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xboxtemp

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:15 am
by chrisb
Why can I readout the temps on mu xbox?

I tryed the #chmod +s /bin/xboxtemp but still the same.. :(

Im getting:
?? for the tempatures..

But #fanctl works fine...

Anyone?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:43 am
by Krazy
A bit of a guess here, but I remember reading somewhere that v1.6 xboxen do not work the same with respect to fanctl/temperatures, when compared with those models that came before.

Not 100% sure what the difference are. Perhaps v1.6 xbox doesn't report the temperature?

Anybody care to confirm?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:04 pm
by cheesyboofs
you are quite correct, M$ ripped the temp sensing bit out of 1.6's ->

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:29 pm
by bok
cheesyboofs wrote:you are quite correct, M$ ripped the temp sensing bit out of 1.6's ->
Then why is it visible on my Xbox 1.6 from within other Xbox-apps like the dashboards..?!
I think it's just because they used a different chip (Xcalibur) in these latest types.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:33 am
by Krazy
I think some dashboards report temperatures for

1) Motherboard
2) CPU
3) Hard disks

Of course, not all HD's have temperature sensing abilities.

Not sure whether a v1.6 xbox can do 3), but perhaps that's what you've seen?

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:59 am
by bok
What I see is the temperature of both CPU and MB in my UnleashX-dashboard. It is included in most (but not all) of the skins for UX.
When I start up my Xbox it shows a temp. of 43°C which steadily increases to app. 55°C (depending on load, etc.).

XBMC shows the HDD-temp as being 31°C. Not sure if that's accurate though, because even the CPU-temp is always 61.04°C in that application...

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:51 pm
by Krazy
What I see is the temperature of both CPU and MB in my UnleashX-dashboard.
Yes, that is where I've seen them too. Of course, if v1.6 boxes truly don't have temperature sensors (and I've read in more that one place that they don't), perhaps temps are being estimated?

On the other hand perhaps you are mistaken and your xbox is an earlier revision that you think?

So I guess we still don't have the real answer...

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:47 pm
by bok
Krazy wrote:On the other hand perhaps you are mistaken and your xbox is an earlier revision that you think?
With a manufacturing-date of April 28th 2005 in China? I'm pretty much sure that it's a v1.6 Xbox! :D

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:25 pm
by ShALLaX
On v1.6 boxes software which tries to read the temperature will get totally bogus results. Ive heard of people saying the temperature sticks at 255C, or 64C... trust me, there are no sensors in a v1.6 box and as such xboxtemp will only report "??". Sorry!

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:30 pm
by cheesyboofs
I did say this six post's ago! but what the f**k do I know.

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:42 pm
by ShALLaX
Yep, but I'm confirming it ;p

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 2:11 pm
by bok
It's me again... SORRY if it looks like I'm trolling and it's not that I don't believe what I read, but for XMBC I just found this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=581838

More confusion...

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 2:41 pm
by ShALLaX
Then I guess there is a different way to access the temperature which I dont know about and no one at xbox-linux knows about. Sorry.

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:25 pm
by redcow
what about:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/x ... iew=markup
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/x ... iew=markup

can u do something with it? would be so great to see the temps with xbox 1.6, dyamic fan speed :)

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:55 pm
by ShALLaX
Haha, they just multiply a bogus result by 0.8 to make it look correct?