ModernGadgets is a set of sleek, minimalist, information-dense gadgets that are designed to fit right into your modern desktop. It is the result of my tinkering with Rainmeter for the last three years, and is heavily based on SilverAzide's Gadget Replicas. The overarching goal of this suite is ease-of-use. Thus, everything has been made as simple and streamlined as possible.
ModernGadgets requires HWiNFO, a free system monitoring utility, for full functionality. Alternatively, some information in CPU Meter may be retrieved through the CoreTemp or SpeedFan applications.
Want even more gadgets? Check out the Gadgets Additions suite!
REQUIRES RAINMETER 4.5 OR NEWER
REQUIRES .NET FRAMEWORK 4.5 OR NEWER
REQUIRES WINDOWS 7 SP1 OR NEWER
Download latest version (v1.8.2)
Older versions
ModernGadgets on GitHub
Installation and Setup:
Download the skin suite's .rmskin file and open it. Follow the standard Rainmeter skin installation process. If it is your first time using ModernGadgets, it is recommended to load the current layout in order to be presented with a Welcome skin, which will contain many useful links.
Please keep in mind that for many features, you need to install and configure HWiNFO. Click here to view the HWiNFO setup tutorial (also available as a link from the welcome screen).
Credits:
Designed and programmed by raiguard.
Inspired by SilverAzide's "Gadgets for Rainmeter" suite.
"IBM Plex Sans" font from Google Fonts, under the Apache 2.0 License.
"Font Awesome" icons from FortAwesome, under the Font Awesome Free license.
Other icons sourced from icons8.com
Weather icons by Erik Flowers: https://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/
Weather information is powered by The Weather Channel: https://weather.com/
Special Thanks:
SilverAzide - Original Gadgets suite, ActiveNet plugin, NetMonitor utility, fixed precision format script
stangowner - HWiNFO Plugin, HWiNFO Shared Memory Viewer
Gadget Features:
Audio Meter
- Volume and sound device controls
- NowPlaying media controls (supports both local and web media players)
- Adjustable visualizer
- Able to be scaled to any size
Battery Meter
- Displays current battery charge status and metrics
- Plays a warning sound when your battery gets critically low (configurable)
- Able to be scaled to any size
Calendar
- ModernGadgets-styled implementation of LuaCalendar
- Displays current month and day
- Past or future months can be navigated through
- Supports iCal event files
- Able to be scaled to any size
Chronometer
- Displays current date and time
- Shows system uptime and logon time
- Supports up to two alarms
- Displays a custom event countdown
- Includes stopwatch and timer applets
- Able to be scaled to any size
CPU Meter
- Per-thread CPU usage, per-core CPU temperature** and voltage*
- Supports up to 64 CPU threads
- Shows CPU name, RAM and Page File information
- Shows CPU clock speed, CPU fan speed**
- Shows top process by CPU usage
- Thermal throttling detection and alarm*
- Line graph displays CPU temperature**, per-thread CPU usage, RAM usage, and Page file usage
- Optional average CPU usage graph display
- Opens task manager on double-click
- Able to be scaled to any size
Disks Meter
- Supports all disk drive slots (A-Z)
- Automatically adjusts when disks are connected/disconnected
- Displays disk name, read/write time usage, current read/write rates, and storage information for each disk
- Line graph displays read/write rates and read/write time usage for each disk
- Clicking a disk name will open File Explorer on the selected disk
- Includes eject buttons for ejecting removable disks***
- Able to be scaled to any size
GPU Meter*
- GPU name, general usage, and temperature
- Fan speed information for up to three fans
- VRAM usage and memory clock speed
- Memory controller usage
- Video clock speed
- Core Voltage
- Line graph displays general GPU usage, VRAM usage, fan speed, and memory controller usage
- Includes four GPU meters to monitor up to 4 discrete GPUs for multi-GPU setups
- Able to be scaled to any size
Network Meter
- Local and global IP addresses
- View your location based on your IP address
- Shows Network Ping to a specified URL
- Displays Current upload/download rates in both bits/sec and bytes/sec
- Displays Session and total data uploaded/downloaded
- Displays peak network traffic speed
- Line graph shows current upload/download rates
- Shows link to speedtest.net for testing your network speed
- Includes alternate “pro” mode with more accurate tracking (requires installation of third-party software)
- Able to be scaled to any size
Process Meter
- Displays ten processes, ordered by either CPU usage or GPU usage
- Displays process RAM/VRAM usage
- Allows process filtering, defaulting to all system-related processes
- Shows average CPU/GPU usage in the gadget header*
- Line graph shows average CPU/GPU usage*
- Able to be scaled to any size
Weather Meter
- Displays current weather for the selected location
- Displays sun/moon data, such as rise/set times, current lunar phase, and a sky dial
- Able to be scaled to any size
* Requires HWiNFO
** Requires CoreTemp, SpeedFan, or HWiNFO
*** Requires administrator privileges
Changelog:
Code: Select all
v1.8.2 - 2022-4-7
Fixed:
- [GPU Meter] NVIDIA was not being auto-detected in all cases (#273)
- [Weather Meter] Updated Weather.com API key (#274)
v1.8.1 - 2021-9-25
Bugfixes:
- Fixed several broken readouts in GPU Meter
v1.8.0 - 2021-9-23
Features:
- Updated to HWiNFO 7.0
- The settings format has changed, so all users will need to reconfigure their HWiNFO IDs
Changes:
- Sidebars have been removed
- Use a standalone tool, such as MaxMax, to prevent your gadgets from being covered
- This was done due to the presence of many unfixable issues with the sidebar implementation
- Updated to ActiveNet 3.0
Bugfixes:
- Fixed an error related to audio meter mouse regions (#229)
- Fixed an error with a missing image when Disks Meter had more than ten disks (#244)
- Fixed that GPU Meter variants 2 and 3 would use the settings for variant 1 (#246)
- Fixed that the GPU Meter VRAM labels would bounce between compact and regular fonts in some cases (#245)
- Fixed that Weather Meter would be cut off on the bottom when the scale was not 1.0 (#238)
- Fixed the CPU clock speed displaying as zero when first enabled (#233)
- Fixed the sky dial sun/moon visibility behavior