HardwareMonitor

OpenHardwareMonitor client library

Client binding for OpenHardwareMonitor. Returns a set of sensor measurements for the current hardware. The values include CPU temperature(s), Fan Speed(s), GPU Temperature(s) and Hard Disk states. The set of values is hardware dependent.

Documentation

This binding works on Windows only. It requires that OpenHardwareMonitor (https://openhardwaremonitor.org/) is running in the background. While that tool requires elevated permissions to work, the binding (and the application using it) does not. Check out https://github.com/hexagon-oss/openhardwaremonitor for an improved fork with some additional features. The latest version contains a new transport protocol between the tool and the binding (HTTP instead of WMI), which improves the reliability of the data and additionally allows reading the performance data from a remote computer.

The binding supports some additional, "virtual" sensor measuments that are derived from other values. The following extra values are provided:

• For each sensor returning power, another is generated which calculates energy consumed (by integrating the values over time).
• From the CPU Package power sensor, the CPU heat flux is calculated (estimating the size of the die).
• If both a power and a voltage sensor are available for CPU Package, the current is calculated.

Usage

using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Threading;
using Iot.Device.HardwareMonitor;
using UnitsNet;

Console.WriteLine("Press any key to quit");

OpenHardwareMonitor hw = new OpenHardwareMonitor();

// Explicit update - exactly one data set is read for each iteration
hw.UpdateStrategy = SensorUpdateStrategy.SynchronousExplicit;

if (hw.GetSensorList().Count == 0)
{
    Console.WriteLine("OpenHardwareMonitor is not running");
    return;
}

hw.EnableDerivedSensors();

while (!Console.KeyAvailable)
{
    Console.Clear();
    Console.WriteLine("Showing all available sensors (press any key to quit)");
    var components = hw.GetHardwareComponents();
    foreach (var component in components)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------------------------");
        Console.WriteLine($"{component.Name} Type {component.Type}, Path {component.Identifier}");
        Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------------------------");
        foreach (var sensor in hw.GetSensorList(component))
        {
            Console.Write($"{sensor.Name}: Path {sensor.Identifier}, Parent {sensor.Parent} ");
            if (sensor.TryGetValue(out IQuantity? quantity))
            {
                Console.WriteLine(string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "{0}: {1:g}", quantity!.Type, quantity));
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"No data");
            }
        }
    }

    if (hw.TryGetAverageGpuTemperature(out Temperature gpuTemp) &&
        hw.TryGetAverageCpuTemperature(out Temperature cpuTemp))
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Averages: CPU temp {cpuTemp:s2}, GPU temp {gpuTemp:s2}, CPU Load {hw.GetCpuLoad()}");
    }

    Thread.Sleep(1000);
}