HowTo: Conky hddtemp

[MichaelGld]

Yes, you need to do the

sudo dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp

part of my post and then reboot

- CH

That worked! Many thanks!

[Skip Da Shu]

If the above is an excerpt from an actual xterm session, then the following should work in conky

${execpi 300 hddtemp /dev/sda | cut -c35-39}

Would think this would also work:

${hddtemp /dev/sda -n}

[AllGamer]

I did it with this way, it looks much more informative, also you can see exactly which drive it is.

Doing it just with temp, and then manually entering text in conky might get you the wrong info, if you ever changed, move, or replaced a drive, /dev/drive letter will change and the information becomes innacurate.

This method will automatically keep the correct drive letter + disk model + temp in 1 line

${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f01-04 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f06-09 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f11-14 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f16-19 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f21-24 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f26-29 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f31-34 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f36-39 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f41-44 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f46-49 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f51-54 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f56-59 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f61-64 -d\|}C
${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -f66-69 -d\|}C

output looks like this