Hi,

I have a similar diff in my tree. I think "design capacity" could be more
clear for the sensor description.

apart from that, ok armani@ fwiw


2014-05-19 23:58 GMT+02:00 Landry Breuil <lan...@rhaalovely.net>:

> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 08:56:15AM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 06:32:10PM +0200, Fabian Raetz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i want to expose "capacity" (full capacity design)
> > > as a sensor like the rest.
> > >
> > > This sensor will be used in an upcoming diff to upower to
> > > expose "energy-full-design" and "capacity" properties if
> > > this patch gets merged.
> > >
> > > Both patches together will fix wrong notifications about
> > > broken batteries in KDE4.
> >
> > Interesting - i've done a similar thing in the past to enable the 'lid
> > open' sysctl status, so i'd welcome this kind of patch. Can you also
> > show the diff for upower, and exactly what it fixes for KDE4 ? For
> > example, the difference in upower -d output with and without that patch
> > ?  What's the exact difference between energy-full-design and capacity
> > for upower ?
>
> i've successfully tested this on i386 (5 years old msi wind U100
> netbook) and amd64 (x200s), with sensors and the upower patch, and i
> think this provides valuable information on the device status. Mike,
> Mark, can you have a look at it ? I'd okay this but that's not my area.
>
> amd64:
>
> hw.sensors.acpibtn0.indicator0=On (lid open)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.power0=19.28 W (rate)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour0=64.07 Wh (last full capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour1=3.20 Wh (warning capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour2=0.20 Wh (low capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour3=59.04 Wh (remaining capacity), OK
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour4=84.24 Wh (capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.raw0=2 (battery charging), OK
> hw.sensors.acpiac0.indicator0=On (power supply)
>
>
> (upower -d)
>
>     energy:              61.06 Wh
>     energy-empty:        0.2 Wh
>     energy-full:         64.07 Wh
>     energy-full-design:  84.24 Wh
>     energy-rate:         16.273 W
>     voltage:             12.48 V
>     percentage:          95%
>     capacity:            76.0565%
>
> i386:
>
> hw.sensors.acpiac0.indicator0=On (power supply)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.current0=0.56 A (rate)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.amphour0=2.03 Ah (last full capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.amphour1=0.00 Ah (warning capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.amphour2=0.00 Ah (low capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.amphour3=1.71 Ah (remaining capacity), OK
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.amphour4=4.40 Ah (capacity)
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.raw0=2 (battery charging), OK
> hw.sensors.acpibtn0.indicator0=On (lid open)
>
> (upower -d)
>
>     state:               fully-charged
>     warning-level:       none
>     energy:              25.335 Wh
>     energy-empty:        0 Wh
>     energy-full:         25.3599 Wh
>     energy-full-design:  54.8592 Wh
>     energy-rate:         0 W
>     voltage:             12.468 V
>     percentage:          99%
>     capacity:            46.2273%
>
>

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