cool
Never let the heat slow your pre-2018 Mac down again. (by quackduck)
smcFanControl
Control the fans of every Intel Mac to make it run cooler (by hholtmann)
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cool
Posts with mentions or reviews of cool.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-23.
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Programmatic way to set mac fan speeds
Wow! Congrats on the M1. However, I disagree when you say I'm reinventing the wheel. The program I've written has its own thermal management algorithm: https://github.com/quackduck/cool
smcFanControl
Posts with mentions or reviews of smcFanControl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Notoriously hot: is there anything I can do to help this 2008 non-unibody MBP keep cool?
smcFanControl
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ELI5: Why do computers get so enragingly slow after just a few years?
Use a tool like smFanControl, Macs Fan Control, or Stats to manually set your fan speed to 100%. This is noisy and reduces the lifetime of the part, but it means you can force your device to cool down, even when the OS doesn't want to.
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MacBook almost overheated.
There are fan controllers that will speed up your fans, good to use! Someone downthread it seems found a bad one that impacted his CPU utilization. I use smcFanControl and have never noticed any cpu utilization. Simple to use. Works on intel macs, maybe not M1/M2 arm macs. https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl
- List of Low Spec games for Mac (Updated 2022)
- Fan issue on macos ventura on 2019 16 inch macbook pro
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Programmatic way to set mac fan speeds
Take a look at opened PR https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl/pull/108 It allows set fan speed on newer Macs
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Fan control app for MacBook M1
You can use either smcFanControl (Free/OpenSource) or MacsFanControl (Paid/Free, Closed Source). Probably there are other options as well, but I’ve used these with success in the past.
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2020 Imac Annoying Fan Noise
It's good to know that it works, but I'm still puzzled as to why you need to run those commands with sudo. Do you have version 2.6 of smcFanControl.app? I've noticed there is also a beta version at https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl/releases, so maybe you've installed that 2.6.1 instead? That would explain why we are seeing different results on exactly the same machine (I also have the i7 model).
Thanks for the update. I was getting the same error as you when using a different argument to -k, and after reading https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl/issues/89 I found out that only F0Md works on Macs having the T2 chip (like our 2020 iMac). I never used (or thought of using) sudo when running the smc binary on the command line.
The error led me here https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl/issues/36 which led me to try sudo in the first place.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cool and smcFanControl you can also consider the following projects:
mbpfan - A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer
macs-fan-control - Control fans on Apple computers
macschema - Toolchain for generating JSON definitions of Apple APIs
devzat - The devs are over here at devzat, chat over SSH!
uniclip - Cross-platform shared clipboard
macdriver - Native Mac APIs for Go. Soon to be renamed DarwinKit!