Windows application that shows system stats on a 16x2 display
A small windows application that sends stats such as CPU temperature, memory usage, etc. to a 16x2 display over a serial connection. The accompanying firmware then receives these data and displays it on a generic 16x2 display.
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You need to have the client running on an Arduino or compatible boards driving the LCD. You can find the client in this accompanying repository.
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Set the serial port and baud rate in the config tab and adjust the options to your preference. Port and baud rate must match the client.
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You can check the output by clicking “Show Output” and switching to the Output tab that appears.
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There is also a CPU temperature selection tab that can be shown with “Select CPU Temp” since temperature values and their respective names are different based on the CPU architecture.
This program uses a library called LibreHardwareMonitorLib that is included in the repo. It was built with and requires .NET 6.0 to run.
- To show CPU temperatures, LibreHardwareMonitorLib requires admin rights, therefore the application needs admin access.
- This also means that the option “Run when Windows starts” is more complex. To allow for admin rights, a task scheduler task is created with a trigger to kick off on system startup.
- This project is based on the idea of this thingiverse project and their code on github.
Copyright (c) 2023 Narfel.
Usage is provided under the MIT License. See LICENSE for the full details.