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The facts
Each one read from HWall's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- About the maker
- The README says the maker started HWall as a personal project to bring HWiNFO64-style sensor monitoring to Linux.checked 7 Oct 2026
What it does
- Alert channels
- desktop notificationschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Alerts
- Per-sensor warning and critical alerts support duration, hysteresis, cooldown, and desktop notifications.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Build requirements
- Building the graphical application requires Rust 1.92 or newer, GTK 4.8 or newer development files, pkg-config, and a standard C build toolchain.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Exports and API
- It supports human-readable reports, JSON export, JSON Lines streaming, and an HTTP JSON API serving sensor or hardware snapshots.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Hardware inventory
- Its inventory covers processors, memory, graphics, storage, network, Bluetooth, USB, PCI, batteries, firmware, and supported security devices.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Hardware limits
- Hardware support depends on interfaces exposed by the running kernel and installed drivers, and missing optional helpers leave affected information out.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Hardware requirements
- Available readings depend on the running kernel, installed drivers, hardware, and—in some cases—optional helper tools.checked 7 Oct 2026
- History and charts
- It keeps configurable, bounded sensor history in memory and provides interactive charts with CSV or JSON Lines export.checked 8 Oct 2026
- HTTP API
- The CLI can serve sensor, mixed, or hardware snapshots as JSON over HTTP at a configurable address.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Optional helpers include lm-sensors, hwdata, bluetoothctl, ethtool, smartmontools, nvme-cli, nvidia-smi, and dmidecode.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- It provides a native GTK 4 application and a terminal interface.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Inventory
- Hardware inventory covers processors, memory, graphics, storage, network, Bluetooth, USB, PCI, batteries, firmware, and supported security devices.checked 8 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository includes an MIT license.checked 8 Oct 2026
- License and source
- The repository is public and identifies its license as MIT.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Limitations
- The maker says HWall cannot guarantee reported-value accuracy or compatibility with every system.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Live monitoring
- It reports temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, utilization, clocks, storage activity, network rates, and available power readings.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Live readings
- It reports live temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, utilization, clocks, storage activity, network rates, and available power readings.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Optional drive health
- SMART and NVMe health information is optional; detailed readings require the relevant helper tools.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Privileges
- HWall reads sensors exposed under /sys/class/hwmon and does not load kernel modules or request administrator privileges for that access.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Product
- HWall is a read-only Linux hardware monitor and inventory application written in Rust, with native GTK 4 and terminal interfaces.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- HWall is a read-only Linux hardware monitor and inventory application written in Rust.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform
- The project describes itself as a Linux application and documents GTK and terminal builds.checked 7 Oct 2026
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