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Lm-Sensors VS Coolbook

Compare Lm-Sensors VS Coolbook and see what are their differences

Lm-Sensors logo Lm-Sensors

Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring...

Coolbook logo Coolbook

CoolBook is a tool for the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro computers.
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    2023-10-20
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Lm-Sensors videos

Ubuntu: Fan not detected by lm-sensors

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  • Tutorial - how to: lm-sensors great for overclocking in linux

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Lm-Sensors and Coolbook)
Monitoring Tools
73 73%
27% 27
Device Management
66 66%
34% 34
System Information
72 72%
28% 28
Log Management
54 54%
46% 46

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Lm-Sensors seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Lm-Sensors mentions (7)

  • laptop overheating
    Can you tell if they spinning at all? I've had many fans just go bad over the years. You might try using lm-sensors to see if you get any helpful info from the OS. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Any software like FanControl?
    There is lm-sensors which has fancontrol. GUI-edition. Source: about 1 year ago
  • How to control fan?
    Https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors did you follow these instructions also? I feel like the im-sensors was an important step. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Security issue regarding ec_sys?
    Thanks, are you talking about https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors ? Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Keyboard + mouse + headphones for FPS games, suggestions?
    OpenRGB required a kernel patch, because it is trying to interface over I2C from userspace and one of the I2C controllers it needed support for didn't have a functional driver in the kernel yet. One of the biggest problems with the I2C bus, is that the kernel misses a lot of drivers for the various I2C controllers because the data sheets are usually not publicly available. This is also why lm-sensors often has... Source: over 2 years ago
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Coolbook mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Coolbook yet. Tracking of Coolbook recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Lm-Sensors and Coolbook, you can also consider the following products

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

Argus Monitor - Argus Monitor is for monitoring and analyzing the temperature and the health status of the hardware parts of the system.

Hardinfo - Hardinfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux.

smcFanControl - [Download] smcFanControl 2.

SpeedFan - Hardware monitor for Windows that can access digital temperature sensors located on several 2-wire SMBus Serial Bus. Can access voltages and fan speeds and control fan speeds. Includes technical articles and docs.

Real Temp - Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core, Quad...