diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 97bec60..33bb013 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,33 +25,109 @@ chmod +x freshStart.sh
 ```
 
 ## 📦 Components Installed
-**System Packages:**
 
+### System Packages
 * python3-pip
 * smartmontools
 * iperf3
 * python3-psutil
 * python3-requests
+* lm-sensors
+* neofetch
+* rsync
 
-**Prometheus Node Exporter:**
+### Prometheus Node Exporter
 ✅ Installed as a systemd service
 ✅ Runs on default port 9100
 ✅ Configured to start on boot
 
-**Hardware Monitoring Daemon (hwmon):**
+### Hardware Monitoring Daemon (hwmon)
 ✅ Installed as a systemd service and timer
-✅ Performs regular system health checks
+✅ Performs regular system health checks every 15 minutes
 ✅ Creates tickets for detected issues
+✅ **NEW:** API key configuration via `/etc/hwmonDaemon/.env`
+
+## ⚙️ Configuration
+
+### hwmonDaemon API Key Setup
+
+The script will prompt you for an API key during installation. You can:
+
+**Option 1: Enter during installation**
+```bash
+Enter API key (or press Enter to skip): d8f356a06bd5612eca9c5ff948b592a56020cc61937764461458372c9ef30931
+```
+
+**Option 2: Configure later**
+Edit the configuration file:
+```bash
+nano /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env
+```
+
+Add your API key:
+```env
+TICKET_API_KEY=your_actual_api_key_here
+TICKET_API_URL=http://10.10.10.45/create_ticket_api.php
+```
+
+The `.env` file is created with restricted permissions (`chmod 600`) for security.
+
+## 🔍 Verification
 
-🔍 **Verification**
 Verify service status after installation:
 ```bash
 systemctl status node_exporter
 systemctl status hwmon.timer
 ```
 
-🌐 **Network Requirements**
-Service	Purpose
-GitHub	Node Exporter download
-10.10.10.110:3000	hwmon daemon files
-10.10.10.45	Ticket API access
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+Test hwmonDaemon with dry-run:
+```bash
+/usr/bin/env python3 -c "import urllib.request; exec(urllib.request.urlopen('http://10.10.10.63:3000/LotusGuild/hwmonDaemon/raw/branch/main/hwmonDaemon.py').read().decode('utf-8'))" --dry-run
+```
+
+Check if API key is loaded:
+```bash
+cat /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env
+journalctl -u hwmon.service | grep "TICKET_API_KEY"
+```
+
+## 🌐 Network Requirements
+
+| Service | Purpose |
+|---------|---------|
+| GitHub | Node Exporter download |
+| 10.10.10.63:3000 | hwmon daemon files (Gitea) |
+| 10.10.10.45 | Ticket API access |
+
+## 📁 File Locations
+
+| File/Directory | Purpose |
+|---------------|---------|
+| `/etc/hwmonDaemon/.env` | API key configuration |
+| `/var/log/hwmonDaemon/` | hwmon log files |
+| `/etc/systemd/system/hwmon.service` | hwmon systemd service |
+| `/etc/systemd/system/hwmon.timer` | hwmon systemd timer |
+| `/usr/local/bin/node_exporter` | Node Exporter binary |
+
+## 🔧 Troubleshooting
+
+### hwmonDaemon not creating tickets
+
+Check if API key is configured:
+```bash
+cat /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env
+```
+
+Check logs for authentication errors:
+```bash
+journalctl -u hwmon.service -n 50
+```
+
+### Update API key after installation
+
+Edit the configuration file:
+```bash
+nano /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env
+```
+
+No service restart needed - changes take effect on next run.
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diff --git a/freshStart.sh b/freshStart.sh
index c6a412e..c65f0b1 100644
--- a/freshStart.sh
+++ b/freshStart.sh
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ echo "Installing hwmon daemon..."
 
 # Download hwmon service files with error handling
 echo "Downloading hwmon service files..."
-if ! curl --max-time 30 --retry 3 -o /etc/systemd/system/hwmon.service http://10.10.10.110:3000/JWS/hwmonDaemon/raw/branch/main/hwmon.service; then
+if ! curl --max-time 30 --retry 3 -o /etc/systemd/system/hwmon.service http://10.10.10.63:3000/LotusGuild/hwmonDaemon/raw/branch/main/hwmon.service; then
     echo "ERROR: Failed to download hwmon.service"
     exit 1
 fi
 
-if ! curl --max-time 30 --retry 3 -o /etc/systemd/system/hwmon.timer http://10.10.10.110:3000/JWS/hwmonDaemon/raw/branch/main/hwmon.timer; then
+if ! curl --max-time 30 --retry 3 -o /etc/systemd/system/hwmon.timer http://10.10.10.63:3000/LotusGuild/hwmonDaemon/raw/branch/main/hwmon.timer; then
     echo "ERROR: Failed to download hwmon.timer"
     exit 1
 fi
@@ -120,9 +120,51 @@ if [[ ! -s /etc/systemd/system/hwmon.timer ]]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-# Create log directory for hwmon
+# Create configuration directory for hwmon
+echo "Setting up hwmon configuration..."
