KTemperature

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Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

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Description:

KTemperature is an application to monitor the system temperature. I was motivated to develop this utility because I could not find a simple system tray resident application for monitoring the system temperature using the ACPI interface.

The application obtains the system temperature from the file /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature .

I have been using Linux and Open Source for quite sometime and this is my first contribution. I hope this will lead to
many more contributions from me.

SuSE 9.2 rpm for the i686 platform is available for download.
The available rpm also works for SuSE 9.3.
The rpm available for download can be installed on SuSE 10.0 as well.
Last changelog:

15 years ago

Version 1.1
Added check for the presence of /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature file. If the file is not present the temperature will be displayed as NA.

Version 1.2
Corrected typo.
Visual representation of the "hotness" of the system.
The system maximum temperature can be provided as an input. The system tray icon will change redness depending on the ratio of provided maximum temperature to the current temperature.

Version 1.3
Configurable temperature monitoring interface, can be anything as long as the temperature can be obtained by doing a read operation on the file.
Stored configuration. The configuration is stored in $HOME/.ktemperatue and read on startup.
Increased sensitivity of redness to temperature changes.

Version 1.4
Auto adjusting text font. The color of the text adjusts to a compliment of the background color, This ensures that the text is clearly visible irrespective of the redness of the systray icon.
More prominent text. The text is bold faced and the font of the text is bigger.

Version 1.5
Changes of parameters (polling interval and max, temperature) take instantaneous effect without having to restart the application.
Boundary values cases of redness, the calculation of redness difference between the background and the foreground has been modified to ensure a minimum difference.
Text alignment, the temperature text will be aligned in the middle both vertically and horizontally.

Version 1.6
Auto loading of the neccessary ACPI thermal module and its dependencies if, required. The root password is checked prior to loading the modules.
Detection of two variants of the thermal interface, namely
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM and
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM

Version 1.7
The ACPI thermal interface was being detected by searching the /proc/modules file. However, that approach will lead to an irritating request for root password in cases where the module in compiled into the kernel. The thermal interface detection has been modified to take care of the above case.

Version 1.8
Added Pause, Restart and Update options in the right click menu for more control of polling.
Cleaned the auto detection of ACPI thermal interface. The first file in the thermal_zone directory(other than .. and .)is taken as the temperature file.
Fixed the width of the main window to be always greater than the width of widest child window.

Version 1.9
Changed the implementation of 'redness' from RGB space to HSV space for greater sensitivity.
The background color changes from green at minimum temperature to red at maximum temperature.
The text is always constant and will have a clear contrast all temperatures.
Replace memcpy with strcpy in monitor interface selection.
Interface(s) selected in the drop down list will be honoured when the Set button is clicked after the selection.
Used grid layout for the main widget.

Version 1.9-1
Created archive to include version information.
Added keyboard shortcuts to right click menu options.
Added caption to root password dialog.

I would like to acknowledge the suggestions that I have received. The changes have been made taking into account these suggestions.

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Nisaea

12 years ago

Hi
First things first, I love the idea. Really. It's exactly what I was looking for. Good job.

However, I can't make it work. The problem comes from me I guess.
I have the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone directory, but... it's empty!

How come? Is there a way to fix it?

Thank you.

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hit102

13 years ago

Solution:

Put any png-file in the file-field.
It works.

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flyinsquirrel992

13 years ago

the page seems to force an .exe file (lmao), good thing this is a Linux site or some OS's coulda been hurt (^.^)

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danielskeenan

13 years ago

The Download link seems to go to a domain parking site by GoDaddy. You may should probably renew the domain. Is anyone mirroring this?

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TroyWatson

15 years ago

A suggestion (or two!):

1) The temperature display font needs to be user adjustable, or better yet, somehow auto-adjusted to fit, as it doesn't fit on all size panels. Screenshot here: http://users.tpg.com.au/drtwox/ktemp.png

2) Perhaps this type of app would be more suited to being a panel applet.

