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Old 06-13-2004, 03:30 PM   #1
uveraser
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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
 
Old 06-14-2004, 09:35 AM   #2
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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
 
Old 06-16-2004, 03:35 AM   #3
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I just wrote a simple script

Code:
more /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
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.
 
Old 06-22-2004, 07:09 AM   #4
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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 ), 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?

Last edited by uveraser; 06-22-2004 at 07:11 AM.
 
  


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