SidebarMonitor 1.5.7 — alerts, a battery section, and a CSV log you choose

Alerts, a battery section for laptops, and a CSV log you choose column by column — and can start or stop from a script.

Added

Alerts (Settings → Alertas): a tray notification when the CPU stays in the panel's red zone, the hottest GPU passes its threshold, RAM fills up, a fixed drive runs low on space, or the battery runs low while discharging. A reading has to persist before it fires (10 s for temperatures, 30 s for RAM), it fires once, re-arms only when the value is clearly back, and never repeats within 10 minutes; several at once arrive as one notification. Probar aviso shows a sample.

A BATTERY section on laptops: charge, state, power in or out with time to empty (or to full), Wh and a power graph — on battery that is the whole machine's draw. On a desktop the section never appears.

Choose what the CSV log records (Settings → Diagnóstico): the columns are grouped, each group with its own checkbox. New groups, off by default: fan (fan_pct, fan_rpm), active limiter (throttle_thermal, throttle_power, throttle_current), GPU 0 fan and battery (battery_pct, battery_w). The default selection writes exactly the columns 1.5.6 wrote, so existing scripts keep working.

Fixed

Editing LogCsv in ui.json by hand now takes effect immediately — before, nothing happened until the panel restarted, and the running panel could overwrite your edit. A script can now start and stop recording around a benchmark.

Hiding the panel gave the reserved strip back. Ocultar used to leave an empty band on the desktop edge that maximised windows still avoided.

A section header no longer folds on a release it never saw the press of — a drag that started on a chart and ended over a header was enough to toggle it.

One decimal separator everywhere. On a Spanish (or any comma-decimal) Windows some readouts showed 8,3M next to 12.0T; every number is invariant now.

No more clipped readouts in a narrow panel: at the 240 px minimum the CPU stat row and long GPU names now shrink or ellipsise instead of overlapping.

Changed

• The tray's Configuración… is now Ajustes… and opens Settings directly; the tray also gains Ignorar clics, the way back once click-through is on.
• The agent's sensor tick allocates 97 % less memory, and PresentMon frames are parsed without allocating.
• Built with .NET 10.0.14 (SDK 10.0.403), which fixes a high-severity advisory in the toolchain used for the agent.

Install

SidebarMonitor-1.5.7.msi is the full build (AMD sensor binaries bundled, works offline). SidebarMonitor-lite-1.5.7.msi bundles none of AMD's binaries and uses the AMD SDK you install yourself. Settings, layout and history are kept across the upgrade. The agent and the panel move to snapshot contract v27 together, so update both (the MSI does).

Some antivirus products flag AdlxShim.dll as a false positive — see #2.