Hi everyone, I wanted to ask for your feedback on a couple of things, hopefully you've experimented a little like myself.
a) I am still getting the yellow front-panel LED working
intermittently, i.e. not everytime and not every reboot. Does your NUC's HDD yellow LED works
all the time? And if yes, how did you manage it? I have personally loaded mine with both NVMe and SSD as storage but... can't figure out what's wrong. Perhaps BIOS v56 has an issue.
b) Do you have
fan RPM readings in any of monitoring tools available?
This feature is directly dependent on FakeSMC's plugins on older hacks. On my old NUC, the plugin
org.hwsensors.driver.LPCSensors detects OK my Nuvoton NCT6776F chipset that controls the fan, and I get readings. Do you have managed this yet?
Intel's motherboard documentation shows that our NUC8ixBEHx uses the
ITE IT8987E-VG chipset (ID = 0x8987) but doesn't seem to be detected by plugins, as it's rather new.
Despite FakeSMC being available for a long time, it seems abandonware (the original one) and I have not found a build that's maintained so far (like RehabMan's repository) except HWSensors3 effort over at SourceForge.
3) For this reason above, I tried
VirtualSMC and plugins
as a total replacement to FakeSMC (be careful) as they are a pretty recent project that's bound to evolve much more but no support for our ITE chipset yet. Have anyone been using it? Is it stable for you? Latest version v1.0.4 causes my system to become unstable, though...
You can find VirtualSMC at
https://github.com/acidanthera/VirtualSMC
You can find HWSensors3 at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hwsensors3.hwsensors.p/
Please be sure you know what you do
if you experiment using VirtualSMC, you need to totally remove FakeSMC and its plugins and read their instructions on how to install VirtualSMC.
Thanks!