battery script showing only wrong battery number

[vivien]

battery script showing only wrong battery number

[kb100]

Hmm, (0+96+0)/3 = 32, so the script is working as intended. The issue here is that acpi is reporting that you have 3 batteries, and that 2 of them are at 0%. Perhaps it would be best to report battery percentage as the average of nonzero battery percentages? Would this suit your needs?

[kb100]

Or would an option to manually specify the battery number be better?

[stef204]

Thanks for feedback.
Average of non zero batteries would seem best.

I cannot choose batteries because acpi state changes. It starts by detecting the real battery as "Battery 0", then some time later, changes this to Battery 1. So have to go with

Average of non zero batteries

[kb100]

Sorry for the delay. Would you please test my proposed fix at kb100@150f4b9

[stef204]

Thank you. Applied the patch and testing now. Give me a day or 2 to make sure behaves correctly under different circumstances and will report back soon.

[stef204]

It seems to work OK in detecting the proper charge % now. One thing I noticed, is that if I unplug power, it does not show the "time remaining" from acpi (as displayed below for Battery 1), systematically.

% acpi i
Battery 0: Discharging, 0%, rate information unavailable
Battery 1: Discharging, 97%, 01:53:36 remaining
Battery 2: Discharging, 0%, rate information unavailable

The script + block only show the battery icon and "97%".

If I reboot and then startx with power unplugged, it will show the full text, i.e. % and time remaining. This is useful info.

PS I had a similar problem (as in original post, i.e. script/acpi detecting wrong battery) with the original battery script and have also filed a ticket there. You can see how I have addressed or "fixed" it. That one seems to work properly now.

[kb100]

kb100@bb5e464

Try that commit. It takes time remaining from the first battery that reports it.

[stef204]

Discharging

% ./battery
<span font='FontAwesome'></span> <span color="#FFFFFF">83%</span> (01:31)
<span font='FontAwesome'></span> <span color="#FFFFFF">83%</span> (01:31)

Charging

 % ./battery
<span font='FontAwesome'></span> <span color="#FFFFFF">82%</span> (00:17)
<span font='FontAwesome'></span> <span color="#FFFFFF">82%</span> (00:17)

Looks OK, thank you.