Fan Speed/Computer Temperature Information

ryanfellhauer's icon

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to access a macbook pro's built-in fan speed/temperature sensors within max, in order to use that data for control? Preferably without an external sensor....

thanks

rf

Medd's icon

Assuming you're on OS X, you could install tools such as the those I've listed below and then use [shell] to get temperature data:

Temperature Monitor - Which comes with a command line application to report various hardware temperatures (Google around).

OSX CPU TEMP - An open source, command line-only option. Looks to give a lot less info though.

The [shell] object lets you execute Terminal commands from Max.