Call for a Coder to build a Tempurature Monitor

[sgtevmckay]

I want to thank you for the work you have placed in this.
I will take a look and hopefully others will as well.

Again there is the driver issue, and the UAC to iron out, but there may be no way around this.
Apparently sensor readings are driver driven

[XFiraga001]

So I've pretty much got this thread bookmarked just in case anything developed. Today I was messing around on the forums and found the Windows 2019 skin. And lo n' behold (how ever that's spelled it had a temperature meter.
I looked into it, and it turns out that you have to have speedfan running; an extra 4mb of ram running minimized.
I wouldn't be the best person to reverse engineer speedfan, but I mean, the sensors are on the computer, so I don't see a reason why rainmeter couldn't just read them.
Hope this helps someone.

Boris

Edit: forgot to include the link to the devianArt page
http://painkilla05.deviantart.com/art/Windows-2019-116245207

[sgtevmckay]

I have managed to track down some direct information on Core Temp 99.5
I think that any potential developer will find this page very intriguing, and informative.

Apparently the individual that has donate a lot of time on this Temp system, is actually attempting to make it a free resource for developers as well. As well as basing the the abilities through a DLL in development.

The index page is here:
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

The relevant Developer's page can be found through the main index page, or here:
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/developers.html

I suggest a full read of all relevant information from the main page.

Additional information Updated
And for an extra added shot in the arm. I just found this:
http://www.alcpu.com/forums/index.php?c=10

I would be happy to open a line of communication with this individual.

Thoughts?

[BetaKiller]

Talked to a friend that works alot with that and he said that Intel Core2 and on have a in-build reg with the info on temperature. The issue is getting the value of it which sadly im not as good as him xD
Taking a look anymore info and i will post here

[maminscris]

when i bought my mother board (it is from asus) came with a program called PC probe, that extracts the voltage and the core temperature from cpu, maybe if you look in that you will find something

the program is here http://www.techspot.com/downloads/265-asus-pc-probe.html

[smk]

yes thats true, asus bords come with lots of programes to monitor temps, voltiges, and to change fan speeds

[Chewtoy]

How are we comming along with this?
Have there been any developments at all?


Also; why don't we anything on the manual about CoreTempPlugin? ._o
Should be even though it's just us XP-users that can use it...

[jsmorley]

How are we comming along with this?
Have there been any developments at all?


Also; why don't we anything on the manual about CoreTempPlugin? ._o
Should be even though it's just us XP-users that can use it...

CoreTempPlugin is not a part of the Rainmeter build and does not ship with Rainmeter. It is strictly a 3rd party addon and we don't control it.

[Chewtoy]

CoreTempPlugin is not a part of the Rainmeter build and does not ship with Rainmeter. It is strictly a 3rd party addon and we don't control it.

Well I'll be...
So it is. Explains a thing or two.

[nvme]

As far as reading GPUs goes I know that both nVidia and ATI drivers have temperature monitors built in with their driver software. We should be able to get those readings from querying those drivers if possible.
As for reading temperatures from the chipset / cpu goes, i dont think it is possible to make a single plugin that will work for everyone. A better approach would be to just let the user specify how they want the values read, and then use the program they specify as a parameter to the plugin (Program=SPEEDFAN / Program=CORETEMP etc..). This way we would be able to add support for a lot more setups, drawback being there is still a need for external applications.

Another thing, I use a program called i8kfan , which is a fan and temperature reader developed just for DELL laptops. IT uses a driver called fanio.sys, but unfortunately the program is not open source. Maybe we can talk to the developer and see if he can provide us with an API to just query his driver for information.