Gnat-Stats, Tiny OLED PC Performance Monitor

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After a recent purchase of a Nvidia GTX1080 graphics card, 4k monitor, plus Doom(2016), I thought it would be great to see some external telemetry..

I then Stumbled upon Psyrax's Hackaday.IO project.

Armed with an Arduino ProMicro and a 128x64 pixel OLED display, I compiled the source code.

The GnatStats Hardware Serial Monitor Visual Studio application is based around Psyrax's "SerialSender" Application , yet heavily modified by Colin Conway.

(Auto Reconnect, CPU/GPU Hardware Name ID's, Frequencies, Serial activity display timeout)

Files

GnatStats_Release_V1.31.zip

Version 1.31: MOVE CONFLICTING!!! NEOPIXEL PIN TO 10, Option to trigger an event at a given CPU or GPU threshold eg: LED indicator at 100% CPU Load. Top Config option to disable all pre-selected power/gnd pins on Arduino pins D4 and D5 when not powering OLED from ProMicro Top Config option to disable/enable "activitychecker" (Enable blank screen on serial timeout eg: PC powered down, Disable to retain last sampled info eg: PC crash or overclocking diagnostics)

x-zip-compressed - 15.80 kB - 01/25/2019 at 17:42

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Gnat-Tacho Overlay 47.75mm v2.zip

Gnat-Stats circular tachometer dial overlay graphic

x-zip-compressed - 1.55 kB - 10/25/2018 at 22:21

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GnatStats Release v1.2.zip

Fix Freeze screen issue

x-zip-compressed - 13.64 kB - 10/18/2018 at 00:25

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GnatStats Release 1.1.zip

Initial release

x-zip-compressed - 10.70 kB - 10/18/2018 at 00:25

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HardwareSerialMonitor_v1.1.zip

Hardware Serial Monitor v1.1 compiled to .Net 4.6.2 (make compatible with LibreHardwareMonitor DLL)

x-zip-compressed - 5.48 MB - 10/17/2018 at 23:33

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Components

1 × Arduino ProMicro

1 × SSD1306 or SH1106 OLED Display

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Hardware Serial Moniitor v1.1

Rupert Hirst • 10/16/2018 at 11:29 • 0 comments

Hardware Serial Moniitor updated to v1.1

Compiled with .Net 4.6.2 to make use of LibreHardwareMonitor's updated DLL (Fork of OpenHardwareMonitor)

Gnats-Stats Updates

Rupert Hirst • 10/16/2018 at 11:26 • 0 comments

Version 1.3:

Top Config option to disable all pre-selected power/gnd pins on Arduino pins D4 and D5 when not powering OLED from ProMicro

Top Config option to disable/enable "activitychecker" (Enable blank screen on serial timeout eg: PC powered down, Disable to retain last sampled info eg: PC crash or overclocking diagnostics)

Option to trigger an event at a given CPU or GPU threshold eg: LED indicator at 100% CPU Load.

NeoPixel Ring CPU/GPU Bargraph example:

Gnat-Tacho

Custom overlay

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Gnatstats Tiny OLED PC performance monitor
by Rupert Hirst and Colin Conway
The HardwareSerialMonitor application uses the open source OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll to sniff the sensors of most modern PC graphics, CPU and motherboards whilst, also pooling windows hardware stats.

Part of Psyrax's original arduino sketch, is a "anti screen burn" feature. This feature, inverts the screen background (black - white), after a preset time, to give even wear to the OLED display. This feature has been extended to totally turn off the OLED screen when no serial data is available, such as PC power down.
I wanted to keep the overall footprint as small as possible. The i2C pins on the ProMicro reside on D2(SDA) and D3(SCL). The displays i2c pins lined up but, obviously the power pins would be a problem.
After measuring a current of 18.6mA on a fully lit OLED display, I decided to pull pin D5 High(5v) and D4 Low(to ground) on the ProMicro to providing the necessary VCC / GND for the display.
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OLED Pins: VCC GND SCL SDA
ProMicro Pins: D5(HIGH) D4(LOW) D3 D2
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18mA is within the Atmel 32u4 maximum pin current limit of 20mA. This allowed the display to be simply soldered straight to the header of the ProMicro.
The HardwareSerialMonitor application is based of Psyrax's original source code and heavily modified by Colin Conway to include additional hardware stats.

