Tagged “Floating Status Window”
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					Laundry Monitor – Software
				
			
			
			
The software side of LaundryMonitor is currently pretty straightforward. The C.H.I.P. runs a Node.js application that keeps track of a GPIO pin for each current switch - when the switch is closed the appliance is on and when the switch is open the appliance is off. The application exposes a websocket that applications like HomeStatusWindow can watch and messages are sent to a family Telegram channel.
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					System Temperature Status Window
				
			
			
			
Next up in the "floating status window" category is SystemTemperatureStatusWindow. This one does exactly what it says on the tin - it shows various system temperature values.
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					CPU Usage Status Window
				
			
			
			
Now that I've written about my FloatingStatusWindow library I can start to talk about the projects that use it. First up is the ProcessCpuUsageStatusWindow project.
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					Floating Status Window
				
			
			
			
Something that shows up in a lot of my projects is my FloatingStatusWindow library. It allows the creation of something akin to a desktop widget that displays simple text and blends in with the Windows desktop. This is what several of them look like in the corner of my secondary monitor:
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