PCMonitor

A simple Arduino program that uses Python to read PC information (such as CPU, RAM, and GPU usage and temperatures) and write it to the Arduino UNO, which displays it on an LCD screen.

Getting Started

Components Used

• 1x Arduino UNO
• 1x Kuman 320x480 LCD Display

Installing

Required Libraries

• Adafruit_GFX
• Display Library (For your display)
• Pyserial
• Pythonnet
• psutil
• OpenHardwareMonitor (From https://openhardwaremonitor.org/downloads/)

First, make sure to install the Adafruit_GFX library on Arduino if you haven't already. Also, make sure to install the specific library for your display (You may need to change the code to get it to work with a different display).

Next, in the Python script make sure that the correct serial port is opened on line 16. This can be found in Arduino under Tools->Port. Also, make sure to create a folder name "dll" in the same directory as your python script, and put the OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll file into the folder.

Finally, with the LCD connected to the Arduino UNO, upload the Arduino code to the Arduino UNO, and run the Python script on your PC. This should get the Arduino UNO to display your PC information on the LCD!

TODO

• Add CPU Temperature monitoring
• Add graphical views of information
• Make python script run in background + run on startup
• Turn LCD off and on when PC turns off and on