PVE Hardware Monitor
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The facts
Each one read from PVE Hardware Monitor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access and API
- After installation, the dashboard is served in a browser at the Proxmox host's port 9099, and GET /api/status returns sensor data as JSON.checked 11 Oct 2026
- API
- The project documents a GET /api/status endpoint that returns sensor data as JSON and a POST /api/mode endpoint for ASUS laptop fan profiles.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Compatibility
- The README lists Proxmox VE 8.x and 9.x as tested, along with an ASUS GL503VM and Dell PowerEdge R740.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Dependencies
- The project describes its API as using only Python's standard library, with no pip installs required.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The documented installation runs on a Proxmox host and serves the dashboard at port 9099.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Fan controls
- On supported ASUS laptops, users can select Silent, Normal, or Boost fan profiles.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hardware metrics
- It displays fan speeds, CPU, NVMe and PCH temperatures, battery status, IPMI sensors, and system metrics.checked 11 Oct 2026
- History
- A live chart shows a rolling five-minute history of fan RPM, temperatures, and power draw.checked 11 Oct 2026
- History chart
- The dashboard includes a five-minute rolling chart for RPM, temperatures and power draw.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The installer detects hardware, installs lm-sensors and ipmitool if needed, deploys the dashboard, and creates a systemd service on the Proxmox host.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- It reads data from Linux hwmon, ASUS embedded controller registers, IPMI via ipmitool, sysfs battery data, and procfs system metrics.checked 11 Oct 2026
- IPMI
- For servers, IPMI support includes fan speeds, temperatures, power consumption, PSU status, and voltage rails.checked 11 Oct 2026
- IPMI features
- For supported servers, it reports fan speeds, temperatures, power consumption, PSU status and voltage rails.checked 5 Oct 2026
- License
- The software is under the MIT License, which grants use, copying, modification, and distribution subject to its stated conditions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License and security
- The repository includes an MIT license; its license text provides the software as-is without warranty.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Limitations
- The project says hardware testing is limited and that IPMI has been tested on a Dell PowerEdge R740 with iDRAC 9; other vendors are untested, and out-of-band lanplus is not supported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The project describes itself as early-stage, says hardware testing is limited, and notes that out-of-band IPMI lanplus is not supported.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Maturity and support
- The project identifies itself as early-stage, expects bugs, and asks users to report them through GitHub issues with hardware and Proxmox details.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- It displays fan speeds, CPU, NVMe and chipset temperatures, battery status, IPMI sensors, uptime, load average and memory usage.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- A real-time hardware monitoring dashboard for Proxmox VE hosts.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Sensor setup
- The installer detects available sensors and configures their paths automatically.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The README directs users to open a GitHub issue with their hardware model, Proxmox version and diagnostic output when reporting bugs.checked 5 Oct 2026
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