Mac CPU increases drastically and gets hot

trividar · Apr 30, 2020, 11:06 AM

@JohnBachini it’s definitely the animated icons, because when i deactivate them the mac runs on max. 10 % cpu.

trividar · Apr 30, 2020, 11:07 AM

@Stoffbeuteluwe Do you have some pics? do you use also with the default weather module animated icons?

Stoffbeuteluwe · Apr 30, 2020, 11:46 AM

@trividar when I am at home I send a picture…
no animated pictures

bhepler · Apr 30, 2020, 12:45 PM

@JohnBachini - I suspect it’s Electron. IIRC, it doesn’t support hardware acceleration for graphics. So all of the animation is done by the CPU.

As a test, you can start your mirror in server only mode and then open the mirror interface in a web browser. Firefox, Chrome & Edge all support hardware acceleration. Chromium might. See if that affects CPU usage and your temperature.

Stoffbeuteluwe · May 1, 2020, 5:34 AM

@trividar oh I forgot…Sorry