Battery Meter
 

Hi,
I don't have a very good battery, and consequently have to keep a very close watch on the remaining battery life (as a percentage, not just a time). Even if I had a good battery, this would be helpful. The only battery meter I have seen for linux is the one built into KDE. Does anybody know of any other meters? Preferably I would like one which runs in the console and has support for dual batteries.

Thanks
Simon

hi!
i got a new laptop on monday, and a friend with the same model made a batterymeter in bash.
url: home.4th-age.com/batterymon

i don't know if it works with more than one battery, but try :)

I just wrote a simple script

called it bat and put it in /bin so typing bat gives details of the charge left in the battery. Dont know how you'd do it though with apm.

Thanks guys,
Don't currently have ACPI (working on it).

The script from 'chop' didn't work (can't for the life of me think why), but I used some of the code to write my own script (isn't open source great :D), which, after much messing, did work.
No idea whether it works with dual batteries, as I don't have dual batteries (YET!).

Strangely, I seem to get different codes for some things- here's a good one- according to the definitions given in chops script my battery is high and low at the same time.

Does anybody know where I can find the official definitions for the codes in /proc/apm?