Questions tagged [sensors]
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WiFi sensor temperature increases when disabling wifi
For some strange reason, when I disable wifi with the nmcli command
nmcli radio wifi off
I see an immediate rise in the wifi sensor temperature, from around 30C to more than 60C. Because of this, I ...
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High fan speed when touching the left underside of my laptop
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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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Why the screen rotation on my Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1 not working?
The screen rotation function in my laptop Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1 is not working when the laptop is bent beyond 180 degrees. The keyboard stays on and is only turned off when the computer is bent ...
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My mouse cursor is not moving
So today whilst i was doing something on the laptop my mouse started to act weird. The cursor wouldnt stopped at random times for like 2 seconds.
But now my cursor doesnt even move! I checked the back ...
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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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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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How to convert sensor SPI/I2C output to serial (RS-232)? [closed]
I have a home automation project which requires me to connect small, temperature/GPS sensor boards (normally used in Arduino/Pico project and output to SPI/I2C) to an industrial controller which uses ...
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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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I cant monitor my fan speed on my HP Pavilion Gaming laptop 15
Device Specification:
Device name- LAPTOP-B9SLVP96
Processor- AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics 3.00 GHz
Installed RAM- 8.00 GB (7.36 GB usable)
Device ID- E6C61B4D-41D3-4FFE-B347-...
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Acceleration Sensor not working (?)
I have a Lenovo c940-14IIL and my screen doesn't rotate anymore on its own.
After trying everything out with the software, it seems like my acceleration sensor is not working/broken.
Is there a way:
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Send ESC (ASCII 27) to sensor using putty
I am working on the Young anemometer 81000, datasheet: http://www.youngusa.com/Manuals/81000-90(I).pdf.
Section 4.0 COMMAND MENU tells me I should send the ESC character (ASCII 27) 3 times in quick ...
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Is there any issue to motherboard sensor if i always use temp sensor app like openhwminotor?
I always minimise openhwmonitor which gives temp sensor readings. Is there any problem to my motherboard or is it stress system if i do it????
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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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Network sensoring with exceptionally large flows
I wanted to know if anyone had experience handling single flows that generate 90 kpps or upward of traffic. My conundrum is that I use tools which I would like to be able to properly see an entire ...
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Reasonable Limits (alarm) for sensor temperature (lm-sensors)
Using sensors command (package lm-sensors) one finds out values (mainly temperature).
I guess it is not useful at all, if one is not capable of estimating which values are critical?
How to find ...
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I dont know if my fan broken or thermal sensor is dying
Yesterday, everything still worked fine, my laptop running 24/7. Today CPU temp going 80 to 100C (normal is around 50-65C), so i know my fan is not spinning at all. But Windows is not crashed yet by ...
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Trying to find the general temperature sensor of my CPU
I recently have downloaded this free-software called HWiNFO that lets me make graphs with the temperatures, and automatically does the average temperature of a sensor in a specific time, which I found ...
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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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Location of temperature sensors on the mainboard?
I installed PSensor in order to monitor and adjust the CPU fan speed on my ThinkPad R60 (which was overheating) and was surprised to find a total of 14 different temperature readings:
It seems there ...
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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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Can't enroll finger print with Windows Hello
I have a HP ProBook 4540s running Windows 10 Pro and I can't enroll my fingerprint.
It allows me to start registering my fingerprint:
But it always gets stuck there. The driver is installed.
Any ...
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How to fix flipped and jumping touch screen and flipped orientation sensor after a driver update
After a Windows reset of a Windows tablet, it automatically updated the driver and I don’t have a backup for drivers.
The new drivers make the touch screen and orientation sensor completely unusable ...
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Is there a way to connect it to the PC without using direct serial port (or parallel port)?
I want to connect a sensor to my PC (MPU-9250 Nine-Axis (Gyro + Accelerometer + Compass) MEMS MotionTracking™ Device).
I know that in the device drivers list there is the category "Sensors" (...
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strange cpu temperature - reasons
I encountered a rather strange issue:
I have an Intel Coffee Lake, Core i9 9900KF 3.6GHz running on a MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON. Couple of hours ago I decided to check temperatures (for no ...
