Fan Control How To Extract The

Ive found that running spindump then cat tmpspindump.txt grep Fan speed will show it, but thats very slow and processor intensive.

Thus, best way would to use smcFanControl, which actually is way more than just a fac control.

You can use smc to get fan speed information via Terminal.app.

It appears no tool, installed by default on OS X, exposes this information through the terminal.

Fan Control How To Extract The

This article, OS X: Current CPU temperature on command line, talks about the project and how to extract the fan speed.

This is a computationally expensive process, even when run for one second.

See Can I get the CPU temperature and fan speed from the command line in OS X.

Try running sudo powermetrics -i 200 --samplers smc grep Fan instead.

In the man page for powermetrics on 10.14.4, I see the following under the Output description section: SMC: The smc sampler displays information supplied by the System Management Controller.

On supported platforms, this includes fan speed and information from various temperature sensors.

Got fan speed, as well as temperatures for both CPU and GPU.

Spindump analysis written to file UsersCousinCocaine.spindump.txt.

Also if I run: sudo spindump 1 1 -file tmpspindump.txt devnull 21;grep Fan speed tmpspindump.txt One try it works next try it does not.

If you only need fan speed, you can include a smapling option smc like powermetrics -s smc.

It does update slow, but it can be changed using the option -i and include a time in milliseconds.

The smcFanControl doesnt work for me and Ive tryed FanControl too.

In GNULinux I can set the max and min values thru terminal so if I can in GNULinux, I have to do the same in a Unix system.

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