Title: Discharge rate estimate in new battery statistics collector for Debian
Tags: english, debian
-Date: 2016-05-23 09:30
-Publish: 2016-05-23 09:30
-
-<p>Yesterday I updated the battery-stats package in Debian with a few
-patches sent to me by skilled and enterprising users. There are a few
-user nice and visible changes. First of all, both the desktop menu
-entries now work. A design flaw in one of the script made it fail if
-no controlling TTY was available. So the script worked when called
-from the command line, but not when called from the desktop menu.</p>
+Date: 2016-05-23 09:35
+
+<p>Yesterday I updated the
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats
+package in Debian</a> with a few patches sent to me by skilled and
+enterprising users. There were some nice user and visible changes.
+First of all, both desktop menu entries now work. A design flaw in
+one of the script made the history graph fail to show up (its PNG was
+dumped in ~/.xsession-errors) if no controlling TTY was available.
+The script worked when called from the command line, but not when
+called from the desktop menu. I changed this to look for a DISPLAY
+variable or a TTY before deciding where to draw the graph, and now the
+graph window pop up as expected.</p>
<p>The next new feature is a discharge rate estimator in one of the
-graphs (the one showing the last few hours). It also got colors
-showing charging in blue and discharge in red. The percentages of
-this graph is relative to last full charge, not battery design
+graphs (the one showing the last few hours). New is also the user of
+colours showing charging in blue and discharge in red. The percentages
+of this graph is relative to last full charge, not battery design
capacity.</p>
-<p><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-history.png"/></p>
+<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-rate.png"/></p>
<p>The other graph show the entire history of the collected battery
-statistics, comparing it to the design capacity of the battery to see
-how the battery life time get shorter over time. The red line in this
-graph is what the previous graph considers 100 percent:
+statistics, comparing it to the design capacity of the battery to
+visualise how the battery life time get shorter over time. The red
+line in this graph is what the previous graph considers 100 percent:
-<p><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-rate.png"/></p>
+<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-history.png"/></p>
-<p>You can see here that I only charge the battery to 80 percent of last
-full capacity, and how the capacity of the battery is shrinking. :(</p>
+<p>In this graph you can see that I only charge the battery to 80
+percent of last full capacity, and how the capacity of the battery is
+shrinking. :(</p>
-<p>The last new feature is in the collector, which now will handle more
-hardware models. On some hardware, Linux power supply information is
-stored in /sys/class/power_supply/ACAD/, while the collector
-previously only looked in /sys/class/power_supply/AC/. Now both are
-checked.</p>
+<p>The last new feature is in the collector, which now will handle
+more hardware models. On some hardware, Linux power supply
+information is stored in /sys/class/power_supply/ACAD/, while the
+collector previously only looked in /sys/class/power_supply/AC/. Now
+both are checked to figure if there is power connected to the
+machine.</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>.
+Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from <a
+href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">github</a>.
Patches are very welcome.</p>
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