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sDoky

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From: Brno, Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-09-24

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[Solved] Conky power rate

Hi, I am trying to get power rate to conky. I have found many scripts, none were working though. I have an Dell Latitude D610, Two batteries, I use only BATT1, BATT0 is unused.

[sdoky@sdoky-laptop BAT1]$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          discharging
present rate:            1301 mA
remaining capacity:      648 mAh
present voltage:         10956 mV

Thank you

Last edited by sDoky (2009-10-12 09:10:16)

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ngoonee

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Re: [Solved] Conky power rate

grep + sed

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Re: [Solved] Conky power rate

From the conky manual:

battery    (num)    Battery status and remaining percentage capacity of ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).

Look, it takes arguments! Why try the hard way if you can let conky do the dirty work?

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sDoky

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From: Brno, Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-09-24

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Re: [Solved] Conky power rate

Yeah, I am trying to get there actual power consumption in Watts. I want to know how much my laptop consumes, especially on battery and it is not there

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sDoky

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From: Brno, Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-09-24

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Re: [Solved] Conky power rate

Solved myself.

${execi 2 sudo powertop -d --time=0 | grep 'Power usage (ACPI estimate):' | cut -c30-33}W

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ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

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Re: [Solved] Conky power rate

You need to remove sudo from that command.

${execi 2 powertop -d --time=0 | grep 'Power usage (ACPI estimate):' | cut -c 30-33}W

Unless, system will hang upon xinit, waiting for sudo password.
That powertop command will work without sudo.

Last edited by ammon (2010-12-09 04:40:16)

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

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Re: [Solved] Conky power rate

And if you need sudo, you could tell it to not require a password for powertop. Add sth like this to your sudoers file

USERNAME localhost=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/powertop

Stebalien

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Re: [Solved] Conky power rate

For security reasons, I recommend that you change that to

USERNAME localhost=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/powertop -d .*

This forces powertop to run in dump mode only.

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