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aliech

Post subject: Conky + Efika MX Smartbook battery

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:17 am

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Hi!

I want to use Conky for display battery status of my Smartbook. So, where i can grep (/proc?) information for conky?

I'm used Debian Squeeze armel and latest kernel from your git.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:54 pm

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The battery information can be found in /sys/class/power_supply/battery. If conky can be used to probe upower for the information that might be even better, it is what gnome-power-manager uses on Ubuntu to get the different stats. I would be interested to see how this turns out, mind providing a screenshot once you have it all set up?

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aliech

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:31 pm

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Yeap,

And, finaly, battery part of .conkyrc:

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${color #8193a6}Charge: $color${execi 10 echo "scale=2; `cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/charge_now` / `cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/charge_full`" | bc | sed "s/^[\.]*//" | sed "s/^[0]*//"}%     ${color #8193a6}Status: $color${execi 10 cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/status}

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Neko

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:14 am

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Yeap,

And, finaly, battery part of .conkyrc:

Code:

${color #8193a6}Charge: $color${execi 10 echo "scale=2; `cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/charge_now` / `cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/charge_full`" | bc | sed "s/^[\.]*//" | sed "s/^[0]*//"}%     ${color #8193a6}Status: $color${execi 10 cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/status}

Thanks, steev!

This would be more correct:

Code:

upower -i `upower -e | grep battery`

You can pull the data from there. One of the more interesting things to pull might be the "energy-rate" value as this is your system power consumption in watts.

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aliech

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:05 am

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Thanks...

Code:

upower -i `upower -e | grep battery` | grep percentage | awk '{print $2}'

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:15 pm

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Upower geting wrong information some times :(

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:14 pm

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Which kernel?

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:25 am

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2.6.31 from genesi git

But information in /sys always correct...

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