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Equipment List
Raspberry Pi 3 ► Amazon | Ebay
Software List
Raspbian Pixel ► https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
github: https://github.com/novaspirit/rpi_conky
conky settings: http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html
Process
To start we will need to install conky,
$ sudo apt-get install conky -ynow lets download the conky configuration file
$ wget -O /home/pi/.conkyrc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/novaspirit/rpi_conky/master/rpi3_conkyrcto autostart conky on boot we will need to create 2 files, 1 will be a shell script to delay the boot process of conky. 2. will be the conky desktop files to allow lxdesktop to start the shell script
to create the shell script
sudo nano /usr/bin/conky.shpaste this into the conky.sh file
#!/bin/sh(sleep 4s && conky) &exit 0
now lets create the conky.desktop file for the autostart process
sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/conky.desktopand paste this into the file
[Desktop Entry]Name=conkyType=ApplicationExec=sh /usr/bin/conky.shTerminal=falseComment=system monitoring tool.Categories=Utility;
the last thing to do is to reboot to make sure everything is working!
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works only when i run conky from CLI. No autostart. Then again I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 for Pi 3. But conky does work so thanks for the widget!
Use .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart to run the script
Did this now it starts up to a black screen and the rpi4 conky on the right but I have no access to anything else I went back in and erased the script but it is still doing this
it won't auto start for me
nevermind i figured it out, i was missing a single line
Thanks a lot Don! This worked like a charm on my device!
Thanks a lot Don! I'm running a dated Raspberry Pi 2. This worked like a charm on my device!
I'm interested in converting the Celsius to Fahrenheit. I've identified Line 44 as the code:
[code]
$font${color DimGray}Temp: $alignr ${exec /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp | cut -c6-9} C
[/code]
and it looks like you may already be converting to Celsius, but I don't understand the [code] cut -c6-9 [/code] part. Any tips?
Did you ever get farenheit to work?
Someone shared the solution in the comments to the YouTube video. Replace line 44 with:
$font${color DimGray}Temp: $alignr ${exec /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp | cut -c 6- | awk '{print (($1 * 9 / 5))+32}'} F
Beautiful. Thank you!
this command worked for me
$font${color DimGray}Temp: $alignr ${exec /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp | cut -c6-9 | awk '{print (($1 * 9 / 5))+32}'} F
Hi!
Sorry, but why it doesn't work on my Raspberry Pi 4? On my RPI4 is installed "Raspbian Buster with desktop and recommended software".
it worked for me on BUSTER, but after migration to bullseye game over.
Awesome work!