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sodamnmad

15 years ago

It would be nice if it were more customizable. For example on my laptop I find that my hard drive gets a bit hot as well... This can be monitored with something like "smartctrl -a /dev/hda | grep Temperature". It would be cool to also monitor cpu speed "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz" (although this is no longer temperature)

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zero1

15 years ago

i don't have /proc/acpi/thermal_zone.... can i get that or what?

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CrAcKeDBoY

15 years ago

i've the same problem. my acpi module is static in kernel and i have this dir tree:


$ dir -R
.:
ac_adapter button event info thermal_zone
alarm dsdt fadt power_resource video
battery embedded_controller fan processor wakeup

./ac_adapter:

./battery:

./button:
power

./button/power:
PWRB PWRF

./button/power/PWRB:
info

./button/power/PWRF:
info

./embedded_controller:

./fan:

./power_resource:

./processor:
CPU0

./processor/CPU0:
info limit power throttling

./thermal_zone:

./video:



When i load ktemperature ut it return me:

$ ktemperature
libpng error: Not a PNG file

any idea ??

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avasaralak

15 years ago

The libpng error does not impact the running of the application and it has nothing to do whether the acpi is statically compiled in or dynamically loaded. However, if the thermal_zone directory is present then the application should not ask for loading the themral module.
The interface can be selected using the file selection.

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CrAcKeDBoY

15 years ago

My ACPI support in enabled into kernel with all sub-options

This is my config:

http://phpfi.com/84405

Any idea ?

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avasaralak

15 years ago

If ACPI is statically compiled, then there should be an acpi directory in /proc. The acpi directory in turn should have a themral_zone directory. The thermal_zone directory should have a file entry giving the temperature of the system. Once you have identified the file please set it in KTemperature.
I hope this helps.

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CrAcKeDBoY

15 years ago

[quote]
i've the same problem. my acpi module is static in kernel and i have this dir tree:


$ dir -R
.:
ac_adapter button event info thermal_zone
alarm dsdt fadt power_resource video
battery embedded_controller fan processor wakeup

./ac_adapter:

./battery:

./button:
power

./button/power:
PWRB PWRF

./button/power/PWRB:
info

./button/power/PWRF:
info

./embedded_controller:

./fan:

./power_resource:

./processor:
CPU0

./processor/CPU0:
info limit power throttling

./thermal_zone:

./video:



When i load ktemperature ut it return me:

$ ktemperature
libpng error: Not a PNG file

any idea ??[/quote]

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thowe

13 years ago

Hola

I had the same problem. The reason was that the temperature file can be in different locations. In my case it was in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature

You can set the location of the file in the control menu, that pops up, if you left click on KTemperature's toolbar icon (the one that shows NA)

The "Not a PNG file" bug, mentioned by someone else, I experience, too, when I start from command line, but it does not keep KTemperature from running properly.

Best
thowe

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avasaralak

15 years ago

It could that your system does not support ACPI, typically older systems have APM.
If ACPI is supported then check if there is a /proc/acpi directory. If there is no ACPI directory try loading the acpi, processor and thermal modules.

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sunfreak

15 years ago

I've got an error message with ktemperature 1.9.1-0 and the trayicon in is missing (shows "NA"):
~> ktemperature
libpng error: Not a PNG file

I'm running SuSE 9.3 with KDE 3.4.2 Level "b".

Any halp?

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avasaralak

15 years ago

I am not sure why the libpng error is logged. It could be because the included .png files are not proper. However, the error does not effect the performane of the application.
As far as the NA is concerned, do you have the acpi thermal module loaded ? If it is loaded check if there is a /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TH*M/temperature and if there is an entry, right click on the system tray select restore and configure the monitoring interface.
I hope this helps.

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sunfreak

15 years ago

I changed the reference file to the temperatur file in THRC dir:

# ls /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THR*
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRC:
. .. cooling_mode polling_frequency state temperature trip_points

/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRS:
. .. cooling_mode polling_frequency state temperature trip_points

Now the display of the temp sensor works fine.
Thanx.

Regards,
Juergen

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yggdrasil

15 years ago

This is exactly what I needed! Well done! Thanks!

