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shoenig

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Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 2

Udev rules for discharging battery

Hi there,

I'm trying to define a udev rule that triggers a script of mine at a certain level of battery charge (e.G. five percent). Unfortunately nothing happens (cross-checked the x-bit and typos already)

low-battery.rules:

KERNEL=="BAT0", ATTR{status}=="Discharging", ATTR{capacity}=="5", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/backlight"

That's the part of udevadm I took as a ref point for the rules file:

looking at device '/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0':
    KERNEL=="BAT0"
    SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply"
    DRIVER==""
    ATTR{type}=="Battery"
    ATTR{alarm}=="0"
    ATTR{charge_full_design}=="2261000"
    ATTR{current_now}=="2945000"
    ATTR{charge_now}=="1244000"
    ATTR{charge_full}=="2261000"
    ATTR{capacity}=="55"
    ATTR{status}=="Charging"
    ATTR{voltage_now}=="11549000"
    ATTR{model_name}=="Primary"
    ATTR{manufacturer}=="Hewlett-Packard"
    ATTR{technology}=="Li-ion"
    ATTR{cycle_count}=="0"
    ATTR{voltage_min_design}=="10800000"
    ATTR{serial_number}=="26362 2013/05/10"
    ATTR{present}=="1"

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Udev rules for discharging battery

I don't think that most computers send events when the battery percentage changes.  I think it might be better to simply run a cron job that checks for battery level and reacts accordingly (or a systemd.timer).

shoenig

Member

Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 2

Re: Udev rules for discharging battery

Hmm, so which events can be triggered then? I thought udev is universal in that respect to interpret whatever sysfs provides.