Battery Status Indicator?

asked 2013-01-17 17:20:16 +0000

JohnnyFive
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I'm using an HP Envy 4 laptop.

The battery indicator shows "no battery", even though it most definitely does exist, and i'm using it right now.

johnnyfive@mint-envy:/sys/class/power_supply$ ll
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Jan 16 23:03 ACAD ->     ../../devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:02/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/ACAD/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Jan 17 08:43 BAT1 -> ../../devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:02/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT1/

Any ideas? I have no idea where to start.

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answered 2014-02-18 11:15:03 +0000

IzeBit
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updated 2014-02-18 11:16:36 +0000

I solved this issue with "no battery" on Debian by adding the following path to my i3status config file.

Here's an excerpt from my i3status.conf.

battery 0 {
format = "%status %percentage %remaining"
path = "/sys/class/power_supply/CMB1/uevent"
}

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answered 2013-01-17 18:58:31 +0000

Michael
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sed -ie 's/battery 0/battery 1/g' ~/.i3status.conf
i3 restart

Alternatively, change the path property in the battery block, see http://i3wm.org/i3status/manpage.html

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Thanks. I had to cp /etc/i3status.conf ~/.i3status.conf first, but that worked beautifully!

JohnnyFive ( 2013-01-17 19:10:03 +0000 )edit

After using it for a bit, i'm confused. Although a number shows up, it doesn't seem to make any sense. The number shows up as something in the format d.dd, like 0.74. It randomly, it seems, jumps around anywhere from 0.09 to 1.8, and it doesn't really seem to hover around any one number.

JohnnyFive ( 2013-01-18 18:43:15 +0000 )edit

Please post a new question for that. And provide a better example (screenshot?), I don’t really know what you are talking about.