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Markus Zehnder 98941a00fe feat: Initial support for fan-, progress-, & pointer-sensors (#8)
* feat: support progress, fan, pointer sensor types

Initial implementation, not yet fully working.

* only use one rendering layer per sensor type instead one per sensor

Each layer uses > 1 MB and a panel can contain easily over 20 sensors!

* support custom panels with --panels cli argument

This includes one or more additional custom panels into the base
configuration. Multiple --panels arguments are supported

* update docs
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sysinfo Tool

The Rust based /src/bin/sysinfo.rs tool gathers many more system sensor values with the help of the sysinfo crate.

It supports FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows and other OSes, but it has only been tested on Linux so far.

Proof of concept sensor value collection for the asterctl screen control tool

Usage: sysinfo [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -o, --out <OUT>
          Output sensor file

  -t, --temp-dir <TEMP_DIR>
          Temporary directory for preparing the output sensor file.
          
          The system temp directory is used if not specified.
          The temp directory must be on the same file system for atomic rename operation!

      --console
          Print values in console

  -r, --refresh <REFRESH>
          System sensor refresh interval in seconds

      --disk-refresh <DISK_REFRESH>
          Enable individual disk refresh logic as used in AOOSTAR-X. Refresh interval in seconds

      --smartctl
          Retrieve drive temperature if `disk-update` option is enabled.
          
          Requires smartctl and password-less sudo!

Single test run with printing all sensors on the console:

sysinfo --console

Normal mode providing sensor values for asterctl in /tmp/sensors/sysinfo.txt:

sysinfo --refresh 3 --out /tmp/sensor/sysinfo.txt

Note: the lower the refresh rate, the more resources are used!