System Monitor: Add CPU temperature monitoring#25577
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Description
Adds real-time CPU temperature monitoring to the System Monitor extension, as suggested in #25555 by @0xdhrv.
Currently no temp monitoring in raycast store!
What's new
How it works
Reads thermal sensor data via macOS IOKit HID APIs through a lightweight Objective-C binary (
tools/temp-reader.m) compiled from source during the build step. No sudo, no kernel extensions, no native Node.js addons. The binary is compiled as a universal binary (arm64 + x86_64) via aprebuildnpm script.Die sensors vs CPU cores
macOS exposes thermal die sensors (e.g.
PMU tdie1), not per-core temperature readings. The number of die sensors does not match the CPU core count — for example, an M4 Max has 14 cores but 10 die sensors. The UI clearly labels these and shows the actual core count separately.GPU temperature
On Apple Silicon, GPU shares the die with the CPU (unified architecture). Separate GPU temperature is not exposed by the hardware. The extension explains this in the detail panel.
Screencast
Screenshots from the standalone version (same UI, now integrated into System Monitor):
Checklist
npm run buildand tested this distribution build in Raycastassetsfolder are used by the extension itselfREADMEare placed outside of themetadatafolder