Question About Temperature Reading in System Information Widget

[milindhvijay]

Hi,

I have a quick question regarding the temperature reading displayed on the homepage in the System Information widget.

Does anyone know where this data is pulled from?, or is it the average temperature across all CPU cores?

[mvikman]

Looks like the System Information widget uses temp from cpu0 or thermal zone 0

function get_temp() {
	$temp_out = get_single_sysctl("dev.cpu.0.temperature");
	if ($temp_out == "") {
		$temp_out = get_single_sysctl("hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature");
	}

I hide the Temperature in System Information and use the Thermal Sensors widget instead

[stephenw10]

It probably is a value from the CPU cores. But that depends on having the cpu temp available. Try adding the thermal sensors widget and it will show you.

You can enable an appropriate CPU core sensor driver in Sys > Adv > MIsc.

Steve