PowerStation is an open source TDP control and performance daemon for Linux that can be used to control CPU and GPU settings for better performance and battery life. Performance control is done through DBus to provide a UI-agnostic interface to CPU and GPU settings.
You can install with:
make build sudo make install
If you are using ArchLinux, you can install PowerStation from the AUR:
yay -S powerstation-bin
Then start the service with:
sudo systemctl enable powerstation
sudo systemctl start powerstationXML specifications for all interfaces can be found in bindings/dbus-xml.
Individual interface documentation can be found here:
- org.shadowblip.CPU
- org.shadowblip.CPU.Core
- org.shadowblip.GPU
- org.shadowblip.GPU.Card
- org.shadowblip.GPU.Card.Connector
When PowerStation is running as a service, you can interact with it over DBus. There are various DBus libraries available for popular programming languages like Python, Rust, C++, etc.
You can also interface with DBus using the busctl command:
busctl tree org.shadowblip.PowerStation
└─ /org
└─ /org/shadowblip
└─ /org/shadowblip/Performance
├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core0
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core1
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core10
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core11
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core2
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core3
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core4
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core5
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core6
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core7
│ ├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core8
│ └─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core9
└─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU
├─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card1
│ └─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card1/HDMI
│ └─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card1/HDMI/A
│ └─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card1/HDMI/A/1
└─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card2
└─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card2/eDP
└─ /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card2/eDP/1busctl introspect org.shadowblip.PowerStation /org/shadowblip/Performance/GPU/Card2
NAME TYPE SIGNATURE RESULT/VALUE FLAGS
org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable interface - - -
.Introspect method - s -
org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer interface - - -
.GetMachineId method - s -
.Ping method - - -
org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties interface - - -
.Get method ss v -
.GetAll method s a{sv} -
.Set method ssv - -
.PropertiesChanged signal sa{sv}as - -
org.shadowblip.GPU.Card interface - - -
.EnumerateConnectors method - ao -
.Class property s "integrated" emits-change
.ClassId property s "030000" emits-change
.ClockLimitMhzMax property d - emits-change
.ClockLimitMhzMin property d - emits-change
.ClockValueMhzMax property d - emits-change writable
.ClockValueMhzMin property d - emits-change writable
.Device property s "Renoir" emits-change
.DeviceId property s "1636" emits-change
.ManualClock property b false emits-change writable
.Name property s "card2" emits-change
.Path property s "/sys/class/drm/card2" emits-change
.RevisionId property s "c7" emits-change
.Subdevice property s "" emits-change
.SubdeviceId property s "12b5" emits-change
.SubvendorId property s "1462" emits-change
.Vendor property s "AMD" emits-change
.VendorId property s "1002" emits-change
org.shadowblip.GPU.Card.TDP interface - - -
.Boost property d 11 emits-change writable
.PowerProfile property s "max-performance" emits-change writable
.TDP property d 55 emits-change writable
.ThermalThrottleLimitC property d 95 emits-change writableWhen PowerStation is running, you can test setting properties with:
busctl set-property org.shadowblip.PowerStation /org/shadowblip/Performance/CPU/Core11 org.shadowblip.CPU.Core Online "b" FalsePowerStation is licensed under THE GNU GPLv3+. See LICENSE for details.