Homebrew Status Monitor Deux - Customizable successor of Status Monitor Overlay

masagrator · May 30, 2026

Status Monitor Deux

I released first version of Status Monitor Overlay almost 6 years ago. With advancements in tech i decided to take upon challenge of making something I wanted to do but in normal circumstances was too time consuming to be a viable option for me.

Status Monitor Deux is a structural revision of how Status Monitor Overlay works. Now each mode is a separate .smd file that you can modify however you want. Overlay is just a manager responsible for listing and interpreting .smd files and changing its settings. On top of that you can add extensions adding support for custom services via .smse files, by default you have included extensions for sys:clk and hoc:clk stable struct.

Decided to release it separately from Status Monitor Overlay because its changes were breaking too much in terms of how configuration works now.

Supports everything what Status Monitor Overlay supports, adds on top of that multiple new options. Utilizes heavily modified libtesla to improve performance and rendering capabilities.

Repository: https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Deux
Releases: https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Deux/releases

masagrator · Jun 1, 2026

Here is an example of something i did in 90 minutes

Video from unfinished version, only difference are used symbols

You can download it from here
https://github.com/masagrator/SMD-Files/blob/main/Compact/Compact.smd

Requires sys-clk or hoc-clk to show all data properly

R - RAM load (white - CPU related, red - everything else which means basically GPU)
G - GPU load
F - fan rotation level
B - battery charge level

nyanpasu64 · 2026-06-09T03:45:07+0100

I noticed some vertical screen tearing on 0.2.0 while scrolling around in the menu, presumably an artifact of the "heavily modified libtesla". Is this something you plan to fix, or not important enough to bother?

Also I noticed that on the original status monitor, in Micro the arrows/inequality sign after frequencies would change when the frequencies changed. Now on Deux I always see ≠. The README says that either sys-clk or Horizon-OC is supported, and I have installed sys-clk v2.0.1-fix from Homebrew App Store (all files are identical to the GitHub release except metadata), is something wrong here?

Given that "Show RAM load" is checked but the overlay only shows used memory capacity, it seems like you're failing to fetch data from sys-clk? (The real clocks *are* visible in sys-clk's Ultrahand/Tesla panel.)

masagrator · 2026-06-09T04:27:50+0100

nyanpasu64 said:
Is this something you plan to fix, or not important enough to bother?

I was considering not worth it until someone points out. I tested if my assumption was correct just now and it turned out it was, so just fixed the issue.

nyanpasu64 said:
is something wrong here?

Issue existed because i compared kHz instead of mHz. Fixed.

nyanpasu64 said:
Given that "Show RAM load" is checked but the overlay only shows used memory capacity, it seems like you're failing to fetch data from sys-clk? (The real clocks *are* visible in sys-clk's Ultrahand/Tesla panel.)

This happens because i assumed that sys-clk like hoc-clk uses buffer for retrieving its context, but it turns out it uses simple Out pointer. I fixed that too.

https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Deux/releases/tag/0.2.1

nyanpasu64 · 2026-06-09T10:59:16+0100

Not particularly a bug report, but I keep misreading the option descriptions as belonging to the option above them, even though the L-shaped line indicates they belong to the option above them. Would it be better to move them below the corresponding options (but make sure they're visible when you scroll to the option), or you don't plan to change this?

masagrator · 2026-06-09T12:24:14+0100

nyanpasu64 said:
Not particularly a bug report, but I keep misreading the option descriptions as belonging to the option above them, even though the L-shaped line indicates they belong to the option above them. Would it be better to move them below the corresponding options (but make sure they're visible when you scroll to the option), or you don't plan to change this?

How it corresponds to option above them? This hook exists explicitly to show that it doesn't belong above

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This is technical reason. Doing it below will result in descriptions not being rendered for any option that is at the bottom of list, that's the cost of descriptions not being a part of focus list.

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