Cputemp Thermal Zone Selection

Hi,

As I understood from other threads in the forum, the plugin reads the temperature from

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

Unfortunately for me, my actual temp is zone1 instead of zone0

I was wondering if there is a way to tell the plugin to use that one, or swap the zones somehow on my system and leave the plugin intact.

Any other ideas would also be welcome, thanks for making the plugin available in the first place!

Hi Wolf2000 and thanks for your reply! My output is :

30000

Which would indicate 30C as I understand.

Sensors in the web UI

coretemp-isa-0000

Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +31.0°C
Core 0: +29.0°C
Core 1: +27.0°C
Core 2: +26.0°C
Core 3: +28.0°C

acpitz-acpi-0

Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1: +27.8°C

nvme-pci-0100

Adapter: PCI adapter
Composite: +45.9°C

And final output from sensors-detect command

Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue: 

Driver `coretemp':
  * Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)

To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules:
#----cut here----
# Chip drivers
coretemp
#----cut here----
If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will
contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones!

Sounds like a good starting point

Ok gonna attempt it now and come back with results

Wolf2000 This has now been solved! I see my CPU temperature updating live on the web UI widget, whereas before it was always stuck at 27.8 degrees.

By the way, the cpu-temp script returns 2 numbers, is that going to be a problem?

+30.0°C
+27.0°C

I would think not since the widget works now.

Yes, I believe I followed the commands exactly and it outputs two numbers.

The reason is probably because the command outputs two things starting from zero. Am I right?

I understood better now! I will slightly modify it to show "id 0:" so that I can monitor the package temperature rather than the core 0 temperature.

I think it will give a better average of the whole CPU, even though its not as accurate as core 0 temps.

Then monitor for a while and change it to core 0 if needed.

Sounds good?

Yes, you are correct: According to intel, package temp is not an average, it's a weighted average. I think this justifies what we see in the results.

But enough side talk, I want to thank you now Wolf2000 you have made me very happy today!