Colors of Noise

Continuous temperature monitoring from the kernel's /sys/class/thermal/ in an application can be cumbersome. gtherm aims to make that simpler by providing a daemon (gthd) that exports thermal zones and cooling cells over DBus and providing a small library libgtherm (and GObject introspection bindings). gthcli is a simple command line client that displays the currently found values:

Thermal Zones
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      dbus path: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/ThermalZone/0
           type: cpu-thermal
    temperature: 53,00°C
cooling devices: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/CoolingDevice/0

      dbus path: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/ThermalZone/3
           type: max170xx_battery
    temperature: 36,60°C

      dbus path: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/ThermalZone/2
           type: vpu-thermal
    temperature: 54,00°C

      dbus path: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/ThermalZone/1
           type: gpu-thermal
    temperature: 54,00°C
cooling devices: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/CoolingDevice/1

Cooling Devices
---------------
    dbus path: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/CoolingDevice/0
         type: thermal-idle-0
    max state: 100
current state: 0

    dbus path: /org/sigxcpu/Thermal/CoolingDevice/1
         type: 38000000.gpu
    max state: 6
current state: 0

There's support for gnome-usage in the works:

Next up is support for trip points (and maybe tuning cooling behaviour from userspace later on).