Alien

A system monitoring skin for Rainmeter

Inspired by the UI of the Ubiqity AmpliFi Alien WiFi 6 mesh router. :thumbsup:

Get help on the Rainmeter forums

Features

Main

• Shows current time and date
• Shows network speed test statistics.
• Shows network upload/download statistics with graphical chart of inbound and outbound network activity.
• Shows CPU clock speed and CPU utilization graph for up to 64 logical cores (does not support NUMA/SMP architectures).
• Shows disk information and activity for up to 3 logical drives (any type).
• Shows CPU clock speed and per-core CPU utilization graph.
• Shows CPU temperature, overall utilization, and memory usage.
• Scales to any desired size.

Weather

Tap the clock area to toggle the Weather page. Click the weather icon area to return.<br>

• Displays the current weather for any location from The Weather Channel.
• Displays data in metric or imperial units based on your locale.
• Conditions translated to your language by The Weather Channel.
• Shows current location, current temperature, "feels like" temperature, current forecast, forecast high and low temperatures, chance of precipitation, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, and wind direction.
• Shows current sunrise and sunset times.
• Shows current moonrise and moonset times, moon phase, and description.

Speed Test

Tap the internet speed area to view the Speed Test page.<br>

• Shows network speed test statistics and ping time.
• Shows speed test performance graph.
• Runs speed tests via speedtest.net (configurable, instructions here).

Network

Tap the network area to view the Network page.<br>

• Shows network upload/download statistics.
• Indicates network and internet connectivity.
• Displays network type and name.
• Displays internal and external IP addresses, network gateway address, MAC address, WiFi network SSID, and signal strength.
• Automatically detects and uses the Gadgets NetMonitor service if installed.

Processor

Tap the CPU area to view the Processor page.<br>

• Displays processor model and overall CPU utilization.
• Shows CPU utilization graph.
• Shows CPU core temperature and fan speed (optional, requires HWiNFO, instructions here).
• Shows used, free, and total RAM available.
• Shows top 5 processes by percentage CPU time.
• Shows computer uptime.

Drives

Tap the drives area to view the Drives page.<br>

• Displays disk read and write statistics.
• Displays disk throughput graph.
• Displays disk information for up to 3 logical drives (any type, including network shares).
• Shows used, free, and total disk space available.
• Drive space changes color when disks are nearing capacity.

Settings

Tap the settings icon to view the Settings page.<br>

• Right-click the skin and select Alien settings from the menu to edit settings manually.

Requirements

Windows 8.0 or later<br> Rainmeter 4.5.16 or later.

Optional<br> HWiNFO 7.02 or later to report CPU temperature and fan speed.

Attribution

• Rajdhani font by Indian Type Foundry (indiantypefoundry.com).
• Material Icons font by Google (fonts.google.com).
• Roboto Mono Nerd Font by nerdfonts.com.

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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