For people that want to do something similar on Windows, I can wholeheartedly recommend FanControl [1]. It's sadly not open-source, but it works great, and is quite pleasant to interact with.
I'd also like to plug the underlying library LibreHardwareMonitor [0], where I was able to make a PR to support a bonus sensor on my particular motherboard-variant.
It seems to be an unpopular opinion these days, but I have no problems paying for software that is good and comes with a credible promise of ongoing support. FanControl looks pretty cool, and if I can jettison the mental sticky note in favor of them maintaining it I am all ears.
In my 15 years of PC building this fan software tops them all. Huge amount of customisation and actually allows you to control fan speeds both under CPU OR GPU heavy loads at once.
This software can do what this article is looking to do, but I am not sure if there is a non-Windows version.
Why some people prefer open source software is well established by now - so if you have a bone to pick with this position you don’t need to wait for an answer, go nuts.
Apart from what foofie already pointed out, I think it is 'sad' in the sense that a project like this is
- one you might expect to be open source, since there is no monetary interest behind it besides an option to donate, and
- one that would potentially lend itself quite well to being open source, since it would offer a great base for other people to tinker around with their own cooling setups.
Given those points and given that fan control has been around for A G E S, the collective OSS community need only blame itself for the lack of an open project that has parity with FC.
Ok thank you. I see the linked project somewhere closer to shareware. I don’t expect that to be open source (my own expectation).
But seems over time we’ve moved away from shareware and maybe open source to open source shareware. I’m trying to grasp how the expectations of people have changed over time. Not looking to start a flame war.
No it isn't. I use and like the app also, but the GitHub repo link on their page takes you to a separate release artifact management repo, not the source code itself.
I wonder why the author hasn't open sourced it - there doesn't appear to be any commercial aspect to the tool, and the author makes a point of it being "free" on the site.
[0] https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor