Get hard disk temperature using Python
hard-drive, linux, python, temperature
Solution
You can run hddtemp as a daemon (the -d option), then use sockets to query it - defaults to port 7634.
Edit: see some code that does this.
Problem
I would like to get the temperature of a hard disk using Python (under Linux). I'm currently calling `hddtemp` with `subprocess.popen`, but I call it often enough that it is a performance bottleneck in my script. I think it should be possible to do something similar to question 4193514?