HM088 Custom Lamptron Dashboard

[A Computer Guy]

I recently got this HM088 display (1920x480 @60Hz) and software purchase of HWiNFO64 Pro.
Gonna make a personal app to display system stats provided by HWiNFO64.
Looking to bounce around ideas for people who like this kind of stuff to make a cool and functional dashboard.
Can only work on it a few hours per day max so progress may be slow.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Day 1: Just chillin with some classic movies.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Day 2: Figuring out the basics of getting the data from HWiNFO64

 

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Day 3: Organizing the data a bit to prep for some kind of configuration screen.
- Got it into tree view
- Exploring some basic widget visuals (not hooked up to data yet)

Here is a test sample taking it out of my VM onto the host machine.
I don't have iCue installed but HWiNFO64 is still picking up the commander pro sensors.

 

[A Computer Guy]

An idea I ran into yesterday. I often listen to music during the day. Sometimes various YouTube channels. I'm thinking to make a widget with embedded chromium to put the on the dashboard too. Ideally if I can size it to only show the video that would be ideal. At sitting distance it's not good for reading but many videos have nice artwork and eye candy and visually with the screen it works well.

 

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Day 4: Working a lot on the internals of the app to prepare for automatic polling of data that needs to be fast enough not be a problem.
- managed to get the treeview loading and refreshing 510 sensors (value, min, max, and avg = 2040 data points) in under 16ms 90% of the time.
- currently the refresh CPU cost is about 0.1% per task manager. HWiNFO64 default refresh is 2000ms so my apps 16ms load/refresh time is not too much overhead in terms of time.
- once I get it automatically polling for data I can start hooking in some kind of visualization widget and test screen updating techniques.
- I had a general idea to be able to drag and drop a sensor reading onto the dashboard from the treeview.
- haven't addressed how I will configure widget yet, this will come later

 

[A Computer Guy]

Day 5: Hooked in a simple method of sampling with a timer and first tried to hook it to a graph
- Temps increased quickly as my CPU looked like was boosting a lot of cores.
- Found the method of graphing I choose needs to be changed as I found it was taking progressively longer to sample and graph with a data bound source and yielded poor performance as time when on.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Day 6: Unhooked data and graphing from data bound controls, created a means to link chart series to each reading, and included checkbox's for selecting what to graph at the same time.
- Next linking individual readings to separate widgets and testing how they appear on the Lamptron display

Graph supports zooming in...

As the data continues to be collected the graph continues to rescale. Need a way to adjust this.

here is a look at core power consumption during cpu-z testing

core temperatures

other temps

Liquid cooling temperture readings from cpu-z stress test. I don't recall what order I had the sensors hooked up in but I had
- rad intake temp
- cold water temp
- hot water temp
- rad exhaust temp

 

[A Computer Guy]

Ran some AIDA64 memory tests

sampled a few other tests, seems when AIDA64 runs I can't collect samples from HWiNFO64 and I end up missing a lot of samples as my program freezes during AIDA64 runs.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Some Cinebench R20 tests

zoomed in looking at core power usage

 

[A Computer Guy]

300 watts to run Cinebench R20

 

[A Computer Guy]

Day7: Implemented a system of drag and drop from the treeview to the template. The general idea is to choose the widget type you want then drag and drop the reading to the template. Then once on the template you can move and resize the widget's region and change it's properties. The actual render will occur in a different window on the Lamptron monitor. The reading display in the template are just place holders for now until I customize each widget rendered display. I still have to make a system to save and recall the templates.

Just a preview