I found myself needing to monitor the thermals on a PC and to log the data for later use.
I am using a program names HWiNFO64 to read the sensor data. It's a reasonably popular program that is regularly updated.
In addition to that, I'm using a program called Remote Sensor Monitor which connects to HWiNFO64 and sends the sensor data over HTTP in JSON format.
I have to do some additional processing with Node Red to extract the data I want, but I got that all sorted and added a convenience feature to make it easy to log the data to a Google sheet.
I'm still a JavaScript novice so I'm sure the function node could be done much more cleanly but it works well enough for my purposes and I don't think there are any alternative examples out there.
I don't know if using an inject node the way I am here is frowned on, but it's the only way I could think of to generate the periodic requests.
Once you have HWiNFO64 and Remote Senor Monitor running, and you can confirm that you can see it from the machine running Node Red, update the HTTP request node with the correct IP, and update the inject node with the interval to make the HTTP request.
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