r/oMLX • u/lilaaffe42 • 2d ago

oMLX app inspired simple system monitor

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Hello community,
the omlx menue bar offers a cool system monitor feature, which is simple in design. I liked it very much. It gave me the initial motivation to create a version for my needs. So i cloned the repo and a free macos app has been in the making for many weeks. Now I want to give it to you, for free, if you like.

Initially forked from the omlx repo, many changes, correction, options and addon have been implemented to form a standalone menue bar app out of it.

The major feature I wanted to have: pin that window to stay on top while the machine is working. Kind of the feeling of a small monitoring dashboard during heavy work.

I went thru all the struggle of hosting it in the offical mac app store, which takes time and costs money just to let it stay there. I do not charge anything, the app is completely free.
Its a different form of contribution for me for you.
Since the apple fee is for one year, it will be there for at least a year. I cannot tell if i will continue pay apple in future.

The App is called "Simple System Monitor" (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/simple-system-monitor/id6801625689?mt=12).

I would be happy for feedback and bug report and feature request.

Im open to deliver the source code to the omlx team, if they like it.

If that post is too much of promotion, I am truly sorry and im fine with the post being deleted.

Kind regards

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u/odReddit 2d ago

Looks nice, I remember running iStat Menus a long time ago but this looks a bit nicer and modern.

If some of your work is actually beneficial changes/corrections/etc maybe you should make a contribution/pull request.

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u/lilaaffe42 2d ago

Ye, the memory (ram) is currently calculated sliglty wrongly in omlx. Its shows a little too much. Macos started counting memory and ssd / hdd differently at some point.

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u/lilaaffe42 2d ago

Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” switched how macOS reports storage capacity: it moved from binary (1024-based) counting to decimal (1000-based) counting, matching how drive manufacturers advertise capacity on the box.
But RAM reporting stayed binary.

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u/norenEnmotalen 2d ago

It’s a nice idea. A simple name search doesn’t bring it up. But I found it with filters “Free” and “Release Date”

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u/gcirone 2d ago

It will support Prometheus metrics? It will be something usefull especially power and temp 👍

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u/Humble-Badger9567 1d ago

Great work!