Displays information and your computer status
If you have a outdated hardware, or you love living dangerously, like this:
Memory: 90.7% (swap: 23.1%)
CPU: 81.6%, Core0: 82.3%, Core1: 84.3%
CPU: 93.0º, Core0: 87.0º, Core1: 86.0º
Battery percentage: 2.19%
Yes, clearly your PC is living on the edge!
Using pc_status.py, you will live dangerously, but with safety XD
You can monitor variables and information from your CPU, memories, like usage, temperature, among others.
There are some notifications implemented, when reaching certain values of temperature, memory and CPU usage, and battery discharging.
Download from here or using git clone:
$ git clone https://github.com/fermendi/pc_status.git
Install Python 3.6.9 (Jan 26 2021) or later (In Linux is already installed in /usr/bin/python3 or /usr/bin/python3.6).
Module to retrieving information on running processes. More information here.
$ pip install psutil
Module for sending native cross-platform notifications. More information here.
pip install notify-py
Module for getting the GPU status from NVIDIA GPUs using nvidia-smi. For more information, please see here.
pip install gputil
(Optional) If you want to schedule this program to be executed automatically, you can use Cron. Information can be found here.
Open the file (or create one) to store the cron jobs (preferibly use nano):
$ crontab -e
and copy the folowing line on the file:
0-59 * * * * /bin/sh -c '~/pc_status/config/pc_status.sh' > /dev/null 2>&1
This line will execute the program each 1 minute.
(Optional) To execute this program easily, create an alias:
$ sudo nano ~/.bashrc
Copy this line at the end of this file:
alias pc_status='~/bash_files/sh/pc_status.sh'
Save the changes (ctrl+x, y and enter).
So, next time you can open the program simply typing 'pc_status':
$ pc_status
The command to execute the program has the following form:
$ pc_status.py --info INFO --loop LOOP --notifications NOTIF --sound SOUND
or:
$ pc_status --info INFO --loop LOOP --notifications NOTIF --sound SOUND
If you did the above 'alias' step.
INFO: can be {full,status}, it displays almost all the information available from your PC (full) or only the status: it displays a summarize version of the usage of CPU, memories, temperature and battery status (battery status if you have a notebook).
LOOP: can be {y,n}, if 'y', it repeats the measures.
NOTIF: can be {y,n}, pop-up all the notifications if measures are above the threshold.
SOUND: can be {y,n}, if notifications are enabled, they will warn you.
There are other constants to set in the file 'config.txt':
PATH_NOTIF_ICON: path to the icon that appears in the notification.
PATH_NOTIF_SOUND: path to the sound of notification.
HIGH_USAGE_CPU: CPU percentage (0-100) that triggers the notification of high CPU usage.
HIGH_USAGE_MEM: Memory percentage (0-100) that triggers the notification of high memory usage.
HIGH_LOAD_GPU: Graphics card load percentage (0-100) that triggers the notification of high GPU usage.
DISCHARGING_BATTERY: Battery percentage (0-100) that triggers the notification of battery discharging.
DELTA_BATTERY: Difference (0-100) between the last and current battery percentage. Play with this value to avoid some battery notifications (ex. the battery is deschanging even the PC plugged).
Setting the NOTIF parameter to 'yes' ('no') you allow (deny) ALL the notifications (CPU, memory, gpu and battery), but you can desactivate / activate in isolation:
NOTIFICATION_BATTERY: Ativate (yes) or deactivate (no) the battery notification.
NOTIFICATION_MEMORY: Ativate (yes) or deactivate (no) the high memory usage notification.
NOTIFICATION_CPU: Ativate (yes) or deactivate (no) the high CPU usage notification.
NOTIFICATION_TEMPERATURE: Ativate (yes) or deactivate (no) the high temperature notification.
NOTIFICATION_GPU: Ativate (yes) or deactivate (no) the high load usage notification.
Using this base program it is possible to add some functionalities to avoid overheating, hanging and/or freezing. For example, achieving a certain threshold we can close stuff to save memory, rebooting our system, etc.