(C) 2010 by lynix [email protected]
aerotools is a collection of Linux programs for getting status information via USB from the aquaero(R) 4.0 USB device (see AQUAERO). It currently consists of a CLI (see AEROCLI), a daemon (see AEROD) and a library for the device communication, which the cli and daemon are built on top of.
The device library depends on libusb version 1.0 (which is the current stable version, according to http://www.libusb.org). There are no other dependencies - except glibc, of course.
aerocli can be used to query all useful information the aquaero(R) device holds ("useful" is subjective here, of course) in a non-interactive way, and thus may be easily integrated in scipts.
The daemon, aerod, was written to integrate the data read from the aquaero(R) device in any application that can query hddtemp (e.g. using '${hddtemp}' in conky). Sensor names are represented as virtual nodes under /dev (e.g. /dev/temp3) for the third temperature sensor.
As the hddtemp protocol only supports integers, the reported values are not as precise as the aquaero(R) provides them.
aerod can act as proxy for an existing hddtemp instance, so you don't loose your hddtemp data when using aerod.
aerod comes with a Munin plugin that can be used to graph fan speeds, flow rate and temperatures:
The aquaero(R) 4.0 USB device is an awesome fan controlling and hardware monitoring device for water-cooled computer systems, created by the German company 'Aqua Computer' (http://www.aqua-computer.de). You can find more information about the device on their website.
aeinfo is the original Linux software the aquaero(R) comes shipped with. It was written in C++ by Christian Unger [email protected]. The development seems currently freezed.
You can find more information about aeinfo on the development website, http://breakbe.at/development/aquaero/. Unlike aerotools, it was designed to allow not only querying but also changing settings on the aquaero(R) device.
This project started early 2010. Since then I first switched over to an aquaero(R) 5.0 (which marked the birth of aerotools-ng) and then back to air cooling with my latest rig.
Development of aerotools is therefore considered discontinued, as I can no longer test anything on real hardware. However, pull requests are still welcome in case you wish to continue work on the project.
Feel free to report any bugs you find using the Issues function on GitHub. If you wish to contact the author, you can drop him an email to [email protected]. You might wish to use his GPG key, #4804CCA9 on keys.gnupg.net.
This program is published under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3. See the file 'LICENSE' for more information.