FanControl, my take on a SpeedFan replacement

[Rem0o]

7 hours ago, silasbutdeadly said:

Seems to work well on an AsRock H97M Pro 4. Also, in the future will there be a way to set our own fan curve?

I guess you mean with a Y/X graph? I don't have plans for it quite yet, as the implementation effort is high and compared with the actual feature set, the benefit quite low (imo). 

[Rem0o]

Bugfix

 

Fixed annoying bug where clicking on the tray icon wouldn't bring back the window to the front if it was minimized when closed.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Rem0o said:

Bugfix

 

Fixed annoying bug where clicking on the tray icon wouldn't bring back the window to the front if it was minimized when closed.

I'm back, running the latest version now. Don't know if this log file helps any, but I'm seeing some zany temperatures showing

 

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I got some of my fans labelled, but #4 for FRONT up top doesn't show up down below and neither does 5, I have 3 which has nothing connected to it. I figured out which # was which fans by just stopping them with my finger or unplugging them.

 

Some of the goofy temps I'm seeing are things like 151C for a core and that alternates to 86C and 4294682C. A lot of other temps are weird numbers like that as well and move around a little bit. I exited Asus AI suite and I'm not running any other programs that would be hitting up the hardware for temp data.

 

So this time I tried to set any of the fan's I had listed as controllable to GPU temp, CPU, and the rear fans, neither responded to rising GPU temps.

Not sure what's going on here, it's very weird.

[silasbutdeadly]

1 hour ago, Rem0o said:

Bugfix

 

Fixed annoying bug where clicking on the tray icon wouldn't bring back the window to the front if it was minimized when closed.

Maybe I am dumb, but how do I update the application? do I need to download it again?

[Rem0o]

1 minute ago, silasbutdeadly said:

Maybe I am dumb, but how do I update the application? do I need to download it again?

Yes, no OTA update as I don't have a hosting solution for now. Simply copy the exe/dlls over your existing folder, your config will be preserved.

[Ale_geek]

Hi Rem0o where can i download your program?

[Rem0o]

19 minutes ago, Bitter said:

 

Not sure what's going on here, it's very weird.

It simply seems like your motherboard is badly interfaced with the LibreHardwareMonitor library. Those weird readouts are either wrong addresses read or badly converted binary values. I wouldn't waste my time trying to make it work on your side. If the library gets an update, I will update too, so opening a PR here would be your only option https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor.

 

However, since you got an Asus board, isn't their Fan Xpert thing quite good already? 

[Rem0o]

7 minutes ago, Ale_geek said:

Hi Rem0o where can i download your program?

Look for the first post, there is a link there. Tell me how it goes for you with your motherboard model.

[Ale_geek]

Thanks! I got it to work really quick. The only problem is that it doesn't detect one of my pwm fans connected to my motherboard ('SYS 5'). 

[Rem0o]

14 hours ago, Ale_geek said:

Thanks! I got it to work really quick. The only problem is that it doesn't detect one of my pwm fans connected to my motherboard ('SYS 5'). 

Yeah the NCT6797D is only interfaced as older versions of the chip with 6 fans but in reality it supports 7. If I can figure out the registers in there https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c I will open a pull request to add support for the 7th control.

 

( Yes, distros of linux got up-to-date kernel level API for every type of fan control built-in, Windows on the other hand... ).

[Bitter]

15 hours ago, Rem0o said:

It simply seems like your motherboard is badly interfaced with the LibreHardwareMonitor library. Those weird readouts are either wrong addresses read or badly converted binary values. I wouldn't waste my time trying to make it work on your side. If the library gets an update, I will update too, so opening a PR here would be your only option https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor.

 

However, since you got an Asus board, isn't their Fan Xpert thing quite good already? 

Not that good, can't reference GPU temp for fan control which Is the one thing I want to do.

[Rem0o]

Update

 

Did a pull request on LibreHardwareMonitor. 

NCT6797 / NCT6798 boards now have the support for the 7th fan.

 

Version is up on the main post.

[Bitter]

On 1/27/2020 at 9:11 PM, Rem0o said:

It simply seems like your motherboard is badly interfaced with the LibreHardwareMonitor library. Those weird readouts are either wrong addresses read or badly converted binary values. I wouldn't waste my time trying to make it work on your side. If the library gets an update, I will update too, so opening a PR here would be your only option https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor.

 

However, since you got an Asus board, isn't their Fan Xpert thing quite good already? 

I'll try some other software that uses that library and see what it reports for temps to see what happens with that and then do a pull request once I better understand what that is and how to do it.

