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# Thermal Control Center for Dell G15 5515

Open-source alternative to AWCC*.
Open-source alternative to AWCC*

[Download link](releases) *(Note: requres ro be run as administrator)*
[Download link](https://github.com/AlexIII/tcc-g15/releases/download/1.0.0/Thermal.Control.Center.v1.0.0.exe) *(Note: requires to be run as administrator)*

<img width=600 src="./screen-1.png" />

Tested only for Dell G15 5515. May also work on other Dell G15 notebooks.

Please report if it worked / didn't work for you. Your feedback is highly appreciated.

**AWCC - "Alienware Control Center" is an app for thermal control that Dell ships with their G-series notebooks*

<img width=600 src="./screen-1.png" />

## What it can do

- ✔️ Switch thermal mode between G-mode, Balanced and Custom
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## Why AWCC is BAD

- ❌ AWCC has no in-proram option to enable/disable G-mode
- ❌ AWCC manual fan control is broken as for now
- ❌ AWCC has no in-program option to enable/disable G-mode
- ❌ AWCC manual fan control is broken as per this moment
- ❌ AWCC is bulky, slow and visually noisy app that can't even handle basic functions
- ❌ AWCC is spying on you. [Details](#on-awcc-telemetry)
- ❌ AWCC sometimes randomly crashes and throws crash reports

If this alternative works for you, you can safely remove these from your PC
If this alternative works out for you, you can safely remove from your PC:

- Alieanware CC Components
- Alieanware Command Center Suite
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- Save settings between restarts (20x ⭐)
- Autorun on system startup option (30x ⭐)
- "Target temperature mode" - automatically control the fans to maintain user-specified GPU/CPU temperature (40x ⭐)
- proper Windows installer (50x ⭐)
- Proper Windows installer (50x ⭐)

*or maybe I'll do it regardless, who knows

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It is a PyQt based GUI for WMI Dell thermal control interface.

I somewhat documented my findings on the WMI [here](#awcc-telemetry)
I somewhat documented my findings on the WMI [here](WMI-AWCC-doc.md)

## How to run from source
## How to run from the source

```
python3 -m pip install -r ./requirements.txt
python3 tcc-g15.py
```

## On AWCC Telemetry
## About the AWCC telemetry

I know, It's probably not gonna surprise anyone, giving the times we're living in,
but AWCC silently sends telemetry out-of-the-box without the possibility of opting-out.
I know it's probably not gonna surprise anyone, giving the times we're living in,
but AWCC silently sends some telemetry without the possibility of opting-out.

The telemetry is being sent to these URLs

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