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anirudh215

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Registered: 2011-03-07

Posts: 78

[SOLVED] Conky Battery Monitor

I've setup conky to do have a battery monitor bar. However, it always says zero %. How do I modify this? Here is the relevant line from the conkyrc:

Battery:${voffset 2} ${battery_bar 5,150} ${battery_percent}%

EDIT: For those of you facing the same problem, add 'BAT1' after '5,150' and 'battery_percent'.

Last edited by anirudh215 (2011-10-22 07:41:30)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Conky Battery Monitor

anirudh215 has informed me that he solved this problem through searching just after posting the message.

@anirudh215, please mark the thread [solved] and either post a link to your solution or the solution itself here so future readers won't have a hanging thread.

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junkie

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Conky Battery Monitor

What if this doesn't apply in my case? I did what is told here, also tried BAT0, still stuck at 0% all the time.

What else does conky need to be able to pick up the charge %?

If I run acpi, this is what I get:

Battery 0: Full, 100%, rate information unavailable

(the 100% bit changes when discharging)

heatblazer

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Registered: 2011-09-03

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Conky Battery Monitor

I am having a similar issue here on xfce4. Battery is either on red status or full. No warning no attentions when charging it remains almost empty but indicates charging...

junkie

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Conky Battery Monitor

To hell with conky's variables! Try this:

Command to get battery percent:

acpi -b | awk "{print $1}" | sed 's/\([^:]*\): \([^,]*\), \([0-9]*\)%.*/\3/'

Command to get charger status ("discharging" / "charging" / "full"):

acpi -b | awk "{print $1}" | sed 's/\([^:]*\): \([^,]*\), \([0-9]*\)%.*/\2/'

Notice that the only difference is the index of the match in the sed expression: the second group is the status text, the third group is the percent value.

Last edited by junkie (2011-10-25 12:24:49)