Alarm system: Warning of high temperature or fan failure about open-hardware-monitor HOT 25 OPEN

Really would like to see this implemented as there are no other free 
alternatives with this option. I'd be very happy even if its just a screen 
message or pc speaker beep. 

Cheers

Me too.. a sound alarm would be also great...

Hello all,

Indeed, it would be terrific to have an alert function.
It is in fact the only feature that is missing to make it the best monitoring 
tool.
There is some freeware doing that already, such as Speedfan or Core Temp.
But Speedfan does not provide a Gadget and Core Temp does not monitor SMART.

The new gadget is great: Small enough to just keep an eye on it every once and 
a while in a corner of the screen.

For me alerts may be as intrusive as possible.
For instance, the alert function of Core Temp is too discrete: It only makes 
the tray icon blink. After all, if you have the choice between getting severely 
warned to stop your computer or have your hard disk damaged because it went 
over 55°C, what would you chose?
What about having the Gadget background blink red if one of the temperatures is 
above threshold? Should not be too difficult, IMHO.
The most difficult is probably to have a user-friendly way to habve the user 
specify the values above which he wants to be warned...

Good work!

Once the basic configurable alarm system is implemented, one could add more 
alarm "output" channels, like the "Snarl" notification system: 
http://www.fullphat.net/

There are two possible ways of how alarms could be configured. 

(A) Attach an alarm configuration dialog to each sensor, where a lower or upper 
alarm limit could be defined and enabled. When a sensor is no longer available, 
also the alarm configuration would automatically disappear. To get an overview 
on the currently configured alarms an additional column could be added to the 
main treeview showing the upper and lower alarm bounds (where enabled).

For the actual alarm channels (warning sound, blinking tray icon, sending 
email, ...) one central setting would have to be used for all alarms. 
Alternatively, for each condition an alarm channel could be chosen (e.g > 70°C 
blink tray icon, > 80°C making warning sound, >100°C shut down), but then it 
is difficult to maintain a useful overview in the treeview.

(B) A central dialog where more complex alarms could be configured. This would 
allow to define alarm conditions involving more than one sensor for example. 
Because it is one central list, this would also give an overview to the user 
which alarm conditions are currently enabled. One alarm channel per condition 
would be enough in this variant, as additional conditions can always be added. 
A difficulty in this variant is the choosing of sensors and formulating the 
conditions. Also cases where sensors are no longer available have to be handled 
separately.

I am looking forward to see some kind of notification feature as well

Issue 244 has been merged into this issue.

Like for the alarm option :D

Issue 251 has been merged into this issue.

Would really like to see this! Maybe even have a 1st threshold for warning, and 
a second one for shutdown (better than overheating a video card...)

A simple implementation of alarms can be found in the file attached to Issue 
278.

Adding to Comment 6:

For certain hardware (e.g. Intel CPUs) one can create useful alarm bounds 
automatically. These suggested alarms bounds have to be added to the ISensor 
interface. With solution (A) one could use the values directly to configure 
alarms on the corresponding sensors. For solution (B) there could be the 
problem, that the software doesn't know which alarm channel should be used for 
auto creation of alarms (still one could just use a default alarm channel which 
the user than can change).

Change the colour of system tray gadget at programmed threshold .. maybe to 
bold red?

I would also like to see a color change in the taskbar icon that reflects the 
highest level of concern being seen.  Once red, an icon balloon could appear 
(until closed) and, if configured, a sound could persist until turned off.  If 
an alarm results in shutdown, there needs to be a notification dialog upon 
restart, along with a log.

I suggest adding more high temperature actions, like increasing the fan speed.

Even the simplest alert popup or even an option to run some command would be 
nice if you don't have the time to implement anything else. It would be really 
a number one monitoring tool for Windows if it had this fetaure.

A small suggestion: maybe if you put the source on GitHub someone with 
necessary skills (C#) will have the time to fork it and add this?

It seems most people would be happy with a "basic"/generic alarm state -- 
certainly I would be happy -- while you worked on something a little more 
elaborate.  My own thinking is that not much is required: I would like to see 
it tied to the Sidebar Gadget (very useful), and change the colour to 
brilliant, solid, opaque (transparency=0) red; slow blinking could be an 
option; change the affected sensor reading ONLY to brilliant solid white; and 
place the gadget in the foreground.  The foreground bit would have to take 
priority over any competing full-screen apps...  Sound is not important for me, 
as I normally work in silence.  I think most people would need the option of 
naming their own thresholds, as the hardware list could get large...  Do 
manufacturers place over-temp levels in accessible places?

Would like to have option for system shut down 30 sec after a set temp was 
reached.

Issue 444 has been merged into this issue.

Is anyone working on this alert system? If not I'm willing to contribute my 
time and implement sound alert, message box and maybe an auto shutdown in case 
of no reaction from the user afrer certain amount of time has passed.

Why can open monitor not alert via email on high temperature!?

Thank you for volunteering RadicDot.  

There hasn't been a new release in some time so I suspect nobody is working on 
this.  Hopefully Moel.Mich will come along shortly and confirm that.

I've added a simple sound and red flashing text to the code when fan/pump 
reaches 0 RPM. Is there anyone here willing to merge my code and recompile?

I want the code. when I can download.