Dashboard Gauges by 7unw3n

OVERVIEW:
I've searched through the internet but I couldn't find what I wanted. So I've decided to make my own by pulling together a couple of widgets and refining its looks...and here's what I've got. The gauges tell you the status of your computer. Depending on your system, some widgets may not apply. (e.g. Battery status on an iMac)

GAUGES:
Tachometer - CPU Usage
Fuel Gauge - Battery Status
Temperature Gauge - Computer's Temperature
Speedometer - Free RAM & Uptime (Built-in Odometer in minutes)

DOWNLOAD:
Mirror 1 - [link]
Mirror 2 - [link]

FIXES:
-Speedometer & Tachometer
---Fixes issues with macbook and ram settings.

CREDITS:
[Improvements of Speedometer and Tachometer]
Kashidom - [link]

[Graphics]
Xgrid@Stanford - [link]

[Eye Candy Scripts]
Xgrid@Stanford - [link]

[System Scripts]
ShockWidgets - [link]

NOTE:
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

AnakingUniverse Featured By Owner Dec 2, 2013

The speedometer is pointing right down and i don't know how to fix it. And the temp gauge is showing the lowest temperature but I know that it is hotter then that.

I'm running it on a MacBook Air with mavericks.

Could anyone please help me?

thanks!

7unw3n Featured By Owner Nov 1, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you all for your interests in my widget. This was a really old project of mine. If you have improved it, I'd gladly upload it here to share with everyone and of cause give you the due credit.

hildy77 Featured By Owner Sep 21, 2013

I'm sorry. I meant:

var cpuheat = result[3];

hildy77 Featured By Owner Sep 21, 2013

I tried changing the bundle with the temperature obtained (temperature.bundle).

I replaced the compiled executable that doesn't work (miniCpuHeatCore) with one that does work extracted from the widget miniStat2 (miniStatCore).

But I can not correctly change the script of the widget (tempgauge.js) to obtain the temperature of the new bundle (miniStatCore).

In the place where you set cpuheat should put something like:

var result = miniStatCore.updateSensors_andFans_ (UnitType == 'C'? 0:1, (! forSummary | | sFIRSTUPDATE | | sFanSectionExists)? true: false);

cpuheat var = result [3];

but do not understand the syntax of miniStatCore to give me back the temperature.

Can anyone help?

hildy77 Featured By Owner Sep 21, 2013

anyone know how to fix the temperature gauge?

I'm afraid that the problem is in the file compiled miniCpuHeatCore and therefore without the source code will not be solved.

paxprobellum Featured By Owner Jun 25, 2013

To fix the battery gauge:

1) Download the widget
2) Right click and go to "Show Package Contents"
3) Open "battery.pl" and replace the entire file with this line:

for(`ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity`){eval"\$".substr($1,3,1)."=$2"while/(\w+)"

\d+)/g}

rintf"%.1f,%d,%d,%d",$r*1E2/$a,$g&1,$g&2/2,$n if$a;

4) Save, close, install

-paxprobellum

hildy77 Featured By Owner Sep 22, 2013

I've seen you fix the perl code in the battery widget.

I'm trying to fix the temperature widget. But my skills are insufficient.

I think the easiest way is to monitor the temperature using a compiled executable TempMonitor that is within the program Temperature Monitor (www.bresink.com/osx/0Temperatu…. TempMonitor allows for the temperature from the terminal.

In the terminal
"TempMonitor-ds-c-a-l | grep CPU | sed-e 's / ^ [^:] *: / /'"

It returns me the following:
53 C
51 C

I want to make some instructions on perl (temp.pl) to trim the first two issues of this result, and so provide the temperature to the widget. In the same way that works battery.pl that you have repaired.

