[Feature request] CPU temp display?

[mpentler]

Hi, just installed BOINC, found boinctui, even happier that it's now on GitHub and being maintained. It's a great tool.

Could I make a small feature request for a CPU temperature readout? Maybe in the top bar next to the hostname? Or bottom bar somewhere? I tried to hack one in myself but couldn't get anything to display properly (I don't really do C++). I find having a temp readout a really useful thing to give you information on what tasks you need to ease up on, when you can devote a bit more CPU time if things if the load is light, etc.

[mpentler]

Well I hacked one in to mainwin.cpp but it ain’t pretty... :-P

����std::string cpu_temp;
����std::string cmd;
����FILE * stream;
����const int max_buffer = 256;
����char buffer[max_buffer];
����cmd.append("vcgencmd measure_temp");
����stream = popen(cmd.c_str(), "r");
����if (stream)
����{
��������    while (!feof(stream))
    ������������if (fgets(buffer, max_buffer, stream) !$��������pclose(stream);
����}
    �if (srv)
    {
��������caption->append(getcolorpair(COLOR_WHITE,COLOR_BLACK) | A_BOLD," Host %s:%s %s ",srv->gethost(),srv->getport(), cpu_temp.c_str());

Etc...

Sorry for the dodgy characters, not sure what’s happened there...

[mobluse]

I would also like the CPU temperature to be shown, but I run Boinc on various CPU:s and OS:s and vcgencmd is specific to Raspberry Pi OS running on a Raspberry Pi. vcgencmd doesn't exist on raspPiOS i386. I can see the CPU temp on both armhf and i386 rasPiOS using "CPU Temperature Monitor" in Panel. There must exist some way to read temperature in at least Linux that doesn't depend on vcgencmd. I switch between the computers I monitor from one computer using N in BoincTUI. I guess it's not enough to add temperature to BoincTUI, but temperature must also be sent from the clients.

[mpentler]

At the time I didn’t know that it was an RPi-only command, by the way. A better solution is preferred but I’m not sure the developer is working on it anymore. I have a fork which I don’t want to develop anymore and that I want to hand over to someone - if someone wants to add support to that it’d be appreciated.