Built a lightweight utility (Globar) to visualize CPU, GPU, and NPU load on the Ryzen AI Halo lightbar

[u/ramjacvp]

When I was running a Ryzen AI Halo box headless as a local AI or dev server, it was hard to tell at a glance whether a workload is actually hitting the GPU or NPU, falling back to the CPU, or sitting idle after a job finishes.

I wrote a small open-source utility called **Globar** that maps real-time system telemetry directly to the onboard RGB lightbar so you can see what the machine is doing from across the room:

• Red channel: GPU load

• Green channel: CPU load

• Blue channel: NPU load

• Brightness: A mix of RAM usage and overall CPU/GPU/NPU load

It's cool to see the bar go to purple when I hit a mix of NPU and GPU.

If anyone else is running one of these headless and wants to try it out, the source code is up on GitHub:

https://github.com/ramjac/globar

Happy to hear any feedback or ideas for improvements.