Do you think it's a good way? Can you help me?

thanks

paxprobellum Featured By Owner Jun 25, 2013

It didn't come out right. Go here:

[link]

Igster187 Featured By Owner May 23, 2012

i can't get temperature & battery gauge working. how do i fix it? what do i do?

i'm using macbook Pro (snow leopard)

7unw3n Featured By Owner May 27, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hi, thanks for using my widgets. They were made a while back when I was running Tiger on my old iBook (Pre macbook days). My iBook has since died and I am now using a Mac Mini. Therefore there is no way I can upgrade my codes against new OS (leopard and above) since a Mac Mini doesn't have a battery. There's nothing much you can do unless you know how to make widgets, in which you can look at my codes and change them yourself. I believe it's via "right-click, show package contents". If you managed to do it, let me know. I will share it here and credit you. Thanks again for using my widgets.

Laserbehandling Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2012

This is just awesome.
Thanks for sharing

hornet22oz Featured By Owner Apr 7, 2011

SWEEET!!

EchoImage Featured By Owner Aug 9, 2010

Hey I just installed this and the Tachometer just reads full XD My computer (macbook pro) is running just fine but according to the gauge it's running on full tlit xD

Any suggestions?

7unw3n Featured By Owner Aug 10, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in my widgets. I did these widgets long ago and are designed to run on Tiger OSX. I do not currently have any plans to make Leopard or Snow Leopard compatible version. If you have any knowledge on widget making, feel free to edit it and perhaps you can send it to me to share it with the community and I will credit accordingly.

Regards,
7unw3n

EchoImage Featured By Owner Aug 11, 2010

Thanks so much, i'll look into it!

relhom Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

shmaller Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2009

Speedometer and tach work awesome, but the temp and fuel gauges don't work at all.

7unw3n Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hi,

Thank you for your interest. Those widgets were designed for Tiger OSX. I've have yet to find time to get them to work on Leopard.

7unw3n

shmaller Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2009

btw, i'm running on a 13-inch macbook

kid007la Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2009

I have the first generation macbook, running leopard and the temperature and battery are not working at all. Is this normal? or is it just my computer?

7unw3n Featured By Owner Feb 26, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hi,

Thanks for trying out my widgets. I made them when I was using Tiger. For some reason, they do not work on Leopard. Due to other commitments, I have ceased development for this widget until further notice. If you have any coding experience and managed to get it to work on Leopard, I'll gladly update my links and credit you. Thanks again for your interest.

7unw3n

DK33 Featured By Owner Dec 22, 2008

anyone know the speed oh widget? does anyone still have it? thanks. kuase i have desktop widgets and I cant install this. I need windows version. thanks if anyone can help out.

camartins1963 Featured By Owner Jul 18, 2008

Awesome.
Looks pretty good.

soulesn Featured By Owner Dec 22, 2007

[link]
Wow!

bninja07 Featured By Owner Apr 26, 2007

These are beautiful little widgets, but there is one signficant issue (at least on my system). The Tachometer Dashboard Client software is in itself a CPU hog. Under normal function my CPU is running around 40%. When I open my dashboard however, CPU jumps up to 85-90%. Obviously this is not just the Tachometer widget, but a result of all the other widgets too, but when I watch in the Activity monitor, Tachometer is consistently the most CPU intensive process running while dashboard is open using between 20 & 25% of CPU. Very sad because I love this little app. Has anyone else has this issue?

kashidom Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2008 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

The tachometer is highly CPU-intensive.

This is because of the constant requests and calculations that need to be done to get the used and total RAM values. It cannot be fixed without degrading in function or increasing in program complexity. Unfortunately, I am not skilled for this and was only able to fix it to what it is now :/

Flernk Featured By Owner Mar 13, 2007

I know it's been a while but has anyone got these to work on a MacBook?

crazywhiteboy Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2007

i think this is a really cool but i have a problem and im sure a lot of other people do to. i have windows xp and i can't use this program so i was wondering if you could design one that will run on windows that works the same way.

7unw3n Featured By Owner Jan 12, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I was initially inspired by Speed-Oh which was desgined for mac. I am really sorry that the widgets failed to work on macbooks.