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cyb

15 years ago

Hello,
Is there a way to have a popup when a critical temperature is reached ? If not, it would be nice.

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avasaralak

15 years ago

Currently, there is no alarm indication when the maximum temperature is reached.
I did not add an alarm since, I was not sure whether it would be a good idea to force more work (and increase temperature further) when the system is at its maximum temperature.

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RND

15 years ago

we need the option to select which background colour and font the tray icon will use.

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avasaralak

15 years ago

The background color changes depending on the temperature. As far the font and size of the temperature, I will try to make them configurable.

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suckerpvn

15 years ago

Is there a way to prevent your app from asking the root pw? I really hate user input, even though I don't reboot often. I first thought that by adding modprobe to /etc/sudoers it would stop asking, but it didn't. How can I let the app stop asking, or can you implement functionality so that it does not need to ask? I don't really know how the program itself works, and I guess more people would like this feature so I'll give you the pleasure to start coding! :-)


PS. The program is great though, the best I found! I wanted this functionality after my pc locked when the CPU got overheated on a hot summer day while playing Enemy Territory. :-D

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avasaralak

15 years ago

The utility is asking for the root password to load the ACPI thermal module since it has detected that the monitoring interface is not present.
If you can ensure that the ACPI thermal module is loaded by the time utility runs or if you compile it into the kernel then the root password will not be asked.
In the next version I will try to make changes so that the root password will not be asked if not required.

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suckerpvn

15 years ago

Thanks, that does solve my problem. Is seems that I needed to append 'thermal' to the file /etc/moprobe.preload .

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15 years ago

Version 1.1
Added check for the presence of /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature file. If the file is not present the temperature will be displayed as NA.

Version 1.2
Corrected typo.
Visual representation of the "hotness" of the system.
The system maximum temperature can be provided as an input. The system tray icon will change redness depending on the ratio of provided maximum temperature to the current temperature.

Version 1.3
Configurable temperature monitoring interface, can be anything as long as the temperature can be obtained by doing a read operation on the file.
Stored configuration. The configuration is stored in $HOME/.ktemperatue and read on startup.
Increased sensitivity of redness to temperature changes.

Version 1.4
Auto adjusting text font. The color of the text adjusts to a compliment of the background color, This ensures that the text is clearly visible irrespective of the redness of the systray icon.
More prominent text. The text is bold faced and the font of the text is bigger.

Version 1.5
Changes of parameters (polling interval and max, temperature) take instantaneous effect without having to restart the application.
Boundary values cases of redness, the calculation of redness difference between the background and the foreground has been modified to ensure a minimum difference.
Text alignment, the temperature text will be aligned in the middle both vertically and horizontally.

Version 1.6
Auto loading of the neccessary ACPI thermal module and its dependencies if, required. The root password is checked prior to loading the modules.
Detection of two variants of the thermal interface, namely
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM and
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM

Version 1.7
The ACPI thermal interface was being detected by searching the /proc/modules file. However, that approach will lead to an irritating request for root password in cases where the module in compiled into the kernel. The thermal interface detection has been modified to take care of the above case.

Version 1.8
Added Pause, Restart and Update options in the right click menu for more control of polling.
Cleaned the auto detection of ACPI thermal interface. The first file in the thermal_zone directory(other than .. and .)is taken as the temperature file.
Fixed the width of the main window to be always greater than the width of widest child window.

Version 1.9
Changed the implementation of 'redness' from RGB space to HSV space for greater sensitivity.
The background color changes from green at minimum temperature to red at maximum temperature.
The text is always constant and will have a clear contrast all temperatures.
Replace memcpy with strcpy in monitor interface selection.
Interface(s) selected in the drop down list will be honoured when the Set button is clicked after the selection.
Used grid layout for the main widget.

Version 1.9-1
Created archive to include version information.
Added keyboard shortcuts to right click menu options.
Added caption to root password dialog.

I would like to acknowledge the suggestions that I have received. The changes have been made taking into account these suggestions.

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