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Temperature Monitor VS Lm-Sensors

Compare Temperature Monitor VS Lm-Sensors and see what are their differences

Temperature Monitor logo Temperature Monitor

Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all accessible temperature sensors in Macintosh...

Lm-Sensors logo Lm-Sensors

Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring...
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    2021-08-01
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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

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Temperature Monitor and Lm-Sensors)
Monitoring Tools
27 27%
73% 73
Device Management
25 25%
75% 75
System Information
29 29%
71% 71
Utilities
100 100%
0% 0

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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.

Temperature Monitor mentions (0)

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

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: over 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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What are some alternatives?

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

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

Core Temp - Nov 4, 2017 - Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint, yet powerful program to monitor processor temperature and other vital information.

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

iStat Menus - "An advanced Mac system monitor for your menubar."

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...