As you already know, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor that can read values from your computer and show them. Temperatures, fan speeds, voltages and so on are no longer hidden inside the PC. Now that SpeedFan is known to be this stable and reliable, it is time to add events. An event, or alarm, is an action triggered by some kind of condition. The easiest kind of event we can easily think of is a sound originating from our PC when the CPU gets too hot.

Events, on SpeedFan, are the result of a lot of work. Behind the scenes, they use a high level technology that will allow, in the future, several extensions. Events are very important and you should double check their setup and consider that they are still in a testing stage. User feedback is welcome.

Enter CONFIGURE, then go to the EVENTS tab. Available readings (sensors) are filled by SpeedFan including the names you eventually assigned them by using the F2 key in the other tabs. The name shown includes, at least, the name of the hardware monitor chip that originates the reading. If your system contains several chips with the same name, SpeedFan will automatically name readings with a more detailed description, which will include the address of the sensor chip and, at worst, the BUS where it is located. An event is defined as an IF condition THEN do something. To define the condition, you need to select the reading to check, the comparison type and the value to be compared against. Please, make sure you entered a proper value. Remember that the decimal separator is the "." (period). Then you have to choose the action and its parameters, if any. Press the ADD button and the event is defined. If you want to modify any event you previously defined, simply click on it. Edit fields will be filled with its data. Change edit field to satisfy your needs, then press UPDATE. If you press CLEAR, all edit fields will be cleared. Nothing else will be modified. In order to remove any event, simply select it in the list box, then press REMOVE.
HINT: if the OK button is disabled because you selected any event to modify it, simply press CLEAR and the OK button will be available again.

Three different action types are currently defined. More might be defined in the future, depending on tests and user feedback. Available actions are:
Execute Popup message Send mail Beep

There are two edit fields we still haven't takled about. For x times means that the condition needs to be verified x times in a row before the action is executed. This is useful to avoid spikes. Events are processed every second. This means that we might read this option as For x seconds, but Windows might be overloaded and the timer that calls events processing might have been delayed. The internal check considers the number of times the condition is met and not how many seconds passed. On the other hand, Allow every x seconds considers actual seconds elapsed. This option causes the action not to be triggered if at least x seconds didn't pass since the last execution. An example might help. Let's define a condition where CPU temperature needs to be grater than 55. We set For x times option to 4 and Allow every x seconds to 10. This way, while the CPU exceeds our threshold, for the first 3 checks nothing will happen. When the condition will be met for the fourth time in a row, the action will be executed. Let's assume we chose BEEP. Now, while CPU temperature is above the limit, we will hear a BEEP every 10 seconds.

I worked very hard on events and they finally saw the light. They are quite young, though, and I will appreciate your feedback. Suggestions and bug reports are welcome. Based on your opinions, I will eventually add new features and capabilities. Feel free to contact me :-)

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