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Gnat-Stats, Tiny OLED PC Performance Monitor

Arduino OLED PC Performance Monitor with Client software

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Gnat-Stats, Tiny OLED PC Performance Monitor.

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)

GnatStats_Release_V1.3.zip

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)

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GnatStats Release v1.2.zip

Fix Freeze screen issue

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GnatStats Release 1.1.zip

Initial release

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Hardware Serial Monitor V1.zip

Initial Release .Net 3.5

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HardwareSerialMonitor_v1.1.zip

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

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  • 1 × Arduino ProMicro
  • 1 × SSD1306 or SH1106 OLED Display

  • Hardware Serial Moniitor v1.1

    Rupert Hirst • 3 days ago • 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 • 3 days ago • 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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    Step 1

    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.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    OLED Pins: VCC GND SCL SDA

    ProMicro Pins: D5(HIGH) D4(LOW) D3 D2

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    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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valentin wrote 6 hours ago • point

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

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PhuocBull wrote 3 days ago • point

OMG ! This is so great !

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valentin-bykov-1990 wrote 4 days ago • point

led is circuit module RGB?

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Rupert Hirst wrote 3 days ago • point

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 3 days ago • point

and on what contacts deduced? amazing thing happened))

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Rupert Hirst wrote 3 days ago • point

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

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

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Rupert Hirst wrote 3 days ago • point

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 3 days ago • point

this is not me)

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valentin wrote 7 hours ago • point

it's me ;)

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kot0005 wrote 7 days ago • point

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 3 days ago • point

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

or 

#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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

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 • point

Nope

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daniel_geiger wrote 01/09/2018 at 12:15 • point

Can you add support for temperatures on Intel Coffee Lake? (i7-8700k w/ asus strix z370-e) Would be nice

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Rupert Hirst wrote 02/05/2018 at 16:45 • point

Some one needs to add the support on the Open Hardaware Monitor github then I can compile it

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c wrote 12/30/2017 at 15:58 • point

Please could you add support for temperatures on AMD Ryzen (particularly the r5 1600 on the asus prime b350-plus)?

 I've tried compiling https://github.com/openhardwaremonitor/openhardwaremonitor/pull/970 and https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor, both of which have ryzen support and looking through the source code but I can't spot a problem and neither works.

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Rupert Hirst wrote 02/05/2018 at 16:47 • point

i managed to compile Kraust's Fork here  0.8.1.0

https://github.com/Kraust/openhardwaremonitor

Added Ryzen Temperature Support (Off the Chip, not the Motherboard)

If you want to test the compiled DLL for Ryzen send me a PM with your email address

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Tomas wrote 08/17/2018 at 00:44 • point

please send me the ryzen compiled DLL, I have been working on this and I cant make the cpu core speed or the cpu temperature work..

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Rupert Hirst wrote 10/09/2018 at 18:09 • point

Ryzen support seems an ongoing issue with all forms of open hardware monitor.

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Hari Wiguna wrote 06/05/2017 at 12:53 • point

Rupert, that's a crapton of info you packed into 64 pixel tall display! Fantastic!
PS: Thanks for following my Giant RGB LED Cube project!

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