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Feature Request: Show the Flow Rate as a Fan Speed
I have a flow sensor on my Asus Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard. It is a 3-pin header, and works like a fan header. It does show up in the HWiNFO.
Is there any way it could be showing up in the Fan Speed. If it could also be available for alarms too would be good... although I have found my sensor is not too accurate.
Does it show up in https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor?
Good. Now it isn't a fan speed, so how does it relate to the software or any of its functionalities and features? It can't be calibrated/controlled, or would you bind it to the pump?
Asking this because it needs to make sense in the greater scope of the software.
The speed section by the way will go soon, since it is a remmenant of the early days of the software and is now redundant.
I have a chipset fan which is BIOS controlled, without being able to adjust it, so I have it displayed in the Speed section. Sad to have it soon to be gone, as I don't consider it redundant. I also have a second CPU fan header, which is locked to the CPU fan speed, so it also doesn't have a control. I guess I could fake the pairing to a header (HAMP, or the GPU's...) I am not using...
Personally, I use the software to monitor the key information (how hot my system is, what sort of speeds of the fans/pump, and temps. The Flow rate is one simple data which I am missing from being able to monitor.
Hi, I wanted to add onto this request instead of creating a whole new one, but I too am interested in surfacing my flow rate, but not as a direct sensor input like the original poster.
In my case, I have an EK pump with variable speed control, which plugs into a fan header on the motherboard. I have named it "water pump", and I control the RPM directly as if it were a fan. I have an OLED flow meter in the loop, thus I can manually correlate the pump speed in RPM to a flow rate in L/min, so I would like to be able to at minimum display the water pump speed in L/min, if not set the "speed" in L/Min as well.
So I guess to answer your question on Wolphin's behalf,
how does it relate to the software or any of its functionalities and features?
I use FanControl to control the overall cooling profile of my watercooled PC, which is radiator fans plus a water pump. probably a great many watercoolers are just looking at pump RPM like I am, and ignoring the possibility of correlating RPM to flow rate.
would you bind it to the pump?
yes, definitely. There are many flow meters available that report their measured speed through onboard fan RPM sensors, ex: this one, and even if the RPM signal can't be directly displayed as a flow rate, it would be fairly simple to bind that sensor's RPM to the RPM control of the pump instead of the pump's built-in feedback signal. (recognizing that there would be a measure of lag between command and response.)
even if the idea of supporting water pumps and L/min units isn't in the scope of Fan control, what if you consider a CFM sensor that reports an "RPM" back to the system via the fan header? One would then still want a way to scale the reported value to display in CFM. One could also bind it to a fan control, because setting a speed for the fan(s) leads to a direct change in the CFM value at the sensor. Maybe this could be as simple as supporting "custom units" with a string for the unit name, and a real number for the conversion ratio?
