Battery monitor or icon?

[0day]

A battery indicator for tiny core?

[bmarkus]

A battery indicator for tiny core?

Check your desktop plugins. In general there are no such thing that Tiny Core icon

[Juanito]

there's the watcher extension

[Misalf]

Or Conky.

[h2sammo]

i installed watcher but no battery monitor. just %C, %M and %S

[Juanito]

It looks like there's a patch pending:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21360.msg133540.html#msg133540

..but the %m, and presumeably %s, part works for me.

[NewUser]

I use flit. I serves my needs, and takes little desktop space. 32-bit only, though.

[Juanito]

flit added to CorePure64 repo

Edit: and recompiled for fltk-1.1.0 -> fltk-1.3 in Core repo

[Rich]

Hi h2sammo

i installed watcher but no battery monitor. just %C, %M and %S

It looks like there's a patch pending:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21360.msg133540.html#msg133540

..but the %m, and presumeably %s, part works for me.

I did some checking and it seems my patch was applied to the source code but the repo was never updated. I confirmed
this by examining the executable that's currently in the repo.  I did some minor cleanup and recompiled the program. A new
package has been submitted and will be available as soon as the repo is updated.

[NewUser]

flit added to CorePure64 repo

Edit: and recompiled for fltk-1.1.0 -> fltk-1.3 in Core repo

Thank you Juanito. Looks like I'll be going 64-bit.

[Juanito]

updated watcher posted - thanks

On my machine (dell e7240) running tc-10.x, I get this:

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$ ls /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0
alarm               current_now         present             uevent
capacity            cycle_count         serial_number       voltage_min_design
capacity_level      device              status              voltage_now
charge_full         manufacturer        subsystem
charge_full_design  model_name          technology
charge_now          power/              type
..and:

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$ ls /sys/class/power_supply/AC
device     online     power/     subsystem  type       uevent
It looks like watcher is calculating C% from either charge_now or energy_now divided by either charge_full or energy_full.

I get 1742000/2457000=71%, but the watcher display varies slowly between 6.7% and 7.2% - i.e. a factor of 10 out?

[Rich]

Hi Juanito
The calculation code looks correct:

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sprintf(batmsg, " %.1f%%B", (float)(batnow / batfull) * 100);
BAT0  looks like the correct value to pass to watcher.

[Rich]

Hi Juanito

... It looks like watcher is calculating C% from either charge_now or energy_now divided by either charge_full or energy_full. ...

You mean %B. %C is the CPU. Did you start watcher like this:

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watcher -bat BAT0to tell it where to find the battery?

[Juanito]

doh 

It works now (and matches flit) - thanks

..but constantly repeats this to stdout:

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$ ./watcher -bat BAT0
Error opening batinfo /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_now
Error opening batinfo /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full

[Rich]

Hi Juanito
Maybe I should remove that error message? It seemed like a good idea at the time but it really isn't an error unless the
fallback values (charge_now and charge_full) can't be read. It's late here but if you'd like I'll clean up the error handling
and submit an update tomorrow.