any way to fix CMD popups appearing in PM2 / forever ?

[vikoalucard]

Hello,

Thank you a lot for this project, it really gives added value where I've found no other tool to collect GPU & CPU temp from remote PCs. I've tested this on windows, and using PM2, each time the interval is triggered, it produces a temporary CMD window, which is quite problematic. I'm no expert in nodeJS and PM2, but I've seen that most of the time, it can be solved by adding an option like windowsHide:true to avoid trigerring the cmd windows

Then it'd be easy to run & autostart on N computers using PM2 / forever (or others like that). I've found the same problem on forever.

[freakstatic]

Hi, thanks for reaching out!

Really interesting to see this small project being used! :smile: Have you try to disable the console.log output by setting to false the "log" property in the config.json file?

[vikoalucard]

@freakstatic thank you for your help. I had already disabled the logs, it didn't help though. btw, the logs only gave the GPU temp, which is what I need most anyway, but it may also not work with my CPU (i9-9900k)

Also, I haven't registered the mqtt devices manually in home assistant. I hoped MQTT could have used "discovery" to create them automatically.

[freakstatic]

I will test this on Windows and let you know once I have fixed. Are you running Windows 10?

I need to investigate a bit about the MQTT Discovery seems like a good feature to have!

[vikoalucard]

Yes, win 10 pro, here are the details in case you have trouble reproducing the issue Edition Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 Installed on ‎2020-‎08-‎12 OS build 19042.844 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0

about MQTT discovery: it may require the "homeassistant" prefix to be auto created https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/mqtt/discovery/

[freakstatic]

@vikoalucard I have updated some dependencies, can you try now to see if it collects your CPU temperatures?

[freakstatic]

I also tried the windowsHide: true option that you mention, let me know if it worked :)

[vikoalucard]

Hi @freakstatic , thank you. windowsHide: true has worked the script still only gets GPU temp: only "Graphic card 0: 49" gets displayed

btw, what's the "clientId": "" for in the config.json ? Will you also add the autodiscovery, or should I add the config into Home Assistant ? I could keep using it for GPU temp now that it doesn't show popups 👍

[freakstatic]

Strange seems like the package that I'm using doesn't support your CPU then, maybe I should look for alternatives... The "clientId" it's used to uniquely identify the client when connecting to the MQTT broker, if it's empty it will use a random one.

Tomorrow I will try to add the autodiscovery :)

[freakstatic]

Try to run this in the command line and show me the output pls wmic /namespace:\\root\wmi PATH MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature get CriticalTripPoint,CurrentTemperature /value

[vikoalucard]

OK thank you ! Here it is: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wmic /namespace:\root\wmi PATH MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature get CriticalTripPoint,CurrentTemperature /value

CriticalTripPoint=3922 CurrentTemperature=3010

[freakstatic]

wmic - which is used to determine temperature and battery sometimes needs to be run with admin privileges. So if you do not get any values, try to run it again with according privileges. If you still do not get any values, your system might not support this feature. In some cases we also discovered that wmic returned incorrect temperature values.

Are you running Node.js with admin privileges?

[vikoalucard]

Hi, yes I was, it gave the current temp & "CriticalTripPoint" (see my previous comment) I don't really understand the values though... they're not C° degrees without admin priviledge I just get an error

[vikoalucard]

PS. sorry I thought you meant the WMIC command, I've tried running the "node index.js" via an admin powershell, I did get one additional line, but it doesn't repeat, only the GPU is displayed after that (perhaps only the GPU temp is displayed in the console ?)

PS D:_code\automations\node-temperature-mqtt> node .\index.js Connected to broker on mqtt://192.168.75.74:1883 CPU Thread 0: 27.8 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50 Graphic card 0: 50

[freakstatic]

Damn something really strange is going on there... First it only outputs one of the cores and it stops (probably because the value didn't change). It should only output when the value of that graphic or processor core has changed

[freakstatic]

Can you try to run this script with Node.js?

const si = require('systeminformation');

si.cpu()
  .then(data => {
    console.log('CPU Information:');
    console.log('- manufucturer: ' + data.manufacturer);
    console.log('- brand: ' + data.brand);
    console.log('- speed: ' + data.speed);
    console.log('- cores: ' + data.cores);
    console.log('- physical cores: ' + data.physicalCores);
    console.log('...');
  })
  .catch(error => console.error(error));```

[vikoalucard]

Yes of course, I can try that. But I'm no Node.js expert, in which existing file should I add this? Or how do I run this script alone ?

[freakstatic]

you can just create a file like test.js inside this project folder and run like node .\test.js

[vikoalucard]

OK, here goes: PS D:_code\automations\node-temperature-mqtt> node .\test.js CPU Information:

• manufucturer: Intel®
• brand: Core™ i9-9900K
• speed: 3.6
• cores: 16
• physical cores: 8 ...

[freakstatic]

And now:

const si = require('systeminformation');  

si.cpuTemperature().then(data => {
    console.log(data);
})

[vikoalucard]

I got an error at first: TypeError: si.getProcessorTemps is not a function

I replaced the code with: si.cpuTemperature().then(data => { console.log(data); })

then I got: PS D:_code\automations\node-temperature-mqtt> node .\test.js { main: 27.8, cores: [ 27.8 ], max: 27.8, socket: [], chipset: null }

[freakstatic]

yeah sorry I wrote it wrong :)

interesting so systeminformation is only getting the temperature of one core

[vikoalucard]

not that bad, on a single CPU with 16 cores, at least I get a good idea of the overall CPU temp. So it works well in admin mode ? with the latest execution I did get one value for CPU, it may simply not have changed during the test, I can run a game to see the values

[vikoalucard]

the CPU values are also wrong it seems, and they do not get updated:

[freakstatic]

yeah that doesn't seem right... At least the graphic card values are right?

[freakstatic]

btw I did a commit now to fix the duplicated graphic card temperature values

[vikoalucard]

Yes the GPU values are OK compared to HWinfo64