A Better Fan Controller

Project Goals:

• Control Multiple GPUs Fans ✔️
• Make it configurable ✔️
• Support Other Vendors ❌
• More Crash Resistant ❌
• Average GPU Temps for smoother changes ️✔️
• Be able to identify the GPU's in question by name ✔️
• Create Systemd service ✔️
• Refactor for Cleanlyness ❌
• Enable configuring Maximum Power Draw ✔️
• Dogfood! ✔️
• Be a Hacktoberfest Project! ✔️

✔️ = Complete ❌ = Incomplete

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Installing as a Systemd Service:

Follow these steps to install and run the app as a Systemd service on Ubuntu 20.04 (these may vary for your distro):

• Publish the application as single file app by running

dotnet publish -r linux-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true --self-contained false

• Copy the published app to /usr/sbin

sudo cp bin/Debug/netcoreapp3.1/linux-x64/publish/BetterFanController
 /usr/sbin/

• Copy the betterfancontroller.service file from the repo to /etc/systemd/system

 sudo cp betterfancontroller.service /etc/systemd/system

• Reload systemd with

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

• Start the service with

sudo systemctl start betterfancontroller

• View service status with

sudo systemctl status betterfancontroller

• Stop the service with

sudo systemctl stop betterfancontroller

• View service logs with

sudo journalctl -u betterfancontroller