lm-sensors
The facts below are what the maker publishes about lm-sensors, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From lm-sensors's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| lm-sensors | Free | User-space hardware monitoring support for Linux; hardware readings require compatible kernel drivers |
The facts
Each one read from lm-sensors's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- CLI
- The sensors console tool reports sensor readings and can set new sensor limits.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Configuration
- A configuration file can provide motherboard-specific labels and conversion rules for sensor values.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Dependencies
- Building requires GNU make, gcc, bison, and flex; RRD header files are optional for sensord.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Graphical interface
- The package does not include a graphical monitor.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Hardware detection
- The sensors-detect program detects installed hardware and recommends kernel modules to load.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Hardware limit
- lm-sensors supports chips for which the running kernel has hardware-monitoring drivers; updating lm-sensors itself does not add unsupported chip support.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integration
- sensord can feed an RRD database with sensor measurements.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Laptop limitation
- The project says lm-sensors may be of no use on laptops that do not expose a hardware-monitoring chip, and suggests acpi for those systems.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Library
- libsensors is a shared or static library that applications can use to access sensor readings and configure them.checked 9 Oct 2026
- License
- The libsensors library is released under LGPL and the rest of the package may be distributed under GPL.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Measurements
- Supported monitoring chips can report readings such as chip temperatures, fan rotation speeds, and voltage levels.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Monitoring daemon
- sensord watches sensor values, logs problems, and includes RRD support.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- lm-sensors provides user-space support for hardware monitoring drivers in Linux 2.6.5 and later.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Remote monitoring
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Support
- The developers list a mailing list and GitHub as contact channels and ask users to read the documentation before asking questions.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- Linuxchecked 24 Sep 2026
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