[Bug]: rpimonitor bitrot

[leggewie]

What happened?

I am not sure what exactly the function of the rpimonitor software is but apparently it needs an update or removal. In general, I think we should package any software like this so armbian as a project can push updates. I noticed this on the BananaPi M2+ running a noble userland.

$ systemctl status rpimonitor-helper 
● rpimonitor-helper.service - LSB: RPi-Monitor sunxi-temp helper
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/rpimonitor-helper; generated)
     Active: active (exited) since Thu 2025-07-03 12:40:18 PST; 5h 34min ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
        CPU: 2.877s

Jul 03 12:40:17 banana systemd[1]: Starting rpimonitor-helper.service - LSB: RPi-Monitor sunxi-temp helper...
Jul 03 12:40:18 banana systemd[1]: Started rpimonitor-helper.service - LSB: RPi-Monitor sunxi-temp helper.
Jul 03 12:40:18 banana rpimonitor-helper[754]:  * Starting RPi-Monitor helper rpimonitor-helper
Jul 03 12:40:18 banana rpimonitor-helper[754]:    ...done.
Jul 03 12:40:22 banana rpimonitor-helper[874]: E: Package 'hddtemp' has no installation candidate
Jul 03 12:40:22 banana rpimonitor-helper[805]: Can not find script.bin. Ensure boot partition is mounted
Jul 03 12:40:23 banana root[1229]: Can not find script.bin. Ensure boot partition is mounted

hddtemp is no longer available in any of the supported Ubuntu release pockets. Debian only ships it for oldstable AKA bullseye. There is no script.bin or similar file anywhere on my system. The errors apparently come from /usr/local/sbin/rpimonitor-helper.sh (which is a location we should not install into IMO).

Affected files:

• https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/packages/bsp/common/usr/bin/armbianmonitor

How to reproduce?

/usr/local/sbin/rpimonitor-helper.sh

Branch

main (main development branch)

On which host OS are you running the build script and observing this problem?

Ubuntu 24.04 Noble

Are you building on Windows WSL2?

• Yes, my Ubuntu/Debian/OtherOS is running on WSL2

Relevant log URL

No response

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[github-actions]

Jira ticket: AR-2706

[igorpecovnik]

I am not sure what exactly the function of the rpimonitor software

This
https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor
but it seems author don't maintain it anymore. I guess we should remove it.