PC stats monitoring on your phone with Logitech Arx & AIDA64

Sunday, September 18, 2016 James

Ever since the original Logitech G15 keyboard came out I've really taken a liking to the idea of having a little LCD screen near the keyboard for stat monitoring. I much prefer this to an on-screen overlay. The G15 and G19 are pretty old now and I don't believe the LCD screen concept ever took off past those models. Logitech now has "Arx" which aims to replace this concept. Logitech have keyboards now with an "Arx dock", which is basically a phone dock. The idea is that you can use the Arx software on your PC along with the Arx app on your phone to monitor all sorts of things. AIDA64 has support for Arx, so you can pipe your AIDA64 stats into Arx. This is particularly useful when overclocking - you can monitor your temps and resource utlisation while gaming or encoding. You can even take your phone into the bathroom and keep monitoring!

Here is a basic guide on how to get this going. I'm going to assume you do need a Logitech keyboard to use the Arx software, but this may not be the case. There is no technical reason for Arx to require a Logitech keyboard to function, but it's entirely possible that Logitech stop the software from running if you don't have one.

arx1 — Enable Logitech Arx support in AIDA64.

arx2 — Setup your template under "LCD Items".

arx3 — Make sure AIDA64 is enabled within Logitech Arx / Logitech Gaming Software.

logitech-arx-aida64 — Install the Logitech Arx app on your phone. It can auto discover Arx over your network. On your PC you will have to allow your phone to connect to Arx via a popup notification that should appear. When you first run Arx on your phone AIDA64 will suggest a resolution to set within AIDA64's LCD config, you can see that I've already done this in the first screenshot. Once you've setup your LCD template in AIDA64, you should be good to go.