X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/9e0b8ef3ce62050c1f3609c328309fa9fcc76010..eb8ff3442e46d34cea37644170167d445c5cb3b4:/blog/archive/2016/03/03.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2016/03/03.rss b/blog/archive/2016/03/03.rss index 983a1d4016..0b85ed8b0a 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2016/03/03.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2016/03/03.rss @@ -6,6 +6,62 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Full battery stats collector is now available in Debian + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Full_battery_stats_collector_is_now_available_in_Debian.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Full_battery_stats_collector_is_now_available_in_Debian.html + Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:10:00 +0100 + <p>Since this morning, the battery-stats package in Debian include an +extended collector that will collect the complete battery history for +later processing and graphing. The original collector store the +battery level as percentage of last full level, while the new +collector also record battery vendor, model, serial number, design +full level, last full level and current battery level. This make it +possible to predict the lifetime of the battery as well as visualise +the energy flow when the battery is charging or discharging.</p> + +<p>The new tools are available in <tt>/usr/share/battery-stats/</tt> +in the version 0.5.1 package in unstable. Get the new battery level graph +and lifetime prediction by running: + +<p><pre> +/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph /var/log/battery-stats.csv +</pre></p> + +<p>Or select the 'Battery Level Graph' from your application menu.</p> + +<p>The flow in/out of the battery can be seen by running (no menu +entry yet):</p> + +<p><pre> +/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph-flow +</pre></p> + +<p>I'm not quite happy with the way the data is visualised, at least +when there are few data points. The graphs look a bit better with a +few years of data.</p> + +<p>A while back one important feature I use in the battery stats +collector broke in Debian. The scripts in +<tt>/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/</tt> were no longer executed. I +suspect it happened when Jessie started using systemd, but I do not +know. The issue is reported as +<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/818649">bug #818649</a> against +pm-utils. I managed to work around it by adding an udev rule to call +the collector script every time the power connector is connected and +disconnected. With this fix in place it was finally time to make a +new release of the package, and get it into Debian.</p> + +<p>If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please +check out the +<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats</a> +in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on +Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">github</a>. +As always, patches are very welcome.</p> + + + UsingQR - "Electronic" paper invoices using JSON and QR codes http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/UsingQR____Electronic__paper_invoices_using_JSON_and_QR_codes.html @@ -94,10 +150,10 @@ similar systems. In the Czech republic, the Czech Banking Association standard #26, with short name SPAYD, uses QR codes with payment information. More information is available from the Wikipedia page on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Payment_Descriptor">Short -Payment Descriptor</a>. And I Germany, there is a system named +Payment Descriptor</a>. And in Germany, there is a system named <a href="http://www.bezahlcode.de/">BezahlCode</a>, (<a href="http://www.bezahlcode.de/wp-content/uploads/BezahlCode_TechDok.pdf">specification -v1.8 2013-12-05 available as PDF</a>), which uses QR code with +v1.8 2013-12-05 available as PDF</a>), which uses QR codes with URL-like formatting using "bank:" as the URI schema/protocol to provide the payment information. There is also the <a href="http://www.ferd-net.de/front_content.php?idcat=231">ZUGFeRD</a>