Kashidom's fix should have solved the problem, but some how they didn't.

crazywhiteboy Featured By Owner Oct 3, 2007

sorry it took me like a year to get back. i din't have a problem on the mac except that the school server wouldn't let me download it.

my problem is i have windows. so could u make some type of version that runs on windows?

7unw3n Featured By Owner Nov 29, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

My idea actually came from a program from windows. I can't remember the name though, try googling for "Windows Ram Speedometer".

newspin Featured By Owner Jan 10, 2007 Professional Photographer

dude i want to use these but I can't seem to install them. 15in macbk pro

7unw3n Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'm sorry to hear that you have problems installing. Other users seems to have no problem installing it, hence I do not know how to help you. I'm sorry.

newspin Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2007 Professional Photographer

hey thanks, I got the rpm and mph to work just not the temp and fuel. great work.

7unw3n Featured By Owner Dec 21, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Haha, thank you.

spencereholtaway Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2006 Professional Interface Designer

That was weird!

I was on DA, then I saw there were 2 new things on the OS X iusethis RSS feed, so I went there, and now I'm back at DA downloading this!

It's such a fun idea, I love it!

visionary-mist Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2006

this widget is awesome!

everything works great just the temperature is below C, but that may be because my powerbook isn't the newest anymore

7unw3n Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you.

TechII Featured By Owner Nov 16, 2006

Do you know if there are some for Windows?....I like these meters..I'm using some with Sysmetrix but I would like to have them separate so I can drag them around my desktop....I think I can make one with Samurize but I'm not sure....I know you gave a link to Graphics but where do I find them all...(small meters too)..?

7unw3n Featured By Owner Nov 16, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

These widgets are actually inspired by the Window's version called, Speed-ooh. Unfortunately, i couldn't find them anymore, hence, I can't link you. I hope you had fun building your own as well.

TechII Featured By Owner Nov 16, 2006

Ok...thanks....I'll give it a try....

TechII Featured By Owner Nov 16, 2006

Nevermind...I found the graphics inside the zip file.....thnx...I'll give it a try with Samurize and make one for windows....

kashidom Featured By Owner Oct 30, 2006 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Your widget is now fixed. I sent you an e-mail with the patched ones.
You can now see the used RAM based on a percentage of full RAM.

So if you' re having 2G of total and use 1.5G, you will have (approx.) 500M free; so it' s going to go to 3/4. It also auto-converts higher values to bytes and then back up to Mb, so you will have no errors in the RAM' s available size.

Remember to change the color theme to the original, though!

Enjoy! :3

ehp2013 Featured By Owner Aug 13, 2013

any chance i can also get the patches? also anyone figure out how to get the temperature gauge to work? thank you,

kashidom Featured By Owner Aug 13, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

This thing is old.. I submitted my upgrades to the OP, but unfortunately, I don't have anything of it left. If it's not in the file you can download from here, I'm afraid you're at a loss in regards to the improved functionality. As for temps, there should be a fix in older comments.

..I have never tested this on newer versions to OS X than Leopard :\

omski2k4 Featured By Owner Oct 25, 2006

i love the design, it's wonderful, but how do I read the ram one ? do i just estimate a percentage ? and can I see the code u use for the heat one ? maybe i could try importing code from somewhere else and then porting it to fit the universal code tht'd be required on the macbook

7unw3n Featured By Owner Oct 26, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

If the Ram shows a high value, you have a lot of ram left. All codes are in HTML, Javascript, and Perl. Ctrl-Click the widget and select "show package contents". In there, you will find all the things responsible for the working of the widget. If you managed to fix it, please let me know. Thank you!

mat92 Featured By Owner Oct 22, 2006

The dashboard gauges are great! they combine great looks with a handy tool. Great for (mac) laptop users everywhere! However the only thing i could point out is that the temperature and battery ones dont work properly on my macbook, that i got yesterday!