp| grep gpu | perl -ne 'print $1 if /GPUCoreTemp.*?: (\d+)./;'} °C

Conky should only print what the shell returns to it, and testing exec codes in a terminal is more enlightening than running through Conky, can see error messages that Conky ignores (I think it only uses stdout).

I don't have nvidia-settings so I can't test it, but here are some alternative scripts / commands that should return the GPU's temp; you'll have to look at the output of nvidia-settings to determine what to search for & cut, if it's changed & these don't work anymore.

From 1st forum find

• nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp -t
• nvidia-smi -a | grep Gpu
• nvclock -T

From 2nd forum find

• nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp |grep '):' | cut -d ' ' -f 6,6 | sed -e 's/.\{1\}$//'
• nvidia-settings -t -q localhost:0/gpucoretemp