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vaidas

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Registered: 2008-02-08

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Laptop temperature monitor

Hi,

I offten use my laptop in my bed, sometimes if i'm compiling something or playing it just gets too hot and turns of (I forget to look to my conky for a CPU temp)

The question is - are there any software that could alert me, maybe I need to write some sort of script and integrate it into acpid or sth? I just dont know where to start...

zyghom

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Re: Laptop temperature monitor

lm_sensors

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toorima

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Registered: 2007-11-06

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Re: Laptop temperature monitor

Get a cooling pad, they are about $20, your laptop will thank you

fukawi2

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Re: Laptop temperature monitor

Get a cooling pad, they are about $20, your laptop will thank you

Even just a bit of wood to keep the airflow going... Assuming you want your laptop to last much longer

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vaidas

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Registered: 2008-02-08

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Re: Laptop temperature monitor

Get a cooling pad, they are about $20, your laptop will thank you

Thanks, I have never known about the existance of such thing...

Found xfce4-sensors-plugin, but it only shows current temperature... I gues I will have to modify it for a bit myself....

zyghom

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Re: Laptop temperature monitor

Found xfce4-sensors-plugin, but it only shows current temperature...

will you modify it to forecast it ?

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vaidas

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Re: Laptop temperature monitor

no, just make some action when the temperature is high, to show some messagebox or notification....

fwojciec

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Re: Laptop temperature monitor

no, just make some action when the temperature is high, to show some messagebox or notification....

A script like this could do what you want:

#!/bin/sh

SLEEP=15
THRESHOLD=60
ICON=/usr/share/icons/Tango/48x48/status/gtk-dialog-warning.png

while :
do
    temp=`cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature | sed 's/[^0-9]//g'`
    if [ $temp -gt $THRESHOLD ] && [ "$DISPLAY" = ":0.0" ]; then
        notify-send "WARNING! High Temperature!" \
            "Current system temperature is $temp" \
            -i "$ICON" \
            -t 150000 \
            -u critical
    fi
    sleep $SLEEP
done

You would need to run it with your X session (start if from .xinitrc, for example).

But in general -- this sounds like a hardware problem that should be taken care of.  If it is possible you should try opening the laptop and cleaning it out.

EDIT: You need notification-daemon package installed for this to work.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-12-10 16:27:46)