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Compilation error in arduino IDE while integrating with DHT11 sensor
I have added the DHT11 library already but I am still getting this below mentioned error while compiling. Kindly help me to fix this. Thank you in advance
Arduino: 1.8.9 (Windows 10), Board: "...
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Is the fingerprint scanner of HP laptops such as the ProBook 430 G2 simply incompatible with current Windows versions?
I recently bought a refurbished HP ProBook 430 G2 in Japan. It feels new and I'm very happy with it.
I believe this model was originally sold with Windows 8 or 8.1 but it had a fresh install of ...
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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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TI SensorTag CC2650 missing 6 out of 11 services
I was doing a project with TI SensorTag CC2650.
I was able to see 11 services when I got this sensortag. The firmware was v1.20.
After I tried to upgrade the firmware using the IOS app, the device ...
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How do I calculate the rpm of the fan connected to my Raspberry Pi? [closed]
So what I've got is a Noctua fan(product link: https://noctua.at/en/products/fan/nf-a4x20-5v/specification) connected to a Raspberry Pi 3. I want to know the RPM of the fan at every second interval. I ...
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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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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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Create Discovery Rule for Zabbix Agent
I am trying to create a discovery rule to automate task of creating new items for temperature sensors. We have inbuilt key:sensor[device,sensor,.
I had added sensor name manually key: sensor[coretemp-...
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PC is shutting down due to overheating but heat sink is cool to the touch
my PC is freezing up and shutting down. I have tried reseating the heatsink but the issue isn't fixed. I am very new to hardware maintenance and I'm not sure what to try next, any advice appreciated ...
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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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Is using it87 Linux driver with ASUS M5A99FX safe?
Can it87 Linux driver conflict with BIOS or hardware devices (motherboard ASUS M5A99FX PRO 2)? For example, there is a function in Linux driver (drivers/hwmon/it87.c):
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* Must be called with data-&...
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What temp sensors does my motherboard have?
How can I tell what temperature sensors my motherboard has and then be able to know what those sensors are when looking at various monitoring programs?
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Dell EC not detected after Windows crashed accessing it but is detected again when accessing it after some time. EC failure or compatibility issue?
When accessing Dell Embedded Controller (EC), which should be a temperature sensor on Dell Studio XPS 1645 notebook PC with SpeedFan and HWInfo, Windows would randomly crash with BSOD with memory-...
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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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How fast should a hot laptop's fan spin?
I am having some problems with my T420 Lenovo laptop overheating. The fan is working, in that I feel air being blown and can hear it when I put my ear near the heat sink fins. I have noticed however, ...
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Disable light sensor of Webcam which lights up LED
I use an external webcam with pre-built LED lights which light up in low-light situations. The light sensor is on the top of the webcam.
The software supplied with the webcam doesn't have a function ...
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Could my CPU Temperature Sensor be broken?
One of my older computers started shutting down suddenly and when I tried running it again, it would give me the beep code for overheating. However, I tried to get some info using Speccy, but couldn't ...
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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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Receive realtime data from phone
I am using an android app that streams real-time accelerometer data to the specified ip address of a server. I have written a "server" in C running on Linux which is running in VMware.
I am connected ...
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Strange battery behavior (not discharging)
Lately my laptop got this problem. Right after i unplug it (with full charge battery) it says that the duration remaining is about 30 minutes.
Then, after few seconds, it drops from 100% to 90/96% ...
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Identifying temperaturs of sensors output
I need some help with interpreting the output of the sensors command. I use it together with watch to have updated live temperatures.
Part of the output is this:
f71882fg-isa-0a00
Adapter: ISA ...
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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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Can not view fan speed rpm in hp 4530s laptop
Output of sensors is:
~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +31.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
temp2: +0.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
temp3: +31.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
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What does the confidence value mean on the output of sensors-detect?
Sample output of sensors-detect taken from here:
Driver `coretemp':
* Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)
Driver `lm90':
* Bus `SMBus nForce2 adapter at 4d00'
Busdriver `...
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