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I wanted to install a package to monitor the temperature of my CPU called lm-sensors.
According to Synaptic, it's already installed.
Can someone give me some simple step-by-step instructions on how I can actually run it from the command line or otherwise?
Once lm-sensors is installed you need to reach for your terminal:
type
sudo sensors-detect
just press ENTER for everything it suggests (shown in Uppercase)
At the end it will ask you whether to add what it finds to /etc/modules. If you are happy with the findings type "yes".
More information about lm-sensors and how to tailor it for your system can be found on the lm-sensors installation wiki page
Typing
sensors
will display the values for the sensors detected previously.
e.g.
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +55.0°C (crit = +90.0°C)
watch command to see updates of the output of the sensors command in real time! Like so: $ watch sensors
sensors-detect! It can permanently damage your hardware! phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3MDE
is a set of tools to control and view sensors that may be present on your hardware. Included are several applications that run from the command line:
To run these programs open a terminal and type the name of the application (including optional parameters, see manpages for details). This will give an output similar as shown here for sensors:
~$ sensors
k8temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Core0 Temp: +30.0°C
Core0 Temp: +30.0°C
Core1 Temp: +29.0°C
Core1 Temp: +36.0°C
it8718-isa-0228
Adapter: ISA adapter
[...] # shortened
Configuration of lm-sensors is done by configuration files in /etc/sensors3.conf and in /etc/sensors.conf (for details see manpage for sensors.conf).
sensord on Ubuntu bionic 18.04. Is there a different way to log readings?
sudo apt install psensor
I'm quite fond of psensor... it runs on the Indicator Bar (the "Systray" near the clock), so it is perhaps the most unobtrusive app that uses lm-sensors. It also can show a nice window with graphs displaying the history of each sensor, just like System Monitor does for memory, CPU usage, etc. It has logging too!
It also uses sensors other than lm-sensors, like hddtemp for HDD temperatures and NVidia and AMD GPU (video cards) temperature and fan.
Better screenshots than mine can be found in the author's website:
sudo apt install xsensors
It has a graphical interface that is easy to understand. It shows me the motherboard voltages (there are four of them), the CPU and motherboard temperature as well as the CPU fan speed, the speed of three chassis fans and the power fan speed. All monitored in real time. And it loads into the the Unity Dash.
For the record, if anyone is interested to get e-mail notifications/alerts on fans dying or temperatures shooting through the roof, I've written a simple service in Perl to do that monitoring for me. I've uploaded the source code and README to Github. I.e. yet another e-mail notification daemon :-) Couldn't find anything similarly trivial in the interwebs, now that sensord is deprecated... = just my two cents worth.
If you use XFCE, I think it`s better to show it in toolbar, like this, use this plugin:
The effect is this:
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