Temp: 100C forever

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I setup a pi-hole on my ESXi. I created a debian VM (1xCPU, 512MB RAM and 5GB drive) and it works great.

It is just a little thing I noticed: the Temp is always showing 100C. I know I am not running it on a physical server or Raspberry Pi. If pi-hole can't detect the CPU/MB temperature, I'd rather it shows something like “N/A"

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sudo cp /var/www/html/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/header.php /var/www/html/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/header.org.php

sudo sed -i 's\echo round(.*;\echo "N/A";\' /var/www/html/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/header.php

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Thanks. It works!
Thanks. It works!

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It does that already. However, your VM tells Pi-hole that there actually exists a physical temperature sensor and that it says 100 °C.

Can you post the output of the following?

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input
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I got the same setup:

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
cat: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input
100000

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This is really odd, so it says it has a physical temperature sensor which shows 100.0 °C. That is not an impossible number, and the user should really be warned about it, so we cannot ignore it and show N/A.

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I agree, but it looks like a VMware "bug" or a fake sensor:

cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp2_input
100000
cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_crit
100000
cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_crit_alarm
0

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100C is the only thing VMWare ESXi returns, it does it with everything, would be nicer if it showed the CPU temp from the systems sensor.

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You could script it to have Pi-Hole show outside temperature for your town :wink:

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Or ditch ESX and go for Xen :

$ tree /sys/class/hwmon*
/sys/class/hwmon
0 directories, 0 files

$ tree /sys/class/thermal*
/sys/class/thermal* [error opening dir]
0 directories, 0 files