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jancici

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From: svk

Registered: 2011-12-04

Posts: 194

configuration of UPower :: time units?

My desktop is powered over UPS and looks that my battery is old so it can handle much shorter time without electricity.
Before I will upgrade battery I need to configure upower to shutdown desktop much sooner.

here is my config now:

[UPower]

EnableWattsUpPro=false

NoPollBatteries=false

IgnoreLid=false

UsePercentageForPolicy=true

PercentageLow=75
PercentageCritical=70
PercentageAction=65

TimeLow=12
TimeCritical=6
TimeAction=6

CriticalPowerAction=PowerOff

so if percetage get lower that 75% it will triger "low" and if it below 65% it will power off

but I am not sure about time unit.
IS it in seconds? miliseconds? or minutes?
I want to configure that too, because I am not sure if my UPS support that ...

here is upower info about UPS

upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/ups_hiddev0
  native-path:          /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-13/3-13:1.0/usbmisc/hiddev0
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sat 08 Jul 2017 09:03:39 CEST (1 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  ups
    present:             yes
    state:               charging
    warning-level:       none
    time to empty:       11.8 minutes
    percentage:          94%
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charging-symbolic'

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,321

Re: configuration of UPower :: time units?

Seconds is the most likely unit, since the dbus interface reports the remaining time in seconds.

https://upower.freedesktop.org/docs/Dev … imeToEmpty

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