Arch Linux User Repository

With the release of 1.4.1 CoolerControl has now been spit up into several packages. This requires users to uninstall and then reinstall the application.

See: https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol/-/issues/347

There's an upside, there's now a binary AUR package coolercontrol-bin for less compile time!

Post-installation steps:

sudo systemctl enable --now coolercontrold

Then open the desktop application.

A breaking dependency update occurred yesterday which is causing Coolero to fail to start.

Dependency issue: PySide6 updated to 6.4.0 and this broke compatibility with matplotlib.

An ETA on this is currently unknown, as matplotlib has a fix for this planned for their next patch release, but the arch package is also flagged out of date for some time now.

A temporary workaround is to downgrade the PySide6 package:

pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/p/pyside6/pyside6-6.3.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst  
pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/s/shiboken6/shiboken6-6.3.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst  

Update: the patch fix for Matplotlib was released today: matplotlib 3.6.2
Once the Arch community package is updated, the workaround will no longer be needed.

Update: Arch package has been updated! You can remove the workaround now and it should all work fine.

Changing the shortcut in autostart with Exec=bash -c "sleep 5; coolero" fixed the problem

Hi blackhole,
I'm not able to currently reproduce your issue (Updated Arch & KDE) so it may be system dependant. I'd suggest filing a bug in the official repo to be able to gather more information as to what may be causing it.

coolero application does not show in tray with autostart option in KDE plasma (but is applying my configuration)

Note that coolerod service is correctly enabled at boot

This is happening recently. Before there was the icon on system tray

A systemd service has been integrated with the 0.11.0 release.

Steps to enable it:
1. Make sure the coolero group has been created: sudo systemd-sysusers
2. Add your user to the group: sudo usermod -aG coolero $USER
3. Log out and log back in so that your group membership is re-evaluated.
4. Enable the service on boot: sudo systemctl enable coolerod.service
5. Start the service: sudo systemctl start coolerod.service

Note: The daemon currently only enables hwmon access. Expanding its functionality to a fully fledged service is planned for the future.

Hi blackhole,

It's not possible with the current implementation, 0.10.3, due to some tight coupling. This is in progress though for a workaround (using a systemd unit file) for somewhere around 0.11.1.

Hwmon support for Coolero is in its first iteration and will continue to develop. It has opened up a lot of different possibilities compared to the original implementation that need to be considered before moving forward. 0.12.0 will most likely bring some larger changes to the implementation, with the aim of allowing it to integrate more smoothly or as a service out-of-the-box.

Is there a way to get rid of root password dialog if hwmon enabled?

Maybe a systemd service?

I was investigating but I have not found an easy solution, since the application asking for root password is /tmp/coolero/coolerod.py

Thanks, codifryed. It turns out the timedatectl does not set the time in /etc/timezone for me and that was the issue.

Hi spacecowgirl,

I haven't run into that error myself and haven't heard of it in regards to Coolero until now.

From a quick search on the net I found this:
https://github.com/regebro/tzlocal/issues/79 You might get an idea of how to fix it from there, as the issue comes from tzlocal not liking your timezone settings. It could for example be there's some older timezone data on your machine, and/or your user needs it set explicitly for whatever reason.

Just a couple thoughts.

Getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/__main__.py", line 18, in <module>
    from coolero.app import main
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/app.py", line 39, in <module>
    from coolero.services.dynamic_buttons import DynamicButtons
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/services/dynamic_buttons.py", line 29, in <module>
    from coolero.services.dynamic_controls.dynamic_controls_main import DynamicControls
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/services/dynamic_controls/dynamic_controls_main.py", line 23, in <module>
    from coolero.services.dynamic_controls.speed_controls import SpeedControls
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/services/dynamic_controls/speed_controls.py", line 33, in <module>
    from coolero.view_models.devices_view_model import DevicesViewModel
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/view_models/devices_view_model.py", line 32, in <module>
    from coolero.services.device_commander import DeviceCommander
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/services/device_commander.py", line 29, in <module>
    from coolero.services.notifications import Notifications
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/services/notifications.py", line 35, in <module>
    class Notifications:
  File "/home/chloe/.cache/paru/clone/coolero/src/coolero-0.9.0/coolero/services/notifications.py", line 36, in Notifications
    _scheduler: BackgroundScheduler = BackgroundScheduler(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/apscheduler/schedulers/base.py", line 87, in __init__
    self.configure(gconfig, **options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/apscheduler/schedulers/base.py", line 131, in configure
    self._configure(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/apscheduler/schedulers/background.py", line 29, in _configure
    super(BackgroundScheduler, self)._configure(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/apscheduler/schedulers/base.py", line 702, in _configure
    self.timezone = astimezone(config.pop('timezone', None)) or get_localzone()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/tzlocal/unix.py", line 165, in get_localzone
    _cache_tz = _get_localzone()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/tzlocal/unix.py", line 90, in _get_localzone
    utils.assert_tz_offset(tz)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/tzlocal/utils.py", line 46, in assert_tz_offset
    raise ValueError(msg)
ValueError: Timezone offset does not match system offset: 36000 != -18000. Please, check your config files.

Not sure if it's my fault or not. Don't see how though.