Batterymon -- a simple battery monitor ideal for openbox etc

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-01 14:18:54

In this case (with Python) I don't think so - but imports should be investigated.

With dynamic executables you can use the ldd command.

I forgot to mention in the other post, that you should probably also put the md5sum of batterymon-1.2.0.tar.gz in the PKGBUILD file: md5sums=('23bcd745daf5508005284ebd61c29c2b')

Edit 1: And now that we're at it, pygtk should also be listed as a dependency.

Edit 2: I also suggest changing "You do not seem to have libnotify installed. Notifications won't work." to "You do not seem to have notify-python installed. Notifications won't work.". In Arch notify-python is called python-notify, but notify-python will be more generic I think, as it is it's correct name.

Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2009-05-01 14:47:12)

kperkins · 2009-05-01 14:19:16

Thanks Matthew. I've been using this on lxpanel instead of their super ugly one, and the new tool tips make it super awesome.

Just a couple of bugs I noticed. Tool tip you have remainging instead of remaining. also, when you first unplug the power cord it reads time remaining wrong (mine showed 24+ hours--that would be nice, but it's not possible), it shows it right after a few minutes, but not until it's down to about 95-96%.

Last edited by kperkins (2009-05-01 14:31:15)

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-01 14:58:55

I can't get notifications to work. When I unplug the AC I get this:

ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 214, in maybe_handle_message
    self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 78, in __on_property_modified
    self.update()
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 64, in update
    self.property_modified_handler(present)
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 433, in __ac_property_modified_handler
    listener.ac_property_modified(present)
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 459, in ac_property_modified
    self.n.notify("On Battery", "AC adapter unplugged, running on battery","full")
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 396, in notify
    n.show()
GError: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

Edit: Seems I need notification-daemon which depends on a lot of crap. Too bad, but I can live with just the icon.

Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2009-05-01 15:07:20)

genisis300 · 2009-05-01 15:39:43

md5sum is now added to the pkgbuild and i'll fix the dependancie problems later.

thank

i just noticed on my new openbox install the same problem with notifications i might see if i can find another way as sonata is still able to show notifications but batterymon can't.

i'll also look into the hal problem and the typos later tonight

Thanks for the feed back.

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-01 16:50:21

genisis300 wrote:

i just noticed on my new openbox install the same problem with notifications i might see if i can find another way as sonata is still able to show notifications but batterymon can't.

You've got a point about Sonata: There must be another way. I'm using Openbox too btw.

NeoXP · 2009-05-01 17:59:57

Me three on OpenBox.:D

I started the program from the commandline, working as it supposed to be. Got a notification at 15% (just as I would expect), plugged in the powersupply and got a notification for that to.

Everything working just fine I thought, but in the terminal where I ran the command I got the following output:

enne@persephone [~/]
-> 2009-05-01 19:54:08,996 - batterymon - ERROR - org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property battery.remaining_time on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_C1E9
2009-05-01 19:54:08,996 - batterymon - ERROR - org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property battery.remaining_time on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_C1E9
2009-05-01 19:54:09,949 - batterymon - ERROR - org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property battery.remaining_time on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_C1E9
2009-05-01 19:54:09,949 - batterymon - ERROR - org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property battery.remaining_time on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_C1E9

genisis300 · 2009-05-01 20:47:07

that seems to happen if the battery is 100% full and is no longer charging i get it all the time. i need to see if i can hide that

nsb · 2009-05-01 21:19:02

Thank you very much for your wonderfull work! This one works perfectly

Regards
nsb

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-02 15:00:17

One little thing... When the battery is charging, tool tip text is on one line. When not charging, tool tip text is split on two lines. It would be nice it the tool tip was a little more consistent. Personally I prefer just one line, with some sort of separation (comma or dash), but I'll leave that decision to you.

Edit: A very minimalistic idea: "<battery level> (<status>)" ie. "45% (charging)", "100% (idle)", "79% (discharging)". No need for a lot of text, eh?

Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2009-05-02 15:08:55)

Eax · 2009-05-02 15:11:40

Hmm I get some pretty weird errors:

/usr/bin/batterymon:244: GtkWarning: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
  self.tray_object= gtk.StatusIcon()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 518, in <module>
    pm = PowerManager()
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 423, in __init__
    self.adapter = AcAdapter()
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 46, in __init__
    DBusObject.__init__(self)
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 39, in __init__
    hal_obj = self.bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Hal', '/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files

Any ideas? Oo

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-02 17:30:56

@Eax: Have you started HAL?

Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2009-05-02 17:38:55)

Eax · 2009-05-02 20:16:39

@Lars Stokholm:
Nope; I hadn't. Thanks
Hmm, it interferes with WICD >_<

Last edited by Eax (2009-05-02 20:17:46)

genisis300 · 2009-05-03 01:08:55

i'm using wicd and batterymon and not had any problems?

What kind of issues are you having?

Eax · 2009-05-03 11:03:26

@genisis300: When I installed wicd it asked me to outcomment hal in rc.conf .. Is it safe to remove the "!"?

genisis300 · 2009-05-03 12:18:17

remove the ! from wicd or hal?
this is my daemons line

DAEMONS=(@preload @acpid syslog-ng @network @netfs @crond @alsa hal wicd @mpd @cpufreq)

Eax · 2009-05-03 14:56:52

Sorry From hal

What does @ do?

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-03 15:00:14

@ starts the daemon in the background. You can speed up your boot by adding @ to a lot of them. Just don't do it with HAL as other daemons might depend on it being started.

Btw, the wiki for Wicd explicitly says you have to add HAL to the daemons array.

Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2009-05-03 15:05:37)

Eax · 2009-05-03 15:10:16

Lars Stokholm: Okay thanks a lot I remember it as I had to put the ! in front Oo

Last edited by Eax (2009-05-03 15:10:42)

genisis300 · 2009-05-03 15:23:37

it send the daemon to the background. (Doesn't wait for it to finish loading)

it can be done on alot of daemons that are not essential to your system loading

Hal must be running before wicd hence there is no @ (if i rember correctly)

Last edited by genisis300 (2009-05-03 15:23:56)

genisis300 · 2009-05-03 16:24:26

i may have found a temp solution to the notification problem,
it appears that there has to be a notification-deamon running for it to work.

so i found xfce4-notifyd a very small notification daemon.

i'm still looking for alternative fixes but this one works at the moment.

genisis300 · 2009-05-04 18:55:23

I'm going to be doing some more work on this in the next day or so.

I'm looking to see if there are any feature requests for the next version?

Regards
Matthew

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-04 19:40:59

None other than KISS. If you fix a few things (the ones I've mentioned) I'd say it's perfect, hehe.

SiD · 2009-05-11 19:58:28

I just installed version 1.2.0-6 from AUR and get this error

$ batterymon 
You do not seem to have libnotify installed. Notifications won't work.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 523, in <module>
    pm.update()
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 441, in update
    battery.update()
  File "/usr/bin/batterymon", line 122, in update
    is_charging = self.__battery.GetProperty('battery.rechargeable.is_charging')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property battery.rechargeable.is_charging on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_BAT1

libnotify is installed

pacman -Qs libnotify
local/libnotify 0.4.5-1.1
    Desktop notification library

Lars Stokholm · 2009-05-11 20:18:45

@SiD: The exception has nothing to do with libnotify, but try sending the output of 'lshal -u `hal-find-by-capability --capability battery`'. It seems you're missing "battery.rechargeable.is_charging".

Edit (x 117): F*cked a few things up.

Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2009-05-11 20:25:23)

scio · 2009-05-11 20:19:26

SiD wrote:

I just installed version 1.2.0-6 from AUR and get this error
$ batterymon 
You do not seem to have libnotify installed. Notifications won't work.
...

Did you see this:

Lars Stokholm wrote:

...
Edit 2: I also suggest changing "You do not seem to have libnotify installed. Notifications won't work." to "You do not seem to have notify-python installed. Notifications won't work.". In Arch notify-python is called python-notify, but notify-python will be more generic I think, as it is it's correct name.

Not sure, but I would guess you don't have python-notify installed.

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