temperature is -1

[sgoetze]

On my Debian Stretch (no RPi) pimatic server the sysinfo plugin shows -1 for CPU temperature.

I use a small PC with a VIA CPU and a HDD for pimatic server. I have installed lm-sensors, did sensors-detect and kmod is started. Runnig sensors from shell gives:

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +40.0°C  (crit = +127.0°C)

via_cputemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +49.0°C
cpu0_vid:    +0.860 V

If it's a problem of my special hardware please close the issue again. I have a watchdog running even for CPU temperature and no problem if sysinfo is not showing this information for my server.

[mwittig]

Sorry for the delay in reply. As you say you are running a debian server can you please try the following command.

sensors

This should yield various sensor values for the CPU. If the command is not found please consider installing the lm-sensors package.

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors 

After the package installation execute the following command

sudo sensors-detect

You may also need to run the following

sudo service kmod start

Please let me know if this solves the issue. You may also need to restart pimatic once

[mwittig]

@sgoetze Any news? Did you try to install the lm-sensors package?

[sgoetze]

@ mwittig: I did all this and I did it once more now. This is the summary of sensor-detect:

Driver `f71805f':
  * ISA bus, address 0x295
    Chip `Fintek F71805F/FG Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)

Driver `via-cputemp':
  * Chip `VIA C7 thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)

To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules:
#----cut here----
# Chip drivers
f71805f
via-cputemp
#----cut here----

Command sensors shows this:

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +40.0°C  (crit = +127.0°C)

via_cputemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +69.0°C
cpu0_vid:    +0.860 V

I have still pimatic version 0.9.48 running, hope that is no problem.