System monitor
Processor, memory, network, temperature and battery as rings, bars or small graphs.

Meters
| Setting | Kind | Starts at | Range and notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Showsmeters | ["cpu", "memory", "network"] | any of: Processor, Memory, Network, Temperature, Swap, Disk, Battery | |
Stylestyle | choice | Rings | Rings, Bars, Graphs |
Everyrate | number | 2 s | 1 to 5 s |
Sizesize | number | 20% | 5% to 60%Share of the screen's height |
Fontfont | font | Outfit | – |
Metercolour | colour and alpha | #3fd0c9ff | – |
Highcolour2 | colour and alpha | #ff7a90ff | – |
Tracktrack | colour and alpha | #f4f6f81f | – |
Texttext | colour and alpha | #f4f6f8d9 | – |
Labelslabels | on or off | on | – |
From a script
Every setting above can be changed by the scene's logic, by its key. Say the layer is called System monitor:
scene.set("System monitor", "rate", 5);scene.animate("System monitor", "opacity", 0.5, 2);import { scene } from "motion";scene.set("System monitor", "rate", 5);scene.animate("System monitor", "opacity", 0.5, 2);◆On Scene Start
ƒSet Layer SettingTarget is Layer
TargetSystem monitor
Parameter Namerate
Parameter Value5
What every layer has
Besides its own settings, every layer has its opacity, blend, placement, quick effects and an effects stack. They're listed once, on the layers page.
Notes from the community
Written by creators and checked by the docs' editors. Not part of Motion's official reference.