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WavApps

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Dell Fans not Showing in Conky

Good day all. I have a Dell Precision 3581 laptop with Debian 12 LXQT. I have tried so many things to get fan speed to show in conky .The best I could get is NoFans? ... Is that how it goes for me?

Döbbie03

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Dell Fans not Showing in Conky

Good day all. I have a Dell Precision 3581 laptop with Debian 12 LXQT. I have tried so many things to get fan speed to show in conky .The best I could get is NoFans? ... Is that how it goes for me?

Best to open a thread for this topic rather than here.

Edit:  Split off to own topic.

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PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

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Re: Dell Fans not Showing in Conky

Run the command "sensors" in a terminal and post the output.

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Re: Dell Fans not Showing in Conky

Been a few days but thought to post a possible answer anyway.  For me on my dell Inspirion 3793, What I am using to find the temp and fan speed is:

Temp:$alignr${hwmon 4 temp 1}°C
Fan Speed:${alignr} ${hwmon 4 fan 1} rpm

May need to flip through numbers associated with hwmon to find the right one for your system.

PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

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Re: Dell Fans not Showing in Conky

Been a few days but thought to post a possible answer anyway.  For me on my dell Inspirion 3793, What I am using to find the temp and fan speed is:

Temp:$alignr${hwmon 4 temp 1}°C
Fan Speed:${alignr} ${hwmon 4 fan 1} rpm

May need to flip through numbers associated with hwmon to find the right one for your system.

One method to discover hwmon paths.

Run the sensors command in a terminal:

Decide what sensor you're after - fan in this example - then run:

for i in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/fan*_input; do echo "$(<$(dirname $i)/name): $(cat ${i%_*}_label 2>/dev/null || echo $(basename ${i%_*})) $(readlink -f $i)"; done

change fan*_input to temp*_input for the temperature hwmon paths.

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Sector11

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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Re: Dell Fans not Showing in Conky

Been a few days but thought to post a possible answer anyway.  For me on my dell Inspirion 3793, What I am using to find the temp and fan speed is:

Temp:$alignr${hwmon 4 temp 1}°C
Fan Speed:${alignr} ${hwmon 4 fan 1} rpm

May need to flip through numbers associated with hwmon to find the right one for your system.

One method to discover hwmon paths.

Run the sensors command in a terminal:

Here's a better way, since you are opening a terminal anyway.
I call it "sensen" the bash alias:

alias sensen='echo "sensors && '=-=-=-=-=-=-=' && inxi -s -c24" && sensors && echo '=-=-=-=-=-=-=' && inxi -s -c24'

the results:

 31 Jan 24 @ 09:49:59 ~
   $ sensen
sensors && =-=-=-=-=-=-= && inxi -s -c24
amdgpu-pci-0700
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx:           N/A  
vddnb:            N/A  
edge:         +42.0°C  

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Tctl:         +42.6°C  

=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
 
 31 Jan 24 @ 09:50:11 ~
   $ 

Now just compare sensors with inxi because sometime you get the same results for multiple things.

My 'onboard' graphics card doesn't give a lot of info and this doesn't work as it should.
BUT:  I'm sure Your Mileage Will Vary!

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