[REQUEST] Temp support for older machines

I have a laptop that is so old it isn’t properly supported by psutil or apps like Psensor for CPU temperature.

The CPU temperature is accessible via /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp.

cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/hwmon1/name

Result: acpitz

This seems to be short for “ACPI Thermal Zone”.

cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/type

Result: acpitz

cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

Result: 48800 (or similar)

Divide by 1000 and if the result is between 20C and 120C or so, and type or hwmon1/name is acpitz it should be a valid CPU temp. Theoretically.

If you can try accessing /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp if there is no response from psutil on core temps, I think a lot of these older machines could be supported for at least the main CPU temp.

This machine is a single-core Pentium 4, as many machines prior to Core Duo will be, so there would normally be only one main CPU temp. There were a few late-generation Pentiums with hyper-threading which would probably be reported as dual-core CPUs, but they are a couple of years newer and may be better supported by apps like psutil already.

[aristocratos]

@RedBearAK Ok, should be fixed in 1.0.44…

Will give you the title of almighty downbringer of systems if you manage to crash it now, at least with the same error!

[aristocratos]

Fixed in v1.0.39