# Salad Tracker Monitor â€” Windows / NVIDIA

This is the unsigned early-test build of Salad Tracker Monitor. It reads NVIDIA GPU telemetry through the installed NVIDIA driver and uploads only paired GPU readings to Salad Tracker over HTTPS.

## Setup

1. Open Salad Tracker in Chrome.
2. Go to Account & Pro â†’ Rig monitor â†’ Add rig monitor.
3. Create a pairing code.
4. Run `SaladTrackerMonitorSetup.exe` and enter the code.
5. Choose whether the monitor should start automatically when this Windows user logs in.

The setup program does not ask for a Salad password or a Salad Tracker password. The monitor token is protected with Windows user encryption and can be revoked from the extension.

## Testing

The setup program starts the background monitor after pairing. The background process writes a local log at `%LOCALAPPDATA%\SaladTrackerMonitor\monitor.log`.

To collect one reading from an already-paired rig, run:

`SaladTrackerMonitorSetup.exe --once`

To remove automatic startup, run:

`SaladTrackerMonitorSetup.exe --remove-startup`

This build requires `nvidia-smi.exe` from a current NVIDIA driver. It does not support AMD or Intel GPUs.

This first ZIP is unsigned. Download it only from the official Salad Tracker website. If Windows Smart App Control blocks the setup program, open Windows Security â†’ App & browser control â†’ Smart App Control settings and turn Smart App Control off before running it; Windows does not provide a per-app allow button for this block. Keep your other Windows protections on. A signed build is planned.
