diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/lm_sensors/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/lm_sensors/package.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da9c90b0d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/lm_sensors/package.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of LibreELEC - http://www.libreelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2016 Team LibreELEC
+#
+#  LibreELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  LibreELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with LibreELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="lm_sensors"
+PKG_VERSION="3.4.0"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/lm-sensors/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="tools"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="lm_sensors: Hardware monitoring via the SMBus"
+PKG_LONGDESC="lm_sensors is a package to get data from the SMB (System Management Bus - an i2c bus) on modern mainboards. It consists of kernel modules and users space tools to get stuff like cpu / mb temperature, voltages, fan speed..."
+
+# TODO: PKG_MAKE_OPTS_TARGET + ETCDIR=/storage/.kodi/addons/tools.lm_sensors/data if one wants sensor3.conf..
+PKG_MAKE_OPTS_TARGET="PREFIX=/usr CC=$TARGET_CC AR=$TARGET_AR"
+PKG_MAKEINSTALL_OPTS_TARGET="PREFIX=/usr"
+
+pre_make_target() {
+  export CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS"
+  export CPPFLAGS="$TARGET_CPPFLAGS"
+}
+
+makeinstall_target() {
+  : # meh
+}
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/lm_sensors/patches/lm_sensors-01_link-static.patch b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/lm_sensors/patches/lm_sensors-01_link-static.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8535cbb4fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/lm_sensors/patches/lm_sensors-01_link-static.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 0b2b2e26bbae3d06580080a66a85e5e0d90ea9f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Stefan Saraev <stefan@saraev.ca>
+Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:21:19 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] link static
+
+---
+ prog/sensors/Module.mk |    2 +-
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/prog/sensors/Module.mk b/prog/sensors/Module.mk
+index b656441..ad59874 100644
+--- a/prog/sensors/Module.mk
++++ b/prog/sensors/Module.mk
+@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ REMOVESENSORSMAN := $(patsubst $(MODULE_DIR)/%,$(DESTDIR)$(PROGSENSORSMAN1DIR)/%
+ LIBICONV := $(shell if /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep -q '/libiconv\.so$$' ; then echo \-liconv; else echo; fi)
+ 
+ $(PROGSENSORSTARGETS): $(PROGSENSORSSOURCES:.c=.ro) lib/$(LIBSHBASENAME)
+-	$(CC) $(EXLDFLAGS) -o $@ $(PROGSENSORSSOURCES:.c=.ro) $(LIBICONV) -Llib -lsensors
++	$(CC) $(EXLDFLAGS) -o $@ $(PROGSENSORSSOURCES:.c=.ro) $(LIBICONV) -Llib -Wl,-Bstatic -lsensors -Wl,-Bdynamic -lm
+ 
+ all-prog-sensors: $(PROGSENSORSTARGETS)
+ user :: all-prog-sensors
+-- 
+1.7.2.5
+