battstat - yet another battery status
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:07 pm
Largely inspired by https://github.com/dkeg/inspin/blob/master/promptd
I just wanted a plain text output for any battery (BAT0 or BAT1) that can be piped to dunst or xosd or read by any other application. Nothing magical about this script, just thought I'd share. Modify as you wish.
pipe to libnotify:
crontab entry, check every minute:
battcheck.sh example
I just wanted a plain text output for any battery (BAT0 or BAT1) that can be piped to dunst or xosd or read by any other application. Nothing magical about this script, just thought I'd share. Modify as you wish.
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#!/bin/bash
BATT=$(find /sys/class/power_supply/ | grep BAT)
CAPS=$(cat $BATT/capacity)
STAT=$(cat $BATT/status)
usage(){
echo "$0: print battery capacity and status"
echo " $0 -c print capacity"
echo " $0 -s print status"
}
[[ $1 = "-h" ]] && usage && exit 0
[[ $1 = "-c" ]] && echo $CAPS && exit 0
[[ $1 = "-s" ]] && echo $STAT && exit 0
[[ $1 = "" ]] && echo $STAT $CAPS && exit 0
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notify-send "Battery $(battstat)"Code: Select all
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/battcheck.sh
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#!/bin/sh
[[ $(battstat -c) < "10" ]] && aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav # or notify-send "Warning, battery low"