"apm -b" reports state. See "man 8 apm". -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:11 PM Takanori Watanabe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 01:31:01AM +0000, Namkhai Bourquin via > freebsd-acpi wrote: > > Hi all! I'm writing a script to get battery status and capacity, and I'm > using hw.acpi.battery for that. But I can't find a reference as to which > states hw.acpi.battery.state supports. Not in DuckDuckGo, nor google, nor > the mailing lists archive, nothing. I only managed to discover this by > discharging the battery and monitoring: > > state: 0 = unknow? > > state: 1 = discharging > > state: 2 = charging > > state: 5 = discharging critical (life < 6) > > state: 4 = same as 0, but with critical charge? > > state: 6 = charging critical > > This is originally raw value of _BST which is specific ACPI method for > control method battery, but smart battery device also simulate it. > > The bit macro is in /usr/include/dev/acpica/acpiio.h . > > #define ACPI_BATT_STAT_DISCHARG 0x0001 > #define ACPI_BATT_STAT_CHARGING 0x0002 > #define ACPI_BATT_STAT_CRITICAL 0x0004 > > > > I can't find anything on the man pages either. > > Should this be documented, either on a man page or the sysctl's tunable > description? > > It will be good. > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
