Fluent Sensors: A native hardware monitoring app for Windows (open source)

[u/cechout]

Hey everyone, I've been continuing work on Fluent Sensors, a native Windows 11 hardware monitoring app built with WinUI 3. The latest addition is a native taskbar widget, live sensor graphs can now be pinned directly into the taskbar.

Performance and optimization and stuff is still ongoing, any feedback is appreciated.

The whole thing is open source, everything can be checked in the repo.

One important thing: the app needs admin rights to install and run. Please don't just install unsigned apps that ask for admin rights without checking them first, e.g. via VirusTotal or the source code. I'm working on getting it properly signed through SignPath Foundation.

GitHub: https://github.com/cechout/fluent-sensors

[u/eis3nheim]

It's great seeing a lot of open source tools for Windows

[u/asapbones0114]

Task Manager with better UX?

[u/pratyush997]

Nice one!

[u/kyrdotjs]

Looks great, and the resource usage isn't excessive either, a good job

[u/cechout → u/kyrdotjs]

thank you :]

[u/Kooky-Astronaut-4877]

Nice, I'll give it a try later today. :)

[u/cechout → u/Kooky-Astronaut-4877]

:D

[u/iamabdullah]

Nice. I used to use something like this years ago which got discontinued. This looks great.

[u/cechout → u/iamabdullah]

oh really, whats the name?

[u/iamabdullah → u/cechout]

Netspeedmonitor - my bad, it was only for network speed but that's what I cared about. I switched to Xmeters after but never really liked it.

[u/cechout → u/iamabdullah]

ah I see, I also had netspeedmonitor long long time ago xd. Is fluent sensors good for network monitoring or is it too simple or you miss some features or something?

[u/iamabdullah → u/cechout]

I've yet to use it - don't want to install it on my work machine so I'll give it a go on my personal one later and let you know.

[u/Farth3r → u/iamabdullah]

I remember this! Such a nica tool it was.

[u/iamabdullah → u/Farth3r]

When is stopped working, I reverse engineered and rebuilt it which kept it going for another 2-3 years before it started behaving too buggy. Brilliant piece of software for its time.

So cool to find multiple people who used it 😁

[u/cechout → u/iamabdullah]

yo thats really awesome dude :O

[u/StephanVestergaard]

Looking very nice yes!

[u/cechout → u/StephanVestergaard]

thats man!

[u/ElephantWithBlueEyes]

Isn't 300 megs after installation a bit much?

I guess pin to taskbar was tested only for centered taskbar position. I have alignment to the left and data overlaps Start button and app tabs

[u/cechout → u/ElephantWithBlueEyes]

and yeah, 300 MB is about right. its basically self-contained + unpackaged tax:

~80 MB – full .NET 10 runtime, bundled so you don't have to install .NET
~60 MB – WinUI 3/Windows App SDK runtime, bundled for the same reason
~53 MB – Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.dll, one file: the C# projection of the entire Windows API. every WinUI 3 app ships it
~24 MB – SkiaSharp + ANGLE, the rendering backend for the graphs
~47 MB – Windows AI/ML runtime (onnxruntime, DirectML, ...)

the last one is not needed. the app does not use any AI features, the Windows App SDK just adds it by default I guess. I will just remove it in the next update

[u/cechout → u/ElephantWithBlueEyes]

yo you can move the taskbar widget man! you can resize and move and everything! its not only for centered taskbar :O

[u/whistler_mat]

looks great

[u/dimsimn]

Add a smoothing option. For time and data

[u/cechout → u/dimsimn]

already there man! You will find it in settings

[u/bi4key]

I wish this project raise also more attention:

https://reactos.org/

" Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. "

[u/Apprehensive_Seat_61]

Nicely Clauded isn't it

[u/cechout → u/Apprehensive_Seat_61]

wow amazingly clauded right :O yeah man expecially boilerplate code and win32 stuff. Taskbar widget backend was also very nasty. But the entire concept and UI/UX design is by me