Questions tagged [sensors]
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Are there any disadvantages of having a "free fall sensor" on a hard disk drive?
This is a general question that came out of a specific comparison between the Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEKT and Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BJKT (which is the same as the former but with a free ...
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Interpreting sensor names
Here is the output from the sensors command on my Late 2012 MacMini 6,2 running Linux. I am unable to find out what each code means. What parameter do each of these code represent?
I would like to ...
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USB thermometer that works in Linux [closed]
I am constructing a small robot based on an embedded board running Linux.
I am looking for a USB thermometer device, which will work with the 2.6 kernel. So far I found a bunch of devices, but it's ...
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sensors-detect does not detect
I am trying to run sensors-detect in Debian6 64 bits and I get:
Sorry, no sensors were detected. Either your system has no sensors, or they are not supported, or they are connected to an I2C or SMBus ...
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Why does my Logitech mouse sometimes ignore the scroll wheel turning?
About a week ago my Logitech G502 Proteus's scroll wheel intermittently stopped scrolling correctly. It appears to happen in a pattern; so if I scroll up 50 times in a row, it will ignore the 10th, ...
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SpeedFan suddenly stops being able to detect controllers and sensors mid game
so I'm playing games on my PC and I have some fan control setup using SpeedFan for my PWM fans which usually works really nice. However, the other day my game wasn't running so smoothly and I saw that ...
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How can I manually control a fan from the terminal?
I'm trying to control the fan speed on my desktop, and I'd appreciate your help.
Goal: Use a script to control the fan speed on my computer.
Motivation: The embedded BIOS "Smart Fan" settings isn't ...
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what are iwlwifi_1-virtual-0 and pch_cannonlake-virtual-0 in sensors output in linux?
this is my sensors output:
$ sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +43.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +42.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core ...
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SYSTIN & AUXTIN temperatures: Is it normal?
Here is my hardware configuration:
Mainboard: B550M-HDV
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3
When I run sensors :
stulluk ~ $ sensors
nct6793-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
in0: ...
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Profibus or MODBUS over RS485
We are operating old systems which have many modules we are not able to find on the market. So we are looking for replacements. S7-200 PLC with several sensors is communicating over RS485 pair cable. ...
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How to find the position of a sensor?
I found critical temperatures in my computer using Libre Hardware Monitor.
Sensor #3 shows 95°C and sensor #6 83°C. I tried to find out, where these sensors are. But I can not find it in the manual.
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CCD vs. CMOS webcams [closed]
Several years ago, I tried a CMOS-based webcam and it really sucked. It needed an extremely brightly-lit room to work. Around the same time, I also tried a CCD camera and it worked great. But since ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 running on Acer Aspire 5315 Laptop keeps shutting down unexpectedly
Basically the title says it all - I have an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop on which I've installed 'Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop i386' from a bootable flash drive and while using the system thereafter all seems to ...
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lm-sensors - always returns 32 degrees (celsius) for temperature
On my VIA EPIA motherboard (using VIA VT8231 ISA bridge), I get strange output for the lm-sensors temperature reading. It always returns 32 degrees (celsius).
I have previously had correct output ...
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Cannot Detect CPU Temperature?
# sensors-detect
# sensors-detect revision 3.4.0-8 (2016-06-01)
# System: Supermicro Super Server [0123456789]
# Board: Supermicro H11DSi
# Kernel: 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64
# Processor: AMD ...
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Compass a la USB [closed]
I'm looking for a compass (the cardinal direction kind) sensor that I can connect via USB. I'm willing to revert to an integrated circuit and Arduino or some such, but an off-the-shelf device is ...
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Automatically detecting temperature sensors on startup (Ubuntu 10.10)
I am very close to achieving my goal of setting up a CPU temperature graph that is displayed in the top panel of my desktop. I have the applet and have gotten it to graph temperatures, which appear to ...
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Why my computer mouse reacts to tube light?
I was working on my computer and I lifted my mouse and rotated it. Light from the tube light which was 2-3 meters away from my mouse fell on the mouse sensor, the cursor started moving as if I shook ...
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How do tools like Speedfan detect the CPU temperature?
There are some applications which claim to be able to detect the temperature of various components inside your PC, for example: Speedfan. How do they detect the temperature without using any external ...
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Cpu is reporting its at 108 Celsius
My CPU in my HP Laptop ENVY TouchSmart m6-n113dx AMD FX-Series FX-7500 (2.10GHz) 6GB Memory 750GB HDD AMD Radeon R7 Series 15.6" Touchscreen Windows 8.1 1 Year warranty is reporting its at 108 Celsius ...
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How easily and continuously monitoring CPU's temperature using only "sensors" (without a gui widget)?
How easily and continuously monitoring the CPU's temperature using only "sensors"? That is, how continuously monitoring CPU's temperature without additional software (without a gui widget, for example)...
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What are the 3 temperatures (composite and sensors) reported by a WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe?
I have a WD_BLACK SN770 SSD NVMe that may be running too hot under load.
So to monitor it, I installed Western Digital Dashboard and it reports 3 temperatures:
Libre Hardware Monitor reports 3 ...
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Why is my motherboard's CPU temperature inconsistent with the individual core temperatures? [duplicate]
This image demonstrates what I'm talking about:
The motherboard's CPU temperature is in green. The individual cores' temperatures are in red.
I've tested the temperatures in three different ...
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High fan speed when touching the left underside of my laptop
Problem
When i touch the left underside of the laptop the fan speed goes up drastically
Other than in this situation, the fans almost never spin up (unless i run something like a 3d game or do heavy ...
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Using IPMITOOL to disable a fan sensor
I am no longer using FAN3 in my system. But there is still a lower/upper sensor bound set for it. I had set that previously using ipmitool.
How can I use ipmitool to set all the values back to na ...
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Locate hall effect sensor for disabling
We are wanting to use windows tablets in a high magnetic field. The problem we have encountered is the sensor used to detect a "smart cover" and shut off the screen is being triggered upon entered the ...
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Mini "Xinda" board with 3 pins
Does anybody know what is this board, if it has some resistors and how is it wired to the sensor.
The component on it is Dallas 18B20 digital temperature sensor.
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How do remote sensors connect to a password-protected wifi network?
I'm quite new to networking in general, and am wondering how remote sensing devices are able to connect to someone's home wifi network?
For example, take a device like this:
https://www.kickstarter....
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Server keeps resetting
I have a server that keeps resetting. I installed lm_sensors last time, and discovered it was die to the fan not working, causing the temperature to rise.
Now the problem has returned, and lm_sensors ...
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Shut down on start up - faulty temperature sensor?
I have a packard bell Imedia 4145 about 18 months old.
It shuts down soon after I switch it on. It will get as far as starting to load windows then shut off.
Each time I turn it on it runs for a ...
