How can I get System Monitor Indicator to display temperature?

Question

System Monitor Indicator comes with options to display CPU load, memory usage, and other system stats, but currently does not include an option to display temperature (of the CPU, HDD, SSD, GPU, etc.).

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There seems to be functionality built in for adding additional sensors by applying a command (by clicking "New"). However, I don't know how, and I cannot find any documentation that describes this feature.

My system is set up to report temperature as so:

user@host:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +27.8°C  (crit = +106.0°C)
temp2:        +29.8°C  (crit = +106.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0:  +79.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 0:         +79.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1:         +77.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

pkg-temp-0-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +79.0°C

This question refers to the package indicator-sysmonitor version 0.4.3 from 13.04 raring, although currently I am running it on a 13.10 saucy installation as it has not yet been updated in the ppa:

https://launchpad.net/indicator-sysmonitor

you can either wait for the indicator-sysmonitor or compile it from the source on launchpad. — Alvar, Nov 06 '13 at 08:26
I don't understand this comment. How would compiling the application myself add functionality to show temperature? — ajdev8, Nov 08 '13 at 01:53

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '14 at 16:58

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System Monitor Indicator is quite simple / flexible. You can add basically any script as custom sensor. The output it produces will then appear where you put its placeholder. I am using this to extract information from the output of sensors like this:

sensors | grep temp1 | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/+//'

to exctract the temperature or

sensors | grep fan1 | awk '{print $2}'

to extract the fan speed.

Just click on New, enter a name and a description and the respective lines from above under Command as shown here:

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PS: After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 the tool seemed to have problems to read the configuration file, resulting in a crash when I tried to add sensors. Removing .indicator-sysmonitor.json from my home directory fixed this.

answered Aug 16 '14 at 16:58

fuenfundachtzig

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Nice - I used sensors | grep "Core 1" | awk '{print $3}' as it can work differently on different hardware. – Wilf Apr 14 '15 at 14:56
how does this works on "System Load Indicator" 0.4 ; I can't see a add menu with a command enter field. – TiloBunt Nov 04 '16 at 05:14
System Load Indicator is a different application. This question is about https://github.com/fossfreedom/indicator-sysmonitor – fuenfundachtzig Nov 04 '16 at 07:42
System monitor indicator is an awesome tool. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jan 06 '21 at 00:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 06 '13 at 12:06

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There's an indicator for the temperature in this ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexmurray/indicator-sensors
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-sensors

It’s already updated with packages for saucy, although I haven't tried it myself since I'm still using 13.04. You can then launch it from the dash or from the command-line and configure to show different sensors and set up alarms.

answered Nov 06 '13 at 12:06

animaletdesequia

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Thanks. I can recommend this indicator to anybody who's interested in temperature monitoring (in 13.10). However, I am still interested in answers to how to get temperature support in indicator-sysmonitor as well. – ajdev8 Nov 08 '13 at 01:57

Pablo Bianchi · Answer 3 · 2019-03-08T05:58:36.200

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As said here you have:

system-monitor GNOME Shell extension

psensor

sudo apt install psensor

edited Mar 08 '19 at 05:58

answered Mar 05 '19 at 02:43

Pablo Bianchi

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Perhaps look at what indicator-sensors does to get temperature information and put that into a shell script.

Then install indicator-sysmonitor and add your script to that.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Community

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answered Jul 22 '14 at 11:08

Bernmeister

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score -2 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 13 '13 at 17:54

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as of now System Monitor Indicator can't show cpu temperature. Here is the answer from the author https://answers.launchpad.net/indicator-sysmonitor/+question/238748

answered Nov 13 '13 at 17:54

eyeinthebrick

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There is no answer given at the link you provided, as far as I can see? – ajdev8 Nov 14 '13 at 00:52
you right, but it was there yesterday. searching through the site, i belive it still does not support such feature now. – eyeinthebrick Nov 14 '13 at 16:11

How can I get System Monitor Indicator to display temperature?

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system-monitor GNOME Shell extension

psensor

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