+mkdir -p /etc/hwmonDaemon
 mkdir -p /var/log/hwmonDaemon
 
+# Prompt for API key or use default
+echo ""
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+echo "  hwmonDaemon API Key Configuration"
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+echo ""
+echo "The hwmonDaemon requires an API key to create tickets."
+echo "You can enter it now or configure it later by editing:"
+echo "  /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env"
+echo ""
+read -p "Enter API key (or press Enter to skip): " API_KEY
+
+if [[ -n "$API_KEY" ]]; then
+    # Create .env file with API key
+    cat > /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env << EOF
+# hwmonDaemon Configuration
+# Auto-generated by freshStart.sh on $(date)
+
+# Ticket API Configuration
+TICKET_API_KEY=$API_KEY
+TICKET_API_URL=http://10.10.10.45/create_ticket_api.php
+EOF
+    chmod 600 /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env
+    echo "✓ API key configured in /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env"
+else
+    # Create template .env file
+    cat > /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env << 'EOF'
+# hwmonDaemon Configuration
+# Edit this file to add your API key
+
+# Ticket API Configuration
+TICKET_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
+TICKET_API_URL=http://10.10.10.45/create_ticket_api.php
+EOF
+    chmod 600 /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env
+    echo "⚠️  WARNING: API key not configured!"
+    echo "   Edit /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env to add your API key before tickets can be created"
+fi
+echo ""
+
 # Start the hwmon daemon
 systemctl daemon-reload
 systemctl enable hwmon.timer
@@ -148,7 +190,7 @@ fi
 
 # Test hwmon with error handling
 echo "Testing hwmon dry-run..."
-if ! /usr/bin/env python3 -c "import urllib.request; exec(urllib.request.urlopen('http://10.10.10.110:3000/JWS/hwmonDaemon/raw/branch/main/hwmonDaemon.py').read().decode('utf-8'))" --dry-run; then
+if ! /usr/bin/env python3 -c "import urllib.request; exec(urllib.request.urlopen('http://10.10.10.63:3000/LotusGuild/hwmonDaemon/raw/branch/main/hwmonDaemon.py').read().decode('utf-8'))" --dry-run; then
     echo "WARNING: hwmon dry-run test failed, but services are installed"
 fi
 
@@ -161,7 +203,14 @@ echo "Services installed:"
 echo "  - Node Exporter: http://$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'):9100/metrics"
 echo "  - hwmon daemon: Monitoring system health every 15 minutes"
 echo ""
+echo "Configuration files:"
+echo "  - hwmon config: /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env"
+echo ""
 echo "Log locations:"
 echo "  - Node Exporter: journalctl -u node_exporter"
 echo "  - hwmon: journalctl -u hwmon.service"
-echo "  - hwmon logs: /var/log/hwmonDaemon/"
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+echo "  - hwmon logs: /var/log/hwmonDaemon/"
+echo ""
+if [[ ! -s /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env ]] || grep -q "your_api_key_here" /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env 2>/dev/null; then
+    echo "⚠️  REMINDER: Configure your API key in /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env"
+fi
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diff --git a/update_api_key.sh b/update_api_key.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..49d0201
--- /dev/null
+++ b/update_api_key.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Quick script to update hwmonDaemon API key on existing servers
+
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+echo "  hwmonDaemon API Key Update Utility"
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+echo ""
+
+# Check if running as root
+if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
+   echo "❌ This script must be run as root"
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+# Create directory if it doesn't exist
+mkdir -p /etc/hwmonDaemon
+
+# Prompt for API key
+echo "Enter your Tinker Tickets API key:"
+read -p "API Key: " API_KEY
+
+if [[ -z "$API_KEY" ]]; then
+    echo "❌ API key cannot be empty"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Create/update .env file
+cat > /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env << EOF
+# hwmonDaemon Configuration
+# Updated on $(date)
+
+# Ticket API Configuration
+TICKET_API_KEY=$API_KEY
+TICKET_API_URL=http://10.10.10.45/create_ticket_api.php
+EOF
+
+chmod 600 /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env
+
+echo ""
+echo "✅ API key updated successfully!"
+echo ""
+echo "Configuration saved to: /etc/hwmonDaemon/.env"
+echo ""
+echo "The new API key will be used on the next hwmon run."
+echo "To test immediately:"
+echo "  systemctl start hwmon.service"
+echo ""
+echo "Check logs:"
+echo "  journalctl -u hwmon.service -n 20"