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Discussions

alexyecla wrote 4 days ago

Hi Rupert, thanks for your proyect i'd love it, I'm trying use your gnat-serial-monitor, and detects usage. and temps, but I want send more data like vram, voltage, cpu & gpu freq...so how I can add these parameters?? hope you can help me.

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Belean wrote 01/12/2019 at 09:14

Hi Rupert! I've been looking for a project like yours for a long time. So thanks a lot! But I'm stuck with one meter to go, can you help me out? Everything works great, but the data is missing: no temp, no hardware names, just CPU...blank, GPU...blank, hertz...blank. I've an i7-7700 and a GTX 1080. Hardware Serial Monitor tray v1.1 is up and running. Any suggestions could be very useful to me, thank you!

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Rupert Hirst wrote 01/13/2019 at 20:53

HI Belean,

Did you run HardwareSerialMonitor as Admin?

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Belean wrote 01/13/2019 at 21:35

Thaks for your answer Rupert! Yes I did. HardwareSerialMonitor_v1.1. And OpenHardwareMonitor v0.8.0-beta works fine, if this can help. You can confirm that if I did everything right it should work even on an updated PC, right? There should be no external variables that could interfere with the project therefore?

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Rupert Hirst wrote 01/13/2019 at 22:50

if you ran the app as admin and you have selected the correct com port from the tray it should work. The only other things that may effect it are folder permissions, the arduino Com port driver, Antivirus or a firewall blocking the com port.

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Richardson Cherubini wrote 01/09/2019 at 21:52

Hello. Excellent project. I'm trying to reproduce this project, but I'm having the following problem. Can you give me a hand?

https://imgur.com/a/frKznmH

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acid company wrote 12/11/2018 at 18:17

how to fix form1 windows problem on serialmonitor?

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acid company wrote 11/24/2018 at 13:26

great project. thanks for share it but i want to same build for my pc. how i set up this parts and how i install to code in arduino? can u help me about this issue?

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 11/13/2018 at 08:43

tell me please,what command do I need to write to display information about the gpu ram load?

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/21/2018 at 21:24

Asrul... Which display have you got ?

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Asrul Yol wrote 10/19/2018 at 22:45

hey Rupert, im really new to adruino. im trying to varify the scetch, and i got "splashscreen was not include in this scope" error. How do i fix this?

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/20/2018 at 00:03

Hi,

Did you alter something in the sketch before you verified it?

Did you download the libraries?

In arduino IDE 1.85 with correct libraries it should complie just fine.

Just because it complains about "splashscreens" does not mean the problem is with that. It could be something as simple as you deleted or missed out a semicolon somewhere above, in the code.

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Asrul Yol wrote 10/20/2018 at 12:11

hi.. i've find out the problem and able to upload the sketch.. but now no display.. can u help me on this.. i ve try as your previous comment below.. but still didnt light up.. any suggestion?

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valentin wrote 10/19/2018 at 13:47

really very happy with this monitor. I will buy WS2812 digital leds right now ;)

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PhuocBull wrote 10/16/2018 at 08:16

OMG ! This is so great !

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 10/15/2018 at 12:48

led is circuit module RGB?

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/16/2018 at 09:41

Its a NeoPixel ring with a custom cut overlay. i would have posted more pics but hackadayio has a limit of 6 pictures.

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 10/16/2018 at 11:03

and on what contacts deduced? amazing thing happened))

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/16/2018 at 10:22

Glad to see Gnatstats/HardwareSerialMonitor detects your 8700k Coffee Lake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8uStfVLHc

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/16/2018 at 11:36

I saw your CPU on the OLED display on Thingiverse ;)

If you are the same person as below

" valentin wrote 09/18/2018 at 20:41

I realized a shell in 3D printing from this project:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3107543 "

But maybe i am wrong

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 10/16/2018 at 11:38

this is not me)

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valentin wrote 10/19/2018 at 13:18

it's me ;)

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kot0005 wrote 10/12/2018 at 23:31

Hi, Thanks for this Project. I am newbie using Arduino, So which one of the libraries do I use ? I used all of them and when I upload it works but my oled screen doesnt light up. I made sure the pins outs are right.

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/16/2018 at 09:46

You have to use all of the libraries mentioned.

You have to uncomment one of the lines for the perticular OLED display you are using...

