diff --git a/packages/sysutils/lm_sensors/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/lm_sensors/package.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 01d9918dea..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/lm_sensors/package.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC 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.
-#
-#  OpenELEC 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 OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="lm_sensors"
-PKG_VERSION="3.3.4"
-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="system"
-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..."
-
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
-
-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"
-}
-
-post_makeinstall_target() {
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/bin/sensors-conf-convert
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/sbin/
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  $STRIP $INSTALL/usr/bin/sensors
-}
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/lm_sensors/patches/lm_sensors-01_link-static.patch b/packages/sysutils/lm_sensors/patches/lm_sensors-01_link-static.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8535cbb4fa..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/lm_sensors/patches/lm_sensors-01_link-static.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-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
-
diff --git a/projects/Cuboxi/options b/projects/Cuboxi/options
index 9c25455b0f..0cb06f9823 100644
--- a/projects/Cuboxi/options
+++ b/projects/Cuboxi/options
@@ -317,9 +317,6 @@
 # e.g. FIRMWARE="dvb-firmware misc-firmware wlan-firmware"
   FIRMWARE="misc-firmware wlan-firmware dvb-firmware"
 
-# build with lm_sensors hardware monitoring support (yes / no)
-  SENSOR_SUPPORT="yes"
-
 # build with swap support (yes / no)
   SWAP_SUPPORT="no"
 
diff --git a/projects/Generic/options b/projects/Generic/options
index 141cbaf9b3..e7cbccdbaa 100644
--- a/projects/Generic/options
+++ b/projects/Generic/options
@@ -321,9 +321,6 @@
 # e.g. FIRMWARE="dvb-firmware misc-firmware wlan-firmware"
   FIRMWARE="misc-firmware wlan-firmware dvb-firmware"
 
-# build with lm_sensors hardware monitoring support (yes / no)
-  SENSOR_SUPPORT="yes"
-
 # build with swap support (yes / no)
   SWAP_SUPPORT="no"
 
diff --git a/projects/RPi/options b/projects/RPi/options
index 5f98973d56..b6fb09246a 100644
--- a/projects/RPi/options
+++ b/projects/RPi/options
@@ -316,9 +316,6 @@
 # e.g. FIRMWARE="dvb-firmware misc-firmware wlan-firmware"
   FIRMWARE="misc-firmware wlan-firmware dvb-firmware"
 
-# build with lm_sensors hardware monitoring support (yes / no)
-  SENSOR_SUPPORT="yes"
-
 # build with swap support (yes / no)
   SWAP_SUPPORT="yes"
 
diff --git a/scripts/image b/scripts/image
index 997287c9e0..ea921a6c14 100755
--- a/scripts/image
+++ b/scripts/image
@@ -153,9 +153,6 @@ IMAGE_NAME="$DISTRONAME-$TARGET_VERSION"
 # LCD support
   [ ! "$LCD_DRIVER" = "none" ] && $SCRIPTS/install lcdproc
 
-# Sensors support
-  [ "$SENSOR_SUPPORT" = "yes" ] && $SCRIPTS/install lm_sensors
-
 # Installer support
   [ "$INSTALLER_SUPPORT" = "yes" ] && $SCRIPTS/install installer