Conky hddtemp always displays 50c. Debian Stretch Mate

d4t73 · 07-20-2018, 03:53 AM

My hddtemp line in conky reads:

HDD Temp: ${execi 2 hddtemp /dev/sda | cut -c 31-32}°C

however; it always displays

"HDD Temp: 50°C"

regardless of what the temperature actually is.

For example, when I run hddtemp from the cli, I get:

hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500G B �@: 37°C

jefro · 07-20-2018, 01:16 PM

Start with sudo hddtemp /dev/sdx x being your drive.

d4t73 · 07-20-2018, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro

Start with sudo hddtemp /dev/sdx x being your drive.

This is what I'm doing on the command line. This works fine. The problem is getting it to display properly in conky. For example, when the actual temp displayed on the command line is 36c, 50c is displayed in the conky window. In fact this is what displays all the time. If I remove the {}'s, the command itself is just displayed in the conky window.

jefro · 07-20-2018, 07:33 PM

So when you run with sudo it works as expected. Suspect the fault is in permissions.

Are you running conky while as admin? (really shouldn't be)

Peek at this for some ideas. https://askubuntu.com/questions/6850...emp-with-conky

d4t73 · 08-01-2018, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro

So when you run with sudo it works as expected. Suspect the fault is in permissions.

Are you running conky while as admin? (really shouldn't be)

Peek at this for some ideas. https://askubuntu.com/questions/6850...emp-with-conky

I think I am, now. hddtemp was getting a permissions error, so I had to run dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp
and reconfigure as admin, to get rid of the premissions error.

Here's the fix I used, which at least fixed the permissions error; and allowed the conky window to display 50c. It wasn't displaying anything before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ0h0ChY1hQ