Display keyboard and/or mouse battery status

[Marc013]

Display keyboard and/or mouse battery status

[ivan-the-terrible]

Looking at the Battery segment, it could be interesting to attach the logic there.

The main thing would be investigating how this works across operating systems. Looks like a creating a POC for Windows, but I could imagine something where you pass in a list within the omp.json of what you want to monitor, GIVEN there is some standardized way to query peripherals and their status.

@Marc013 would you be interesting in creating something using the Command segment that could theoretically handle this?

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@ivan-the-terrible I feel this is a very specific use-case for now which would justify the use of Set-PoshContext and create multiple environment variables to add that context to and use in a text segment's template.

[ivan-the-terrible]

@JanDeDobbeleer oh nice! Yeah this would be a perfect use case for leveraging the template.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@ivan-the-terrible implementing this natively would also require finding the right syscall on Windows which is always a little challenging. There be dragons.

@Marc013 Can you proceed with my proposal above, or do you need a more elaborate sample?

[Marc013]

@JanDeDobbeleer and @ivan-the-terrible ,
Thank you very much for you your quick response.

The purpose is to check the battery status of Bluetooth devices. In my opinion, this is a common use case as more and more devices are connected to Bluetooth.

Nevertheless, I tried the suggested Set-PoshContext solution.
Unfortunately, this is not an option because the pwsh command takes more than 1.5 seconds to execute, so the prompt is extremely delayed.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@Marc013 chances are this will take the same amount of time using golang (if I can find out how) as the underlying syscall will be identical.

[Marc013]

Thank you for informing.
I will try to come up with an alternate solution.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@Marc013 you could run a scriptblock to assign the env vars (didn't test this):

$scriptblock = {
    $env:MOUSE_BATTERY_LEVEL = (Get-PnpDevice -Class Bluetooth -FriendlyName 'MX Master 3' | Get-PnpDeviceProperty -KeyName '{104EA319-6EE2-4701-BD47-8DDBF425BBE5} 2').Data
    $env:KEYBOARD_BATTERY_LEVEL = (Get-PnpDevice -Class Bluetooth -FriendlyName 'Keychron K3 Max' | Get-PnpDeviceProperty -KeyName '{104EA319-6EE2-4701-BD47-8DDBF425BBE5} 2').Data
}

function Set-BatteryLevels {
    Start-job -ScriptBlock $scriptblock
}

New-Alias -Name 'Set-PoshContext' -Value 'Set-BatteryLevels' -Scope Global -Force