PulseDesk is an advanced, ultra-responsive desktop application for monitoring PC hardware health, telemetry, and performance metrics in real time. It brings together the speed and security of a Rust-powered backend via Tauri 2.0, with a beautiful, high-performance "dark neon" UI built using Svelte and D3.js.
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- Cockpit-style Dashboard: A rich UI featuring radial gauges, D3.js area graphs, memory allocation bars, and per-core CPU load heatmaps.
- Deep Telemetry Integration:
- Uses
sysinfoandnvml-wrapperfor high-speed CPU, Memory, Disk, and direct NVIDIA GPU polling. - Interacts with a standalone .NET 8.0 Sidecar leveraging
LibreHardwareMonitorLibto extract low-level motherboard voltages, VRM temperatures, and fan RPMs.
- Uses
- Micro-History Buffering: Emits stats smoothly to the UI at a 500ms heartbeat, holding a 60-second rolling buffer for graphs.
- Customizable Themes: Multiple cyberpunk/glassmorphic themes including "Cyan", "Toxic", "Solar", "Ghost", and "Blood".
PulseDesk is separated into three primary processing contexts:
- Frontend (Svelte + Vite): Handles the smooth rendering of states using D3.js SVGs and standard Svelte reactivity without dragging down system performance.
- Backend Engine (Rust / Tauri): Serves as the ultra-fast systems bridge. It polls standard process resources via native APIs and marshalls JSON payloads directly to the frontend.
- Sensor Sidecar (C# .NET): Built securely to request local administrative privileges. It traverses complicated hardware buses typically hidden by standard unprivileged OS APIs.
To build and run PulseDesk, ensure you have the following SDKs installed on your machine:
- Node.js (v20+) - To bundle the Svelte application interface.
- Rust & Cargo - The compiler for the Tauri backend.
- .NET 8.0 SDK - Necessary to compile the C# sidecar that reports motherboard metrics.
The C# sidecar needs to be compiled ahead of compiling the final Tauri binary.
cd src-tauri/sidecar/lhm_bridge
dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained trueReturn to the root project directory and install the necessary web node_modules:
cd ../../../
npm installSpin up the local vite server alongside the rust watcher.
Note: Because hardware polling mechanisms rely on LibreHardwareMonitor, starting the frontend dev process will naturally trigger a UAC (Admin) Elevation prompt so the .NET runtime can read restricted sensors.
npm run tauri devWhen you are ready to compile the project into a compact, deployable executable (complete with an installer wizard):
npm run tauri buildThe final bundles and .exe installer will be located in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.
Accessing System package power rails, granular per-core voltages, and DIMM statistics requires Administrative permissions on Windows. The C# Sidecar has been explicitly flagged in its app.manifest to require these privileges safely, separated from the Svelte UI node process.
MIT License.