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Doesn't include thermals, just ARM64 machine code. Another update is coming with thermal support, according to their support team.
Thanks for the info man, last time I visited the website I didn’t saw it. Hopefully they will get as many sensors and display them as accurately as current Intel version. It is, indeed, my favorite temperature app, I don’t care about the fan speed to be honest, just real temperatures.
I have a question/request. Activity Monitor only shows one bar (like it was a one single core CPU) when you tell it to show CPU activity on the icon...
Is it there any app that shows which cores (efficiency or performance) are being used and by how much (clock speed)? I'd really like to visualise how is my SoC behaving. Thanks.
Is it there any app that shows which cores (efficiency or performance) are being used and by how much (clock speed)? I'd really like to visualise how is my SoC behaving. Thanks.
With iStat Menus you can get it to show all individual cores in the top menu bar, after a while you figure out which is low power and witch is high power (since it just put them in random order), see screen capture below.
But I use grouped view because that is way to cluttered for my liking.
EDIT:// In my screenshot above the three first cores are high performance followed by one low performance, followed by another high performance and the last three are low performance.
Latest beta of Macs Fan Control (v1.5.9, universal) does display temperature sensors on M1 macs now.
TG Pro works great on my M1 Macbook Air.
Obviously, the fan speed management (which was extremely useful on my Intel Macbook Airs & Pros) is wasted on the fanless M1 MBA. But the app offers loads of temperature info and has a very helpful & customizable menu bar icon.
Download the demo version, try it for 2 weeks. If you like it, it's just $10. The developer is very responsive to questions (often replying to emails within an hour)
Obviously, the fan speed management (which was extremely useful on my Intel Macbook Airs & Pros) is wasted on the fanless M1 MBA. But the app offers loads of temperature info and has a very helpful & customizable menu bar icon.
Download the demo version, try it for 2 weeks. If you like it, it's just $10. The developer is very responsive to questions (often replying to emails within an hour)
It doesn’t work great on my M1 MacBook Air, and I’m going to contact @tbsoftware because I purchased the app few days ago, and I’m observing a huge memory leak (RAM). After having my mac running a couple of days, it shows almost 2GB of RAM just for this app, and I don’t want to be opening and closing the app to free the RAM.
Notice how Macs Fan Control, at the bottom, is using just 162,3 MB
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Ok, I think it is fair to say that TunaBelly dev team (@tbsoftware) answered my email short after I complained about the memory leak issue, and they released a software update to fix this bug (its been all day running and still using the same 63MB of RAM), along with a native M1 version of TG Pro. Now this app fully supports M1 processors.
Also, they listened to a couple of suggestions I had, and removed the Fan helper if there’s no fan on the machine -like on the M1 MacBook Air- as it is not needed.
I could just say they fixed the bug, but what I wanted to say is, on top of that, they anwered my emails and provided a good support. I bought the app, and I’m pretty happy with TG Pro. If I encounter any other bug or problem I will contact them.
If you want to monitor your mac temperatures or control its fans, this is a good software to rely on. And it’s still on sale!
Also, they listened to a couple of suggestions I had, and removed the Fan helper if there’s no fan on the machine -like on the M1 MacBook Air- as it is not needed.
I could just say they fixed the bug, but what I wanted to say is, on top of that, they anwered my emails and provided a good support. I bought the app, and I’m pretty happy with TG Pro. If I encounter any other bug or problem I will contact them.
If you want to monitor your mac temperatures or control its fans, this is a good software to rely on. And it’s still on sale!
After inspecting sudo powermetrics --help it seems the sampler gives a simpler response these days:
Current pressure level: Nominal
The command to get that is:
sudo powermetrics --samplers thermal | grep -i "Current pressure level:"
Current pressure level: Nominal
The command to get that is:
sudo powermetrics --samplers thermal | grep -i "Current pressure level:"
Yeah it seems there's just a verbal status on temperature referred to as thermals.
+1 to this
TG Pro does look nicer - and doesn't cost much either
But this does exactly the same thing - for free
I haven't tested scientifically but even the energy impact for it seems to be lower than TG Pro (which wasn't high to begin with)
I needed an app to monitor temperatures for my M1 mac back in December and, even tho I’ve been using Macs Fan Control for several years, it wasn’t ready for M1 chips at the moment.
So I bought TGPro and I’m happy to support an indie developer that also provides an awesome support each time I contact him. It works great, but at the same time it’s good to know there’s still a free alternative
Is there a command line utility to quickly show the temperature and exit? osx-cpu-temp and coretemp do this but neither one has been updated to support Apple silicon.
I found this
Basically install Xcode command line tools:
sudo xcode-select --install
and then:
curl -LJO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fermion-star/apple_sensors/master/temp_sensor.m
curl -LJO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fermion-star/apple_sensors/master/monitor.py
clang -Wall -v temp_sensor.m -framework IOKit -framework Foundation -o temp_sensor
./temp_sensor | python3 monitor.py
If I were to limit the fan speed to 1500RPM, for example, would the MBP just act like the Air in that the temps would rise and then the computer would throttle at ~94C until it cooled back down?
M1 MBP fan doesn't spin up until the CPU cores are above 80C, even then it's very quiet. For average usage the M1 MBP is the same as the M1 Air Silent. If you hit the M1 MBP with heavy sustained loads only then will the fan activate and spool up.
As for the question, I believe if the fan needs to activate it will do, with Macs Fan Control being a monitor and offering the feature to boost the fans RPM.
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