CORSAIR iCUE software connects all your compatible products together in a single interface. Control RGB lighting and fan speeds, program keyboard macros, and monitor system temperature.
Corsair do not currently provide software for the Corsair Commander Pro on Linux. This post details how I achieve nearly all of the functionality provided by Corsair Link using a Linux based CLI.
- Jan 04, 2013 CPU Intel Core i7-2600K + Corsair H60 + 2x Alpenfohn Wing Boost. RAM Corsair Dominator 16 GB. GPU MSI Radeon HD6950 Twin Frozr II / OC. SC Asus Xonar D2X. SSD Corsair Force GT 120 GB. HDD WD Black 1 TB + Blue 1 TB + Green 500 GB. PSU Corsair HX650. Case NZXT Phantom 820 Black. Rheobus NZXT Sentry LXE. Monitor: 3x LG IPS231P + Philips 298P4Q.
- Corsair Link is an application designed to eliminate the need for monitoring temperature, fan activity, LEDs, RPM and other motherboard sensors' value in a convenient and efficient way.
There is discussion about it being available in future kernels (Linux Patches Provide Corsair Commander Pro Support For Thermal / Fan / RGB Controller) but I have not found any information about this yet.
Note: Part of this post is based on an existing article – Installing liquidctl – How much power does my PC use?
Install LiquidCtl
Liquidctl is a cross-platform tool and drivers for liquid coolers and other devices (Corsair Commander-Pro & certain Corsair PSUs) written in Python. Full information about this project can be found here – https://github.com/liquidctl/liquidctl
LiquidCtl will also allow you to control any RGB LEDs that are connected to your Corsair Commander Pro, for me this is in a rack mount server so I do not have any!
To install LiquidCtl on Debian Linux 10.x, first we need to install all of the required Python development tools and required libraries:
Now we can clone the git repository:
Now we are ready to build and install:
Dell xps temperature monitor replacement. LiquidCtl is now installed, we can use the following commands to initialize it and monitor the temperature sensors and fan speeds:
Here is the sample output from the status command on my server:
Finally, we can control fan speeds (if desired) using the following command:
Installing Sensors
In addition to monitoring your Corsair Commander Pro, you will probably also want to monitor the CPU & GPU temperatures. This can be easily achieved by installing Sensors:
You can now get a command line output of motherboard & GPU based sensors by using the simple command sensors:
Here is a sample output from sensors:
Installing Glances
Glances is a cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space, ideally to fit in a classical 80×24 terminal or higher to have additional information. It can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending on the terminal size. It can also work in client/server mode. Remote monitoring could be done via terminal or web interface.
To install Glances use the following command (incidentally, if you had installed glances first, it would automatically install sensors 🙂
You can now run glances. Sadly, Glances my does not display the output from LiquidCtl.
As glances is a captive process, you will need to exit when done by typing 'Q'. Alternatively, leave it permanently running in a separate terminal process!
Job done.
Corsair Link
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