Need help editing a conky (hybrid: back-to-basic)

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Hello again everybody,
I found this classic conky: Hybrid Back To Basic - pling.com

I am editing it and wanted to add the time and the temperature of my AMD GPU.

And

sensors | grep edge | cut -c16-17
57

the current temperature of my GPU in ° Celsius.

Same for:
/opt/rocm-6.3.1/bin/amd-smi metric --temperature | grep "EDGE" | cut -c15-17 57

However the conky doesn’t.

In the conky, there is monitor for nvidia:

${if_match "${nvidia temp}" != ""}\
${voffset -17}${goto 140}\
${font NotoSans:style=Bold:size=9}GPU - ${font NotoSans:size=9}\
${if_match ${nvidia temp} <= 75}${color}${else}${if_match ${nvidia temp} > 90}${color4}${else}${if_match ${nvidia temp} > 75}${color3}${endif}${endif}${endif}\
${nvidia temp}°C ${color}
${endif}\

and I want to edit it:

\
${if_match "${sensors | grep edge | cut -c16-17}" != ""}\
${voffset -17}${goto 140}\
${font NotoSans:style=Bold:size=9}GPU ${font NotoSans:size=9}\
${if_match ${sensors | grep edge | cut -c16-17} <= 75}${color}${else}${if_match ${sensors | grep edge | cut -c16-17} > 90}${color4}${else}${if_match ${sensors | grep edge | cut -c16-17} > 75}${color3}${endif}${endif}${endif}\
${sensors | grep edge | cut -c16-17}°C ${color}
${endif}\

The additional “date” line for the current time I put in is:
${goto 300}${font NotoSans:size=10}${date +%R}

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

Ok I figured the time part using

${goto 300}${font NotoSans:size=10}${execi 1 date +%R}

OK ok execi did the trick, also for the GPU challenge.
I’ll leave this here in case anyone will find it, and to be useful. Peace.

[6x12]

execi 1

It will return 59x the same result before it changes. Save resources:
execi 60

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

So if I’m unlucky here, my clock runs almost a minute late as well…? 5sec is acceptable though, thanks!

[6x12]

Just noticed your 128Gb Ram…
I’m on crappy hardware; need my conky to keep an eye on temps and resources without gobbling cpu/ram. Hence:
update_interval = 5

For your AMD GPU temps try this.

Are you really on EOL kernel 6.8 or is this hard coded in your conkyrc? Should be:
$kernel

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

Yeah after maxing out my hardware last year I switched to Mint for the support of the closed-source Amdgpu driver. Plasma 5.27.11 on top of Cinnamon, which I don’t use.
I set conky to update_interval = 1.5,
8GB RAM suffice for my Plasma 6 2012 laptop.

The wiki here is great, which is where I found the execi-trick

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@1efaf7d71a8637c6800a

I switched to Mint for the support of the closed-source Amdgpu driver

What does that even mean?
amdgpu is open source.
amdgpu-pro is the proprietary bits … and not usually desirable.
And both are available on Arch/Manjaro.

In any case if you are a Mint user then their forum is over here:
https://forums.linuxmint.com

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I meant this 1 in combination with the Rocm drivers. https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/linux-drivers.html#linux-for-radeon
Anyway I meant to stay at Plasma 5 as well until mouse gestures and an Onboard screen-keyboard become available on 6, for that reason too.
And I always loved this forum