# lm-sensors/lm-sensors

lm-sensors repository

Repository: https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lm-sensors
Homepage: https://hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/
Language: Perl
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-05-06T14:19:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 69/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 81, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5370, "days_push": 119, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1142, forks 301 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:44.831098+00:00)

## What it is
lm-sensors is a Linux user-space package providing tools and the libsensors library for hardware monitoring chips on motherboards. It includes sensors-detect for discovering hardware, a sensors CLI for reading temperatures/fan speeds/voltages, and a sensord logging daemon.

## Use cases
- check cpu temperature on linux
- monitor fan speeds from the command line
- detect hardware monitoring chips on my motherboard
- log sensor readings and alert on overheating
- read voltage levels from system sensors
- script temperature checks in a monitoring setup

## When to choose
- you run Linux on a desktop or server with a hardware monitoring chip and want sensor readings
- you need a lightweight CLI or daemon for temperature, fan, and voltage monitoring
- you want a C library (libsensors) to read sensor data programmatically

## When to avoid
- you are on a laptop that only exposes temperature via ACPI/BIOS
- you need chip-specific support not covered by your kernel drivers - updating lm-sensors won't help
- you need cross-platform hardware monitoring on Windows or macOS

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, cli, developer-tools
- domain: hardware, operating-systems, monitoring
- platform: cli
- tags: hardware-monitoring, temperature, fan-speed, voltage, libsensors, system-health, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- lm-sensors/lm-sensors (main) score 69

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.831098+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:35:16.061884+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.831098+00:00, sha a5bc5d4f9c24)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.