add battery checker

[fossfreedom]

would be more than useful to have two battery level sensors

One that monitors if the battery reaches below a given percentage before using notify-send to warn

One that monitors if the battery reaches above a given percentage before using notify-send to warn

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/518928/how-to-write-a-script-to-listen-to-battery-status-and-alert-me-when-its-above

above has a good example of how to use upower to get the value

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[ghost]

@fossfreedom I have wrote a bash script but it requires acpi to be installed

[fossfreedom]

sounds interesting - any chance you can copy and paste the contents of the bash script here?

[ghost]

@fossfreedom this is the code

#!/bin/bash
#Battery level
var=$(acpi -V| awk -F',' 'NR==1, /Battery 0:/ {print $2}'); 
# Temperature
#var=$(acpi -V| awk -F',' '/Thermal 0: ok, / {print $2}'); 
echo $var

For notifiying we have to simply use a conditional statement like if and use zenity message code or notify-send

[fossfreedom]

looks like from this that the battery values can be obtained directly from /sys/ without any need for installing extra packages:

• https://github.com/melizeche/Battery-Health/blob/master/main.py

[ghost]

@fossfreedom Cool man, are you gonna add this function in your new release or we users have to add it ourselves. I have no python skills and have no idea how to use this information.