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Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues.
https://xs-labs.com/en/apps/hot/
MIT License
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Add ability to write a simple logfile of temperatures and speed limits #55

Closed leonard84 closed 1 year ago

leonard84 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

it would be great if hot could be configured to write a simple logfile that logs the max temp, and max throttling (lowest speed limit) for each whole minute to a directory.

I'd imagine something like, ~/hot/temperature-logs/<yyyy-MM-dd.log> (a file per day) and then each line with a simple csv format.

TIME    TEMP    LIMIT
13:00   94  100
13:01   98  80
13:02   95  60
macmade commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion.
However, I don't think I'll have time and will to implement such a specific request, unless it is asked by many users.

Can you please tell me why you would need such logs?

leonard84 commented 1 year ago

To gather date to convince management to replace the old intel MBPs by new M1/M2 MBPs that don't suffer so much from throttling issues.

macmade commented 1 year ago

I’m sure you’ll find tons of arguments online for Apple Silicon versus Intel.

I don’t think logs on an OpenSource project are needed to show how superior M1/M2 processors are and to get you a new machine.

Closing this for now.

arielaco commented 1 year ago

This would be useful to prove whether my iMac is being subjected to dangerous temps in the morning (when being hit by direct sunlight) or set alerts based on the log files.