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Offline BaldEagl

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Anyone using Rainmeter?
« on: December 17, 2015, 10:15:21 AM »
I'm building a set of system monitors using HWiNFO as the backend and illustro as the frontend to monitor temperatures, use statistics and fan speeds.  I'm almost done building the CPU, GPU and System monitors and have a drive monitor left to go.  I'll maybe post a screenshot when I'm done.

I almost gave up on it initially but once I got over the hump I was able to get to where I am within about a day which included my learning curve.

If you don't know what it is look it up on the net.  It's really cool and really flexible.  I stumbled across it looking for desktop system monitors and couldn't find what I wanted.  This lets me build them exactly how I want them.
« Last Edit: December 17, 2015, 10:19:05 AM by BaldEagl »
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Offline zack1234

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Re: Anyone using Rainmeter?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2015, 10:58:56 AM »
It's been raining in the North of England for 5 weeks.
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Offline PJ_Godzilla

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Re: Anyone using Rainmeter?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2015, 11:07:49 AM »
Yeah, what do you need alla them geegaws for when you can just ask Zack? He can stick his probe in there and tell you whether the fan is spinning and how hot is is. Indeed, he might even be able to guess on use, based on the vibes. You could probably calibrate that last one to some kind of protractor, a la Stuka side glass. 

Me, I don't need to go to some fancy instrumentation-based site to get a readout on whether ma nutz itch. I just scratches 'em.

Seriously, Bald, your project sounds worthwhile and is just the kind of thing that seems cool to just about any techno geek, myself included. I just could not resist the absurdity of this thread.
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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: Anyone using Rainmeter?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2015, 09:11:16 PM »
Here it is.  Just finished up after two days of working on this.  You'll notice there's nothing on the hard drives of my new machine yet but that will change quickly considering I just built it.  There's also not much activity so the green use bars are pretty much dead.  Most of the meters update 1x/second and I can drag the sections anywhere I want or re-arrange them.  I've currently got them set to 40% transparency which can be turned up or down in 10% increments.



Rainmeter will do  a lot more stuff too.  You can place clocks, live weather, Internet feeds, news, info from your meadia player or anything else you can think of on your desktop.  the downside is there's not much pre-packaged and the learning curves a little daunting but hey, look what I was able to do in only a couple of days.
« Last Edit: December 17, 2015, 09:27:30 PM by BaldEagl »
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Offline Pudgie

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Re: Anyone using Rainmeter?
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2015, 09:50:41 PM »
Nice, BE!

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Re: Anyone using Rainmeter?
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2015, 02:23:57 AM »
It's software!
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