Anyone ever make a sensor panel for Mac OS?

[Noisebox]

After having used my Mac Pro for a week (or so) now, I can't believe I've not had the pleasure of using one sooner. Anyway, I"m going to try to use it full-time for a week, and see how it works out, and then maybe ditch Windows entirely. One of the things I have on my main PC workstation is Aida64's Sensor Panel, on a 7" lcd. I find it very useful when the main applications are running full screen.
Does something like this exist for Mac? I am pretty sure Aida64 is PC only, but other options exist perhaps?

 

[Lifeisabeach]

I have no idea what a sensor panel is, or what it is you are trying to accomplish. I did some brief googling, and alternativeto has some suggestions.

https://alternativeto.net/software/aida64/?license=opensource&platform=mac

 

[Lifeisabeach]

For laughs, I downloaded the trial portable version of the Aida64 for Windows and created a Wineskin wrapper to run it. It launches flawlessly as far as I can tell, although I have no way of telling if it will interact with your hardware. This could be an option.


EDIT: I may be completely misunderstanding what this software is supposed to do. I was assuming some external hardware at first for the home, but looking over this app more and I'm thinking you want to monitor the Mac hardware? If the latter, gawd yes there are plenty of options out there.

 

[Noisebox]

For laughs, I downloaded the trial portable version of the Aida64 for Windows and created a Wineskin wrapper to run it. It launches flawlessly as far as I can tell, although I have no way of telling if it will interact with your hardware. This could be an option.

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EDIT: I may be completely misunderstanding what this software is supposed to do. I was assuming some external hardware at first for the home, but looking over this app more and I'm thinking you want to monitor the Mac hardware? If the latter, gawd yes there are plenty of options out there.

Apologies, for the vague information, I assumed everyone had a sensor panel. What it does, is you can make custom skins for your sensors, and display on a small screen, so you can get a quick glance at how the system is doing while under load.
These are a little gaudy, but get the point across:

Sensor Panels from Lamptron | Custom PC Monitor Display | Titan Rig BLOG

We examine different sensor panel monitoring displays from Lamptron. Mounting locations, sizes and AIDA64 software capabilities and display customizing are covered.

www.titanrig.com

 

[Lifeisabeach]

These things don't exist for Macs because there is no practical need for them. With custom-built PC rigs, sure. There are system monitoring apps for Macs, but largely designed to run in the menubar. iStat Menus is the most well-known with lots of options. You may be able to have it run in a window in addition to the menubar... I don't recall offhand since I haven't used it in a very long time.

iStat Menus

The ultimate system monitor for your menu bar, with CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk usage, disk activity, temperatures, fans, battery info and more.

bjango.com

An alternative to this is System Monitor. It's comparable to iStat Menus, but for some reason they distribute through the App Store and require a separate free download to enable it to monitor stats that Apple won't allow through apps they distribute. I have no idea why they chose this path. Their other apps are great (you should look at TinkerTool and TinkerTool System) and they self-distribute those.

System Monitor: Description

Product description for System Monitor

www.bresink.com

 

[Lifeisabeach]

Take a look also at XRG. It's open-source and can run persistently in a window.

XRG

 

[Slydude]

Depending upon what aspects of the system that you want to monitor, Apple's Activity Monitor program may do the job for you. It's included as part of the OS and can be found in Applications/Utilities folder.

Activity Monitor presents quite a bit of information in an application window that can get covered by other apps so you may need to adjust window sizes or have it on a second screen if that's an option. Activity Monitor User Guide for Mac