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System Monitoring Capabilities with lm-sensors

Unlock the potential of system monitoring with lm-sensors, a powerful tool for retrieving temperature and voltage data from sensors on your hardware components.


Install lm-sensors

emerge --ask lm-sensors

Detect sensors automatically

sensors-detect --auto

Dump Temperature in Celsius

sensors

Print Temperatures in Fahrenheit

sensors -f

Print Sensors with JSON Output

sensors -j

Setting Up Sensor Detection

sensors-detect

Print Critical Alarms Only

sensors -A

Display Adapter for Each Chip

sensors -u

Display cpu temperatures for a specifik chip

sensors -u coretemp-isa-0000

Monitor cpu temps in realtime

while :; do sensors|grep ^Core|while read x; do printf '% .23s\n' "$x"; done; sleep 1 && clear; done;