really basic: remaining battery time and percent in conky (wheezy)

achristoffersen · 2011-04-13 08:46:44

Hi guys,

I am most likely to blame for something (I always am) but anyways: conky's battery_bar etc. did not work for me. So I googled and found references to at proc file i could concatenate. However, I don't have a battery file in my /proc dir, so this I what I did instead:

Remaining: ${execi 60 acpi -b | awk '{print$5}'} ${alignr} (${execi 60 acpi -b | awk '{print $4}' | cut -b -3})

Extremely simple - but since I could find the solution to the problem I had, maybe this will help someone.

Good day
Andreas

saneks · 2011-04-13 09:07:05

hmm, all i see is a line "remaining" a space and then two brackets close to each other.. but I just copied your line over and am probably to blame for something, too..

Last edited by saneks (2011-04-13 09:08:56)

achristoffersen · 2011-04-13 10:41:55

what happens if you call

acpi -b

in terminal? You should get something like:

Battery 0: Discharging, 100%, 04:35:22 remaining

The above commands works then takes that output, and feeds it to awk, which then takes the 5th field (the time). The same thing is happening with the next command, only I now take the fourth field (remaining percent). (I use cut to only show 3 charachters)

If you dont have acpi - then maybe install it?

typewriterjason · 2011-08-30 06:26:11

I'm not sure if it's because it's Statler or not, but I get no response from:

acpi -b

other than:

bash: acpi: command not found

Istvan · 2011-08-30 06:47:23

sudo aptitude install acpi

typewriterjason · 2011-08-30 07:03:11

Ah, thanks for the install tip. I was apt-getting but getting nowhere (still fairly new).

Here's what I get from:

/etc/pm/power.d$ acpi -b

Battery 0: Full, 100%

That's when it's plugged in.

And here's with it unplugged...

Battery 0: Discharging, 100%, 03:10:13 remaining

So that works. But the 'remaining' line in my conky just has (100) in it with no time code...

Last edited by typewriterjason (2011-08-30 07:03:47)

machinebacon · 2011-08-30 07:29:16

Post your issue in the "Monthly Conky" forums, you get an answer at once smile
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ky-thread/

CrunchyLinux · 2012-08-06 02:15:21

you could of just done:

Battery:$alignr ${battery_percent BAT1}%

i dont have a battery file in there either big_smile

CrunchyLinux · 2012-08-06 02:19:10

never mind that would only give you the percent not the time as well

pidsley · 2012-08-06 02:26:41

Welcome to #! CrunchyLinux -- this thread is almost a year old and the OP hasn't posted since last September.

If you post a short introduction in the Introductions section we can welcome you properly.

CrunchyLinux · 2012-08-06 19:48:59

hehe i know i just thought id give some things i found out it maybe old but im sure some one out there is having a problem similar to this also just posted my intro

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really basic: remaining battery time and percent in conky (wheezy)

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