# FanControl.LiquidCtl

A one-nighter project, born after me being annoyed by NZXT's stupid CAM software for 2 hours
Therefore compatibility might be problematic, only verified on NZXT Kraken X (X53, X63 or X73) devices.

v0.1.0: liquidctl section is now executed using pythonnet, potentially resulting in lower power & cpu usage

compared to v0.0.* lanuching a python interpreter twice every second (which is really expensive)

v0.2.0: bumped support for liquidctl 1.13.0, supports multiple devices

liquidctl plugin for FanControl

Installation

• Download & extract FanControl
• Install python (has to be 64bit, add to PATH when installing) & liquidctl
  • Latest version validated on liquidctl==1.13.0, earlier or later versions might not be supported
• Set system environment variable: PYTHONNET_PYDLL to python39.dll (or python37.dll, python38.dll, depending on your python version)
  • This dll has to be in your path, or you can specify the full path for PYTHONNET_PYDLL like path/to/python/install/python39.dll
  • See here
  • If using admin powershell: [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PYTHONNET_PYDLL", "python39.dll", "Machine")
• Download release files (two dlls, one .py) from Releases
• Put the release files in your FanControl folder/plugins

Current Problems

• Pyenv-Win installed pythons might not work (silent crash on PythonEngine.Initialize), if you have a wacky setup like I do, I recommend having a official Python install from python.org, and you can leave it out of PATH and reference the full path in PYTHONNET_PYDLL.

Filing issues

Please provide the following:

• Error logs in log.txt
• Versions of: this plugin, Python and FanControl
• Output of liquidctl list --json and liquidctl status --json

Contrib

Contributions welcome! In the csproj file you can update the OutputPath to your FanControl install path. Beware that debug-lanuching would not load plugins, you'll have to build and then lanuch manually.

TODOs

[] Get gud in C# & read more of liquidctl codebases, replace current hackey solutions with REAL ones [x] Move to embedded Python (Pythonnet) instead of calling liquidctl processes