 

I guess I should ask what other software is using LibreHardwareMonitor that I can check with to see if that's the issue? NM, been a long time since I've used github to download a thing, I got a little lost on the page.

 

Ok, LibreHardwareMonitor reads the board and graphics card just fine?

LibreHardwareMonitor.Report.txt

[Rem0o]

21 hours ago, Bitter said:

I'll try some other software that uses that library and see what it reports for temps to see what happens with that and then do a pull request once I better understand what that is and how to do it.

 

I guess I should ask what other software is using LibreHardwareMonitor that I can check with to see if that's the issue? NM, been a long time since I've used github to download a thing, I got a little lost on the page.

 

Ok, LibreHardwareMonitor reads the board and graphics card just fine?

LibreHardwareMonitor.Report.txt 62.66 kB · 0 downloads

Your log reflects your previous screenshot fan-wise. Excluding the GPU, you got 5 detected fans, 3 of which you have a control address.  The RPMs seems to be the same. The temperature problem might have been fixed from a recent commit ( see https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor/issues/200 ).

The problem remains with the control.
In LibreHardwareMonitor, try to right click on the fan controls and set a %.

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, Rem0o said:

Your log reflects your previous screenshot fan-wise. Excluding the GPU, you got 5 detected fans, 3 of which you have a control address.  The RPMs seems to be the same. The temperature problem might have been fixed from a recent commit ( see https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor/issues/200 ).

The problem remains with the control.
In LibreHardwareMonitor, try to right click on the fan controls and set a %.

I tried that, nothing happened. At least the voltages are reporting correctly in LHM, FanControl is still showing goofy voltages though.

 

I'm not sure what's with those weird temps (gpu), but it's not an issue as long as I can select a normal looking temp, right? I mean I guess I'm jumping the gun and hoping that my board will be supported at some point. I'll keep trying newer builds until it works.

[Rem0o]

On 1/30/2020 at 10:34 PM, Bitter said:

 

I'm not sure what's with those weird temps (gpu), but it's not an issue as long as I can select a normal looking temp, right? 

Yes, it's simple math behind the scene. If the number match your curve, you are fine. 

[Bitter]

27 minutes ago, Rem0o said:

Yes, it's simple math behind the scene. If the number match your curve, you are fine. 

Thanks, I'll just keep hoping that my X470 gets supported at some point in the future, until then I may figure out a hardware solution. If RX580 fans are PWM I can tap that control signal and use it to feed a PWM hub to control case fans, ugly but effective.

[Rem0o]

On 2/1/2020 at 11:34 AM, Bitter said:

Thanks, I'll just keep hoping that my X470 gets supported at some point in the future, until then I may figure out a hardware solution. If RX580 fans are PWM I can tap that control signal and use it to feed a PWM hub to control case fans, ugly but effective.

There's nothing like a hardware solution

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, Rem0o said:

There's nothing like a hardware solution

Ahmen to that, but software is so much easier and more flexible. I'm going to give it a whirl with some other hardware I have here that I'm more sure it'll work with. Asus killed AIsuite for my Z87 ITX in the HTPC so I can't make custom fan curves, I miss zero fan idle. Now I can have it back!

[Rem0o]

In developpement...

 

Matching between fan speeds and fan controls!
RPM in control card.

Easy matching process from three dot menu and card icons.

 

 

Stay tuned!

[Bitter]

3 minutes ago, Rem0o said:

In developpement...

 

Matching between fan speeds and fan controls!
RPM in control card.

Easy matching process from three dot menu and card icons.

Stay tuned!

That's a really nice feature set upcoming, I can't wait to get this rolling on my other PC's this weekend.

[Rem0o]

New Release

 

Changes:

• Fan control cards are now at the top

 

New features:

• Match your control and speed cards manually
• Match your control and speed cards automatically

 

To match your cards automatically, use the new option in the top right application three dot menu. The application will automatically control the fans and try to figure out which is which. This process takes about a minute. You can cancel at any time.

 

 

Manual control card matching tutorial:

 

1)  Select the new option in the three dot menu. This option also remove a previously selected fan sensor.

 

2) Cancel if you want by clicking on the icon

3) Click on available fan speed sensor icon ( highlighted icons )

 

4) Done!

 

Version is up on the main post.

 

Enjoy!

 

[Bitter]

I've got it running on my Asus Z87-I to control the AIO fan much better than the Asus BIOS was doing it. I'll need to do a little fine tuning but it does what I want just fine so far.

[Rem0o]

Small UI update

 

I worked the fonts a bit so that the cards are a little more compacts

 

[Rem0o]

Feature update

 

• Added automatic fan matching to single fan control at once.
• Generally improved the automatic fan matching process, bypasses completely the fan curves.