Check battery status in Linux

gjacobse

Wondered if there was a way to check the status of the laptop battery via the CLI. .. quick search - yup... it's upower

 upower -i `upower -e | grep 'BAT'`
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               ASUS
  model:                1000HE
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Fri 25 May 2018 09:16:02 AM EDT (47 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              29.1384 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         54.3528 Wh
    energy-full-design:  62.64 Wh
    energy-rate:         9.1728 W
    voltage:             7.306 V
    time to empty:       3.2 hours
    percentage:          53%
    capacity:            86.7701%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-good-symbolic'
  History (charge):
    1527254162  53.000  discharging
  History (rate):
    1527254162  9.173   discharging

upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT) | grep --color=never -E "state|to\ full|to\ empty|percentage"
    state:               discharging
    time to empty:       2.9 hours
    percentage:          54%

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momurda

Is that also showing battery degradation as
energy-full-design, energy-full, and capacity parameters?
Or do they not mean what their obvious name means?

gjacobse

Wished I could upvote my own posts... knew I had started this thread,.. and helps me keep up with my linux CLI history.

Doing more and more via CLI - so this helps.

RamblingBiped

I recommend this: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-battery

gjacobse

@ramblingbiped said in Check battery status in Linux:

I recommend this: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-battery

Will have to give it a look.

Thanks