How to write Nvidia's GPU temperature into the panel?

[GreyGeek]

Since installing nvidia-prime and nvidia-370.28 I have been attempting to get the GPU temp to display on the panel.
My first effort was to use lm-sensors. That failed because Neon User Edition with the nvidia gpu controlling the display will not allow it to stay in memory. And, the widget that I downloaded in 16.04 to use with lm-sensors will not display in the widget list in Neon after I download it.

So, I began looking for nvidia source code that I could raid to create my own tool. I found nvidia-smi.
Just issuing nvidia-smi gives:

:~$ nvidia-smi
Thu Nov  3 11:41:25 2016       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 370.28                 Driver Version: 370.28                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GT 650M     Off  | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |                  N/A |
| N/A   30C    P8    N/A /  N/A |    158MiB /  1998MiB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Type  Process name                               Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0                  Not Supported                                         |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Issuing nvidia-smi -q -d TEMPERATURE -l 2 gives a two second loop of:

==============NVSMI LOG==============
Timestamp                           : Thu Nov  3 11:59:19 2016
Driver Version                      : 370.28

Attached GPUs                       : 1
GPU 0000:01:00.0
    Temperature
        GPU Current Temp            : 31 C
        GPU Shutdown Temp           : N/A
        GPU Slowdown Temp           : N/A

Neither of these are satisfactory. However, I can scrape the standard output with
nvidia-smi | grep '[0-9][0-9]C' | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/C//' and it returns just the temperature on a single line:
:~$ nvidia-smi | grep '[0-9][0-9]C' | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/C//'

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Anyone know of a simple way to get that value to display in a box on the panel?

[wizard10000]

This might work - https://store.kde.org/content/show.p...?content=87195

Good luck, GG

[GreyGeek]

No Joy!

and that tar.gz file extracted reveals two *skz* files.
nvidia-sensors.skz
nvidia-sensors-lite.skz
I'll check them out.

[wizard10000]

Hope it works - I know you can do it with conky (but not in the panel). I'd shop around kde-look and kde-apps and maybe something better will turn up if that doesn't work

[oshunluvr]

https://store.kde.org/content/show.p...content=170354

This works here, but it's not pretty or well written.

[vinnywright]

you can also use nvidia-settings to get the info ,,,,,,,,,,

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp

  Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:0.0): 52.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is an integer attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is a read-only attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' can use the following target types: X Screen, GPU.
  Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:0[gpu:0]): 52.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is an integer attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is a read-only attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' can use the following target types: X Screen, GPU.

and to "scrape"it as you put it ,,,,,,,,,,,,,

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp | grep -m 1 Attribute | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's/\.//'
52

but ,,,,ya how to get it in the panel ,,,,,,, you could write a qml script and make it a widget ,,,,,,,,thats what thay are ,,,,,,, .qml files

VINNY

[vinnywright]

https://store.kde.org/content/show.p...content=170354

This works here, but it's not pretty or well written.

nice one ,,,,,,,yup it works just like that @hear as well

but since that info is in my conky ,,,,,,,,,,,by by


VINNY

[GreyGeek]

https://store.kde.org/content/show.p...content=170354

This works here, but it's not pretty or well written.

Doesn't work for me. After trying the Aur and the Github version neither would appear in the list widgets, nor would they appear in the list of "uninstallable" widgets. Is your Neon added to 16.04 or are you running only Neon?

[vinnywright]

ya nether of those worked @ hear either ,,,,,install the .gz one ,,,,the top one .

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

ya nether of those worked @ hear either ,,,,,install the .gz one ,,,,the top one .

VINNY

That was the one that worked, VINNY, thanks! And to oshunluver as well.
It allowed me to select nvidia-smi as the source for the T. Works great!

[vinnywright]

it dose seem to fit in with my icons in the system tray



and is using the "nvidia-smi" @hear as well .

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Here's mine:

[vinnywright]

here's mine:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]6786[/ATTACH]

vinny