//#define OLED_SSD1306
#define OLED_SH1106

#define OLED_SSD1306
//#define OLED_SH1106

If your using a display with a ProMicro on the back as per the pictures

you will need to uncomment

//#define enablepowerPins

And uncomment the one below it in the sketch for you perticular screens power requirements.

check you have the correct polarity for the selected OLED screen!!!

Also make sure you i2c address correct in the sketch

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 10/12/2018 at 03:46

for itself decided to use this holder(his own and can convert it) https://ru.aliexpress.com/item/128X64-0-96-O/32871594368.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.7a2833edrKLWbw

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 10/09/2018 at 14:29

Hello, very cool project, I would like to ask the question, is it Possible to add a second physical display with the output of information about the state of RAM and paging file?

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/09/2018 at 18:06

Yes it is possible but not with the present library. U8GLIB supports multiple screens, It would mean a extensive rewrite of the code. I am not sure if open hardware monitor supports displaying the page file.

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 10/09/2018 at 18:38

it's sad, because I was ready to order two displays ((by the way there is an idea about the front panel for the case, if you make it out of black Plexiglas,the display will Shine through and off will also be nice. and please sorry, i use google translate))

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/11/2018 at 12:28

I am working on a enclosure for a variant of GnatStats at the moment :)

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/08/2018 at 23:44

GnatStats Release v1.3

Version 1.3:

Option to trigger an event at a given CPU or GPU threshold eg: LED indicator at 100% CPU Load.

Top Config option to disable all pre-selected power/gnd pins on Arduino pins D4 and D5 when not powering OLED from ProMicro

Top Config option to disable/enable "activitychecker" (Enable blank screen on serial timeout eg: PC powered down, Disable to retain last sampled info eg: PC crash or overclocking diagnostics)

NeoPixel Ring CPU/GPU Bargraph example

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Rupert Hirst wrote 09/18/2018 at 21:06

Thats really great Valentin. I will be sure to link it in the next update :)

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valentin wrote 09/18/2018 at 20:41

I realized a shell in 3D printing from this project:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3107543

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valentin wrote 09/07/2018 at 19:13

Hello, I started in the Arduino the screen works very well but I wanted to make sure that to change screen (D1 D2 and D3) you have to press a button. I have no resistance, so I want to put the button in INPUT_PULLUP. But I have a lot of difficulty. Can someone help me and send me the file?

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B-Gits wrote 04/27/2018 at 00:40

Hi Rupert,
whats the pw for the ryzen zip file? I do have a ryzen and i am not able to get my temps displayed on my oled thingy.

Regards!

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Diegomud wrote 04/12/2018 at 17:41

The project is excellent, but I have a problem, I have a screen nextion 2.4 '' 320x240, will it be possible to implement it without changing the code?

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/09/2018 at 18:07

Nope

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Gnat-Stats, Tiny OLED PC Performance Monitor

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Files

GnatStats_Release_V1.31.zip

Gnat-Tacho Overlay 47.75mm v2.zip

GnatStats Release v1.2.zip

GnatStats Release 1.1.zip

HardwareSerialMonitor_v1.1.zip

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GnatStats_Release_V1.31.zip Version 1.31: MOVE CONFLICTING!!! NEOPIXEL PIN TO 10, Option to trigger an event at a given CPU or GPU threshold eg: LED indicator at 100% CPU Load. Top Config option to disable all pre-selected power/gnd pins on Arduino pins D4 and D5 when not powering OLED from ProMicro Top Config option to disable/enable "activitychecker" (Enable blank screen on serial timeout eg: PC powered down, Disable to retain last sampled info eg: PC crash or overclocking diagnostics) x-zip-compressed - 15.80 kB - 01/25/2019 at 17:42		Download
Gnat-Tacho Overlay 47.75mm v2.zip Gnat-Stats circular tachometer dial overlay graphic x-zip-compressed - 1.55 kB - 10/25/2018 at 22:21		Download
GnatStats Release v1.2.zip Fix Freeze screen issue x-zip-compressed - 13.64 kB - 10/18/2018 at 00:25		Download
GnatStats Release 1.1.zip Initial release x-zip-compressed - 10.70 kB - 10/18/2018 at 00:25		Download
HardwareSerialMonitor_v1.1.zip Hardware Serial Monitor v1.1 compiled to .Net 4.6.2 (make compatible with LibreHardwareMonitor DLL) x-zip-compressed - 5.48 MB - 10/17/2018 at 23:33		Download

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