How to detect processor correct temperature in conky

Solution 1:

Temperature from command line

To find out the temperature, use:

# Ivybridge Intel i7-3630QM
$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp
69000
69000
67000

# Skylake Intel i7-6700HQ using paste after zone names
$ paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t
INT3400 Thermal  20000
SEN1             53000
SEN2             49000
SEN3             53000
SEN4             55000
pch_skylake      70000
B0D4             47000
x86_pkg_temp     48000

Temperature with Conky

Within conky the system variable I used to monitor an Ivy Bridge CPU is:

${hwmon 2 temp 1}°C

To monitor a Skylake CPU I initially used:

${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C

A few months later (possibly due to new kernel) on the same Skylake CPU I switched to:

${hwmon 1 temp 1}°C

The display looks like this:

Solution 2:

I found that this worked for me:

${platform coretemp.0 temp 1}

This reads the temperature info from /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/temp1_input.

Solution 3:

Another possible solution is:

${exec cat /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/temp1_input | cut -c-2 }

or if that doesn't work:

${exec cat /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp1_input | cut -c-2 }

Solution 4:

Another possible solution is:

$(exec sensors | grep 'Package id' | awk '{print $4}')

Output:

+33.0°C

Solution 5:

${exec sensors | grep 'Package id' | awk '{print $4}'}

Sensors CPU: ${exec sensors | grep 'Package id' | awk '{print $4}'}